A row of eight or so wheelie bins on a pavement beside a cobbled road. They are green and/or grey and the two nearest the camera have the Bradford coat of arms on them.
#wheeliebinwednesday Ilkley (2026)
Ollie standing by a very tall standing stone in a ploughed field, looking towards a slightly shorter one in the distance. It’s a bright and sunny spring day
Ollie standing in front of the shortest of the three Devil’s Arrows (which is about 18ft tall) stretching his arms up above him. He’s wearing a brown plaid shirt and a black hat with a brim
Jim (a ‘mysterious hooded figure’) and Ollie standing by the southern stone, which is about 22.5 ft tall
A selfie of me by the tallest stone, which towers above me. I look, and indeed am, jolly pleased with myself
Finally got to properly see the Devil’s Arrows! #DailyMegalith #NorthYorkshire #England (2026)
What the hell
I can’t begin to imagine the shenanigans you and Ollie might get up to, his stories about school make me shake my head in wonder.
This Is Just To Say
I have turned off
the AI features
that were in
the update
and which
you were probably
hoping
to monetize
Fuck you
they were stupid
so unnecessary
and so annoying
W h a t ( my b/f share’s Robbie’s birthday so this is personally mind-blowing.)
My father-in-law’s dementia means he forgets he’s seen Raiders of the Lost Ark before and to be honest I would be quite delighted to watch that for ‘the first time’.
What if the uncanny valley effect was so we could spot and stop billionaires before they started?
Print, book, and pen people:
I am going to need a new supply of fountain pen friendly white paper, A3 size, probably 75-80gsm, as budget-friendly as possible. Quite happy for it to be copier / inkjet paper as long as it behaves right.
Any recommendations? (Please share!)
Right?
We saw one very close to the car as we drove home this afternoon! Lovely.
A hare running across a gravel parking area in front of a stone-built house. The sun is shining.
It’s proper hare-tastic round here.
We're staying in the Yorkshire Dales at the moment and have heard curlews every day. I've only seen one though!
For #worldcurlewday
Curlews over Pentre Ifan.
The haunting cry of this bird always feels to be a call from another land and when heard time always falls away and one is filled with melancholy and joy in equal measure.
Do support @curlewaction who work tirelessly to save this bird.
small hours big time patches of stars between obstructions and weather a square of Jupiter, an oblong with Bootes etc moving night shapes on paper little compositions of a larger geography
17/4/26 - nocturn
Yeah it’s so stupid as to be pointless isn’t it. Very annoying.
Happy Birthday ma’am! 💐🎉🎁🎂
That’s a weird age to choose, isn’t it, just because loads of people over twelve would be working so their deaths might be work related.
(Our sociology teacher made us learn the definition of maternal, infant and child mortality rates by heart and I can summon them immediately, 40 years later.)
All I can find is that it’s ‘octagonal’ which isn’t that helpful!
Here’s the listing from Historic England (I see I spelt Wilfrid wrong).
historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-...
St Wilfred‘s bell tower and graveyard
Norman font
Borre-style cross with Saxon and Viking detail
A hogback grave marker from above. A stylised muzzled bear‘s head can be seen at the right hand side.
We went to St Wilfred‘s in Burnsall to look at their Viking hogback grave markers, Saxon crosses, and their Norman font.
John, I've read this repeatedly this afternoon and it truly is the pinnacle of every art available.
Yeah I‘d missed that he was ill, so I was v shocked.
A scruffy dog sitting in a little boat with a smiling middle-aged white man in a green shirt and jeans. In the background there are lots of other boats and Peel Castle. The sun is shining. (2009)
Andy Kershaw's died. He was not always a good person but he did love music. And bike racing. My dad used to go fishing with him.
Here's a pic that my dad took of Andy on his boat in Peel harbour. It was in The Independent!
It’s calling your dog a gargoyle?? #rude
I know we all know this but LinkedIn is bonkers isn't it. 'Suggested for you' email recommending that I follow that Kaleb guy from the Clarkson programme and Ursula Von der Leyen.
If you want to know more about the whale penis/sea serpent theory I believe @tetzoo.bsky.social has a comprehensive thread/blogpost about it...
From The Ridgeway looking down across fields towards The Vale, above Wantage.
A photo over a white lichen-covered, grey stone wall, across a bright green field with sheep and lambs and molehills to where the distant houses hug the lower slopes of the hills, shrouded in mist and rain.
Photo of a woodland path which follows a tumbling stream, bordered with spring flowers.
Photo of bluebells bordering a stream and a path, shaded by bare-branched trees.
Photo of a grey painted wooden bench on a grey stony beach, with grey rolling waves with white horses, below a grey cloudy sky where the river meets the sea.
Evening drizzle and not a soul out in the village, or on the bluebelled path following the river down to the old grey sea.
Mirror you can get close enough to that you can do your eyebrows with your glasses off (yes I am on holiday and reduced to doing my eyebrows in the car).
Yes, this drives me mad, I do not wish to be endlessly bending. (Every time we go away I think ‘I should buy a shower caddy thing to take on holiday.’)