Photo of Life of Plants book by Emanuele Coccia
Got a sore back so I’ve settled in to catch up on some reading.
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Photo of Life of Plants book by Emanuele Coccia
Got a sore back so I’ve settled in to catch up on some reading.
Coral background with faint heart illustrations. A glossy male Blackbird with a bright yellow bill faces left. Large title reads: “Birds as bad exes*” Smaller text reads: “*Yes, you read that right.”
Happy Valentine’s Day, from us to you. Tag your exes. Xoxox
I’ve signed up for this, looking forward to developing my id skills after just finishing a wildflower id course
Hen Harriers and other birds of prey are still being killed illegally.
Enough is enough.
Join us and call on the UK Government to license gamebird shooting and help protect these incredible birds before it’s too late. 👇
action.rspb.org.uk/page/185536/...
I feel like a 🐟 in a big podcast pond but here I am, probably the only podcast in the 🌍 about a river, the River Severn/Hafren/Sabrina UK. Expect archaeology, social & maritime history, myth & folklore, goddess worship, rights of Rivers, ecology & wildlife, music, Morris dancing, art, pubs & more
Looking at its own reflection?
That’s good, have a great 2026!
Hope it’s nothing serious
The image shows a small, rounded, purple glass vessel in the shape of a pomegranate fruit displayed against a light grey background. The display lighting enhances the translucent purple glass which replicates the colour of a ripe fruit. There is some encrustation dotted around the body of the vessel and around the calyx which has one lobe missing. Height 6.9 cm (2.7 in), Diameter 6.6 cm (2.5 in). Probably used as a container for perfumed oil.
For New Year’s Day 2026, a hellenistic glass vase shaped like a pomegranate. 2nd century BC - 1st century AD.
A symbol of abundance and good luck for the year ahead!
📷 Phoenix Art phoenixancientart.com/work-of-art/...
#Archaeology
On the track leading up to the magnificent Roman Catholic chapel at Biddlestone in Northumberland are some medieval remains that might explain how this remote village got its name.
1/7
My guess is 33, 8 and 5?
I get so many spam calls I don’t even answer if the caller is unknown. I send them direct to answer phone. I decided it is best not to engage at all with any unknown caller I read there is some sort of scam involving recording your voice although no idea what.
Keep rewriting and improving … much easier to know how to improve something that to start from a blank page. Make it more concise and refine. Finally read it out loud to check its written as well as possible
As a former MA student who found writing an enormous struggle … start with a plan … write as badly as required to actually write at all. Ie in note form, no grammar, no punctuation, full of quotations clearly marked with references. Then rewrite. And rewrite. Revise plan as ideas reform.
Walking in paces ?
While doing my family history I found a report of my great, great grandfather appearing in a court case regarding a right of way. My relative gave evidence in Cymraeg, a translator translated for the court, then my relative corrected the translation (in English) causing much amusement in the court.
The book speaks 📖: 'If you know how to read me, treat me well; however if you don't know how to read me, hand me to a learned person.'
[BnF lat 11278, f.28]
Had a visit to the Rollright stones while passing #standingstonesunday
Kerris
#StandingStoneSunday
A staircase and a rocky shore
A red kite flies over a rocky beach
Rocky beach with exposed wooden piling type feature?
Gate with signs and a soil track through fields into the distance
Photos from a recent trip to Llanon
Also had a neighbour whose house was up for sale over and over. Speaking to a mutual friend she said the ex wife couldn’t understand how it didn’t sell. But I’d seen ‘sold signs’ up repeatedly… the bloke had kept pulling out and changing agents. Wife was living elsewhere & didn’t know!
There needs to be a better system, you’re sure there isn’t some kind of dodgy business with your ex? My purchase was from someone in a divorce process … I suspect the whole thing might have been an exercise in him ultimately keeping the house having told his wife he *failed* to sell it. It was odd
I’m sorry … it needs reform to the process.
I had similar in lockdown where the seller changed his mind at the very last minute. It was devastating … I was homeless at the time due to divorce also it cost me 1000s in fees and in house prices going up too.
Things are fine now, different but fine! Gardening is so therapeuticfor me too. I do hope life gets back to normal for you both soon and you can look back at it as just one of those little blips that happen xxx
In the interim I did something completely different (botanical illustration). For me shelving things helped anyway xxx
I had a major life upheaval and had to stop taking photographs for a few years as all I could see in the ones I did take was bleakness and devastation. Its taken me a few years to come out of it tbh, longer than it took me to get my life sorted! But I feel like all the meaning of it is renewed now
Walnut ink (rich brown) sketch of a mountain ridge.
Print in black ink of a wood engraving. The view along a mountain ridge.
Monochrome watercolour of a rugged, layered mountain landscape.
Watercolour. Mountain ridge under snow.
Mainly mountains. Mainly monochrome.
I had similar reactions from cats, foxes, muntjac and badgers when i put one in my old garden. Squirrels didn’t seem bothered though!
Just made me recollect my ex after i discovered his l/t affair!
“It was the beginning of a bizarre exchange … in which chatbots try to negotiate their way out of trouble, deflect attention from their mistakes and contradict themselves”
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
🚨 BREAKING NEWS!🚨: A landmark victory for the River Severn and turning point for polluting factory farming across the UK
We’ve just overturned the approval of a 200,000-bird factory farm in the High Court, a major legal victory against Shropshire Council.
🔗 - bit.ly/3HY4xl4
