Jonathan Jordan

A brockenspectre (my shadow projected onto mist and surrounded by a colourful halo). White Edge, Derbyshire, 12 October 2025

Brockenspectre on White Edge. Not the easiest phenomenon to photograph, but I think this gives the idea.

A spider's web, picked out by autumn moisture. White Edge, Derbyshire, 12 October 2025

Spider architecture

Looking at RealTimeTrains suggests they have run a replacement train from Chester to Birmingham and that that may turn into your train

View west-south-west from near the summit of Ben Macdui (Cairngorms) in June 2018. Cairn Toul, Sgor an Lochain Uaine and Braeriach are the most prominent mountains but others are visible in the distance if you zoom.

A snow bunting sitting on the trig point on Ben Macdui in June 2018

The last time I was there it was ridiculously hot and I spent most of my time photographing a snow bunting. Ben Lawers and Ben More were visible though:

Using a combination of that site and Viewfinder Panoramas, something like Mull of Galloway, Merrick, Ben Lawers, Ben Macdui, Morven (Caithness), Ward Hill (Hoy), Ward Hill (Fair Isle), Ronas Hill, Out Stack. You can see England from Ben Macdui (on a very clear day) but not Galloway

What's the furthest into the Highlands that you can see from there?

Congratulations on that epic! Great to follow along as usual

Wikipedia has a whole article devoted to the variations of the Swedish sj sound.

Broxtowe Alliance, breakaway group from Labour and the largest party on the council

We certainly went to the school, and for some reason ITN always chose my school for A level results day. NB we had a different exam board for Chemistry than for my other A levels

Coastal scenery, including a rock arch, Thornwick Bay, East Riding, 1 August 2025

Waves and caves, Thornwick Bay, 1 August 2025

I walked a little along the coast path from @RSPB Bempton to Thornwick Bay, where there is some nice coastal scenery and the waves were rolling in

A nestling Gannet (guga), with an adult behind it, Bempton Cliffs, East Riding, 1 August 2025

A guga, as they say in Gaelic. Most of the Gannet nests seemed to have one.

An immature Gannet gliding past Bempton Cliffs, East Riding, 1 August 2025

A pair of Gannets pointing their beaks skywards together, Bempton Cliffs, East Riding, 1 August 2025

A Gannet riding on the wind past Bempton Cliffs, East Riding, 1 August 2025

Three Gannets on the edge of the cliff. Bempton Cliffs, East Riding, 1 August 2025

Gannets at @RSPB Bempton

Crook Hill, Derbyshire, in the snow, 11 January 2025

Grey Heron in the Rivelin valley, 2 February 2025

Skiddaw, Cumberland, with heather in flower, 2 July 2025

The gorge below the Falls of Glomach, 22 July 2025

A rather belated update to my photos page www.grinah.org.uk/photos.html with various photos from this year. Some samples

The top of the Falls of Glomach, 22 July 2025

A view towards the bottom of the Falls of Glomach, 22 July 2025

It’s hard to give a full impression of the Falls of Glomach but here are a photo of the top and one looking down to the bottom. A lot of water coming down

A baby toad. Near Dornie, 21 July 2025

Toad

That poem!

Skiddaw taken from Latrigg, near Keswick, Cumbria, 2 July 2025

Skiddaw on Wednesday. One of those occasions when we were in cloud on the summit but it then cleared up very nicely on the way down

I might put it a bit more strongly than that. I don’t think it was just the timing of English school holidays that meant we never visited NI around 12 July when I was growing up

Wasn’t he at the non-racist end of the right-wing Brexiteer spectrum back when he was a UKIP MP?

I think all town council areas in Doncaster have four, eg Bawtry

Curiously you are slightly west of the westernmost settlement in the UK (which of course you have visited) and yet are in the time zone to our east. Local midday in Ferrol in summer is after 1430 official time.

I have actually travelled on that line, and don't remember it being that quiet, but it's a long time ago (1998) so I might be wrong. I wonder whether RENFE are less interested in marketing it than FEVE were.

How does it compare with the Sheffield Supertram?

Achnasheen doesn’t even strike me as that tricky as station nanes go, but maybe without “help” it uses the other ch sound: more Ait na Sìne

A ring ouzel (a bit like a blackbird but with a white ring on its breast) perched on a rock below Stanage Edge, 4 May 2025

Ring ouzel on a rock, below (and taken from) Stanage Edge.

Though with FPTP they could win some places which aren’t like that with low vote shares because of splits. See some of their Exeter wins, for example

An adult dipper delivering food to a nest on a wall above the River Rivelin. If you look carefully a chick's mouth is visible.

Feeding time for the Rivelin dippers

Reflecting the circumstances in which the law was changed

Quakers condemn police raid on Westminster Meeting House Police broke into a Quaker Meeting House last night (27 March) and arrested six young people holding a meeting over concerns for the climate and Gaza.

🚨 Outrage as 20 police officers break into Westminster Quaker Meeting House and arrest six. 🚨
This shocking violation of a place of worship is a direct result of crackdowns on protest and dissent - freedom of speech, assembly and democracy are at risk.🕊️
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