Sums it up nicely, though not nicely obviously.
The older I get the curiouser I become, in every sense of the word. Finding my way, here and elsewhere. #cloud watcher, respecter of #nature, 99% #vegetarian On Mastodon as @CloudsGoBy@mindly.social
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Sums it up nicely, though not nicely obviously.
Why is it like this 🤷🏻♀️😟
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Talking of police stations, we drove by as they were filming around the building in Lerwick they use for the Shetland series but I don’t think you’ll see our van 🙄 We are not long returned and I haven’t even sorted my photos yet. #slacking
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A peerie (little) gate @lakesstiles.bsky.social #Shetland
Komorebi (scattered light through trees) 🤩
A very familiar spot - from childhood day trips to teenage bicycle tours, and many visits as adults. OH’s cousin ran the High Force Hotel for a while. 🙂
Smell the honeysuckle and you will be transported (temporarily!) to paradise ☺️ #wildflowers
I haven’t seen any forked lightning - just loads of flashes through the clouds.
Worst storm we’ve had in ages. Continuous lightning and rumbles with mighty cracks and bangs. Scarily exciting. I don’t think I’ll sleep until this has gone through 😬
Photo taken June 20th 2025. Last sunset before the #SummerSolstice
Very annoying when you buy something on ‘click and collect’ only to go to the store and realise you didn’t read the bit that says it has to be delivered to said store first and you can collect it next week. Extra annoying when you live several miles out of town #ConsumeristWoes
Someone on Mastodon says it’s Dryads Saddle
Happy Summer Solstice to All Who Celebrate!
#FungiFriday
Late stroll. A stream of evening sun flows languidly down the road. Drama on a lamppost: two pigeons talk, then one turns and walks sadly away. Distant horizonclouds are misplaced alps. A shadow jogs flatly along the path. Strewn bikes cheerily await the end of the game.
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A rather dull damp day but the Knapweed is making it’s presence felt 🙂 This is the road verge beyond our hedge which I have, ahem, commandeered 👀 Or perhaps I can say, reclaimed for insects.
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Yes - that will make a big difference. I take note of what’s growing locally too. Knapweed does well for instance - just starting to flower now.
There’s no stopping it - pops up all over the place now. Maybe it just likes our soil. Fairly sandy and poor quality. We always had a ‘weedy’ lawn, and never treated it with anything. Buttercups and hawkbit thrive so it’s a very yellow themed meadow.
Not as much work as you might think. First year I mowed ultra short in the autumn and raked so you could see some bare soil. Scattered the seed and bingo - it reappears every year and I collect seed to put elsewhere. All I do is mow it short in autumn and early spring 🤷🏻♀️
Yellow rattle and white clover aplenty, for #wildflowerhour. This #Cotswolds wildflower meadow is fairly new - it was sheep-grazed short grass until a couple of years ago.
Hedge rose in hedgerows. #roses #nature #countryside
Another successful garden meadow year. Tip for anyone who hasn’t tried it yet - it’s not enough to just stop mowing! I seeded this with Yellow Rattle a few years ago. It weakens the coarse grasses and gives other plants a chance. Getting there 🙂 #wildflowers #garden
I always love the rogue poppies in our local field, but there was an extra little bonus this evening 🥰 Liberton #Edinburgh
This stunning Black-winged Pratincole has graced Setter, Spiggie, Shetland for the last couple of days. Only the third record for Shetland following singles in 1927 and 2021. #BirdingScotland #UKbirding #RareBirdsUK #Birds
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I was planning to eat cake at Acorn Bank Nat Trust today for a birthday treat but discovered the cafe was closed on Thursdays 🙄 Called in at local garden centre tearoom and had delicious lemon squidgy cake. Nice coffee too. And bought a bargain garden bench! Win win 😀
Lovely!! I read that as Cake Abbey. Not that I’m obsessed or anything 👀😛
I’m sure there are more buttercuppery fields round here this year. Whether it’s by accident or design I don’t know but they’re lovely.
