At Kilve?

😍stunning!

Oh that’s great news! And thank you for the ladies smock - my favourite.

😄shortcuts do have a habit of being - well, let’s say, not always such a good idea.

🤣thank you. Tempting…

I’m sorry to hear that - we just don’t have the constitutions of our ancestors, do we!😉

Just found out Starlink satellites only last about 5 years before they're pulled down to burn up in the atmosphere (leaving toxic metals in the air). Our convenience culture has reached the level where we now have disposable satellites.

And Musk wants to launch a *million* data centre satellites.

Equipped For Battle ⚔️

With limited space on carts and wagons in an army’s baggage train, musketeers of the English Civil Wars were expected to carry most of their equipment on the march - and there was plenty of it.

📷: Michael Parkes

One of my all-time faves as you know.

🥰

🤣agreed.

Palantir manifesto described as ‘ramblings of a supervillain’ amid UK contract fears Alarm caused by posts of Alex Carp, tech firm’s CEO, championing US military dominance and of AI weapons

Palantir manifesto described as ‘ramblings of a supervillain’ amid UK contract fears www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Lords of the skies…

Watercolour illustration of a curlew in side profile, standing next to a body of water in front of a part-grassy, part-sandy landscape. It has a down-curved bill, brown and grey plumage, and long legs. The handwritten caption above reads: 'Scolopas acquata The Curlew - Jan 18[16?]'.

Good morning to everyone, but especially to all the curlews, for today is their special day!

This early 19th century watercolour illustration of a curlew by an unknown artist comes from our 'Bird Book'.

📷 EUL MS 23; digitised by @dhlabexeter.bsky.social

#WorldCurlewDay #CurlewDay #Archives

Renewable energy surged at RECORD PACE in 2025, with 692 GW of new capacity added worldwide as solar and wind rapidly undercut fossil fuels and strengthened energy security.

Quakers in the Commons: Joseph Pease and the right to affirm - The History of Parliament Taking their seat in the Commons can be a nervous moment for new MPs, but for the Quaker Joseph Pease in 1833, tensions were heightened because he feared that

Although now able to affirm, before the late 19th century members of the House of Commons and Lords were required to swear an oath of allegiance to the Crown.

As Dr Kathryn Rix explores, this posed a problem for Joseph Pease, whose religion precluded him from being able to take oaths.

Hmm yes - ‘salted pear corpses’ really don’t make the mouth water! Odd tho - as you say, most ‘Tudor’ food is pretty good.

Israel has killed more than 700 people in Gaza since last year's US-brokered 'ceasefire'

Israel has killed more than 700 people in Gaza since last year's US-brokered 'ceasefire' https://aje.news/niqwe0

Harris Hawk on a skip at tip - there to deter the seagulls from scavenging.

Wildlife solution to seagulls at the Alnwick tip

True, Bob? Really?🤨😀

Labour’s great green energy plan could be a legacy as vital as the NHS | Polly Toynbee Ed Miliband has a rare chance to do for the climate what Nye Bevan did for health: create something future generations will be proud of, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Bellamy’s Bellamy’s, the refreshment rooms in the pre-1834 Palace of Westminster, occupied a distinctive place in the late Georgian and early Victorian political world, a place where different worlds c…

For #NationalTeaDay ☕️ we are resharing a blog by former #HistParl director Paul Seaward on Bellamy's, a prime tea-drinking spot in Parliament in the 18th and 19th centuries.

Local elections in Essex: what are the parties promising? Elections are being held across Essex on 7th May. What are the parties offering the voters?

All seats are up in Essex County Council this May.
We invited every major party to set out their plans.
Three stayed silent.
Two didn’t.

eastangliabylines.co.uk/party-politi...

Thank you. I loved the ‘rear-end’ pose - a bit different.

Oh wow! I used to fence and it was hard to explain to onlookers why it was so exciting (& hard). To see this makes it way clearer.

Watercolour of wading bird facing to left, with narrow bill, big dark eye and mottled brown-grey plumage over the top of the head and across the back and wings. Belly is white, tail is tipped slightly up, facing the viewer. Shadow behind on the ground.

#ArtDD2026
Common sandpiper

Loved the back view of this delicate little wader.

From a lovely 📷 by @fopl.bsky.social with thanks.

@saocousins.bsky.social @holnicotenh.bsky.social @stevecobbin.bsky.social @andykaitken.bsky.social @mayfieldbirder.bsky.social @indikon.eurosky.social 🪶🦉

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Keep Walking The Walk,Mayor Mamdani.......

When you read the whole article, not just the headline like James, you discover what the Greens are actually opposing.

"It's a huge profit margin for those who can get some renewable energy from our sunshine and take the profits offshore."

The Councillor is advocating local ownership, profits back

A Wall in Naples.' (1782) Thomas Jones' open-air oil sketches, made in the early 1780s not for money but for his own pleasure, without any thought of the rules and conventions of his time, that have made him live for us in a way he never did for his contemporaries.