The much-missed Hobbes, the gentlest of ginger giants 😻 #caturday

Did not go in the house but I did go in the house

Happy 100th birthday, Eric Morecambe! 🤓 m.youtube.com/watch?v=dqeL... #otd #ericmorecambe #comedy

Stoney Littleton, some years back, when the sunlight was happier. Zoom in on the lower left of the entrance, and you can see the ammonite fossil. #tombtuesday #prehistory #somerset

Happy birthday to Paul Nash (1889). Visionary, dreamer and witness. #paulnash #otd

Tregeseal holed stones, the four stone row and a view through one of the "stand-alones". A very breezy day, I recall. #standingstonesunday #kernow #cornwall #penwith

It's #caturday again! But it's always a cat day, says Monkey, who has no thought of tomorrow 😸

Do go & vote if you have a chance.

A Harvard study just published estimates Elon Musk's destruction of USAID has already caused 600,000 deaths 2/3 of them children. That is his legacy in this world.

West Kennet long barrow #tombtuesday #Avebury #Wiltshire #prehistoric

Boscawen Ûn from Creeg Tol. #standingstonesunday #kernow #cornwall #penwith

A wet afternoon, so Monkey is taking things easy. He's also constraining my freedom of movement, but I'm not complaining 😉 #caturday

Chûn Quoit, for millenia battered by winds, baked by the sun, lashed by rain, but always looking to the sea and moors. #tombtuesday #kernow #cornwall #penwith

Tregeseal stone circle, overlooked by Carn Kenidjack #standingstonesunday (Click for wider view)

Chûn Quoit ##standingstonesunday

Sunshine And Showers. 16°C and a brisk Southerly. Hares on the bank.

Last week I was lucky a venue I wanted to visit was closed - I ended up here instead. Yes, it's a lovely view of Porth Neigwl, Hell's Mouth, North Wales, but watch as the cottage is revealed - you are seeing where poet @rsthomaspoet.bsky.social & his artist wife Elsi Eldridge lived in retirement.

More everyday miracles 😍 Very welcome in these times 🐝

Glorious outing on the Quantocks 🌞 Woods, blossom, bees, rooks, skylarks, buzzards, lambs. Views (just) of the Mumbles, Bannau Brycheiniog and the Skirrid. Diminutive ships in the Bristol Channel, probably awaiting the tide to proceed up to Avonmouth. #spring #quantocks

Let's play a game Your pet gets chosen to be immortalised on a banknote Which picture are you submitting?

Belated #caturday from Monkey, who is in his tower keeping an eye on the tulips 🌷

Alfred's Tower, at the end of a fine circumperambulation of the Stourhead Estate. #spring #stourhead #nationaltrust

Spring sun warming the Man on Bench (Giles Penny), Bruton

In the corrupted currents of this world Offense’s gilded hand may shove by justice, And oft ’tis seen the wicked prize itself Buys out the law

“Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge...” This quote from Darwin's Descent of Man, published #OnThisDay in 1871, pretty much sums up the challenges the world is facing now, a century & a half later.

“Evil starts when you treat other people as things. There are perhaps worse crimes, but they begin when you treat other people as things.” - Terry Pratchett

I had a visit from a finch this morning

Tigh nam Bodach - The Shrine of the Cailleach, Glen Lyon, Scotland 📷 13.05.24 #StandingStoneSunday #scape #LandscapePhotography #PhotographersofBlueSky

Miss Binks (No.1 Cat, Monkey is No.2) in today's morning sun. She is, in truth, black, but this early spring light "browns" her noticeably. I have a question: is there a name for the way fur separates as seen here? It occurs also with sheep fleeces. I've searched, but not found anything. #caturday

Monkey has been "helping" with pruning on this unusually sunny day 😎 #caturday #proofofcat

A poem about spring. 'Cause maybe I can manifest it into being.

"We sought the public good & would have enfranchised the people and secured the welfare of the whole groaning creation, if the nation had not more delighted in servitude than in freedom" One of our members played lawyer John Cook in a play staged by the @cromwellmuseum.bsky.social last weekend 1/

The earth has music for those who listen. #bluesky #photography #landscape #nature #art #mountains #landscapephotography #naturephotography

The Long Arm of the Paw. Mr Monkey at rest after a hard night's snoozing. #caturday #proofofcat

The Open University is for people who want to learn. AI is for people who don't even want to think.

Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers. This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.

This view is heavenly - when the world seems a disaster, I journey back in body or in spirit 😍

Saturday mornings moment of calm. The barn owl , night watcher, graceful hunter, silent traveller. I could learn a few lessons from you about how to interact with the world today.

This picture (and its variations) haunted me in my teens and 20s. Make of that what you will 😉

Bowled over by the great nave of the Ship of the Fens, the extraordinary octagon central crossing, oodles of Norman blind arcading, and a couple of understandably weary stone heads. It's been c.45 years since I last visited, a lot for me, but as nothing to this magnificent beast of a building. #ely

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Some of that cathedral Big Music here in Wells today 🎶 🔔

Morning sun reflecting off the snow on Cadair Idris

Fenland sunset & hogweed seedheads

Icy Skies. -2°C and a cold wind. Hares in the fields.

Heading west along Dursdon Drove, Mendip❄️☀️❄️

A Late Afternoon Wander. -1°C. Mistle Thrush.

Just After Dawn. -1°C. A lone crow 🐦‍⬛