Out walking my dog in the park. An interesting bug landed on my leg. It's about the size of a garden pea.

Charmera pics... I've figured out how to remove the date imprint.

That was my train crossing the Tamar River on Isambard Kingdom Brunel's brdge of 1859 to Devon on my 500 miles back to Scotland. ( I was sent the video ) Ten hours later and three changes of train I was home.

I bought a Charmera... First shots. I have to figure out how to remove the date imprint.

The King is dead .. Long live the King ... Hold on a minute .... 🤔 www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

I walked to Devon across the Tamar bridge yesterday..

I have 500 miles by train back to Scotland tomorrow... it's better than walking...

My 'new' camera on the left. It's tiny. A Kiku16 from 1957. It appears to work. Shutter operates, winder turns. Just needs a good clean. Now to figure out how to make some film for it..

Burnham, Streeting, Starmer.. not a single f*ck is given for a Labour party that plays musical chairs while having not a single good idea how to make things better for the country and the voters. If I lived in the area with a by election I'd campaign vehemently against their carpet bagging.

Yesterday's kipper was cooked in the garden ...

Meanwhile in the real world ... www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m... #Iran #SaudiArabia #UAE #ProjectFreedom

That's five b&w films developed. ( One from pre 1989, three half frame and a random one found in an old camera ) Just seven C41 films to do.. a busy day ahead... then the scanning..

A pint of 70 shilling in a pub I worked in 50 years ago. It's changed less than I have.. #Ormidale #Brodick #Arran

Anyone here seen Nigel ? #Farage #pmq #grifter

Seafarers..🤔 Whatever happened to sailors ? www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cl...

Starting to make the camera for #WorldwidePinholePhotographyDay #WPPD

I thought it said his replacement was Gung Ho ! It would have seemed to be appropriate in this murderous administration. #SecretaryoftheNavy #usnavy #Phelan #JohnPhelan .

It's interesting to see the number of ex MPs bidding for easy election to a list job. They became unemployed in the rout of the SNP in the last general election. Clearly having to make an honest living in the real world is not suiting them.

Seventeen candidates and just one vote in the Scottish Parliamentary Regional List vote here. Who the ' f ' are these folk and what's the big attraction ? #Scotland #Holyrood #GravyTrain

Last day. Finishing the film before I argue at the airport as they try to irradiate my stash of images. #Airport #xray

It's been another busy day today..

Gaudi inspired hotel. Maspolonas, Gran Canaria. #Spain #GranCanaria

Mogan, Gran Canaria. A cool spot. Phone shot.

More famous than Jesus ? 🤔 www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a... #Trump #pope #Headcase

Who would buy a poisoned chalice from this man ?

Shocking news at Manchester airport this afternoon. Someone fell off the top of a Jet2 aircraft steps. It seems he did not survive. How could that happen?

Those US-Iran negotiations in a nutshell: Iran sent 4 PhDs to Islamabad. The US sent a real estate developer, a son-in-law, a lawyer and a general.

My Easter reading: "..the Lord said I was hungry and you told me I could make a meal for 30p, I was a stranger and you told me to fuck off back where I came from, I was sick and you said I should get private health insurance..."

Translation: "I started something I can't finish and broke something I can't fix so I'm going to walk away and pretend it's your fault"

Some overpaid yapper on BBC Radio gets sacked. So bloody what ! Is nothing important happening in the country ? Here is a boring picture of the blackest dog you have ever tried to snap.. He's a walking Black hole. #BBCRadio #BBCNews #Sixo'clockNews

The US has become a blatent extortion racket. #USA #UK #NHS #Trump www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Old school is to drain the whisky glass and then drip the remaining dregs into your pint...

Just about forty or so diehards turned out for the protest about the USAF using the civilian airport at Prestwick. Probably a similar number of police on overtime. So much hand wringing and disgust about the war. So little action. #Prestwick #Scotland #Iran

Another war memorial in Ayr. Interesting because it lists the campaigns with those unfortunates who died of disease or accident separately from those who died in action or of wounds. A lot more died of disease than in action. #Burma #Sudan #SouthAfrica Royal Scots Fusilers. Click to enlarge.

Light fog pouring off the sea at Ayr making photography interesting. WW2 memorial gardens and the Pavilion in the mist. Anyone else agree that IR doesn't make any good penetration in misty conditions? #IR #InfraRed #720nm #Scotland #Ayrshire

The film is getting released on the 24th. Filmed on a wind up 16mm film camera.

"We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory... will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature."

Any Bluesky Snappers want to meet up to record events at the demonstration at Prestwick Railway station, 1.30 on Sunday ? I'll have a hat and carry some kind of snapping contraption. PM me if you want to meet beforehand. tfn.scot/news/anti-wa... #Scotland #Ayrshire #believeinfilm #HFF #FP4Party

So we are complicit in these cowardly attacks from hundreds of miles away. The crews are sleeping on British soil. Are we America's poodle? #Iran #RAFFairford #CruiseMissiles #Starmer

The problem with classic cameras that take 72+ shots is forgetting which flim you put in it weeks ago. My fix. #believeinfilm #Harman

These dogs love to run. My brother in law had a retired greyhound. He ran and ran on his walks until the day he jumped a fence, landed in a ditch and broke his daft neck. Perhaps an allegory for the dafties at Holyrood looking for something to do. What's next? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Joe Kent: “After much reflection, I have decided to resign from my position as Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, effective today. I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran. Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this Show more”

Super acquisition! Ilford glass tricolour ( trichrome )filter set. This is going to be great making Trichrome images with my half frame cameras. So much better than the plastic light projector filters I use at present.. 24 colour images out of 36 exposure b&w film... #Trichrome #believeinfilm

Sarah Montague aggressively interrupting and challenging the two MPs. Minutes later she is grovelling and apologising to the Israeli spokesman and allowing him to spout propaganda and lies. Meek or scared ? #BBC #WATO

Glasgow University tower from the The Stewart Memorial Fountain in Kelvingrove park. Robert Stewart was the Lord Provost at the time of the planning and construction of the water supply from Loch Katrine to Glasgow in the 1850s. Its 34 miles long. #IR #InfraRed #720nm #KelvingrovePark #Glasgow

A memorial to another war.. The Highland Light Infantry memorial. Boer War. Kelvingrove Park Glasgow #InfraRed

In these difficult days, the phrase 'singular impropriety' ought to make a comeback

Starmer's news conference came on suddenly. I changed channels because I knew he would have nothing much to say I was correct... The man could bore for Britain. Sadly he's probably all we have. Like a decimated army, a navy with no ships at sea and an airforce where a squadron is four aircraft

Interview by Andrew Neil on #TimesRadio with Richard Tice just now. Incoherent rambing bluster from Tice when he was challenged about local government pensions. Tice - the thinking man's idea of a cretin. The billionaires want to rule us by confusing the hard of thinking.