Charlie Massey

A pan full of greengages just starting to boil for jam.

OK Greengages, get jamming. 🎸

Ah so that's what Laz has been up to all of these years at Barkley. Who knew? 🤷

Thanks. These will mostly be stored for winter. Lack of rain has kept size down though. 😕

The most depressing thing about that clip you posted: here is a mainstream political commentator who doesn't even mention climate change as an issue for the 2029 election where the public expect delivery. Look up.

Deb thinks soup. Also roast in a bit of oil with cumin seeds. Add to curries. But it's a new variety for us as well so we will see. 😁

3 pink banana squash. Weighing 1.9, 1.2 and 1.0 kilos. Cured and ready for storage for winter soups.

These pink banana squash were curing in the green house, but were getting so hot, it's time for storage. More to come hopefully.

As seen at the 2025 Velo-city Conference in Gdansk, the Big Bike Orchestra is a Polish pop-folk band formed in 2021 in Bydgoszcz.

Their unique feature is the combination of playing musical instruments while simultaneously riding a specially constructed six-person bicycle.

www.bigbikeorchestra.com

a city is on fire with smoke coming out of it ALT: a city is on fire with smoke coming out of it

Anyone advocating for net zero by 2050 is part of the problem.

Anyone advocating for net zero by 2040 is part of the problem.

If you don’t realise yet that the entire economy will be destroyed unless we cut fossil fuel use immediately you are part of the problem.

This happens in all the NP's in the summer, particularly the Lakes. The association with the Darwall ruling is disingenuous at best. It's littering and anti social behaviour. The underlying assumption that the perpetrators were reacting to a Supreme Court ruling is risible.

Pickled damsons! That sounds so exotic, great effort.

We may be about to find out, what we, and the French, for that matter will do. This orange narcissist is far more dangerous than Putin.

I'm still wondering what Americans are actually going to do about this stuff, apart from crying foul. And what would we do? Sometimes it might be better to be French, as we know what they would do!

Our camera trap just met its match: a camera-shy woodcock.

A few steps into frame, a glance at the lens, and it was gone.

Some wildlife prefers to keep its secrets.

A few seconds of a Dartmoor pony conservation grazing a West Norfolk heath.

Oh yes sorry. Trig point, hill fort and cows. I run up and down both but Burrough is much nearer than the Charnwood Alps. 😁 Bardon, Beacon, Burrough. What's in a name?!

👏👏👏👏 Little Dalby Woods & the back of Beacon Hill for me today. Hill repeats / rucking for an hour and a half. Twas warm.

Ne vous faites pas avoir par la désinformation. Non, ce n'est pas "normal, c'est l'été". Les températures prévues demain seront 14 à 17°C au dessus de la moyenne pour un 11 août avec un potentiel d'une centaine de stations sup. à 40°C.
Ce n'est pas normal, c'est un cauchemar.

Modèle AROME sur Windy

France has entered this year the Big Fire Era... 🔥

And we are now heading towards the most brutal heatwave of this summer with 40+°C over large part of country and no end in sight... 🥵📈

A lingering taste of apocalypse for crops, ecosystems and glaciers! 🌱😱

Chloe Kelly 💙🤍 QPR

Oh and happy birthday 🎂 for tomorrow 🥳

Glad you liked it. I enjoyed most of the 127 runs there. I think. 😆

If Trump thinks the exchange of a few bits of Russian and Ukrainian territory plus a ceasefire will constitute peace, he’s wrong; Putin will just start up his attacks again when he chooses. There has to be a binding agreement which Russia won’t break. Not much sign of that.

Hope you enjoyed your trip along the 'water' this morning, and the slightly cheeky headwind we arranged in the last mile!

Eating ultra-processed foods could make it harder to lose weight Nature - Trial compared effects of diets with differing levels of food processing.

Eating ultra-processed foods might hinder attempts to lose weight even when the diet accords with national healthy-eating recommendations

go.nature.com/47q5DRg

RIP Jim Lovell
‘When I circled the moon and looked back at Earth, my outlook on life and my viewpoint of Earth changed... Earth is a spaceship, just like Apollo & just like Apollo, the crew must learn to live & work together. We must learn to manage the resources of this world with new imagination.’

Jim Lovell, who guided Apollo 13 safely back to Earth, dies aged 97 Commander of Apollo 13, who rescued his men from a near certain death in space, has died aged 97.

Sad to read the great Jim Lovell has left us. A true legend of exploration.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Keep thinning. We've been round our allotments this week and are still improving the fruit by doing so. Take off any with pests in them at least.

Yes there's a long tradition of that going back at least to the 80's when running was proper. 😆 The Bob sets the standard more or less. Glad you called it "record" and not FKT!

No crew. No pacers. Otherwise it's not a real endurance competition in my view. Spine has it right. Just imagine an LDWA challenge event with crew. You'd be a laughing stock.

Today in 1914 the first British soldier fired a shot in the First World War.

Alhaji Grunshi, of the Gold Coast Regiment, opened fire while invading German held Togoland.