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Ballpoint pen bird sketches -2952 🎨🐡🪶 #art

Here are some nice mushrooms

The Gulf of America

Well-behaved cats rarely make history. 👑

Here are some nice mushrooms

Take a look at rare hair ice which was recently spotted by a visitor to Devil's Punchbowl, Surrey ❄️ The ice formation relies on dead wood and rare species of fungi for its distinctive appearance. See anything spectacular at our properties during the recent cold snap? Let us know! 👇

I think Colin the House Dalek has fundamentally misunderstood the premise behind The Masked Singer. #TheMaskedSinger #MaskedSinger

Word of the Day is ‘hunch-weather’ (19th century): weather so cold it makes you hunch your shoulders when you walk outside.

"Any big plans for New Year's Eve?" "Yep!"

Beautiful frosty Teasels at Woods Mill for today's advent. Photo by Sam Buckland

Someone's replaced my passport photo with a picture of a marzipan fruitcake - I think my identity's been stollen.

Two words for certain types of people, should you need them: microlipet: one who gets all worked up over nothing. struthonian: the person who buries their head in the sand and says ‘Problem? What problem?’.

This evening at 8pm UK time I’ll be putting the last of my ‘25 botanical calendars in my Etsy shop (silverpebble). I design my photos using recent research to move your brain away from fight or flight by just looking at them. Small print run, dispatched by 🎄. Others sold out v. quickly 🌿

Another good thing about winter is these tiny, feisty brown eggs. Meet the Winter Wren #birds 🌿

My colour artwork on green paper of a snail sitting on a mushroom. A cute little illustrative style nature drawing, available from my Etsy shop... theweeowlart.etsy.com/listing/1786... #snail #Mushrooms #OriginalArt #Drawing #Invertebrate #bugsky 🐛 #ChristmasGifts #GiftIdeas #bsnm #ArtShop

If you’re in/near to London, get your bottom over to the British Library for the Medieval Women exhibition. Fascinating history of women in their own words. I’ve genuinely seen nothing like it before. #LondonLife #WomenTalking #History #Literature

Etymology of the day: before a tapering piece of hanging ice was called an ‘icicle’ it was an ‘ickle’. In the Middle Ages people decided to add ‘ice’ for extra oomph and (tautologically) called it an ‘ice ickle’, until the two words eventually blended together.

Slow. Clap.

I went back to the woods yesterday to give this stick a photo shoot. Incidentally this is the first post using my new-to-me camera 🙌 shout out to my dad for helping me figure camera settings out

Netflix - please stop minimising the end credits of movies to suggest something else. Let viewers enjoy the soundtrack and see the cast and crew that worked on the film. We'll exit it ourselves when ready to. #film #filmsky #movies #moviesky

Word of the day is ‘hibernacle’ (18th century): a hibernating animal’s winter retreat. I believe it works on a human level too.

Jacob Rees-Mogg claims that nobody cares about #partygate anymore. The BBC say the documentary only makes people angry. The truth is it shows everyone what lying assholes the Conservatives are. So do you care? Feel free to RP to show that you do.

Like Sean I experience regular access refusals with my Guide Dog Ava. Every time I visit a new shop, restaurant or business my heart races with the fear of confrontation. The law granting access rights for guide dogs has existed for nearly 30 years. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Here are some nice mushrooms

It is 2024; why on earth do we still have businesses illegally refusing service for customers with assistance dogs?

Word of the day is ‘librocubicularist’: one who loves nothing better than reading in bed. (Not easy to say, but I’m glad to know it exists).

Etymology of the day: to be ‘blowing a hoolie’ (or ‘hooley’) was probably inspired by the Orkney word ‘hoolan’, a howling gale, with a touch of the ‘hooley’ that is a very noisy party thrown in.

I don't know who needs to hear this, but if all you accomplish this weekend is reading a riveting novel cover-to-cover whilst drinking multiple kettles of tea and consuming a scandalous amount of croissants, then you will have accomplished more than enough.

The Times journalist who fought to get the story about the Reform MP who kicked his girlfriend multiple times @georgegreenwood.bsky.social tells how hard the newspaper had to right to get the information released. So who has been protecting the Reform MP?