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Catherine Roberts @alwaystotheside.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

One day I'm going to get to an @artefactual.eurosky.social walk through West Woods! I was in Reading Friday, Dorchester yesterday, back out to Marlborough was just a thrash too far!

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Catherine Roberts @alwaystotheside.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Keys always open SOMETHING, you just don't know what...

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Catherine Roberts @alwaystotheside.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Anyone who wants a sprouted acorn can come to my garden and pull them out by the handful!

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The English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Nature is not a place to visit. It is our home

Winnie the Pooh & Christopher Robin inspect a hollow oak

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Catherine Roberts @alwaystotheside.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I've had the same since I heard the news! Interspersed with the occasional verse of "Sweet Transvestite"...

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

One piece of folklore I refuse to believe in is the waking of England's stone and wooden nights when the country is in peril. We keep lurching right, we keep lurching toward authoritarianism and they don't even show any signs of twitching. – #MattAdams, 1982

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Catherine Roberts @alwaystotheside.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I'm guessing the Jaaaaag has broken down, and the Moggy (who habitually carries tools) has pulled over to help?

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Darth Empath @jhatman.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

A human can only survive 2-7 days without clean water, whereas we can survive in perpetuity without datacenters. Choose wisely.

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National Trust @nationaltrust.org.uk · 24/08/2026

We’ve got a wonderful success story at Great Mell Fell 🦋 Once on the brink of extinction in Cumbria, the Marsh Fritillary is one of the UK's rarest butterflies, but we're thrilled to share a colony in Ullswater Valley has grown spread further along the fellside.

A beautifully patterned butterfly with speckled cream and orange wings with black dots and a black body rests on a bright green leaf

A delicate butterfly with a furry white body and orange wings with white and black markings on them clings to a green cluster of grass

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Catherine Roberts @alwaystotheside.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I toyed with something along these lines as a Dissertation topic - Roman impingement on earlier monuments (Silbury, Priddy is it? Iping Common...)

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Catherine Roberts @alwaystotheside.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

We shouldn't have to battle for access though should we? The information is ours. 🤷‍♀️

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Catherine Roberts @alwaystotheside.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I had access, unprompted but secure. And very interesting it was too. I had the foresight to capture and archive the records I wanted, because then my surgery was merged and not only can I not see my own info, but appointments are an 8 mile round trip instead of a 10 minute walk... progress huh?

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

'A Russell Group university will no longer use ubiquitous anti-cheating tools provided by Turnitin because of concerns that the company might use students’ work to train artificial intelligence.' Maybe time for UK universities to develop and commercialise their own tools?

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Southampton dumps Turnitin over use of students’ work to train AI

Academic integrity giant denies accusations as university declines to renew contract in favour of ‘other options’

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Catherine Roberts @alwaystotheside.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

At least it's not Bin Day. Don't try to get through Hambledon on Bin Day. Ask me how I know. Actually don't... Tuesday, anyway...

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Sometimes you see a horse and feel a connection, not only to it, but through it to our whole history with them. They become a link to the string of chalk steeds on hills, to bronze age snaffle bits. A sense of them as battle beasts, the cavalry of ancient gods. – Freya Hope

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Catherine Roberts @alwaystotheside.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I thought the spuds in an earlier photo looked rather splendid! I'm fond of a tater!

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Catherine Roberts @alwaystotheside.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I'm listening to the village bell-ringing practice, and wondering if there's a newbie on the team...

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Catherine Roberts @alwaystotheside.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Wow, hasn't it made everyone disparately cross?

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Catherine Roberts @alwaystotheside.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

It should be as well known as the Gundestrup Cauldron!

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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

The Haywain 2026

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Catherine Roberts @alwaystotheside.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

The best butter I've ever tasted was at a café in Emsworth (Hants, UK). They did write down where it was from, but I lost the note. It was organic ✅️ and Devonian❓️but that's all I can remember! (@jomills35.bsky.social )

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Catherine Roberts @alwaystotheside.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Has it been hit by a car/tractor and tidied away to hide?

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Catherine Roberts @alwaystotheside.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

We can heat our hot water with an "emerging eater" if necessary cos reasons...

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Catherine Roberts @alwaystotheside.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Oo, I so want this to be an interactive map so I can go and find them! 💚🌳

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The English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Distribution map of 3,300 oaks in England with a girth greater than 6 metres The UK has more ancient oaks than all other EU countries combined There are around 170 million oaks with almost 1 million in London alone Map: Justin Moat, GIS Unit, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

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Catherine Roberts @alwaystotheside.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

It might not be a very interesting dig though... 🤔

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Catherine Roberts @alwaystotheside.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

We (the OH) did David Lynch Season. I'd never seen TP (parents) but I was invested for S1. After that? WTAF is going on here????

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Catherine Roberts @alwaystotheside.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

It's ironic that "evolutionary thinking" assumes a trajectory towards a more perfect form... (sorry, no supporting references, just musing)

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