Andy Day
@andypday.bsky.social
Geographer in East Yorkshire. Retired teacher. Write a bit, garden a lot. Working on my tennis - could be the most exacting challenge yet. Set up the "Cloud Images" feed https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:j3jv7g73iyxesdm26wcp7phm/feed/aaaaw4ugntl2g Oh, & UTV
You pointed out nothing that the data doesn’t already show. The proportion of the UK population over 65 was significantly less in 1960 (left hand population pyramid) than it is today (right) - with all the associated welfare/health implications - and a smaller ratio of those working
November 26, 2025 at 5:27 PM
You pointed out nothing that the data doesn’t already show. The proportion of the UK population over 65 was significantly less in 1960 (left hand population pyramid) than it is today (right) - with all the associated welfare/health implications - and a smaller ratio of those working
Came across this. Relevant to certain parts of the world I can think of:
Not my words - those of Aldfrith, King of Northumbria 685-705 CE. Some truths endure; some leaders in the vast past had more insight and humanity than those who were given power hundreds of years later...
Not my words - those of Aldfrith, King of Northumbria 685-705 CE. Some truths endure; some leaders in the vast past had more insight and humanity than those who were given power hundreds of years later...
October 7, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Came across this. Relevant to certain parts of the world I can think of:
Not my words - those of Aldfrith, King of Northumbria 685-705 CE. Some truths endure; some leaders in the vast past had more insight and humanity than those who were given power hundreds of years later...
Not my words - those of Aldfrith, King of Northumbria 685-705 CE. Some truths endure; some leaders in the vast past had more insight and humanity than those who were given power hundreds of years later...
Nice bit of mammatus developing over the village this morning #clouds #cloudscape
July 27, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Nice bit of mammatus developing over the village this morning #clouds #cloudscape
I know it's considered a weed because it self-seeds with alacrity (as this clump has done) - but I am smitten with the vibrancy and stark form of purple toadflax. And the bees love it - so in good company
June 25, 2025 at 7:06 AM
I know it's considered a weed because it self-seeds with alacrity (as this clump has done) - but I am smitten with the vibrancy and stark form of purple toadflax. And the bees love it - so in good company
Early June morning taking in the veg garden. #besttimeoftheday
June 17, 2025 at 6:26 AM
Early June morning taking in the veg garden. #besttimeoftheday
Just two goldfinches feeding on the seed heads of perennial cornflower in the garden 🌱
May 13, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Just two goldfinches feeding on the seed heads of perennial cornflower in the garden 🌱
It's a wraparound. Probably sub-eds should've considered its format better - but more a comment on how Reform supporters have grouped themselves rather than an Observer issue I would suggest
May 4, 2025 at 8:14 PM
It's a wraparound. Probably sub-eds should've considered its format better - but more a comment on how Reform supporters have grouped themselves rather than an Observer issue I would suggest
The irony is, the last time we were caught in a heavy downpour was in the High Street of old town St Augustine back in mid February during our road trip around central & north Florida. A historic place for sure
April 30, 2025 at 7:41 PM
The irony is, the last time we were caught in a heavy downpour was in the High Street of old town St Augustine back in mid February during our road trip around central & north Florida. A historic place for sure
It looks like a bee, it sounds like a bee, it acts like a bee. But it's a fly. Bee-flies are out and about in gardens now and worth looking out for. This, from 10 mins ago in mine.. www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/bee... #gardening
April 7, 2025 at 3:43 PM
It looks like a bee, it sounds like a bee, it acts like a bee. But it's a fly. Bee-flies are out and about in gardens now and worth looking out for. This, from 10 mins ago in mine.. www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/bee... #gardening
Well you did ask.... ; )
April 7, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Well you did ask.... ; )
Delicately feathered contrail forming a cirrus fibratus cloud from our back garden this evening. OH says it looks like a quill pen #cloudscape
April 6, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Delicately feathered contrail forming a cirrus fibratus cloud from our back garden this evening. OH says it looks like a quill pen #cloudscape
Well, the age of mass consumption was nice while it lasted….
FTSE down nearly 10% in a month
FTSE down nearly 10% in a month
April 4, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Well, the age of mass consumption was nice while it lasted….
