Trinity House...

Licenced today: Trinity House, in Hull… 

Knowledge & experience...

"It is strange how we worship knowledge. Knowledge implies the past. Knowing is always in the present and knowledge is always in the past. Experiencing is in the present and experience is always in the past. To us, the past has extraordinary significance, the past which is knowledge. Knowledge is necessary at the technical, mechanical level. The more you have knowledge, the better to go to the moon, to build a house, to beautify a garden or enrich the earth, but knowledge becomes an impediment to deep discovery because most of our lives are lived in the past. All that we know is the past" (Krishnamurti, 1961).

Licenced today: the reedbeds at RSPB Minsmere in Suffolk…

The morning after...

It's just another working day for the guy whose job it is to retrieve crashed cars from East Riding fields. He did the job on his own, using a winch to reel the car in, before delivering it to the knacker's yard...

St Ives...

Spotted in the Guardian today: twilight in St Ives, Cornwall…

Red Lion...

Another pub facade licenced today: the Red Lion in Leek, Staffordshire…

Zennor...

Why are so many high-profile billionaires intent on sabotaging their careers, trashing their own reputations and running their companies into the ground? Elon Musk bought Twitter for $44 billion, and immediately admitted what everyone else already knew: that he had grossly overpaid for the platform. He sacked half the workforce and, a month later, the talk is of Twitter going bust.

Kanye West, now wanting to be known as Ye, appeared on InfoWars, a show hosted by far-right conspiracy theorist, Alex Jones, known for pushing lies around events such as the Sandy Hook school shooting in 2012. Ye said: “I see good things about Hitler. Every human being has something of value that they brought to the table, especially Hitler”. Even Alex Jones looked uncomfortable. “The Nazis were thugs”, he said. Ye continued “But they did good things too. We gotta stop dissing the Nazis all the time. I love Jewish people, but I also love Nazis.” Jones gave Ye an opportunity to back down, but he wouldn’t quit: “There’s a lot of things that I love about Hitler. A lot of things”. Today Ye has been suspended from Twitter - again - after he tweeted an image of a swastika incorporated inside a star of David.

Licenced today: the village of Zennor, in Cornwall...

Breaking records...

The Germans have been eliminated from the Human Rights World Cup, at the group stage, for the second tournament in a row. It was the Germans who coined the word that best describes the emotion that the football world is feeling: schadenfreude.

England, meanwhile, have broken one of cricket’s longest-standing records by scoring 500 runs on day one of the first test in Pakistan. Four batsmen got centuries - Crawley, Duckett, Pope and Brook - and, with only four wickets down, tomorrow might be equally fascinating. Alexa will wake me at 5am, so I can follow day two, under the duvet, with commentary from the Test Match Special team. At 9am I’ll have breakfast at a local pub, and watch the rest of the day’s play on the big screen. 

Licenced today: the Stiperstones, a national nature reserve in Shropshire…