That is extraordinarily evocative! Haven’t seen it for decades but it’s vividly recalled as soon as I saw it just now. It was fascinating and frightening in equal measure
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That is extraordinarily evocative! Haven’t seen it for decades but it’s vividly recalled as soon as I saw it just now. It was fascinating and frightening in equal measure
Hoist by my own petard this morning … ring the bell (once) and the bus goes straight past my stop.
Notice on bus headlined “Give us a ding, ding!” And text then starts “Ring the bell once as we approach your bus stop …”
Great headline for their “ring the bell once” message #stagecoach
An advert for digging with the pen: an introduction to garden writing. A workshop day on 22 April at the Cambridge University Botanic Garden. Run by Nic Wilson, £80
Do you enjoy writing about plants and gardens? Would you like to join me for the day at @cubotanicgarden.bsky.social to explore different styles of #gardenwriting and to find inspiration in the beautiful botanic gardens?
Tickets still available here: www.botanic.cam.ac.uk/education-le...
Truck was taking away an early draft of a Two Ronnies sketch.
You may be a little further south … :)
Poster advertising the Saturday 16 May 2026 concert for Doncaster Choral Society of Brahms German Requiem
Our final concert of the 2025-26 season is on Saturday 16 May when we perform Brahms German Requiem. Tickets here wegottickets.com/event/695997
You suffer so we can enjoy the UK at its finest. Thanks for your service
They are particularly striking this year. Maybe prolonged rain then sudden burst of warmth are good conditions for them :)
The Camellia in St Catherine’s House courtyard is looking particularly fine this year #doncaster
Light Emitting Tea Ode: a poem about your cuppa so bright it lights up the room
My partner’s cousin is in the NCO. Great recording - thanks!
Spring bulbs and flowers in the woodland around the Walled Garden this morning #doncaster
Thank you! He always strikes me as a chancer who in 10 years time will be on some other attention-seeking path away from politics. And I’m amazed (some) other people find him credible.
Seven-volume first album: A La Recherche Des Amps Perdus
And it was only a very few days …
Still got a few days left to pop on your Peter Mandelson one though
They’ve clearly arrested Benjamin Netanyahu by mistake, fooled by his Prince Andrew tabard
Based on my extensive movie knowledge, they’ve released him so they can tail him to a lockup off the A149 where he keeps all the really incriminating evidence in some cardboard boxes.
Possibly the most honest thing Jenrick has said
Nugget looks a little green there
They are both suffering from twatparent
Rowley is definitely on the RHS Board
And you also have to already hold a £140 Chelsea entry ticket to then pay more to partake of these fine comestibles. Funnily enough I didn’t include “hyper-expensive opportunities to get pissed on endless champagne” jn my answer on effective outreach strategies for public gardens
Thanks - I am not but will check it out. I have no doubt that some (many?) RHS staff dislike this side of the business. But the contrast been professed values and the corporate reality they play into is stomach-turning (for me)
Breakfast for £70
Lunch for £126
Something unbearable to do for the afternoon with loaded wankers who know nothing about horticulture £300
AI generated slop describing something which is as socially exclusive and environmentally unsustainable as possible
Just completed my RHS Level 3 unit 2 exam last week. Key overarching themes in their exams now include social and environmental sustainability. Questions included how public gardens can best engage with local communities and hard to reach groups. Meanwhile at RHS Chelsea …
It’s a lovely sight on this west facing wall as the sun shines in from the east in the morning. That’s the shadow of the right hand tree here looking east - an Acer platanoides (the other is A. negundo)
Opening up the walled garden on a chill but sunny morning #doncaster
Tiny bright yellow flowers in clusters on bare branches.
🌱 #SundayYellow
Gorgeous Cornus mas flowering in Wisley’s Hilltop Wildlife garden last Sunday. I think my morning of volunteering is going to be quiet because the rain is back after yesterday’s brief respite.
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