Two for joy - monoprint collage of two magpies
Two for joy. This pair of magpies took up residence in the garden over winter and I used to watch them chatting to each other from my window. You can see how these were made, along with a few others, in this week’s post. open.substack.com/pub/stillske...
Bless him, he took it very well and had to sit though us all laughing hysterically as we passed on the clip to different team members.
Absolute highlight of today has been repeatedly watching a video of a colleague recording a podcast on Teams with other colleagues, then just disappearing off camera as he fell off his chair. This was followed by a loud "arse".
Hi I wrote about the making of classic platformerChuckie Egg and talked to its creator Nigel Alderton. Please give it a read as I want to show there’s an audience for this gaming history stuff 🙏
www.theguardian.com/games/2026/a...
This morning's earworm: Tie a yellow ribbon round the old oak tree.
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In 1951, David Attenborough overslept while filming in Australia after a night of heavy drinking, and missed the bus to site. Panicking, he invented the platypus; and since then (and at his own cost) he has continued to perpetuate the myth of their existence to maintain his national treasure status.
Surprising
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If you know families from any of the places I’m going to, do us a favour and tag them in. It’s a cracking show that the grown ups enjoy just as much (possibly even more) than the kids!!!
Dulwich
Chesham
Chester
Burntwood
Chipping Norton
Salford
Hertford
Exeter
Norwich
Alton
Edinburgh
Luton
Except one man looked at his watch, and you shouldn't be wearing one of those.
Glad to see they've kitted out the visitors to the food factory with appropriate PPE, with hairnets properly pulled down over ears.
*Ticks off 'spinster on tricycle* from MM bingo card.
A hedgehog on a lawn.
Hedge pig!
Duck duel
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Pretty certain that the Grosvenor museum in Chester has prehistoric hippo remains that were found nearby. I thought the same as your mother because of this.
They actually split because she was sick of how long it took him to put his shoes on whenever they went out. uk.news.yahoo.com/reviewing-na...
A bolete mushroom with a purple velvety cap grows intwined in grass in a sunny meadow
The horrors persist but so do mushrooms
Illustration of a cute anthropomorphic synthesizer jogging on a treadmill. Caption reads “synthercise” (like exercise)
Synthercise improves your moog
#art
Join in with today's #SundayPix! 😊
I saw an Yves Klein exhibition at Tate Liverpool a few years back and I fell in love with that blue.
My favourite, too. You can keep your fancy icecreams. These hit the spot.
Love this stone in St Ives Museum
A large olive green and pink moth sits on a hand.
A peacock butterfly, reddish with bright eye markings on each of its 4 wings, sits on a bright yellow flower.
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My favourite moth (elephant hawkmoth) and my favourite butterfly (peacock).
couple of dandelions in the foreground of a meadow, sun rising behind them
a wet irish setter nosing a dandelion clock
dandelion clock in focus, butter cups in the background
hoo can I play? #SundayPixFavourite #dandelions
There’s a man with a mullet going mad with a mallet in Millets
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A close up of a soft pink, many pedalled tulip
The centre of a deep red peony, with yellow stamens
Pale blue forget me not flowers against a blurred green background
A bright red crocosmia flower head against a black background
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My favourite photos of flowers I'vevtaken over the years
