'Urban Jungle' #FotoVorschlag Verdant growth in the middle of Manchester!

'Sitzgelegenheit' #FotoVorschlag My garden seating always gets occupied by one of my three cats! In this case, it is the oldest boy, Turbo.

'Reisen im Kopf' #FotoVorschlag The Huddersfield Narrow Canal travels through Scout Tunnel near Mossley, Greater Manchester. #canals #tunnels

'Pflanzen, die an seltsamen Stellen wachsen' #FotoVorschlag A sedum growing on a wall in Seburgh, Cumbria. Sedburgh is a book town! #Cumbria #Sedburgh #Sedum #StoneWall #Books #BookTown

'Lange Schatten' #FotoVorschlag The shadows cast by my partner and me on Formby Beach on Boxing Day, aka St Stephen's Day 2025

#fensterfrietag #FotoVorschlag

Manchester towerblocks and illuminated crane on the way back from the Unthanks #fensterfreitag #FotoVorschlag

[A] great embarrassing fact [that] haunts all attempts to represent the market as the highest form of human freedom: that historically, impersonal, commercial markets originate in theft.” David Graeber #DavidGraeber #Capitalism #Freemarkets

'Viererreihe' #FotoVorschlag Four books in a row procured from the pre-loved bookshop at National Trust Lyme Park with a cat (not from Lyme Park)

'Nass geworden' #FotoVorschlag The cooling waters of the Roch, which give Rochdale its name, got me quite wet!

'Objekte die mit "B" beginnen oder so aussehen ... ' #FotoVorschlag Dead and fallen tree in Tatton Park on a frosty day.

'Kartonagen' #FotoVorschlag Once Patchakuti went back to his shelf, Turbo claimed the box. The boys have a little war over boxes, my lap, and other sleeping places in the flat. #catinabox

'Kartonagen' #FotoVorschlag Patchakuti claimed this box shortly after the contents were emptied. #catinabox

'Instrument' #FotoVorschlag Hanging percussion instruments played at Matthew Halsall at New Century Hall, Manchester

There is some hope to counter the overwhelming enshittification but to fully succeed, it may need governments outside the USA (and maybe even some state governments inside it) to stand up to US government and corporate power (which are intertwined more than ever before) #enshittification

“We’re all living through the enshittocene, a great enshittening, in which the services that matter to us, that we rely on, are turning into giant piles of shit,” author Cory Doctorow More than ever! #enshittification #CoryDoctorow #Quotes #WordofTheYear

I am with Mr Nobody on this one. #DoomPatrol #GrantMorrison #Comics #Fascist #MrNobody

'Gedreht' #FotoVorschlag Looking down the stairs in The Cage, Lyme Park #LymePark #Stairs

"...isegoria meant the exact opposite of today’s “free speech”, which they would dismiss as the abstract right to shout into the void. To the Athenians, it meant the right to have your views judged seriously, on their merits, independently of who you are or indeed how well you phrase them."

"Writing is a form of sustained mischievous truancy. It’s not about being good." #writing #novels

'Mein bestes Foto 2025' #FotoVorschlag Shadows cast by the late autumn sun on the slopes of Harrock Hill looking onto the Lancashire Plain under a mix of blue sky and clouds.

'Dinge die mit "I" beginnen oder so aussehen ...' #FotoVorschlag The River Irwell begins with an I. Here it is seen last Autumn, just before entering Manchester city centre.

'Dinge die mit "I" beginnen oder so aussehen ...' #FotoVorschlag The River Irwell begins with I. Here it is seen from the Salford side, looking towards Salford Quays as sunset approaches

'Topfgucker' #FotoVorschlag Moxie in a plant pot!

'Pfade und Wege' #FotoVorschlag A desire path through thick woodland on the banks of the River Medlock on the Beswick side in the Lower Medlock Valley aka Ancoats Vale below Lime Kiln Lane

'Nah dran' #FotoVorschlag A close-up of Patchakuti squinting as I turned on the flash when he was sitting on my lap, whilst I watched a film in low light.

'Koffein' #FotoVorschlag Coffee is on the way!

'Herbst (Typisch)' #FotoVorschlag Leaves covering the steps to the grassland above Clayton Vale which was once a golfcourse.

'Farbe: Schwarz-Weiss' #FotoVorschlag Keine sw-Bilder! Patchakuti, my newest rescue cat here showing his belly is black and white but this photo is not. He also has his paws in the air like he just does not care!

'Dinge mit Gesicht' #FotoVorschlag A face in the twin culverts under an arch that drains Lymm Lower Dam into Slitten Brook

'CO2-Emission' #FotoVorschlag Cows are producers of CO2.

'Bad (Badezimmer? Schlecht?)' #FotoVorschlag My newest rescue cat Patchakuti in the bath

'Abgeknickt' #FotoVorschlag A bent bough on the path up to Harrock Hill, Lancashire.

'Dinge die mit "R" beginnen oder so aussehen ...' #FotoVorschlag The River Medlock in its terracotta Accrington brick channel as it flows through Philips Park and Philips Park Cemetery in East Manchester. The river was put into its brick channel after the great flood of 1872.

FotoVorschlag 'Schaufenster' #FotoVorschlag Lots of tiny guitars in a shop front display in Liverpool

'Dinge die mit "D" beginnen oder so aussehen ...' #FotoVorschlag Danger begins with D! On the road to Sunderland Point, Lancashire, which is liable to tidal flooding.

'Gespiegelt' #FotoVorschlag Reflections in the Castlefield basin which was lower than I had ever seen it, presumably following the huge breach in the Bridgewater Canal near Dunham Massey.

'Fortbewegungsmittel' #FotoVorschlag Train carriages of the East Lancs Railway at Burrs Country Park Station, Bury.

Forgot I did another comic about the NT thing in @prospectmagazine.co.uk two years ago. I loathe all the culture wars stuff we have to wade through nowadays but I can't say it hasn't given us all something to write about. That's part of the problem of course

'Dem Boden ganz nah' #FotoVorschlag This toad, seen in the Sankey Valley, Cheshire, is close to the ground!

'Federleicht' #FotoVorschlag A Cinnabar moth on a Field Scabious flower in meadows near Sizergh Castle, Kendal, Cumbria.

'Bäume' #FotoVorschlag

'Dinge die mit "A" beginnen oder so aussehen ... ' #FotoVorschlag A strut for the conveyor belt that carried coal from Millbrook railway sidings to Hartshead Power Station, a coal-fired power station situated at Heyrod, Greater Manchester, which closed in 1979, looks like an "A"

'Rote Blumen oder Blätter' #FotoVorschlag Red leaves on a shrub at RHS Bridgewater

'Perspektivwechsel' #FotoVorschlag

'Metall' #FotoVorschlag Looking at the skyscrapers of Manc-hatten through Castlefield Viaduct

Im Museum' #FotoVorschlag (Bitte keine zeitgenössische Kunst.) Part of the machinery found at the Lancashire Coalmining Museum at Asley Green Colliery, Greater Manchester, by the Bridgewater Canal

Poetry post box on Ilkley Moor

'4 Elemente - 4 Fotos' #FotoVorschlag

'Farbe: Blau' #FotoVorschlag Blue skies behind interesting walls at Sunderland Point, Lancashire