Matthew Scott

Nope. Definitely Magic. Wizardry. Sorcery.

Mother was a Maths teacher. I scraped O Level. Understood nowt…..😳🤪

6 months ago today he left us. 😞

Blessed to meet up with my lovely school-friends Paul Norris Vic Dewhurst Antony Gareth Mugford & Andy Farrer tonight in Preston.

Last met up 6+ months with 2 of them, 6 years or so for one, and 41 years for Andy. Treasured friends. 🙏🏻🙂

Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness (if we’re talking fiction)

Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness

Awake very early thanks to an annoying cough.Coral cat & I have been gazing at the Moon and the extraordinary clouds lit by it.

Simply amazing. 🌕

Can’t help but be grateful for my good fortune to be alive & happy. To be able to see such beauty.

This was a rather wonderful conversation.

The (zoom) view from our 'gin bench' - taken on 24 September 2025.

Three attempts to capture the light from the Moon peeking through stormy clouds last night, from our back garden.
#moonphotography #nightsky #moonlight #cumbria

6 years ago OTD I had the privilege & fortune to meet Jamie Normington @movingslowly.bsky.social & his wife Bea for the 1st time. Jamie, generous & friendly, invited me to his talk only 3 weeks after I moved to Cumbria. How blessed I was to know him & to have been given the gift of his friendship. 🙏

10 years ago I watched XH558 give a display at Gaydon (a former V bomber airfield).

Big, fat, & certainly dirty. But oh my, what a thing to see fly. That ‘howl’….

Love that a pigeon photo-bombed it…..😂

“No regrettable posts”…….unlike Tyler Cowan. Who works for Anthropic - an AI firm. 🙄

As for AI actors, scripts etc. - I think not (to put it mildly). 🤬

Patricia Routledge

“When I approach the pearly gates, I'd like to hear a champagne cork popping, an orchestra tuning up, and the sound of my mother laughing”
Patricia Routledge
17th Feb 1929 - 3rd October 2025

May your wishes come true, you wonderful woman and thank you x

Good.

Glad assets have already been frozen. But time to remove Mone’s peerage and bring proper consequences to the politicians who helped grifters & profiteers.

Today’s minute of peace. Another lovely morning. Jackdaws swooping and the sound of robin ‘morse code’ clicking all around the garden.

The meadow had its 1st cut yesterday. Ready for a closer crop before the rain arrives next week.

Jaguar Land Rover shutdown extended again after cyber attack The business secretary will also meet suppliers of the car maker who are at risk of closure.

@bbcbreaking-bot.bsky.social @channel4news.bsky.social @skynewsrss.bsky.social I hope the government & journalists are asking Jaguar Landrover whether it has cyber attack insurance cover that should reimburse costs of staff wages & system recovery? If not, why not?

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

The International Space Station high above Burton-in-Kendal just now.

3 second photo with my iPhone showing the movement of the Station in orbit. It’ll be visible again in Cumbria at 19:42 tomorrow.

At last the rain has stopped. A minute of peace in our garden, with Sun shine. Robins singing & butterflies still visiting the remaining flowers.

There are plenty of jobs to do, including a ladder climb to unblock a gutter and more tree branches to cut back.

But not today. 💚

They will also have to prove that projecting beams of light = ‘electronic communication’ - a debatable point. That the images were ‘sent to another person’ (specifically). Added to which they will have to show the images or words are ‘indecent’ or ‘grossly offensive’ in English law. Seems unlikely.

@thamesvalleypolice.bsky.social explain who told you that projecting this image = either a) malicious or indeed b) communication under the terms of the 1988 Act

Are you saying a real photo of Trump is ‘indecent’ or ‘grossly offensive’? 🤔

Light projection = ‘electronic form”?🤔

#TrumpedUpCharges

4 shots of the #nightsky at 1am or so this morning (UK time). Cassiopeia and the Andromeda Galaxy, and the 'Summer Triangle' with the darker centre of our own galaxy running through it. #astronomyphotographs. Not brillant, but my best effort.

Well, Starmer at the ‘summit’ was a shambling, waffling, twat.

Also, why did he try to pretend the UK is not part of the continent of Europe? Europe is NOT the same as the EU!

@primeministeruk.bsky.social - what an f’ing embarrassment 🤬🤬🤬

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We know the stones as engines of story, but they are also generators of awe. Within their boundaries a sense of the persisting ancient, our shared continuity with the long dead. They are lithic time machines, living in both the then and the evolving now. – Dr. K. Brophy #StandingStoneSunday

Another great fallen. 😞

Such presence. Time to re-watch Sergeant Troy, Bernadette, and Wilson.

Keith Richards??

What is the world coming to? 🤷🏻‍♂️🤷🏻‍♂️🤷🏻‍♂️

My evening view….

Also, we drove past you earlier!

If the (flat) cap fits, wear it! 😂