Mark Dudley
@markdudley
Author. 'High Water' - shortlisted: 2024 Yeovil Novel Prize, longlisted: 2025 Retreat West Opening Lines: Top 100 Bath Novel Award 'Dead Wood' - longlisted: 2022 Exeter Novel Prize and 2023 Grindstone Literary Prize
#mothiduk A little more information on the caterpillar. It has been immobile about 16 hours since I first saw it. It is 35mm long and I'm now wondering if it is an Eyed Hawk Moth. There is a willow in the garden which has suffered in the drought - I wonder if it has gone looking for food.
House martins, I think, but absolutely wonderful. They have nested for years at our primary school. I must check if they have arrived.
I have caught glimpses before, but repositioned the camera and caught this the other night.
I was heading home after my morning walk and turned a corner to be surrounded by an explosion of crows. There must have been a dozen and for a moment I was surrounded. It was uncanny and made me smile. (Image: Joel Askey / Shutterstock)
This morning I finished the brilliant Sistersong by @silvanhistorian.bsky.social. This afternoon I made a start on @katemossewriter.bsky.social 's The City of Tears.
Day 3 of Badger-geddon (I'm assuming it's a badger by the sheer clumsiness). The photograph was Day 2, today he/she broke into the birdfood bin and helped him/herself to sunflower seeds and dried mealworms.
Johana Gustawsson and engerthomas.bsky.social 'Son'. About a third of the way through and I resent having to put it down to edit.
Playing Corvid Bingo this morning - just missing magpie, raven and jay for what I might expect round here. Painting by @elidanza.bsky.social
@mrjamesob.bsky.social Two headlines on LBC's news page this morning. I'll just leave these here. #TwoTierBritain
Rosewater by @tadethompson.bsky.social. Bought it years ago and it has been behind my plotting whiteboard. Found it yesterday and enjoying tremendously so far.