Scratch that. Improvised rain shield.

Nine year old dressed as a Viking

Viking dress up day.

Nine year old dressed up as a Viking

…people like you and I continue to have a vital role, as everybody does, in using the power of the people to wrest control from a vicious political class of killers.

Craig Murray: Has International Law Survived, or Has the Western Political Class Killed It?

Germany has announced it will intervene in the substantial case to support Israel. They argue explicitly that, as the world’s greatest perpetrator of genocide, they are uniquely placed to judge.

Craig Murray Your Man in the Hague (In a Good Way) Part 2

Perhaps nothing I did would help prevent genocide, but we all have to do that which is within our power to try.

Craig Murray Your Man in the Hague (In a Good Way) Part 2

…genocide is never justified. It is absolute, a crime in itself. No matter how appalling the atrocities committed by Hamas against Israel or Israeli citizens, a genocidal response was not appropriate and never could be.

Vaughn Lowe, via Your Man in the Hague (in a Good Way)

SSSSSNNNNAAAAKKKKEEEEE!

Very old photo (May? 1990).

Mesa Verde National Park.

Always thought it was a Rattlesnake.

Google Lens suggests it might also be a Pine snake.

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Walking through Mesa Verde National Park, random rocks and scrub, plus a large snake scuttling by with markings similar to a Rattlesnake or a Pine snake.

Irreplaceable! (I have a work commitment tomorrow morning.)

Heart skipped a beat (or several) when I saw this in the canal this morning…

View of a canal looking towards a bridge - in the dark water there's something orange...Close up of the orange something in the dark water of the canal - it's a hi-viz work jacket with a hood and arms...

Annual (eek!) morning walk.

Photo from the canal towpath looking towards a green narrowboat moored on the towpath side, with two white swans swimming in the black water