For a whole year I shared a riverbank with a male mute swan Everyday on my walk we conversed without a word being said Every day I hoped he found the partner he craved This year he brought his new family to see me

Ok, here’s an unusual post. There was no wind, and all these starlings were lined up chattering away, so stuck my camera on the tripod and filmed. 😄

The reckless rush to cover prime Lincolnshire farmland with solar farms is destroying valuable land, wrecking local communities and saddling future generations with a costly, unstable legacy, warns Guy de la Bédoyère. dailysceptic.org/2025/07/28/the…

If an artist wants to give particular emphasis to something, they have numerous means at their disposal - particularly lighting and luminosity as was the case with William Brooker, as his eye-sight dimmed, his still-lifes became brighter and more vibrant. This is from 1975.

Bendor is 100% right about this. People don’t go to art galleries to be lectured or morally improved. They go for the visual thrills. The Tate had a bad Covid and followed it up with dull shows that didn’t set the pulse racing. There’s an intellectual snobbery afoot there.

AI is rubbish at history. It just makes stuff up. I gave ChatGBT a go yesterday, thinking it might boost my productivity, and it fed me a completely bogus quote by Pindar. But making sure it WAS bogus took time - so far from boosting my productivity, AI had actively sabotaged it.

Winchester Cathedral’s crypt is a victim of the high water table and is regularly flooded, in fact the entire cathedral was at risk of oblivion in the early 1900s A diver named William Walker worked for 5 years alone in the pitch black at a depth of 20m conducting remedial work

The office!

Seems the teenage weekend campers at Wylam certainly had fun wielding their axes & knives. I counted 15x trees hacked to bits this morning. Plus mountains of tissue paper after cra*ping everywhere. Bless their little cotton socks :) Northumbria Police Northumberland County Council Gateshead Council

I never get why people go to somewhere because of its beauty and then leave it like this. Same true of leaving litter on Granchester Meadows. It’s ultimately down to selfishness and thoughtlessness - but how do we get people to act considerately? Is it just about policing?

How the privatisation of the water industry has been a total disaster version 49,769. Over the next 5 years £22,047,000,000 of YOUR MONEY, funded through those recent, massive bill increases will go to service that steaming, corrosive pile of debt WCs have gotten themselevs

Pound Farm by Cedric Morris c. 1930 Oil on Canvas (Ipswich Museums and Galleries) To followers who don't know this is an example of a house painted 'Suffolk Pink". It dates back to the 14th Century and was generally a mix of pig or ox blood and limewash.

Cottages at Burghclere by Stanley Spencer 1927-30 Oil on Canvas (The Fitzwilliam Museum)

this is so cute omg, the Lionesses made it to Legoland

Enhance the landscape of the Cotswolds by spending money removing pylons. Simultaneously, trash the landscapes of Essex, Suffolk & Norfolk (and elsewhere) by building pylons, when an HVDC underground option is cost effective and popular. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/… Essex Suffolk Norfolk Pylons

Jenni's training through rain and shine for her ultra walk for Wandsworth Foodbank in September! Please donate if you can, and by doing so you'll be supporting local people and families to access the emergency food and support they need. Thank you! justgiving.com/page/jennifer-…

'Miss Edith Inspects the Sweetpea', by London artist Charles Mahoney, c. 1934. The artwork depicts Mahoney's landlady overseeing her gardener, and the painting was a significant contribution to the artist's 1976 posthumous exhibition.

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I’m the author of the paper Grok describes here. It’s among the most read and cited articles on psychotherapy outcome—required reading in grad programs around the world Grok gets literally everything wrong The paper shows psychodynamic therapy is as or more effective than

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