This is one of my favourites of the Gustav Mahler paintings I did. #art #portraint #painting #Mahler #GustavMahler

Happy Birthday Gustav Mahler, born on this day 1860. Here's a picture of me painting a picture of him, years ago.

I've been away from Twitter / X for a while but thought I'd pop in to catch up with old friends who didn't follow me to The Other Place. I asked Grok about my own profile and its response is exactly why I think I should come back. Circus and monkey-related content. That's me.

I don't expect anyone is, but in case you're wondering why I stopped tweeting it's because I'm now on the other platform I would like to do both but can't manage it, so find me there if you want me. I do miss a lot of you!.

Yes, for World Glaciers Day I am shamelessly plugging my own book! #IYGP #Glaciers #Book.

I was right - I'm not managing to keep up with two platforms. For now, I'm only really at the other place. Please find me there.

Apparently it's unusual, but I always thank the car after a journey. On today's outing he passed his MOT, so I said "well done" too.

Thin ice bears grudges .And is unreliable .Like rain and small hearts. #haikuchallenge

Retired from work at Christmas to have more time for the bits I liked best. Today I got down to work on my current big project: writing a book about #Lakes. Here's "A View of Mount Fuji Across Lake Suwa" a woodblock print by Katsushika Hokusai c1830, which I hope to include.

This is probably just going to confuse me, but I now have a BlueSky profile. I'm petergknight as usual, and you can find me at Let's see how it goes.

He will never share.Important things and they burn.Holes into his heart.

Word of the day: “expunge”. I have a lot of redundant links and shortcuts to clean up. #retired

The #sky is waving.Good morning from Marbury. Witnesses wave back. #haikuchallenge wave

Since the powers that be are temporarily absent and I am in sole charge, the lunch-time dog-walk today was #trainspotting rather than #birdwatching

Just me and the dog. The birds see Debbie’s not here. Disappointed birds! . Dog-walk #haiku .Good morning from Marbury.

Also today on the early-morning walk this #Kingfisher sat and posed nicely for us for a few moments before carrying on with its morning business. We are lucky to live in quiet #countryside with lots of waterways: excellent habitat for spotting all sorts of #wildlife on our walks.

It wasn't the #FirstBirdOfMyDay but it was the first to sit up and sing "Good Morning!" to me. #BirdsOfTwitter Good morning from Marbury.

And this has always been one of my favourite Greenland fieldwork images: snapped without stopping to frame or focus while walking across a section of the ice sheet, unclear and poorly framed but capturing the experience. #photography I even got my own glove in the shot!

In #photography as in many things clarity and sharpness are overrated! Few of my favourite pictures are the sharpest. This is one of my favourites from this week: a bit unfocussed, not perfectly placed, but captured the moment for me.

I'm not sure I ever really knew what I was doing in my career. I just got an email from Austria informing me that I made "an indispensable contribution to the effective funding of scientific research in Austria." Who knew. I wonder what I did. #academiclife.