Six month old puppy Storm loves playing at retrieving. Here we are early this morning out the back of our place messing about with dummies. There are Crossbills and a robin in the background

About the place

Something to keep an eye on

We’ve got 18 Welsh ewes staying with us for a few days while their fence is fixed around at our neighbor’s. They’re cute but not friendly.

Black Lyne. Sunset. Reiver river.

Skylark .01. 2024.

It's been raining ALL day. It's a bit cold and getting dark. You don't mind if I just...

It’s that time of year again. Hundreds of toads making their way up the long forest track to their mating pond.

Thirty years of feathers. Anniversary edition of Vurt from Angry Robot, with new foreword by Adam Roberts, and afterword by the author. angryrobotbooks.com/books/vurt/

Still Time

Jack of the Green has moved to a forest in the Borders this winter

A painted sky

Sea to the West under a Northern sky

Clootie Tree

I am the one and only

About the place

Can you identify the fledgling before its parent arrives?

Swarm Fund is not a business. It’s a personal project, built in spare time, with no grand ambitions beyond finding like-minded people who enjoy discovering remarkable ideas beyond the normal and helping them take flight. Free to all. No team, no budget, no roadmap - just us.

I watch the lifeboats searching for someone at sea and look at the horrific rooftop shootings and you think why aren’t eye in the sky web of drones being used in these situations? Search and security?

Sir Jim wants Southgate for United! I thought he said he was a life long United fan? If United recruit Captain Boring it’s everyone holding hands skipping in to relegation and bankruptcy. Southgate’s probably sat at home making friendship bracelets for the squad.