Jon Vernon
@onlyindevon.co.uk
Digital yokel.
Between the moor and the sea.
Co-founder / director of @dartmoorcollective.org
#MDANT
Dartmoor / Music / Photography / Landscape / Bikes / Sea / Surf
https://refrakt.app/losingthelight
Between the moor and the sea.
Co-founder / director of @dartmoorcollective.org
#MDANT
Dartmoor / Music / Photography / Landscape / Bikes / Sea / Surf
https://refrakt.app/losingthelight
How in the name of all that is holy have I not heard Sea Power's version of "I Am a Cider Drinker" before?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJAu...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJAu...
January 12, 2026 at 3:07 PM
How in the name of all that is holy have I not heard Sea Power's version of "I Am a Cider Drinker" before?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJAu...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJAu...
Amazing news! And so well-deserved.
We love Jaiyana's work and were really thrilled to feature "Go Back to Where?" in our current @dartmoorcollective.org Flow zine.
Keep an eye out for the photo appearing on a digital billboard near you very soon!
We love Jaiyana's work and were really thrilled to feature "Go Back to Where?" in our current @dartmoorcollective.org Flow zine.
Keep an eye out for the photo appearing on a digital billboard near you very soon!
January 12, 2026 at 2:57 PM
Amazing news! And so well-deserved.
We love Jaiyana's work and were really thrilled to feature "Go Back to Where?" in our current @dartmoorcollective.org Flow zine.
Keep an eye out for the photo appearing on a digital billboard near you very soon!
We love Jaiyana's work and were really thrilled to feature "Go Back to Where?" in our current @dartmoorcollective.org Flow zine.
Keep an eye out for the photo appearing on a digital billboard near you very soon!
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OPENING EVENT FRIDAY NIGHT!
6-8PM
TURNER HOUSE PENARTH
6-8PM
TURNER HOUSE PENARTH
FOLKS! Throw off your post-XMAS/NY slump and get back to life! Two weeks tonight (16th of Jan) is the opening event for "Shed ands Objects of Equal Importance" in Turner House, Penarth
A heroic breakdown of everything sheds, by me and Lee John Phillips
A heroic breakdown of everything sheds, by me and Lee John Phillips
January 12, 2026 at 10:36 AM
OPENING EVENT FRIDAY NIGHT!
6-8PM
TURNER HOUSE PENARTH
6-8PM
TURNER HOUSE PENARTH
Much as I love the Four Tet reworking, the original just gets me every time...
youtu.be/04J0ihSeIuI?...
youtu.be/04J0ihSeIuI?...
Into Dust
YouTube video by Mazzy Star - Topic
youtu.be
January 12, 2026 at 11:00 AM
Much as I love the Four Tet reworking, the original just gets me every time...
youtu.be/04J0ihSeIuI?...
youtu.be/04J0ihSeIuI?...
Still a long way to go but some good news.
The number of breeding Eurasian Curlew on Dartmoor has shown a marked recovery, according to organisers of a five-year conservation programme aimed at preventing the species' local extinction:
Curlew recovery noted on Dartmoor after five-year conservation effort
The number of breeding Eurasian Curlew on Dartmoor has reached its highest level for three decades, following five years of targeted conservation work involving habitat restoration and headstarting.
bit.ly
January 12, 2026 at 9:57 AM
Still a long way to go but some good news.
Post a pic of the venue where you saw your first concert and the band or artist.
March 1990
University of Bangor Student Union
The Fall
March 1990
University of Bangor Student Union
The Fall
January 11, 2026 at 7:09 PM
Post a pic of the venue where you saw your first concert and the band or artist.
March 1990
University of Bangor Student Union
The Fall
March 1990
University of Bangor Student Union
The Fall
Made pasties out of some leftover vegetable curry and ready-made puff pastry and have zero regrets.
January 11, 2026 at 4:01 PM
Made pasties out of some leftover vegetable curry and ready-made puff pastry and have zero regrets.
