An exciting competitive game yesterday at Gloucestershire cricket ground vs Lancashire #cricket #gloucestershire #lancashire. Must remember to take some binoculars next time, the action really is so-o-o-o far away.
Marazon, by Nevil Shute. Written in 1926 it's now 100 years old. It was his first published novel, written (he notes in the authors note in my 1965 reprint) when he was helping design the R100 airship. He says he rewrote it three times in its entirety over 18 months and sold 1200 copies at the time.
By failing to understand the nuances of the vetting process and how it is used, @theguardian.com has largely created this problem for Starmer. I hope you're happy with that, you lot.
Here's a flowering Hamamelis in Bath botanic garden this past weekend. Rather fine, yet nicely unusual.
#bath #botanic #garden #flowers #tree #flowering #hamamelis #orange #horticulture
It's so nice to see some spring #blossoms around, especially as spring formally starts on Sunday.
#flowers #flower #cherry #floweringcherry #white #pink #tree #trees #nature
Come on, the Giggly Gourds! @bangoruniversity.bsky.social @buforestry.bsky.social
Of course you should get a cat. Nothing tough about that decision, if it is even a decision - foregone conclusion more likely.
Could you do a review of kettles to find the ones that boil the quietest? Many are so noisy when you're trying to have a conversation, especially with anyone who's got hearing issues.
May the horse be with you.
Come on the Giggly Gourds (was looking for a socmed account to link to but Bangor Uni has nothing active - only this - @bangoruniversity.bsky.social - on Bluesky! Wowee).
Nice graphics this year!
#China leads the world in renewably-powered industry and development, while the #USA wants to drill itself, baby, back to Victorian times.....
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...
Oh dear, the page does look odd. Wonder if you change 'Support Plant Sciences' to 'Support Us' that might bring the top bar back to one row?
I'm sitting in the library, and really enjoying the sunbeams shining in through the window! So nice! After all the rain. Which is coming back tomorrow. #sun #sunny #sunnyday #library #mrbluesky π
Outline map UK and Ireland indicating approximate locations all Botanical University Challenge 2026 teams. Also logos of the 32 institutions.
π±πΎππΊππ§ͺπ³π Botanical University Challenge #BUC2026. All this year's teams signed-up; a record 32 from around the UK and Ireland. Some new, some returning, some regular, two present in every competition since the start in 2016! Welcome to all! Which ones are you supporting?
New #AsiaNow post: JAS Editor Joseph Alter discusses how increased use of AI has led to more submissions to the journal (almost 800 in 2025!) and also prompted him to think about the relationship between an author and their work.
www.asianstudies.org/the-journal-of-asian-stu...
Moss, lichen, fungi and plants at Bath Botanic Garden and Victoria Park this weekend.
#Bath #botanic #botanicgarden #flowers #moss #licheΕ #closeup #plants #fungi #fungiphotography #fungiphotos #mossphotography #Victoria #mosses
Mahonia flowers blooming in Bath botanic garden a few days ago.
#garden #gardening #mahonia #yellow #flowers #spike #buds #botanic #pair #two #flower
Twelve books for three pounds. Is that a bargain? It certainly is a bargain! From an @amnestyuk.bsky.social charity shop near me...
#books #charity #amnesty #bargain #bargains #reading #dozen #book
Do you have a view?
Covers of eight books bought for 25p each including histories of Dundee and Ireland, Alan Turing and the Enigma machine, Hobsbawm's The Age of Capital, Maths made simple, a story called Homeland, a book on an aspect of recent politics in the UK, and Monty Don's, 'Nigel, My family and other dogs', in hardback, no less.
Not a week has passed and I'm posting again about charity shop book bargains !
The @amnesty.org bookshop near me has a table out front offering four-for-a-pound, mega-bargainaceousness!
#Montydon #Alanturing #Enigma #Mathematics #Math #Maths #books #bargain #Ireland #Dundee #Amnesty
Image shows covers of four books, from left there is The Book of Guys by Garrison Keillor, A Certain Age by Lynn Truss, Winnie and Wolf by A.N.Wilson, and Classical Reece, by Robin Osborne.
This past weekend's new #reads came from the Oxfam bookshop in Bath - Lynn Truss, plus Garrison Keillor and A.N. Wilson for Β£1 (megabargains!) - with hundreds of years of the history of Greece from the Dorothy House bookshop.
#books #oxfam #dorothyhouse #oxfambath #oxfambooksbath ππ
Good luck Reading!!! π±
The Litigators by John Grisham. Moves fast with a light touch and some nice humour, though the humour can be perhaps a bit cliched. And the paragraphs are short - suddenly you've read five chapters in a short stint! I like that.
Here are some eggs for sale in a shop in Yuen Long a couple of weeks ago.
#Hongkong #Yuenlong #eggs #shop #market #street #food #shopping
There's an exhibition of 2024 Japan design award winners at the PMQ centre for the next few days.
These are cool. Woodcut-style designs for the 150 anniversary of Japan Railways.
#Hongkong #design #railway #Japan #JR
The ones on Old Peak road are flowering now - maybe its cooler on this north-facing part of HK Island?
