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Bleating the averages 🐏. Intermittently functional programmer & aspiring Old Git. ❤️ Mountains and non-Tory life forms. Dreams of a future in which GDP is supplanted by Gross Global Wellbeing. Humanist. Green. 💚 Please join a union. 💪
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Drifts of Wood Anemone (Anemone nemorosa) at #WoodlandTrust The Mores, #WildEssex #WildFlowerHour

Mmmmm, petrichor.

BREAKING: Centrists are extremely proud to nationalise British Steel because that idea was only bad when Jeremy Corbyn wanted to do it x

One of Britain's rarest plants, with only two mainland sites - sand crocus, Romulea columnae. Flowers only open for a few hours in the afternoon, and then only if it's sunny! #wildflowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social

Early Forget-me-not in flower in East Sussex this week #wildflowerhour

Viola riviniana, common dog violet #WildflowerHour 🌱🌿📷 #Bloomscrolling #EastCoastKin

I miss Frank.

Hmmm - these two seem strangely familiar... 😉

Stop selling arms to the UAE then.

'Columbia Road Flower Seller, Bethnal Green' (2004) by Ed Gray edgrayart.com

Gecko corner

It’s dangerous to go alone, take this

Like delicate cherry blossoms dancing in the spring breeze, our time here is beautiful but brief. Why waste these precious moments building walls when we could be building bridges? Let's pause, breathe deeply, and allow joy to bloom in our hearts like flowers reaching for the sun.

First damselfly of the year, a female Banded Demoiselle at @ladywalknr.bsky.social @britishdragonflies.bsky.social #dragonflies

Cooking some home-grown produce tonight... Dryad's Saddle. 😶 #fungifriends

I often take tour groups to the wonderful ruins at Jarlshof but I love to go in the evening, when it is quiet, to feel the stories of the stones #Shetland

#NowPlaying Still trapped in the kitchen with only CDs to hand. I adore this. Could someone please let BBC 6 Music know that he made many other great songs other than Fantastic Man.

Latest painting. ‘The Bohemian’s Bolthole’ Oil and acrylic on canvas (80 x 100cm)

WE'VE GROWN OUR FIRST TREE FOR THE SKIDDAW FOREST PROJECT! 😍🌳 Ok, she's not big…but one day she'll hopefully be mighty! 💪 Want to be a part of this incredible journey? Donate now to help us fund the first phase of this amazing project – we've nearly reached our target ⬇️ bit.ly/SkiddawFores...

This is high art

The earliest surviving animated feature, and a stop-motion masterpiece From: The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926), dir. Lotte Reiniger

Buttermere reflections

The gate into Avalon Orchard in Glastonbury. Photo taken this morning.

#resist #resistance #harriettubman

I'd sooner own a Tom Keating "Sexton Blake" than any number of AI pastiches.

The economy is not everything.

#NowPlaying I have a theory that instrumental albums or those sung in a language that you don't understand take longer to reveal themselves or get bored with. I have probably played this everyday for about a month, yet it still hasn't given up all its secrets. This is probably a 10/10 album for me.

Control panel of the day #HCI

I kind of want to go

Two of my favourite activists

Smooch

A babby

Another photo of Kirkjusandur from my April 2023 trip to #Iceland - this time with that superb mountain showing.

It's amazing what you can achieve if you have no morals.