Ink Splash / splat. An example from a collection of ink stains in the sea found on maps in various libraries.

A wet morning, the Christmas tree inside the glasshouse.

Saw these when out for lunch in pub yesterday. Count your baubles of gratefulness. #minutiae

Merry Christmas if you celebrate, Blue Sky X

Laughing at a phrase an old maths teacher used to say:- "I might look like I've fallen off the top of a Christmas tree, but believe you me, I haven't!" How conceited. Haha. Pretty sure no-one was *ever* under the illusion she'd fallen off the top of a Christmas tree.

25 years ago, Kirsty MacColl was cruelly taken away from us. My favourite female singer/songwriter, I adore her work. Deserves to be remembered way beyond the manner of her passing and that Pogues song. She was fantastic! Here she is absolutely smashing 'Miss Otis Regrets'. A real one was Kirsty.

Pierre Bonnard. Snowy Landscape, Child in a Hood, 1907. 🧡 ❤️

Lovely Vashti. And progress with a minutiae, glimmering art project. www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVfx...

Celestial #minutiae

Enjoying this woman's hair the other evening. #minutiae

Some more images from the superb ANNA ANCHER exhibition, currently taking place at the Dulwich Picture Gallery. She had a remarkable ability to capture light, especially in interior spaces. #Art #ArtSky #London

Random painting of me as a kid #minutiae

Church at dusk #minutiae

I wrote about the Jung stone for the 13th edition of Science & Magic, the second instalment of my Mathew Street wander and the 13th of my Magnetic North bulletins from the Liverpool drift. You can read it here along with lots of other delights: www.violetterecords.com/science-and-...

Kristin Hersh Belle and Sebastian Lloyd Cole Rickie Lee Jones Suzanne Vega

News! The Sacred Memory Bank is an exhibition of assemblage, collage and word at Kirkby Gallery. It’s a joint exhibition with the mighty Mike Badger and we open on 19th January. We would love to see you there! @mikebadger.bsky.social

Concertina art project in process - "There are jewels of light on the bracken and lichen flecks in the forest".

I, who am perpetually making notes in the margin of my mind for some final statement, make this mark, waiting for some winter's evening. ~Virginia Woolf (The Waves)

Using the singular for trousers or lips, makes me ill. "A red lip", "a black trouser"....

The way Richard Madeley flares his nostrils, in order to look credible, learned or serious.

Hansel and Gretel-type stage set, seen from my yoga mat last night. New moon in Scorpio vibes. What's behind the gingham curtain, Gretel? Care to look?

Sleeping over at my parents' house is like sleeping in the bowels of Big Ben (thanks to their chiming clock). #countingthedongs

Works in progress #abstractart

Autumnal haiku postcards for posting #minutiae

I have reviewed Jeff Young’s most excellent Wild Twin in the new edition of Tribune (out in the shops this week)… @littletollerbooks.bsky.social @wildtwin.bsky.social tribunemag.co.uk/2025/11/rimb...

Beautiful late bloom #minutiae

Elga Sesemann (1922-2007) Landscape, 1945

Inconsequential brick pattern/shadow. #minutiae

Cy Twombly / Untitled [Archeological Inscriptions North African Trip] ca. 1952

When it comes to art, people love an establishment seal of approval. It's as if people don't have their own opinions unless someone 'on high' deems it credible. Yawn.

Beautifully shot James Whale film 'The Old Dark House' (1932) so much better on the silver screen.

Autumnal haiku postcards for posting #minutiae

You get older and you dispense with all that silly stuff about perfectionism. It came to me this morning while peeling fruit. It's a mundane example, but I think there was a time when I couldn't eat a tangerine unless the 'white stringy bits' had been removed. Haha! Embrace the white stringy bits!

i like the fog lying over the city here this morning - lends a Marie Celeste touch to the atmosphere - and the streets seem to be empty

Running for trains because I've lost track of time. Then missing my stop because I've lost track of place. I'm a worldly wonder. 🌟

After Mary Oliver's "Song for Autumn" #minutiae

#minutiae watercolour painting

Lana del Rey's soul godmother (or midwife or something) Tori Amos and her 'Purple People' ❤ www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Lgn...

Satisfying autumnals I've just gathered #minutiae

daughter just told me every Friday her class has a “burial” for the pencils too small to be sharpened anymore 😭😭 one of her classroom jobs is to give the eulogy 😭😭 THERE IS A SMALL COFFIN 😭😭😭😭

💫 how the light gets in 💫

Old poem from 20 years ago - Agape The moon's a silver pear. Two-way gaping and getting deeper, I can't remember where the time's gone or why I was so sure you could walk on water.

A pair of comedy glasses someone left on the wing.

When I travel by plane, I turn into a single-cell amoeba of anxiety. I cling to familiar bus routes in my mind, self-soothing with phrases like "we've just passed xXx Labour Club" and "I see xXx off-license is looming. I've covered at least 45 minutes now".

'Bird of Paradise' flower #minutiae

Like a plastic tile mosaic at the centre. Lantana camara. #minutiae