My local beach on Easter Monday. Took a while for the film to get back - thought it was colour not B&W, hey-ho.

air pump air this is your country dont let the big men take it away from you., a shack in the background

Dorothea Lange, Gas Station, Kern Couny, California, 1938

Today's computer fail. Managed to lose a picture I didn't want to lose. I've a piece in this book. Picture's going back.

UK grid looking very clean today with prices down in the single digits. Strong wind and solar pushing fossil fuel generation pretty close to record lows. Expect this to become increasingly the norm as renewable and storage capacity keep increasing. 🔌💡

Picture shows a puffin lying on its back among rocks, sea and sky in the background

Sad to find another puffin washed up today. There have been so many.

‘I was a bad kid and now I ain’t. I got out ‘coz I could paint.’ Aspects of Myself by Grayson Perry @rammuseum.bsky.social has a sense of self and a sense of place. It’s fab.

Visit on 13 March to Piles Copse, one of few remaining patches of semi-wild pedunculate woodland on Dartmoor. The owners are trying to protect and restore the wood, but Commoners have grazing rights and their sheep are preventing regeneration. Stupid and tragic

Plaque to honour Sheffield tree felling protesters unveiled The plaque honours campaigners who fought to save thousands of trees over a five-year period.

Thanks to the brilliant @inkcapjournal.bsky.social I saw this. Felt such solidarity with Sheffield Tree Campaigners. Glad their sustained efforts have been somewhat recognised. Don't we want to live on healthy, leafy, tree-lined streets? Love to Sheffield, the most wooded, greenest UK city x

Old farthing with bird on it

Animals on money?

Perish the thought that patriotic British people would ever countenance such a thing.

Pruning for Survival: Supporting Palestinian Olive Farmers We are raising funds to enable Palestinian farmers to safely prune their olive trees and maintain their land rights in the face of escalating violence. Your donation will pay skilled but unemployed pr...

Only £500 shy of the target, be nice to help them get there. chuffed.org/project/prun...

A good Saturday morning out of the mizzle trying to print some of my old negs at #ContactDarkroom in Totnes. Some of them on the drying board here, the chair sculpture used to be near Widdecombe, the magnificent Weekaborough Oak is still there (image needs a click). #Devon #Photography

Other work of the Ladybird artists.
‘Redshanks Alighting’
Artist: CF Tunnicliffe

Tesco sorry for putting up Welsh bilingual signs in Cornwall Campaigners say they appreciate attempt to use Cornish but mistake points to need for more access to language

Something to laugh about amid all the gloomy news. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

An ancient Egyptian figurine of a hedgehog blue in colour with dark blue or black bumps to represent the spikes

Happy #NationalHedgehogDay 🥺

This little Egyptian faience model of a hedgehog is from a tomb at Abydos, and was made around 1,500–1,300 BCE.

Hedgehogs had a favourable reputation in ancient Egypt, and were often seen as a symbol of rebirth and renewal of life.

ICE's $100M ad campaign is using the same playbook as the Gestapo & Stasi. The goal? To make repression sound reasonable and patriotic.

Monochrome image of the road from Princetown to Yelverton on Dartmoor. The rain had just stopped and the sun was doing it's best to break through.

The sun will eventually return and bring colour back to Dartmoor.

Worth a quick read if you follow the link.

Ladybird book in the spotlight.
The Night Sky- with artist Robert Ayton’s lovely inky skies and glowing light (1965)

The #BigGardenBirdWatch 2026 starts today

(Artist: Clive Uptton)

Sinister, & sinister. ICE also arresting Oglala Sioux people, & reportedly holding them at Fort Snelling, used to imprison & remove Indigenous people in 1862.
‘The irony is not lost on us’ Tribe President, Frank Star Comes Out.

Well played, Transport for London

As the Israeli bombs fell, my family committed an act of rebellion: we planted a garden in Gaza | Taqwa Ahmed al-Wai Amid constant danger, each planted seed was a tiny act of resistance. As they grew, they offered us food – and a sense of achievement amid the devastation, says Taqwa Ahmed al-Wai, a writer, poet and ...

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

View through a window looking out onto a snowy Valley dotted with range of winter trees. In the foreground on the windowsill, we see examples of the leaves needles and fruit of the trees.

Other work by the Ladybird artists
‘January’ Shell Guide
Artist: SR Badmin

Plucked up the courage to run a bath this morning. My unheated bathroom = very cold bathroom. Made me think of this.

Blue and white Earth stands out against blackness over the gray lunar landscape as seen from orbit.

Do you remember the famous #Earthrise photo from #Apollo8? On Christmas Eve in 1968, William Anders turned his camera toward Earth and captured the legendary photo. It showed humans a new perspective, with the moon in the foreground and Earth floating in distant space. 🌎🚀🔭📸
buff.ly/s01u0Ww

📸 NASA.

Barbara Hepworth ~ Winter Solstice, 1971
#WinterSolstice

South West people say goodbye to GWR's InterCity 125 trains A mobile operations manager for Network Rail says the trains

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Cluster of Red Wings perched on frost-traced branches set against a pale background suggesting snow

Other work of the Ladybird artists
Redwings in Winter

Artist: CF Tunnicliffe

RIP the great Martin Parr

A filled bath tub in a tiled bathroom. The bath has a green tinge to the water and a yellow rubber duck floats on top.

Everyday Ladybird things, (1954)
The unheated bathroom
Artist: H Woolley