Long lens from our bedroom window at sunset. The snow will be gone tomorrow.

The garden show-off.

Beautiful this morning , but.... brrrrrrr!

Spray paint a plane and they'll detain you without trial and call you a terrorist. Kidnap a foreign head of state - and Keir Starmer will make it clear we've played no part in it but will wait for the scheduled press conference in a few hours before potentially condemning it

Good morning And what a lovely start to the year. Please Join @ronanhession.bsky.social talking to James Naughtie This Sunday 4th January on BBC Radio4 at 4pm. @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Wolf Moon rising. Feel free to h-o-w-l!

Wishing everyone a happy and peaceful 2026. Like many other years, 2025 has been a bit of a mess: difficult, scary, but very often lovely. I choose to treasure the lovely memories.

Nadolig llawen!

The queues are terrible at this time of year...

Bobbing along.

It's been hard to get into the Christmas spirit this year, but after a carol service this afternoon and putting the tree up, I'm beginning to get that old feeling of expectation.

Oh hey I spy a Salt Oracle! 😍😍😍 @solarisbooks.bsky.social

We had a lantern parade to mark the 225th anniversary of the Gilwern to Brecon section of the Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal. In the next few days, the parade will pass through Llangattock, Llangynidr and Talybont before ending up at Brecon. Amazing lanterns and crowds of people there last night.

Morning moon.

Misty morning.

'Don't watch The Martian.'

Today is the 56th anniversary of the first performance of Mahna Mahna on Sesame Street. You’re familiar with it by now, of course, but... well, it never hurts to be reminded, does it?

Glorious! One case where I love the book AND love the TV series. Read it and watch it ❤️

Bore da!

This morning's walk (more of a waddle) didn't get very far. But who cares with scenery like this?

One of those days when every time I looked out of the window, the sky had changed.

My first proper walk for a week. What a relief to get out there! I have an inflamed leg thanks to a bad reaction to a tablet, and have been alternating between lying down and pacing around. At last, I can sit at the computer for a few minutes and even write! Enjoy 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 on a cold, clear day ❤️

How did those presenters keep a straight face

A visit to Kath's lovely Bardic Books in Llantwit Major (hint: where both my books are for sale 😁). Feeling nostalgic, I bought a vintage Ladybird book that I once owned. And the visit was topped off by apocalyptic skies over Llantwit beach. There's nothing like a stormy sky over the channel.

River Clydach in spate! The rain has to go somewhere, and it's a very short river.

Plip-plop....

Hey, they’ve invested a lot in faragism, you don’t just expect them to give up?

Out before the wind and rain (which is now battering our windows).

If you can't read @ronanhession.bsky.social's wonderful novel, watch the series... and relax. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Day by day, nature's palette grows. Even under grey skies.

"Follow me for more..."

A present from daughter, courtesy of the Bodleian Library. Yes, I do prefer to write in silence.

Rush hour at the public baths.

Moonrise over Gilwern.

Nature notes: shrews are very fond of sketching their surroundings and can often be seen carrying a small cushion with them to sit on whilst drawing. (And yes I did make a teeny tiny sketch book and teeny tiny pencil with actual lead in it - come and see at GNCCF Manchester 16-19Oct )

the post office is a public service. it doesn’t need to make money. public transit doesn’t need to make money. the library doesn’t need to make money. some things exist for the public good and we desperately need lawmakers to stop thinking about them in terms of capitalism. these are not businesses.

'Overnight, very Whitely, discreetly, Very quietly...' from Mushrooms by Sylvia Plath.

View from my writing desk as I write Apples in the Dark 3: Shouting at Angels.

Two years on from the roll out of Wales' controversial 20mph default speed limit, new data has revealed that policy has resulted in over 1000 fewer casualties

Almost the end of the rainbow...

Arrested for malicious communications? Really? I’d like to see this one in court…

I went to see the choo choos at Blaenavon steam gala. Sunshine and cloudbursts added to the drama. Amazing to see a locomotive built in 1872 happily pulling passengers. Imagine if your mobile phone could still operate in the year 2178!

I keep forgetting that Bluesky has expanded massively since my first novel arrived last year. Apples in the Dark is about love and loyalty, and tackles the effects of #HiddenDisability. The sequel, Angels and Blackbirds is available, and I'm writing the third in the series. #Disability #Epilepsy

Stormy at Parc Bryn Bach, my favourite place to write nowadays.

TOMORROW I'll be at the Ross-on-Wye Book Fair at the Larrupertz Centre, with my two (so far) novels in the Apples in the Dark series. See you there?

Another early walk, and the Hawthorn thinks it's autumn already (so does our apple tree). Poor nature is in a muddle. #climatechange

Kath in her gem of a bookshop in Llantwit Major, Bardic Books. Kath has stocks of both my novels, but so much more. Bardic Books is my dream of a bookshop: everything from vintage books and second-hand paperbacks to current local authors. And not a ghost-written celebrity title in sight!

We cannot heal the open wound of Brexit until we tackle the serious issues (rigged political system, corrupt media, foreign/corporate interference) that caused us to self harm in the first place. Other countries can see that, yet we can't?

I saw this today and was extra careful. Maybe because I've just finished reading #TheTwelve by @londonbessie.bsky.social – where seasons get mixed up. I LOVED this book – for glorious descriptions, for characters I cared about and for the message that it's up to us mayflies to care for the planet.

Darkly funny: signs appearing across central London, protesting Starmer’s use of anti-terror laws against peaceful pro-Palestine protesters.