Haughmond Abbey

#tilesontuesday

Today we walked the Dinas Island loop. The east wind was fierce but the views were sublime. #Pembrokeshire

“St David’s church in all its splendour occupies a strange juncture between the old and the new; the peaceful and serene, and the chaotic. Behind us, just fields and farm buildings and, in front, the mayhem of this busy road between Newport and Monmouth.”

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📷 © Lily Watts

Three cool scientists introduce their work "Our new theory has been submitted to a peer-reviewed journal, but we feel its depths and intricacies are best appreciated on the limited-edition vinyl release."

My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com

Purple tulips

👀 Coffee time ☕️☕️🌺 -
Dorchester on Thames, Oxfordshire

Tulips - 📷 20.04.2026

#elevensestime

"Henry Tudor died at Richmond today," said Old Fox conversationally over breakfast, as though it had happened that very morning. "How sad, had he been ill?" replied Babcia. She wasn't really listening, as she was engrossed in a newspaper article about The Flying Duchess, who was at that very moment heading home in her little plane from Cape Town. "Consumption, and terrible trouble with his eyes. Constantly dropping in Celandine juice, which just made it all the worse." said Old Fox. "You know, his son didn't realise until days later, everyone had to creep around with smiling grimaces to pretend he was still alive. Very odd times. I think everyone was still hoping that dear Arthur would return to life." And with that he went to make some more tea and toast another round of crumpets.

Entrance Hall to Cardiff Free Library.

Floor & wall tiles, with designs for the four seasons by the Victorian illustrator & artist Walter Crane.

Produced by Maw & Co. 1882

The building is now Museum of Cardiff.

#TilesOnTuesday

The glass at St John the Baptist, Cold Overton is nothing to write home about however the tracery is lovely, so graceful.
#TraceryTuesday

Yesterday's star find. I'm 99% certain that this architectural fragment is the keystone from the late sixteenth to early seventeenth century principal doorway to Harlaxton Manor (Lincs). The building was demolished in 1857. The stone now lies in a garden on the site of the house.

Looking up within the chancel of the Cathedral of St John the Baptist, Norwich #cathedrals #architecture #heritage #gothicrevival #light

Fine old tiles at Acton Burnell church #Shropshire #TilesonTuesday

Spent today in Harlaxton (Lincs) recording fragments of mediaeval and early modern stonework in the grounds of this amazing house. It was built in the 1930s, almost entirely from material salvaged from the manor house which was demolished in 1857.

Flat Holm island with a low tide at Weston Super Mare & a setting sun.

Weston Super Mare, Somerset

#Sunset
Early for #LowTideTuesday

Lauréat La Physique pour les chats de Tom Gauld un livre de Tom Gauld (image of the book cover) Prix Gotlib 2026

I went to Paris this weekend to collect the Gotlib humour comic book prize 2026 for my book 'La Physique pour les Chats'.
Thanks to Ariane Gotlieb and the jury for choosing my book, and to Éric Fontaine and @editions2042.bsky.social for making a great French edition.

I'm hugely looking forward to giving this talk at the beautiful Arundells House, in the stunning setting of #Salisbury Cathedral Close. We'll explore the #history of England in a new way - through 25 remarkable poems written down between the 8th century and today. Book: arundells.org/.../a-histor...

Down by the river, in sunny Cambridgeshire 🥰

Prior to the present church of 1772, there is said to have been at least three previous churches on the site of St Colmon's Parish Church, Colmonell, S Ayrshire our #ScottishChurchOfTheWeek

Read more here 👇
www.scotlandschurchestrust.org.uk/church/st-co...

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Is there a word for the kind of novel that explores one locality or phenomenon over a huge span of time, often with discrete but interlinked narratives? I'm thinking Adam Thorpe's Ulverton, Benjamin Myers' Cuddy, Andrew Michael-Hurley's Barrowbeck, Sarah Hall's Helm.

Pink trumpet flower

👀 Coffee time ☕️☕️🌺 -
Botanic Garden, Belfast

Chinese Foxglove -
📷 11.04.2026

#elevensestime

#MonumentsMonday Tomb of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester (1533-1588) and Lettice, Countess of Leicester, his second wife. From the Beauchamp Chapel at St Mary's, Warwick.

A very happy birthday to you, dear Felix ! 🫶🌸🫶

A tiled floor impressed to look like mosaic. Squares of Celtic knotwork, surrounded by a floral like border.

Victorian imitation mosaic floor -
Museum of Cardiff, Wales

It is actually made of tiles impressed with coloured clay & lines to simulate mosaic.

Produced by Maw & Co.

Not #MosaicMonday

Pasque Flowers, Pulsatilla vulgaris, on the Devil's Ditch, Newmarket, contrasting with the Oil-seed Rape field behind. #WildflowerHour

More glittering bosses were available inside the cathedral (left) as was Skidmore's heavenly screen. It is a marvellous piece of work.

Francis Alfred Skidmore was born in Birmingham in 1817, the son of a jeweller. Skidmore worked with Scott on the Lichfield, Hereford & Salisbury cathedral screens.

St Michael weighing souls in a bench end at St Mary Magdalene, Ickleton, Cambs.

Perfect parrots, or popinjays as they were known in the early 14th century, when they were painted on this timber screen to a side chapel in wonderful St. Mary’s and All Saints Church, Willingham, Cambridgeshire 🤩

Five red petals notched at the end with curly white styles at the centre.

Yellow flowers in groups of five from a single stem.

A white flower with 5 petals split down the centre with yellow sepals.

Peddars Way, Norfolk

• Red Campion (female flower??)
• Cowslips
• Greater Stitchwort

#WildflowerHour

A rather sweet Kempe musician at St Michael and All Angels, Hallaton for #StainedGlassSunday