David Nutt

Two pale green and purple-brown orchid flowers on a stem in front of a green background.

Two green and purple-brown orchid flowers on a stem in front of a green background.

A compact, pyramid-shaped head of purple flower buds. Some of the buds around the bottom have opened, revealing white flowers with lots of purple spots. The background is green.

An elongated head of green flower buds. Some of the buds around the bottom of the head have opened, revealing a green flower with two tail-like features hanging below. The background is green.

We're getting into #orchid season at the Coteau des Champs Genêts in the #Orne, #Normandy. Ophrys litigiosa, Ophrys sphegodes, Orchis purpurea and Listera ovata.

26.04.2025 16:25 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

It's still not allowed in France for people who lived in the UK for more than one year between 1980 and 1996!

15.04.2025 06:14 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A farm track makes a ford across a narrow river among trees. A footbridge also crosses the river.

Le Gué de Moissy (the Moissy ford) near Chambois in #Normandy, one of only two places where the vehicles of the 100000 German troops trapped in the Falaise pocket could cross the river Dives at the end of the #BattleofNormandy in August 1944.

25.03.2025 19:12 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A number of small tadpoles swim above a clump of frogspawn floating among algae.

Many small tadpoles are grouped together next to a clump of frogspawn.

Frogspawn and tadpoles at a local nature reserve in #Normandy. There was also a camera-shy palmate newt enjoying the plentiful food!

23.03.2025 16:50 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A sandy beach with small waves coming in from the left, under a blue sky.

Wet sand and mud in a tidal estuary reflect the sunlight. Two distant silhouetted figures walk along a sandbank. The sky has wispy clouds in it.

A sandy beach with some small breaking waves under a blue sky. In the middle ground is a figure in a black wetsuit at the edge of the sea, carrying a small, lemon-yellow surfboard.

Sunshine but a chilly wind at Merville-Franceville-Plage

12.03.2025 17:55 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Dans la distance, oui, exactement!

10.02.2025 17:07 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

A sandy beach scattered with stones and with waves breaking from the right. The coastline leads into the distance, under a hazy blue sky

View across some decking to metal railings. On the railings is a sign saying "Meridien de Greenwich" and a marker to show where the meridian passes.

View across a flooded marsh with lots of sea gulls on it. Three tall trees stand just beyond the water, with visible nests in the branches. Behind this is a hillside with apartment blocks.

In the foreground is a flooded marsh with some sea gulls. In the centre are two trees, one with branches and cormorants sitting in them, the other topped by a stork nest, with two white storks on it. In the background are more trees.

The beach at Villers-sur-Mer, which falls across the Greenwich meridian, and the adjacent Blonville marshes.

10.02.2025 15:57 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

A red-brick gatehouse with three floors of windows, a steep slate roof and conical towers on each corner of the building.

A fortified red-brick castle is on the right of the photo and is surrounded by a moat. A bridge with two arches crosses the moat from left to right. In the distance on the left of the image is the red-brick gatehouse and the sky is blue.

The interior courtyard of a red-brick castle. There is a tall tower with a conical slate roof with wings of the castle on either side of it. The window frames and doors on the three floors are painted mustard yellow and the sky is blue.

A view of the red-brick gatehouse taken from behind a corner of another building and through some trees with no leaves. The gatehouse has three floors and round towers on each corner with conical slate roofs. The central section has a steep slate roof. One of the weather vanes at the top of the turrets is not straight.

The exterior of the Château de Carrouges (Orne, Normandy), built between the 14th and 16th centuries. The gatehouse with conical towers, built between 1505 and 1533, is considered to be the first example of renaissance architecture in Normandy.

08.02.2025 16:38 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I agree. Interesting that some institutions don't allow more than two externals on a programme (budget, 'standard processes', ...), making even IOPA considerations difficult.

04.02.2025 17:24 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I would expect all modules to have designated external(s). Whether they review will depend on module/year weights and priorities (eg final year projects much more important). Would expect more-useful long-term steer from accreditation and internal review processes.

04.02.2025 16:42 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Four sailing boats are moored along a line of buoys which zigzags across the estuary in the foreground. In the background is the river bank with houses and blocks of flats. The sky is blue with some clouds on the horizon.

An industrial building from the 1890s with red brick and white stone, with lots of windows and chimneys and a tall square clock tower, all against a clear blue sky.

Sailing boats in a modern marina with a large residential building in a Normandy style in the background, with turrets and lots of eaves, under a clear blue sky.

A sandy beach with five people silhouetted against the sea. The sky is clear but hazy, and a ferry is visible against the horizon in the distance.

After a very wet January in Normandy, some February sun was very welcome. Here is the Dives estuary, the Guillaume Port in Dives-sur-Mer, built on the site of an old metal foundry, of which the bell tower from 1892 is one of the remaining buildings, and the beach at Cabourg.