Buttercups! 💛
Our Urban Gardens occupy more area than all of England's Nature Reserves combined, yet we are destroying them at a faster rate than ever. Read about what we are losing here; #GardensHour #gardening #ecology #nature northwestnatureandhistory.co.uk/2025/06/10/t...
Late stroll. Yellow-leaf flames flicker through green hearth-railings. A cloud-clown face beams down daftly. I cross the road on greenlit silver-square stepping-stones. A trio of passive-aggressive birds enact a roofy melodrama. Sunset-rays climb the skies ambitiously.
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Truly amazing isn’t it. We feel privileged and I’m sure you do too 🙂
In last night’s debate @matthewpennycookmp.bsky.social quoted our CEO as backing the 'purpose & intent' of the Planning Bill. To be clear: as it stands, the Bill is a regression in environmental protection. Our position remains that - without amends - Part 3 must be scrapped. ‼️
😃 We have House Martin nests either side of our front door - and not very high up because it’s a bungalow. They give out a few alarm calls when they see us but otherwise just get on with raising their families. Love having them - though I do have to put sand under to catch all the poop 🙄
Best not swim in these ‘shark’ infested waters! #tadpoles #froglets #GardenPond @froglife.bsky.social
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Been struck down by an awful case of carrot foot
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No thanks you can keep them 😅
Yes you have to be a little circumspect - it has a habit of telling you there’s a rare wader nearby when it’s actually a thrush 🤦🏻♀️ However - it’s a great tool and I use it most times I go out - often for confirmation but it throws up some nice surprises now and then 👍🏻
We asked for it, and we got it…
Fossils, dino drawing, quests and death metal. Our summer programme of dinosaur-inspired events involves all these and more. See what's on 👇 tullie.org.uk/dinosaur-sum... 📷Dinosaur rEvolution at Otago Museum, Dunedin, New Zealand
Deserts are spreading across Britain, yet scarcely anyone in public life even seems to have noticed. This week's column seeks to open our eyes to something that has been too big to see. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Suck it up buttercup 😄 Little hare demolishing our front garden meadow this wet evening, one flower at a time #garden #wildflowers #hare
Artistic stilin' WIP. Give John a follow 💚
Three posts actually. And what a nice photo 😃
Using every space available nesting kittiwakes. #SuperSeabirdSunday
Yow’re welcome 🤷🏻♀️
I wouldn’t give TUPpence for any of these jokes 😅
Elgol Slip, Isle of Skye. One from a over a decade ago, a long exposure, taken just as a heavy front of thick cloud began to dominate the sky, bringing fierce wind and driving rain in its wake. Good times ;) #Scotland #IsleofSkye #Highlands www.damianshields.com
😂 And 10 mins after reading this a swift did a fly past at the back of our house 😍. Out in the sticks we don’t see them as much as in the villages and even then far fewer than there should be. As a kid in a town I watched them for hours from my bedroom window.
It’s #WorldSwiftDay today. Celebrate by gorging yourself on insects and staying in the air for months on end.
I was worried it would fail this year with the dry spring but the rain came just in time and it bloomed like a desert in a nature documentary. Well not quite like that but enough to make me happy 😄
This is from a slightly brighter day when the hawkbit was open
I’m sorry but in my book ‘fasten’ does not rhyme with ‘parson’ 😬 #Zygolex
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I should add that this is a rural location but is not a large area and is a conventional garden with hedge and driveway. This could easily be done in an urban garden. If you can tolerate the dark looks from neighbours who consider it to be merely messy and neglected 🙄
Mine was just lawn but after sowing Yellow Rattle and adopting an October to March (approximately) mowing schedule it is currently reaching peak meadow. I’m thrilled with it. I stlll mow some areas for access and where the grandkids play. Photo through window on a wet day.
