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A day late posting for Celandine Day, which was yesterday. Given it was a calendared date about right for around here - I saw the first one about 10 days ago...

Great - we visited the Farmer's last year and will again, no doubt, when staying in Askrig in June.

Surely The Tan Hill must be up there, too, given your other place's proximity?

Winning the 'Dark Skyscapes' category in the 2026/26 Astrophotography Competition was Lorcan Taylor-Hood!

“A Window to our Galaxy” captures The Milky Way filling up the window and stretching up and over an old ruin near Eastbourne.

Congratulations, Lorcan! 💫

#BBCWeather
07:30 looked out to see thick fog, but no mention of it...on regional or national TV weather forecasts.
Strange - given potential travel impact.

Macron Makes 'Bullshit' Comment That's Sure To Anger Trump Admin The French president put himself on a collision course with the Trump administration.

Won't it be remarkable if it's the European countries that kill off social media platforms like Facebook, Truth Social and Instagram? I actually think we may be seeing the end of Facebook
'Pure Bulls**t': Emmanuel Macron Calls Out Social Media's Free Speech Defense
www.huffpost.com/entry/emmanu...

Not many will know where Winnersh is!
Not on the Reading-Taplow line...

Stop Palantir taking over our public services! Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir.

Our UK public services should not be delivered by secretive off shore tech firms. So I signed the petition to tell our UK Government to scrap all contracts with US tech firm: Palantir. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...

Taken from a foot crossing by Rye Windmill, a Class 171 diesel multiple unit disappears into the distance through shimmering heat haze which is distorting the rails

#OnThisDay 175 years ago the South Eastern Railway opened a branch from Ashford to Hastings via Rye. Rebranded 'Marshlink' in the 1970s, the line has survived singling and the threat of closure and remains one of the last unelectrified passenger routes on the Southern Region.

C. bulbifera very small colony at TQ71X

I was surprised to see this description, since in the High Weald we have very small areas where native C. bulbifera grows - not invasively - and Stace says: "very local in SE En..., rarely natd elsewhere..."
However Plant Atlas 2020 says: "Elsewhere it is an increasing naturalized garden escape..."

Dominic Dyer: @number10cat.bsky.social Larry the Cat will have been in Downing Street 15 years next week, he is the most stable thing about British politics these days

Dominic Dyer: @number10cat.bsky.social Larry the Cat will have been in Downing Street 15 years next week, he is the most stable thing about British politics these days

Very high tide at Rye Harbour today. Sea covered all of Camber Beach sands and the marshy land beside the harbour channel, with its walls completely covered in water, up to the Harbour Masters building...
Meanwhile Egret fishing, as water flowing fast into the Nature Reserve.

Close encounter at Rye Harbour - shingle shifting back to where it came from, having been moved eastwards due to "longshore-drift".

Respect...! What a superb, clever journalist; shown to us in a top flight documentary.
Quite surprised at the scale/size of the BBC bureau office. (Based on my visit in 1984 when John Osman was the correspondent.)

It would be pretty good if "media balance" included as many stories about "average and mediocre" people...

I have some years ago found stained wood in RSPB Forewood reserve, Crowhurst - not very far away from Tunbridge

Spotted today (Jan-28) on 1066 Country Walk

Not good enough: no "apology" or "sorry" words.
As AC says, also he must explicitly refer to ALL supporting countries - to even begin to account for his massive error.
No one seems to have mentioned his unuso demeanor - softened voice: very jet lagged or ill?

Agreed, a very well stated analysis. I must say the Trumpian positions are hugely worrying. Good to see quite a few now speaking out about, what to me, is a very non diplomatic way.

Brilliant pic, presumably taken in spring or summer? They don't tend to stop flying about when I see them, so very hard to photograph.

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We are told Southeast Water are claiming that Storm Goretti is one of the causes of the lack of water supply in the Tunbridge Wells area. But how can that be?

That storm had little and no greater impact than typical windy weather conditions here - about 25 km away.

Ah, I know - I have Attention Span Deficit Disorder (too?).

Silly me - I posted this 1 week too early!
But at least you'll be prepared! 🤣

The UK's mid-to-late 1960s Metrication project sort of fizzled out, leaving us with strange bedfellows: inches of snow with centigrade temperatures - though I did hear a "Fahrenheit" on my regional TV weather forecast on Wednesday.

He is obviously a "Brummie" - you should reply with an "alright" too, but accented with positivity. Then you'll both be happy.

How does one actually close an X account, then - apart from simply not using it?

Ah, I needed to see this post to understand the exploration one posted 5 hrs later...

I'd be interested in location. Wondering if their natural Australian habitat, in a canyon, has frosts?

Although living in West Berkshire, I was taken for a trip on the LOR by a (London based), Liverpool area born uncle, before. It closed. Remember it well, having just turned 80!
Seems the knowledge of the LOR existence has almost disappeared?