Adam Butterworth
@adambutterworth.bsky.social
Tweets about rocks, film and politics Editor of the Alpine Journal. Digital and Comms for the Alpine Club, Mount Everest Foundation & others. Opinions are my girlfriend's, but you wouldn't know her. She posts on a different app.
Makes you realise how far we'd gotten from normality that a politician spelling out political choices in plain language seems so refreshing.
Michael@michaeljsc.bsky.social · yesterdayI’ve been a Burnham sceptic but - as a non-expert on this area - this seems like a pretty deft way to handle some pretty tough politics
Starting to reconsider my wish on that monkey's paw that the Conservatives Party be destroyed as an electoral force in British politics...
Luke Tryl@luketryl.bsky.social · 5d agoHow do the results in Greater Manchester Mayorality compare to previous elections? While Labour is well down on its 2024 vote it was significantly up on the locals in Greater Manchester, while both Reform and the Greens are down, with Restore Britain not far off 1 in 10 votes.
Delightful quote on the great Swiss mountain guide Melchior Anderegg: "After a quarter of an hour's instruction, Melchior was au fait at what I wished him to undertake, a heliostat then to him became an entity, and a beam of sunlight an object worthy of all respect."
Half the joy of employing a dog walker is that you receive better photos of your dog than you could ever manage.
Some fungi from today's wanderings. Chicken of the Woods and Dryad's Saddle, two of the best named mushrooms going.
To quote Hemingway: "Stitch Crocs, never worn."
Didn't get any photos of our own climbing today, but here's a bloke abseiling into 'Blue Sky's at Saddle Head.
More slabs! Off to find something steeper tomorrow.
Spent the day teetering up some fine Pembrokeshire slabs. Not shit.
Andy Burnham 12 hours into his new job and...
Adam Bienkov@adambienkov.bsky.social · 2w ago"Shabana Mahmood staying as Home Secretary to presumably continue her appalling record of performative cruelty towards migrants and refugees is a warning sign that Burnham has not learnt the lessons from Starmer's failure," says Zack Polanski
Big fan of this new thing they've brought in where it gets colder in the evenings. Think we should make it permanent.
Not a novel observation, but looking at these appointments, you don't exactly get the sense that Andy Burnham is a man with a particularly clear understanding of what's gone wrong for Labour, do you?
A few photos from yesterday: my car companion, a mossy tree I enjoyed and some clambering.
Always worth stopping for a pint on the way through the valleys. There'll be something entertaining about the pub. In this case, the toilet decor provided some interesting reading.
The Gower remains undefeated. Nice when a beach crag comes with a proper summit.
Have gone teetotal in an effort to combat a bout of insomnia and I have to say, the lack of alcohol is not helping with the stress of watching England.
Watching the highlights of last night's game and am of the opinion that in cases where a goal is very cool (Yamal's) we should ignore the close offside calls.
Edvard Munch, Magnus Carlsen, Roald Amundsen. Jonas Gahr Stør! Can you hear me, Mr Stør?! Your boys took a hell of a beating!
Give the ball to the lad from Stourbridge and we win. Simple as.
I hope the commentators have been Googling famous Norwegians just in case they get the opportunity to recreate THAT celebration
Rumours abound that he may be on to his third wash of the day.
Very pleasing bit of indexing. Just need an e and an o for the full set.
You find these quite often on Peak limestone. Seem to recall some impressive patches at Coal Hill Quarry.
Cormac MacFhionnlaoich@cormacscoast.bsky.social · 4w ago(1/2) Resembling the tiny parts of an impossibly intricate and eye-catching timepiece, strewn from a watchmakers toolkit, these are in fact fossil Crinoids, Corals, Bryozoans and Brachiopods.
I will vote for the first government whose single manifesto commitment is to do the exact opposite of whatever Simon Jenkins reckons it should. We'd live in a utopia in under a decade.
