Jackdaw in St Oswald’s churchyard #birdoftheday alt #corvids

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Today's #birdoftheday alt theme is #corvids - here is my contribution.. Russell is one of the famous Strandhill Crows - he likes to greet people and mimics dogs barking and car horn sounds for a party trick.. @sligogirl.bsky.social btw - Russell was the inspiration for a children's book I wrote..

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So to clarify. While UK is making sweeping cuts to foreign aid and leaving some of the most vulnerable people in the world without necessary support, the government is boasting about using it to stop people seeking asylum. Yeah, that's...about right for Labour. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

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Two weeks of jury service has changed my perspective on and relationship to the city. The working city. On Tuesday I departed from the lunchtime route that I had laid down the week before. I'd forgotten that Wheats Lane opens onto Paradise Square. We led a poetry walk through this ginnel in 2009.

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The Times here, writing that my wife and I living in the UK is a bad thing, for the only reason that we were born abroad. (The British people I know in my life are much better than the people who wrote this rubbish)

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