These trees outside our home provide beautiful cover for the ugly industrial warehouse they built shortly after we bought our flat. They make up for the loss of horizon view (in reality a derelict wasteland) making our close cozy and private. They provide shelter from the afternoon sun in summer allowing the kids to play outside freely.

Big kid decided each tree symbolises one of us, according to size. That’s me on the right. My neighbour wants to have me chopped down because I leave a mess on her car when she parks underneath.

Occasionally I like to lie on a blanket in our communal garden and just watch the trees swaying in the wind. During lockdown it was incredibly peaceful and calming watching the trees and the birds - crows, parakeets, pigeons, starlings, magpies, and red kites, geese and egrets flying by overhead.

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Israel so-called 'aid' programme for Gaza isn't about feeding the survivors.

It's just another phase in its genocide.

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Aside from our journey home taking four hours longer than expected, we had an amusing if disconcerting experience once we set off again.

According to our dumb electronic navigator, as we left Peterborough, the closer we got to home the longer it would take us to get there - the estimated journey time somehow kept increasing the further we travelled.

Fortunately, when we got to the Black Cat roundabout, we happened to notice that staying on the A1 would save us 46 minutes. A no brainer. But our stupid satnav said nothing and would gladly have continued sending us up the junction to the A421 and down the M1 on its preferred but needlessly extended drive.

We’re up to our eyeballs in AI, but unsupervised, my toaster is a wannabe arsonist and my satnav can’t tell me the quickest way home.

Had a blowout on the A1 just before Grantham, so took the opportunity to visit Margaret Thatcher’s birthplace while waiting for the tyre to be replaced.

A building wall features a sign for "Living Health" and a commemorative plaque for Margaret Thatcher.

Bertie’s ice cream van shut up shop at six on the dot leaving my little lad, who was next in line, without an ice cream.

I wasn’t sharp enough to capture the blue tits nesting in this wall-mounted ash tray.

A grey door is set in a textured white wall next to a sign advising against using the ashtray due to birds nesting.

Humberston light railway station, no longer in use, sadly.

A small, white railway signal box stands by train tracks amidst a rural landscape under a partly cloudy sky.A small, rundown building with a corrugated metal roof sits under a cloudy sky, surrounded by grass and shrubs.A weathered, graffiti-covered building with a red door and a chalkboard stands in a partially sheltered area with scattered debris on the ground.A piece of street art featuring a black cat with a red-faced expression is painted on the side of a weathered structure near railway tracks and lush greenery.A rural scene features a railway track beside a bike path with a "Stop" sign instructing to await further instructions.

My kids (and I) want to know why there’s a potato waffle in the beach information section of this noticeboard.

A beach information sign at Anthony's Bank warns of the absence of lifeguard services and provides safety instructions.

Contemplating the global situation and the history of settler colonialism at the Meridian line.

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Some spectacular skies yesterday afternoon.

A dramatic cloudy sky looms over a long pier stretching out into the sea on a sandy beach with a railing-lined walkway.A dramatic sky with dark clouds looms over a sandy beach and a pier jutting into the water.Dark storm clouds loom over a sandy beach with a clear patch of blue sky on the horizon.