Saturday morning manoeuvres meant I could enjoy the cosy comfort of coffee and croissant ☕️ 🥐 Olive, Scarborough.

An estate where there'd been a previous conviction after walkers discovered an illegally poisoned Golden Eagle. This documentary provides a fascinating insight in to the difficulties of investigating serious crime on a remote Scottish shooting estate. raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/08/13/n...

I like the way plants can have moments of perfection, the droplets of rain highlighted fluorescent dropletsheld on flowering panicles of the smoke bush. Cotinus coggygria

The supposed effigy of Edward of Middleham Prince of Wales the son of King Richard III. St Helen and the Holy Cross church Sheriff Hutton. Suggested to have been removed from the royal castle chapel next door, weathering would suggest it spent sometime exposed to the weather

Phlox paniculata not a plant to hold back on the flowering.

Their back! Scarlet Lilly beatle. (Lilioceris lilii) thinking they are going to chomp chomp chomp, think again my little garden critters think again! #garden #lily

Rock rose bursting with flowers. (Helianthemum nummularium) 😁😁. #garden #flowers

Japanese primrose (Primula japonica) We live in an amazing world; from unremarkable green leaves to flowers of pastel colours swaying gently in the breeze enriching my soul. 🌼🌺🌸

Wisteria floribunda ‘Longissima’ Japanese Wisteria doing it thing !

Bearded iris (Iris germanica) one of my favourite scents to waft about the garden. #GardensHour

The oriental poppy (Papaver orientale ‘Turkenlouis') with its blousy blooms making an appearance amongst the herbaceous border. #poppy #gardening #gardenhour

Masterworts (Astrantia major ’Claret’) Shady area 👍 easygoing 👍 damp 👍 #flowers #garden # 👍😁🌺

Handkerchief trees Davidia involucrata 'Sonoma' a tree for those who have not got the patience to wait for Davidia involucrata var. vilmoriniana to flower.

In recognition of all who served WWII the International Bomber Command Centre Lincoln. Memorial sculpture designed to the length and width of a Avro Lancaster bomber wing. Standing 102f tall and 16f wide weighing 55tonne. Constructed by Lincoln construction company Lindom Group. #IBCC #Lincoln

Aquilegia vulgaris. Granny’s bonnet. Self seeds 👍 easy to grow 👍 dry places 👍 many varieties 👍🌸🌼🌺 #gardening

22/4/22 Twitter I posed this question - Question; why are gardeners paid so little when they give so much joy? Didn’t get an answer. Pleione formosana

Late entry for a font decorated for Easter, but I did take the photo 2023 seems appropriate. 13 century octagonal font, with chocolate eggs on top - very temped to munch one. St Gregory’s Minster Kirkdale. #FontsOnFriday

Silver birch - (Betula utilis Jacquemontii) just starting to out grow its green yew backdrop. Sunlight gently illuminating branches as the young leaves unfurl. Good morning all.. hope your well.

The hauntingly beautiful exquisitely carved, mournful marble sculpture of Lady Isabel Wilson, who once graced her own mausoleum (since demolished) now sits within the church of St. James church Warter.

Prunus ‘tai-haku’ the great white cherry.

St Patrick’s church Patrington Helderness often referred to as the Queen of Helderness. #SteepleSaturday

Still flowering after 325 years; the cherry tree in Studley Park Ripon what a delight. #ThickTrunkTuesday

Good morning everyone, welcome back Saturday mornings; hope everyone had a great week.

Bretton Hall parkland the site of Yorkshire Sculpture Park I Gould this tree far more interesting than the artwork. #ThickTrunkTuesday

Saturday morning loveliness good morning everyone hope your well. #coffee #malton

Tynemouth station bridge built circa 1882 wonderfully restored. Fantastic weekend market held here. #tynmouth #photography

How the mighty fall. #ThickTrunkTuesday

Sunday morning starting well. #coffee #flatwhite

Robin Hoods Bay. Daughter yawning 🥱 “come on dad this is boring”. #black&white

This is Emma’ standing beside a window; making candles from reeds with beef/mutton fat, she’s wearing clothes of the Georgian period. Beamish Museum England Uk. A remarkable place to visit! #beamish #livinghistory #georgian

This is how I like my coffee presented 🙏 visit to the delightful coffee house in Newcastle - Lagom - Swedish meaning not too little. The Fika coffee guys do coffee well. #fika #coffee

Just had a dreadful coffee in a Wetherspoons - so bad not worth a picture, here’s one I had that was far better, happy Saturday folks! 😁

Oh yes ! Project Stork at @kneppwilding.bsky.social are now livestreaming a nest– this is the pairs 5th breeding attempt together , and they are now on three eggs . . . watch 24/7 to catch all the action at youtube.com/live/s0liN8AzykQ

All Saints church, Bakewell octagonal font c14 says Sir Nikolaus Pevsner who describes “the finest in Derbyshire” #bakewell #SirNikolausPevsner #font #FontsOnFriday

Saturday morning coffee Americano #malton

29/08/22 #Farndale Annual Show. A place of pride; for the people who live within these hills, and a place where farmers boots are as rooted as the trees. A place of beauty; and where the horns of the sheep are as hard as the hills. Farndale a place where some people call home. #northyorkmoor

Saint Mary’s Tissington Derbyshire. Norman font with carvings of one poor soul being consumed by a creature. #FontsOnFriday #fonts

01/07/22 Waiting for Bryan Adams to perform his So Happy it Hurts tour at the Scarborough Open Air Theatre. #bryanadams

05/08/22 I must have felt jaded when I tweeted this .. Summer dahlia with their flowers dancing to the sun. The garden ornaments of the upper class. The stretched out lawns just because you can. The far view with no house to see, they own this land and look down on plebs like me.

Bossall village St Botolph's Church 12C doorway. North Yorkshire. #AdoorableThursday

Cynara scolymus - Globe artichoke: If left on the plant they do this - wow! An explosion of flower atop a spiky crown whoop whoop! And the bees love them too. 🐝 🐝 🐝 🌸 🌸 #garden

2/08/22 - I tweeted. Current view. The mystery of the Mesolithic.

3/08/22 I tweeted - Delighted to say hello to Ray Mears yesterday whilst digging, to shy to ask for a photo top bloke #Mesolithic

4/08/22 I tweeted. Measuring up for a new trench. #mesolithic

4/08/22 I tweeted. Sieving the soil is one man’s daily toil. #digging #mesolithic

Finding part of someone’s tool box. #mesolithic #flint

10/08/22 I had the opportunity to help dig Mesolithic site what joy ! I tweeted - What an opportunity, what a dig, amazing archaeology thanks to team @MesoPlants for the chance to play a tiny part in this huge dig, may your finds continue.

11/08/22 Good times. Magnetometer field survey with team SAHS. “discovering the history beneath or feet” I must try to keep the magnetometer straight, more practice needed. Beep beep beep! 😀 (Scarborough Archaeology & Historical Society)

15/08/22 I tweeted - Monday morning Latte, Miss Polizos your mug is gracing the Emma Bridgwater factory cafe, perhaps you changed your mind . #emmabridgewater

22/8/22 on Twitter I wrote this… Way back when I was a kid, me and my Mum used to go brambling. It wasn’t classed as wild food, or called foraging, or trendy, it was simply a means to a bramble pie. Happy days.