Dove's foot cranesbill (geranium molle). I think! My first thought was oooh, pink stitchwort. 😁 RSPB Geltsdale lime kilns, #wildflowerhour

Water avens (geum rivale). Damp woodland, RSPB Geltsdale. I love this, so elegant, such a gorgeous colour. #wildflowerhour

Germander speedwell (veronica chamaedrys), also RSPB Geltsdale. Spent a lot of time there on Saturday, peering into the hedgerows, quite pleased with how much better I'm getting at photographing the tinies now. #wildflowerhour

Marsh valerian (valeriana dioica) in scrubby woodland at RSPB Geltsdale this week for #wildflowerhour

Astonishingly beautiful light in a very ordinary car park. 💚

Sedge warbler at @ #RSPBGeltsdale today #birding #Birds #BirdPhotography #ukwildlife

Orange tip butterfly on umbellifer. 💚

Snack break at RSPB Geltsdale, with clouds. Lounging in warmth, watching orange tips dance around dandelions. God, I love May.

Met a hare at RSPB Geltsdale. It absolutely refused to look at me. Hare prerogative. Also: absolutely one of the best RSPB places I've ever been. 💚

The Speckled Wood needs more votes! It's clearly the best.

Boyfriend photographing a stile for @lakesstiles.bsky.social . Meta style stile.* *I'm not sure this makes sense but I like how it sounds.

Cotton grass season, above Ullswater version. 💚

Dancer pose (attempt) on Bonscale Pike. Nice day for it. Though might blame my wonkiness on the breeze.

Thursday morning: sunny, work deadline looming, just impulse bought a Buddo mug. Bloody bookshops, responsible for my ongoing penury for decades.

Lot of it about if you live in an ex-mining area. 😁

It's cotton grass time of year. 💚 Bilberries* greening up nicely. *Whinberries if you're from t'other side of the hill.

Been up the Monday Night Hill again. Nice night for it. 💚

No, totally didn't spend half my lunchbreak searching for Radiohead track titles. Honest. 😂 Connections Puzzle #1065 🟩🟨🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟨🟪 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟨🟨🟨🟨

Monday already

Nearly forgot this! A very garlic scented recreational jobber in Yarrow Valley for @lakesstiles.bsky.social We were on the way to Fredericks* so could have done with the extra stile climbing exercise. *Best ice cream in the north west.

Abraham and the unfortunate ram, fabulous piece of sculpture at the Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral. Overcome with light, may have accidentally promised Mum I'd take her to over for Solemn Mass one Sunday.

Highlights from the weekend, poster from the Liverpool Everyman, part of the bar art for The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher. Which was excellent. Related: Hilary Mantel is appallingly under appreciated.

The Connecting Wall round was miles easier in Series 1 #OnlyConnect

I'd have two Lifeforme yoga mats. One for everyday and one for best. 😂

Wondering how long it'll take me to accept today is actually a Tuesday.

Slightly diminish a book Labradoodle Hall

A slightly soggy meadow buttercup (ranunculus acris)*, for #wildflowerhour #buttercupchallenge Possibly regretting flowing before chilly mornings were done. Field verge, West Lancs this week. *I think.

I have Done Stuff today and I am exhausted but one of the things I was start the Balsam Bashingin the local woods. And was rewarded for battling through nettles by this. 💙

Useful. 😁

Post your warning sign

So far, successfully avoiding plastering day two. 😁

Also spotted some bush vetch (I think) on the verges on our evening wander. Really loving everything bursting into being now. #wildflowerhour

Day one of plastering and the house is mostly uninhabitable downstairs. 😁 Went to the pub for tea, rewarded by a lovely sunset on the way home.

Hello Buddo. 💙 It's been a long day.

Been for a Wednesday night jolly through the woods to the ice cream shop. Bluebells galore, bonus mandarin ducks punking it up on the wetlands.

Been up the local(ish) medium sized hill. Can't beat a spring Pendle sunset. Tawny owl being harassed by blackbirds in the woods, bats in the valley, curlews on the moors. Good night.

Tiny, delicate ground ivy, by the Leeds Liverpool Canal in West Lancs. My knees did not appreciate me bending for this one after a lot of hiking miles this weekend! #wildflowerhour

Wood sorrel, with its beautiful pink lined petals, on the Leeds Liverpool Canal towpath in West Lancashire. #wildflowerhour

Stitchwort in the verges on a farm track in Troutbeck valley, Cumbria, for #wildflowerhour

Watching #LondonMarathon Jasmin Paris is nearly there. 💜 I'm supportively eating slightly melted Booths chocolate coated almonds. 😁

I did 13 miles walking on Friday. It took all day. 😂

Very briefly considered booking onto 9am yoga. Decided to spend the morning scrubbing the YHA departure date labels off my tupperware instead. That seems energetic enough for Sunday morning.

A very nice lovely and wholly recreational Troutbeck stile for @lakesstiles.bsky.social

74 to go. 😁

Been up a very nice medium sized hill.

Wainwright 139, Grey Friars. I'm aiming for insouciant. 😁

Not a bad day out. 😁

Look at this MWIS for tomorrow. I might frame it. 😁 Day of work to get through, then I'm off up the lovely Lakes.

Some not quite in full bloom cow parsley, West Lancashire, for #wildflowerhour First umbellifer I've seen out this year; the time for confusedly standing in hedgerows peering at Harrops is almost upon us!

Officially time to cast your vests off, the hawthorn is out in West Lancashire! #wildflowerhour