Captain Bionic

Are we not going to talk about how a bunch of predators have clearly taken over the comms department—at a minimum—at a Danish zoo?

Ship's bell from the HMS Canterbury hanging below a replica of a different ship

Just a guy, you know

Meadow on the Garth in the cloisters

Stained-glass window of the Royal East Kent Regiment, often referred to as the Buffs

A few extra bits

Stained-glass window under an elaborate ceiling

A ca 1900 stained glass window depicting archangels (best one is Uriel in top left)

Lady Margaret Holland was a wealthy noblewoman and granddaughter of Joan, the Fair Maid of Kent. She married twice and lies upon the tomb monument between her two husbands. Both Somerset and Clarence had been buried elsewhere in the cathedral only to be later exhumed and reburied in the Holland tomb, as directed by their wife. (from the cathedral's website)

A 1950s stained-glass window by a Hungarian artist

Some amazing stained-glass

Ceiling of the main bit of Canterbury Cathedral

A carving of a ship with a carving of a lady kneeling in front, some stained glass windows above

Detail of ceiling in the cloisters

Outside view of the cathedral

Went to the cathedral today, it's big

THIS IS A GENUINELY INSANE TAKE. HOW DO YOU EVEN WORK YOURSELF INTO A PLACE WHERE YOU BELIEVE THIS

Yup

Oh yeah I had some of their stuff a while ago, should get some more - thanks for reminding me!

Right?!

A frog in a wizard's hat in bed in a tower, caption: THE ONLY THING THAT CAN DEFEAT ME IS A MINOR OBLIGATION LATER IN THE DAY

Yeah discovering it comes in giant jars was life-changing

Upsetting

A Fish Falls From the Sky and Sparks a Brush Fire in British Columbia

For a medieval monastic chronicler, a headline to die for

okay but I'm going to need a mid comedy movie where this kid is a teenager in 2041 but still dresses and acts like it's 1994

That's fascinating - thank you!

A specimen from 1822 (stuffed and still viewable today at the University of Rostock) was “crucial in understanding the migration of European birds. Before migration was understood, people struggled to explain the sudden annual disappearance of birds like the white stork and barn swallow”.

Pfeilstorch - Wikipedia

Pfeilstorch (German for 'arrow stork') is a word with a very specific meaning: it’s a “white stork that is injured by an arrow or spear while wintering in Africa and returns to Europe with the projectile stuck in its body”.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pfeilst...

a black cat jumping out of a bag that has a black Puma logo on it

Just as the prophecy foretold

oops

It's crazy how much AI is like the your worst coworker.

Doesn't do their job right, steals your shit, isn't funny, and in the end you still have to redo all their work and for some god knows what reason your boss loves them and never fires them.

They were both ace! I think I can remember some/most of the Morrissers at that festival (where we managed to get an audience *slightly*bigger than us 💪🏻)

Here they are! And a few of the crew

The morning after you left, there was a shanty crew from Hackney I think who were still drunk/high from the night before, and belting out absolutely filthy songs in front of all the Waitrose kids

Jon looking cool af chilling outside his tent strumming his banjo

@beardybanjo.bsky.social 😎🪕

Yesss

I was looking at the photos from Standon Calling the other day, as it happens!

YouTube video by Jon Boden - Topic Dream of the Ocean

🎶 but how they dreamed of the ocean
the children the clung to the stories we’d told
like a thing they could hold

youtu.be/RAUS6iRIiCM?...

🍻

OHO!