Done today’s Newsround but producer Terry is in Cyprus so it might take a while to appear.

It's amazing that this administration slash regjme can travel from weird to bullshit in under two hours. Wild.

In the northern hemisphere now there is an overabundance of nettles.
We need to gather these and eat well

I have a proposed wooded area where wild garlic will flourish in Spring and sweet chestnuts will land in Fall

Mahmood is a symptom of a bad government. A false government that stole power under the pretense of socialism. An illegitimate government.

indeed. he's a tough negotiator

Runs on Nazi salutes

A small brown terrier stands in the sun next to a large stone scallop shell in front of a stone wall with a map

Vasco totally up for it at one of the historical starting points of the 1,800km Camino de Santiago pilgrimage, the Abbaye de Beauport in Paimpol, Brittany.
#dogsofbluesky #France
#travel #Bretagne

‘It’s kind of a tough situation’: US Catholics torn in feud between president and the pope Trump’s attacks on Pope Leo XIV polarizing the diverse community as faith and politics come to a head

The American religious right cancelled Sinead O'Connor -a humanitarian, genius and beautiful soul- when she criticised the Pope.
When Donald Trump -a misogynist, sex offender and generally terrible human being- does so it's 'kind of a tough situation'
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Big deal.. some pictures.
Play at Coachella and you're funding Project 2025

avoided him like a bacon sandwich

These were great. Like spinach +1

There is a brief clear area when all is good

Got our solar panels installed this AM. They came at 8:30am and we're gone by 1:30pm. 13 panels and 10kwh battery.

We can't export to the grid yet (the network operator has been flooded with new requests) but we charged our car with the sun this afternoon. Great feeling, strongly recommend.

you did the heavy lifting, they did the admin

'Keir crystallography Starmer'
There. Crisis sorted.

More and more people are considering their Bluesky experience not as instant but more as spread across four or five days

Guy eating a perfect delicious grape: we should step on these with our nasty feet, let the mush ferment, then drink what comes off it

My whole left leg is soaked in muscadet

The front half profile of the car in yellow next to an antique stone building

Nice Citroën Ami 8
spotted in Tréguier, Brittany
#cars

The Beach Boys - Little Bird (Visualizer) YouTube video by TheBeachBoysVEVO

at the risk of restarting an argument i already had, The Beach Boys are misunderstood.
The genius of Brian Wilson is universally underestimated.
The Beatles knew this.
youtu.be/gGvdrySlBC0?...

Link please

The difference between Palantir and the techno madman in a Bond movie is the average Bond villain is less insufferable.

A slope blanketed in white flowers and green leaves beside a sunlit wooded path

If life gives you wild garlic, make pesto. A ton of pesto.
#nature #foraging #food

Nettle leaf tips in a steel pot

Nettle tips. I'm going to blanch these in boiling water, chop and then fry them in butter with garlic.
#food #foraging #cooking #plants

Vasco, the dog who stares at goats
#goats #dogs

"With this same grey duct tape we will gag and bind you if you're not funny"

It's a lot for sure. My dad went in the same year too.
I take solace that they went together. I have had it easy in the sense they both told me repeatedly they had had wonderful lives, that every day was a bonus.
This comes to all of us.

Lost my mum last year. But already had lost her to alzheimers a few years before. It's sad, it's normal, and it's good to talk about it