Rhubarb Grumble
@rhubarbgrumble.bsky.social
Battersea Power Station is beautiful, and now there isn’t coal smoke billowing from those elegant chimneys it’s even better.
December 6, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Battersea Power Station is beautiful, and now there isn’t coal smoke billowing from those elegant chimneys it’s even better.
I like using the NESO app to plan my car charging - I charge the minimum necessary when the grid is dirty but right now it’s 91% zero carbon so I’m filling up.
November 11, 2025 at 7:38 PM
I like using the NESO app to plan my car charging - I charge the minimum necessary when the grid is dirty but right now it’s 91% zero carbon so I’m filling up.
It’s great fun lining those two buildings up
November 6, 2025 at 6:14 AM
It’s great fun lining those two buildings up
It was also the least timid spider I’ve ever met - wanted to move it off the path and marched straight onto my hand
October 15, 2025 at 9:32 PM
It was also the least timid spider I’ve ever met - wanted to move it off the path and marched straight onto my hand
Found this lovely one recently
October 15, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Found this lovely one recently
Lovely big Garden Spider, possibly gravid?
October 7, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Lovely big Garden Spider, possibly gravid?
An undisturbed part of Birchwood Forest Park with plenty of new saplings - this is #rewilding right? Just don’t mow it all and trees will seed themselves.
September 27, 2025 at 6:11 AM
An undisturbed part of Birchwood Forest Park with plenty of new saplings - this is #rewilding right? Just don’t mow it all and trees will seed themselves.
As a counterpoint he also talks about cultural capital, and there aren’t many people with more of that than Paul Weller
September 9, 2025 at 8:14 PM
As a counterpoint he also talks about cultural capital, and there aren’t many people with more of that than Paul Weller
Hope is the thing with feathers
August 30, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Hope is the thing with feathers
You can play with that graph (as with most if not all on the site) to show other regions/countries. Here’s the UK data
August 28, 2025 at 6:51 AM
You can play with that graph (as with most if not all on the site) to show other regions/countries. Here’s the UK data
Rate my neighbour’s cat
July 29, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Rate my neighbour’s cat
July 16, 2025 at 6:06 AM
Two of the biggest standing stones in Wales, and me. The taller stone spent some years as the end wall of a cottage, whose builders cut a notch in the stone for a roof beam
July 11, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Two of the biggest standing stones in Wales, and me. The taller stone spent some years as the end wall of a cottage, whose builders cut a notch in the stone for a roof beam
Does your cat like to bite grass? (Not my cat, but it does come to my garden for stroking and to bask on my deck)
July 3, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Does your cat like to bite grass? (Not my cat, but it does come to my garden for stroking and to bask on my deck)
Spot the plover! There is a nesting plover in this photo, the cones are there to stop people walking too near.
July 3, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Spot the plover! There is a nesting plover in this photo, the cones are there to stop people walking too near.
Cat bites grass
June 30, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Cat bites grass
Once again we’re generating so much renewable electricity we are exporting more than we are generating from gas. Feels inevitable that in the next few years we will have periods with no gas.
June 28, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Once again we’re generating so much renewable electricity we are exporting more than we are generating from gas. Feels inevitable that in the next few years we will have periods with no gas.
In the UK I’ve never seen a meter that isn’t in a cupboard. Here’s a random one from google streetview
June 28, 2025 at 6:03 AM
In the UK I’ve never seen a meter that isn’t in a cupboard. Here’s a random one from google streetview
Brazilian Embassy in London
June 27, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Brazilian Embassy in London
Feels like a map for @irishrainforest.bsky.social, but also look at the state of Wales, Cumbria and Northumberland! Could be so much more rainforest.
June 26, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Feels like a map for @irishrainforest.bsky.social, but also look at the state of Wales, Cumbria and Northumberland! Could be so much more rainforest.
Lyme Park cattle on my run this morning
June 21, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Lyme Park cattle on my run this morning
We’re exporting more electricity from the GB grid than is being generated by fossil fuels at the moment.
May 29, 2025 at 2:38 PM
We’re exporting more electricity from the GB grid than is being generated by fossil fuels at the moment.
GB grid, I keep seeing figures like this and trying to work out why people claim you can’t run a grid with more than 40% renewables
May 24, 2025 at 9:47 AM
GB grid, I keep seeing figures like this and trying to work out why people claim you can’t run a grid with more than 40% renewables
Painted my nails specially for a 40 mile run at the weekend. Hope I didn’t turn anyone gay.
May 16, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Painted my nails specially for a 40 mile run at the weekend. Hope I didn’t turn anyone gay.
Maybe you would prefer to head out towards Marple?
April 7, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Maybe you would prefer to head out towards Marple?