🥰🥰🥰 you should! Signed and dedicated on my website or ask your lovely local bookshop

Spending time quietly in our garden, watching the birds. Trying to improve my ability to photograph them through leaves & blossom, now Spring is fully here. Brings me peace and calm. #gardenbirds #bluetit

Loving the view of #redscrees from our front window tonight, with mini clouds above. ☁️

A Sunday morning minute of peace from our garden.

Leaves & blossom showing nicely as Spring arrives here on the hill. 💚🪷🪻🌺

A lovely walk yesterday up High Rigg to mark what would have been my dear friend Jamie Normington's 54th birthday. 1st Wainwright of 2026. Snow on Helvellyn range. Toasted his 'wild & precious life' at the top. He sent us a dipper to watch in St John's Beck as we walked back to the car.

hello—on Monday 20 April @curzon.com Soho is showing Lost For Words, a beautiful film about language, nature & hope based on The Lost Words by me & Jackie Morris. Jackie & I will both be there for a Q&A. Please let others know who might be interested—& come join us! www.curzon.com/films/lost-f...

Last night I drove Mrs S & two of her friends to Blackpool - so they could see a musical at the Opera House. I had a chippy tea whilst sat on the promenade at Anchorsholme. Took some Sun-set views. It was hard to tell where the sea ended and the sky began. 1st two are Canon DSLR lastvonevis iPhone.

The powerful, old bigot is not acting alone. He's in power because Congress won't remove him. He's in power because millions of Americans embrace bigotry, hierarchy, violence. His war crimes are being committed by everyone who gives him power and who refuses to remove him from office.

A House in a Clearing https://collections.artsmia.org/art/1745/

I am fortunate to have a lovely garden in a semi-rural location, and the time to sit in it to watch nature. It calms me. Connects me. Eases my mind. I know what a great privilege it is to be so lucky. 4 of our bird visitors this morning. #gardenbirds

Can anyone tell me how the UK could ensure that any new drilling for gas/oil in North Sea results in output wholly for UK consumption at fair consumer prices; NOT sold globally for corporate profit at international market rates? 1/2

St Patrick’s Day greetings to all. The Sun has returned to the hill in celebration

Hear from BTO's CEO Juliet Vickery as she shares her love for Dippers on BBC Radio 4's 'Tweet of the Day' ➡️ www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... Juliet studied Dippers for her PhD, and spent many enjoyable hours observing them in south-west Scotland. 🪶

Edurne Pasaban Lizarribar (born August 1, 1973) is a Basque Spanish mountaineer. She is the first woman to climb all 14 of the eight-thousanders – and the 21st person to do so. Her first 8,000 peak was in 2001, when she reached the summit of Mount Everest. #CelebratingWomen

If you have ANY financial products with Prudential UK or M&G Plc then I urge you to move them. Prudential continue to be utterly useless in dealing with payment of a whole life policy written 'in trust'. My CEO complaint has been upheld but STILL they throw more barriers up to payment. #prudential

My husband @mjowen174.bsky.social is very down and it’s difficult to see. He had a thriving writing business until AI came along but now he’s struggling to find work. Please repost this far and wide in the hope that he can find some writing work. www.mathew-owen.co.uk

@itvpeston.bsky.social NO-ONE from Reform can be ‘shadow’ anything. The largest opposition party forms the ‘shadow government’. That is not Reform. You know this, but still let bloviating show-pony Peston repost the lie. Do better 😡😡😡

I remain of the view that Britain needs to spend far less time & attention on the bloviating, self-serving, nonsense spouted by tax-exile billionaires. Especially those who pay such shit wages to a large % of their employees: so that they need to claim benefits to live. 1/2

The largest windjammer in the world, ‘Royal Clipper’, seen sailing in the distance from the deck of ‘Chronos’ - the ship on which we sailed from St Lucia to Grenada. 📷 taken whilst moored off Canouan, Caribbean. #Canouan #Chronos #RoyalClipper #Caribbean #JanuaryTravels

Juvenile Brown Booby - flying alongside Chronos, the sailing ketch on which we travelled from St Lucia to Grenada. #StLucia #Caribbean #JanuaryTravels

Green-throated Carib hummingbird #StLucia #Caribbean #JanuaryTravels

Petit Piton, St Lucia, viewed from a trail at Fond Deux Eco Resort last month. #StLucia #Caribbean #JanuaryTravels

Enjoyed a few hours on Sugar Beach, St Lucia. Busier than these photos suggest! #StLucia

Up Helly Aa on NOW! www.youtube.com/live/T2VbPaz...

