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The seagrass meadow. Porth Dinllaen.

More frost, Clapham Common

Frost, Honest Tom’s, Clapham Common

“In a moment of existential crisis like the present one, there is one valuable resource for the weaker party that stands out: political imagination.” Ivan Krastev @data.ft.com

London croci still going strong.

Snowdrops, Clapham Common

Blessing the skis 🎿 1958

Weird new god. Brick Lane.

Amazing light earlier. Lavender Hill.

Yachts are provided…

Sunday is boating day. It’s free! Anyone can join in. Clapham Common pond… talk to Ted and Ralph. 11-3 weather permitting. It is huge fun!

It’s all happening on Clapham Common.

Wonderful www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

“It is often essential to resist a tyranny before it exists. It is no answer to say, with a distant optimism, that the scheme is only in the air. A blow from a hatchet can only be parried while it is in the air.” G.K.Chesterton via tomasmurray.bsky.social

Skinbark #Ent

240 years old today. One of the greatest pieces of music written for piano and orchestra. Beethoven would show the score to his pupils and sigh that he and they would struggle to achieve anything so fine. Mozart’s piano concerto number 20 in D Minor. Used several times in the film of Amadeus. Enjoy

Marvellous.

I am very sorry to learn of the death of Heather Ramskill @littleramstudio.bsky.social. Heather contributed such beautiful work to @unbounders.bsky.social Women on Nature anthology in 2021. Sending love and heartfelt condolences to Gary and giving thanks that so many beautiful images remain.

Finally, and with a heavy heart, taken the ivy wreath from the door. #Candlemass

On the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz I wanted to share this quote from Prime Levi: "Auschwitz is outside of us, but it is all around us, in the air. The plague has died away, but the infection still lingers and it would be foolish to deny it.... (1/3)

Photo of the Day. Taken by Omar Al-Qattaa for AFP. A river of the displaced walking north towards Gaza City after crossing the Netzarim corridor from the southern Gaza Strip. Tens of thousands of Palestinians returning to see if anything is left of their homes.

“We remain one of the most nature-depleted countries in the world.” Extraordinary, really, when you think about it. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Yep.

“The Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB) said operators of self-driving trains may have too little to do when computers are in control, resulting in them becoming easily distracted.” (On four consecutive TfL trains running over the same passenger without the driver noticing). #AI

Amazing. Thank you @mjohnharrison.bsky.social

More words from the road for 2025: new books on travel, place and nature from @robcowen.bsky.social, Ben Aitken, Roger Morgan-Grenville, @nicwilson.bsky.social, @joannapocock.bsky.social & Razeen Sally. See deskboundtraveller.com.

Glory

@davidmontisi.bsky.social Hey David, happy birthday! 🥳 Much love 🥰