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When your cousin takes you to his secret porcini picking spot...

My hometown looking it's best on this grey foggy day.

I'm home in time for the lupins this year and they are glorious.

Appropriate reading for my journey home, and highly recommend!

Having a tough day? Feel as though your swear repertoire needs an update? Like whales? Watch this.

This is my new favourite whale sighting video. I'm not sure if anything will ever top it. I also know that this is almost verbatim what I'd be saying if my small fishing boat was surrounded by a pod of orcas. Filmed in bonavista Bay, Newfoundland, a few days ago. www.facebook.com/share/v/1E29...

Congratulations to my PhD student @loladickinson.bsky.social on passing with no corrections! Her PhD, 'Sex work, public health & activism at the height of Britain's HIV/AIDS crisis' is an immensely important intervention in the history of sex work & of HIV/AIDS & is an absolute tour de force. 🎉

Kid the Younger, watching Chris Packham hold a strange breathing land-fish on Evolution: I want a pet. I want that.

I call this series "Green Things; Waiting".

Do non-migrants have any idea how *utterly terrifying* it is for those who have IDL in the UK; have built a life here, have British kids & forged a sense of love & belonging to be bombarded with news that a sizeable % of the population & government want to be able to take that away & deport us?

No matter what happens today, this week, this year... A kingfisher still landed on my head.

I'm wondering what it means when a kingfisher lands on your head. Because I was just sitting eating breakfast with the patio door open. AND A KINGFISHER FLEW IN AND LANDED ON MY HEAD.

The correct term for attempting to get the stench of Axe Body Spray out of your teenager's possessions is 'de-axescentioning'.

Glorious in every language.

Blackbird says: the late bird also gets the worm.

IF YOU FUCKING WHAT?

Someone bought an old shoreside property in my parent's town in Newfoundland. They rebuilt it three stories high & painted it a hideous shade of purple, blocking the view of everyone in the cove. Now it's on Air BnB for £2300 a week. As we say back home: May the Lord God spoil all their fish.

They don't deserve the F. Let the government know.

We've known for a while that trans exclusionary radicals (I've decided they don't deserve the F) don't speak for the majority of women; and that the majority of people see these policies as cruel, unworkable, and against human rights. So let's prove it. Sign and support: goodlawproject.org/s/d23a8a

I stand with trans people | Good Law Projectgoodlawproject.org

A colourful day at the allotment, with wild plums, white currants, beetroot, broccoli and pointed cabbage in my end-of-work bouquet.