Phil Aisthorpe 🔶️
@sandgrouse.bsky.social
Retired IT project manager. #LibDems 🔶️. Ex Labour, disillusioned idealist. I go for walks and take photographs. My 3 political wishes: 1 Green economy, 2 #PR, 3 #Rejoin 🇪🇺 #FBPE. Make that 4 - free 🇺🇦.
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Woodlands remind me of church windows. A tracery of branches filled in with panes of colurful leaves.
November 21, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Woodlands remind me of church windows. A tracery of branches filled in with panes of colurful leaves.
Autumn gold this morning.
November 20, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Autumn gold this morning.
'Cutting the national debt?' Has Rachel Reeves turned into George Osborne? She'll be reviving the 'structural deficit' nonsense next.
November 4, 2025 at 10:54 AM
'Cutting the national debt?' Has Rachel Reeves turned into George Osborne? She'll be reviving the 'structural deficit' nonsense next.
A wild day in South Yorkshire on Saturday.
November 2, 2025 at 11:36 AM
A wild day in South Yorkshire on Saturday.
Autumn in the park. Sunday morning.
October 19, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Autumn in the park. Sunday morning.
We planted this in 2017, and 8 years later, it's flowered for the first time! #plants #gardens #gardening
October 19, 2025 at 11:44 AM
We planted this in 2017, and 8 years later, it's flowered for the first time! #plants #gardens #gardening
Ooo look! The UK's most at risk of flooding constituency voted for climate denier Richard Tice. Still, I expect they'll get some support from the Lincolnshire mayor... climate denier Andrea Jenkins.
October 14, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Ooo look! The UK's most at risk of flooding constituency voted for climate denier Richard Tice. Still, I expect they'll get some support from the Lincolnshire mayor... climate denier Andrea Jenkins.
Spotted this small butterfly in Greece last week. I'm guessing mallow skipper? #butterfly #insects #Greece
September 19, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Spotted this small butterfly in Greece last week. I'm guessing mallow skipper? #butterfly #insects #Greece
First go with new lens! #InsectThursday
July 31, 2025 at 9:04 AM
First go with new lens! #InsectThursday
July 20, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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Pitcher plant, and inside one of the pitchers, a doomed wasp struggles to escape its fate. #insects #plants #wildlife #photography
July 6, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Pitcher plant, and inside one of the pitchers, a doomed wasp struggles to escape its fate. #insects #plants #wildlife #photography
BBC political news coverage. Why is it always about Farage?
June 7, 2025 at 5:38 AM
BBC political news coverage. Why is it always about Farage?
May 19, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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May 19, 2025 at 7:31 AM
No, not Iraq. Drought in South Yorkshire.
May 7, 2025 at 7:07 AM
No, not Iraq. Drought in South Yorkshire.
This is what happens when those 'left behind areas' are left behind.
April 25, 2025 at 7:51 PM
This is what happens when those 'left behind areas' are left behind.
Female orange tip feeding on the bluebells #butterfly #insects
April 23, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Female orange tip feeding on the bluebells #butterfly #insects
Other metals are available.
April 23, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Other metals are available.
If you live in South Yorkshire, you're never more than 1km from a pylon! I love 'em.
April 16, 2025 at 9:31 AM
If you live in South Yorkshire, you're never more than 1km from a pylon! I love 'em.
The Waterloo pottery kiln. Remnant of #Rotherham 's industrial past. Its last practical use was as a smallpox isolation ward.
April 10, 2025 at 9:06 AM
The Waterloo pottery kiln. Remnant of #Rotherham 's industrial past. Its last practical use was as a smallpox isolation ward.