This week, I was made aware of Else Bostelmann.

“Everywhere absolute stillness — yet ceaseless activity. For all these formations are colonies of tiny living creatures which, during untold years, have been building their coral dwellings one upon another, the new upon the old.”

buying Sadler's Wells tickets and thought ‘oh wait, I feel like I have a gift certificate I can use’.

2016 it was issued. 2016!! we could have had thirty five prime ministers in that time.

‘the cost of living’ is quite a phrase to throw around so freely.

Sad, isn’t it, that all they can kiss
is the air.

a nice time to

pledge your support for independence Yes yes.scot/signup/
join the Scottish Greens members.greens.scot/join
join The SNP snp.org/join/member/
do whatever makes you feel hopeful about the future. it can OBVIOUSLY be better than this. christ almighty.

I know they’re not the same but there’s something about Tove Jansson and Ursula K Le Guin that’s the same.

Light! Astonishing stuff. And it keeps coming back! Every day. Incredible.

“Physical communication is eighty percent of the way in which we communicate, and words are twenty percent. So in a way, the question should be, why do we speak?”
Wayne McGregor, Why Do We Dance?

NOW TV doesn’t allow screenshots, very upsetting! nowtv.com/gb/watch/enter…

I could possibly not read another word and only look at pages like these for the rest of time and be happy. Possibly!

There is a gannet carcass right outside my window. Is there any kind of safe way to, say, retrieve its skull? I suspect no. Anyway, thanks in advance.

I literally wondered this today.

5:40pm, I’m not doing this again.

“Scottish Government is now under renewed pressure to ban scallop dredging within its MPAs, with Open Seas calling for an immediate ban.”

This practice shouldn’t be legal in marine protected areas in the first place; the sea floor is no one’s to demolish.
newscientist.com/article/234121…

just ONE gripe because there must be more, there is more, than seals and penguins. what are these?

maybe there’ll be a tiny things episode and I’ll feel guilty about this. I’m sorry David!

cyanobacteria makes me want lemon meringue pie