In stark contrast to yesterday, some "character building" weather on the moor today for our boy's first Ten Tors training walk of the year - 40mph winds and sideway rain.
He's doing the 55 mile route this year - today's route is 20 miles from Postbridge with full kit... it'll be absolutely sodden.
He's doing the 55 mile route this year - today's route is 20 miles from Postbridge with full kit... it'll be absolutely sodden.
January 11, 2026 at 11:31 AM
In stark contrast to yesterday, some "character building" weather on the moor today for our boy's first Ten Tors training walk of the year - 40mph winds and sideway rain.
He's doing the 55 mile route this year - today's route is 20 miles from Postbridge with full kit... it'll be absolutely sodden.
He's doing the 55 mile route this year - today's route is 20 miles from Postbridge with full kit... it'll be absolutely sodden.
It's the Strathpuffer mountain bike race this weekend - 24 hours of ragging bikes around a snowy forest in the Scottish highlands with only 7 hours of daylight.
Bonkers, obviously, but it looks an absolute hoot.
Maybe one year when I'm fitter...
strathpuffer.co.uk
Bonkers, obviously, but it looks an absolute hoot.
Maybe one year when I'm fitter...
strathpuffer.co.uk
Strathpuffer 24 Mountain Bike Endurance Event in Strathpeffer
Strathpuffer 24 Mountain Bike Endurance Event in Strathpeffer, in the Scottish Highlands.
strathpuffer.co.uk
January 10, 2026 at 6:19 PM
It's the Strathpuffer mountain bike race this weekend - 24 hours of ragging bikes around a snowy forest in the Scottish highlands with only 7 hours of daylight.
Bonkers, obviously, but it looks an absolute hoot.
Maybe one year when I'm fitter...
strathpuffer.co.uk
Bonkers, obviously, but it looks an absolute hoot.
Maybe one year when I'm fitter...
strathpuffer.co.uk
Been stuck in the house for most of the week due to the weather but managed to wobble my way up to Mardon stone circle this afternoon - My first properly off piste walk since my knee op.
The light was stunning - and the air beautifully still.
#Dartmoor
The light was stunning - and the air beautifully still.
#Dartmoor
January 10, 2026 at 4:02 PM
Been stuck in the house for most of the week due to the weather but managed to wobble my way up to Mardon stone circle this afternoon - My first properly off piste walk since my knee op.
The light was stunning - and the air beautifully still.
#Dartmoor
The light was stunning - and the air beautifully still.
#Dartmoor
What was your #ChildhoodCinema?
The Plaza, Bangor.
A good hour on the bus from home, but very handy if you wanted to pick up some lugworm and mackerel feathers after the show.
Briefly taken over by an independent in the 2000s but now sadly demolished.
The Plaza, Bangor.
A good hour on the bus from home, but very handy if you wanted to pick up some lugworm and mackerel feathers after the show.
Briefly taken over by an independent in the 2000s but now sadly demolished.
January 9, 2026 at 2:22 PM
What was your #ChildhoodCinema?
The Plaza, Bangor.
A good hour on the bus from home, but very handy if you wanted to pick up some lugworm and mackerel feathers after the show.
Briefly taken over by an independent in the 2000s but now sadly demolished.
The Plaza, Bangor.
A good hour on the bus from home, but very handy if you wanted to pick up some lugworm and mackerel feathers after the show.
Briefly taken over by an independent in the 2000s but now sadly demolished.
I feel like "It sounds like old telly music" is perhaps underselling it here, but it's not wrong.
It's great - you should definitely listen.
It's great - you should definitely listen.
This is my new album.
It's instrumental, apart from some crowd chanting on Your Gold, Mr Bridger.
The average tune length is two minutes and eight seconds.
There are fourteen tunes.
It sounds like old telly music.
It's ace.
I'd love it if you listened.
I've love it even more if you shared it.
