Ben Potts

The Tarry Stone. Cookham

The Tarry Stone. Cookham https://www.wikiart.org/en/stanley-spencer/the-tarry-stone-cookham-1929

A photo of a front yard full of snow. Trees line the street and there is a red fence.

“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.” — Albert Camus

Not much snow this year
so I'm going to post old one🙃

Two horses, one white and one brown, gallop towards the viewer (he was safely behind a gate). The setting is a grassy cliff top field, with an expansive view over towards the sea. The day is bright, with clear blue sky and 'fluffy white clouds'.

Escaping the ongoing....everything....by reminiscing about some good moments from a few years ago. What beauties these two were.

Is he in the #Epstein files too?

In 2016, Peter Mandelson tried to shut down Longbarrow Press after we declined to publish his debut poetry collection, 'Spin Cycle'. Only now can we reveal the full details of this wretched saga. 1/128

Ten Train-Hopping Spells (plus an extra five downtime spells), 1 February 2026 Poetry in Oxford, Swansea sounds, Irish digging, Worcester Victoriana, the lights of Oxford, old friends and Catherine O'Hara's most moving movement

, @juderogers.bsky.social 's newsletter of super interesting things is a weekly treat. In a world rammed full of distractions it's always good to have a trusted voice point you in the direction of the good stuff.

Always, Ellen - though after a period of inactivity, my legs have felt it!

Sadly, I didn't find the one I was looking for - amazing how quickly some of the previously uncovered panels disappear again under new growth.

'The End Field (new beginnings..)'
Charcoal and Oil Paint Sketch

Nowhere near the worst I've seen - dry main paths and only slightly boggy when venturing off them - didn't need to change before I got in the car, put it that way!

yep, they are often over so quickly, as todays was.

I def. felt it after a period of intense laziness over Janaury.

Thank you! Was very lucky to get it just in time.

A silhouette of a deer running across a moor

Ilkley Moor today, a haunting moment when I surprised a roe deer whilst looking for rock art.

As a 12-year-old I was totally drawn in by the characterisation and the jokes. Didn't realise that I was also watching a film essay on social transformation.

My new book Still In A Dream: Shoegaze, Slackers, and the Reinvention of Rock, 1984-94 is out in June on @whiterabbitbks.bsky.social . It's a love letter to the music of my youth and a flashback to the most exciting time of my writing life. Pre-order geni.us/StillInADream

Didn't know, thanks for sharing! He is a complete legend.

Umberto Boccioni (1882–1916)
Landscape with Sunset 1908

A portrait of Woolf by Roger Fry c. 1917. Virginia faces the viewer with a slightly tilted head and a calm, introspective expression. Her dark hair is parted and swept back into soft, rounded shapes, framing a pale face with large, elongated eyes and lightly flushed cheeks. Her lips are small and red. She wears a muted, loose-fitting jacket or cardigan over a darker blue garment, with a narrow green trim adding contrast along the edges. Her hands rest together in front of her. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Woolf#/media/File:Roger_Fry_-_Virginia_Woolf.jpg

On Being Ill at 100: Virginia Woolf’s ‘best essay’ still shapes how we read sickness

Woolf argues that illness is ‘the great confessional’ which is never talked about in literature.

by Lucyl Harrison

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Woold at PG:
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#books

#TombTuesday 12 seconds of bright winter sun & a cold east wind across the ancient burial mound of Bryn Cader Faner in the Eryri/Snowdonia uplands

Quite a place to have been buried or scattered 4500 years ago 😮

🎥 My own, Sunday

long wooden boat possibly used as funeral barge

Buried in a pit under the Great Pyramid of Giza about 4,500 years ago, this is the Khufu Ship. When first uncovered, in 1954, you could still smell the scent of the cedar wood. Now housed in the new Grand Egyptian Museum

Went for a walk on Dartmoor yesterday & found these little water spouts bubbling up in a place that's bone dry in Spring & Summer. Today, an ecologist has explained to me these are 'ephemeral springs': where the bedrock on Dartmoor is impermeable granite, the water can't sink past the bedrock.
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Yes, up above Hebden. Love it up there.

The painting depicts a snow-covered field with tracks in the foreground, with trees and a farm in the background. The work is characterized by the strong contrast between the deep blue of the shadows in the snow and the bright, warm glow of the sunset or sunrise.

Paul Evans is one of the most successful contemporary landscape painters in Britain, recognized for his ability to capture the "quiet drama" of nature.
His work focuses on the British countryside and coastlines. He is known for capturing seasonal changes, particularly winter scenes and sunsets.

Jesus H Mary and Joseph. Insane legitimisation.

A large, rather phallic-looking chimney obscures the sun on a clear blue day. It's shadow is set towards the position of the viewer. The chimney was part of the 1700/1800s Cuppola Lead Mine on the moorland at Grassington, Wharfedale in North Yorkshire. Two people can just be seen next to the tower.

Old concrete buildings - brutalist, industrial ruins, grey and cracked lie on open moorland. The chimney can be seen on the horizon against the blue sky.

Dreaming of Blue Sky. Dreaming of Wharfedale, too.

Malcolm Coils (British, b. 1947). Cumbria Farm (2019, acrylic on canvas).

Stop Sex Matters infiltrating the Council of Europe In just one week, the Council of Europe will be voting to ban conversion therapy. This would be an incredibly important step to stop the rollback in the rights of LGBTQ+ people. But Sex Matters is inf...

I've just used Good Law Project's tool to email MPs on the Council of Europe and let them know they don’t have to bend down to Sex Matter’s transphobic threats.
The more they hear from us, the harder it’ll be for them to ignore us. goodlaw.social/9f10d1

What is Bayesian reasoning? Once you understand what is, you'll spot Bayesian reasoning in science, medicine - and many aspects of daily life.

Good short video

becoming a teensy bit obsessed with heron's feet after @everyheron.bsky.social retweeted this other worldly photo