In leafy Cheshire it has gone from winter to summer in 24 hours. I celebrated by opening all the doors when I got in from a rather warm walk. And then spent half an hour trying to get two big, buzzy flies out so I could shut the doors again. 😭 Roll on winter! 😁

Thread of surreal sculpture details 🧵 1. Water flowing over toes

If I hadn't got my big camera out and thrown 1+sec exposures at tonight's #Aurora I'd have mistaken it for vague white cloud in thick lines across the sky. There was a hint of colour at times, but my old eyes weren't up to it!

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Poo can sometime make me happy. When it's hedgehog poo. Only one hedgie sighted this year, but better a lonely one than none at all.

Dear The Labour Party, yes... I get it... you can stop bombarding us with YouTube ads now. Election...not Tories... Kier blah-blah Starmer... Enough already! For the first time I may actually pay £12.99 for a ripoff month of Premium to avoid this blanket marketing.

Today has turned into an unexpectedly good day! BBC Springwatch

Getting old is: checking who closed #Glastonbury24 and finding you've never heard of 'em. I thought SZA was an acronym, not a performer.🤔 I'm off to shake my stick at clouds, then I'll go see if my CD player still works. It was all fields of gold round here once.

18 months after Mum died, I finally got round to visiting the seaside again, 8 years since my last visit (to Hastings). Last time I was in #Blackpool was 1982! It was both completely different and exactly the same.

The first frost (which could be any day now, it seems!) will kill my rampant nasturtiums, but for now, the accidentally planted party continues!

Last night I dreamed that Donald Trump was our Dad & kept leaving wads of cash on the landing chair of our home in the 70s, which we were ignoring because he was a bad Dad. But I was worrying about strangers taking the money when I woke up.🤔 Just need a nap now to retrieve it.👍

I don't often get surprised any more, but...

The tone of tonight's #Panorama is proving only one thing... we're locked in a societal self-destruct sequence. The only unknown is how long it'll take to blow up completely.

A glorious day! The bells of Notre Dame in Paris rang this morning for the first time since the fire in 2019!

A week ago my rampant, self-seeded door nasturtium was still thriving (and annoying the postman, probably). The snow and ice has seen this plucky little summer survivor off. A solitary flower waves farewell! 🥶 👋😥 #gardenersworld

Can't decide what was better... "vas deferens" or the way you calmly let it slip away, unnoticed. You're a better man than I'd have been. 😁👍 Steve N Allen #Headliners

Policing Big Banks? Government job. Big Pharma? Government job. Big Crime? Government job. But Big Crumpet? Not a government job. I finally found a hill to die on. Though whether I can walk up it after eating all these #Crumpets is a different matter. Pass the butter & Marmite!

Post-Christmas, nostalgic bargain hunting reminds me why I'd never buy these as a present for anyone. It's really, really good of Nestlé to throw a few mediocre chocolates in among a box full of plastic. Things ain't what they used to be: a treat in retreat.