A friend just sent me this perfect piece by Karel Čapek, trans. Dora Round, ‘From the Point of View of a Cat’.

@mickeyundertone.bsky.social I missed this first time around. Informative - and the song has a definite Endless Art vibe. www.dailyreckless.com/2024/02/21/e...

👂Listen up! 📻 BBC Radio Cambridgeshire will be broadcasting LIVE from the Reserve tomorrow morning, Friday 8 May, at 7:20, 8:20 and 9:20 am ⏰ Set your alarm or catch up later on BBC Sounds 🎂 We're honoured to be a tiny part of the BBC's celebrations of #DavidAttenborough 's 💯th birthday!

😎 The Reserve looks breathtakingly beautiful this May Day. Lapwings are nesting, cuckoos calling, and our ponies are lazing in the sun. 🪜Behind the scenes, the refit of @thekingfishercafe.bsky.social is coming on well. Re-opening depends on contractors and deliveries of materials and equipment.

@mickeyundertone.bsky.social nothing you don't know already! www.youtube.com/watch?v=uy-g...

ace! and informative, even

Come for the buffalo under blue skies, stay for the birds and blossom, bees and butterflies 🏞️🐃🌼🐝🐦🦋🥾🐾 While @thekingfishercafe.bsky.social is closed for a refit, please pay for parking online. You are welcome to enjoy the picnic benches around the Reserve too.

The Kinder Scout Mass Trespass took place on this day 1932, organised by Manchester communist leader and Jewish anti-fascist Benny Rothman, secretary of the British Workers' Sports Federation. The Peak District was designated the UK’s first national park in April 1951.

Hip hip hooray - it's #Recordstoreday #HMHB youtu.be/NH6YiXL1IYc?...

SLUGGO’S CATSATURDAY

👟🏃We spent today making everything PERFECT for Sunday's 5km Spring Run: ✅ route markers 1️⃣ ✅ medals 🏅 ✅ water buffalo 🐃 ✅ sun 🌞 ✅ post-run treats 🍰☕ @thekingfishercafe.bsky.social 🎟️ Book online before 5pm on Saturday or just turn up: kingfishers-bridge-nature-reserve.sumupstore.com/product/5km-...

🏅🍰 You'll earn a unique cherry-wood medal and the right to coffee and cake from @thekingfishercafe.bsky.social ! All ages and abilities VERY welcome 👍

🙋Want to help raise money for the Reserve and get some feel-good exercise in too? 👟We still have spaces on our 5km Spring Run on Sunday 19 April. Go at your own pace through our beautiful meadows - it's not a race - or volunteer to cheer folks on! 🎟️ £15: www.kingfishersbridge.org/5km-spring-r...

Woop woop! Feargal Sharkey totally nails it on Channel 4 News just now 🔥🔥🔥 Calling for a REFERENDUM so the public can decide whether to bring water into public ownership With @windrushwasp.bsky.social + anti sewage groups SIGN THE PETITION if you agree 👇 petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...

Stolen Clanger puppet returned after 50-year mystery. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

For more information please reread. Love from @scarfolk.bsky.social Thanks for this classic, @richardlittler.bsky.social

Cherry Hinton Brook, earlier

Want to gain new skills, make friends and contribute to nature recovery? We're currently recruiting volunteers for: • regular weekday mowing and hide maintenance • regular weekend and holiday Visitor Centre support • occasional weekend run and event marshalling Could this be you? Get in touch!

📸 Cover stars, 1980 -PretendersHQ

Happy St Joseph’s Day!! * On 16th of March 1976, The (as yet unnamed) Undertones played their first show at a school variety concert at St Joseph’s Secondary School in Derry So today we are fifty. *not an actual thing, no. (from ‘Teenage Kicks : My Life As An Undertone’)

@mickeyundertone.bsky.social More Rocky Sharpe connections! www.theguardian.com/music/2026/m...

🐣🪶 Getting ready for nesting season! So many birds! 🐃 🪺 Water buffalo are grazing the wader meadow to make it perfect for lapwing, redshank and avocet nests. 🐴🌼 Ponies are prepping the wildflower meadows for a brilliant summer display. 🥾👀Bring your wellies and binoculars to watch all the action!

🚨 New: Not a Stranger Campaign Report Migrant-led insights on the harms of new immigration proposals that would expand “earned settlement” and deepen precarity for migrants. ✊ Read the report, engage your MP (template letter in the report), and support migrant-led advocacy. buff.ly/lzNg62C

Superb piece. Billionaires are a danger to themselves and (especially) us by @doctorow medium.com/p/billionair...

