Julia Laite

Luckily, chanterelles are virtually impossible to mistake for another mushroom unless you are stupid, or plotting a murder.

A sea of chanterelles dry on a counter top

Not bad for an hour's work this early in the season!

A bakery window invites you to try their famous Salt fish cakes

In a world that is getting worse in so many ways, I am happy to report that the Rocket Bakery's salt fish cakes are as good as they have ever been, and possibly better.

Yes! I thought i would like to print it large format but think it might make me dizzy!

Thank yooooo

Dewberries gleam in the green

A perfect green frog pokes his head above the water between two boards.

Along my bush whack today I found dewberry, the most secretive fruit of the boreal forest, which look like shiny jelly-cast raspberries. And another dewy friend! It was totally worth falling in a bog for.

A woman with red hair a green vest looks out over the water from a cliffside.

A Julia in her natural habitat.

Beautiful Tickle Cove, where the sea carves castles and the ocean paints the beaches with seaweed.

A child's face blurs with the frozen gaze of an extinct taxidermied wolf in the glass of a museum display

While photographing the only complete Newfoundland wolf skin in the world-wolves that were driven to extinction by white settlers in the early twentieth century-I accidentally captured my son as well. It's a fitting juxtaposition. My darling may your future be filled with wolves and wild things yet.

It's clearly Lindseys Lohan and I've missed a chance to get it right.

Home is the sailor, home from the sea
And the hunter home from the hill.

Just saw The Parent Trap for the first time, hostage to limited in-flight films. Dear God, what a fucked up thing to do to children.

Then Natasha Richardson says 'how could you do this to me girls?' when she discovers their secret plot & I'm screaming 'How could YOU do THAT to Lindsay Lohans?!'

They are! Once plentiful, they are Britain's most endangered mammal. I've walked or cycle this path near daily, always looking, for 8 years, but this is only the third time I've ever seen one!

For higher wages and full employment support ches crosbie vote responsible for economic union with the USA don't sell your country and don't give Labrador to Canada vote responsibile

In one of those classic 'What If' moments, here is a campaign poster from the Newfoundland referendum of 1948, and might have chosen responsible government with an economic union with the USA; rather than joining Canada as a province...

A water vole! A chestnut brown perfect water vole!

Omg omg omg I spent five whole minutes with this water vole today. It was chilling on its feeding platform, eating grass in its tiny hands. Then it swam! I'm completely beside myself.

Blessed by Vole

About half way up snaky path!

A water vole! A chestnut brown perfect water vole!

Omg omg omg I spent five whole minutes with this water vole today. It was chilling on its feeding platform, eating grass in its tiny hands. Then it swam! I'm completely beside myself.

I agree; but I think it's important to put that in context with the very limited access to honest information a lot of the public are getting. As in, despite a concerted misinformation/silence campaign, led in part by the leading state broadcaster, 55% of the public STILL oppose it.

We are being collectively gaslit by the genocide-complicit Labour government. The British people overwhelmingly know what they are seeing.

The full statement in the news.

‘The UN-led humanitarian system has not failed, it has been prevented from functioning.

Humanitarian agencies have the capacity and supplies to respond at scale. But, with access denied, we are blocked from reaching those in need…’

www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

I've given up. I'll bide my time here, pay my taxes, love my neighbours, volunteer and try to do my part, and then I'll leave. I've long since decided there is no future where I feel truly welcome in the UK. I can't imagine what someone who is a more visible minority immigrant must feel.

I see I've been lumped in with 'deprivation' & a sinister iteration of 'time spent online' by someone theoretically to the left in what is meant to be a socially progressive party.

So I'm happy to say that this immigrant won't be polluting Britain's shores for five whole weeks, starting Friday.

It's like reefer madness but significantly less fun

This whole disastrous rebranding takes on a more pleasant tone if you picture the marketing team all getting nice and baked on cannabis before spitballing their ideas.

'Warwick man, it's like, totally beyond man. Like, I can't even.'

Seriously though is this back in the zeitgeist or are these kids actually nostalgic gen xers in disguise?

A bunch of teenagers, one of whom is mine, just invaded my house and kicked me out so they can watch the hot new film... (wait for it) Stand By Me.

I just checked and this isn't the case in Canada, which introduced a booster/top up programme in 1996 and 1997 (so THAT'S what that jab I got in school was!). But in the UK, if you were born between 1970 and 1990, you might need a top up MMR vaccine.

I am the wind beneath my wings.

Look forward to hearing more!