Mr Peacock, in an English Country Garden, on the Buddleia. A moment of peace before the football. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇦🇷🌱📷 #butterfly #photography #zen

Why did the @labouruk.bsky.social turn on one of the most successful Labour Leader in over 50 years, and the most internationally respected UK Prime Minister for many years?

The British Museum finds a little known section of the Bayeux Tapestry when they opened the crates. It depicts England’s formation in the 1066 Battle of Hastings

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Sometimes it’s the simple gifts of nature that calms the troubled mind. #flowertherapy #foresttherapy #zen #flowers #roses #mindfulness

Worldwise Samba Drummers, Lostock Hall Carnival in the theme of Brazil. @blogpreston.co.uk #brazil #drummer #samba #carnival

Joy of flowers🌱📷

It can take many leaders years to grow into the statesman you became in just two years. European and Ukrainian security is stronger because of you. Thank you, dear Keir.

Spotted Wild Orchid. Many of them in a meadow in Brockholes Nature Reserve, Preston #photography 📷 #flowers 🌱

Blue Damsel flies. #photography 📷 #nature

Penwortham Gala procession heading for Hurst Grange Park

Kintsugi is the ancient Japanese art of repairing broken pottery. Instead of hiding the fractures, this method highlights the cracks, treating the damage as part of the object's history and rendering the restored piece more valuable and unique than before it was broken

Summer is on is way #wildlife #photography 📷

Best margarita. Home infused tequila with pomegranate- 2 parts, 1 part triple sec, one part lime #cocktail #mixology #tequila

Enjoying the Djembe Jam in Avenham Park, Preston - in the glorious sunshine- as part of the famous Preston Jazz Festival @blogpreston.co.uk

“take it all apart and put it back together differently” great exhibition at the Marine Gallery Newhaven, Isobel Smith #art

A nice little walk by the Seven Sisters, Cuckmere, East Sussex #travel #photography

Penwortham live 2026 Worldwise Samba Drummers

Glass of wine, in the garden and saying hello to a Wood Pigeon friend and listening to his wonderful song 🪶🦉 #bird #mindfulness #zen #photography 📷

Oh! #medsky 🛟🧪🩺 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A welcome visitor to my garden feeder 🦉🪶 Great Spotted Woodpecker #birds

Wordwise Samba Drummers at Chews Yard, Preston. #samba #music @blogpreston.co.uk

Oh well, perhaps next season will be better (have had this thought for 30 years) @blogpreston.co.uk #pne Preston North End. Deepdale football ground, taken from the River Ribble Salt Marshes

#Zen in the garden. 🌱 sometimes, it’s the simple things #mindfulness #wellbeing

Went for a fabulous walk by the Salt Marshes of the Ribble Estuary. The locals were a bit curious 📷 #naturephotography

Train to London, enjoying the yellow fields of Spring 📷🌱

Great photo #travel #photography 📷

Got my boarding card. Shame it’s only my name and not me Going. Good luck to the crew. Have a safe journey and boldly go, and come back again. Respect, and am a wee bit envious. #NASA #Artemis #ArtemisII #moon

Great day at the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust (WWT) at Martin Mere, Lancashire. Eventually got to spot the juvenile Glossy Ibis, who liked it here and has stayed (but Didn’t get a good photo) 🪶🦉📷 #photography #birds #lancashire

Walking somewhere in Lancashire. Bliss. #mindfulness #wellbeing #zen

Salix viminalis, the basket willow. #macroMonday 🌱📷 #photography

Cowslips and Camelia. The Cowslips are recent but the Cameila has been rewarding since Christamas 🌱 #spring #flowers 📷

Next year is the 400th anniversary of the birth of Robert Boyle, illustrious cofounder of the Royal Society. Nice then that Boyle is prominent in my next book, which I hope will be published in late 2027.

“I wandered lonely as a Cloud That floats on high o’er Vales and Hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host of golden Daffodils; Beside the Lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. William Wordsworth #poetry 🌱

Happy #SwanDay Mute Swan #swan #nature #photography #zen 🦉🪶

“You can never hold back Spring” Tom Waits #macromonday 🌱📷 #spring #eastcoastkin

Under the moonlight, this serious moonlight #moon #bowie

Terrible headline (this is NOT what the new research - link below - shows!), terrible AI image! Argh! Here’s the actual research: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Where do I start?! 1/4

Last of the Mohicans, Inca style. Wonderful film, wonderful music and wonderful street performance at the Edinburgh Fringe

7 years ago today. A short walk in the Annapurna foothills, Nepal. 📷 #travel #photography #nepal

Happy Margarita Day

A Robin just told me that Spring is coming 📷🪶 #photography #birds

journals.plos.org/plosgenetics... Interesting. Why do some people cry watching La Traviata and some people don’t? It’s partly due to your genes

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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