🗓️ Just one week left to join our gorgeous, family-friendly spring run at the Early Bird rate! 🌼👟🏵️If you'd enjoy a speedy sprint or a relaxed trot through the cowslips, surrounded by birdsong, and a unique cherry-wood medal, sign up at kingfishers-bridge-nature-reserve.sumupstore.com/product/5km-...

ON THIS DATE ⭐ 65 years ago today, at the age of 15, Davy Jones appeared as Colin Lomax, the grandson of regular character Ena Sharples (actress Violet Carson) for one episode of "Coronation Street" on March 6, 1961. Video: youtu.be/NkJI4Vum334?...

Ever wanted to run, walk or jog through a cowslip meadow next to a field of wild ponies in one of Cambridgeshire's loveliest Nature Reserves? 🏞️ Join our 5km Spring Run on Sunday 19 April! 🎟️ Early Bird entry is just £12 until 15 March kingfishers-bridge-nature-reserve.sumupstore.com/product/5km-...

www.theguardian.com/music/galler... Just because.

🌱🐣 Spring is coming, can you feel it? 🌅🐦 Join us on an exclusive walk deep into our Reserve at the most magical time of day (and then go back to bed if you like!) 🗓️ Sat 7 March — 4 places left 🗓️ Sat 28 March — 3 places left Book at kingfishers-bridge-nature-reserve.sumupstore.com/product/dawn...

A week of music from around the world – free entry to all events !

🌼🐃🐦 Run through the cowslips, wave to the water buffaloes, and immerse yourself in birdsong on our 5km Spring Run! 👟🚶‍♂️🏃‍♀️We loved our January run so much that we're doing it all again on Sunday 19 April. Will you join us? Walk, jog, run — the choice is yours: www.kingfishersbridge.org/5km-spring-r...

The first episode of Bagpuss was originally broadcast on this day in 1974. Created by Peter Firmin and Oliver Postgate, the series ran for just 13 episodes (with voices provided by Postgate, Sandra Kerr and John Faulkner).

Plans to invade Greenland have just been cancelled after this

"Retrospection" Jindřich Štreit 2018.photobiennale-greece.gr/en/?exhibiti...

The deadline for responding to this consultation (about whether we should shovel even greater heaps of bureaucratic misery onto immigrants in the hope of pacifying racists) is midnight on Thursday 12th:

Please, if you live in the UK, take part in this public consultation. Ten minutes well spent.

🌱 Look forward to spring by booking one of our gorgeous Dawn Chorus Walks: • Sat 7 March, 6am • Sat 28 March, 5:30am • Sat 4 April, 6:15am 🦉 We'll go deep into the Reserve to hear warblers and lapwing, barn owls and bitterns. 🎟️ Book at kingfishers-bridge-nature-reserve.sumupstore.com/product/dawn...

Monokubo (Japanese, 1994–2022) "Giant Cat in the Snow Forest", 2018. Illustration. Japanese Artist and Illustrator Monokubo imagined a World where Larger-Than-Life Animals roam the Land and live among us. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

Jean Phillippe Charbonnier, Girl and Cat, Roubaix, France, 1958

“Why am I so sad today?” I ask myself after staring at my little handheld sadness machine and clicking all the sad little things that will definitely make me sad

The Uncivilised Cat, 1930, painting by Agnes Miller Parker, Scottish artist.

I have cleaned-up this fascinating autochrome of James Thin (famous for his chain of bookshops), who was born 202 years ago (in Edinburgh on 23rd March 1824), making him (so far as is currently known) the earliest-born person ever to have been photographed in colour. He is seen here in the garden...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqng... this all day long - ff to the cafe interview if bikery isn't your thing. SCH you're amazing x (and MS not so bad either)

Italian voice actor Carlo Bononi was the voice of all of the characters on Pingu. A trained clown by trade, he used a theater technique called grammelot, which consists of "speaking" in a mix of babbled gibberish noises. He improvised all the voices live and unscripted.

substack.com/@craigbaxter... Henry V part V (on stage directions)

🧑‍🍳We’ve been rigorously taste-testing our new banana and chocolate muffins today. Can confirm they are DELICIOUS 😋 ✨And miraculously, there are still plenty left for you! 🫵 🕙🕟 We’re open 10-4:30 Sat-Sun this winter. See you soon! 🔜

Bod bless Brian and REG youtu.be/lpr-zf8zK-Q?... This is lovely. And a great Bookiee impression.