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Matt P

Matt P

@bertolicus.bsky.social

410 followers 290 following 800 posts

Plant-based runner prone to long distance silliness, paddler, sourdough baker, lazy gardener, slave to a house-wolf and wannabe botanist 🌲🐺🌱🏃‍♂️🏳️‍🌈

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 21h

These videos of a rat hunting and eating bats will haunt my dreams.

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Matt P @bertolicus.bsky.social · 2h

Hear hear!

Matt P @bertolicus.bsky.social · 10h

Weekend ballast made - best get out and work up an appetite!

A crusty sourdough boule next to an icing sugar and flaked almond dusted Apple strudel, all resting on a wire cooling rack on an oak worktop

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Tina Jack @tinaj68.bsky.social · 1d

An interesting close encounter on my wander in the woods this morning 😳

Matt P @bertolicus.bsky.social · 3d

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... Dogs are truly amazing, worth a listen

Life Changing - A traumatised veteran’s unlikely saviour - BBC Sounds

Veteran Geoff was plagued by PTSD - but an unusual partnership restored his independence.

Matt P @bertolicus.bsky.social · 4d

Somehow managed a run out along the river and back - nonchalant Reynard negotiating roadworks enthralled commuters

A river view at dawn, an arched bridge, buildings, street lights and sky reflected in the mirror calm river

Soaring frontage of York Minster cathedral eerily pink in the glow of streetlights against a steely dawn sky

A blurred fox, trotting nonchalantly through metal fencing beside roadworks

Matt P @bertolicus.bsky.social · 5d

🤣🤣

Matt P @bertolicus.bsky.social · 5d

Squirrels in the York museum gardens getting all the attention from visitors - but the trees need closer attention ☺️

A fat grey squirrel with a walnut in its mouth

Yellow green autumnal leaves of a cut-leaved Hornbeam against a grey sky

Matt P @bertolicus.bsky.social · 5d

Spot the graft union 😉

The trunk of a beech tree, the texture and width of the tree increasing around 1.5M above ground.

Matt P @bertolicus.bsky.social · 5d

Leslie Nielsen moment

Matt P @bertolicus.bsky.social · 5d

Noise cancelling headphones are a revelation on trains, but could someone invent odour cancelling please? Either that or ban tuna and eggs on trains…

Matt P @bertolicus.bsky.social · 5d

Not sure what happened to the heavy rain that was forecast, but it’s a braw morning here in the Tweed Valley

A Misty autumnal scene with green grassy fields in the foreground, trees and forested hills wreathed in mist merging with the morning sky above

Matt P @bertolicus.bsky.social · 7d

I’ve got a few hours to enjoy York one afternoon/evening next week - what should I definitely not miss?

Matt P @bertolicus.bsky.social · 8d

Narrow leaves ash - usually the cultivar ‘Raywood’ syluddenlybgets very easy to spot this time of year 👀

Vibrant orange-claret foliage of a narrow leaves ash lit from within by a streetlight

Matt P @bertolicus.bsky.social · 8d

☺️ Hope you had a good day on Wednesday Sue

Matt P @bertolicus.bsky.social · 8d

A very brief overnight stop at York overnight after a week down south with Observatree volunteers and colleagues - glad to be headed back north ☺️

A view along York railway station, the glass panelling above letting in the grey morning light.

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Holly Kirk @hollykirk.bsky.social · 8d

In honour of the excellent Blattodeology episode of @ologies.bsky.social podcast, please enjoy these veeeeerrrry fancy Mardi Gras cockroaches (Polyzosteria mitchelli) from arid WA:

The stripes!
The yellow shorts!
The blue socks!
🌏🪳 #wildOz
(Go listen to the episode www.alieward.com/ologies/blat...)

A large and spectacular Mardi Gras cockroach photographed walking along a small wooden log. The bright colours of the diurnal insect stand out agains the mottled grey background of the log and leaflitter. The mardi gras cockroach is a rich, shiny black brown, each segment carrying a horizontal bold yellow stripe with two more yellow stripes running from top to bottom along the each side of the back. The cockroach has bright blue lower legs with dark stripes. Definitely off to a party!!

This Mardi Gras cockroach is off to a sandy bush doof! Captured from a different angle, you can see the full impact of the yellow stripes along the sclerites or plates covering each segment, from thorax to end of abdomen. Also clearer are the fancy yellow shorts and blue knee-high socks that complete the party ensemble.

Matt P @bertolicus.bsky.social · 8d

🤣🤣 my aim as a communicator is to use whatever terms the receiver will connect with, I’ve seen way too many people switch off when they’re new to a subject.

Matt P @bertolicus.bsky.social · 11d

Sure is ☺️

Matt P @bertolicus.bsky.social · 12d

Same here - though I’m Alice Holt bound ☺️

Matt P @bertolicus.bsky.social · 12d

Cheers Matt - braw day ☺️

Matt P @bertolicus.bsky.social · 13d

I moved here from the south of England 8 years ago. Still the best move ever ☺️

Matt P @bertolicus.bsky.social · 13d

Golden hour run at a civilised hour on a glorious October day in the local hills

A low sun in a clear sky, lines of hills receding into the misty distance. A few scattered spruce trees in the heathery foreground

Golden evening light spilling onto the wooded side of a valley, the other in cool green shade. Blue-sky overhead

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Dr swift parrot @teamswiftparrot.bsky.social · 13d

Regent parrot chicks getting weighed are just so absurdly adorable and undignified 😂😭😇

Matt P @bertolicus.bsky.social · 14d

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