Unhook ourselves from oil and gas and we unhook ourselves from dependency on dictators, autocrats and expansionist regimes all over the planet. Renewables and other low-carbon energy sources are not just good climate sense. They are also good political sense.

Four thirty and still light! Soon be winter

2026 is the National Year of Reading and here is the first in my ONE MINUTE INTERVIEW series to introduce books through their creators, and give a flavour for each book and its interesting creation process! This week you’ll meet incomparable author and illustrator @louiestowell.bsky.social ❤️

moonlight rasp on scarp; midwinter night, sharpened to the utmost cruelty

Which makes it so infuriating when celebs decide to just dip into being a children's author, as if it's something anyone can do really. Not that I'm biased by spousal connections or anything...

Unsolicited writing advice, no. 2165: Writing well for children is no easier than writing well for adults. You don't start off in one area and then move on to "proper" books.

One among many. #nature #forest #photography #wander #mood #Teutoburgerwald

pause one moment at time light ekes itself out (the weightbearing sky), tired with sorrow & hope - & on

Hey! You made it to Friday! Be kind to yourself this weekend! (And if being kind to yourself this weekend means buying yourself or someone you love a book, I mean, you know where to find us is all I'm sayin')

stilled waves of bramble creeping out under the hedge frilled edge of the sea

Blue stain #fungus. #Newfoundland, Canada. #fungi #fungifriends

This is a picture I took of the moon this morning. I don't understand why it looks like this, but I dig it

Today is officially Book Publisher's Day 🎉 So, happy #BookPublishersDay to... erm... us, I suppose? 🤣

From Erbario: Penn MS LJS 419 (15th century). Source: Penn Libraries https://pdimagearchive.org/images/bdf66f8e-ef77-402b-ab4e-45ea26ebe48e #herbals #flora #leaves #plants #art #publicdomain

You know what, just because. We had the BEST YEAR EVER, EVER in 2025. And we're all chuffed to bits at Bluemoose Books. We strive to find great stories that the mainstream deem too risky. From Hebden to Hollywood. Bloody Magic. @thebookseller.com www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Your daily fortune: There's no such thing as luck. There is only hard work, preparation, cosmic chaos, and the old gods who slumber inside stars.

sunrise unpacking the hills #haiku #poetry

Unwelcome feelings Occupying my body— Hostile takeover. #haikufeels #feel #occupy #haiku #senryu

deepening my tea the ripples crested with light seven drops of rain

And this morning the Shed is a highway through an endless desert…

And now the weather

Unsolicited writing advice, no. 871: Don't be afraid to embrace the many things that make human beings interesting. Not all your characters need to be versions of you.

not knowing... after raging frost nearly spring #WriteMap #know #DailyHaikuPrompt #rage #Haiku #micropoetry

This isn't satire. This is a real headline published in the UK.

darker than it looks (but before starlight sharpens), rush hour on the main drag drowned out by a tawny owl quibbling & squalling, testing what kind of night it is (bitter in tone)

In a few words: - The Holocaust was legal. - Segregation was legal. - Slavery was legal. - And the crucifixion of Jesus was legal. Historically; anybody who helped them was targeted as a "criminal" by the government in turn, whatever it was, hiding Jews, freeing slaves, or standing for equality.

It wasn’t the racism. It wasn’t the rule breaking. It wasn’t the corruption. No Jenrick gets removed for plotting. Politics for too many leaders is just a game, and not a moral one. It’s why people are crying out for hope.

Trust the process.

There are lots of new and exciting titles coming out this month, so space is needed in my teeny tiny shop. All of the sale books need to go, so as an incentive, there's another 10% off on top of the existing reductions! Use EXTRA10 at the checkout. bridgebooksdromore.co.uk/product-cate...

A book birthday I missed: The Night I Borrowed Time, by Iqbal Hussein: Waterstone's Children's Book of the Month! It looks brilliant. #ukkidlit #kidlituk www.lep.co.uk/news/how-a-b...

No, I will not “shut up” about “AI” being an ecology-wrecking fascist grift, and honestly I judge anyone who asks me to do so.

ice on the low field fired in the heart of winter a celadon glaze

As you know @nadiashireen.bsky.social is in charge of The Year of Reading. She goes on and on and on about on this month's @islandofbrilliant.bsky.social Here .. open.spotify.com/episode/5GTA...

In 2020, @stuartmaconie.bsky.social wrote "When the only limit to what can be invented is what can be imagined, we are left with only ethics and morals to guide us. And I’m not at all convinced about Mark Zuckerberg’s". Which leaves us now to contemplate the even less ethical Elon Musk, and Grok 🤮

#EastCoastKin 👌🏼🙏🏼💚

Layers with an accent...

I carry sunrise in a pocket of my back so shadows never stay too long… #TinyMessenger #photography #ArtInNature #Nature #Ladybug

This morning. Path through the allotments.

#fungifriends #mushrooms #mycology #nature #fungi #biology #photography Holly has its very own fungus! Marasmius hudsonii (Holly parachute) yesterday. Sadly, without a macro lens the depth of field is very shallow.

What I mean by this is I've seen one or two instances already of Europeans - like me! - angry and frightened about Greenland being invaded, much as Canadians are angry and frightened about the possibility that they might be invaded, and some US-based responses that have been...less than empathetic.

The UK government's auction for offshore wind projects this morning confirms that renewable energy is good value for money. @shaunspiers1.bsky.social, executive director at Green Alliance, says ⬇️

I don't know how anyone in the UK can see what's happening in the US and then still want to vote for Farage

Upper Ecstasy Falls on the Slate River in Michigan's Upper Peninsula for #WaterfallWednesday!

Goodnight from the Cauldron of Plenty gift shop in Penstow, where all the Honeysett Ceramic crone figurines in the display case have regrouped in a ritual circle. Goodnight from Eva Cale, trying to learn her grandmother’s song for calling snowbells from their sleep. Goodnight from Hookland.

"Come on then, yer Yank bast'ds!"

I miss my dog, especially in the season she left me ... every January between the crocus carpets I find sticks to throw although my dog died years ago she still fetches memories #tanka #haiku #dog #dogs #vss365 #micropoetry #