Dear @drlouiseholman.bsky.social I was at mum's last week, and took this photo for you. I was sitting under the same trees that you painted so beautifully for me, and I thought of you 💕

@avantgardening.pl hey lovely, how are you doing?

God help us all

@jenbren.bsky.social hi lovely, just a quick note to say that I haven't forgotten your grief. Holding you in my heart ❤️ xxxxxxx

If you want some distraction from the world going to hell in a handcart, please enjoy this thread of a farking RAT trying, and failing, to jump from the hedge into my beloved BIRD'S food》

“A dark moment.”

Isn't she beautiful 🌑 Tonight's moon

We had small snow this morning

Before it was all on our phones “If we want to know if it is going to rain or whether the rain is likely to stop, we look up at the clouds” Artist: Robert Ayton The Weather (1962)

A plane flew over the moon

I am struck, I took a photo of the moon's face, its actual face, using an ageing phone, but nonetheless using much greater technology, than was available when the first humans set foot on the moon itself.

Moon #TheVillage

Finally back in my dad's garden after too long. I haven't been here since early November. I've seen mum in between, but I haven't been home. The garden is asleep, not deeply, but resting. The grass is still green, and the first bulbs are emerging. You can never hold back spring

Morning all. Happy New Year to all my moots

As we, together dear friends, come to the close of the year, my only thought is that 2025 can fuck off on the horse it rode in on

What the cunning folk of Hookland do on #NewYearsEve - year-walking. May your troubles not cross the threshold of midnight. May blessings walk down the lane to meet you in the coming year.

A forest of wintry pine trees seen from a high plane

My little Robin has returned! I understand that Robins prefer to eat live worms, so we have a patch of soil that we dig over about once a month, but at the moment it's cold, frost cold, so he has come to our feeder. He》

Happy Christmas to bollard fans across the world! #WorldBollardAssociation

From that time forth he believed that the wise man is one who never sets himself apart from other living things.

IWANT THIS

I’m sorry to tell you this Christmas has been an eventful one 🤷🏼‍♂️. Enjoy the saga!

Here is a short thread about my pigeon *Dave. This happens every day. Dave fledged in my garden, he is very friendly. But he has a problem 》 *all pigeons are called Dave. Even the female ones.

As you all know, I've had a less than optimal year: dad dying, 2 friends dying, and all the rest. But you guys have been a wonderful support, thank you 💗 Another great help has been the birds. In particular a group of sparrows. We had a little batch of girls - 5, who fledged together. We have a》

Read this if only for the Titanic reference: fabulous 👌

Fantastic thread @adamcsharp.bsky.social 💕 I was also wondering if any of you had any regional phrases for this? For me it is, rather tamely, "the arse end of nowhere". What have you all got?x

Happy #WinterSolstice 🐦‍⬛ 🌞 to everyone, and happy birthday to Will Stanton, because I know you are out there somewhere. Because The Village is what it is, this strange grass circle has appeared in my mum's garden. No mushrooms, just the grass forming a random circle

Nothing between his ears, bless him #Caturday

youtu.be/3E75UvmY9GA?... If you're feeling a bit peeved about the Dr's strike, let me remind you how it is with no NHS

The $4.3 billion space telescope Trump tried to cancel is now complete arstechnica.com/space/2025/1...

God help me, another dear friend has died. She had a minor car crash, survived with minimal injuries, but spent a couple of nights in hospital because of cracked ribs, and previous medical history, then abruptly sent home because they needed the bed. Then she just died, suddenly, in the house

Who me? Why yes I *am* playing football with my 60 kilo dog in the living room. Because rain. And you?

After having the twins, 24 years ago I had sepsis. The final straw was a chest infection. Oddly I felt no need to cough. Just like now. But I have been feeling- non specific- awful, for ages. Today I went to the nurse for some bloods. On impulse I got her to listen to my chest. Bingo! Massive》

Moping melancholy here

That selfhood which is our torment, and our treasure, and our humanity, does not endure. It changes; it is gone, a wave on the sea. Would you have the sea grow still and the tides cease, to save one wave, to save yourself?

Christmas if you're a poor cripple

Another new lap mat, a pale blue design. craftysharp.etsy.com/listing/4360...

I just opened the cupboard under the stairs, looking fo empty bags Mary, Joseph and the wee 🫏 donkey!!!!!!

My kids woke up so excited this morning for the first night of Hannukah and now yet again we have a festival where I’m very conflicted about whether it’s safe to take them to synagogue to celebrate. Communities shouldn’t have to live like this.

Ahmed al Ahmed, 43, has been identified as the man who disarmed one of the Sydney attackers. Ahmed was shot by the second shooter, who was firing from a bridge. He suffered 2 gunshot wounds and is undergoing surgery.

Tell me again how shooting people as they celebrate a religious festival is a valid criticism of the policies of a government on the other side of the world.

Look America! You *can* disarm someone with just an incredible amount of bravery #Bondi

Look what our dear Justin is doing!

As @sophiemac.bsky.social has pointed out, this does look like a corvid with clipped wings ;-( Roo took the picture and i *hope* that it's a fluke photo and bird is fine. I hope. I take comfort from the fact that it has managed to get onto a roof x

he's making a list he's checking it twice gonna find out who's naughty or nice santa claus is in contravention of the data protection act (2018)

Oxford ?penguin with big catch

Global warming rose

Another thing that is upsetting me today is the phrase "picky bits".

Sometimes life imitates art, sometimes lemons imitate an anal fistula. It's all good.