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Drawings by my friend Kim Coley, an artist based in North Yorkshire - more at https://t.co/G8u6274qfG #blackbirds
@DougMcfarlane3 We must have been on the same route, here’s a photo of one of the 5 fires we counted. Smoke from the largest resulted in long cloud of pollution drifting off to Whitby. Other people also pulled over to record it (@moorlandmonitors)
Teaching for 3 days at Coniston, starting tomorrow; got here as dusk was settling in, so quiet, lake very calm, just bird-song, an owl hoot, giddy bats and a dog barking in the valley, you can almost taste the air
Sometimes, my dog reminds me of George Melly (if anyone's old enough to remember him - if not, look him up on Wikipedia)
A dragon's eye I found on the road today, reputed to keep spiders at bay...