A Norman arch doorway with original intricate ironwork.

The West door, All Saints', Bakewell, Derbyshire
The ironwork on this door is almost certainly original and is stunning within the Norman arch.
#NoContextDoors #DailyDoor #adoorablethursday

Is it the weekend yet?

Surely he’ll be guaranteed the Nobel War Prize now!?

“We made all the cars”
10% increase in global tariffs.

'Smiling' fossil discovered in Northumberland The unusual looking fossil is estimated to be a few hundred million years old dating to the Carboniferous period.

The identification of a 'smiling' object found on Holy Island in Northumberland has been confirmed by BGS senior paleontologist Jan Hennissen.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Oh my!

A small wooden door stands beneath a series of older archways. The oldest dating to Saxon times.

The Saxon Door!

All Saints - Laughton en le Morthen, South Yorks.

#AdoorableThursday

Two shrouded bodies sit atop this tomb. Beautifully carved and situated in front of the church organ.

The rather interesting and unusual Beresford Tomb, St Edmund’s Church, Fenny Bentley, Derbs.
Both Thomas and his wife Agnes depicted within their burial shrouds.
Not spooky at all.

#TombTuesday

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A large pockmarked rock, bejewelled with lichen, stands at the start of a curve of similar rocks. Each different size and shape, they curve away forming part of a much larger stone circle. A small track, worn into the damp grass follows the curve of these ancient stones.

A few of The King’s Men, Rollright.
Described by Stukeley as being “corroded like worm eaten wood, by the harsh jaws of time”

#StandingStoneSunday

February brings us closer to the return of bumblebees – you might be lucky enough to see some this month 🤞

Bumblebee queens emerge from hibernation in spring. Keep your eyes peeled this month for early emerging Tree and Buff-tailed bumblebees 👀

Have you spotted your first bumblebee of 2026?

Want to help nature in Sheffield but not sure where to start? Nature Recovery Sheffield is a free programme from Sheffield & Rotherham Wildlife Trust, helping people take simple actions for wildlife at home and in their community.
Find out more👇
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The UK Govt's are ending the Listed Places of Worship Grant Scheme, that covered the whole UK, replacing it with a scheme for England alone.

We've had a look at some of the data they used to justify change and blogged on what it means for Scotland 👇
www.scotlandschurchestrust.org.uk/blog/listed-...

Country diary: There’s a hard, ancient pleasure to laying a hedge | Michael White Cranbrook, Kent: I have a stretch of leggy hawthorn that needs attention, so I head out into the cold with my axe and billhook

A deep please of landscape custodianship, if only our farming community wanted andcwere enabled to do this, our landscapes would be so much healthier.

Land boundaries are our largest and most neglected form of archaeological monument

A battered and well weathered door with broken panels blocks the entrance to a C19th building made with local honey coloured limestone- which has turned grey away from the doorway.

The entrance to St Kenelm’s Well, near Winchcombe, Gloucestershire
#AdoorableThursday

Cremation pyre in Africa thought to be world’s oldest containing adult remains 9,500-year-old pyre uncovered in Malawi offers rare insight into rituals of ancient African hunter-gatherer groups A cremation pyre built about 9,500 years ago has been discovered in Africa, offering a fresh glimpse into the complexity of ancient hunter-gatherer communities. Researchers say the pyre, discovered in a rock shelter at the foot of Mount Hora in northern Malawi, is thought to be the oldest in the world to contain adult remains, the oldest confirmed intentional cremation in Africa, and the first pyre to be associated with African hunter-gatherers. Continue reading...

Cremation pyre in Africa thought to be world’s oldest containing adult remains

leaflet showing the outside of Victoria Hall, including the wildlife garden. Text reads: office space available, with a list of what is included.

This shows the back of the leaflet. text reads: Looking for Office space? This is a rare opportunity to rent a bright spacious room in a unique Victorian building with access to a beautiful wildlife garden.

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Part of our 2025 Advent Calendar, a black and white line drawing showing my version of Bigfoots wearing wintery clothes and bearing various wrapped Christmas presents.

Every year we make a free-to-download-and-print-off-yourself colouring-in Advent Calendar. This year’s heavily features Bigfoots. Please share!
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A beautiful start for our first DLL ponds of the season.
Helping the Great Created Newts at Woodhouse Washlands, #Sheffield
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@naturalengland.bsky.social

A wasp spider hanging in its web.

Dark Peak Wasp

A wise and fruitful mission; worthy of the investment of time and adventure.

A 3 light window sits within a few walled recess. Each window is decorated with the same recurring geometric pattern.

An altar sits below a 3 light window. The walls are tiled to half height with blue tiles that contrast with the stained glass window and the altar cloth.

Llanbadrig, Ynys Môn
Kind of Blue.
Simple.
#StainedGlassSunday

A large standing stone emerges from a grassy meadow. There are areas of green around the stone where the grass has been cut. The rest is tall and brown, over ripening in the bright sunlight. The bright blue sky trails into the distance.

Tŷ Mawr, Ynys Môn
Likely Bronze Age, now amidst a strange encroaching hinterland of development and dead bales of silage.
#StandingStoneSunday

It’s proper chonky!

A large and chunky grey limestone block - capstone, sits atop a row of shorter vertical stones. These and darkness obscure the chamber within. This burial chamber sits in a green field.

Lligwy Burial Chamber, Ynys Môn
Late Neo with a rather chunky 25 ton capstone. #tombtuesday

This image shows an item entry on a bank statement. The amount spent has been rendered illegible. The purchase was made from a fantastic company called All Things Analogue. Sadly, the bank statement has removed the last four letters!!

Super service and the best packaging I’ve had in years from @allthingsanalogue.co.uk
I just hope my mum doesn’t see my bank statement 😳😂

That’s pretty hilarious 🤣

I certainly don’t envy you.
Maize is a mare!

How entry fees took over Britain’s countryside Growing stretches of the English countryside are “falling behind a paywall,” campaigners warn as national parks grapple with drastic funding cuts.

Growing stretches of the countryside are falling behind a paywall.

Lewis Winks, of @righttoroam.bsky.social “From entry fees for historically open parks, to pay-for-permission wild camping and river swimming, the paywalling of the countryside is quietly shutting the public out."

Sunlight cascades through a three light perpendicular stained glass window. The colourful religious scene backlights a large teddy bear that sits upon a display table positioned beneath the window.

What a perp‽
St Nicholas, High Bradfield, Sth York’s.
#StainedGlassSunday