It seems that elsewhen, and a lot of other variations - used to be used, but fell out of fashion. There is some discussion here.

• A grass snake seems to have taken up residence under our compost heap. Hopefully it will be a suitable hibernation spot.
• New seasons of Star Trek: Lower Decks and Shrinking are out.
• My SO and I went for a good walk in a nearby woodland nature reserve. The autumn colours are really coming though now.
• I now have some cosy fleece pyjamas. I haven’t owned pyjamas for decades, but can see will that they will revolutionise my weekend mornings. I don’t know why I didn’t get some years ago.

Checking the ones that I usually buy the ingredients are:

• Butter

Or, if I go for salted versions:

• Butter
• Salt

Recently went to a screening of the 1922 Nosferatu with a live accompanist creating an improvised soundtrack on violin, piano and waterphone - which was not an instrument that I had not encountered before, but evidently features in the score of The Matrix, Aliens and a range of other films. I can certainly see why - it was extremely atmospheric. I had seen Nosferatu a couple of times before - as well as the 1979 Herzog version, and Shadow of the Vampire (2000) - but this definitely added something new.

Is there any peer reviewed published research that studied if this was effective and the best available option.

Recently, this study found that although culling does reduce cattle infection in the immediate area, it seems to increase infection in surrounding areas - due to displaced badgers spreading it - which is exactly what everyone opposing the culls predicted way back when they started.

These are a very different type of drone, but I have worked on a site with a large colony of seabirds that also attracted a lot of recreational drone usage due to historical features on the site. These smaller, hovering drones would very obviously disturb the breeding birds in the short term - we would notice the disturbance before spotting the drone quite often - and there was a good deal of discussion about their growing use and possible consequences. The organisation currently has a ban on drones over their properties for this and various other reasons - but of course it is practically impossible to enforce, since you usually can’t find the operator when they not present on site.

I have not seen any formal study of the effect of drones on seabirds until this though.

My childhood imaginary friend(s) were a flock of flying bunnies of various colours. It is not often that you get to see them represented.

Woos-ter-shuh, like the sauce.

Not quite a scrotum pole, but there is certainly an interpretation of this statue of Cybele where what we are looking at are not multiple breasts, but actually the scrota of her eunuch priesthood.

I’d not encountered Bloody Knuckles before, but we did have the card variant when I was at school - the trick being to get a new pack, flex it a little and push the card so that all the edges are available to strike the knuckles in rapid succession. I was extremely good at it, as i recall, both in inflicting and (particularly) withstanding the pain.

We knew this game as Scabby Queen. Evidently there is an actual card game called that, it seems, with the knuckle skinning merely the end result. We did not bother with the game part (or even know about it) - just the knuckle skinning.

• Kaos - I’ve only seen the first ep so far, but it looks to have promise.
• Le Bureau de Legendes - this French spy series has a slow and meandering start but picks up over a couple of episodes and the initial time with the characters pays off.
• Pine Gap - After the first couple of episodes, I’m struggling to care about the characters - and am caring a LOT about the absurd lack of a Faraday cage around the main building which would have prevented the main plot point in the first place. It is only miniseries, but I doubt that we’ll finish it unless it picks up a lot and gives me a reason to get my disbelief suspended again.
• Slow Horses - the third of the spy tales that we are following at the moment and by far the most fun and engaging. Season 4 is as good as ever, and Oldman’s Lamb is wonderful.
• Carol and the End of the World - a low key, introspective little exploration of self-discovery and where you find value and it’s really quite charming.

Thanks for this one - an atmospheric landscape!

Thanks for these. Very autumnal!

You’ll have take it up with the South of Scotland Golden Eagle Project then.

Some great shots here - thanks for submitting!