TracyK🌟👑🕊️🐝

Had to update my handle. Same old same old apart from that 😆

St Mary's, Wiveton this morning

Never seen Norfolk poppies quite this stunning… endless blue skies and 27°c in Salthouse this morning… @WeatherAisling @ChrisPage90 @StormHour @metoffice #loveukweather #Poppies #Norfolk #Salthouse @EDP24 @DailyMail

@KWCook57 33 degrees here today, that must have felt considerably cooler!

#LookUp in #Lincoln Cathedral

Lecture on #MedievalManuscripts Monday, June 15 at 7 p.m. GMT (U.S. 2 p.m. EST) on Zoom. @CathyRLowe @chartres_Fiona @StroudStory @todbooklady @Portaspeciosa @PosyHill1 @CarolineIrwin3 @DavidMa16901372 @churchartnature Please DM me your email address, so I can send an invite.

Rectangular ice cream. Back when this was the full range of options

23/05/2026 – Borth was great, entrancing nutjob that she is. I think the talk went very well indeed. I shall be returning again tomorrow for a proper scarecrow-stalking safari. Very exciting. 🙂 #yborth #borth #ceredigion #canolbarthcymru #cymru

Perborough Castle hillfort this evening, North Berkshire.

Escaped “Far From the Madding Crowed” and heat to the most enchanting forest! Sherwood Forest, Nottinghamshire🌳

I'm pretty sure this is Buttonweed, cotula coronopifolia. It's a good find for this area. It's growing on damp, brackish soil near the river Wheelock. It has spread inland along salt influenced river systems & former industrial brine sites, well beyond its main coastal range.

@todbooklady @DoctorGOE @StroudStory @CarolineIrwin3 @CathyRLowe @chartres_Fiona @churchartnature @DavidMa16901372 @HistoryMalc @Portaspeciosa @PosyHill1 @scarabcat I did Newark with Rebecca & then took her over to do Southwell with James Wright, we were in the pub by 3...

@AlabasterMiss @DoctorGOE @StroudStory @CarolineIrwin3 @CathyRLowe @chartres_Fiona @churchartnature @DavidMa16901372 @HistoryMalc @Portaspeciosa @PosyHill1 @scarabcat I'd say, in a long day!

A rather battered #OwlishMonday from Newark, #Nottinghamshire! Still lovely, though, and well loved - look at his smooth, stroked pate!

Sapphire-bright speedwell on the #Oxford canal💙 Germander speedwell derives from the Greek 'chamandrua' - ‘oak of the ground’ - as its leaves resemble oak-leaves💙🌿💙 #BlueMonday

Word of the Day is ‘swullocking’: swelteringly, stiflingly hot. From 19th-century East Anglian dialect.

For the feast day of St Bede, here he is, beavering away at Chalford, #Gloucestershire, in #ArtsandCrafts #stainedglass by the wonderful Edward Payne, 1950s.

@icrawford17 @Matedwards7 No mow May! Leave it be!

@Matedwards7 @AlabasterMiss Dying to cut the grass.

Great Waldingfield Church. #SuffolkSunday

Riddley Walker, by Russell Hoban. Jonathan Cape, 1980. I do think this is one of the best post-apocalypse books, not least because it's about knowledge: how do you know things when everything is gone? It's also about folklore, language, riddles, the joy of wandering and the sly thought that perhaps Nietzsche's 'eternal recurrence' is real.' It's also about jokes. The end of the world may be a friendly enough place after all, if you are so inclined. Riddley is a 12 year old boy, wandering Kent, digging out old iron machines from the ground with the others. Through his wanderings and his many disparate meetings he tries to understand the world. What is it? What did we lose? What does it matter? It's written in idiom, the same way A Clockwork Orange is written in Nadsat, but the words are a also a puzzle you have to solve. As you grasp the puns, blends and half-buried semantic shifts you see the fragments of the old world that was destroyed and maybe see just how horrific life had been. But now... it's the pastoral and the provincial, people trying to be people, trying to figure it out. We're back to The Canterbury Tales, not The Waste Land or The Road. It's hard work, but fun to read.

New Home by Este MacLeod

Three disgorging heads above the seats in the Chapter House at Southwell Minster. The Minster was full of birds and foliage.

#MonochromeMonday Statue in the orangery at Belton House, Lincolnshire