sheela-na-gig, Kilpeck, Herefordshire, England. 12th century.

That thing the Borg chills

Made to measure step stile. Hincaster. @Soapy_Wit_Tank @tismenic70 @LordOrk @SusanLansdell2

When our babies started doing the rooting reflex on their dad’s chest he immediately handed them to me for a feed. If I wasn’t there he made them a bottle from stored milk. He didn’t mock them like this jerk who doesn’t deserve to be a parent. As a mum this is heartbreaking to watch. Ban Surrogacy.

Watching Green MPs on X right now:

The Greens went full on Nazi.

The threat of Nazi invasion has obscured the terrifying threat of Napoleonic invasion in public consciousness. When James Thomson wrote "Rule Britannia" in 1740 and Thomas Arne set it to music, it was not a triumphalist piece. It was a cry for help... A plea for ships to defend communities from European kings and African slavers, but also a cry for civil liberty, because an island nation with a strong navy should not need a Cromwellian standing army for defence: "Britons never will be slaves" defies any home-grown tyrant who can turn his army on the populace, unlike "The nations, not so blest as thee, Must, in their turns, to tyrants fall". We're lucky to be surrounded by the sea. Let's use that! Over 60 years later the cry had been answered. If Napoleon could bring his vast army, Britain would fall in days. Yet Britain's Royal Navy was the swiftest, most advanced and efficient in the world. Nelson's victory at the Battle of the Nile, and then against the combined French and Spanish fleets at Trafalgar in 1805, meant Napoleon could not invade.

"Target acquired."

You're a white woman who thinks a brown woman should erase her identity because it makes you feel uncomfortable, you're the racist.

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Flight of the Robin! 😀😍🐦

Speaking as the elderly mother of three youngsters, who hasn’t had a sex change and knows many homosexuals, it is my able-bodied and sexually-preferred opinion that the Greens are turning into total nutters.

Wheatear on a post! 😀 Taken at the weekend at the Huntspill seawall in Somerset. 😊🐦

It's uncanny how accurate this is

Double step and squeeze stiles across the lonning towards Shap. @Soapy_Wit_Tank @tismenic70 @LordOrk @SusanLansdell2

Dragonfly in flight! 😀

Gorgeous Kingfisher on bulrush. 😍😀🐦

Goldfinch on teazle! 😍 Taken at Burnham on Sea in Somerset. 😀🐦

Another photo of the stunning rare juvenile albino House Sparrow and its mum in my Somerset garden a few years ago. 😍😊🐦

Enid Blyton has really jumped the shark.