Current status: trying to identify birds while not being very good at identifying birds. "OK, so from the RSPB website this is either a very weird sparrow or a Mayakovsky's Splarp, a native of Patagonia last seen in Scotland in 1842. *pause* I'm going with the splarp."

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"The Psychedelic Grebe is easily recognised by its spectacular breeding plumage, of which there are sixteen million photos and which it wears for approximately five minutes each year. The rest of the time it looks identical to the Boring Grebe. No, we're not going to show a picture of that either."

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Buckden Towers & blue skies! 😍 Once a palace of the Bishops of Lincoln, this impressive place was visited by various monarchs over the years, including; Henry III, Edward I & Richard III. Katherine of Aragon stayed here after Henry annulled their marriage, & he later visited with Catherine Howard.

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I like this piece: it doesn't offer many solutions but it feels like a more generous framing of the problem than we're used to hearing.

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That might have been a bit of a thing, to do that. As I know Edinburgh University has at least one.

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