Lost Penguin

Happy Diwali! In certain situations we're always children to our parents!

Delightful! You get an excellent 'how you got into this hobby story' along with your fun new hobby! (Need to get you the book binding equivalent of those 'i knit so I don't kill people' signs for your workspace/office though!)

Ooft, I mean Bong Joon Ho did make a banging little monster movie (The Host) nearly 20 years ago which I still love and recommend but then I'm not doing a Korean culture course & would expect my course mates to have/want more obscure recs than something 'won an oscar' famous.

Ensemble Barbican – Anno in the Round

A couple of years ago, having seen a particularly excellent gig by the Scottish Ensemble, I treated myself to one of their albums, Anno on vinyl, which turned out to be a reimagining of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons that they commissioned from Anna Meredith for the…

BBC Arts - BBC Arts, Anno: Scottish Ensemble and Anna Meredith's Vivaldi variations Behind the scenes of a multi-media reimagining of The Four Seasons

A lovely mini documentary about a wondeful piece of music. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...

This bird came back from extinction - now scientists in an aircraft are teaching it to migrate Extinct in central Europe for 300 years, 36 northern bald ibis are following an ultralight aircraft on their long-forgotten migration route from Austria to Spain

Small Victories: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Guilty as charged. I have seen a lot of Helsinki's art noveau architecture - the train station in particular is still stunning - but to see it in full historical context! I'd take that as a recommendation to see the film all by itself!

Hits from the bong: music obsessives rescue the sound of Spain’s ancient bells For centuries bells were the fastest means of communication, calling people to meetings, warning about wildfires, and were even believed to offer protection from storms – now they are being given a ne...

Hits from the bong: music obsessives rescue the sound of Spain’s ancient bells 🔔

www.theguardian.com/music/2025/s...

Sgrìn – A Gaelic Film Festival

There was a mini film festival on at Eden Court the other weekend, not only that, but it was a Gaelic film festival, which is doubly relevant to my interests. Even better, it was scheduled for a weekend when I wasn’t working - not even on the Friday night - so I was…

I use the word occasionally and it's variants more than occasionally and yet I can never remember if it's got two cs and an s or two s's and a c, or two of both!

I do notice from other people's answers that words that might have more than one set of double consonants do seeme to trip people up.

Well that was a delightful flashback, thank you! 😃

Delicious! Such a satisfying task! I made my first attempt at jam making yesterday - plum and apple, one of my knitting ladies had a glut and was handing out bags of them - not as pretty as yours but mostly I was just happy it set!

brings a whole new meaning to negotiating a pelican crossing on the commute...

I finally got to visit your museum ship last month! It was so cool to see round it in person after hearing you talk about it when you worked there! (It's berthed next to 'my' museum - my first industry job after uni, working on the A/V displays there - these days which delights me!)

Not a dry eye in the house at the end there!

Look at these gorgeous autumnal colours. So much of colour in menswear seems to be either muted to the point of looking washed out or like, luminous brights. Nice to see something where the colours look warm.

Celestial scene in THE ADVENTURES OF PRINCE ACHMED (1926), the earliest surviving full-length animated feature

Jupiter Artland

Jupiter Artland is one of those arts locations that I somehow didn’t know existed when I actually lived close enough to visit regularly. Or if I knew it existed I didn’t realise where it was - I think I’d conflated it with Northumberlandia, or the Yorkshire Sculpture Park - so when…

That I can remember, was either Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas by Jules Verne or Children of Morrow by HM Hoover, both when I was about ten. Prior to that I was much more into Fantasy and Folklore inspired stories.

🎉😃 thanks!

A water feature built of large metal nautilus shells stands in a walled garden in front of an old doocot.

Land art made of curving and ridges hills covered in grass, interspersed with shallow pools reflecting the dramatic sky above.

One of the channels that feed the pools in the previous picture. A hydrophone sits in the flow recording the burbling of the mini waterfall formed there, it's cable hanging down through the left of the shot.

Looking up at blue sky with fluffy clouds through the metal hexagons of the artwork firmament.

Took my recorder on a wee birthday adventure to Jupiter Artland. Saw lots of cool art and managed to get some cool recordings too!

Aww happy birthday @natlibscot.bsky.social I'm weirdly delighted to discover I share my birthday with them!

Happy birthday! What an excellent present for you!

Happy birthday tiny dragon! (She's 5!! What even is time?!)

And so you should be! I've really enjoyed seeing all your photos this month - you've a really good eye for photo composition!

Delightful!

Boo that you're stuck in hospital, but those are lovely photos.

Brings a whole new subtext to 'death by chocolate' cake...

Knee Deep in the Firth: A Hydrophone Adventure

The other day, I found myself standing, knee-deep, in the Moray Firth watching dolphins leap and play while listening to them whistle and click through my hydrophone. (I made some rather high-pitched noises of delight of my own too.) When I’d planned…

An highly adventurous slug there!