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A break in Dumfries & Galloway, on the Solway Firth. Just what the doctor ordered.

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Drawings 34 & 35 of "A Never-Ending Way", Vol. 2, are now complete. Onwards! 🙂 #drawing #HinkseyHeightsNatureTrail

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'Mungry!!!!! #gingerberk #gingercat

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60 minutes have reported that 75% of people sent by the US administration to a prison in El Salvador have no criminal record. Tell you who has a criminal record: Fanta Fuhrer. Send him there instead.

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Sunday #drawing. Slow but steady progress with Vol.2 of "A Never-Ending Way". #penandinkdrawing #Novesta

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Father Jack, furious to hear that Donald Trump has slapped 20% tariffs on Craggy Island. #fucktrump #Trumptariffs #FatherTed

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"Serendipitous Frog" (2024). Found wire from the Hinksey Heights Nature Trail, near Oxford, UK. #foundmaterials #frog #hinkseyheightsnaturetrail #serendipity

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It's been a busy year or more and I have neglected my website blog. Here is my first post in a while, to begin the process of catching up with myself. www.markrclay.co.uk/blog-1/cathi...

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Nonsense like this is how I got through the COVID lockdowns in 2020. #sketchbook

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#Drawing 33 of "A Never-Ending Way" Vol. 2, a double size piece, is complete. I have reached a high point and can see over the expanding fen being taken under management by the Freshwater Habitats Trust. Cattle will be arriving here in due course to graze and help keep the reeds from taking over.

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"Pussy Willow". Ink on paper. H29cm x W21cm I've been enjoying the beauty of natural forms in this and other works inspired by time spent at @hinkseyheightsnaturetrail. You'll be able to see, and buy, this drawing at Oxfordshire Artweeks, Venue 166 in Botley on 3, 4 & 5 May. #drawing

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Marine Le Pen is going to prison for embezzlement. Good. Can we in the UK also investigate her fellow fascist grifter Nigel Fatgarage for embezzlement, for drawing his salary as MP for Clacton-on-Sea despite never actually going there. #FarageRiots

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In a world going mad, I'm starting the day with this lovely, consoling song by Herbert Howells about comfort in sorrow. Have a gentle day. X youtu.be/c5JfcCYX2VY?...

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We took over the giant screen at Farage’s big rally in Birmingham

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British people would be wise to remember, when mocking the stupidity of people who voted for Trump despite all the warnings, that British voters had their own moment of self-sabotaging stupidity: voting for Brexit. We had our own moment of truth and blew it.

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The number of Islamophobic posts about London Mayor Sadiq Khan has risen from 12,000 to 28,000 over the last 12 months, according to a GLA report. They’re nearly all on TwitterX and more than half come from the US and India.

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With the completion of Drawings 31 & 32, I am now well into Volume 2 of "A Never-Ending Way", my continuing drawn walk of Hinksey Heights Nature Trail. I am now crossing the fen areas of the Trail, of which I will say more soon. #drawing

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Labour campaigned under the banner of "Change" and gave us more Tory austerity. I don't know how Reeves and Starmer sleep at night.

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🚨 Trump administration confirms it’s called in two elite military veterans to investigate to immense security leak from the White House

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The pothole is the most visual symbol of Britain's long term failure to invest in infrastructure – roads, rail, airports, reservoirs, sewers, energy... Remind yourself of that every time you hit one.

submitted 21 days ago • 25 comments

Me and my pen drawing "My Creative Inheritance" at the Oxford Art Society 2025 Members' Exhibition. We had the preview tonight, but it opens tomorrow, Saturday 22 March, 11am-6pm, and runs for two weeks. #drawing #penandink

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This will probably come as no surprise to anyone but..

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There are ever more frequent days when my response to reading the news and the world at large is to head to Rightmove and look at houses in the Outer Hebrides.

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Drawing 31 of "A Never-Ending Way" is complete. This feels like it took a long time. I'm learning new methods of mark making as I move from woodland into fenland. #drawing

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The UK would now want to rejoin the EU by 55% to 33% Removing those that don’t know - that’s a 62.5% to 37.5% breakdown.

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I shared the first completed volume of "A Never-Ending Way" with my fellow Hinksey Heights Nature Trail volunteers this evening. Three more volumes planned. #drawing #penandinkdrawing

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BREAKING🚨 -We've investigated the financial links between MPs and the private health sector, and can now announce which MP received the highest donation amount from individuals+companies with links to the private health sector between 2023-2025. It's Wes Streeting. Our Health Secretary. £179,575🚨

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Something daft from my cartoon archive.

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It takes an average of 9.5 years to get a diagnosis of bipolar in the UK. If you want an ADHD assessment in Wales, there’s a 7 year waiting list. 10% of those still waiting for a 2nd contact in adult mental health services have been waiting at least 116 weeks. But tell me again about overdiagnosis

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A tale of good and awful at last night's #lifedrawing group. You can't win 'em all. 😜😳🤦🏻

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