Gravies of the Ancients YouTube video by Peter Serafinowicz

Gravies Of The Ancients
'Cos why not
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kirS...

Isn't that Jack Palance?
No, me neither
Hell, it's imdb time
It is, after all, what is was made for

Looking at his audience, he realized how much he detested straights.

Philip K Dick. A Scanner Darkly

If I recall the comics rightly, Rogue had Helm, pack & gun.
Which, in any reasonable Universe, makes no sense

I'm 10x faster than you AND my bite can give you Streptococcus

Want some, pal?
#dogs

Oak tree on a frosty morning

Pedunculate oak?
#thicktrunktuesday

Dogs read the world through their noses and write their history in urine. Urine is another and highly complex source of social information; it is a language, a code.

JR Ackerley. My Dog Tulip

When Dazzle was a puppy his favorite television program had been called Lassie. Lassie dived into raging rivers and burning buildings. "Save yourself," Dazzle cried weakly. "Run like hell. Timmy can take care of his damn self."

Scott Bradfield. Dazzle Resplendent: Adventures of a Misanthropic Dog

Alert Retriever dog

Come closer. I double dare you.
#dogs

In my (limited) experience it is only a bit invasive. But it hurts if handled without gloves

I have used Thompson & Morgan and no complaints

Some pink bluebells. They look like the English type

Pink bluebells. Never much noticed them before, but they seem fairly common.
#GardensHour

Retriever checking out the path on the left

Who goes there?
#dogs

Yeats: Reece Shearsmith
Crowley: Mark Gatiss

And that's "How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb "

Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.

Samuel Johnson

Roy Porter. Blood & Guts: A Short History Of Medicine

Beech wood with bluebells and ransoms

Ransoms and bluebells.
#WildflowerHour

If civilization has an opposite, it is war.

Ursula K Le Guin. The Left Hand of Darkness

Life is a miracle beyond our comprehension, and we should reverence it even where we have to struggle against it.

Rachel Carson. Silent Spring

Den made from Douglas fir branches left on the forest floor after logging

When the loggers depart, the dengineers get to work.
#ForestFriday

In a way, I think it would feel more right for the virus to win. For years now, we’ve treated the land as though it were a piggy-bank to be raided. And the land, after all, is life itself.

John Christopher. The Death of Grass

Beech tree with a long gash in its bark

Beech trunk.
#ThickTrunkTuesday

Tall dahlias with flowers so heavy their stems could not support them were a challenge. Overcome by giving up and planting shorter ones.
#GardensHour

When Dick could no longer play what he wanted to play on the piano, it was an indication that life was bring refined down to a point. He stayed in the big room a long time, listening to the buzz of the electric clock, listening to time.

F Scott Fitzgerald. Tender Is the Night

My phone told me it is 1.1km long, so this is not even half of it

An avenue of Wellingtonias on the Chobham Ridges, Surrey. Planted in 1865. According to www.redwoodworld.co.uk/picturepages/camberley.htm 218 of them survive.
#thicktrunktuesday

Pink striped tulip flower

April is about the tulips. If there's an art to getting them to flower for more than one year it eludes me.
#GardensHour

Cover of A Perfect Execution by Tim Binding

How would you be,
If He, which is the top of judgment, should
But judge you as you are? O, think on that;
And mercy then will breathe within your lips,
Like man new made.
#ShakespeareSunday

Under the spreading chestnut tree
I sold you and you sold me:
There lie they, and here lie we
Under the spreading chestnut tree.

George Orwell. 1984