The Wirral is underrated for walking - some really great routes. 13.2 mile walk this weekend completed. Training for the Macmillan Mighty Hike in five weeks (😬) - please donate! www.justgiving.com/team/thewate...

Saw a circumzenithal arc above my garden - an upside down rainbow sometimes called a ‘smile in the sky’ caused by refraction of sunlight through ice crystals. Apparently not rare but often out of sight above the clouds.

Saw @pigsx7.bsky.social at Birkenhead’s marvellous @futureyard.org last night - doom sludge metal glam stomp-a-rama! Wonderful stuff. Congratulations to Luka (sp?) for winning the Headbanger Of The Night Award. #musicsky #pigsx7

Tough but brilliant walk in the Shropshire Hills on Saturday. Weather was awesome. Saw two swifts! Spring is springing.

Google AI there, with its typically helpful and accurate search results.

In 2024 I designed the video backdrop for Alan Bleasdale’s Boys From The Blackstuff by James Graham that played at the National Theatre Olivier and in the West End. Hopefully 2025 will have more exciting work in store!

Really excellent Folk Implosion show last night at Yes in Manchester. Natural One always sounded like it was from another planet - one of my favourite songs of the 90s. Lou Barlow is a bass guitar hero! #musicsky #manchester

Very sad to hear Frank Auerbach has died. Always loved his charcoal and chalk portraits, worked and reworked to give them an incredible life and intensity.

Kneecap being stunning tonight in Liverpool.

Really needed that.

#pendlehill #demdike