Patrick McCormack

Miss Binks would like to inform everyone it is #nationalblackcatday abd she is ready to receive treats, tickles and autumn sunshine #blackcat

Chûn Quoit, April 2026 #tombtuesday

Current lunch view, Wiltshire

Gilgamesh prepares to give his cat a worming tablet, sighs "I wish Enkidu were still here to help with this!"

Bassenthwaite Lake this afternoon.

Beautiful autumn in #Meirionydd #cymru #midwales #merioneth #wales

Tregeseal stone circle, spring 2026. #standingstonesunday

Nothing like laying down with a good book after a hard day of being a Penitent Saint. Mary Magdalene by Cristofano Allori after Correggio.

Lovely riverside walk along the Afon Ysgethin & up the Ardudwy trail to the isolated drovers & pack horse bridge at Pont Scethin surrounded by the Rhinog Mountains. Gill & I had always intended to visit here after seeing Fay Godwin’s photos of it & hopefully she was there in spirit.

Landscape of the Moon's Last Phase https://www.wikiart.org/en/paul-nash/landscape-of-the-moons-last-phase-1944

This Is Just To Say I have eaten the poems that were in your typewriter and which you were probably saving for National Poetry Day Forgive me they were delicious so sweet and so bold #NationalPoetryDay

Michaelmas Day 29th September. ‘A Day in Autumn’ - #RSThomas (Poetry for Supper, Rupert Hart-Davis 1958)

Landscape of the Moon's Last Phase https://www.wikiart.org/en/paul-nash/landscape-of-the-moons-last-phase-1944

Miss Binks and the Monkey enjoying #Caturday morning. They were gathering their strength before an afternoon of climbing fruit trees 😸

It's European Day of Languages, so here are some of our favourite untranslatable and wonderfully-specific words from across Europe that we wish we had in English ✨

Sleeping Antelope, Saharan Rock Art, Algeria, ca. 9000 BCE

Welsh poet RS Thomas died #OnThisDay in 2000. Here's a tribute by Rowan Williams (patron of the RS Thomas & ME Eldridge Society)…

Glorious Godwin. For the cover of 'Remains of Elmet' and 'Elmet', responding to Ted Hughes' poems. #faygodwin #tedhughes #elmet

The giant earth ripples of Hambledon Hill last Sunday. Lay in the wind-shade on top, ate lunch and watched kites, buzzards and crows against the blue, isolated cirrus skeins drifting eastward high over Blackmore Vale ☺️ #hillfortswednesday #Hambledon #dorset

"We've arranged a society based on science and technology, in which nobody understands anything about science and technology. And this combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces." - Carl Sagan ....and here we are 🙄😒

My first morning in the Omaze house. I didn’t sleep. I could hear crying from behind the door I’m not allowed to open.The only thing to eat is frozen prawns. I went for a wander round the 4 acre garden and found a box of VHS tapes marked ‘For the next one’. I’m sure it’s fine. I’m sure it’s all fine

On coming home from my week in #Meirionydd #Cymru, Mr Monkey has been seeking me out to give me lots of head butts, nuzzles and plenty of lap-work #caturday #merioneth #wales

Farage's Reform never lets the truth get in the way of a publicity opportunity.

More postcards from #Meirionydd #Cymru ##merioneth #wales Thankfully, the rain held back on my annual pilgrimage to Cwm #Ratgoed and most of the shrines were visited.

A few postcards ftom #Meirionydd #Cymru #abermaw #merioneth #wales #barmouth

Mid Wales is damp, and pleasingly so 😊

We should put this sign on every politician's desk

Old Woman Reading https://www.wikiart.org/en/rembrandt/old-woman-reading

This time next week 😊

Paul Nash, Eclipse of the Sunflower, 1945

Happy #WorldElephantDay!

"The cat was on the stairs to-night. I think it sits there always. There is no kitchen cat." 'The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral', M. R. James #BookwormSat #Caturday 🎨 Arend Hendriks - The Trap (c. 1930s)

The mulberry crop is now in full flow 😁 So messy, but such a unique flavour 😋 #mulberries

Today may be #internationalcatday, but Monkey hasn't noticed. After all, everyday is Monkey Day! #caturday

“AI has become a blunt instrument in the enterprise to impose precisely this form of sanctioned ignorance about America’s past...Taken together, [Trump’s & Musk’s] plans amount to a one-two punch, history in the hands of the corporate state.” My latest on AI & history: www.salon.com/2026/07/28/t...

Rain is forecast🤞 But Binks is asleep in the outdoor chair, so I can't bring it in! What to do? 😸 #caturday

A scene from Brian Friel's Dancing at Lughnasa at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, photo by Fergus Bourke, Irish documentary photographer (1934-2004).

Solar Music https://botfrens.com/collections/69/contents/20014

"Larry likes his breakfast at 9, brunch at 1030 and lunch at noon with plenty of snacks in between. The rest of the job is a doddle"

First mulberries of the season .. mmm! 😋 #mulberries

Mr F_ing Useless, aka Monkey, making his gardening contribution this #caturday

An authentic Pountney I think? In Treorchy today

Good morning. May your shelves be filled with kittens and books.

I’d love it if you’d sign this. It might not prevent me and my colleagues losing our jobs, but it will draw attention to the ideological vandalism being perpetrated by the wealthy execs running our university. Stop Redundancies at the University of Exeter - sign the petition below! c.org/NpvY4sR9gH