An excellent, illuminating piece by Attracta Mooney. One takeaway: eliminating fossil fuel subsidies alone would almost pay for the costly transition to a green global economy. ft.com/content/6873d9…

The day before killed at Battle of Dysert O'Dea (10 May 1318), Richard de Clare saw a woman in white on the river’s edge washing bloody clothing & armour. When he asked whose clothes they were, she said, “yours” & then vanished! Banshee? foretelling his death! #folklore

I saw a man about to board the DART when he suddenly flitted off and disappeared. He returned with his arm around an older woman who'd had a wobble and patted her reassuringly as she found a seat. I love these scenes where people care for strangers. What a gentleman. #DARTLIFE

Today wherever you are, I'm back rummaging through the undergrowth where I found this wonderful Vetch ( well, me and the Aphids). Name currently being researched! Vicia, Peasair (éigin).

Fascinating latest episodes. We non-classicists really have no idea about life in the Roman Empire. Mary Beard puts flesh on the marble and bones.

10 May: St Mo Sinóc of Cluain Caichni/Cainchne on R Barrow. 2nd longest Irish river. 1 of 7 rivers of knowledge said to flow from Connla's Well! Berbha=to boil; god of healing slew 3 serpents in heart of The Morrígan's son! Threw them into it causing it to boil 📷©Humphrey Bolton

My wife and I are currently in Japan. She 'accidentally' found herself in the beauty section of a Japanese Department Store. What follows is a series of puns I would say out loud to myself as I saw products with weird names whilst I was following her around. You're welcome.

Very moving

No Ladybird tweet this evening. I’m at the preview evening of my exhibition, St Albans Museum
Opens tomorrow. Free entry 😊
It’s looking great! St Albans Museums

Since his early Impressionist paintings in the 1880s, John Lavery had been fascinated by the effects of sunlight falling through trees onto water and creating fugitive, dappled effects, but it was only in 1913 (the year of this picture) he first succumbed to the charms of the…

Today’s garden delights:
Combinations of colour & textures I feel are looking great

Thomas Dugdale Cantrell's 'The Arrival of the Jarrow Marchers in London, Viewed from an Interior,' (1936) was painted in the same year as he was made an Associate of the Royal Academy - 207 unemployed men began a near 300 mile march to London to protest against the poverty…

09-05-24
84 x 59cm
#drawing #charcoal #crochet #blanket #thelivingroom

Happy 90th Birthday to our favourite customer of all time, Alan Bennett

Early stroll. A row of garage doors in shades of blue. A car passes, packed with laughing faces. That almost derelict house shows off its new windows. An olfactory whisper from the muckspread fields. A discarded red ribbon like a DIY sunrise.

Ian McMillan Through the gate.

chicadee Peter Lythgoe Claire est limpide 🇪🇺#FBPPR#FBPA🐕 #ToriesOut Ian McMillan Stephen Kerr @jonstackpool.bsky.social Judy neverfadingwood 🇺🇦 @[email protected] Alastair Smith Anne Sleath Vickster Paul Swallow Lynda Oldfield Somnambulation. A very strange towpath find, a stone - but marking what? a grave - to a number three? possibly? the third what I wonder - a number one was an owner operator on the cut - is there a link?
I wonder...

I've been lucky with my art collaborators in all the group projects I've worked on, but this did make me laugh

Early stroll. An empty chair in a garden implies a narrative. Two pigeons land on my brother’s car. The cockerel’s ancient oral epic, handed down each morning. The ritual of the first bus turning at the corner. I imagine each swooping bird trailing coloured ribbons.

A hasty shop bought bunch done with one eye on the snooker, what a wonderful tournament it’s been.