New Midori Hirano album out next year via Thrill Jockey Records - preorders open now for European shipping via Anost.net 🙂👍 www.anost.net/release/0BB3...

Love the 2016 Star Core album by Marielle V Jacobsons mariellejakobsons.bandcamp.com/album/star-c... and delighted to hear there is a new album on the way in Feb 2026 via Thrill Jockey Records www.anost.net/release/9204... 👍🙂

Morning walk before the rain

Galchen Fach #StandingStoneSunday

Maen Bradwen #StandingStoneSunday

The Growing stone, Cwrt y Gollen. #StandingStoneSunday

And we've made it! But if you want a printed copy of the book please keep pledging - we can increase the print run and with the funds we also hope to add a fancier foiled cover to the print run too! www.kickstarter.com/projects/soc...

Had to break out the Winter Porter - this one is lovely and spicy 😋

You can’t watch Strictly when Lola’s squirrel needs rescuing 😁

Plenty of prehistoric pit and linear features being excavated on a quarry extension near Mold today. Pits filled with heated stone and charcoal suggest cooking activity. Also a possible round hut starting to appear. Much more to be stripped and excavated over the next few months.

Worrying reports of bird flu (avian influenza) are coming in, including an outbreak in Whooper Swans in the Fens. Other waterbirds are also being affected, and cases are rising. 📷 Sick Whooper Swan by Kane Brides #UKBirding #BirdingWales #BirdingScotland

For fans of ghost story dramas there is a rare opportunity to see the Screen Two 1995 episode of The Blue Boy set in Scotland on BBC iPlayer www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

My reconstruction of Allen Smelt Mill (2017) is a good contender for being among my most challenging visualisation projects. It required months of effort, research, and problem-solving with the aid of 3D models. I wrote an article about the experience.... bob-marshall.blogspot.com/2018/01/reco...

Umbellifer skies

Kind of how it feels after Gill died last year 💔

Impossible watching Strictly with this attention seeking madam in front of you. She loves teasing the ball then grabs it before you can 😁

Wondered what the scratching sound in the trees was and looked up to find these two Cormorants watching me from only 10 metres away. Stood there for a few minutes and they seemed quite relaxed and didn’t fly off. Great when these quality close proximity moments happen with nature.

And the classic ghostie movie for Halloween tonight is Ghost Story (1981) based on the Peter Straub novel 🎃👻

Sundown out the back

Sums up the day, dramatic clouds and heavy showers

Ep 71. We go format crazy with @avavsystems.bsky.social. Taylor Swift has done some variants. Madonna has annoyed us, again, counterfeit scams... a gloomy post box...plus news, quiz and all your usual crate digging larks. link.chtbl.com/_MA6rrYD Support the show. ko-fi.com/webuyrecords

Fieldfare’s are back today for winter with some big flocks flying over or settling in the canalside trees. Always good to welcome our winter visitors. Redwings likely to be back now too.

I was dubious about celebrities being introduced to The Traitors but I’m loving this series 🙂👍

Kerry Dodd, Buglife Conservation Officer, talks about the achievements of the Guardians of our Rivers project and the next steps 👣 Register for the online BDS Annual Meeting on Saturday 15 November 2025👉 british-dragonflies.org.uk/event/annual... @buglife31.bsky.social

Oh great 🙄 Some idiot (probably a lorry or farm machinery) managed to go through half of the parapet on our local Llandrinio Bridge over the River Severn. No one in the river thankfully, but the bridge will be out of action for months & long detours ahead www.countytimes.co.uk/news/2557720...

Wow 🤩 micro suction ear wax removal is great isn’t it 😁 Got it done today and full stereo hearing is restored and the sort of soft white noise tinnitus associated with it has gone. I keep getting surprised by sounds coming from places I haven’t fully heard them before.

I was lucky to see the remains of the castle on one of its rare open days a couple of years back. You could see lead shot impact scars on some of the walls. The podcast is well worth a listen 👍

Lucky not to bust my leg after a bad fall on wet grass this morning - sometimes having big bones and some padding helps 😁 Lovely autumnal colours in golden light this morning.

Tonight in St. Alkmund’s Church, Shrewsbury from 6.30pm👇 Still just a few tickets left if you are lucky and act fast - grab a ticket here skiddle.com/deeplink?typ...

Moth of the day - a Green brindled Crescent just flew in.

For the third time, InFiné and the Philharmonie de Paris have joined forces, this time inviting Julianna Barwick and Mary Lattimore to explore the Musée de la Musique’s extraordinary collection of instruments for the recording of their upcoming album Tragic Magic.

Enjoying a read of this one set in late 18th century Merionethshire

Nice out the back…

Friday October 24th St Alkmunds #shrewsbury www.skiddle.com/e/41305816

Well that is without doubt the best video game I have ever played. Superb storyline and dialogue, beautifully designed open world to explore set in 1603 Japan, fluid gameplay, Atsu is a great female lead character and it had the perfect ending 👏 #GhostofYotei

I keep getting ready to photograph Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) which is low in the western sky just above Arcturus at dusk and then the cloud rolls in. Last chance on Wednesday I reckon.

I was looking at the original Latin and English translation from the 9th century writings of Nennius which mention the Vortigern legend associated with the Dinas Emrys hillfort near Beddgelert. Never realised this is probably the first mention in writing of both Eryri (Hereri) & Snowdon (Snaudun).

Llyn Elsi

I think I have found my Halloween season read - a collection of new short stories from contemporary writers

I’m going to have to go back to the Hafod y Porth copper mine high on the slopes of Cwm y Bleiddiad (valley/hollow of the wolf), Eryri for a more detailed look as I didn’t have time yesterday. I passed a powder store on the miners track, the managers house & smithy & a nice circular powder magazine

Fabulous 13km walk today through the Craflwyn woodland to the Dinas Emrys Iron Age-Early Med fortress assoc. with legends of the post Roman warlord Vortigern in the writings of Nennius. Then on up past mine workings & over to the Watkin Path - then back along the southern shoreline of Llyn Dinas.

Plenty of prehistoric forest on view as usual at low tide on the Ynyslas and Borth shoreline

Lovely walk from Ynyslas to Borth around the Cors Fochno raised peat bog reserve and back via the Afon Leri. Red Kites, Egrets, Sedge Warblers and Reed Buntings. All you could hear was the reeds rustling in a light breeze.

Default status for Lola after a day in the hills 🙂

Lovely afternoon walking up to Llyn Elsi near Betws y Coed in good company. Walked round here so many times with Gill and it was the first time back without her. One of our favourite places to just be calm and reset when life got too hectic - it still works its magic 🙂

The banked entrance passage up to the top of Gaer Fawr hillfort has been cleared of vegetation again so it looks impressive as you are funnelled up to the top.

Loads of fungi in the Gaer Fawr woodland at the moment

Both of us chilling out on a foggy morning to some William Lawes consort music from the 1630’s played by Les Voix Humaines #earlymusic

There was a bit of a colourful farmers bale string theme going on at the Breidden today

Raven land