Yes, looks like it, lower leaves of lots of plants are more entire. Same with Musk Mallow etc

Nick Robinson was a Tory spokesman. Look at his history.

Beat my Festival Gardens record by 20! Pretty sure that I may have missed a few. Saw a other big congregation last week on Wirral, 75 in a field.

No plastic tubes? Got to be AI generated images.

So I've been camping in your garden for a month for nothing? Well thanks a lot.

So does Hygrocybe conica have a new Englaish name? Witch's Hat?

Let's just focus on doffing the cap.

Hate to say it.

A nice bit of Mammatus cloud in the first cloudscape.

Chaffinch locally extinct where I am. Probably four or five territories ten years ago. BBS on a 70 hectare farmland site with ancient woodland in Lancs last year, 1 singing make Chaffinch.

Brilliant, thanks.

Let's hope lightning strikes twice.

Do you have any decent book recommendations? Whenever I look in history book sections it's mostly Royals, a bit of Industrial Revolution and World Wars. I'd like a proper history of real English/ British people. Tolpuddle Martyrs, Chartists, Enclosure, clearances etc.

Zak Crawley? England one wicket down already

Schnorbitz is dead!

Interesting way to spell oil stealing. Then again is this really that far away from normal USA policy for the last few decades? International terrorists.

Yes, as a former Nickel Supra owner I can attest to that, the frustration of the vacuum that was formed when folding the draw tubes when wet. Recently purchased top end scope second hand. Amazing being able to use the higher magnification. Even top end scopes in 80's were useless at the top 25% mag.

I can't speak about item being discussed but my experience of 'crap' binoculars was that they'd leak, cloud up and go out of alignment within 18 months at best. Even paying close to £200 in early 90's. First pair of 'proper' bins could add 40 minutes either end of the day, still good after 20 yr.

There is a Ruddy Shelduck of dubious origin that hangs around on the Mersey. Been there for several years. I agree that they could have pictured a more representative species. Harbour Porpoise might have been suitable. They've returned to the Mersey in recent years.