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The #TyneBridge from atop Robert Stephenson’s High Level Bridge (in a train crossing the Tyne from Gateshead into Newcastle Central Station). To its left is the Georgian tower and spire of All Saints’ Church. Maybe someone can interpret the cryptic messages on the panels?

This is a splendid episode. #KatherineRundell is fascinating on children’s literature, C.S. Lewis and John Donne (her biography of him, Super Infinite, is magnificent). bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

The house on Alemouth Road, #Hexham where in 1882 the owner, John Robson, a nurseryman, along with others, founded the English Arboricultural Society. It later became the RoyalForestrySociety Society.

The #BayeuxTapestry “was probably commissioned by William [of Normandy’s] half-brother Bishop Odo of Bayeux in the 1070s to decorate the city’s cathedral and was almost certainly sewn by English women”. So it’s “coming home” (for a while). theguardian.com/world/2025/jul…

.Tom McKinney I love the dawn chorus on BBC Radio 3 at 6.30…in theory. My radio has been playing since about 6am, but the problem is, in bed & without my hearing-aids in, the high frequencies of birdsong just don’t register. Still, two minutes of silence is also a gift!

“Who has told every lightning bolt where it should go…. You are amazing God.” Even when strikes human beings & kills them? This isn’t the Creator I worship. [Chris Tomlin, “Indescribable”, just heard on the Daily Service on BBC Radio 4 extra.] Why does anyone sing such lyrics?

Comet #3IATLAS, a rare visitor from interstellar space. It’s known not to originate in the outer reaches of the Solar System because of its open (ie non-revolving), hyperbolic trajectory towards the Sun. science.nasa.gov/solar-system/c…

“What any reader wants to believe is that the story they have put their faith in is closest to the writer’s truth, that they have not been deliberately misled, that they have not been manipulated. This is essential.” #SaltPath theguardian.com/books/2025/jul…

“It adds up to the steady erosion of US democracy & democratic norms. Even if it is happening quietly, without sound & fury, it is still happening. The work of opposing it begins with noticing it.” Important article by the ever watchful ⁦Jonathan Freedland⁩. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

‘Not just Harold but the Anglo-Saxon age has to die, all because of a broken oath and a failed bromance. “Men, eh,” you can hear the women whisper as they create our history’s most beguiling, devastating document.’ Warfare: a female perspective? theguardian.com/culture/2025/j…

Disappointing. I simply don’t believe this, nor the simplistic theological syllogism on which it’s based. God has authority over all things: birth, death, pain & suffering, but that is no argument against planned conception or anaesthetics. #assisteddying theguardian.com/society/2025/j…

Place de la Bastille, Paris, the site of the fortress that was stormed by the crowd on 14 July 1789, the event that launched the French Revolution. Wishing friends in France a happy #BastilleDay!

The Tricolor flies in Hexham! It is a permanent feature of Gilesgate, outside the Bouchon, the town’s excellent French restaurant. Today is #BastilleDay.

The summer of 1976 was exceptional then but wouldn’t be now. A winter like 1962/3 is improbable this century, unless owing to #climatechange the Gulf Stream starts to fail in the N Atlantic, possible according to some climate modellers. Remember both well. theguardian.com/environment/20…

Such a lovely programme today. Thank you BBC Radio 3 & Mark Forrest for this superb afternoon of music. #ClassicalLive

“The diary of a point of light, moving through a darkening landscape, one among millions of points of light, being eclipsed one by one.” The #Gaza diarist is now living in exile. theguardian.com/world/2025/jul…