Kapput seats, but repurposed to make (possibly) the comfiest bus shelter on Arran #AlphabetChallenge #WeekKforKapput

What a beautiful day for a swim, flat calm, no wind, 5C and warm up time getting faster 🏊‍♀️🏊‍♀️🏊‍♀️🏊‍♀️☀️

Tonight's track... Babooshka - Kate Bush youtu.be/6xckBwPdo1c?...

Erinnerungen an einen schönen Abend am Meer. 🌊 Memories of a nice evening by the sea. #eastcoastkin #waterwednesday

“March is the month of Blackthorn, the creamy buds and white flowers exquisite upon their twigs of ebony. It is the month also of daisies, opening their eyes among the grass (daisy means ‘day’s eye’)”

On this day 16th March 1906,one of my favourite Ladybird artists Ronald Lampitt was born in Worcester

Sybaritic [SIH-buh-RIT-ik] (adj.) Devoted to pleasure. Self-indulgent. Hedonistic, debauched, libertine. “Untroubled by the admonitory lessons of the French Revolution, they clung to their sybaritic excesses until the inexorable machinery of history ensured that the lesson would be taught again.”

Super Saturday Swim 2C 🥶🥶🥶

If you are "near" Lancaster this weekend or next weekend it is worth going to see Enchanted in April at the Lancaster Grand. I travelled from Scotland to see it yesterday (my pal acting in it)

We’re half way through Bach@Bart’s 2026. This coming Sunday’s programme (15 March 2026) begins with the ‘Dorian’ Toccata and Fugue and finishes with the ‘Great’ Prelude and Fugue in G. Between these Trio Sonata no 4 in E minor. Admission free with a collection towards St Bart’s Choir Tour funds.

Today's bake #sourdough

An observation test for your inner 8-year-old. Can you spot 12 deliberate mistakes? From Treasure magazine, 1965 Official answers coming soon (Even if you don’t reply, could you please ‘like’ or share this one?)

Blue Skys and a strange golden orb in the sky :) 4C water temp

Glassine [gla-SEEN] (n.) -A thin semitransparent paper that is commonly used as a wrapper for candy or baked goods.

Returning to St Benedict Parish Church Wombourne on Saturday (7 March) at 7:30pm to play an organ concert on their new digital organ. Music by Handel, Bach, Clarke, Gowers, Spicer, Holst, Strauss II, Saint-Saëns, Gárdonyi, Rachmaninov, Vierne. Enjoyed rehearsal yesterday. See below for ticket info.

Interior design inspiration #AlphabetChallenge #WeekIforInteriors Toilet floors in The Coffee Apothecary, Ellon Take your pick from Scrabble tiles, Lego, vintage singles or pennies! Coffee is excellent too ☕️

Bach@Bart’s Lent Organ Recital Series continues today at 6:30pm and every Sunday during Lent 2026 Details: www.paulcarr.co.uk/bach-barts-2...

Freshly baked 🍞😁

please sign if you can - no need to be a local resident. Our environment and our water supply has been contaminated since Thursday by (allegedly) 20000 litres of diesel leaked into the river. www.change.org/p/accountabi...

No water and major pollution here. www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/5436... no swimming for a while 😢

🔸BACH @ BART’S 🔸 starts this Sunday. Every Sunday in Lent at 6:30pm in St Bartholomew’s Church Penn, Wolverhampton. Organ works by J.S. Bach including all six Trio Sonatas. Admission free with a retiring collection towards the St Bart’s Choir Summer Tour. Details ⬇️

Glorious day for a swim 3C

Sun and no wind for a change 3C

Sunny but chilly swim. Air temp 4C but with the wind chill felt a few degrees under that. Water 3C

@mikedietrichde.com why is the Opatch environment check so slow? fresh 19c database,still took well over 30 mins to check

Belocolus [bel-oh-KOH-lus] (n.) - A fabulous white stone with a black pupil, said to render its bearer invisible in a field of battle. Use: “He bar the belocolus, a stoon ful bright with a blak eye broodynge; and whil yren sang and blood bathed the erthe, men fel by a foe that no man might see.”

Driech day but got a birthday swim in with the girls. 4C

This Thur 5 Feb 2026 1:15pm @stchadsbirm.bsky.social: a programme of pieces requested by the audience. Come and hear Cathedral Organists David Saint, Paul Carr, Nigel Morris and John Pryer in this hour-long programme. Featuring all 3 of the Cathedral’s organs. Admission free - retiring collection.

Sixth jigsaw for January, this took me 5 hours (just could not stop!). Considering the first few weeks were taken up by panto this is not a bad effort #loveajigsaw

Finally a break in the weather allowed us to swim. 2C❄️Lots of dead sheep floating though 🐑

2 weeks since we were last in the water. Great to be back in despite the snow melt. 4C

Tantivy [tan-TIV-ee] (n.) - A fast ride. A rapid gallop on horseback. Used in a sentence: “What began as a gentlemanly trot soon became a tantivy, driven by the sobering realization that delay meant either an undignified encounter with a ditch or the ignominy of imbulbitation.”

Had not factored in the chill factor of the snow under bare feet! water 4C

We thought the weather forecast would curtail our traditional NYD swim, but we were lucky. Nice to have a group of us swimming in the same place at the same time. Here is to plenty of group swims in 2026

Beautiful day for a swim after the freezing fog cleared. Air temp -4.5C, water 4C

no big suns as promised but no wind so flat calm. A big turnout from the east swimmers, Helen, Jennifer, Laura and Mark. Air 2.5C, water 5C

Verdi was feeling sad, so we went on a ride

Boxing day swim 5C

Winter Solstice swim, very choppy from East 5C

Zugzwang [TSOOK-tsvahng] (n.) - A disagreeable position in which a chess player must make a move but cannot do so without considerable disadvantage.

Tree is up 🎄

Finally made an appointment with the opticians, to be told that if he had the same vision when he is my age then he would be very happy 😁

Sun trying to break through the clouds when we went in and then succeeded when we got out. Easterly breeze 5C

Water levels high, water temp higher than the air 5C

Great to be back in the water. Air 3C, water 5C

Flooded river trent

Driech day but had to get a swim in. 5C with a push from the east.

Here ends Octavius Guy's daily journals for now. Thank you to everyone who read and responded so enthusiastically to our boy detective's posts over the years. Have a great life. 🙏

2/2 "Because Mr Peterson was much smaller than Sir John. He was bound to lose if it came to a fight. The only way to better him would have been to take him by surprise." "And his motive?" "Is it not obvious?" George shrugged. "Read my many treatises. Tomorrow I shall test you."

Wednesday December 6, 1854. George scratched his head. "So you think Mr Peterson scarpered from the Diorama of his own accord then met up with Sir John...to do what? Blackmail him?" "That may have been the excuse. But I think he was already planning to murder him." "Why?" 1/2