Mary Earnshaw

Time to make Turnberry Golf Club a huge windfarm.

I thought for a minute these were from Albuquerque.

Mayor Mamdani and a child play with Legos while looking very serious and concentrated. The child is impossibly adorable and wearing tiny blue glasses.

No interruptions, please. We’re building universal child care.

May send my dad out as a research assistant again after his success with recording the return of BH to Abbot Hall, Kendal. I pushed my mum round there before she died, in a very hard to manage wheelchair, the plinth empty as if forecasting loss. Lovely to see it full of life again.

Or just a community champion for that matter

What might another future have been, for Alice? These pictures and the ones shared by @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social are so powerfully tragically moving.

The Rock’n’Roll Doctor is IN

A monochrome ‘spot the mistake’ scene featuring a postman cycling along a lane besides a half timbered thatched cottage

An observation test for your inner 8-year-old.
Can you spot 12 deliberate mistakes?

From Treasure magazine, 1965
Official answers coming soon

(Even if you don’t reply, could you please ‘like’ or share this one?)

Trev Eales and Robert Sheppard HOLME FELL: a Sample of Landscapes Number One Holme Fell: A Sample of Landscapes is the title of a collaboration between myself and Trev Eales, based on, coming out of, springboarding fr...

First reveal of my poetry and photo collaboration with Trev Eales: Hole Fell (Lake District project). robertsheppard.blogspot.com/2026/03/trev.... Text, image, video reading, links...

Yes. This.

kevinrkirk 2d @ Threads Why are we bothering with the Strait of Hormuz when we could simply do this? Explain it to me like l'm 5. (Drawing of chopping of part of land) suahuatica 2d MOUNTAIN HARD AND BIG, WATER NO UP. MANY MANY DIG DIG.

Happy Friday. Don’t skip school.

TIRE TRACKS ON MARS: The Perseverance rover takes pictures of the sun through Martian dust, revealing sunspots invisible from Earth. Today was a little different. Perseverance skipped the sun and pointed its cameras at the ground instead spaceweather.com

Early morning Spring sunlight and blue skies after a day of rain in South Tipperary. Slievenamon -mountain of the women, looking beautiful this morning with a dusting of snow covering the upper slopes high above the ice encrusted fields.

Peter Knight 'From a Lullaby Kiss' YouTube video by Deborah Knight

A song I love. This day is yours. Mine. Ours.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=euxf...

Bench with memorial plaque and pink decoration

In memoriam.
Benches. Such an odd but human way of remembering.
In Southport's King's Gardens.

Dressing up for world book day is bullshit, even leaving the parental finance stuff aside. It's one of very few 'event' days in school calenders set aside for a solo, quiet, activity – and then it's turned into dress-up. Spectacularly misses the point. Schools should drop it from a great height.

well, today in floridly depressing news: the French helpline for female victims of male violence is facing "coordinated" attacks from men's rights activists, who keep calling up in the hope of making it harder for women to reach their services

This is terrific please buy one if you can - and if you haven't already.

Who thought I'd find Grok charming 😁

scanned page of a poem: “to the young who want to die” by Gwendolyn Brooks

by Gwendolyn Brooks
❤️‍🩹

Happy World Book Day! A timely reminder that some of the greatest adventures in life occur while sitting perfectly still in a comfortable chair. 📚

An intricate octopus cut from a single piece of paper

Japanese artist Masayo Fukuda hand-cut this life-sized octopus from one sheet of paper. Known as Kirie in Japanese (translated as “cut picture”), the art form involves cutting intricate forms from a single sheet of white paper and then contrasting it against a black background to reveal the design.

A cartoon from the 1950’s that’s more relevant than ever 💔

Trumps latest ravings prompted this #writers #authors
#writesky #booksky #writingcommunity #poetry #poetrycommunity

Definitely! Mind boggling nonsense. (I mean the laughably expensive sweet and savoury stuff not Longbarrow's wonderful books!)

£25 for a cookie? What the baffling luxury bakery boom tells us about Britain Amid a cost of living crisis, pricey patisserie is all the rage – and not just in London. Our reporter goes on a crawl to find out if a tart can really be worth £45

Alternatively, you could buy a banana or an apple, and spend the rest on some Longbarrow books
www.theguardian.com/food/2026/ma...

I forgot to do Alt text. Blue Marine Lake in Southport under a blue sky with a bridge in between the sky and the water.

Blue. Just blue.
Not periwinkle nor forget-me-not.
Not Prussian, nor sapphire, nor cerulean. Just beautiful blue-ness on a sun soothed day.

Iranian people fleeing war damaged homes with fire burning in the background

Mourners - three women - at funeral in Iran of victims of the strike that hit a school by the USA

Moving, powerful pictures on the front pages of yesterday's and today's @theguardian.com print editions.

It's not Roosevelt we're dealing with. Hell, it's not even Nixon.