So much to do, so little time in which to do it... Exploration is not something of the past, a long-gone Golden Age, as we're often taught, it's something of the present - and of the future. In fact, we need to get to understand our precious planet now more than ever, and fast.✌️

Good to be out on thick ice, up in the Krkonoš Mountains, N Czech Rep., this weekend. Hoping you too got out to explore our precious planet near or far!

@Emmaash3 Yes, unusually brave swallowtail! (Half term, by the way - no sketches, just snow and ice this week!❄️)

A creature great and small...👍🏼

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An amazing sight...👍🏼

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@tannahillglen Indeed, Dr T! 👍🏼😃

@Emmaash3 😃 It was a VERY patient swallowtail- I remember him wriggling like anything!

@alisonsl2 Great quote, Alison!!! Thank you. ✌️

RT @JohnCleese: Have we talked about the advantages of extremism lately? What did I miss?

@Emmaash3 😆 Good to know he has a kindred spirit, out there! Yup, fingers crossed.

@Emmaash3 🤣 Well, he knows his place. (And it's there, right in the middle of your lovely snug bedding!)

@Emmaash3 Blimey! That would certainly do the trick - in an already rather small and fragile igloo! Can just imagine which of us would end up budged outside and sitting alone in the freezing wind!🤣

@Bullpup2 Ah that bracing wind - just the ticket!

@Emmaash3 Was shown around a possible new school yesterday by a glam teenage female of about his big sister's age - the horror!

@Emmaash3 I always think of snowdrops as late Winter, rather than early Spring. But they are the beginning of the end. Longer, brighter days are on their way - hurrah!

RT @IncNaturalist: “Paint me like one of your French girls” Reclining otter 🦦

@Emmaash3 I'll be sure to pass this reassuring message on! Very kind of you, Emma. Glad it's not in rhyme!