This was the view from my hotel window in Madrid the other day. The former offices of the Spanish newspaper ABC. I still can’t get over the beauty of this scene: the colours, the plants gradually reclaiming the space, the sunlight reflecting off the hotel windows…

A sunlit, abandoned urban area features overgrown vegetation and dilapidated buildings with a clear blue sky overhead.

New passport day! Last one was full up with stamps (yet another Brexit Dividend)

A bit slow to post, but saw the most amazing double rainbow last week 🌈🌈

I finished reading: The Garden Against Time by Olivia Laing 📚 Beautifully-written account of nurturing a garden, interspersed with (sometimes difficult) periods of garden history.

In looking for a different stoic quote, I came across this from Epictetus, and now I can’t stop thinking about it:

It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.