I feed your crops, I clean your streams, I bring the skies to life with wings, I shape your future, fill your plate But slash my worth, and risk your fate. Push me back, ignore my role, And you’ll feel the cost in what you grow. Who am I? #RSPBRiddles
Smitten with the hares that are still visiting regularly. We’re assuming there are at least two as yesterday’s seemed more leggy with longer ears, more like a teenager hare. This one looks younger and is enjoying the luxuriant growth of vegetation since the rain returned #hare
The comment that surprised me most here was how many people have no idea the rescue teams are composed of volunteers. Also that they think they can make a phone call and a helicopter will pop over to collect them 🙄 #MountainRescue www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
It looked like molten gold had been poured on Newport Sands last night 🧡💛🧡 #sharemondays2025 #stormhour #thephotohour #eastcoastkin #photography #photographersofbluesky #photographersunited #sunset #goldenhour #gold #art #artyear #nature #seascape #pembrokeshire #newportpembrokeshire #newportpembs
Late stroll. ‘Sold!’ shouts a sign triumphantly. A ladybird suns itself lazily on a wooden wall. The fluffy edges of a distant dog are illuminated by the setting sun. A vast, snow-capped cloud looms over the horizon. Two pigeons gossip, and one flies off suddenly.
That’s right - no point just preaching to the converted, they need to reach the unawares/don’t cares etc
We went to a very informative talk he did after a screening of the Knepp film - both good in different ways. The film was stunningly beautiful and of course they are doing wonderful things but I felt it was laying it on a bit thick, like a holiday ad. Very enjoyable in spite of that.
I think he’s working for the Lowther Estate 🤔
A heartening glimmer of hope in the news today 🙂 www.theguardian.com/environment/...
House martins usually arrive back in the UK sometime in April, occasionally at the end of March. House martins spend the winter months in Africa, though we still don't know exactly where our UK birds go.
Been here around 5 hours and the time has flown 👌
We are at Vindolanda today - some amazing stuff here and a lot of people working had in the sun. We are just observing however 🙂
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Yes - some nice tendrils of cloud spreading out today but it takes the edge off the pleasure knowing they are contrails 🙄
With the exception of some tubs, I’m letting the garden look after itself in this dryness. The cow parsley is frothily magnificent, buttercups vibrant, nettles and ground elder green and lush. Some small flowered cranesbills I inherited from my dad are attracting butterflies. Nature prevails 💚
Blimey that’s pretty astonishing! I was wondering the other day if you’d had any helm activity. There’s been so little cloud it’s been difficult to tell though we’ve had strong winds some days. A couple of timlapses were inconclusive. The cloud really started building up yesterday though
Happy #WorldBeeDay! 🐝🥀 To mark this very special day, here are five of our favourite bee species – both the weird and the wonderful! 😄 Head below to find FREE resources to help make your local area more pollinator friendly ⬇️ www.cumbriawildlifetrust.org.uk/pollinators #Cumbria #LakeDistrict
Sitting on what we laughingly call our patio. Stick that in yer pipe and smoke it Neat and Tidy Brigade! 😄
Ceremonial swift fly-past with wren fanfare
A rude awakening from my little post tea snooze! 😣 #osprey #aircraft #noisy
Whilst we're all loving this long spate of sunshine and warmth, our wildlife may not be! 😅 Making these small changes can mean the difference between life and death for many animals and will likely only take a couple of minutes to implement (even if you don't have a garden) 😄 #Cumbria
North Cumbria or Death Valley 🤔🌵 #Blencathra
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If you’re very very lucky 😂
Have to be a bit careful here as sometimes I get annoyed that a person didn’t wave and OH tells me they did the local ‘just-to-say lifting an index finger off the steering wheel’ thing - and sometimes even a slight nod of the head, especially if they know you 😂
Well said. I can only assume they never walk, cycle or use public transport. I’m not perfect but when I drive I do try and see it from all perspectives
It's the cutest time of year as the next generation of Shetland ponies start to arrive 😍 #Shetland
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One of my post likes was ‘Japan cute girls’ and somehow I don’t think they give a toss about pedestrian problems 🙄 Unfortunately I’m seeing more of these accounts on bluesky now