Good morning. From me, a chunky woodpidge and a fine collection of twittering house sparrows. Beautiful day for sittting at a laptop. 😁

Back up the hill with the Monday Night Headtorch Club. Bit of a brisk northerly, nearly got frostbite taking this picture. Always happy to suffer for my art. 🎨😁

Another chilly lunchtime walk. Remembered my hat today though. 😁

Observations from lunchtime walk: there's snow on the tops of the West Pennines. 💙 Also, should've put a woolly hat on. 🥶

Morning! Up at the crack of dawn to set up a new laptop. Day one of new job. Fingers crossed it's less mad than the last one. And that the sunshine is a good omen. ☀️

38 sleeps till HOLIDAYS! 😁

When the path waymarkers are slightly unnerving...

Terribly difficult Spot the Toad Challenge. 😁🐸

Tonight's Monday Night Head Torch Club put the head torches to good use, artfully lighting funghi.

Went on a jolly to sunny Barrow-in-Furness.* Was bloody lovely. Saw seals, all the world's waders. And a weasel. And a good sunset. 100% recommend. *Walney Island, technically.

Eventually, it happened. 😂 Wordle 1,603 1/6 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

And a lovely crop of jelly ear. Such fabulous names. 💙 #fungifriends

Some absolutely stunning turkey tail funghi in the woods today. 💚 #FungiFriends

The most marvellous piece of art I've seen in a museum this year. 😁 The cheese picture from Wallace and Gromit's living room. In the Harris at Preston as part of their Nick Park exhibition.

Luke Jerram's Gaia at Blackburn Cathedral. So much blue. 💙

And on a slightly more macro (blurry macro) level, JELLY FUNGHI! 💛 A smidge of yellow brain on a soggy log in the woods at Roddlesworth. #FungiFriends

Heading home from a good day out on the moors. Biiiig sky. 💚

Headgear at Lancashire Mining Museum, looming about impressively in the moonlight tonight.

Been to look at Organised Fire. Even though it's a symbol of historic oppression of Catholics. 😁 Current earworm: "as the flames rose to her Roman nose, and her walkman started to melt. " 🎵

If you see this, quote with a vampire that is not Dracula

Big Wheel above the docks at Liverpool Light Night. Like a weird menacing structural moon. 😁

Liverpool Light Night: Dandelion. Loved this.

Went for a Hallowe'en wander round Liverpool Light Night. The docks, from up on the big wheel. Experimenting with chiaroscuro.* *Currently reading a book about Caravaggio. 😁

And top marks to the Pendle Inn for 1) going all out with the Hallowe'en decorations 2) providing me with a lovely hot chocolate after I'd been up the hill in the cold, dark and rain.

There is a spooky white pumpkin* with Pendle Witch carved into to it resting gently on top of the trig point of Pendle Hill. This was totally worth going up the hill in the dark, rain and wind for. Totally. 😁 *possibly not a pumpkin, but just some kind of white squash/gourd thing

A previous job told me I could keep the company issued, properly ergonomic chair (I left during pandemic, apparently it cost more to clean than replace). Honestly, it was like Christmas, contemplating the saving. Decent chairs are not cheap.

Facebook memories reminding me of that time I was channeling the Mari Lwyd up on Foel Grach. 😁

Morning. Coffee, then time to prowl the house, looking for clocks that need changing. Into the winter we go.

Nice night for it. #ENGBRA

If you're building a feed about Edmund Cartwright, it's Loomscrolling.

More spooky scenes from the moors. I need one of those million looomins headtorches. 😁

Tonight's Monday Night Headtorch Club was sponsored by work related rage and spooky mist. Nothing like climbing a small hill in the dark and the fog to walk off a bit of rage.

Finished watching Riot Women. Bloody brilliant. Entertaining myself by imagining Sarah Wainwright on the phone to Courtney Love. " So, right, I've got this great idea for a series in Hebden, and I was just wondering if I could use Violet. " 😁

Snuck out for a wander before the rain came in. Today's shrooms are Shaggy Scaly Cap (possibly). Obviously tasty for something. 😁 #FungiFriends

Highly accurate representation of me in my Munro bagging days. 😁 (Munros are just paused, I'll get to them eventually... possibly).

A memory from the Covid Years today. "The north is not a petri dish" on the brutalist walls at Piccadilly Gardens. I remember the weirdness of walking round a deserted Manchester that day. Felt like the start of 28 Days Later. But raining, because Manchester.

Definitely a good year for exciting shrooms. Some mega (and small but still beautiful) shrooms from today's wanderings. #FungiFriends #FungiFriday 🍄

Lev's autumnn forecast is a joy💙: Mushrooms and conkers, good, occasional blackberries; acorns crunching underfoot, moderate; spiders’ webs and cosy jumpers intensifying; severe crumble-making, veering west. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

On the train, squintingly rereading The Waste Land on my phone, agreeing. There's a good start to a Tuesday morning.

Tonight's Monday Night Headtorch Club was sponsorsed by this fine example of a sticky, phallic shroom. #FungiFriends A joy to behold. Less of a joy to smell....

A good mushroom from the weekend, to brighten Monday. I think it's a fly agaric that's rebelliously vetoed spots this season. #fungifriends

I can sometimes be a bit dismissive of 'helpful' signs on walks. Not this one though.

A nice recreational gate, hanging about in the mist on the West Pennines for @lakesstiles.bsky.social

Me, this morning: it's been a stressy week, I'll go up the moors, get some air, clear my head a bit. The moors: FULL SPOOKY SEASON 😁

Absolutely excellent crop of sloes out there this year.

Bedraggled but still bright. A good motto for autumn.

I'm on Platform 14 at Manchester Piccadilly. Might just stick The Manics' Holy Bible on, channel my inner 19 year old and have an existential crisis of self. Platform 14 very definitely lends itself to that sort of thing....

Nearly got run over by a mini pavement sweeper before I'd even got to the station this morning, so that's a good start. 😂 Plus point: cute dog waiting for the Euston train. 💚

At night, the shrooms plan world domination. #FungiFriends

After a glorious summer of light nights and sunsets, Monday Night Headtorch Club is back. 😁 Back to moonlight on the canal and screeching owls. And a bemused late dog walker wondering why three people were clustered round a fallen tree in the dark, muttering (funghi photographry).