A hazy sunset of electric yellow streaks, pinks and purple, behind a view of green trees and white spring blossom.

Spring Sunset

🤣🤣 Godspeed, Spencer!!!

Great day fieldwalking with the Thornborough Archaeology Group. It's very zen; trundling through a field looking for flint while the sun warms your back and the birds sing to one another. Even better when you find some, however small. Our ancestors were here. Walking in the sun, birds tweeting...

My photo shows a frontal view of a buff-coloured Minoan pottery jug with a dark-red, stylised octopus painted beneath the dark red pouring spout. The jug has a rounded body with very short neck with out-turned rim, the body tapers downwards to a slightly turned out flat base also painted red. On each shoulder there’s a small chunky loop handle. The octopus is stylised and looks cartoon-like with a vertical dumbbell shaped body, with two large circular eyes with central red dots staring out at the viewer. From the top of the head emerge eight suckered arms. Four arms hang symmetrically downwards on each side of the body, writhing and curling at the tip. There is a similar red octopus on each side of the jug not shown in my photo.

A 3,500 year-old Minoan jar with a cartoon-like octopus under the spout! 🐙

From Kommos, Crete. Heraklion Archaeological Museum 📷 by me

#Archaeology

Pollarded willow against the globe of the setting sun. In the foreground, a river or pond reflecting the scene.

Tonight's goodnight image is 'Triest Wilg', Viktor Olgyai, oil on canvas, 1910.
Sleep tight.

A black and white photo of a scottish river cascading white water over a rocky waterfall. The river is surrounded by wintry looking trees, moorland and a mountain rising into clouds in the background.

Memories of Torridon

Some positive news: "A partnership of charities, landowners and businesses has joined together to save and repair a connected area of blanket bog – among the world's rarest habitats – across three neighbouring and diverse landholdings."

Thank you, Andrea.

A maze of green roots uncovered by erosion lie at the foot of four bare trees.

How deep do roots go? If you are a beech, not very!

Radio 3 playing Elgar's Nimrod, which always brings a nice relaxed Children of Men vibe to the morning.

Cambridgeshire MP to introduce bill to protect UK chalk streams The 10-minute bill is set to go before Parliament on 25 February.

I co-sponsored this bill which aims to give chalk streams UNESCO world heritage status. These important habitats, 85% of which are in the UK, are at risk of drying out. Let’s protect the homes of plants, fish and aquatic mammals🌱🐠🦦
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Watching Monarch: Legacy of Monsters. A good bit of escapism. Fun to see Big Jack Burton himself (Kurt Russell) as well.

"Your own. Personal. Negus.
Someone who rates your chairs,
Someone who cares"

Norton's oyster shop, Boar Lane Leeds 1869, Leeds Libraries.

I was looking through some long forgotten images I had on a USB flash drive. They say that fly-posting is a modern day problem! Boar Lane in Leeds in 1869. Image Leeds Libraries.

R.E.M. released Murmur on this day in 1983. The Kent countryside is still working on its impression

The West Park Crosses, three Anglo-Saxon cross shafts, in Macclesfield, Cheshire. Photos taken on a walk to find them after a visit to #ScientificRambles at the Silk Museum this week #StandingStoneSunday

An almost lozenge shaped standing stone, part of the Kennet Avenue, sits in green and yellow fields, with a small hill behind along with blue sky and a few white clouds.

One of the stones of the West Kennet Avenue.

#Avebury #StandingStoneSunday

A rocky cliff edge, with mountains in the distance.

Bowfell, with Scafell in the distance. #Lakedistrict
#mountains

Film screenshot of William Shatner looking very seriously at a q-tip.

Film screenshot of William Shatner holding a torch and flinching as his shirt is crawling with 5 rather stuck-on tarantulas.

Currently watching: Kingdom of the Spiders on Now/HBO Max. William Shatner, Marauding Tarantulas, Jaunty Country Music. Perfect Saturday night viewing... I do love a good old creature invasion movie... I think we need more ant armies to be honest...

Two smiling astronauts, having successfully landed back on Earth.

Back from lunar radio silence and smiling like two aliens who absolutely body‑snatched the originals. Classic invasion energy...I've seen Men In Black.

Picture of the century. 😍

📷 credit: Science Tube

Its a cracking place mate

What if the new Boards of Canada album is ska punk rap rock

Lowdown is fantastic.

A photo taken outside Orkney Library and Archive. It's grey and it's raining.

It's a cold, breezy Saturday morning in #Orkney and our balls are wet.

A huge prehistoric mound sits in a grassy, green landscape. It is a sunny, clear day with some clouds above.

Silbury Hill, last weekend.

My third batch of Rough Trade sevens for #WeekendSingles, including The Go-Betweens, Kleenex, Cabaret Voltaire, Young Marble Giants, The Fall, The Nightingales, The Pop Group, The Raincoats and Aztec Camera. Listen to them all on this playlist of the label’s 45s
▶️ open.spotify.com/playlist/2l0...

happy anniversary of when almost nothing happened

Will check that out. Ta.

Half-Gifts 💔