I was on the Suffolk coast today. Watching a Zitting Cisticola. Like y’do.

My son Jonny in Tiananmen Square, Beijing, recently.

Here’s a video I captured over a period of 3 hours from my back garden observatory in Norfolk, UK on 2nd January 2025. Jupiter, Io and Ganymede. #astroimaging #astronomy

Cybermen don’t look so scary when they’re casually smoking a ciggie. #DrWho

Some Flammulina velutipes growing on an Elm log in the garden. #mycology

Mars and Jupiter this evening, captured from my backyard observatory in Norfolk, UK. Shown side by side at the same scale #astronomy #astrophotography

Abandoned Morris Minor discovered today at an isolated location in Norfolk.

My old boy has wonky eyes too and we love him!

In memory of the late, great Timothy West, here’s an extract from the programme of a play written by my dad in which he performed in 1964. Note that his wife, Prunella, is in bolder text than him! I guess she was a bigger star at the time.

Just bought this delightful painting by the lovely artist Pauline Fowler, originally trained as a sculptor whose day job till recently was creating prosthetic bodies and body parts for TV dramas!

Sizewell nuclear power station, as seen from Southwold beach a week or two ago.

I suppose I’d better post a cat pic now that I’m here. This is a cat I rescued from some friends whose daughter dumped it on them when she went off to Australia. She can go out of the cat flap, but doesn’t seem to know how to come back in and plaintively paws at the door.

Saw this in a restaurant in Hong Kong and thought ‘yuk’. Only just found out that the more accurate translation is ‘mouth-watering chicken’. I wish I’d tried it now.

à propos of nothing, and just because I like it, for my first ever post on BlueSky here’s a picture of a Ger (yurt)-shaped Karaoke bar I found in the middle of nowhere on a recent visit to Mongolia.