It’s my turn to cook tonight. I’m doing a shakshuka.

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!

More appropriate to early April than early September, I think, but I’ll allow this one.

Doctor who (2005) s01e07 - Kronkburgers on Satellite 5 in the opening scenes.

These look like the people to ask.

Looks like it:

with most of our woodlands, we will be hosting year-round volunteering and community events, enabling people to enjoy, learn about, and connect with nature," Tom shares. These events will offer opportunities for people to get involved in the project, whether through tree planting, wildlife monitoring, or participating in educational programs.

The link to get involved is here.

Excluding pretty much everything that I saw as a kid - when you go into basically everything blind - it would be After Hours (1985). I either hadn’t read anything about it or hadn’t been paying attention. Standing outside the cinema, I just saw that it was by Scorsese and went in.

I still think that it is one of his most under-appreciated films. And I loved the Ted Lasso homage, combining it with the Divine Comedy.

This isn’t related to the UK, so doesn’t really fit in this community: UK Nature and Environment.

As the article about the donations, linked to within this article, says:

“Of course, the company responsible should pay, but the timing and outcome of the investigation by the Environment Agency (EA) is uncertain, and we must act now to protect nature as best we can.”

I was at a long-term beaver reintroduction site earlier this year. It is official, well managed and has been going for a couple of decades or more now. This topic came up and I got the impression that they had a pretty good idea who had released some unofficially at at least one other spot in the area.

Although well managed, the fences at this site - as any other - do get damaged from time to time and there are ‘escapes’. But there are a good number of people who have been involved in the project over the years and a lot of them have very different views to the government on how releases should be handled. I think that some of the accidental ‘escapes’ had assistance - and transport.