Green Immigrant Leaf Weevil

Green Immigrant Leaf Weevil, Polydrusus formosus, Redland, Bristol, June 2025
Green Immigrant Leaf Weevil, Polydrusus formosus, Redland, Bristol, June 2025

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In the herb garden

a small emerald jewel

these warm summer days

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by Scooj

Walled garden

Row of rhubarb, Nostell Priory, West Yorkshire, May 2025
Row of rhubarb, Nostell Priory, West Yorkshire, May 2025

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Enclosed assembly

hums rhubarb, rhubarb, rhubarb

pollinators buzz

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by Scooj

Beautiful noise

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Swifts take the high notes

the air thick with sparrow chirps

and magpies squawking

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by Scooj

Heathrow Terminal 4

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Timed to perfection

surprising even myself

flight delayed an hour

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by Scooj

Call out the guard

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The people fight back

discredit and crush them all

validate response

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by Scooj

The most predictable thing ever

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Like rats in a sack

toxic bromance unravels

we see who you are

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by Scooj

Graze

Nostell Priory, West Yorkshire, June 2025
Nostell Priory, West Yorkshire, June 2025

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England’s lush pastures

pocked with solitary trees

grazed and flat-bottomed

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by Scooj

Common blue damselfly (Enallagma cyathigerum)

Common Blue Damselfly (Enallagma cythigerum), Nostell Gardens, West Yorkshire, June 2025
Common Blue Damselfly (Enallagma cythigerum), Nostell Gardens, West Yorkshire, June 2025

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My poor failing eyes

so slow to settle on the

slender blue beauty

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by Scooj

Ramada nights

Ramada hotel car park, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, June 2025
Ramada hotel car park, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, June 2025

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Hotel car park sounds

distant hum of motorway

car music booming

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by Scooj

Leeds

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My ancestral home

a place where spelling my name

isn’t a problem

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by Scooj

  • My surname is from West Yorkshire, and it is such a refreshing pleasure not to have to spell it out when checking in to hotels, or confirming restaurant bookings etc. It is not a common name in the south.