This dog with his ball has been a good boy for seven centuries. Worcester cathedral

Cotehele to Calstock #tamarvalley #Cornwall

A glorious summer I sometimes dread the dark days ahead, but there will be books and music and coffee and people coming back to town and wet days, where you don’t move but sit under the skylight and listen to the rain and dream about a glorious summer well spent.

Rereading Joan Didion’s memoir The Year of Magical Thinking, I came again across this extraordinary passage — one of the finest descriptions of grief ever written.

There was a distinct chill in the air when I opened the back door this morning. There's a definite late summer into autumn feel in our Tamar Valley village #TamarValley #Cornwall

North coast blues and greens from Pentire to the Dodman #Cornwall #swcoastpath

The macrame effigies have started appearing on fingerposts in Cornwall ahead of this year's ritual sacrifice #carefulnow

Here be chickens 🐔 #Cornwall

Lantic Bay to Polruan and back via the woods above the creeks of the Fowey estuary #Cornwall #Polruan #walking

This is not Autumn. This is drought distress in Islington, London Trees shed leaves to reduce water intake. It’s happening all over England

Along the Tavistock canal #Tavistock #Devon

I thought I had a good joke about structuralism but now I’m not Saussure

NEW #AUTISM RESEARCH (Dr Gavin Stewart + Prof Francesca Happé): Nearly 90% of middle-aged and older autistic adults are undiagnosed in the UK; this group is facing higher rates of mental and physical health conditions than non-autistic adults as they age kcl.ac.uk/news/up-to-90-…

bbc.co.uk/news/articles/… #autism #camping

Rose of Nevada review – uncanny ghost ship story from one-of-a-kind Cornish auteur | Film | The Guardian theguardian.com/film/2025/aug/…

Somewhere under the rainbow. Gurnard’s Head dog walk.

Sunshine and torrential downpours on the last day of meteorological summer 🌧 #Meldon #YesTor #Dartmoor

Black-a-tor copse. A sliver of surviving temperate rainforest #Dartmoor #temperaterainforest #Devon #nature

Its autumn in Bergen🇧🇻..and lovely evening second september 2025 df...☘️🌿🍂🍁