02.02.2025 17:56 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A tarmac footpath and cycle path runs through Autumnal woods.

Two pedestrians walk along the footpath alongside a disused railway line surrounded by trees

The footpath approaches the arch of a tunnel surrounded by autumnal trees

The façade of the Château of Thury-Harcourt, with two floors of bricked up windows and a top floor of three empty window frames, viewed through the ironwork of the Château gates.

The old Caen-Flers railway in Normandy is now a cycle path and footpath. This section goes through the Tunnel du Hom (153 m long) and not far from the Château de Thury-Harcourt, burned by the retreating German troops in August 1944.

03.12.2024 17:03 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Un tas de boules de terre cuite de différentes tailles et de couleur rougeâtre et gris

Vue à l'intérieur d'un petit musée avec des œuvres composées de boules de différentes tailles et couleurs, et faites de différentes matières

La porte d'extérieur du musée avec des tas de boules en terre cuite à côté du chemin

Œuvre en terre cuite rouge d'à peu près 20 x 20 cm avec cinq empreintes rondes et un texte manuscrit qui dit "cinq impacts d'une boule"

Visite insolite et petit aperçu de l'œuvre de Jean-Luc Parant (1944-2022) à La Maison de l'Art Vivant à Vimoutiers, Normandie.

27.11.2024 10:18 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The church in Mortagne-au-Perche with some market stands in front of it. There's a mix of architectural styles from different periods of construction

The 13th century Saint Denis gate, one of the entrance gates to the old town, at the end of a street of old, stone buildings

A narrow street with a tall stone wall on the left and stone houses on the right. Old-fashioned street lamps are attached to the wall and there is sunlight at the end of the street

The 16th century cloister of the Convent of St Francis and St Claire. The cloister has simple stone columns and oak beams and looks out into a grassy central area.

Exploring Mortagne-au-Perche, Normandy.

20.11.2024 17:58 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Cropped image of a decorative house with green painted timber beams and a complex roof shape behind a yellow-leaved ginkgo tree

Cropped image of a decorative brick house, with colour patterns in the brickwork and green, yellow and orange glazed tiles on part of the roof

A cropped image of a decorative brick house with many eaves, windows and chimneys

A cropped image of a decorative brick house with a large arc-shaped window on the first floor which leads onto a balcony where the arc shape is repeated in the stone balustrade

Houses of Houlgate on the Normandy coast, dating probably to the period 1870-1910

18.11.2024 08:56 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A concrete casemate from WW2 housing a large artillery gun

A close up view of some of the gun mechanisms inside the casemate

View of another concrete casemate housing a large artillery gun

View of a coastline with cliffs in the distance and remains of the artificial port at Arromanches in the sea

The German artillery battery at Longues-sur-Mer, between the D-Day landing beaches Gold (UK) and Omaha (USA). It's apparently the only Normandy battery with the original guns in place. In the distance are the remains of the artificial port at Arromanches.

15.11.2024 09:55 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I seem to have picked up quite a few psych/neuro/health followers... I hope you won't be too disappointed to learn that I'm not my more-famous namesake, who doesn't seem to be over here yet. I have met him, though! Do stay for the ride!

14.11.2024 09:29 — 👍 14    🔁 0    💬 7    📌 0

View of a non-managed deciduous woodland with tree trunks and autumnal leaves

A small brown mushroom with a pointy cap among leaves on the woodland floor

A tall and delicate red mushroom growing up from a mossy woodland floor

A white puff-ball-type mushroom among autumnal leaves on the woodland floor

Enjoying the changing of the seasons in a Normandy woodland

12.11.2024 15:03 — 👍 9    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Public attitudes towards offensive language on TV and radio Ofcom commissioned this research to inform its decisions about potentially offensive language.

This research by Ofcom, who decides what can and can't be said at different times of the day on UK tv and radio, is interesting: www.ofcom.org.uk/tv-radio-and... Crucially for non-native speakers, it gives guidance on level of offensiveness.

08.11.2024 11:40 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

An enormous and elaborate timber-beamed house with many chimneys set in parkland.

A small military cemetery in partial sunlight and surrounded by trees with a tall stone cross and rows of white tombstones.

Distant view of the sea from a hill, with a clear blue sky. Between the viewpoint and the sea is a hippodrome and indistinct houses.

An ornate chimney stack in sunlight with pepper-pot-like chimney pots on the top.

A walk around Deaville, Normandy, with the spectacular Villa Strassburger. Unusually for the region, the military cemetery in Tourgéville houses mainly WW1 graves, due to there being British military hospitals in the area.

08.11.2024 07:39 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0