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tophermartyn.bsky.social @tophermartyn.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
One tiny flower of Gorse hidden deep within the plant on the warm cliffs of South Devon for #wildflowerhour
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tophermartyn.bsky.social @tophermartyn.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
A perfect Cranesbill sparkling in the warm sunshine of the South Devon coast #wildflowerhour
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tophermartyn.bsky.social @tophermartyn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Every time I find myself unblocking a toilet, squeezing under a muddy tractor, getting waist deep in filthy water or jumping up and down inside a wheely bin to compact bin bags of leaking rubbish at work I announce to whoever's listening that all those years at University weren't wasted.
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tophermartyn.bsky.social @tophermartyn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Tail end of the flowers on Hedera helix, common Ivy, flourishing in the autumn sunshine near Reculver. Massively important late food source for a wide variety of insects, not just this Apis mellifera #wildflowerhour
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tophermartyn.bsky.social @tophermartyn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Truly exquisite Cyclamen in the hedgerows of the Isle of Wight #wildflowerhour
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tophermartyn.bsky.social @tophermartyn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Truly exquisite Cyclamen in the hedgerows of the Isle of Wight.
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tophermartyn.bsky.social @tophermartyn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Truly exquisite Cyclamen in the hedgerows of the Isle of Wight.
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tophermartyn.bsky.social @tophermartyn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I was on the Isle of Wight a week ago and the woods and meadows were alive with butterflies....
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tophermartyn.bsky.social @tophermartyn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
But their feet are wet....
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tophermartyn.bsky.social @tophermartyn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Somewhere along the rapidly disintegrating Isle of Wight coast path for #fingerpostfriday
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tophermartyn.bsky.social @tophermartyn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Gut wrenching book. Would need to be feeling strong before re-reading.
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tophermartyn.bsky.social @tophermartyn.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
But did they find the dog?
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tophermartyn.bsky.social @tophermartyn.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Blimey! I'd entirely forgotten about these! Different world......
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
“The trouble with you, Spode, is that just because you have succeeded in inducing a handful of half-wits to disfigure the London scene by going about in black shorts, you think you’re someone. You hear them shouting “Heil, Spode!” and you imagine it is the Voice of the People.” Bertie Wooster
Daniel Thomas and his Black Shorts in London today.
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tophermartyn.bsky.social @tophermartyn.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Can there ever be any joy in an airport?
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tophermartyn.bsky.social @tophermartyn.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
He's a child. Doesn't need any publicity.... should be finding himself in his own time.
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tophermartyn.bsky.social @tophermartyn.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
A late #fingerpostfriday. A sign, with distance clearly marked, pointing at itself.
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tophermartyn.bsky.social @tophermartyn.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Did the first, but never had a tumble dryer, good or otherwise!
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tophermartyn.bsky.social @tophermartyn.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Also staggeringly unfunny. Those old classics haven't survived the years, and are often buttockclenchingly awful.
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tophermartyn.bsky.social @tophermartyn.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Papaver rhoeas, Field Poppy, somehow managing to produce tiny flowers during the endless drought in south east England. #wildflowerhour
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tophermartyn.bsky.social @tophermartyn.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
#fingerpostfriday on the site of the Caledonian Market, with all relevant locations identified!
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tophermartyn.bsky.social @tophermartyn.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Sandy soil, no rain for a couple of months, fifth heatwave of the year, grass beaten into submission by the relentless sun. A solitary ragwort still struggles on to produce the only flowers in sight. #wildflowerhour
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tophermartyn.bsky.social @tophermartyn.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
It really is a consistently good and highly thoughtful podcast.
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tophermartyn.bsky.social @tophermartyn.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Almost my son's exact words, except I wild camp so no paying. My daughter, on the other hand, is lining herself up for a multiday hike, so maybe it's a gender thing!
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tophermartyn.bsky.social @tophermartyn.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Niche classical joke...
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tophermartyn.bsky.social @tophermartyn.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
The chap in the foreground has got to be based on a real person - just too life-like to be made up.
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tophermartyn.bsky.social @tophermartyn.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
So the AI is offering to make the human sound less like an AI? What have we come to?
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tophermartyn.bsky.social @tophermartyn.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Used to be my regular bike ride to work as well. Didn't half bounce in strong winds.....
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tophermartyn.bsky.social @tophermartyn.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Henry Treece from my local public library started it for me. Fifty years on I manage a profoundly historic site, and while I'm still fascinated by the worlds Treece described, I read widely up to and including economic history of the 1970s. One thing I've learnt is nothing is as obvious as you thnk
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tophermartyn.bsky.social @tophermartyn.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Oui, c'est chaud(e)
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tophermartyn.bsky.social @tophermartyn.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Eryngium maritime growing just above the high tide line at Sandwich Bay for #wildflowerhour
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tophermartyn.bsky.social @tophermartyn.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Stunning Pyramidal Orchid on the dunes at Sandwich Bay #wildflowerhour
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tophermartyn.bsky.social @tophermartyn.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
On the route from Dover to Sandwich for #fingerpostfriday
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tophermartyn.bsky.social @tophermartyn.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Made me think wistfully of a time when finding a new Desmond Bagley was the height of excitement....
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tophermartyn.bsky.social @tophermartyn.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Belated entry for #wildflowerhour Scabious flourishing in the meadows at Syon Park
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tophermartyn.bsky.social @tophermartyn.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
I read the word "Musk" and shuddered involuntarily.....
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tophermartyn.bsky.social @tophermartyn.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Agree with all of those apart from the space shuttle.....more life in a pinch of topsoil than out there!
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tophermartyn.bsky.social @tophermartyn.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Just about the most "north Kent specific" image for #fingerpostfriday. Taken on a beautiful, baking hot run from Rochester to Swale
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tophermartyn.bsky.social @tophermartyn.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
The most southerly point of Devon, beautiful Prawle Point on a glorious, madly blue sky day for #fingerpostfriday
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tophermartyn.bsky.social @tophermartyn.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
I assumed it was the reflecting pool in Washington....
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tophermartyn.bsky.social @tophermartyn.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Local lass?
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tophermartyn.bsky.social @tophermartyn.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
I agree, it's hideously smug, self indulgent and cringe worthy ...
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tophermartyn.bsky.social @tophermartyn.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Home from a bivvy on the Dorset cliffs to find the corn marigolds outside my gate in Syon Park in full flower! #wildflowerhour
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tophermartyn.bsky.social @tophermartyn.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Delightful Orchis pyramidalis growing on the road verges, spotted while walking the diversion around the Purbeck ranges #wildflowerhour
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tophermartyn.bsky.social @tophermartyn.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Echium vulgare on the Dorset cliffs #wildflowerhour
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tophermartyn.bsky.social @tophermartyn.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Nearing the end of the mighty #vanguatdway, my running project from London to Newhaven over the winter #fingerpostfriday
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tophermartyn.bsky.social @tophermartyn.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
One for any lovers of #bbcradio4 #fingerpostfriday
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tophermartyn.bsky.social @tophermartyn.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
That's nothing, when I was writing my thesis (on Herodotos) spell checker changed Zoroaster to Scoutmaster and Isaiah to Ipswich....
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tophermartyn.bsky.social @tophermartyn.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Oh, and of course he was curate of Teddington, not Twickenham.....
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tophermartyn.bsky.social @tophermartyn.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Obviously remembered (not least here) in the delightful Genus Halesia.
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