Richard Hughes @tevildopofc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Our swan family is returning! Photo credit @kellyhughes.bsky.social 010
Richard Hughes @tevildopofc.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Why, yes, this bunk is indeed ours. We will be keeping it. 020
Richard Hughes @tevildopofc.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Raise your paw if you’re a sook who refused to settle at after-dinner couch time last night until Tevildo lit a fire that wasn’t strictly necessary for warmth. 120
Richard Hughes @tevildopofc.bsky.social · 10/09/2026After half an hour misidentifying a simple piece of quartz, convinced it must be something complicated, I felt like quoting Gandalf: “Too simple for a learned lore-master in these suspicious days. Those were happier times.” 000
Richard Hughes @tevildopofc.bsky.social · 05/09/2026This is what happens when an elite athlete is stuck inside on a rainy day. 020
Richard Hughes @tevildopofc.bsky.social · 04/09/2026In which our hero adds tamarillo chutney to the sandwich. 040
Richard Hughes @tevildopofc.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Mrs Tevildo has just planted all the half-empty seed packets from last season. Tomatoes, pumpkins, sweet peas, kohlrabi… I filled pots with potting mix, wrote tags and generally did as I was told, happily. 000
Richard Hughes @tevildopofc.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Huge shout out to Chloe dog, and Theo and Possum cats for demanding and enforcing daily routine. It’s been stressful lately, holding on until the next job happens, and routine is a lifesaver. 100
Richard Hughes @tevildopofc.bsky.social · 14/08/2026That’s daunting. But then I remember what that old, mainstream life was. Constant stress, zero satisfaction, always on the brink of financial ruin with no end in sight. I’m glad I walked away. This at least means something. 020
Richard Hughes @tevildopofc.bsky.social · 05/08/2026This place is pretty fantastic if you’re into nature :) 010
Richard Hughes @tevildopofc.bsky.social · 03/08/2026In which our hero plunges into formal Vegetation Condition Assessment. 020
Richard Hughes @tevildopofc.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Tbh I was seeing our AI-driven end like this: there would have been more dignity in it. 001
Richard Hughes @tevildopofc.bsky.social · 26/07/2026Northern Pacific Sea Stars are spawning like crazy in the Huon estuary. 022
Richard Hughes @tevildopofc.bsky.social · 23/07/2026“Gandalf snuffed the air and looked back. ‘Winter deepens behind us,’ he said quietly to Aragorn. ‘The heights away north are whiter than they were; snow is lying far down their shoulders.’” 001
Richard Hughes @tevildopofc.bsky.social · 06/07/2026Right, “Ocean of Peace” might be more accurately translated as “Sao Cracker of Hot Jizz”, but this inclusion is fascinating to see… 000
Richard Hughes @tevildopofc.bsky.social · 03/07/2026Shortly after beginning this course in natural environments and conservation, I asked my tutor if there’s a lifetime’s work still to do around the lower Huon. The answer was an emphatic yes. Now I’m seeing how rich and diverse this place is, and I’m beginning to understand. 081
Richard Hughes @tevildopofc.bsky.social · 30/06/2026Free-swimming gonophore: I have no mouth and I must splooge. 000
Richard Hughes @tevildopofc.bsky.social · 25/06/2026In which our hero’s eyes begin opening to just how strange and beautiful this is. 000
Richard Hughes @tevildopofc.bsky.social · 21/06/2026Returning from a river walk to be greeted by the sound of Mrs Tevildo’s ‘cello :) 130
Richard Hughes @tevildopofc.bsky.social · 20/06/2026In which our hero walks the dog while Mrs Tevildo bakes her famous scones for after the village choir’s performance. 000
Richard Hughes @tevildopofc.bsky.social · 19/06/2026Unexpected turn of events: our hero receives a prize for a Uni course. Trilobite fossil casts, because it was for geology. 010
Richard Hughes @tevildopofc.bsky.social · 13/06/2026This isn’t just a pet but an exquisitely sensitive guardian and hunter. If she says there’s trouble ahead, I listen. Bless your alert and protective heart, big girl. 010
Richard Hughes @tevildopofc.bsky.social · 07/06/2026To the pine-trees upon the highland of Dorthonion I climbed in the Winter. Ah! the wind and the whiteness and the black branches of Winter upon Orod-na-Thôn! My voice went up and sang in the sky. Words by Tolkien, photo by Mrs Tevildo 000
Richard Hughes @tevildopofc.bsky.social · 04/06/2026A fine Lacrymaria asperospora, since you asked. 010
Richard Hughes @tevildopofc.bsky.social · 31/05/2026Going out to all my arts / humanities / social sciences homies… 041
Richard Hughes @tevildopofc.bsky.social · 25/05/2026The author’s note in Christa Wolf’s A Model Childhood is terrifying. 110
Richard Hughes @tevildopofc.bsky.social · 23/05/2026Then did Mrs Tevildo take to lawn maintenance in the manner of Dorothy the Dinosaur. 100
Richard Hughes @tevildopofc.bsky.social · 23/05/2026And lo! There was an immediate change to the mowing arrangements. 100
