The Key to Avalon. This morning's sunrise on Glastonbury Tor. A bit windy up there and very cold hence nobody else around.

Reform to tell Welsh museums how to present history, manifesto says Election pledges say Reform would ask museums to present history chronologically.

BBC News - Reform UK will tell Welsh museums how to present history, manifesto says
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This is going down a dangerous path

Multiple oil spills are visible from space after Iranian and US-Israeli strikes hit oil facilities and ships in the region, with experts warning of an impending environmental catastrophe. https://cnn.it/3Ovxzwk

Win or lose, there remains a real measure of promise and decency in America that is worth the fight. And win or lose, there is no dignity for any of us unwilling to have that fight.

Mystical archway at dawn. The view from St Michael's tower on Glastonbury Tor this morning.

A posy of forget me nots from my garden, one of which has six petals instead of five, in a miniature ceramic James Keiller Dundee sample size marmalade jar from the early 20th century

There's a six petalled forget-me-not in this posy I made-if you find it your brain will release a ping of dopamine, increasing motivation and lifting mood a little. I've posted this before but it's peak forget-me-not season so worth repeating (also my miniature Dundee marm jar is💙):

It’s official: the UK is rejoining Erasmus! 👏🇪🇺

Trump TS post featuring an illustration of himself as a Christian faith healer

I’m not sure it has broken through to the general public that the president is a megalomaniac crazy person. Hopefully posts like this help.

The Greens won against Reform *in Kent*

It's all up for grabs folks.

The myth of Reform's inevitability is just that, a myth. They can be defeated.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., attends a news conference in the U.S. Capitol. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

AOC: “This is a threat of genocide & merits removal from office. The President’s mental faculties are collapsing & cannot be trusted.

To every individual in the President’s chain of command: You have a duty to refuse illegal orders. That includes carrying out this threat”

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finding it hard to care all that much about local elections right now tbh

NEW ANALYSIS: Record wind and solar generation saved UK from gas imports worth £1bn in March 2026

📈Wind+solar were up 22% year-on-year in March to a record high for the month
⛴️This avoided the need for gas imports worth £1bn at current high prices

www.carbonbrief.org/...

Y'all there is a woman and a black man circling the moon and NASA's mission control+ science teams are so diverse and people are nerding out about science and exploration this is all a gigantic middle finger to the stupid and hate and grotesque ghouls running our country

Sound thesis advice

And ‘use’ is always better than ‘utilise’ 😏

Though ‘fatuous numbskull’ has its uses too

Thank you - so glad you enjoyed the book & the exhibition. Lovely to meet you last weekend.

Finished How We might Live by @suzannefagence and it is a wonderfully intimate biography of William and Jane Morris and their connections. Went to the exhibition at @arcwinch in January and there was no catalogue so bought this instead and it was better!

Have a fabulous Easter Sunday everyone. Photo taken this morning in Glastonbury, shortly after sunrise.

The three Marys at the empty tomb being greeted by an angel
#EasterSunday
BL Add 49598; Benedictional of Æthelwold; 963 CE-984 CE; England, S; f.51v @blmedieval.bsky.social

That's home. That's us.

This image of home just came down from the Artemis II crew.

Taken after their translunar injection burn, there are aurorae at top right and lower left, and zodiacal light at lower right.

Credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman

This week, Brexit finally killed our family business. We cleared out our warehouse, handed back the keys, paid the final bills and said goodbye to our last employee.
What was once a thriving firm died a slow, sad death, all thanks to Farage, Johnson and the gullible idiots they conned. 1/18

Stanley Spencer recorded in his 1938 Desk Diary that he began 'Magnolias,' in March of that year. On 5th April 1938, he wrote to his dealer Dudley Tooth saying that the painting was 'as good as anything I have done.'

There are lots more great caricatures by Burne-Jones in the catalogue raisonne here: www.eb-j.org/browse/1
Happy exploring!

This morning, Trump posted a threat that reads like a war crimes checklist. He threatened to destroy Iran’s electric generating plants, oil wells, Kharg Island, and (in his words) “possibly all desalinization plants.”

An apparently outclassed Eowyn in mortal combat with Angmar, leader of the Nazgûl. The style is of a bold woodcut.

In a forest, the Hobbits Merry and Pippin sit on the “arms” of the Elk Treebeard while discussing matters with him.

The destruction of Mount Doom. Lightning bolts fire out from a mountain’s summit while a blast carries away its mid-section.

“The Grey Havens” - Three figures on a hill watch a lone ship sail out to sea. The trip ahead is shown to be sunny, leaving behind the rainy skies over the land being left behind.

Some of the small spot illustrations by Eric Fraser that accompanied the Radio Times magazine’s weekly listings for the BBC’s 1981 radio adaptation of Tolkein’s “The Lord Of The Rings”.

Around Easter-tide, if you were to ask one of the older residents of Old Fox's village to show you a palm tree, they would take you down to the quiet water meadows, midst the swans and the marsh marigolds, and point to the long-wanded sallow trees, with their velvet buds of creamy yellow and sea-mew grey and palest rose. "Here it be!" they would say, and, with their pocket-knife, cut four or five branches for your parlour, and a slip or two for your church hat or buttonhole. For in the old days in that little corner of Dorsetshire, Palm Sunday was known as Sallow or Sally Sunday, sometimes Willow Sunday, and in every church and household there were placed vases of pussy-willow from the river-bank and woods, and every congregant carried them and processed with them, and that gentle, country plant stood firm and strong and proud, a steward of a great weight of story, of the noble usherment of the king of the unnoticed, of the small and of the poor and of the powerless. Woodcut by Yvonne Skargon

This devastating, emotional, 2-minute clip of the oral evidence from Professor Kevin Fong (@drkevinfong.bsky.social) discussing his hospital visits at the height of the second wave perhaps explains it best. 7/19

Scientists captured female sperm whales on video working together during a birth to protect the calf Scientists have captured rare footage of a sperm whale giving birth, offering a window into the large mammals' behavior.

How incredible: “The full delivery took about 30 minutes. For hours afterward, pairs of whales held the baby above the water until it was able to swim…
What struck the researchers was how many mother, sister and daughter whales united to support the new calf, even ones that weren’t related.”

That sounds beautiful. Yes please. I hope you can get some rest too. Xx