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This is a Radio Prague interview my half sister Sally and I did on learning of our grandfather’s actions after World War 2, how he witnessed a massacre of Sudeten Germans + how he and volunteers relocated + resettled 80,000+ anti-fascist refugees english.radio.cz/anti-fascist... #80Years #NeverAgain

The Dolmen de Couminge in the Ariège region, part of the three dolmens hiking trail. This one would have commanded grand view from the ridge but now is surrounded by scrub and next to someone’s garden. #TombTuesday

Back in Wales again after two years (although in the north this time) here’s one from Waun Mawn in the Preseli Mountains on a subdued sunset on Halloween 2024. #StandingStoneSunday

Nine stones, Altarnun, in August 2026. For once not waterlogged, a rare sight. #StandingStoneSunday #BodminMoor #Cornwall

The Legastiaga menhir, in pine forest near the Dolmens of Artajona, near Pamplona/Iruna - Basque region of Spain, encountered as part of the megalithic hiking trail on a bitingly hot day on July 2026 #StandingStoneSunday

A possible new/undiscovered stone row on Bodmin moor aligning on the platform cairns of East moor. East moor already has one stone row, running north/south. Here are two of three stones, of a similar type (low, flat, ridged in one case), that run east/west. #Cornwall #StandingStoneSunday

In la forêt de Toulfoën, this recumbent ‘menhir’ was raised in 1957 by the office du tourisme. Its provenance is dubious, but it symbolises the pardon of the birds, an ancient bird market held at the edge of the forest. #StandingStoneSunday #Britanny #Bretagne #Breizh

The Devil’s Arrows from a walk in sub zero temperatures in January 2022. When I saw the BBC article www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... I thought the cross in Aldborough looked familiar and that’s because it had been part of the same walk! #StandingStoneSunday

The Christianised Iron Age stele in Commana village centre in #Brittany #Bretagne #Breizh a couple of weeks ago near sunset #StandingStoneSunday

Butterflies photographed on my recent travels across Spain and France. Nothing earth shatteringly unusual, but nice to see, a Brown Argus, a Sooty Copper, a Grizzled Skipper and a Tree Grayling. #Butterflies #BugSky #NatureSky #Insects

The five metres plus menhir de Kerelcun, in the post eclipse light of Wednesday, near the hamlet of Kerelcun. #StandingStoneSunday #Brittany #Bretagne #Breizh #France

The Dolmen de la Cap Pouech in Ariege, France. There are only 15 identified dolmens in the Ariege, this one above Mas d’azil is one of the finest. #TombTuesday

One of the most charismatic British butterflies, Silver washed fritillaries often float in like they own the place, scattering all before them, not adverse to chasing bees and wasps too. #ButterflyWeek #Butterflies #Insects #BugSky #Cornwall

For Tuesday, let’s have the under appreciated Ringlet. One of the stalwarts on my transect, keeping me on my feet for identification amongst Meadow Browns. One week a year we get blooms of 100s in an uncut field near us. #ButterflyWeek #Butterflies #Insects #NatureSky #Cornwall

I’m the transect walker (surveying butterflies at Golitha Falls #Cornwall ) since 2023. 2024 = awful, 2025 = ok, so far 2026 is better again, and one of the species having a great year is the red admiral. Strong flyers, feed on nettles, always striking. #ButterflyWeek #butterflies #Bugsky #Insects

Right, I've been given free reign to "host" a butterfly week hashtag if I so wish. I've no idea what this entails, other than bigging up butterflies sharing posts and commenting. So if anyone is up for a #ButterflyWeek fest beginning on Monday, like, share and comment on this post, if you fancy. 🦋😀

Cowper’s cross on Ilkley moor, a 16th/17th century cross (although I see 12th century also mentioned without attribution as well as possible Christianised menhir) that stands beside an old Roman road. #StandingStoneSunday

Been a wonderful week for butterflies, I checked my transect figures and the totals are already trending well above 2025. #Butterflies #Insects #Cornwall #NatureSky @savebutterflies.bsky.social

45 years after my father, who would have been 100, proposed we visit Arbor Low, I finally made the trip, on my own. Photos don’t do justice to this stunning recumbent (and to my mind intentionally recumbent, no post holes) stone circle, one of the UK’s best. A magical place. #StandingStoneSunday

Some of our local moths #Cornwall that have been popping in and out of the open doors of our house in the super hot weather. #Teammoth #MothsMatter #Insects #NatureSky

Couldn't happen now but on 01/10/2003 Peel played Screaming Drums by Open E on Radio 1. This was surprising as Jim and I sent an unsolicited tape of this, our side project, he chose the most unhinged track! Now 23 yrs on here it is open-e.bandcamp.com/album/eyesor... #experimental #ambient #musicsky

Less than 6 months after an op to reconstruct my patella tendon after fully rupturing it ( 6 weeks in a brace including sleeping in it), I’m delighted to be allowed to complete a parkrun. Wasn’t certain at the time of injury if I would be able run properly again. Amazing turnaround #RunSky #Injury

A partially fallen stone, part of Colvannick stone row, Cardinham on Bodmin Moor, #Cornwall taken with a hailstorm fast approaching, 2 years ago. #StandingStoneSunday

Lot of great records dropped recently, big fan of this: taraclerkintrio.bandcamp.com/album/somewh...

