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Recent Reads: International Rescue Technical Operations Manual. Like the rest of Anderson Entertainment's illustrated volumes, this has the conceit of being an in-universe book, guiding new agents through the machines and people of Thunderbirds. Mainly machines, of course. A gorgeous, hefty read.

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #EgretsAndHerons, any egret or heron will do. The alt is #Yellow, any bird with yellow as part of its plumage. Do this little egret's yellow feet count as a twofer, exploring rockpools at St Catherine's on Jersey? #birds #birding #wildlifephotography #jersey #egret

Recent Reads: Slow Gods. Claire North's space opera is a fascinating read. FTL kills pilots, driving them mad. But one survives, not quite of this world. A supernova kills worlds and civilisations, but North focuses on little moments in the pilot's journey, the love that drives all and builds gods.

Recent Reads: The Scarab Mission. James L. Cambias' Billion Worlds is a posthuman far-future mundane SF solar system, where travel remains slow and expensive. But there is still scope for adventure, in tales like this one of scavengers in a dead habitat uncovering dark secrets - some of them theirs.

Wait. Dave Stewart and Barbara Gaskin did a cover of Thomas Dolby's Leipzig? This I have to hear... <later> It's not bad. Which of course now makes Dolby at the very least Hatfield and the North adjacent.

This time the Torment Nexus is Vernor Vinge's Rainbows End (which is a must read for anyone living through these times). However in Vernor's book, the books were being destructively scanned to become a searchable public archive as part of a university library.

Well that was painless. Our new ISP completed the migration yesterday; today I swapped out the username and password on the router and we are back online!

Whilst I was off on the beach, Marsh dropped another of his outdoor live deep sets, this time from a canal boat crossing the beautiful Pontcysyllte Aqueduct. Gorgeous scenery and music in harmony. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ryii...

Marsh DJ Set - Live From Pontcysyllte Aqueduct, Wales, UKYouTube video by Marshwww.youtube.com

Today's #BirdoftheDay theme is #YourChoice. A black-headed gull flies along the edge of St Clement's Bay on a summer day, near Green Island. #birds #birding #wildlifephotography #jersey #gull

The Isle Of Browgn.

Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #MultiColour, birds with 3 or more colours in their plumage. From near East Grinstead in June, a Eurasian Goldfinch sits on a wire. #birds #birding #wildlifephotography #eastgrinstead #goldfinch

Another medal for Jersey's Filip Nowacki, this time gold in the 200m breaststroke! www.bbc.co.uk/sport/live/c...

Commonwealth Games 2026 LIVE: Glasgow - live text updates, results, medal tableFollow live text updates, scores, results, medal table on day five of the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.www.bbc.co.uk

Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme: #EmeraldBackdrop – Images where the background colour is green. A pair of black-headed gulls over Jersey's emerald seas, where the Côte d'Emeraud meets La Manche... #birds #birding #wildlifephotography #jersey #gull

Had a last swim for this trip home; it’s back to the big city tomorrow.

I see Jersey is really Gondor. (Le Scez, on the north-east corner of the island) #landscapephotography #jersey

In Christopher Nolan's Odyssey, could they afford the duck or did they have to have the chicken?

So when did the lyrics of the first verse in Downes Braide Association's song Machinery of Fate change from "Perhaps a power greater than us decides who rides the omnibus" to "Perhaps a power greater than us decides who rides and who gets off"?

OG Librarians in action!

A little egret fishing in rock pools at St Catherine's. #birds #birding #wildlifephotography #jersey #egret

And a man who inspired many of us with his love of birds.