This lunch includes all five of the main Dutch food groups: cheese, cucumber, geometry, boredom and sorrow, with most of the vitamin content provided by the soul-destroying view of endless flatness spilling off the far-flung horizon.
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Renationalise the water industry.
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The great-tailed grackle amongst a host of golden daffodils 🌼 on tonights #patchbirding
I met 2 lads who’d driven up from Hertfordshire today , to try and get a 💩 sample , as they got a sample from the other 2 uk grackles , but they had no luck sadly .
Hoping it's the week after next...
Perilous Times by Thomas D. Lee. Quite recent.
Really looking forward to leading this poetry workshop in the beautiful Beverley Minster. Taking as it's inspiration the spectacular Threads textiles exhibition. More info at www.beverleyminster.org and workshop tickets at
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1/2 Any thoughts, Bluesky, on this 'nest' which I found next to the SW coast path nr Gammon Head, on the Prawle peninsula last week?
It was set back from the path in dense thorn scrub.
The more I looked at it the less certain I became - avian or mammalian?
Approx x2 tennis balls in volume.
They're not talking to each other
Bumble overnighting on Edgeworthia. This was the more accessible of the four we could see.
Cardamine quinquefolia in Jan's garden
I am very posh, it's true. But they were a 60th birthday gift ahem years back.
Oh, hello.
Distant geese...
It's been a dismal day so this is a surprise...
Obviously, this means frosts are just around the corner.
Apricot...
The rookery grazing across Phil's field.
Might be a welder.
The illustrations in the book are by John Nash, RB's mentor and lifelong friend. Nash's wife Christine Kuhlenthal 'discovered' RB when he was librarian at Colchester Public Library, and the couple more or less adopted him. And the rest, as they say, is history.
First of March and also the second Sunday of Lent. Here's Ronald Blythe marking the day with a signature combination of literature, history, the personal, social observation and natural history, in 'Word from Wormingford' (Viking, 1997) >>>
Sneaks up on you, doesn't it?
Black cherry plum. Prunus cerasifera Nigra.
The majestic Jan Molby.
#SmallProphets #Ep5
Particularly enjoyed the moustaches...
Bringing in the milk...
Everything!
Not bad.
Beautiful set of jade dishes, for nachos and dips, probably. At the British Museum.
Clearly a member of the Cypriot branch of the Blackadder family among the heads of statues of worshippers found at a shrine near ancient Tamassos in 1885. At the British Museum.
This was a joy last night at the @britishlibrary.bsky.social . Brilliantly chaired by @patrickbarkham.bsky.social
