Life & Times

Blue sky at 6:30 this morning #FridayPhoto πŸ“·


A small waterfall I spotted while out walking the dog.

iPhone 11, processed in On1 Photo RAW 2022 πŸ“·


This photo says it all ⚽️


Currently reading: The Larmenius Inheritance by John Paul Davis πŸ“š


Currently reading: Buried by Alice Roberts πŸ“š


I’ve written a rule to move any email with “Black Friday” in the subject field to the bin…..


Peppa Pig and prolonged pauses – it is, I think, time to start worrying about the prime minister.

At the end of this speech, in an interview with ITV, the interviewer, having watched the speech, and gauged the audience’s reaction, saw fit to pose the following question: β€œIs everything OK, prime minister?”

Read more on The Independent

boris & peppa pig

Listening to Raise The Roof, the new album from Robert Plant and Alison Krauss. the long-awaited follow-up from Raising Sand. 🎢

Listen on Spotify.


Just listened to the brilliant new album from Elbow called Flying Dream 1.🎢

Buy a copy from Elbow’s store or listen on Apple Music.


Mark Barrow has spent thirty years filming underwater clips that document the state of Britain’s rivers and streams. In the last twenty years, he has seen the percentage of UK waterways classified as healthy drop from over 90% to less than 15%. Now, as water companies are effectively granted free licence to pump sewage directly into rivers, he says he has witnessed whole stretches of water completely devoid of life. View his report on YouTube


Perhaps the country is finally about to see through Boris Johnson. Everyone does in the end.

Boris Johnson is the prime minister of a country that is a genuine world leader on carbon reduction. And here he was, covering the arses of the countries that deliberately sabotaged Cop26, for no reason beyond his own juvenile boosterism.

Read the full article on the Independent


Dramatic sky when out walking the dog this morning.

dramatic sky across fields

iPhone 11, Lightroom app, processed in Lightroom Classic πŸ“·


Leave Boris Johnson alone – this exotic creature is Labour’s greatest asset | The Independent

slippery slope

Listening to The Future from Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats. 🎢


Starmer suggests PM is using Brexit fights to distract from other areas.

β€œThere’s a little bit of me, Andrew, I am afraid that can’t help think that the prime minister is constantly trying to pick a fight on things like this so he hopes people don’t look elsewhere in the forest, which are things like the Owen Paterson affair.”