Lovely long-tailed tit sunning itself on Saturday at @rspb Old Moor #Sharemondays2025

He’s out, Mr Mackerel has finished cooking 😊. Decided to call him ‘Stargazey’. The panel stands in a beautifully patterned green Lakeland slate base. #glass #art #artist #handcrafted

A warning for any @dropbox.com users. I tried to download some files from Dropbox earlier and have since spent a couple of hours investigating why my Windows PC lost its internet connection. Found a forum post saying accessing the Dropbox site had done that!!! It also seems that accessing ... 🧵1/2

A #SurreyHills sunset yesterday for #Sharemondays2025

She was arrested for holding a sign reading: “I do not support the proscription of Palestine Action” How that would warrant arrest is very unclear. I wonder if the police here even understand the boundaries of the bizarre law they’ve been forced to enforce.

Wonderful organ concert in Salibury Cathedral last night - music from Interstellar plus bonus Planets. Fantastic sound in a beautiful setting

Happy National Poetry Day to all those who celebrate. This year’s theme is ‘play’ so here’s a poem which plays with some letters. It’s called ‘The Problem of Writing Poems in the Shape of Deciduous Trees’.

Today's Mavis pic... Isn't it frustrating when there's a long wait between your drink and your meal being served? 🐾

Beautiful stag with additional decoration in Bushy Park yesterday #Sharemondays2025

In the early 1960s a senior Conservative minister, John Profumo, resigned and inflicted perhaps decisive damage to the electoral prospects of his party for a decade ….. for far less than this

The even more unbelievable crime fact (which I learned relatively recently) is that burglary has fallen by more than 90% since the 1990s. Did anyone notice? Nope. Does anyone believe it? Nope. But is is true? It is!

When you save a document to the cloud, it's actually looked after by a Samoyed. The time it takes to download is really for figuring out which Samoyed has your file.

LIMERICK It was the Medical Council’s belief, That as a form of effective relief, Paracetamol would Be next to no good From the pain of the Satsuma-in-Chief.

A #FrenshamLittlePond #ICM from yesterday evening for #Sharemondays2025

Not been very good at posting pics lately, but here's one from #FrenshamLittlePond this evening. The light at dusk seems to show up the colours starting to turn

Today's Mavis pic... Some kind of interpretive dance, I believe. 🤔 🐾

Good morning all Our good friend Ruby Nicholson is selling there own home raised Borrowdale beef 🥩 it’s as Cumbrian as you can get and she will happily drop it off in Keswick for you or you can go down to the farm and choose your own 👍🥾

"Each act, each occasion is worse than the last, but only a little worse. You wait for the next and the next. You wait for one great shocking occasion, thinking that others, when such a shock comes, will join with you in resisting somehow." 1/10

Ripples for #Sharemondays2025

I want my country back. The country that welcomed my Grandfather fleeing from the Armenian genocide. That welcomed the Polish grandfather of our political editor, who then fought against Hitler. That welcomed the Indian parents of our editor-in-chief, as citizens of the British Empire. That country

Here’s a poem called ‘English Roundabouts’.

I’ve been asked to share this so I’m asking you guys to share his - there raising funds to renovate there village hall if you can Go I can absolutely guarantee it’s a cracking night if you can’t a share would be amazing thank you 🥾🧦👍

Winter In Derbyshire, 1985: a painting by my dad, Mick.

Caught (metaphotically speaking) this beautiful Common blue butterfly roosting on a perennial wallflower in the garden #Sharemondays2025

Beautiful double rainbow over the #DevilsPunchbowl this afternoon #Sharemondays2025

Abstracts made walking around Bridlington

GALACTIC SPLENDOUR The Milky Way gracing the skies over Haweswater reservoir in the Lake District. #milkyway #astrophotography #lakedistrictnationalpark #haweswater #fsprintmonday #sharemondays2025 @fotospeed.bsky.social @sonyalpha.bsky.social

My Victorian ink bottle posy kits are now in my shop👇 Some have sold which is fantastic but maybe due to financial climate not as many as usual. I know it's cringey to ask for support but I'm trying to get back on my feet after being v unwell-a RT would help so much x🌿 www.etsy.com/uk/shop/silv...

A few shots of the beautiful @salisburycathedral.bsky.social from Saturday evening - we went for the wonderful Organ Prom 😊

"Into the woods" A #FrenshamCommon #ICM for #Sharemondays2025

OK, so my #BirdoftheDay is this stunning juvenile Green Woodpecker. Looks so prehistoric! Taken just now hopping around our grass..... I mean straw #scape #birds #nature #wildlife #photography #PhotographersofBlueSky

For those in SE London on Friday evening and so inclined, my son has a gig.

foreigner: so what’s it like to live in america? me:

Here’s a poem called ‘Neither Rhyme nor Reason’.

Looking for a bargain hunting farming boot we have the Lowa on clearance it’s a cracking boot that will take an absolute pasting 👍🥾 Click the link 🧡 thekeswickbootco.co.uk/product/lowa...

I’m on my nonsense again. This week’s Six Things: – Cup of Tea – Chronotrains – Bike Jumping – Tombstone – Methinketh – Eightile open.substack.com/pub/levparik...

Letter of the day (in the Times)

"What big eyes you have!" Common darter at RSPB Old Moor on Saturday #Sharemondays2025

where the sea begins to call

A few from a wander at #ThursleyNNR yesterday afternoon A small blue butterfly (might even be a Small Blue? but I didn't get the underside), keeled and black-tailed skimmers and a very neatly resting lizard

If I'd known it was going to end up warm enough to take my cardigan off in the office, I'd have ironed the back of my top as well as the front. 😁

A young kestrel learning hunting skills from the ground From a wonderful day at #BushyPark yesterday #Sharemondays2025

A few insects in the garden this afternoon ... 1/2

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Just an adder on the path and a crow on a tree #FrenshamCommon today

Dark clouds over #FrenshamCommon and #FrenshamGreatPond this afternoon. Luckily we didn't get wet. #Sharemondays2025

If you're really lucky they all line up and pose for you! #herdwick #sheep

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