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Walked round to the coop, sun is shining, bees out. An hour later, sleet, hailstones & snow!
REVEIL 2026. I’ve just set up my page for this year’s Reveil broadcast. The Reveil broadcast will again make a full loop of the earth over the Dawn Chorus Day weekend in May 2026.We welcome new and established streamers to join in assembling a sequence of live sounds starting near the 0 meridian at daybreak […]
Zoë Hitzig the whistleblower tells all Observer 29-03-2026 seems to be hind a pay wall? I read in the paper. A poets view of AI risks.
AI got the blame for the Iran school bombing. The truth is far more worrying -Kevin T Baker – Guardian 28 March 2026. Lots more worry about in this article, but this jumped out.
Read: Lean Stand Fall by Jon McGregor ★★★★★ 📚 ‘ You want, Robert said, 'you want, wok?' He was leaning towards Wiktor and Rachel, his voice loud and clear. Wok, wok, you want to work again?" Wiktor and the dancers all looked at him and shrugged once more, and Robert shrugged in return. He looked […]
A raven flew through the trees and circled above. on each loop diving, folding & twisting in a relaxed, effortless way, despite the speed.
Spring this morning was followed by sleet and the some hail in the afternoon.
Read: The Oerfect Golden Circle by Benjamin Myers ★★★★ 📚 The Battle was the Battle of the Beanfield in 1985, at which Redbone was a more than willing partici-pant, and a subject that Calvert has frequently indulged his friend in over the intervening years but which he has little desire to hear repeated now, or […]
I’ve been trying out my.wordpress.net and can see some interesting parallels with my all time favourite software HyperCard.
Rather a blurry photo, but the first peacock butterfly of the year for me. Saw quite a few on the Greenside Reservoir track this afternoon. A warm day, bumble bees flying.
An afternoon walk round the Kilpatrick braes yesterday. Warm and sunny, occasionally clouding over.Egrets, Opposite-leaved golden-saxifrage, lesser celandine, the first primroses of 2026. 5 ravens flew low and fast overhead two pairs twisting together wings loud. A few stonechats on the Muir.
