Patrick McCormack
@patrick-mcc.bsky.social
A wanderer, wonderer and picker-up of unconsidered trifles.
Goodbye 2025, hello 2026 😄
December 31, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Goodbye 2025, hello 2026 😄
Shortly thenafter, on emerging from the wooded summit of the hill, there was this panorama of the Levels, the Tor and the distant hills.
Tho' we've yet to complete this calendar year, it is reassuring that the sun has already begun, slowly, to fatten and has just woken the daffodils in the lane.
Tho' we've yet to complete this calendar year, it is reassuring that the sun has already begun, slowly, to fatten and has just woken the daffodils in the lane.
December 30, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Shortly thenafter, on emerging from the wooded summit of the hill, there was this panorama of the Levels, the Tor and the distant hills.
Tho' we've yet to complete this calendar year, it is reassuring that the sun has already begun, slowly, to fatten and has just woken the daffodils in the lane.
Tho' we've yet to complete this calendar year, it is reassuring that the sun has already begun, slowly, to fatten and has just woken the daffodils in the lane.
Paid my end-of-year respects to my favourite beech tree (within walking distance of home).
December 30, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Paid my end-of-year respects to my favourite beech tree (within walking distance of home).
A very rare sighting of one of the anaconda-beech tree chimaera of Cranborne Chase. Even the General (Pitt-Rivers) never set his eyes on one of these most elusive of creatures.
December 28, 2025 at 8:48 AM
A very rare sighting of one of the anaconda-beech tree chimaera of Cranborne Chase. Even the General (Pitt-Rivers) never set his eyes on one of these most elusive of creatures.
And that's "official"!
December 26, 2025 at 1:22 PM
And that's "official"!
Happy 25th to everyone from a chilly hilltop in west Wiltshire: 2°C and falling!
December 25, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Happy 25th to everyone from a chilly hilltop in west Wiltshire: 2°C and falling!
Happy Solstice! 🌞
Whether it's bright or grey where you are, the sun's strength is now growing each day 🌝
#solstice #edvardmunch
Whether it's bright or grey where you are, the sun's strength is now growing each day 🌝
#solstice #edvardmunch
December 21, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Happy Solstice! 🌞
Whether it's bright or grey where you are, the sun's strength is now growing each day 🌝
#solstice #edvardmunch
Whether it's bright or grey where you are, the sun's strength is now growing each day 🌝
#solstice #edvardmunch
Monkey was too exhausted by climbing trees this morning .. but if he had been awake, he'd have wished Milo a happy, sunny, sleepy #Caturday 😸
December 20, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Monkey was too exhausted by climbing trees this morning .. but if he had been awake, he'd have wished Milo a happy, sunny, sleepy #Caturday 😸
Is this also true for St Wendreda's, March? I've just added it to my Big List for 2026, as I'll be down in Flatlandshire visiting rels.
December 20, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Is this also true for St Wendreda's, March? I've just added it to my Big List for 2026, as I'll be down in Flatlandshire visiting rels.
On a similar note, this van was spotted in the staff car park of Musgrove Park Hospital, Taunton.
I was on my way to Dermatology to see, well, a plastic surgeon. We had a laugh over whether this is how waiting lists are being reduced 😁
I was on my way to Dermatology to see, well, a plastic surgeon. We had a laugh over whether this is how waiting lists are being reduced 😁
December 18, 2025 at 4:28 PM
On a similar note, this van was spotted in the staff car park of Musgrove Park Hospital, Taunton.
I was on my way to Dermatology to see, well, a plastic surgeon. We had a laugh over whether this is how waiting lists are being reduced 😁
I was on my way to Dermatology to see, well, a plastic surgeon. We had a laugh over whether this is how waiting lists are being reduced 😁
Here's another reminder of late summer in #Wales Contented cows in Cwm Maethlon / Happy Valley 😊
#cymru ##meirionydd
#cymru ##meirionydd
December 18, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Here's another reminder of late summer in #Wales Contented cows in Cwm Maethlon / Happy Valley 😊
#cymru ##meirionydd
#cymru ##meirionydd
Greetings, Milo, from Monkey, high up in his Cat Castle in the warm kitchen!
#caturday #proofofcat #monkeymonstercat
#caturday #proofofcat #monkeymonstercat
December 13, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Greetings, Milo, from Monkey, high up in his Cat Castle in the warm kitchen!
#caturday #proofofcat #monkeymonstercat
#caturday #proofofcat #monkeymonstercat
Happy Birthday, ED! ✍️
Exultation is the going
Of an inland soul to sea,
Past the houses past the headlands
Into deep Eternity.
