Dave Garbutt

Given the response to the Sheringham Bus Shelter's imminent demolition, I'm wondering if someone can reach out to Steve Coogan, because let's face it this can only be improved by the attendance of North Norfolk's finest digital broadcaster to truly put the cherry on this icing debacle.

President of Ukraine:

The Russians started the war, and there are no alternatives to this wording. The whole world is a witness. They came with aggression to destroy us.

We stopped them. Europe helped, America helped.

A revised version of my first off the cuff response to @victoriaspires.bsky.social's excellent #PromptCombo #ThisPoem.

Good discussion on the @green-alliance.org.uk podcast about the attack on peaceful protest from successive governments , and how we must fight back . Listen now at chrispackh.am/1d0271

Thank you @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social for last week's prompt! This week I'm hosting #PromptCombo & the prompt is #ThisPoem. You can interpret that however you wish, but I dare you to try something a little different 😇 All welcome to join, replies until Friday.

#inkvent2025 #diamine celestial skies, just wow!

More than six words in a fountain pen

Freeflow This poem defies logic There is no logic Just pen to paper Begin writing Don’t stop to think Let it go Let it flow Synapse to scrawl Words from somewhere Direct from The unconsciousness Automatic unfiltered Word ectoplasm Free write flow Pen stops Poem ends © Glenn Barker December 2025

Hello @victoriaspires.bsky.social
It's been a while since I contributed, this one from a free write (no editing) this morning exactly as it says here, after reading the prompt and your own poem for #PromptCombo #ThisPoem

Protean Words ©Jan Peters/Solivagant Wisdom, 2025 Protean words - Restless, flighty, astir. Souls tempered by peculiar laws, They riddle out peculiar lots. Ceaseless shape-shifters wedded to Ceaseless colour-wheel spins, They blaze afresh where Once they wilted. Light hop-step-trip through Shade-tone-nuance, They hold within them All that enthrals ear, eye, tongue, And sense; All that desires Unending fable - Ever longer, deeper tales Breaking the spell of confinement. Salt-sweet-edged change bids you Live, Die, Live Anew. Inspired by Слова — хамелеоны (“Words are Chameleons”, 1901), Konstantin Balmont (1867-1942), Russian Symbolist poet

2-for-1 this week, @victoriaspires.bsky.social #PromptCombo 😁

#ThisPoem I : ©Jan Peters/Solivagant Wisdom, 2025

#Symbolism #poetry #poetrycommunity #bskypoetry #Words

For this week's #PromptCombo #ThisPoem with thanks to the wonderfully playful host @victoriaspires.bsky.social and all those taking part. Something a little different, you say...

A closeup photo looking down at the top of the head of a water bird called a Western Grebe. The photo is quite dark, except for pale feathers on the bird's cheeks, and its bright orange-red eyes.

A Western Grebe my wife found huddled against an apartment building a few years ago. It was stuck because their feet are set back far on the body - better for swimming than walking - and they need a water runway to get airborne. We took it to a wildlife rehabber and it was released after a few days.

::whispers:: i know him

Stunning for #StunDay! ❄️🇮🇸 #Iceland

Her parents owe their lives to the United States accepting them as asylum seekers fleeing religious persecution in Iraq in the 1980s. She wouldn't be here if we had not offered her family safe haven.

The hypocrisy is stunning.

On this date in 1900, Oscar Wilde ("The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable, and literature is not read") died at age 46. What would he make of today's stenographers posing as journalists?

so many winter coats
hanging on my iron hooks
waiting to be born

and in my fire place
a billion burning violins

#DailyHaikuPrompt
#Haiku #senryu #tanka

OK sorry . . . I know — it's just that I love Leonard Cohen

Pied Flycatcher (Ficedula hypoleuca),… in Gwent,… in November(!).

Pied Flycatcher (Ficedula hypoleuca),… in Gwent,… in November(!).

Pied Flycatcher (Ficedula hypoleuca),… in Gwent,… in November(!).

Pied Flycatcher (Ficedula hypoleuca),… in Gwent,… in November(!).

Did not expect to see a Pied Flycatcher today. Latest Gwent record. Might go back tomorrow to get it on the ‘birds I have seen in the UK in December’ list. Currently attempting to piece together the ring details. Ta to Chris for finding and Matt for passing on the news. #gwentbirding #birdingWales

Everything Trump signed with a Sharpie is illegitimate as executive orders must be signed with a blue fountain pen. Fuck him.

Tom Stoppard, Cerebral Storyteller for Stage and Screen, Dies at 88 The British playwright won acclaim for 'Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead,' 'The Real Thing' and 'Leopoldstadt' and received an Oscar for 'Shakespeare in Love.'

Other than Shakespeare, I'm pretty sure that Stoppard is the playwright whose work I've seen performed the most, including at least three productions of "Arcadia." Always impossibly brainy. Always adroitly funny. At his best, emotionally devastating as well. One of the best to ever do it. #RIP

A page of handwritten text of the poem Badroulbadour by Nikita Gill, with a slender grey fountain pen laid on the page.

I got a new pen today, a vintage (90s) Cross Classic in grey. I used it to write out a poem by Nikita Gill. I love it.

Sei Shongon —updated :-)

🪶 Another lovely movement recorded!
A Stonechat first ringed on 21/04/22 as an adult male and known to have successfully fledged 5 chicks at Cuckoo Bank, Staffs has been spotted at Chasewater, 4km from its original site, on 27/11/25.
Showing how important colour rings are. @cuckoobirder.bsky.social

Scottish flag background with a white circle reading: “Mayor of London – Happy St Andrew’s Day”

Wishing all Scots in London a very happy St Andrew’s Day 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Scottish culture and the contribution of Scottish Londoners continue to make our city stronger and more vibrant every day.

Way too many books, stories, films about New Yorker authors…

Oh she is so annoying — what they would call neurotic in the 50’s —

And thank you for all yours :-)

I am not in the habit of thanking for them, but it feels nice, so maybe I should:-)

I haven’t read Tolle but this is a common thread in the writings of Buddha.

Newton’s first law of motion defines that a future will exist and what will happen there :: inertia :: it has a biological equivalent as seen in the persistence of nail growth after death.
And our brains model the future (otherwise we would hunt like spiders).

A last chance, starting Sunday 4th January, to explore the 'enchantment of maps' following two very successful autumn groups on this magical/inspirational new theme.
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sun 4 jan—sun 8 mar, £280: 'an enchantment of maps: vision, cartography, inspiration', see
tinyurl.com/maps-7wk-workshop-starts-jan

Thrilled to have my poem “the output…err…the outcome (well…whatever…if ever) of a therapy
session” in this #Rites&Trials anthology. Huge thanks to EIC Alan Parry @alanparrywriter.co.uk , @thebrokenspine.co.uk
Many wonderful pieces including by Alan Parry, @pdevonald.bsky.social and more…

#Oulens