It's instrumental, apart from some crowd chanting on Your Gold, Mr Bridger.
The average tune length is two minutes and eight seconds.
There are fourteen tunes.
It sounds like old telly music.
It's ace.
I'd love it if you listened.
I've love it even more if you shared it.
Library Music, by Darren Riley
14 track album
ballardpop.bandcamp.com
January 9, 2026 at 1:39 PM
I feel like "It sounds like old telly music" is perhaps underselling it here, but it's not wrong.
It's great - you should definitely listen.
It's great - you should definitely listen.
Dial-a-Disc.
A service provided by the Post Office where you could dial 160 to hear a current top 10 record on a loop.
Astonishingly it lasted until 1991...
Trying to hack it to get free plays in a phonebox was a rite of teenage passage in rural areas.
retroscoop.wordpress.com/2014/02/05/d...
A service provided by the Post Office where you could dial 160 to hear a current top 10 record on a loop.
Astonishingly it lasted until 1991...
Trying to hack it to get free plays in a phonebox was a rite of teenage passage in rural areas.
retroscoop.wordpress.com/2014/02/05/d...
January 9, 2026 at 12:27 PM
Dial-a-Disc.
A service provided by the Post Office where you could dial 160 to hear a current top 10 record on a loop.
Astonishingly it lasted until 1991...
Trying to hack it to get free plays in a phonebox was a rite of teenage passage in rural areas.
retroscoop.wordpress.com/2014/02/05/d...
A service provided by the Post Office where you could dial 160 to hear a current top 10 record on a loop.
Astonishingly it lasted until 1991...
Trying to hack it to get free plays in a phonebox was a rite of teenage passage in rural areas.
retroscoop.wordpress.com/2014/02/05/d...
Watched The Life of Chuck last night.
It's had mixed reviews, and I'm sure it'll be divisive, but I loved it - a bit schmaltzy but also bittersweet, beautiful and profoundly weird in equal measure, with some genuinely joyful, laugh out loud moments.
Feels like a potential future sleeper classic.
It's had mixed reviews, and I'm sure it'll be divisive, but I loved it - a bit schmaltzy but also bittersweet, beautiful and profoundly weird in equal measure, with some genuinely joyful, laugh out loud moments.
Feels like a potential future sleeper classic.
January 9, 2026 at 10:38 AM
Watched The Life of Chuck last night.
It's had mixed reviews, and I'm sure it'll be divisive, but I loved it - a bit schmaltzy but also bittersweet, beautiful and profoundly weird in equal measure, with some genuinely joyful, laugh out loud moments.
Feels like a potential future sleeper classic.
It's had mixed reviews, and I'm sure it'll be divisive, but I loved it - a bit schmaltzy but also bittersweet, beautiful and profoundly weird in equal measure, with some genuinely joyful, laugh out loud moments.
Feels like a potential future sleeper classic.
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The charts are looking... colourful.
January 8, 2026 at 2:59 PM
The charts are looking... colourful.
Blimey.
Red warning now in effect from 4pm for most of Cornwall.
Stay safe Kernow pals...
weather.metoffice.gov.uk/warnings-and...
Red warning now in effect from 4pm for most of Cornwall.
Stay safe Kernow pals...
weather.metoffice.gov.uk/warnings-and...
UK weather warnings
Met Office UK weather warnings for rain, wind, snow, ice, fog, thunderstorm, lightning and extreme heat.
weather.metoffice.gov.uk
January 8, 2026 at 2:38 PM
Blimey.
Red warning now in effect from 4pm for most of Cornwall.
Stay safe Kernow pals...
weather.metoffice.gov.uk/warnings-and...
Red warning now in effect from 4pm for most of Cornwall.
Stay safe Kernow pals...
weather.metoffice.gov.uk/warnings-and...
January 8, 2026 at 1:56 PM
This looks like a great initiative from National Trails UK.
Really interested in seeing the results.
www.nationaltrails.uk/news/shiftin...