Bred as we, among the mountains
Can the sailor understand
The divine intoxication
Of the first league out from land?
#emilydickinson #edickinson #poetry #Amherst
Exultation is the going
Of an inland soul to sea,
Past the houses past the headlands
Into deep Eternity.
Bred as we, among the mountains
Can the sailor understand
The divine intoxication
Of the first league out from land?
#emilydickinson #edickinson #poetry #Amherst
December 10, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Happy Birthday, ED! ✍️
Exultation is the going
Of an inland soul to sea,
Past the houses past the headlands
Into deep Eternity.
Bred as we, among the mountains
Can the sailor understand
The divine intoxication
Of the first league out from land?
#emilydickinson #edickinson #poetry #Amherst
Exultation is the going
Of an inland soul to sea,
Past the houses past the headlands
Into deep Eternity.
Bred as we, among the mountains
Can the sailor understand
The divine intoxication
Of the first league out from land?
#emilydickinson #edickinson #poetry #Amherst
Thanks for that link, I'm anticipating more "time well wasted"! I have her "a thousand crossings" - mesmerising luminosity of place and people.
December 8, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Thanks for that link, I'm anticipating more "time well wasted"! I have her "a thousand crossings" - mesmerising luminosity of place and people.
Es ist Krampus-Nacht! 👹
Warst du böse oder brav? 😈😇
Warst du böse oder brav? 😈😇
December 5, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Es ist Krampus-Nacht! 👹
Warst du böse oder brav? 😈😇
Warst du böse oder brav? 😈😇
November 29, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Also, an encounter with the wreck of a wood beast, twisted limbs frozen in its final, gale-torn moments.
#Quantocks
#Quantocks
November 25, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Also, an encounter with the wreck of a wood beast, twisted limbs frozen in its final, gale-torn moments.
#Quantocks
#Quantocks
A fine day on the Quantocks. Views to Dunkery, Rhossili, Gower, south Wales coast, Bannau Brycheiniog, Sugar Loaf, Skirrid Fawr and new Severn Bridge. Not inconsiderably pleased 😊
#Quantocks #landscape #exmoor #Gower #bannaubrycheiniog
#Quantocks #landscape #exmoor #Gower #bannaubrycheiniog
November 25, 2025 at 6:19 PM
A fine day on the Quantocks. Views to Dunkery, Rhossili, Gower, south Wales coast, Bannau Brycheiniog, Sugar Loaf, Skirrid Fawr and new Severn Bridge. Not inconsiderably pleased 😊
#Quantocks #landscape #exmoor #Gower #bannaubrycheiniog
#Quantocks #landscape #exmoor #Gower #bannaubrycheiniog
A chilly, but bright, pilgrimage to Cranborne Chase. Having paid my respects to The General in Tollard Royal, fine views (and frost-bitten ears) walking to Win Green and back. My reward: tea, cake and books in Shaftesbury 🫖🍰📚
#pittrivers #cranbornechase #Shaftesbury @foldedorset.bsky.social
#pittrivers #cranbornechase #Shaftesbury @foldedorset.bsky.social
November 23, 2025 at 9:39 AM
A chilly, but bright, pilgrimage to Cranborne Chase. Having paid my respects to The General in Tollard Royal, fine views (and frost-bitten ears) walking to Win Green and back. My reward: tea, cake and books in Shaftesbury 🫖🍰📚
#pittrivers #cranbornechase #Shaftesbury @foldedorset.bsky.social
#pittrivers #cranbornechase #Shaftesbury @foldedorset.bsky.social
Do I spy Krampus? 😈
November 17, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Do I spy Krampus? 😈
Black cats, in addition to their general witchy natures, have most especial powers of vision. Now on no.3 here!
November 16, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Black cats, in addition to their general witchy natures, have most especial powers of vision. Now on no.3 here!
A few years back, I hunkered down on the leeward side of Carn Galver with a thermos of tea and some flapjacks and was treated to an afternoon of shifting light, shadow and colour. And Porthmeor, amongst its ancient fields at the world's edge, overseen by this noble cloudscape. To be there now .. ☺️
November 8, 2025 at 4:50 PM
A few years back, I hunkered down on the leeward side of Carn Galver with a thermos of tea and some flapjacks and was treated to an afternoon of shifting light, shadow and colour. And Porthmeor, amongst its ancient fields at the world's edge, overseen by this noble cloudscape. To be there now .. ☺️