Pop out at lunchtime and buy a couple more just to be on the safe side.

I see old Gustav's got equal billing with R. Strauss in terms of Prom performances this year, the programmers clearly taking no chances.

Thank you for using the correct abbreviation for micromolar. Your service is appreciated.

Garlic mustard, North Cornwall.

@bsbibotany.bsky.social Garlic mustard for tonight’s #wildflowerhour #cabbagechallenge. I suspect we’ll be seeing a lot of this tonight! (I have a soft spot for Crucifers; my first project as a grad student investigated the enzymology of Cruciferous cytochrome f).

The book of my enemy has been remaindered. Clive James.

Will she go into a shelter?

(Other brands of razors are available)

I’m not a fan of razors, to be honest.

Chapbooks from Nightjar Press. Worthy of your time.

The bespoke packaging from @nicholasroyle.bsky.social is very much part of the Nightjar Press experience. This evening’s reading sorted.

I remember when we had to make do with roast chicken models of membrane protein complexes.

A very beautiful high resolution (2.44 Å) Arabidopsis PSII cryo EM structure from Messinger's group. Look at those water molecules!

That's a rather fabulous green.

Teasel, mallow, goat willow twigs. Wildlife!

As a scruffy gardener I’m particularly pleased with this corner of the orchard.

It's a terrific series. Dig in!

Slightly unforgiving on the teeth, mind you.

Veined quartz, perhaps. 4 x 3 cm. Well-travelled.

That’s good advice. I collected this specimen from the stream outside my home in Cornwall, UK, when I was young. Unremarkable, some kind of quartz-rich rock, but nicely tactile and grippy. It’s been around the world with me in the years since.

A rather scruffy old ginger tom. He’s seen some things. We’re friends now.

Grandpa Ginger, who has been with me for two years now. I think he’s an old farm cat who wanted a quieter life in retirement. I do wonder if somebody is missing him, though.

I get offered a roast dinner on Sundays in lieu. One of the benefits of living in a remote and rural community.

I hope there’ll be a rendition of ‘Camborne Hill’ to go with it.

Nessie Ramm in her studio. Photo by James Ratchford.

'Reduce Speed Now' painting by Nessie Ramm

A21 Dandelions at Lamberhurst, oil on road sign panel, by Nessie Ramm

Nessie Ramm painting the study on the road side at Robertsbridge, East Sussex

From Plant Sciences Part II to painting the road verges of Britain – in the latest of our alumni stories, award-winning botanical painter Nessie Ramm shares how her time at @cam.ac.uk inspired her art & community work.

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Not the most sophisticated interpretation, but I liked it!

Mind you, where are the great Cyrils these days?

It mostly works, I think. The andante comodo in particular is very finely essayed.

The Shuffle was one of my favourite pieces of Apple kit. I used to load mine up with podcasts and programmes downloaded from BBC radio; perfect for a day at work or the commute.

I’m waiting for the chamber version of Mahler 8.

A chamber Mahler 9? Intriguing! This evening's listen.

He avoids temptation outside the off stump.

Bramley apple tree in blossom. Around 80 years old.

The bramley in fine form at the moment.

An interior door, in a dumpster in Michigan. Happy days.

Clearly some kind of zero-length wormhole.

Being There When his employer dies, simple-minded gardener Chance is put out on the street with no knowledge of the world except what he has learned from television.

A rare appearance of 'Being There' on iPlayer. Sellers' (remarkable) penultimate film, almost an anti-performance from the lead. Recommended.

One of my (very large) feral toms had a sheep tick on his scrotum a couple of years back. There was no way he was letting me remove it with the tool (and I value my life), so I applied some spot on directly to it with a long pipette. That worked.