Wordle 1,873 3/6 ⬜⬜⬜🟩⬜ ⬜⬜🟨🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Connections Puzzle #1150 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟩🟦 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩

Vincie's ice cream van, Byker, Newcastle upon Tyne, painting by Arthur Gills.

Strands #883 “There's nothing like it” 🔵🟡🔵🔵 🔵🔵🔵

Wordle 1,871 3/6 🟨🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟩🟩🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

#Poetry #Poetry #Death #Zen #ZenBuddhism

Strands #882 “Eyes on the prize” 🔵🔵🟡🔵 🔵🔵🔵

Wordle 1,870 4/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟨🟨⬜🟨 🟩🟨🟩🟨🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

A truly sobering time at #allotment #allotmentlife. Four months with no rain to speak of and a month of hosepipe ban. So different from even one month ago, with plum trees and apple trees withering and an infestation of codling moth throughout. Climate change in action. 😔

Strands #881 “"As if!"” 🔵🔵🟡🔵 🔵🔵

Wordle 1,869 3/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Wordle 1,868 4/6 🟨⬜🟨⬜🟩 ⬜🟩⬜🟨🟩 🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Wordle 1,865 3/6 ⬜⬜🟨🟩⬜ ⬜🟩⬜🟩🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Strands #876 “Let the journey begin” 🔵🔵🔵🔵 🟡🔵🔵

Connections Puzzle #1142 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪

Wordle 1,864 5/6 ⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜ 🟨🟩⬜⬜⬜ 🟨🟩⬜🟩🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Wordle 1,862 4/6 ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Harebells in the dunes at Embleton, Northumberland.

Really sad to hear that Meg Cox has died. She was an fine poet with many different registers. This poem of hers remains a top-notch, acerbic critique of the scene...!

Initial pessimistic thoughts on state of #allotment #allotmentlife improved with harvest of early and second early potatoes and shallots 😁

Connections Puzzle #1127 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟩🟩🟩🟩

Wordle 1,849 2/6 🟩⬜⬜🟨🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

#Odyssey In Homer’s Iliad (10.260-265), Odysseus’ helmet is described as being made of boar tusk and leather. The description matches this Mycenaean helmet from Tomb 515, Mycenae, Peloponnese, Greece. Dated 14th-13th century BCE (On display in the National Archaeological Museum, Athens). 📷 me.

Hey, Utah teens, if you enjoyed the films Shawshank Redemption and Stand By Me, you’re out of luck. The state won’t let you read the Stephen King novellas on which the movies are based. This concludes today’s lesson on fascism.

Utah Bans Its 36th Book From All Public Schools

Utah has banned more books from public schools in 2026 than any other year, and this week, they added their 36th title.

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Le Guin on the idea that there is a secret to getting good at writing.

Kakomancy it is!

Chaucer Doth Tweet@levostregc.bsky.social · last mo.

From nowe on, calle it not "Gen A.I." Calle it kakomancy, the which doth signifye "crappye magique."

This. Remove home secretary Mahmood and rip up her asylum plans, says Alf Dubs www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Remove home secretary Mahmood and rip up her asylum plans, says Alf Dubs

Exclusive: Labour peer who fled Nazis as a child says Andy Burnham has chance to ‘correct mistakes’ on refugees

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‘A total, utter nightmare’: small businesses on Brexit, 10 years on www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

‘A total, utter nightmare’: small businesses on Brexit, 10 years on

Cheesemakers, farmers, exporters and wine merchants say red tape, lack of vision and rising costs mean they have stopped trading, sold up or retired early

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