Really interested in seeing the results.
www.nationaltrails.uk/news/shiftin...
Shifting Perceptions: Photography grants for emerging talent from communities under represented in nature visuals
Reshaping how diversity, access and inclusion on UK National Trails are seen
www.nationaltrails.uk
January 8, 2026 at 9:28 AM
This looks like a great initiative from National Trails UK.
Really interested in seeing the results.
www.nationaltrails.uk/news/shiftin...
Really interested in seeing the results.
www.nationaltrails.uk/news/shiftin...
Carving down the steep hill to Sennen Cove on a skateboard.
Wheels hit a patch of wind-blown sand and stopped very suddenly. I didn't... thankfully nothing broken but a nasty case of roadrash.
I was 35.
<Skips over current ruptured quad sustained slipping on wet grass 500m up a Welsh mountain>
Wheels hit a patch of wind-blown sand and stopped very suddenly. I didn't... thankfully nothing broken but a nasty case of roadrash.
I was 35.
<Skips over current ruptured quad sustained slipping on wet grass 500m up a Welsh mountain>
What's the most ridiculous way you ever hurt yourself? I got out of the tub, skidded in water and tripped over the toilet. Ankle sprain.
😅
😅
January 6, 2026 at 2:45 PM
Carving down the steep hill to Sennen Cove on a skateboard.
Wheels hit a patch of wind-blown sand and stopped very suddenly. I didn't... thankfully nothing broken but a nasty case of roadrash.
I was 35.
<Skips over current ruptured quad sustained slipping on wet grass 500m up a Welsh mountain>
Wheels hit a patch of wind-blown sand and stopped very suddenly. I didn't... thankfully nothing broken but a nasty case of roadrash.
I was 35.
<Skips over current ruptured quad sustained slipping on wet grass 500m up a Welsh mountain>
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This came up on a playlist. That bassline - you would have heard it on this track first.
Liquid Liquid - Cavern
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IL45...
Liquid Liquid - Cavern
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IL45...
www.youtube.com
January 5, 2026 at 12:26 PM
This came up on a playlist. That bassline - you would have heard it on this track first.
Liquid Liquid - Cavern
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IL45...
Liquid Liquid - Cavern
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IL45...
Interesting times can do one.
January 5, 2026 at 11:08 AM
Interesting times can do one.
Should really be working but got a bit distracted by this brilliant collaboration between @kathrynjoseph11.bsky.social and @barry.mogwai.scot which I didn't know existed - it's great.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=20HV...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=20HV...
January 5, 2026 at 10:33 AM
Should really be working but got a bit distracted by this brilliant collaboration between @kathrynjoseph11.bsky.social and @barry.mogwai.scot which I didn't know existed - it's great.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=20HV...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=20HV...
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The Long Stone on Dartmoor with Kestor in the background. It was used as a parish boundary marker and has "GP" and "DC" carved into it (Gidleigh Parish and Duchy of Cornwall). An amazing part of the moor with stone rows, standing stones, hut circles and field systems all around.
#standingStoneSunday
#standingStoneSunday
January 4, 2026 at 10:38 AM
The Long Stone on Dartmoor with Kestor in the background. It was used as a parish boundary marker and has "GP" and "DC" carved into it (Gidleigh Parish and Duchy of Cornwall). An amazing part of the moor with stone rows, standing stones, hut circles and field systems all around.
#standingStoneSunday
#standingStoneSunday
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January 4, 2026 at 8:01 AM
Reposted by Jon Vernon
If kidnapping and exfiltrating other countries’ heads of state who may or may not have been legitimately elected but pose a problem in your opinion is legit now, someone has the opportunity to do something really funny…
January 3, 2026 at 10:59 AM
If kidnapping and exfiltrating other countries’ heads of state who may or may not have been legitimately elected but pose a problem in your opinion is legit now, someone has the opportunity to do something really funny…