Everything Will Swallow You, with an owl bookmark.

Everything Will Swallow You, with a Green Man bookmark.

Everything Will Swallow You, with a chicken bookmark.

THREAD. Today I'm giving away 3 signed hardbacks of my latest book, each with fab linoprint bookmarks, made by my mum Jo.

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You might like it if you like:
Folkloric creatures
Old records
Intricate psychedelic stories
The idea of circular time

All shares much-appreciated.

I doubt we could compete with less than 40p a litre...

Now I want to drag my young 'un to the beach!

A black and white half frame photograph of a dry stone wall viewed through wooden agricultural gates.

Agricultural boundaries - Working Landscape - Lake District Observations

📷Pentax 17
🎞️Ilford FP4 - DD-X

#believeinfilm #filmphotography

It was lovely to read something about a place and a culture I know well. Many places have their unique problems, but they also have their unique cultures and, as beautiful as the Lake District is, the tension between preservation, tourism and function is a very real struggle in Cumbria.

I spent years working in the Lakes, and this piece is a real reflection of the people, places and difficulties that the visitors rarely comprehend. (Also, a good reminder to always choose the local brew, and eschew the places that don't keep one on tap!)

In case anyone doesn't know, the trichrome process involves taking three photos on b&w film, through three coloured filters, then combining them. It is really difficult to do, and astonishingly difficult to do this well!

Art heist alert!
My framed drawing Akron Ladders III was stolen from a gallery in East Sussex. It’s a very distinctive drawing that was shown in the RA Summer Exhibition 2024. Let me know if you spot it anywhere. It’s hard enough being an artist at the moment without having to deal with thievery.

Photo of a plate with a toasted sandwich cut diagonally, with the four quarters of a pickled egg arranged above it. The outside of the egg is bright pink, fading back to white nearer the yolk.

Easter pickle club eggs.

I fear both the AI version of this with Trump, and the 37 skeet thread from Derek Guy about why you shouldn't choose a jacket with low armholes when dancing.

Line chart showing atmospheric CO₂ concentration at Mauna Loa Observatory from 1958 to 2024. A light blue sawtooth line shows raw monthly values, reflecting the seasonal cycle of plant growth. A dark blue smooth line shows the seasonally adjusted record, rising from 315 ppm in 1958 to over 426 ppm in 2024. A dashed red curve shows the super-exponential fit, with the instantaneous growth rate rising from 0.27%/yr in 1960 to 0.64%/yr in 2024, more than doubling over the period of the record.

1/ Why is atmospheric CO₂ accelerating faster than fossil fuel emissions are growing?

The answer is buried in the data, and it's more worrying than most people realise.

A thread. 🧵👇

Discworld QOTD, from Feet of Clay

This is quite an impressive rebuttal of some of the most insidious claims made by kleptocrats the world over to convince people and, more importantly, governments that taking responsible action is not urgent. I really hope that this hedge fund manager is being hit hard by the current crisis.

Walking the dog

#Kentmere100 #EOS3 #BelieveInFilm

Feels like a Peter Brook painting!

Just in time for the 'hungry gap'...

Fisher-Price PXL-2000 - a bulky retro-futurisic looking black plastic handheld camcorder. It looks VERY 80s.

Despite being of an age, this completely passed me by at the time but between 1987 and 1988 Fisher Price produced a camcorder which recorded black and white video onto STANDARD AUDIO CASSETTES!

I just saw some example footage and now I REALLY want one...

museumoffailure.com/exhibition/f...

I was confident it would happen with water, but....

“This is a hard job, this is a job that nobody else in Europe is doing,” he said. “If you send a letter from Brighton to the Scottish Highlands you need to get it there for £1.80 the next day.

Something that, for all its faults, pre-privatisation Royal Mail managed to do pretty well for decades, and at substantially lower cost.

It's almost as if selling out essential national services to private equity is a massively shit idea...

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

I know that it would cause short-term chaos, but I'm a firm believer that regulators, who were in place and transparent about their rules when an organisation was bought, should not relax those rules, and that any privatised org that cannot meet those rules should be made public again.

Bright colours of autumnal leaves on the floor, trees blurred, light ahead.

Running in a Pennine Wood during an Autumn storm Part III

The rain on the lens simply adds to the feeling of confusion, movement and uncertainty. This was towards the end of the run when it was becoming hard and tunnel vision beginning

An intentional camera movement image

#photography #icm #trail

A pair of dodgy b&w Photos, one of a street, one of a house. The negatives have some damage to the lower edge. The film border says 'Hypersensitive Panchromatic' which was the original designation for Ilford's HP film range. This was HP4.

It'll be fine. Even if it's not been frozen, you'll get something interesting from it. Panchromatic film gets Hypersensitive when it's left on the shelf ;) (Yours looks like it was almost the last run, as it was discontinued in '76, mine was earlier and left in a shed for 50 years!)

There’s nothing sinister about Muslim prayers in Trafalgar Square. As a bishop, I reject the right’s attacks on worship | Arun Arora At a time when Britain has never felt more divided, we should draw on Christian values to reject hate and focus on what unites us, says Arun Arora, bishop of Kirkstall

"The church has a duty to protect the free practice of all faiths in this country" (Queen Elizabeth II, 2012).

It's good to see the Bishop of Kirkstall rising to that call, reminding Nick Timothy that "Islamophobia is not a Christian value or Christian virtue".
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

A square grey pot, with the hollow stems of some kind of perennial I potted up from bare roots last autumn. A weed is growing through it. The white plastic label was written with a Sharpie, but has degraded to the point where it's just a load of dots, leading to the head gardener asking 'why did you label these in fucking Braille?'.

It's a good job I labelled everything last autumn, isn't it?

Colour photo of fields covered in morning dew. A post and wire fenceline crosses the foreground. Winter trees line the unseen small river at the bottom of the valley. Haze softens the fields and the hill beyond. The sun is rendered as a fuzzy white orb on the left, just above the horizon. A clear sky fades from blue to a Farrow & Ball grey; an idiosyncrasy of the phone camera. Clouds swipe lines, like a child's chalk marks on paper.

Still morning. (Slightly later.) #my400

Photo of the back garden and hill beyond, just before sunrise. Garden is in shade, ponds reflecting the pale sky, and the trees are still in their winter attire. A light mist hangs over the valley beyond, casting the hill in pastel, with a pale golden outline. Thin pale orange clouds above peter out to a clear dilute blue.

Morning. #my400

Defra's Land Use Framework has just been published - you can download it here
www.gov.uk/government/p...
And here are a few tasters around Dartmoor

Vehicles with higher, more vertical front ends pose greater risk to pedestrians Vehicles with especially tall front ends are most dangerous to pedestrians, but a blunt profile makes medium-height vehicles deadly too.

I'm sure you're aware of this one, but I suspect this is being referenced: www.iihs.org/news/detail/...

Morning all.

Photographer Chris Killip.
North East 1, September 1975.

Way ahead of you! 😜