Simon Wilks

@wibble
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Formerly: schoolteacher, academic editor, helpdesk operator, database designer, project manager, crate-catcher & tree-surgeon's assistant.

Interests: #classicalmusic (esp. #StringQuartet / #StringQuartets), #physics, #biology, #fiction, #trees and #ideas.

All photos (if not credited separately): @wibble, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Also procrastinating at:http://www.simonwilks.co.uk
Simon WilksMay 14, 2023
Jim Howard-Birt 🐦📸: PhotosMay 14, 2023

This little bird looks like a Chiffchaff but doesn't sound like one, this is a Willow Warbler that was singing high up in the trees today,

#nature #birds #Wildlife #photography #NaturePhotography #BirdPhotography #BirdsOfMastodon

Simon WilksMay 14, 2023
Daniel DurransMay 14, 2023

#SilentSunday

Tenby Harbour

Simon WilksMay 12, 2023

#TodaysWalk was to Tooting, where it wasn't sunny, and specifically to St George's Hospital.

There I found a heraldic lion and unicorn stuck in a flowerbed at the end of the car-park, presumably to remind us that, though some may get orbs and sceptres, we'll all get something nasty.

They were completed, apparently, in 1953. Which is odd, because St George's Hospital, Tooting didn't exist until 1954. So there's a historical, and possibly criminal, puzzle for those that can be bothered.

Simon WilksMay 11, 2023

I was feeling a bit down, so #TodaysWalk was all uphill to Crystal Palace, where I found the horse chestnuts blatantly waving their pink pagodas.

Irises are out, too. As are the hawthorns, rhododendrons, lilacs and tulips. Even the oaks have given up and stuck out some leaves at last.

Above, swifts were squeaking across the sky, scythe-like harbingers of rain and midges.

Show threadSimon WilksMay 11, 2023
@gglnx Hallo Dennis. Ich habe es genossen, deine Reise zu verfolgen. Ich hatte mal einen Interrail-Pass - vor 37 Jahren, als Jugoslawien noch ein Land war und Deutschland zwei - also war es toll, die Bilder der Städte und Bahnhöfe zu sehen, wie sie jetzt sind. Vielen Dank!
Simon WilksMay 10, 2023
Frances Coppola May 10, 2023
New Coppola Comment post. Bank failures: it's all about #liquidity. Although #banks create #deposits when they lend, they can still run out of money. Featuring #SignatureBankNY, #SiliconValleyBank, #SilvergateBank. (pic does not link)
https://coppolacomment.substack.com/p/bank-failures-its-all-about-liquidity
Bank failures: it's all about liquidity

Although banks create deposits when they lend, they can nevertheless run out of money.

COPPOLA COMMENT
Simon WilksMay 10, 2023

On account of forecast rain #TodaysWalk was a hurried stroll in an underpromised fragment of sunshine.

Still, the hawthorns and lilacs were blossoming nicely and, on one windswept hill, so were the tamarisks.

Show threadSimon WilksMay 9, 2023
@lifeinaloghome I can't be sure (I'm not an expert, and live on the wrong side of the Atlantic) but the size and shape seem to match the Giant Water Scavenger Beetle (Hydrophilus triangularis).
Simon WilksMay 9, 2023
After yesterday's trip to Penge, #TodaysWalk around Nunhead might have been comparatively disappointing if I hadn't peered over a railway bridge to see a magpie playing chicken.
Simon WilksMay 8, 2023

#TodaysWalk, the result of received inspiration, was to #Penge, one of south-east London's most notorious tourist traps, where they'd hung out the bunting for the Coronation within a stone's-throw of one of Bromley's Millennium Rocks.

The rocks, of which at least a dozen are scattered around the Borough of Bromley, were a gift from the Highland Council of Scotland who presumably hadn't found a use for them, either.