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Like the loch. Formerly https://cohost.org/etc . I don't know how much I'll actually be using this. They/them.

Slowly constructing a site at https://zawn.dev/ where longer posts will hopefully end up.
Snow! A tiny bit! But also weird physics. I wonder what is causing these lines on the roof of the conservatory? They’re all approximately the same width and point roughly downslope, though that gets a bit more confused on the triangular panes.
January 5, 2026 at 12:11 PM
Alpine cloud inversion, with parapenter.
December 31, 2025 at 4:51 PM
This was sold to me as a croissant, but is very clearly a carré.
December 25, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Discover a “pandora of possibilities”, huh. I’m sure that the things pandora discovered were all great and she had no regrets, and that everyone at the mod has a well-rounded education.
December 21, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Round we go again.
December 14, 2025 at 2:05 PM
We got a good haul of these this year… tried a different variety that does better in british summers, and amazingly it did what it claimed.

The right-hand one was almost 4kg, and the weird-looking one on the left was 2kg, and the rest were over 3kg.
November 28, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Butternut.
November 28, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Wasp! I suspect this is a boy wasp, though I wasn’t prepared to pick it up to check. Long curved antennae and 7-segment abdomen are the signs here. He was tried and struggling to fly, and probably won’t live much longer.

#insect #wasp
November 7, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Visiting damp places.
November 4, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Burd.

Adult european herring #gull. The speckled feathers around the neck and back of the head are a sign of winter plumage, apparently.
October 28, 2025 at 7:00 PM
This is an absolute waste of silicon. It isn’t even a good summary of the regular search results, which despite being dealt a series of probably mortal blows by google, can still show that both terms are linked in the context of social media client software.
October 15, 2025 at 5:29 PM
This graveyard is always a good place for fungi, probably because of the vegetation rather than the residents, but who knows?

#fungi #fungiFriends #mushroomsky
October 15, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Dew on the asters this morning

#bloomScrolling
October 14, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Ripe magnolia fruit.
October 9, 2025 at 4:31 PM
#Hornet snuggling. There were a dozen or so flying around a low tree branch and a group of three on a leaf fell off and hit the ground, and the others joined in. I didn’t want to investigate closer, though.

#insects
October 8, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Stripey crocus! It looks quite a lot like a saffron crocus (Crocus sativa) but it is growing in a bit of a shady spot, and saffron crocus likes sunshine. The stigmas look bushier than I’d expect of saffron, too. I might go back tomorrow, and take some more photos.

#bloomScrolling
September 29, 2025 at 4:09 PM
I’ve been past this fountain quite a few times, and thought that the laminar flow effect was neat, but nothing amazing. Turns out when there’s a breeze it looks much more interesting, especially in freeze-frame.

#laminarFlow #fountain
September 19, 2025 at 8:14 PM
The upside of living in a well-built modern house is that it is very economical to heat, and easy to keep warm. The downside to that is the very lack of ventilation that keeps the heat in means the CO2 can’t go out.

Away for the weekend, and back to cold weather, closed windows and degraded sleep 😕
September 16, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Geology turns out to be an important thing for memorials. I grew up in granite country, and that stuff is hard and expensive to work. This gravestone is from sedimentary country, and whilst the engraving was easier and the text started out sharp and clear, it’s days of legibility are numbered.
September 15, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Wildlife in a neighbour’s garden. We’re not in a particularly urban space, but it still surprises me when I see muntjac trotting around like this.
September 12, 2025 at 9:26 AM
A wasp, wondering if a crumb of cheese from my lunch is good to eat. It wasn’t impressed.

#wasp #insects
September 11, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Thought it might be nice to go see the eclipse, but as is so common with uk astronomy, if I’m willing and able to go see it, there will be cloud, and I could see nothing. The front blowing over did look nice in the sunset, though.
September 7, 2025 at 7:39 PM
The contrast between the state of the disintegrating roof aspect and its neighbours is weird.

I remain unable to work out how to photograph buildings.

#urbandecay
September 6, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Free flowers! Self-seeded cyclamen (probably hederifolium) sprouting up through a gravelled path in our garden.

#bloomscrolling
September 6, 2025 at 10:04 AM
With sufficient experience in foraging, with good knowledge of local flow and seasonal patterns, you can get a good idea of where to find the best mushrooms.
August 27, 2025 at 3:23 PM