FTSE down nearly 10% in a month
FTSE down nearly 10% in a month
Glorious unobstructed view of (most of) the British Isles on April 2nd. Spring sunshine - everywhere wvs.earthdata.nasa.gov
April 3, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Glorious unobstructed view of (most of) the British Isles on April 2nd. Spring sunshine - everywhere wvs.earthdata.nasa.gov
If you watch #DiggingforBritain with @profaliceroberts.bsky.social you may remember the iron age chariot burial at Pocklington, E Yorkshire with the two ponies upstanding in the grave. Tonight a reconstruction of the shield on which the warrior was lain was revealed alongside the original find
March 28, 2025 at 9:58 PM
If you watch #DiggingforBritain with @profaliceroberts.bsky.social you may remember the iron age chariot burial at Pocklington, E Yorkshire with the two ponies upstanding in the grave. Tonight a reconstruction of the shield on which the warrior was lain was revealed alongside the original find
It's daylight robbery, Percival.... these young oafs buy far less from us than we purchase from them. They're RIPPING US OFF!
March 13, 2025 at 5:02 PM
It's daylight robbery, Percival.... these young oafs buy far less from us than we purchase from them. They're RIPPING US OFF!
Was in Florida 3 weeks ago, at Rollins University. They have a bronze tribute to alumni Fred..
March 7, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Was in Florida 3 weeks ago, at Rollins University. They have a bronze tribute to alumni Fred..
Leave the poor guy alone - TrumpEconomics is doing the £/$ exchange rate a power of good. This is the change over this last week...
March 7, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Leave the poor guy alone - TrumpEconomics is doing the £/$ exchange rate a power of good. This is the change over this last week...
The final dawn of Winter, leaving a frosty footprint as a memento. See ya; come on in, Spring - we've been not so much waiting as longing
February 28, 2025 at 7:14 AM
The final dawn of Winter, leaving a frosty footprint as a memento. See ya; come on in, Spring - we've been not so much waiting as longing
Letter in today's Guardian... refreshes my own shame at smilingly declining the offer by a young Muslim woman who offered me her seat in a Tube 6 years ago (as a white haired 60 something). There are times when the most generous thing you can do is let others' kindness flow
February 1, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Letter in today's Guardian... refreshes my own shame at smilingly declining the offer by a young Muslim woman who offered me her seat in a Tube 6 years ago (as a white haired 60 something). There are times when the most generous thing you can do is let others' kindness flow
And on my table. Two chapters in.
January 18, 2025 at 8:53 PM
And on my table. Two chapters in.
Looks like we've got a temperature inversion over East Yorkshire. Lower air chilled by sub-zero ground temps. so rising moist parcels of air are chilled, then come across a warmer mid altitude air layer; can't rise, so spreads horizontally. Grey cloud, & Drax power stn. emissions cloud to the west
January 11, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Looks like we've got a temperature inversion over East Yorkshire. Lower air chilled by sub-zero ground temps. so rising moist parcels of air are chilled, then come across a warmer mid altitude air layer; can't rise, so spreads horizontally. Grey cloud, & Drax power stn. emissions cloud to the west
Just came across this image I took from the garden 2 years ago. Still bemused at whether contrails were simply being laterally dispersed or were seeding new feathered cloud streams. Whichever - it was quite arresting… #clouds
January 6, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Just came across this image I took from the garden 2 years ago. Still bemused at whether contrails were simply being laterally dispersed or were seeding new feathered cloud streams. Whichever - it was quite arresting… #clouds
What's significant about today? Well here in East Yorkshire it marks the end of sunset getting earlier (in whole minutes). In a week's time it'll start creeping to be later. There's a warming Monday Mood-lifter. (Sunrise... ah that's another thing entirely)
December 9, 2024 at 8:43 AM
What's significant about today? Well here in East Yorkshire it marks the end of sunset getting earlier (in whole minutes). In a week's time it'll start creeping to be later. There's a warming Monday Mood-lifter. (Sunrise... ah that's another thing entirely)
Particularly pleased with this Pointsettia - bought it for Xmas last year and instead of disposing onto the compost heap as I usually do, pruned it very hard back in Jan and left it in the greenhouse all year behind some chilli plants. It's repaying the kindness much-fold
December 8, 2024 at 10:11 AM
Particularly pleased with this Pointsettia - bought it for Xmas last year and instead of disposing onto the compost heap as I usually do, pruned it very hard back in Jan and left it in the greenhouse all year behind some chilli plants. It's repaying the kindness much-fold