Stuart Malcolm

The cover of the album ‘Peace’ by The Levellers. It is a painting of a phoenix in the flames.

Their best album since the 90’s.

Going to need to a lie down to let the brain recover after that!

I can only watch itv/channel 4 on YouTube now as the ads are so much shorter on there. If an ad is a minute long I’m switching over to something else.

The words ‘Nigel Farage’ should always be preceded by the words ‘tax dodging crook’.

True, they do have plenty of tat in other areas as well. 😉

An Owl flies towards the viewer.

It’s like a travel version of a Short-eared Owl!

We used to have a competition with friends every xmas. We’d all have to bring a piece of xmas tat, whoever’s was the least tacky had to take it all home. I used to work at ASDA (when it was owned by Walmart) so I never lost.

The last sentence of paragraph 1 is truly a thing of beauty (chefs kiss meme).

What a ridiculous sentence in the 21st century!
(To be clear not the words ‘Sarah Mullally’ just the rest of them)

A page from a shopping website. A brown duck wears green wellington boots. A whole bunch of people had to agree this was a good idea, and nobody stopped them.

Garden centres are always a good place for tat.

Save Our Charity: Statement from CEO Dave Webb - UK Wild Otter Trust “I’m sharing difficult news on behalf of the UK Wild Otter Trust – news that has left me and our volunteers devastated. As some supporters know, my wife and I […]

This morning, our Founder and CEO Dave Webb is sharing some difficult news.

“On September 18th, we were given four months’ notice to leave our home and six months' notice to dismantle and move all otter centre materials, animals, and associated equipment.

It’s been so pleasant to forget that morons like Nads & Kruger existed. Another curse on Reform for inflicting them on us again.

A dark falcon flies right. It has a black & white head pattern.

It was eyes to the skies for the Chichester RSPB Group at Pagham this morning. Two Hobbies gave great & prolonged views, & Peregrine and Sparrowhawk were seen in the same airspace. 2 Green Sandpipers, 2 Snipe, female Marsh Harrier and a Fox on Ferry Pool. Lots of Stonechat activity as well.

Solar-eclipse frigatebird wins Bird Photographer of the Year 2025 The winners of Bird Photographer of the Year 2025 have been announced, with Canadian photographer Liron Gertsman taking the grand prize for his image of a frigatebird silhouetted against a solar eclipse in Mexico. Chosen from more than 25,000 entries, the competition also awarded Polish photographer Tomasz Michalski Young Bird Photographer of the Year. With eight adult categories and over £5,000 donated to conservation, BPOTY remains the world's leading bird-photography competition.

The winners of Bird Photographer of the Year 2025 have been revealed, with a striking image of a Magnificent Frigatebird against the backdrop of a total solar eclipse taking the top prize:

Fingers crossed we’ll be reading them by the end of the week.

A Painted Lady butterfly on ivy flowers. It is a largely orange butterfly with white spots on the darker forewings. It is on green vegetation.

A Red Admiral butterfly. A black & red butterfly on green vegetation.

A beautiful sunny morning at Pagham North Walls. 2 Spoonbills, 2 Curlew Sands, 4 Spotted Redshanks, 2 Rock Pipits, & a Yellow-legged Gull.
Also a Clouded Yellow, several Red Admirals & a Painted Lady. Glorious!

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As a child of the 70’s & 80’s, many British tv presenters:

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A sailing boat with a tall mast. On the right hand side of the mast is a grey bird of prey.

Is it time to rename the Crows Nest?This Peregrine Falcon was an unusual boat adornment on the Chichester RSPB walk at Thorney this morning. #birds

A large bird of prey is flying left. It is mainly white with some dark feathers in the underwings and tail.

An Osprey was a nice consolation for missing the Little Stint at Pagham North Walls late morning. And finally got a chance to connect with some of the Curlew Sandpiper influx (4). My first Brent Geese (3) of the autumn as well. A nice variety with 65 species seen.

To quote Midnight Oil:
“There's a place you can forget
You get wet, it's free
You get high, you're alive
Surf's up tonight”

I mean that’s a picture of a European Red Squirrel so no wonder it’s pissed off if it’s found itself in the US.

I mean I’m a weather beaten 52 and looks 15 years older than me.

My latest Blog "What Makes A Good Music Venue?" is now live and free for anyone to read on my Patreon page. We have some WONDERFUL venues still to play this year, including @roughtradelpl with @skatingpolly on October the 11th!
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Heard this on the pod and it was really interesting. I’d only heard of Sea Moss from Knowledge Fight with Alex Jones hawking it, so my starting point was ergo it’s a scam.

Back in 2021 when I was living in Portsmouth for a few weeks I set myself a B&W photo challenge on my iPhone whilst on my walks.
I call this one “waiting for chips?”
#BirdOfTheDay #ClassicMono

We saw Pete on his last tour and it was brilliant night out. I would highly recommend seeing him when he’s in your area.

Of course they are!

A match where teams bat in alphabetical order (one by first name, one by surname, decided by the coin toss) and every x overs there is a y over spell where the bowler is any player drawn out of a hat by the umpires (x&y determined by the match length).

A lovely atmospheric picture!

A poster for a tv movie. A man in a blue jacket and a woman in a green jacket look at each other whilst 2 badly photoshopped Varied Thrushes wonder what they’ve done to deserve this.

@piatpod.bsky.social How much money do you need to get Owen & Quentin from the ‘Listers’ documentary on to GAM to cover this?
It would be epic. Just let me know how much I need to send?
(If you haven’t seen Listers it’s brilliant, and the post credit sequence is perfect for PIAT).