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Artist, folk singer, keeper of books, mother, grandmother, hope not hate 🎨🎸📚🍂🌻💙🇪🇺
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submitted 28 days ago • 4 comments

Today is Candlemas- which must be the best name in the calendar. Candlemas - a celebration of the return of light Artist: Gerald Witcomb

submitted 28 days ago • 26 comments

Too wild today to work outside so I've been sorting out seeds - such a delightful job. Most are for us, to grow plants for the nursery. The surplus will go on ...drumroll...our new online shop which should be live on 1st Feb :-)

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

Happy Imbolc! This old Celtic festival marks the start of spring, the beginning of the lambing season, and may have been dedicated to a goddess called Brigit, later St Brigid - the first female saint in Irish literature.

submitted 29 days ago • 40 comments

I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world. Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO

submitted 30 days ago • 4415 comments

The bird place won’t let me deactivate my account. What can I do? It just says error occurred try again later every time I try. Suggestions gratefully appreciated!

submitted 54 days ago • 1 comment

Watching the delightful Mary Berry programme but I can’t detect what oil she keeps using. It sounds like samphire but nothing comes up on Google. Anyone know please?

submitted 96 days ago • 3 comments

I keep combing my lists on the other place trying to find who’s over here so I can follow them. It’s a long job - maybe there’s a quicker way but I don’t know it. Need a cuppa! ☕️

submitted 102 days ago • 1 comment

Stephen King, master of the horror novel, just quit Twitter because it'd become too "dark." That's how horrifying Twitter is right now. There may never be a more perfect expression of this fact.

submitted 107 days ago • 949 comments

Thinking about deleting my other account since EM is now following me.. what??😱. Does anyone know if you arrange folk into lists here. I shall miss my weather list in particular.

submitted 106 days ago • 1 comment

Today would have been Carl Sagan's 90th birthday. He wrote this in 1995. Carl was absolutely right. #CarlSaganDay

submitted 112 days ago • 251 comments

Autumn Blackbirds on Crab Apples - by Malvern based Batik artist, Marie-Therese King. More of Marie-Therese's gorgeous artwork, here: mariethereseking.uk #birds #birdart #batik #art 🪶

submitted 112 days ago • 2 comments

This Sunday of Remembrance: Project Small Exchanges: aide-memoire. “Wounded Child No Surviving Family.” "WCNSF.'' acronym for Gaza Aid Workers. "Lest we Forget."

submitted 112 days ago • 0 comments

@riotgrandma.bsky.social hey glad to have found you! Hope you are well

submitted 499 days ago • 1 comment

@lomelindi12.bsky.social Hey there! Just found you - glad to see you here. Xx

submitted 499 days ago • 1 comment

“By the lakeside” Teal, Shoveller, Lapwing and heron Artist: CF Tunnicliffe

submitted 503 days ago • 2 comments

Loving it that we’ve got #wildflowerhour here

submitted 510 days ago • 1 comment

Enjoying being on here and slowly finding like minded folks but now I must get some sleep so see y’all tomorrow. Another Lake District view taken by my son.

submitted 511 days ago • 1 comment