Gianni Sycophantino www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

“We are the goon squad and we’re coming for you” www.bbc.com/news/article...

No finer team to support than Team Jamie

Pivoting from “in the hole” to “in the bunker” really is quality sledging.

Greetings Autumn #Cragside #Northumberland

“We must strive to become intellectual nomads, keep moving, keep learning, resist confining ourselves in any cultural or mental ghetto, and spend more time not in select centres but at the margins, which is where real change always comes from.” - Elif Shafak

Femke Bol!!!

Fish Face #SugarSands #Northumberland

“Because freedom, I am told, is nothing but the distance between the hunter and it’s prey.” - Ocean Vuong, ‘On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous’

Lawdy, the social media output for the app called ‘liven’ is anything but …

“I’ll let you into a secret: when times are confusing, everybody is a little lost. No one is an inwardly confident as they present themselves to be. Hence the reason we must read, my boy. Books, like paper lanterns, provide us with a light amidst the fog” - Elif Shafak ‘There are Rivers in the Sky’

Now the hot winds blows The first lotus blossoms bright - ‘Young hawk learn to fly’ #MicroSeasons #Haiku

Nuff said!

The nights are fair closing in …

Went for the early Bath (House) #Howick #Northumberland

Down by the River #Coquet #Northumberland

Vive la France! (La Belle Cabaretière, Marcel-François Leprin)

Vamos!!

Andrew Castle is John Inverdale in old money

A really interesting thread. Medico-legal work can also be generative of - as well as generated by - the shifting sands of diagnoses. (For all that, as the Observer seems to have done, ‘follow the money’)

The Full English: www.mirror.co.uk/travel/news/...

“Un petit coin de parapluie Contre un coin de paradis Elle avait quelque chose d'un ange Un petit coin de paradis Contre un coin de parapluie Je ne perdais pas au change, pardi” - Georges Brassens

A bad business, but good journalism.

Do remember they can’t cancel the spring (Hockney, 2020)

Pop star, Superstar

Oh la la. The Moulin Rouge awaits.

Generationally different dentistry

Throwing shapes for your eyes #Northumberland

“He who would do good to another, must do it in minute particulars. General good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite and flatterer.” - William Blake (Yesterday’s take home - the devil is ~ not ~ in the detail)

"In Tuvalu, the bond between people, land, and culture is unbreakable. For its people, home is not just where they live - it is who they are. Leaving is not what they want,” says Kamal Amakrane, managing director of the Global Centre for Climate Mobility.” - www.euronews.com/green/2025/0...

Coquet Island putting on a show #Northumberland

A fine, but not final, poem from Edward Limb in the latest edition of ‘The London Magazine’.

“Sailing right along on a three-day crescent moon, the long-eared owl longs for an earful of music: the pines humming in the wind.” Poem: Hachijintei Image: Hiroshige Exhibition: British Museum

With the boy for the finale to Khatia Buniatishvili’s Barbican residency

Well, that delivered on “La victoire appartient au plus opiniâtre”!

Tyne before the rain - 📷 @lottielimb.bsky.social

Banking by the river

Pastels of light

What’s that I spy? The weekend?!

A very long infringement: 12 years after starting legal action against Italy over a polluting steel plant, the EU has yet to take it to court. Taranto residents feel "abandoned in the shadows of institutional indifference". Today, they complained to the Ombudsman 👇 www.euronews.com/green/2025/0...

Cinema magnifico! youtu.be/aniXbKM3ez8?...

Today, I have mostly been channelling my inner @hidingpool.bsky.social - firing up soon

“When you are writing laws you are testing words to find their utmost power. Like spells, they have to make things happen in the real world, and like spells, they only work if people believe in them.” - Hilary Mantel, ‘Wolf Hall’

Just in case this is not on your radar @adambcqx.bsky.social - www.britishmuseum.org/exhibitions/...

Love this translation, adaptation by Derek Mahon

“Le véritable voyage de découverte ne consiste pas à chercher de nouveaux paysages, mais à avoir de nouveaux yeux.” “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes” - Marcel Proust

Important, I think, that @amyjanebeer.bsky.social and @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social are not too restless when it comes to demos of what rapids can do to your craft. To lose one great author may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.

“Running water never disappointed. Crossing water always furthers something. Stepping stones were stations of the soul” - from ‘Squarings XXXII’, ‘Seeing Things’ by Seamus Heaney

Kenilworth Ivy

Alpenglow, of an Edinburgh kind