PSA🚨

Down The Track. 12°C and rather breezy. A single jackdaw

Poem by Louis MacNeice.

My oh my another Sibelius surprise on the way. I am really not convinced by the full stop after the composer’s name on the cover, though. It’s really troubling me for some reason!

This picture of Astronaut Christina Koch after the Artemis landing is frankly incredible and beautiful.

Captured on this day, April 17, 2009, two different shuttles were poised on two different launch pads: Atlantis in the foreground and Endeavour - to launch in the unlikely event that a rescue mission was necessary during Atlantis mission to upgrade the Hubble Space Telescope. flic.kr/p/25YZQN9

Sibelius’s Lemminkaïnen Suite has been very lucky on record. Indeed there are at least 27 versions in my collection, though I would bet it’s possible to find more than that. These are the four I return to most, with Segerstam probably topping the list. Which are your favourites?

#Finland: You can now major in a language without prior knowledge To stir interest, Finnish universities are admitting beginners to language majors. yle.fi/a/74-20221229 #langsky

Marches, Romans and MuZIEum - the Oldest City in the Netherlands: with lots of Bank holidays coming up, here's a tip for a day out with the family.

My next painting will be something resembling this..

Hampshire house hits 70% energy saving via #Enerphit A deep retrofit of a 1930s house on the Hampshire coast is a pitch-perfect example of how to transform old dwellings without needing an extension, creating a cosy home that uses two-thirds less #energy than before. tinyurl.com/4byrcmkb

Pope Leo: "The world is being ravaged by a handful of tyrants, yet it is held together by a multitude of supportive brothers and sisters.”

A landmark moment in our unwavering support for Ukraine. 5,000 Ukrainian patients have been evacuated via the European Civil Protection Mechanism to receive care in 21 EU countries and Norway. This is the largest medical evacuation operation ever coordinated by the EU ↓ link.europa.eu/tWqvhM

Hungary: Orban loses historic election The new Private Eye is out now.

UK signs deal to rejoin EU's Erasmus student exchange program

The number of ‘bells’ an English Bluebell has reflects its age It is dependent on the increasing size of the bulb, root system & leaves capable of managing the weight, nutrients & water Individuals plants can live over 15 years. Established colonies can be a thousand years old

Vance says that stopping funding for Ukraine is one of his proudest achievements in this administration. ​I’m watching this stunningly cruel speech from Ukraine, as Russia continues to kills us every day. Just today, they killed 8-year-old boy in Cherkasy and five people in Dnipro.

😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡 The internet never forgets!

On this day 45 years ago: touchdown of the first Space Shuttle Mission April 14, 1981, Columbia (STS-1) lands on Rogers dry lake at Edwards Air Force Base in southern California to successfully complete a stay in space of more than two days. flic.kr/p/2s7sXs9 🧪🔭

Late in the evening OTD 1912 RMS Titanic hits one of the icebergs shown on this June 1912 chart of the North Atlantic. The Bodleian holds the Marconi archive and before the ship sank telegrams were sent both from the ship and to others in the area like this one, calling for help. @bodleian.ox.ac.uk

IMAX Cinema, Waterloo 1999 Avery Associates Image from RIBApix

I went out looking for Green Woodpecker and it took me over a week to track that laughing yaffle down but I snagged my prize eventually 💚✨📷 #greenwoodpecker

Trump has become fully unhinged and we should talk about it. www.ms.now/morning-joe/...

Well someone likes to come out swinging 👀

Some of our members have reported a 'last minute' increase in evictions before 1 May. The Minister is quite right to call out this "disgraceful behaviour from shameless landlords" - eviction 'because I can' is exactly why section 21 had to be scrapped. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Love this shot. I think this is a thermal infrared camera, showing how the bottom of the capsule is still glowing due to its warmth after hypersonically ramming the atmosphere — compressing a gas heats it up a LOT when you're moving at superorbital speeds. #ArtemisII

Orbán concedes election to Tisza's Magyar Viktor Orbán is now speaking at Fidesz's election night and he says the election result is "clear" as he concedes defeat. He says he congratulated the winning party and admits the result is painful for Fidesz. www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

So much of the etymologist's and lexicographer's job involves telling people that certain everyday words aren't originally acronyms – the exception to the rule being 'flak' (as in 'receiving a lot of flak'), from German Fliegerabwehrkanone.

