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Can you find the Eels? Hidden in this image with lots and lots of #ridersonsmallhorses

NEW! Episode 272 - Emptiness within Shelve Wood at night Here's a long *sleep safe* listen from a beautifully quiet corner of Shropshire, recorded last month. bit.ly/LenShv1

I might go and see this out of curiousity and because it's an opportunity, despite JJ being one of the least favourite authors I was obliged to read for O level Dubliners is even more depressing when you're a depressed teenager. He seemed to me to be obsessed with death and disappointments.

I went out on the bike this weekend and had to turnaround within a mile because of the pain in my knee. Wondering if this is the end of the beginning of my cycling trips this summer. Is it the end of me cycling altogether? Feeling very morose and trapped in a town I need to escape from

Always lovely to see a tall ship alongside Poole Quay - the replica of Nao Santa Maria (the largest of three ships used by Christopher Columbus in his 1492 voyage across the Atlantic) has arrived #Dorset

Top photo is from Andor season two, episode four, which was filmed in 2023 depicting Saw Gerrera's base on the planet D'Qar. This episode dropped earlier this week. The bottom photo is one I took at Greenham Common in England nine years ago.

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This is a neat little trick, and even neater is if you have your own Windows app and you want to hide that content from Microsoft Recall, it's very straightforward to use it yourself: it's just a one liner: SetWindowDisplayAffinity(hwnd, WDA_EXCLUDEFROMCAPTURE)

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Another successful day on the bike

In case anyone wants some heavy reading on the topic of transport noise: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Map from that article shows Disability Adjusted Life Years (DALY) lost per 100,000 people/yr due to road-traffic noise exposures above 50 dB across England. Total = 97,000 DALYs/yr

NEW! A bonus episode! 270 - Soundscene from Northward Hill Nature Reserve (19mins) This is a Lento first! Recorded in Kent on Saturday in a woodland full of birdsong, including a nightingale in full voice. Headphones on - bit.ly/LenNtgl

It convinced me once and for all that Parthenocissus tricuspidata Veitchii should be grown transparently, not plastered against a wall. Any tall old tree would serve the purpose, an ancient pear or apple, or a poplar if you cannot command a silver birch. www.rhs.org.uk/plants/93819...

“The entourage, the circle around Putin, have enriched themselves so much by availing themselves of all the goodies that the state can provide, what is it that Trump can give them that they don’t already have?”

"Oh don't worry about that Dutch fishwife, she's just here to offer you some trout milord..." Leather case shaped like a fish containing six knives. Possibly from Italy, c. 1570. www.bayerisches-nationalmuseum.de/en/collectio...

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Kent must be some kind of paradise if the Council has time to prioritise votes about flags

No, you can't careen that vessel on this beach.

I love learning something new every day on BSky Speedwell is quite effective against equine and canine stomach ailments. It protects the sensitive stomach lining and can help to heal gastric ulcers. It has no known adverse effects.

Those in the southeast/south have been waiting patiently for some thunderstorms, Wednesday might be the day!

RIP Paul Durcan. This was the first poem I read by him, and it absolutely broke me.

Fantastic old beech tree's holding there own on a quarry edge today in Stanley woods.

The red glow of sunset lights up a gnarled old yew tree on Wenlock Edge. The tree stands above an ancient holloway, which is a sunken track created by the passage of carts, livestock and human footsteps over the centuries. 1/2

Bench, birds and a bicycle in Bucklebury this weekend

".. we just want to be safe" Amen to that