Obstinate, headstrong girl!

The Black Sea at night, 1879, Ivan Aivazovski

Medium: oil,canvas

youtubers, influencers, celebrities, and other general leeches on society: oh my God, isn’t quarantine the WORST? I know y’all aren’t doing anything during quarantine!!

students and people who still have to work:

Really wish all the other species of human hadn’t died out

I know we would’ve fucked it all up somehow but imagine the memes

Paranthropus boisei, about us:

Awww thay shits what im talking about

Neanderthals be like:

Rip Clarg, bffs forever

@thesevenumbrellas​

Back at it again

Be the change you wish to see in the world

(come on guys i can’t do this all by myself forever)

@gauntletknight​ just for you

suck it lucy

These are so funny oh my god my dream has come true

Long post warning! Today was my first day back ‘at work’ after a week off, so I decided to cheer myself up by photographing all the different types of flower in my garden. There were more than I’d realised!

First up: the Welsh poppy. I have a bunch of these, in various shades of yellow and orange

Next, pansies! Adorning a multitude of pots and window boxes. Bought half-dead from the Spar the day before we all went into lockdown - they’ve revived well!

Next on the list, bluebells, out early this year. These are Spanish bluebells. I do also have a few natives tucked away in odd corners, but they aren’t out yet

Beautiful dicentra

My gorgeous coronilla citronella, currently home base to a colony of ladybirds. Flowers all winter, October till May, without fail. The bees love it

Also Mecca for bees is Erysimum Bowle’s mauve, which flowers pretty much all year round, 12 months straight. I’ve had flowers on this one for six years and counting!

Next, the humble primrose. This one needs to be divided once the flowers start to fade - I can probably get four plants off the one clump here

Here’s a cluster of forget-me-not, which tends to wander pretty much wherever it feels like, really, from year to year. It started out in a pot, then seeded itself into the patio, and from there into the path, before finally establishing a foothold in the actual flower bed at last!

Arabis

Ajuga (bugle) - this, again, tends to wander around the garden wherever it feels like. Good ground cover, popular with bees

Rosemary - it has usually gone over by now, but still going strong

An early rock rose

osteospermum, first of the season, just beginning to open

Pulmonaria, going over now but still a few flowers hanging on

Aquilegia (columbine) - these are out fairly early this year

Tiarella

My little clematis majojo is beginning to go over now, but still beautiful

Feverfew

Red valerian

Some consider it a weed, but I’m growing it as a native wildflower: Campion - really hard to photograph on a windy day!

Bacopa, old and straggly but still flowering like mad

And because I’m encouraging a wildlife lawn and practicing weed tolerance, here’s some daisy

Dandelion

And herb robert!

Not pictured, because the damn camera wouldn’t focus: arenaria, armeria, alyssum, sweet woodruff, periwinkle, helichrysum and bergenia

That’s…a lot of flowers, and it’s still only April! My aim has always been to have something in flower all year round and it is paying off - the garden is a constant hum of bees already, and I’m starting to get a few early butterflies in as well!

sorry to harry potter post but I always find it interesting/annoying to find out what minor details of harry potter americans think rowling invented that are, in fact, merely normal parts of school education in the UK

like, imagine never knowing about school houses or prefects

i’m your biggest fan

Layered sedimentary rocks, maintaining flat orientation since time of deposition approximately 250 million years ago. The pocketed feature of the honeycomb weathering (tafoni) appears to occur preferentially in sand-dominated layers over the silt-rich layers.

Example from Sydney Basin, Australia.

“Speak whatever Irish you have”

batman not being in birds of prey is so funny to me bc its like once he hears about harley’s situation, he fucks off to a different country for a “vacation”, and gets the occasional update from alfred that’s like “well sir, she blew up the ace chemicals.” and bruce is like:

and then he goes back to doing weird justice league grade bullshit detective work.

Alfred: she got a hyena 

Bruce: oh shit

Alfred: she named it after you

Bruce: Aww

[Supplies Needed on Navajo Nation.

Dear friends,

I would like to share the following message from Dr. Sara Jager (who lived in PC while completing her residency at Primary Children’s), now a doctor on the Navajo Nation:

Want to help fight COVID?

I am a doctor on the Navajo reservation in Tuba City, Arizona. We are being hit hard by COVID. We do not have enough gowns, masks, or face shields to protect all of the members of our triage, ER, and inpatient units.

Here is what we need:

1) Homemade face masks - these will be given to coughing patients to containt the spread of the virus among members in the home as well as for use in the ER or other clinic visits. We may also use them over the top of the N95 mask to protect the N95 from contamination.

2) Homemade gowns for hospital personnel. We can send them through Hospital laundering services. This will help protect healthcare workers from the virus. Long sleeve, to the knee. Easily washable, probably cotton.

3) Face shields - people have been making these as well. This protects our eyes from couhging/sputum. These will be worn by healthcare workers seeing patients.

Usually these are single-use items, but we are reusing all of them right now.

Thank you,

Sara Jagar, MD

Lieutenant Commander, USPHS

Deputy Chief Pediatrics

PO Box 2561

Tuba City, AZ 86045]

If anyone has the time/resources/ability to, please help. Otherwise, please reblog to spread message that help is needed.

LITERALLY the most Lynch thing i’ve seen

Irish Tesco worker nails church acoustics in work stairwell

This is how Gregorian chant was meant to be sung.

the kicking of the handrails is what makes this

This is like a Monty Python sketch, I swear