Saw this beautiful Common Hawker dragonfly at RHS Bridgewater (near Manchester) today. Far bigger than any others I've seen. My favourite fact about them is "Female[s] will sometimes dive out of the sky and feign death in order to avoid copulating with males" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_...

A highly tempting shop.

Crikey. Mine is rarely below 70.

Worst one for me was 1240 partners. Worst polycule ever.

The Friends group at our local railway station have used one of my photos on their information boards. Which I would have been happier about if they had asked for permission and credited me. Oh well. flic.kr/p/9TLz8X

Mine is the Burdock Way in Halifax.

Four successful claims in four months for me on Northern Rail. Two were 100% refunds.

I've just had the 'it's windy' notification from Octopus Electroverse.

A bit like this change.

Date yourself with a snap of your first ever computer. (Not the exact one but the same model that's now in the Museum of the Home in London)

Oh Yorkshire, never change.

Be careful what you wish for!

I'm not a businessperson, but 'making it more difficult for your customers to pay you' doesn't seem like good business. (Although this is parking we're talking about, so presumably they WANT you to forget to pay and can then charge you over the odds for failing to pay)

Looks like I've earned similar to you this month so far.

ooooh nooooo it happened. Someone at The Landmark Trust is not having a good morning.

Past Neil thought it would be a good idea to buy this when it was on offer. Never listened to it.

Post your warning sign (This street is now pedestrianised and there's a shopping centre at the end of it)

I'm sorry but why is one of Apple's email servers called 'poo ice cream'?

If you see this, quote with a picture of you in glasses

I'm not sure if I can make #HigherEducationMugs a thing to go with #HigherEducationPostcard from @hbsj.bsky.social but today I'm drinking out of a 25-year-old University of Glasgow mug. Graphic design is very much of its time.

I like this version from a few years ago.

My most popular tweet on the platform formerly known as Twitter pointed out that Henry vacuum cleaners are still made in the UK by a unionised workforce, and are used by what seems to be a significant proportion of professional cleaners. Here's a photo of ours.

Apparently us Brits shouldn't be reliant on imports. Like, for example, this guy's vacuum cleaners.

This is my favourite (source: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... )

I'm outside the coffee shop. I'm outside the printer shop. I'm outside the combination coffee and printer shop.

From now on this is the only way i will travel.

Just received my first Christmas email. It's not even Easter yet.

I'm aware that it's quite a sunny and windy day, but I don't think I've ever seen renewables as high as 80%, and for gas to be so low. grid.iamkate.com