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Free Museums In London: The Definitive Guide From cultural behemoths to bijou places you didn't know existed.

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Our pond, created by people living with #dementia at our allotment HQ in #Somerset, is teeming with frogs again!

Neighbours love the natural slug control and the joy of seeing them thrive.

Why not create your own?

Get inspired with our #JustAddWater booklet: https://ow.ly/6pPc50Yi7Un

Grieving Prince Andrew Asks For 12-Year-Old During This Difficult Time

Grieving Prince Andrew Asks For 12-Year-Old During This Difficult Time

Once Upon A Time On A Lane A few of you - but probably not loads - will have read this before but, while I put a few finishing touches to a new piece ready for Sunday, I wanted to post it again, in slightly spruced up form, for...

Today is the last day to read this piece for free.

It might work quite well as an intro to my writing for people who only know it via Bluesky.

P.S. It's much better if you read it all the way to the end.

I mean, I would say that, but I promise: it really does.

www.tom-cox.com/once-upon-a-...

Photo of a skull in a golden box on an altar

Roses are red,
They look nice on a shrine
Here is the skull,
Of St. Valentine.

(Photo taken in Rome’s Chiesa di Santa Maria in Cosmedin of the relic of the 3rd Century martyr, a cleric who ministered to persecuted Christians and could apparently restore sight to the blind.)

I have more bookmarks than I could ever need, but I always want more nonetheless.

A photograph I took quite early on New Year's Day, 2019, while walking on the Isle of Purbeck during the research for my book Ring The Hill, not long before I did a tweet using the photo and this same caption. I imagine it won't have as much impact here, since loads of people have since reused it, and the phrase is now more widely known. It is still very very true, though. Lots of things are solved by walking. Although not everything, obviously.

Solvitur ambulando is my favourite Latin phrase. It means "it is solved by walking".

Haters gonna hate. Fuck ‘em. You know you’re loved on here. 💖

@dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social I feel this dog is calling out for your alt text treatment. 🐶

I’m in the UK and checked a handful of cinemas. She’d sold about nine tickets for the premiere out of the five cinemas I checked.

Have two melodious woos back at you from my Briggsy and Bowser beagles in London. Very fetching jumper 🐶

Animals are being strangled, mutilated, and left to die in agony just for wandering into a snare. These cruel traps are still legal in England, despite bans in Scotland and Wales.
It’s time to end this barbarity.
✍️ Sign the petition: protectthewild.org.uk/ban-snares/

I enjoyed mis-reading your mis-typed as misty-ped 😺

The Germans recognise Nazi style when they see it.

Me beside a river on Dartmoor, in autumn

Hello new followers. This is me. I would be thrilled if a few of you might subscribe to my newsletter: www.tom-cox.com. Quite a bit of what I write is free but I try to make the rest affordable. You can read everything for just £2 a month (or £20 a year). You'll find a few samples in the replies....

channel4 1h Update. The BBC has said they would give us one of their BAFTAs to calm us down. channel4's profile picture channel4 4h Because we did not win the BAFTA for best TV channel ever we have decided to try and claim ITV as ours.

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How a billionaire with interests in Greenland encouraged Trump to acquire the territory US president’s friend Ronald Lauder – who first proposed Arctic expansion – is now making deals in the island

Boycott Estée Lauder.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

1. The tariffs are paid by US consumers
2. Greenland isn't for sale
3. Go f**k yourself

Interesting how I keep politely saying "a publishing disaster" rather than "my ex-publishers stole more than £20,000 of earnings from me".

Photograph from 1911 taken by Herbert Ponting whilst with Scott's Antarctic Expedition The monochrome photo is taken from within a cave. The walls of the cave are made of ice. The cave entrance is in the mid distance with two figures standing looking out towards a distant ship. Between them and the ship there is first a 'beach' of ice before the sea itself. The ship could be up to 800 metres away What makes the photo so special is that where the figures are at the cave entrance there is a band of very white snow and ice (contrasting with the comparatively dark inside of the cave) that creates a stark framework in which the men and the ship are captured. It is made even more dramatic by the fact that the cave entrance is at least 30 metres high and is in the shape of a distorted elipse with the tail sloping off to the right at the top of the elipse The photo being in monochrome in a largely white environment makes the photographers skill all the more laudable

This photo was taken in 1911 using glass plate technology by Herbert Ponting who was part of Scott's Antarctic expedition,

The composition and detail are exquisite with the band of white snow/ice creating a perfect frame around the two people and the ship in the distance

Iconic imo

This one is also in the running for the PINKEST sunset

#SkySky 🌿 #birds #silhouette (Snow Geese)

The original ad for Stonehenge, and its 6400 accompanying acres, in Country Life magazine.

When feeling fed up about how insanely expensive rural property has become in the last few years it’s always good to remember that it was only a little over a century ago that Stonehenge, plus its accompanying 6400 acres, sold for £6,600 to a private buyer via an advert in Country Life Magazine.

Oops yes, I meant I’m a subscriber on your website. It always makes me smile.

Thanks for letting me know about the tip jar, which I probably wouldn’t have noticed. 👍

I already subscribe to your Substack but would throw you some cash now and then if you had a gofundme or similar. Just thinking it can’t be easy to recover financially from all you’ve been through.

You’ve won a lot of hearts on here so why don’t you let us help you a little more. 💖

That’s utterly heartbreaking.

Is there any way to purchase your books that would put more money in your pocket ? Basically, is there anything we can do to help ?

I’m sure there are quite a few of us on here who think you’re awesome and would help if we knew how. 💖

A dog who has fallen out with her husband and step-children for the final time and is feeling the special kind of freedom that can only come from hot-wiring a vehicle belonging to a local tradesman and setting off into a bright winter's day, unencumbered by personal belongings, with no particular destination in mind.

THREAD.

A collection of random dogs I have met on my adventures in the British countryside.

You will find the captions to the photos in the alt text.

The things we do to animals in farming is bad, the things we do to dogs is actually worse. Lab experiments of unspeakable cruelty, thousands of dogs bred to die hard - every year. In the name of medicine.

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

And people can request Tom’s books through their local library system if buying yourself is out of budget. I’m in the US and Libby & my library’s website make it easy to borrow books they already have and request titles they don’t.

I had no idea the life of creatives had gotten so relentless, soul destroying and unstable. I’m so sorry, as useless a sentiment as that is. I hope you’re both able to find what you need to carry on creating wonderful things. 💖

🦇 There are things you can do all year round to help bats, even in winter when they are hibernating: buff.ly/2HkKSuq . The lovely image below is from our 'Stars of the Night' leaflet which you can download for free here: buff.ly/40yR5f3