Are there any secondary school teachers out there, especially from inner city schools, who are keen to teach the GCSE in Natural History? Please either DM me or write to: [email protected] #teachers #GCSENaturalHistory #nature

This is one of the most poignant memorial inscriptions I’ve seen, made more so by the remote & beautiful location.

Badger will go … this is a very old badger track, & a long one, headed straight for Gallows Down. It’s trotted out & rarely deviates, across whatever crop is planted, plough or stubble; a silvery, padded, indelible watermark. A crease in the folds. A landscape’s stretch mark.

Today my book 'Writing Landscape' is published in North America 🎺🇺🇸🇨🇦 🎺 “An object lesson in attentive looking … wonderfully intense … a small book, but a mighty one.” Scotsman saraband.net/sb-title/writi… #naturewriting Orion Magazine Saraband Books

We re-framed Rembrandts Anna and the Blind Tobit this week. We replaced the re-gilded French 18th century frame with 20th century gilded slip with an un-cut Dutch 17th century ebonised pearwood frame. Suddenly the light shines out of the window inside the painting

Wind and wave art.

Jay Armstrong As physicist Richard Taylor says in my podcast “ awww this is what I am meant to look at - our eyes are thirsty for fractal patterns.”

I’d like to share my joy in finding a Victorian postbox hewn into granite. I think there’s one similar near you Annie O'Garra Worsley in South Erradale?

Female fighter horse training for the militia, Inner Mongolia,1979 by photographer Eve Arnold #WomensArt

Important and interesting 🧵 about how narratives develop, who gets the say, and why the experiences of those on the ground matter.

Evening at the sunken cottage – west coast, Isle of Tiree.

Climate. Scotland. Action. Writing. Announcing Paperboats: a website, a zine, actions in the real and beautiful world. Please follow, please join. More later today. We will rise! Paperboats Writers

Bracken is the only British fern where spore-cases are in a narrow line along the edges of fronds, with the margins curled backwards to form a cover. But it only spores about every 10-25 years after long, hot summers, when it produces c.30,000,000 spores per frond in Aug/Sep #WWW

Catherine Heaney with her mother, Marie, in the kitchen where we recorded much of the second episode of Four Sides of Seamus Heaney, all about love in his poetry. On ⁦BBC Radio 4⁩ at 4.30 this afternoon, then on BBC Sounds. ⁦Estate of Seamus Heaney⁩

Enjoy a peek from the gallery at the utterly remarkable stencilled ceiling of the A-Listed Chalmers Memorial Church in Port Seton and one of its beautiful windows by Margaret Chilton and Marjorie Kemp. #StainedGlassSunday #ChurchCeilings #SundaySermons

'Eden Rock' by the Cornish poet Charles Causley is one of his most moving, I think. 'They are waiting for me somewhere beyond Eden Rock: My father, twenty-five, in the same suit Of Genuine Irish Tweed, his terrier Jack Still two years old and trembling at his feet. My mother,

I’ve completed the #HudsonSwim2023! 315 miles from source to sea. People have fought for 50 years to get this river clean. And today she is beautiful. I will never forget the wildlife. The bald eagles, the vultures, the beavers and black bears. So this is my message 🏊‍♂️👇🏞️ The

'Breathing Space', etching by contemporary artist and printmaker  Janis Goodman #WomensArt