Torin8

There are few people in this world that I would approve being handed the death penalty. This madman would be on the list and I'd leave his body out for the carrion to pick at, then throw his bones in the sea to forget.

It is a dark, dreary and damp morning. Feels like we've gone back to February overnight and yesterday's day of joyous Spring was only a dream.

I'm sure you'll come to some compromise.

My cat seemed to know about the time change and adjusted accordingly... No idea how she did it.

On a breezy day in early spring, the wind tugs at a row of white sheets and bedding on a washing line set in a garden in front of a large white house

Breezy Day (1975)
Artist: Gerald Witcomb

Yeah, dropping fast here

I'll take 18C as a high today. Just make sure it doesn't get any warmer this year please.

Enjoy!

Merlin Bird ID - Home Identify Bird Songs and Calls Sound ID listens to the birds around you and shows real-time suggestions for who’s singing. Compare your recording to the songs and calls in Merlin to confirm what you...

I'm using the 'Merlin' app:
merlin.allaboutbirds.org

Really easy to use and works quiet well.

30 seconds of pure Spring joy.

Weird.. never done that for me. Worth an uninstall and reinstall?

Yeah, I do like to see a bird as well, especially if I don't know the call. I least I heard and saw this Chiff-Chaff.

There was a great big fat one in a crocus by my front door. Sadly by the time I'd got my camera out it had flown!

Ooo first bumblebee.
And first woodpecker drumming!

Yes it's SPRING!

A merlin screenshot

First Chiff Chaff of the year!

Ok, I think Pop! Linux might be the one... going to go with it for a few weeks and see.

#Linux

Dear cat distribution system.

Hurry up, I miss having a cat.

Th whole tree is buzzing.

Stephen Lawhead's Taliesin, Merlin and Arthur books are very good.

Deeply sorry to hear that. I send scratches and the warmest of regards to you both.

And on a sunny day like this it's even better!

Good Innit.

Celine Dion on a phone wanting the police

It ought to be illegal to have to work on sunny spring days like this!

A map shows the locations of BTO satellite tagged Cuckoos in Africa. The headshots of four Cuckoos appear in circular frames around the map, alongside the wording: First Cuckoo Update for 2026.

1/ And they’re off! 📢 Our BTO satellite-tagged Cuckoos are on the move! 🌍

Follow their migrations via our interactive map ➡️ www.bto.org/cuckoos #Ornithology 🪶

A one-sheet poster for "The Hunt for Red October." The colors are black and red with white type. At top left is a large three-quarter portrait image of the head of Sean Connery as Captain Marko Ramius, printed in red on a black background. Next to his left cheek, rising out of the red as though rising out of the ocean is a submarine conning tower. The tagline to the right reads, "The hunt is on." The title, top-line stars, and credits are printed in the lower third of the poster against a red background.

Today in 1990, “The Hunt for Red October,” adapted from insurance salesman Tom Clancy’s bestselling 1984 first novel, opened in theaters across the United States.

“This business will get out of control. It will get out of control and we’ll be lucky to live through it.”