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Old enough to know we should know better. Scribe-ish. Socialist. Dogfather to five. Pro-wildlife denizen of the sticks. Gradually grounding. Is Trump really the best we can do? Comments IMHHO. DMs are OFF – I’ve all I need, thanks all the same.
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13th April, 1742, George Frideric Handel's oratorio "Messiah" is performed for the first time at the New Music Hall in Dublin

Generally unimpressed ... #Pareidolia

Friday Finnish! Berndt Lindholm (Finnish painter) 1841 - 1914 View of the Kattegat, 1890 oil on canvas 71 x 48 cm. Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, Sweden Attended school of Finnish Art Society studying with Robert Wilhelm Ekman. went to Academy of Arts in Karlsruhe for a year to study with Hans Gude.

@rodemmerson.bsky.social Cartoon by Rod Emmerson.

At the shops From a tree Next to me, A sparrow dropped a fruit gum. It was an orange one. Funny that, I never liked the orange gums.

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Security camera footage (IR); Temp 5c; wind direction NE (no breeze); no cloud; no fog; no precipitation. "Objects" moving from SW not visible by torchlight. Partial video clip. #Fairies #Sprites #Spirits #WillOTheWisps #Ectoplasm #Dust #Insects #UFOs #HighStrangeness #wtf

And this year Trump is 79, so let's update Jimmy Kimmel's list - how about: President Slump Your turn ... lamag.com/celebrity/re...

Count down to my favourite & most spectacular natural phenomenon, visiting my local ancient woodland to see carpets of bluebells, from late April to mid May each year. Fleeting, magical. (Find your nearest via the Woodland Trust) 📸 Credit: Edward Allistone allist.one #trees #nature #photography

Still a way to go ... #Landscape #Photography

UK petitione: Please sign to ban fossil fuel advertising and sponsorship petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Lisa Rothstein. #NewYorkerCartoons nyer.cm/QAnwGsj

NDAs can silence victims of abuse & harassment. Let's change this! Sign the petition to ensure the Employment Rights Bill bans NDAs in cases of misconduct. #StopAbusiveNDAs #EmploymentRightsBill you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...

I met a little mouse enjoying the bluebells and a Bakewell tart in the woods today.

The U.S. House of Representatives voted Thursday to pass the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act, a major voter suppression measure that, if it became law, could disenfranchise millions of eligible voters and badly undermine U.S. democracy. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

#Tariffs #WhiteHouse

Has the American Republic become a protection racket?

Ministers should listen to a powerful message from 32 nature organisations: the Planning Bill rides roughshod over nature protection, could push species towards extinction & cause greater loss of precious green space. Nature & development can go hand in hand - but this one-sided Bill isn’t the way

What on earth did they get up to in the old days? #Railway #History

Don't know about you, but I need to see a hamster in a highchair dressed as Sooty and eating a blueberry.