Guernsey Tom

Looking towards Start Point lighthouse with an easterly swell #Devon #coast #autumn

#bantham evening #devon #southhams # autumn

#dartmoor #openspaces #autumn

A graphic reporting: fewest homicides in London since monthly records began. The number of homicides in London between January to September 2025 is the lowest in the first 9 months of any year since monthly records began in 2003.

Some politicians and commentators continue to denigrate London and talk our great city down, but the facts show a very different picture.

The number of homicides in London in the first nine months of 2025 was lower than in any year since monthly records began 22 years ago.

View from a high bluff overlook of a rocky coastline where green foliage covered mountains meet a gray beach and the ocean with white-crested waves. The sky is a cloudy blue overhead.

Where the mountains meet the ocean!
I’m an uphill trail wimp, but sometimes it’s worth the effort for views like this!
#BlueSkyMonday #MountainMonday #ocean #pacificocean #mountains #northerncalifornia #photography

BLEA CALM - first dawn at Blea Tarn in the Langdales on Saturday morning. A short spell of colour before the fog and mist descended for the weekend.
#FSprintmonday #Sharemondays2025 #Appicoftheweek #SonyAlpha #landscapephotography
@fotospeed.bsky.social

Of course (not)

Not #fungifriday but not bad for an autumn walk in the #chilterns

‘London has turned into something crazy’: is the city in the grip of a crime wave? Perception of runaway crime partly blamed for ‘driving away the super-rich’ but in reality some high-profile offences such as watch theft are falling

"London reported the lowest number of homicides of under-25s for more than two decades. Overall, murders are at a five-year low, and the rate is much lower than in other international cities such as New York, Paris, Brussels, Berlin and Madrid" www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Nigel Farage on Russia Today.

Glad to see Nigel Farage has finally remembered Nathan Gill, former leader of Reform in Wales - found guilty of taking bribes from Russia.

Maybe he'll now remember how much he took from Putin's propaganda broadcaster Russia Today for all his TV appearances when he was a MEP?

Bisham Church, cormorant and #Thames in #autumn sunshine

#Chilterns #walking #autumn yesterday

Sickening

A black clay jug in the form of a goat. The tail and the horns have been made as cusps.

And look at the smooth, balanced, simple and unique form of this jug from Gordion. Perfect.
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This is a lie.

There are many criticisms you might sensibly and truthfully make of the Sentencing Council and the Sentencing Guidelines. I’ve been making them for years.

But this is an outright lie. Pure fabrication. A fraud on the public.

Whaling Ship - Grytviken, South Georgia

#SouthGeorgia #Grytviken #Whaler #WhalingShip #WhalingStation #HarpoonGun #HeritageSite #TomMartin #Nautical #Nature #Travel #Landscape #Photography #BNW #BlackAndWhite #Monotone

A brief wet and wild visit to Elgol for #Sharemondays2025

#Scotland
#Photography
#LeicaQ343

Remember you can get last years winners book here
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She was arrested for holding a sign reading:

“I do not support the proscription of Palestine Action”

How that would warrant arrest is very unclear. I wonder if the police here even understand the boundaries of the bizarre law they’ve been forced to enforce.

Don’t expect a match report - could have been written from a dark cellar Saturday morning.

There is a long tradition in European art in portraying happiness; with Albert Marquet's depiction of the Dune de Pyla near Arcachon, on France's Atlantic coast (1935) he has created a picture the mind can play in.

Read this as a cat towing someone …disappointed now

Amanita from beneath. It's gills are getting curly as it dries

Actual footage from when I was abducted✨🛸

#MushroomOfTheDay
#FungiFriday

A group of orange, brown mushrooms with spiky caps grows from a fallen old tree in the woods.

This old fallen tree in the woods makes a little haven for Shaggy Scalycaps.

🍄 #FungiFriday #FunguFriends

Clockwise from top left: yellow fieldcap (Bolbitius titubans) / witch’s hat waxcap (Hygrocybe conica) / collared earthstar (Geastrum michelianum) / Jew’s ear (Auricularia auricula-judae).

Clockwise from top left: pleated inkcap (Parasola pilicatis) / shaggy mane (Coprinus comatus) / trooping crumble-cap (Coprinellus disseminatus) / mica cap (Coprinellus micaceus).

Clockwise from top left: blewit (Collybia nuda) / rosy bonnet (Mycena rosa) / yellow stainer (Agaricus xanthoderma) / shaggy parasol (Macrolepiota rachodes).

Clockwise from top left: humpack brittlegill (Russula caerulea) / sickener (Russula emetica) / stinking dapperling (Lepiota cristata) / possibly an aniseed funnel (Clitocybe odora), though I am far from sure.

A day off of my tour on #FungiFriday, so braved the torrential rain to visit Oakhill Nature Reserve in #Goole. Surprised to find so many lovely things! AM very happy for any corrections to my IDs in the ALT text. #fungi #nature #Yorkshire #mycology #mushroom

Vivid purple the Amethyst Deceiver is a gorgeous mushroom however its bright amethyst coloration fades with age and weathering, it becomes difficult to identify, hence the common name "deceiver’.

Perfectly purple, Amethyst Deceivers, Laccaria amethystina are looking glorious in the woods! 💜
#FungiFriends #FungiFriday

#fungifriday

Which one is AI?

For the first time ever, London has met legal limits for nitrogen dioxide.

When I became Mayor, we were told it would take 193 years. We did it 184 years earlier than expected.

Cleaner air means a healthier city and big savings for the NHS.

AUTUMN

I’ve swum in the bogs beneath Foinavon.