Lucy Corrander

This picture should slant slightly to the left. I've straightened the hillside by mistake. You can see a tall chimney in the valley. That should be vertical.

Field of rough, short green grass, full of mole hills. Longer, brown grass in the foreground and fence posts strung with metal netting in between. Distant view shows extremely steep green hillside with scattered houses. Calderdale.

Field of Moles. Evening 4th March 2026. This field is always full of molehills while the landscape around it isn't. I don't know about moles so I don't know why this is - but do find it intriguing. If I had taken a video, you would hear a Lapwing and a Whimbrel. Calderdale.

#RebeccaWest #BookSky

Photo from the early 1970s of a man on horseback negotiating the Birmingham inner ring road at Holloway Head

I’m searching for the original and/or rights owner of this fabulous picture of Birmingham in the early 1970s. It popped up on my Instagram feed, but I’ve been unable to track it down.

Any leads? I’m really hoping to use it in a book.

(And would much appreciate a RT please)

I'll suggest Great Tit - www.rspb.org.uk/birds-and-wi...

Did you dig this on purpose or is it reportable?

Farming is our most important industry.

Image features a wood pigeon atop a draped urn monument against a background of bare trees.

Good day all.
Wood pigeon atop draped urn monument.

Doubt it's personal, it's just that, until now, I've had lots of things outside my house so if someone wants to be annoying, there are good pickings. Last week a 9yr old neighbour told me his pot of daffodils has been taken from outside his house. Part of mystery 'where are all these things going?'

No. I don't feel intimidated. Just perplexed and cross.

Yes. It's a real shame. I have had confidence in this place until now. When it's time for plants to harden off, I leave them outside in trays, confident they will stay put. Now I don't know. When it's sunny, I dry clothes outside the house - will they be safe? Who knows. It's very annoying.

No. Some things taken a few weeks ago were very heavy. This would have been easy to pick up and carry off. But it has been there for years, had meaning but was not beautiful so have no idea why it was taken. A neighbour further along terrace said all his pots were taken in one night a few years ago.

Simulium reptans, this is a male with large facets at the top of the eyes and smaller ones below. Females feed on mammals including humans

Simulium reptans, male with large and small facets to the eyes; females feed on mammals inc. humans.
Anyone ecologists needing help with diptera backlog from this year? Or planning lots of diptera work next year, please contact me if I can help.
Please share, ta!
www.dipteraid.co.uk

It's becoming a catalogue of depletion. Not a plant, this time, stolen from outside my house - but a bird of peace, carved on a ten inch stone tablet. They left a corner behind. Wondering, if, one day, I'll come across all my things again outside someone else's house, with bits chipped off.

I left beetroot to germinate too long in a warm place over night. This morning I find I have a flock of little flamingos.

I've just seen a footballer jump. Now I want to be able to jump five feet in the air and make it seem as if there's no effort to it.

And they don't even need more money! They have more than plenty already.
Also seems to me that 'rulers' around the world are not so much doing it for money as for keeping themselves alive/in power. If they stop wars, people will look at them. So they dig themselves in and people die.

It's strange. We think the way to reduce knife crime is to try to reduce the numbers and kinds of knives on sale/in people's pockets. Fewer knives. Fewer stabbings. Seems to me it's obvious - indeed, logical - that the fewer weapons, the less likely it is they will be used.

I hope this isn't going to be applied to burials.

Dear wise ones, is there a way of saying 'first in, last out' in Latin?

Favourite #WorldBookDay moment ...
Asked a hall full of children if any of them knew what a Dalek was ... girl RAN up to the stage and announced ... it's a small onion but strong. Cut it and you'll cry.

Me: .... thinking ...
Me: .. still thinking ...
Finally ...
... Garlic.

Anyone interested?

Some politicians complain not enough money is being spent on defence. Seems to me the world spends too much on defence. If countries didn't buy lots of bombs, they wouldn't be able to drop them on each other. As it is, there seems an infinite supply of the things. Cheaper to talk with each other.

Quietly, calmly and forensically, BBC just dismantled the Trump communications shitshow on Iran.

No hyperbole, just laying out an unprecedented military, diplomatic and reputational shambles.

Worth a watch.

(🎥 BBC News/BBC Verify)

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Don't have a garden. Nor an airing cupboard. Instead, have an electric airer in the (perfectly dry) cellar. Turns out to be a fail safe way to germinate seeds as well. Three shelves - six trays. Each tray in a plastic bag and a sheet over the whole caboodle. Magic. www.lakeland.co.uk/21736/dry-so...

You might be alright with grow-lights. I don't know. (Haven't experienced them.) Germinating isn't really a problem for me. It's having enough light for plants afterwards - before they are big enough to harden them off. Perplexed this year though because the weather is warm early. 13 degrees!

Somebody tell me about Substack? Is it primarily for mobile phones?

conflagration of the bed curtains

🏺 A lovely piece, making me think both of #Neanderthal -bird interactions and how they may have understood signals for when and where birds would appear; and also summoning Bronze Age visual echoes of ducks in marshy landscapes from Akrotiri and Egypt.

I love it that even baddies on the TV put their seat belts on before zooming away in their cars.