At 5pm it's officially a record -- at 74% it's the highest turnout in the history of modern elections in Hungary. And there is still two more hours to go.

"Wir haben heute das gesamte Potpourri an Verspätungsmöglichkeiten mitgenommen, und Sie sind am heutigen Sonntag auch sehr zahlreich erschienen!" (@[email protected]) #BahnAnsagen

Poem by Carol Ann Duffy.

I hope Orban loses today. Let’s start those populist dominoes tumbling. 🇭🇺🇭🇺🇭🇺🇭🇺

I hadn't realised that Averil Cameron, a terrific historian, had died a few days ago:

The amazing, letter-perfect performance of NASA this week is a ferocious rebuke to the right-wing fools who constantly tell us that for-profit businesses always do a job better than the government.

The Byzantine double church of SS Nicholas and Spyridon in Davelis Cave (Σπηλιά Νταβέλη), hewn into the marble-rich mountainside between the 10th and 12th century, with 13th-century wall paintings. What an amazing site!

Astronauts are now arriving aboard the USS John P. Murtha (LPD-26) 🚁🌊 Following the successful splashdown of Artemis II, recovery helicopters have transported the astronauts safely to the ship. 📷: NASA Track it live with our app: airnavradar.go.link/i1UEk

Home is getting close now #Artemis

Everything Britain needs, Reform UK will derail or destroy: *More green energy, faster *More building *Much more housing *Join Single Market *More immigration Doesn't matter what RefUK say about any of those things. Facts disagree. Reality is what it is.

Retracing the route of the first Luft Hansa flight in 1926, we join Lufthansa aboard a very special celebration of the airline’s 100th anniversary. www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3oX...

To celebrate Ben Nicholson's birthday, take a peek inside his studio through the years 👉 https://artuk.org/discover/stories/the-still-life-of-a-jug-inside-the-studio-of-ben-nicholson 'Ben Nicholson' by John Humphrey Spender (1910–2005) © National Portrait Gallery #OnThisDay

This might be one of my favorites from Artemis II. A cinematic alignment of the Moon and Earth, each cradled within the warmth of sunbeams. Taken from behind the Moon on April 6th. flic.kr/p/2s6BABn

Hazy Sunshine. 14°C and light cloud. Skylarks.

Dear BBC, Queen Elizabeth II was not born on 10 April!

Mid-13th century door from the undercroft at Wells Cathedral in Somerset. 📸 My own. #AdoorableThursday #WellsCathedral

Was delighted to come across this in our new locality! (Could do with a bit of a clean up...)

In a move that’s turning heads globally, #EmmanuelMacron has reportedly made a quiet yet powerful strategic shift. Without public fanfare, France is said to have relocated 129 tons of its gold reserves from NY back to Europe, ensuring that all of the nation’s gold is now held in Paris. #DonaldTrump

Iraq has withdrawn the NOTAM closing airspace in the country, though commercial flights have not yet resumed. Airspace in neighboring Kuwait and the section of Saudi Arabia bordering Iraq remains closed.

Who remembers him? 180 unique historic street images of the UK and Ireland taken by me in the 1950s and 1960s, together with detailed descriptions of the locations, are in my new book "Forgotten Times" (Amberley Publishing.)

We’ll be tracking the aerial assets in place to welcome the Artemis II crew home on Friday, but for the moment, just enjoy some of the amazing images captured by the crew so far. See all of the images posted by NASA at www.flickr.com/photos/nasa2...

One of the greatest privileges of being alive right now is the ability to see photographs like this. Truly spectacular.