After days of moving little and eating too much I got out for a nice 3.5 mile wander from home yesterday. Across Hanging Hill for lovely views of the Lakeland fells, then down to the canal. Fantastic light as the Sun began to set. Had the company of a robin for most of the canal stretch of the walk.

A ‘stile leading to steps’ combo on today’s Burton-in-Kendal Fellwalkers ‘mince pie walk’ on rather slippy local paths - ahead of a ‘Jacob’s Join’ gathering in the village hall. Bringing our 2025 walking season to a close. 🥾🥾🥾 @lakesstiles.bsky.social #stiles

‘Team Jamie!’ was set up to raise funds in memory of the wonderful human @movingslowly.bsky.social & to sustain his legacy of helping others. Great news that it has reached 55% of target. Hope we can keep the momentum going to reach 100% If you can help see www.justgiving.com/team/teamjam...

The end of a moving & emotional day. Saying our last farewells to Alister. My wonderful step-dad. Lovely services at Perth crematorium & Little Dunkeld Kirk honouring a good man who lived a good life. He’ll long be remembered by all who knew him. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💕💔💕🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Alister V McLean Dec 1926 - Nov 2025

We are nearing midwinter, the time the Lightbringers guard and return the light to us If you are in need for a gift for someone who struggles in winter or a secret Santa gift, then consider one of my books. Story books for adults, gentle seasonal hope. Signed on my website or ask lovely bookshop

Popping back for something important… This is for those of you who knew & loved that golden human, Jamie Normington @movingslowly.bsky.social – and those who never met him but were amused, enlightened, touched by his gift for communication and compassion here and on Twitter.

No finer team to support than Team Jamie

I’m pretty sure most if not all my connections will already have seen this; but just in case 👇🏼 Please help honour Jamie’s memory if you can. 💚💔💚

I keep thinking about a day I shared with my step-dad Alister who died on Tuesday. 5 years ago. He was 93 & wanted to re-visit Loch Coruisk on Skye, so we took a boat trip from Elgol. He did brilliantly. I hope I can do the same in my 70’s let alone my 90’s. 💕💔💕 #memories #family

Always a good day when my copy of @slightlyfoxed.bsky.social ‘Slightly Foxed’ arrives. Looking forward to each & every item, especially ‘The Secret Life of Second-hand Books’ 📚📚📚 #slightlyfoxed #bibliophile

Duelling Coal Tits in the apple tree this morning. Lovely to sit for 20 minutes watching the birds and enjoying the brief sunshine.

My best attempts at photographing the full Moon from our garden in South Cumbria last night. Had to grab glimpses of it through quite heavy, fast moving, cloud cover. #FullMoon #BeaverMoon #Nightsky #Moon #Cumbria

Blessed to meet up with my lovely school-friends Paul Norris Vic Dewhurst Antony Gareth Mugford & Andy Farrer tonight in Preston. Last met up 6+ months with 2 of them, 6 years or so for one, and 41 years for Andy. Treasured friends. 🙏🏻🙂

Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness (if we’re talking fiction)

Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness

Awake very early thanks to an annoying cough.Coral cat & I have been gazing at the Moon and the extraordinary clouds lit by it. Simply amazing. 🌕 Can’t help but be grateful for my good fortune to be alive & happy. To be able to see such beauty.

This was a rather wonderful conversation.

The (zoom) view from our 'gin bench' - taken on 24 September 2025.

Three attempts to capture the light from the Moon peeking through stormy clouds last night, from our back garden. #moonphotography #nightsky #moonlight #cumbria

6 years ago OTD I had the privilege & fortune to meet Jamie Normington @movingslowly.bsky.social & his wife Bea for the 1st time. Jamie, generous & friendly, invited me to his talk only 3 weeks after I moved to Cumbria. How blessed I was to know him & to have been given the gift of his friendship. 🙏

“When I approach the pearly gates, I'd like to hear a champagne cork popping, an orchestra tuning up, and the sound of my mother laughing” Patricia Routledge 17th Feb 1929 - 3rd October 2025 May your wishes come true, you wonderful woman and thank you x

Good. Glad assets have already been frozen. But time to remove Mone’s peerage and bring proper consequences to the politicians who helped grifters & profiteers.

Today’s minute of peace. Another lovely morning. Jackdaws swooping and the sound of robin ‘morse code’ clicking all around the garden. The meadow had its 1st cut yesterday. Ready for a closer crop before the rain arrives next week.