Andy Day
@andypday
Geographer in East Yorkshire. Retired teacher. Write a bit, garden a lot. Working on my tennis - could be the most exacting challenge yet. Set up the "Cloud Images" feed Oh, & UTV
Walked past one yesterday.... aaaarggh, it burned eyes!! Oh, forgot - no it didn't
Fridays have a rhythm: tennis in the morning, and bread making in the afternoon. These two turned out better than the tennis....
Sorry to see this go. Remember the first GCSE WideWorld coming into school in 1981. This April edition is the final one. Hachette are stopping publishing. Wrote my first article in 1983, and contributed regularly since the 1990s. Hoping it helped many geography students - & their teachers #geography
The long proboscis of the greater bee fly, feeding on forget-me-not on the allotment. It sounds like a bee, looks like a bee, feeds on nectar... but hovers and is a fly.
#wildflowerhour Thrilled to be able to identify my first coltsfoot around Lake Bolam in Northumberland this week. Then, lots of white anemone and marsh marigold along the R Wansbeck at Wallington Hall. But if anyone can identify the hyacinth-like flower - please do
Google ‘what is the new food deal with the eu’ - and this is what you get. Our media is infantile and infantilising. So marmalade with oranges in it needs the label saying ‘orange marmalade’; with limes ‘lime marmalade’… & not one lists the benefits to farmers & food importers/exporters of the deal
Ah, so sorry Chris - thought I'd deleted the message cos my connection is so squiffy here atm...
You pointed out nothing that the data doesn’t already show. The proportion of the UK population over 65 was significantly less in 1960 (left hand population pyramid) than it is today (right) - with all the associated welfare/health implications - and a smaller ratio of those working
Came across this. Relevant to certain parts of the world I can think of: Not my words - those of Aldfrith, King of Northumbria 685-705 CE. Some truths endure; some leaders in the vast past had more insight and humanity than those who were given power hundreds of years later...
Nice bit of mammatus developing over the village this morning #clouds #cloudscape
I know it's considered a weed because it self-seeds with alacrity (as this clump has done) - but I am smitten with the vibrancy and stark form of purple toadflax. And the bees love it - so in good company
Just two goldfinches feeding on the seed heads of perennial cornflower in the garden 🌱
It's a wraparound. Probably sub-eds should've considered its format better - but more a comment on how Reform supporters have grouped themselves rather than an Observer issue I would suggest
The irony is, the last time we were caught in a heavy downpour was in the High Street of old town St Augustine back in mid February during our road trip around central & north Florida. A historic place for sure
It looks like a bee, it sounds like a bee, it acts like a bee. But it's a fly. Bee-flies are out and about in gardens now and worth looking out for. This, from 10 mins ago in mine.. www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/bee... #gardening
Delicately feathered contrail forming a cirrus fibratus cloud from our back garden this evening. OH says it looks like a quill pen #cloudscape
Well, the age of mass consumption was nice while it lasted…. FTSE down nearly 10% in a month
Glorious unobstructed view of (most of) the British Isles on April 2nd. Spring sunshine - everywhere wvs.earthdata.nasa.gov
If you watch #DiggingforBritain with @profaliceroberts.bsky.social you may remember the iron age chariot burial at Pocklington, E Yorkshire with the two ponies upstanding in the grave. Tonight a reconstruction of the shield on which the warrior was lain was revealed alongside the original find
It's daylight robbery, Percival.... these young oafs buy far less from us than we purchase from them. They're RIPPING US OFF!
Was in Florida 3 weeks ago, at Rollins University. They have a bronze tribute to alumni Fred..
Leave the poor guy alone - TrumpEconomics is doing the £/$ exchange rate a power of good. This is the change over this last week...
The final dawn of Winter, leaving a frosty footprint as a memento. See ya; come on in, Spring - we've been not so much waiting as longing
Letter in today's Guardian... refreshes my own shame at smilingly declining the offer by a young Muslim woman who offered me her seat in a Tube 6 years ago (as a white haired 60 something). There are times when the most generous thing you can do is let others' kindness flow