The Mystery of The Sea by Bram Stoker, dark green cover, gold lettering, top panel decoration of moon shining behind clouds.

Book Cover of the Day:

Mentally I am here

Painted study of red peonies on white background.

Peonies, study, Martin Schongauer, 1472.

Virginia Woolf, more than a hundred years ago:

My Nan had closed down in much the same way, asked for a glass of baileys, drank it and died. Legend.

It's going to be even worse the next time they appoint Peter Mandelson

A smile or a sickle 🌙

The Moths of the British Isles, black cover with gold lettering and decoration of moth and branch with two leaves.

Book Cover of the Day:

The Three Graces",c.1949.
Luigi Lucioni (Italy,1900-1988)
Oil on canvas, 43.3 x 35.7cm.

Susan Entwistle.
The Garden Path.
#Acrylics #Pointillism

Holy. Shit. This is Reid Wiseman's video he took with his iPhone while at the moon 🌙

& the new moon - 2 days old - right in the middle of everything

Cloister of Church of Saint Trophime, Arles, France. Provence. Columns encircling courtyard include sculptures. Romanesque. Circa 1150-1250. Photo taken September 2025.

The Cloister.
Church of Saint Trophime.
Provence region. 1150-1250.
Arles, France.

#travel #photography #art
#WeekOforOld #sculpture
#AlphabetChallenge
#Romanesque #architecture

Door hanger. GOOD MORNING THAT ISN'T BLOOD ON THE BEDSHEETS, I DROPPED A PORK CHOP ON THE BED... THE INCIDENT ITSELF REALLY SUMS UP WHO I AM AS A PERSON. REGARDS-DYLAN WILSON

Still makes me laugh.

Saw an interview today with Red Wiseman in which he said “We went up there good friends, but we came back BEST friends,” and it’s clear: the solution to the male loneliness epidemic is a robust space program.

Go off queen

Lake Slicker
Ink/Acrylic
36”x24”
Canvas
2026

"New York with Moon". Georgia O'Keeffe. 1925.

"The world is being ravaged by a handful of tyrants!" #PopeLeoXIV #PrayForPeace

It take weapons grade arrogance to invent popesplaining.

Had to take a tramadol instead of the usual DHC today and OH BOY. I forgot it was Like That. I’ve spent the last seven hours imitating wet spaghetti.

life is changed, not ended

Senior NHS officials warned staff over criticising rollout of Palantir platform Ethical objections and uneven adoption have made the tech group’s contract a divisive issue within English health service

“If you criticise Palantir’s platform one more time, you are going to lose your job.”

Solidarity to all NHS workers opposing this toxic corporation. Shame on those bullying them. But they won’t stop us. We’re going to ditch Palantir.

www.ft.com/content/ff70...

It's the classic Mel Gibson and Jesus meme where Mel is on set in normal clothes casually chatting to a very bloody Jesus (for those of you who don't know it).

Mel Gibson pictured with his doctor in 2004

I ate your plums
that you were saving for breakfast!
and you will forgive me
because you are weak on crime

I know I’m using this as my diary today, but after gallery joy I went to see Project Hail Mary, which I thoroughly recommend if you’d like two and a half hours emotional respite in these trying times.

Cezanne’s Lac d'Annecy (Lake Annecy). A view over a lake to a distant castle. In reflective almost geometric blues and greens.

This painting always stops me mid-step. The cool serenity. The sense of being able to breathe inside it. The blue! The blue!

Bluesky thinks this is Adult Content 🙄

Cranach the Elder’s Adam and Eve. A beautiful Renaissance painting showing the moment of temptation in the garden, surrounded by the animals.

Here she is, my beautiful wife