I have more wild #buyastrangerabook day action for you. @bookamatic.bsky.social has sent me £30 to spend on books for people! You are people, so if you want a book you only have to ask! Get in touch! UK only

Today’s pictures from Northumberland. Took mum up to Rothbury but unfortunately the shoe shop closed in December, was still a nice trip out even though we couldn’t get parked at Barter Books.

If there's anybody out there who is familiar with Wix. I've got a new website that is three quarters built, but my guy who was sorting it out is sadly out of action for the foreseeable future. I'd love to get it finished, so if you can help, please get in touch. DM if you prefer. Ta.

In Northumberland for a couple of days. So far it’s included taking Della for a a walk in Amble (where you can see Warkworth castle from the pier) and a trip to the big Morrisons.

Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...

It’s not every day you vacuum pack a Tauntaun (sleeping bag).

The Government is considering scrapping the NHS-Palantir deal. Do you want Palantir out of the NHS? RT if you do. #PalantirOUT

'We bought a tomb' sounds like the start of a horror film, but it's actually the start of a great day out! Orkney's famous Tomb of the Eagles is now wholly community owned, and in one week we're re-opening for our first big season since COVID. Wednesday 1 April at 10am. Not an April Fool's joke 🏺💀🎉

Powerful and true 📚

The Llandudno goats five years on this week wp.me/p15p2Q-6HM

I reckon it's a rather good map, probably effective in triggering certain people. The majority first language of each London Borough...

Another day of embarrassment for Nick Tenconi's UKIP. Trying to demonstrate in Liverpool for the second time in 6 months they suffered another humiliating defeat as hundreds of anti-fascists blocked their route and stopped them marching. Searchlight's full report here:

If you don’t want to read Edgar Allan Poe together by the fireplace whilst sharing a plate of midnight croissants in an abandoned château in the French countryside during a full moon with the sound of wolves in the distance, then please don’t tell me you’re “down for a good time."

Thanks BBC Sounds, I am listening to The Archers intentionally, do they warn you in case it’s something you may regret? #TheArchers

Mick Lynch "Nigel Farage is a racist." RT if Mick is right.

This took me about 45 seconds.

Thank you @colleendoran.bsky.social, @terrypratchett.bsky.social and @dunmanifestin.bsky.social. Sorry about the bad photo.

🍁🦊Competition time! To celebrate the coming of autumn, win a cornucopia of delights! A signed copy of my book, Reynard the Fox & accompanying journal, A Fox for All Seasons, Apple & Blackberry chocolate, cinnamon knots, Caramelised biscuit tea & a fine fox companion. Follow, like & repost to win! 🦊🍂

Today would have been my Dad’s 83rd birthday, this is him with my sister, me and Julie the first family beagle.

English folk music - the traditional equivalent of Country and Western?

First day back at work tomorrow after 9 weeks in hospital and 8 weeks convalescing at home. I suspect most of my day will be spent waiting for my password to be reset as I can’t remember what it was and it has well and truly expired anyway.

New AHRC Doctoral Focal Award PhDs aimed at candidates based in the Scottish Highlands & Islands to develop in-situ research capacity. "A Golden Thread: Crafting the Creative Economy from Scotland’s Highlands, Lowlands & Islands’, aims to strengthen Scotland’s craft sector..." tinyurl.com/tkx7b66z

New research report from Historic England on the benefits of local #heritage listing: historicengland.org.uk/research/res...

Wow!

Thanks to the drop in temperature this week it was down to 7.7 degrees in the pond today.

8.7 in the water and a beautiful sunny morning at Pool Bridge Farm today.

This says it all.

60 years ago, a girl called Caroline posed for the illustrations in ‘Levers, Pulleys and Engines’ (1963) It was important to the editor that boy and girls should be equal participants in the experiments. Caroline was his daughter International Day of Women In Science

Guerilla advertising seen in the London Metro

6.9 degrees in the lake today, celebrating Spring with lemon cake.

For two men who have professed such hostility towards taking the knee, they are surprisingly happy to do it for Putin, in the Oval Office, in full view of the world’s media.

Gardaí are seeking the public's help in tracing the whereabouts of Eamon Tsekiri (24) who has been reported missing from the Sheriff Street Dublin 1 area since Sunday. Eamon was last seen at around 5:00am on Sunday morning in the Sheriff Street and IFSC areas of Dublin 1.

Hold the phone!! 🤩 We've tipped over 10k followers!! 😃😍🥳 That's all the excuse we need to re-post our Death Star-Hypocaust film, because you can see it too often. Thanks to everyone for making it such fun getting here. 😘😘

6.2 degrees this week , swam a little longer. Now celebrating with a piece of excellent coffee cake.

ESRI is updating their basemaps automatically to incorporate The Gulf of America starting tomorrow 2/20. Unrelatedly, here's a workflow that you can use to manually edit your vector basemap labels: www.esri.com/arcgis-blog/...

The full set of plants I can’t kill. Also vegetarian/vegan carnivorous plants.

At last plants I can’t kill (I don’t do it deliberately)

4.2 degrees in the water calls for tea and cake (ok I have cake every time I come and the cafe is open).

Post sauna and dip tea and cake as it’s my birthday.

Atmospheric view across the Knavesmire this morning.

Sunrise over York Racecourse

4.6 degrees today so more of a dip than a swim today. Excellent cake which I will work off tomorrow at the indoor pool (well technically an Edwardian open air pool with a building over it).

6.2 degrees today for the Saturday swim, coffee cake and Earl Grey to warm up.

And we have the first casualty of the day. Also a new personal best for Rusty.

There have been presents.

The brandy butter is done, I can relax till it’s time to wash up.

Happy Yule from my parents’s house, the dog spam has begun.

With thanks to @PlaymobilUK for their contribution and the hard work of our volunteers, our Greek mythology exhibition is almost complete… we just have to find Pan, who seems to have disappeared off doing Pan things somewhere else… 😁