Just discovered the ultimate soft drink. A can of Fanta lemon with a dash of Monin sirop de grenadine. I would imagine a little vodka would mix into that very nicely.

Took two of the grandkids and four slices of bread to a local pond yesterday. Windsor Great Park. #parks #ponds #

Love the MK1 but I drive a MK3 which I love even more and don't think I'll ever part with it. Mine on the right.

Local pond is looking healthy. By far the lowest I've ever seen it. #drought #climate #water #walking

The Claire Teal 5 at the Concorde Club in Eastleigh - it was a lovely way to spend a sunny Sunday afternoon. #livemusic #jazz

Climbed Ben Nevis yesterday. Won't do that again! One of my big toenails will survive. That is one tough surface to walk on. Great views of course #scotland #Highlands #BenNevis

Always! We visit maybe 6 times a year, have done for quite some years. Today's highlights

The absolute state of my begonias. Against a south facing wall. And my bay tree has wilted for the 4th time in 3 days. Watered it at 6pm and it's already suffering at 10am #gardens #heatwave #climate

Judith beheads Holofernes, Uffizi last July

I know there's something important going on but did anyone else see Venus hanging around with the moon at around 10.15? #moon #Venus #terriblephotography

Does it have a resonator cone hidden in that body? This little Gretsch reso has a terrific acoustic tone for a reasonably priced guitar

The mystery deepens. I found these scrunched up in the new compost. Did a fox really dig up a plant because it could smell some residue on a couple of old gold top milk bottle caps?or chocolate coin wrappers? #foxes #gardens

Here's one I spotted last week in Oxford. It's a beauty

More Royal Ascot temporary structures #Ascot #royalascot #running

This place gets bigger every year. It gets built in 6 weeks & dismantled in 10 days. Unfortunately after today we locals won't be able to run or walk round here for a fortnight. #ascot #royalascot #running

Another chapter finished in the white knuckle thrill ride that is my life! #jigsaw #puzzles #Picasso

The first two incarnations of Spizz - oil and energi #punk #vinyl ##weekendsingles

A few more punk singles #punk #weekendsingles #vinyl

A couple of pics for @ollypunk.bsky.social #vinyl #punk #weekendsingles

Still my favourite cartoon #cartoons #doomscrolling #keyboardwarriors

Scarlet tiger moth in an Oxford garden feeding on a ceanothus #nature #gardens #moths

I like the finish on your guitar. Here are mine. No sunbursts!

For some reason it is amusing me to allow some barley dropped from the bird feeder to grow. Not sure I want to turn the whole lawn to cereal crops.

Our pyracantha hedge is in glorious flower this year after a rubbish display last year. Must be a hundred honey bees and white tailed bumblebees on it #gardens #flowers #bees

We took one of those from Kyoto to Tokyo last year. Quite an experience. #Japan #bullettrain

Three magical singles 81/82 - Favourite Shirts is still up there among my favourite pop songs. And I'm loving both the Gretsch guitars they're using. Slightly biased maybe.

Going to skip Bracknell half marathon tomorrow because of this that happened on the M11 this afternoon. My poor little car. Somehow it seems to have survived, amazing when you see the damage to the car that hit me (and another car). No one hurt, thankfully. #motorway #collision

The rhododendrons and azaleas looking glorious at the #ValleyGardens a couple of days ago #Windsor #rhododendron

That's happened over 25 years to my Burns Marquee and it's a beautiful colour now, almost like a duck egg blue

I love Vienna and I love trams. I should take pictures of them. There's one in the background in Goteborg in this pic