Two stones from King Arthur’s Hall (a rectangular Neolithic enclosure) framing the distant peak of Bronn Wennili #Cornwall #StandingStoneSunday

Interesting that the idea of another EU referendum is regularly discussed on broascast media as something that would cause division and thus a bad idea. But plans to deport literally millions of people are discussed as administrative questions.

Up country today in the capital, with a distinct paucity of menhirs, but this rock in the Dell agarden, Hyde Park is a little slice of Cornish granite and home. #Cornwall #StandingStoneSunday

Ooh err missus! Speckled yellows mating today in Cornwall. #TeamMoth #MothsMatter #Insects

This is an excellent thread on how politicians kowtowing to the extreme right merely emboldens and strengthens the extremes in a vicious cycle.

A windswept Stripple stones, in low light, on an Archaeoastronomy walk. (Folklore + tales told by @cornishbirdblog.com ) Rough Tor on the left on the horizon, Bronn Wennili (Brown Willy) on the right. Do the tops of these stones echo the high peaks in the background? #Cornwall #StandingStoneSunday

This really is quite something. In the 15 years @carbonbrief.org have tracked UK media, 2025 was first ever year where more newspaper editorials opposed #climate action than supported it. Meanwhile, the *actual* climate crisis deepens by the month. Go figure.

Your 'moment of doom' for May 15, 2026 ~ The deck chairs need rearranging. www.bbc.com/weather/arti...

The Merry Maidens stone row, near Wadebridge, #Cornwall . A wonderful set of quartz streaked menhirs that remains difficult to access despite its proximity to the road, because you either take your life in your hands walking the verge or scramble over brambles and barbed wire. #StandingStoneSunday

The menhir de Couinandré, found on the outskirts of Plouescat at the end of an intense day of megalith hunting last October. Four metres high and a bit overgrown, but still impressive. #StandingStoneSunday #Brittany #Bretagne #Breizh

Before today’s transect there was a lovely brimstone moth on the front door. Then I had painted ladies and green veined whites dominate proceedings with a least black arches napping at the base of a tree. Today’s count higher than any transect I did in 2024. #Butterflies #Moths #TeamMoth #Cornwall

One of the holed stones of Tregeseal, St Just #Cornwall taken nearly a decade ago after just avoiding a stampede of scared cattle. #StandingStoneSunday

The menhir de Quélénec on the edge of the fabulous nature reserve Les Landes de Locarn #Brittany #Bretagne #Breizh #StandingStoneSunday

First run since my patella tendon repair surgery on a full rupture, 4 months ago (follow physio program). Felt a little stiff, but no more than that. Delighted to be back so soon, it has been a long road. #RunSky #Injury

This is wonderful!

This is a good (and hopeful) article about the important citizen science UKBMS project (of which I’m part of) that the negative headline doesn’t reflect www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #Butterflies

Two quartz freckled giants from the Duloe stone circle #Cornwall taken near sunset last year in summer. Will be back to see how they look under a full moon. #StandingStoneSunday

Le Table du sacrifice, a fallen dolmen in part of the Geants de Kerzeho alignments in Erdeven, #Brittany, #Bretagne, #Breizh both stones are 6 metres plus! #StandingStoneSunday

Looking out from West Kennet Long Barrow a couple of years ago. #TombTueaday

The recently restored Leaze #1 stone circle on Bodmin moor #Cornwall , last Sunday on a guided walk to (King) Arthur’s Hall. #StandingStoneSunday

One corner of the Quadrilateral of Crucuno, #Brittany #Bretagne #Breizh, taken last summer. While stone circles are common, rectangles are quite rare. No idea what the red ribbon around the tree is for. #StandingStoneSunday

Tregarrick menhir overlooking Siblyback lake in #Cornwall. You could be tricked into thinking its siting involved the lake but the stone has been here for thousands of years and the lake just decades. Picture taken 2024 #StandingStoneSunday

Sunday’s visit to a mist shrouded Warbstow Bury hillfort, #Cornwall ‘s second largest hillfort with @kateullman.bsky.social showed a hugely impressive piece of engineering that fell out of use when the Romans arrived. #HillfortsWednesday

The Tibblestone, an ancient pitted stone on a crossroads near Tewkesbury on a garage forecourt. Lost and found buried by a gardener in 1948. One of Gloucestershire’s very few standing stones. #StandingStoneSunday #UrbanPrehistory

England’s tallest standing stone, the Rudston monolith, photographed 4 years ago at sunset. #StandingStoneSunday