youtu.be/Zn5hH_nt5TI?... Homage to Caruso, performed in the glorious Arena di Verona

youtu.be/o0SHTMh2VMk?... Fitzcarraldo and Caruso. An Irishman and his love of opera #opera #caruso #musicsky

Trying to find Nemo. Blue Planet Aquarium, Chester. #nemo #fish #photography 📷

youtu.be/NGorjBVag0I?... #musicsky Leonard Cohen

😢 for the USA

”Come away, O human child! To the waters and the wild With a faery, hand in hand, For the world’s more full of weeping than you can understand.” The Stolen Child Remembering WB Yeats, 13 June 1865 – 28 January 1939 @irishlittimes.bsky.social #BlarneyCastle #WBYeats

The Shoes on the Danube Bank. We must never forget 😢

A wonderful winter walk followed by a wonderful warm up by the fire

Spent the afternoon with a new friend #dogs #dogsky #dogsofbluesky #cockapoo

Useful reading...in my opinion it is not just 'behavioural modernity' that needs to go, but the whole notion of modernity. The alphabet soup we have created of 'anatomically modern', 'modern humans' etc which are all basically confusing synonyms should be scrapped. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Fascinating. This dates from 68k yrs ago in Sulawesi, & the technique probably has its origins much earlier. Evidence of musical instruments can be seen from this time. Emphasises the importance of Art & music in early H. Sapiens Societal development. #archaeology 🏺

sometimes we need to be a bit Red Panda and relax in our tree #photography #nature #zen

last night, i caught the milky way and andromeda in the same image and it was so special to me. two galaxies, millions of light-years apart.

Dusky Dolphin. Always brings a smile 📷 #photography #travel #dolphin

In a surprise appearance in New Jersey, Bruce Springsteen denounced the Trump administration’s ICE deployments and dedicated a song to Renee Good, the woman killed by an ICE agent in Minneapolis this month.

“Spring is coming, Spring is coming And all we've been hoping and longing for soon will appear Spring is coming, Spring is coming It won't be long now, it's just about here” Steven Curtis Chapman 🌱 #plants #gardening #zen

Something beautiful for the weekend! ✨ A rare rock crystal tool made by Neanderthals between 200,000 - 40,000 years ago. From a Mousterian level at the Merveilles rockshelter, Sergeac, Dordogne, France. 6 x 3.3 x 1.5 cm. Musée d’Archéologie Nationale, Saint-Germain-en-Laye 📷 by me #Archaeology

#smallbirdsaturday #birds #photography 📷🦉🪶 Purple Throated Carib Bearded Tit (Bearded Reedling) European Robin South Island Robin #NewZealand

youtu.be/aG2LnT77PRI?... Time to sleep, perchance to dream

#birdoftheday #birdsinflight #photgraphy #naturephotography 🪶🦉📷 Masked Booby Brown Booby Black-browed Albatross Black Kite

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Ah-hooo, wolf-dogs of Preston @blogpreston.co.uk

The volunteer-led initiative is relaunching and aims to provide a safe, welcoming space for people with Autism, ADHD, and disabilities

And, the wonderful Pauline in the Yellow Dress, by Sir James Gunn. The Harris, Preston. The dress and enigmatic smile - “The Mona Lisa of 1944”. #art #bluskyart

Wonderful exhibition at the The Harris, Preston by Saroj Patel. Ocean Mother - with the “Ocean of Emotions” song in the background. For Mothers everywhere and their Stories. #art #preston #india #medskyart #mothers

youtu.be/HkOMiA_uGso?... #musicsky #tomwaits

Happy birthday #Davidbowie #bowie #musicsky youtu.be/8SWb0ShWDQg?...

“Chivers!!!!” RIP

batten down the hatches #BBC #shippingforecast #weather #stormgoretti #goretti #hurricane

blog.google/technology/r... Listening to #BBC #Radio4 #Today about the wonderfully named Quantum Chip Willow Oh Willow, Chip Willow, Chip Willow #themikado #gilbertandSullivan

Keeping the Faith. Beginning to dream. #PNE #prestonnorthend @pnefcpost.bsky.social @blogpreston.co.uk

#Zen moment. Romanche Glacier, Beagle Channel, Alberto de Agostini National Park, Chile. #glacier #wilderness #travel #photography 📷 named after the French scientific expedition of 1882–1883, aboard the frigate La Romanche,

Tea room with a view, from Grasmere Tea Gardens, overlooking the wonderful St Oswald’s Church, resting place of William Wordsworth, and next door to the world famous Grasmere Gingerbread Shop. Will return when the Daffodil Garden comes into flower. I wandered lonely as a cloud 📷 #travel #photography

Just making sure that 2025 is definitely over

Early morning walk, birdwatching, rewarded by saying hello to a pair of European Roe Deer #Brockholes, Preston. Lancashire Wildlife Trust 📷

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... #musicsky #bruch #violin #memories

Happy birthday Shane. Your music and poetry live on. Thanks. #musicsky #pogues sometimes i wake up in the morning, the ginger lady by my bed youtu.be/PSyL-TrD_2g?...

youtube.com/watch?v=Mk2m... When I despair over Humanity, I need to remind myself that Humanity created something so beautiful. #musicsky #opera #bizet

Shab-e yaldâ, Alban Arthan, Winter Solstice. The shortest day, the longest night. Reminding us that Light will follow Darkness. Tonight is the night to look to the light. 📷 #travel #yaldanight #wintersolstice

Marcel Marceau 1977, Sadler’s Wells, London. Seems like only yesterday. Wonderful memories #mime @sadlerswells.bsky.social #TheatreSky

“Earth has not any thing to show more fair: Dull would he be of soul who could pass by A sight so touching in its majesty: This City now doth, like a garment, wear The beauty of the morning; silent, bare…..” WW #travel #photography 📷 #london

youtu.be/s-TwMfgaDC8?... Having a Maria Callas evening #opera #zen #musicsky

“You will be visited by three spirits” We three kings 🦉🪶📷 #birds

Random street graffiti outside the National Portrait Museum, London. From The Sea, by John Banville

www.linkedin.com/posts/birmin... Over 1,100 registered already. How do we know if our Diagnostic Service is good enough? We are spring-boarding a paradigm shift in determining what is good enough, and what is not, for patient-focussed Decision Diagnotics. Join us on the 11th. #medsky

youtu.be/EaBTicZMWbg?... 50 years ago, I repeat, 50 years. it seems like only yesterday #roxymusic

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that“ MLK Jr ”There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in” LC In darkness, we need to look for the light. Happy #Diwali