It’s really hard to keep your head above the swamp that’s infecting the world at the moment. If the world is too big and fucking awful then make your world smaller.

Mute swan 🦢 😍 #swan

Alongside their parent plants there are up to 20 million shiny black English Bluebell seeds on our woodland floor, & each has now extended their taproot in search of moisture Many will not be successful, & even the ones that are take 5 years to form into a bulb & produce flowers

Andrew Rosindell quits Tories and defects to Reform UK Reform really are really scrapping the bottom of the Tory Barrel, scooping up the final dregs among whom I suspect will be Mark Francois

Of course Trump despises weakness. It's the quality he most recognises in himself. #c4news

Cuppa anyone? www.paulgarrard.xyz/2026/01/tea-... #tea

The orange buffoon would actually accept it as well as he is such a loathsome scumbag. The world just keeps laughing at him. Sad 😂

there were - a lot - of cardinals out yesterday. apparently this tree was a #perfectperch #birdoftheday #birdsseenin2026

These so-called "patriotic" 🇬🇧newspapers who brought you Brexit were never really patriotic at all. They are driven by a disdain for Britain's European neighbours, and a fawning obsession with America. They do not really want 🇬🇧 to be sovereign. They're content being a 🇺🇸vassal.

My blipfoto today

Not as much fun to say as Uranus.

That is a scene I can jump right into

Rain of biblical proportions here.

I was wondering why the frisbee kept getting bigger and bigger ... Then it hit me.

#Epstein #EpsteinFiles

New draft guidance from the CPS has classed circumcision as potential child abuse. www.secularism.org.uk/news/2026/01...

Forgot I post this only 4 days ago, a week is a long time in politics…so they say. So the defection mill continues Reform=Same old Tories

"I was a toilet cleaner, then five minutes later I’m trashing a guitar on stage and girls find me attractive." So many great lines in this. www.theguardian.com/music/2026/j...

Wishing all of us many gorgeous nature adventures in 2026. Whatever chaos is happening there is always something beautiful or exciting or funny to see out there. 🌿

Between 🌳 trees🌳 #woodland #treeclub

Oxford, in those days, was still a city of aquatint. In her spacious and quiet streets men walked and spoke as they had done in Newman's day; her autumnal mists, her grey springtime, and the rare glory of her summer days... exhaled the soft airs of centuries of youth" ~ Charles Ryder B.R

The forecast calls for spring like weather. Seems like a great day for a walk in the woods. Hope you can get outside. Nature photo day 368 #nature #photography #eastcoastkin #forestfriday #photographersofbluesky #peace #photographersunited #landscapephotograph #hiking #pnw

More appropriate by the day.

The government cancelling local elections threatens accountability and undermines local democracy. Parliament must debate whether the government should have this power. Please sign our letter. secure.unlockdemocracy.org.uk/page/184786/...

Mossy hazel (or willow) at Peter Tavy Coombe this week, #Dartmoor, #Devon. #moss

I agree around 12 hours would suffice for me then another 4 or 5 hours in the evening to prepare for bed

The findings of Powys council that Llanidloes school was 'compliant' despite its head routinely promoting creationism raise serious questions about current guidance on religion in schools in Wales. Our calls for review are covered in Nation Cymru👇 nation.cymru/news/welsh-g...

An independent Jewish school in London has been found to have "not taken seriously" issues identified in eight previous inspections. School standards must be robustly enforced at all schools, no matter their religious character. www.secularism.org.uk/news/2026/01...

I try not to post too many things to do with US politics but this made me laugh out loud. So. Sorry.

I do wish someone, somewhere would grow a pair & sort this out.

I once obtained a Nobel Peace prize medal by blackmail

Surely it can’t be a coincidence

Introduce yourself with with 5 facts: 1) I talk to trees 2) Trees talk to me 3) I have been here before 4) So have you 5) I am in no way delusional

"Excuse me, exactly how Italian is this establishment?"

I make no apologies for sharing this again.

Repost with your home river

The quote that has inspired and influenced me most throughout my life

JUST IN: Iran has closed its airspace for all flights

That’s…. ominous right?

War with Iran actually was on my bingo card sadly

The moss looks particularly luminous on the moor at this times of year because it’s growing.. new growth looks very green. Wall and hazel at Peter Tavy coombe this week, #Dartmoor. #Devon. #photography #moss

Post a picture YOU took, just a picture NO description

My blipfoto today #livinginthecountryside France

The evidence is clear - stunning an animal prior to slaughter is more humane. If the Government’s new strategy is genuinely committed to scientific rigour and improving animal welfare, it must review legal exemptions allowing non-stun slaughter. www.secularism.org.uk/news/2026/01...

“Parliament needs to think about how it can defend a system where a tattooist requires a licence... but a person carrying out genital surgery on a baby boy doesn’t" Lord Scriven is quoted on the dangerous legal arrangements surrounding #NTMC in the UK. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...