We found three cars full of masked ICE agents in a residential car park. Our guide asked them if they had a warrant, they refused to answer. I asked them several questions about what they were doing. They then made obscene gestures at us. Shortly afterwards, a drone appeared circling our car.

Deeply weird and menacing scenes in Minneapolis. ICE agents sat in masks and balaclavas in unmarked, often blacked out cars, watching local residents. They themselves being observed by a network of locals, trying to deter them from mounting raids. Profoundly abnormal.

Deutsche Bank here with the good stuff. Game on.

It’s World Snow Day! ❄️ Snow may be rare in Cornwall, but our archives are full of wonderful winter scenes. We love this 1969 colour transparency of miners’ cottages along Stippy Stappy, St Agnes. #worldsnowday began in 2012 to inspire people to enjoy and explore the magic of snow.

Looking back to last Spring. Clearing up the garden today after Storm Goretti. Last year resolved to keep these Primula Vialii in a pot to save replacing them each year, but they have completely disappeared again, just turned to dust. More on order yet again. #gardening #bloomscrolling #flowers 🌱

A to Z of Cornish Gardens – J is for Joseph Wellington Hunkin 🌿Bishop of Truro & passionate gardener, he wrote Trees and Shrubs for Cornwall, a guide to planting for windswept coasts, valleys and exposed sites. His advice still rings true today! Used historic gardening tips yourself?

Photo of the Week 📷 Pallas’s Warbler by Stuart Croft #CornwallBirds #BirdsInCornwall #CBWPS #Birds #Birdwatching #ConnectWithNature #BeautyAndWonderOfNature #Nature #Wildlife #WildlifeMatters #WildIsles #BritishWildlife #WildCornwall #ILoveCornwall #Cornwall #Kernow #UK

Battery full ✔️ Car charged ✔️ Water as hot as it'll go ✔️ House very warm ✔️ Garden tied down (half) ✔️ Recycling not going out ✔️ Books at the ready ✔️ Plenty of no need to heat food ✔️ Now to just wait and see 😰

Roses in January. Trebah Courtyard. Cornwall, UK. #bloomscrolling #January #roses 🌹🌱

New year, new #WeeklyReads! 📚 We’re starting with The Cornish Language in the Nineteenth Century by Kensa Broadhurst—challenging the idea Cornish died with Dolly Pentreath in 1777. Evidence shows it thrived well into the 1800s! #CornishLanguage #CornishHistory

On this morning's walk #My400

How many creatures are sheltered by this mossy stone bank, among the tree roots in this grown-out hedge? How many do the moss, ferns, ivy, leaf litter support? Structures intricate + complex. A path of life tracing through the land. #WildflowerHour

Driftwood Spars Pub originally built 1650's. My in-laws worked in this pub in the 1950s/1960's. In one way it hasn't changed but in another has changed beyond all recognition. Still open and thriving though so very thankful for that. #Cornwall #pubs #heritage #history #buildings #kernow

Wolf Moon. Not the best of photos but to know that friends and family far away share this too. #moon #nature #humanity #hope

Cold and blustery Friday at Trevaunance Cove. #Cornwall #kernow #ocean #beach

Miffed at not being able to book a ticket. The second lecture they put on at Falmouth Poly also sold out very quickly. #Cornwall #kernow #heritage #art 🌱🌳

‘January’ (Shell Guide, Flowers of the Countryside, 1955) Artists: Edith and Rowland Hilder

Bledhen Nowydh Da Onen hag Oll (Happy New Year One and All)

Happy New Year from Maenporth Cornwall. #Cornwall #kernow #bluesky #happynewyear

Last photo of 2025. Late afternoon sunshine after days of rain. Halzephron Cliffs looking down the coast towards Church Cove. #Cornwall #winter #kernow #sunshine #ocean

As evening draws in the lights are lit and loved ones gather to see in the New Year. #HappyNewYear one and all

Winter walk from Halzephron looking up towards Gunwalloe Fishing Cove and Loe Bar. #walk #Winter #Cornwall #kernow #ocean #nature #bluesky

Healings Mill Offices, River Avon, Tewkesbury. #abandonedbuildings #architecture #buildings #derelict

' #Winter night' by Canadian born printmaker and artist Carol Collette #WomensArt ❄️

Christmas walk in the woods. #trees #nature #woods #christmas #outdoors #dog 🐶🌱🌳

Roots 🌱🌳 #ThickTrunkTuesday #Trees #TreeClub #Nature #Winter

Tulip Christmas Lights. Guildford Castle. #bloomscrolling #Christmas #tulips 🌱 🌷

By water #Dartmoor #Devon #December

'Hyden Hill' by contemporary Welsh painter Sarah Evans #womensart ❄️

Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar, window 23 ‘Visits’ Artist: Ronald Lampitt (1951)

Happy Winter Solstice, where we celebrate the returning of the light, on the shortest day and longest night. On the solstice, when the land feels closest to its oldest stories, we’re reminded how much of England’s past remains out of reach.

Our little Montol / Winter Solstice / welcoming back the sun, lantern & lights procession ✨🌿🔥🕯️🍂🎄🪵💫 #wintersolstice #cornwall

3/10. Some excellent performances ( Anna Maxwell Martin/Damien Lewis) occasional smiles, but in the main excruciating. Know it's a spoof and lots of the audience were actually laughing. Don't bother going out, wait until it's streamed #film #FackhamHall #watching #movies

Blackbird on Bodmin moor at the weekend. #birds #birding #birdphotography #Naturelovers #Naturephotography #wildlifephotography

Red kite on Salisbury plain at the weekend. #birds #birding #birdphotography #Naturephotography #Naturelovers

Redwing on Bodmin moor this week. #birds #birding #birdphotography #Naturephotography #Naturelovers

A classic example of a modern ground floor shopfront not doing justice to the architecture above it. This is 208 Sauchiehall Street in Glasgow. Cont./ #glasgow #architecture #architecturephotography #shopfront

Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar Window 20 ‘Winter Sunrise’ Artist: SR Badmin

Jeffrey Epstein & David Walliams leading all the bulletins but Kemi Badenoch knows that only men from ‘different cultures’ pose a threat to women.

Photo of the Weeek 📷 Redshank by Steve Rogers #CornwallBirds #BirdsInCornwall #CBWPS #Bird #Birds #Birdwatching #ConnectWithNature #BeautyAndWonderOfNature #Nature #Wildlife #WildlifeMatters #WildIsles #BritishWildlife #WildCornwall #ILoveCornwall #Cornwall #Kernow #UK

The joys of train travel in Cornwall on one of the busiest days of the year. I finally gave up and went home. #Cornwall #kernow #travel #train

Always a treat when a male Bullfinch visits the garden. 5.12.25 #Cornwall #birds #birding #birdphotography #Naturelovers #Naturephotography #wildlifephotography

My childhood experience of an Almanack was Old Moore's black and white version bought every year by my Grandad. This one has opened up a whole new world of knowledge. #nature #booklover #books #naturalworld #trees 🌱🌕🌊 💙📚 🌳 🎹

Ancient Twisted Beech at Tehidy. Over 230 years old. #tree #thicktrunktuesday #nature #ancient #woods #December 🌳

Artwork by UK based stained glass artist Harriet Love #Womensart.

Shiny blue door with a Christmas wreath and surrounded by wisteria in the town of Petworth on Saturday. #ColorADay #BlueTue #ArtAdventCalender #WestSussex #Photography

'Winter hares in conversation' by UK contemporary printmaker Angela Harding #WomensArt #ArtAdvent

Today marks 250 years since the birth of the incomparable Jane Austen

On this morning's walk #My400