Ian Tattum

Salutations from the Purbeck mulleins to those growing in the hills around the Prespa lakes @julianhoffman.bsky.social

"Biology is complicated. Kindness and respect don’t have to be." A fascinating and important thread from Dr @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social.

On World Book Day I celebrate the gift of old second hand books.
This 1928 biography of Cowper is gloriously opinionated and stylishly written. Its assertions and conclusions often miss the mark but it still bears reading for making any curious reader think.

We paid an ex-Tory MP to lobby for our fake Chinese firm - and authorities did nothing Investigation finds no rules were broken. It just goes to show how few rules there are.

Latest from @petergeoghegan.bsky.social at Democracy for Sale. And it is literally for sale. open.substack.com/pub/democrac...

I recall feeling something similar

A too early spring

A slice of old Dorset

Britain’s Story: The Next Chapter - the BBC Royal Charter Review, Green Paper and public consultation The government is consulting the public to aid decision-making on the terms for the BBC Charter’s renewal and any changes needed to help the BBC to continue to serve the public.

For people in the UK: less than a week left to contribute to the consultation about the BBC's future. We need to protect our BBC.
The consultation closes just before midnight on Tuesday 10 March 2026.
www.gov.uk/government/c...
[Why does our daft government label it 'Britain's Story'?!]

We happened upon this by chance and it's simply superb: perceptive, profound and at times deeply moving.

More Gordon Benningfield

Opinion | The Great Lie of War

“precisely because war can lead to such terrible outcomes, you have to be willing to take a stance against war itself unless it is absolutely necessary. And this certainly didn’t meet that test” www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/o...

Outbreak of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (Bird Flu) at gamebird rearing farm in North Yorkshire An outbreak of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (Bird Flu) was confirmed yesterday at a large gamebird rearing farm in North Yorkshire. A 3km Protection Zone and a 10km Surveillance Zone have been…

Outbreak of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (Bird Flu) at gamebird rearing farm in North Yorkshire raptorpersecutionuk.org/2026/03/04/o...

I am sharing some of Gordon Benningfield’s birds today

My short poem inspired, loosely , by Homer’s Iliad, but with contemporary international circumstances in mind.

Quakerism and Hannah Arendt: Hope in Dark Times - Woodbrooke This course offers a thematic overview of some of the most influential writings from philosopher and political theorist, Hannah Arendt, whose works

So thrilled to be working on this @woodbrooke.bsky.social course with the brilliant @lilyrchadwick.bsky.social. You can sign up below.

For #promptcombo this week and its theme ‘powerless’, ‘A Strange Case’.

Content warning. Suicide, war crimes. ‼️

#poetry #WritingCommunity #poet #mentalhealth #MentalHealthAwareness

Seeking Goodness: The Philosophy of Iris Murdoch - Woodbrooke Iris Murdoch (1919-1999) was a writer with a deep interest in how we can live good and meaningful lives as human beings. In her philosophy, she sought to

Want to go deeper into the philosophy of Iris Murdoch? This is the @woodbrooke.bsky.social course for you. Sign up below.

Kallistos Ware

Kallistos Ware always used to say that the mystery of salvation is aptly illustrated by the brigand on the Cross. In outward things this man hadn't served the Lord. His life appeared to be one giant failure and yet Jesus says to him: 'Today you will be with me in paradise". God is beautifully weird.

As a devotee it was a particularly welcome win🙂

I went to a talk this event about Gilbert White this evening and afterwards there was a book raffle.
I won the first prize 🙂

Evening sun over the brickworks

Isaac the Syrian fundamentally opposes the notion that God's response to sin is a balance sheet of punishments & rewards, debts & surpluses. We (or Christ) don't "pay God off". God is not interested in "satisfaction" or simple justice. God wants to restore God's beloved creatures through generosity.

💭 I smell fish.
There must be fish here.

Come out fish...
Come out!
Wherever you are!
I just wanna say hi.

This is a great book! ☺️

I refreshed one of my old poems in the light of current events.

Left. extract from Strickland's 1845 paper 'On certain Calcareo-corneous Bodies found in the outer chambers of Ammonites' which begins by acknowledging Mary Anning; right portrait of Strickland as a young man, seated and holding an open book.

2 March 1811, Reighton, Yorkshire: birth of geologist and naturalist Hugh Strickland. In 1841 #MaryAnning drew his attention to a feature of ammonite shells which she thought were ink sacs but were in fact aptychi, plates used for closing off the aperture of the shell. #MolluscMonday

👏🦋

I went to see the nearby black poplar.
Blessed by the setting sun

Beware the disappointed poet😊

Beetle awareness day has come early this year.
It is when I stop walkers and ask them to look down.