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Angela Gilroy

@angelharpmusic.bsky.social
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Socialist, cyclist, draws. Harmonica player and fan of Northumbrian tunes. Camping/book-worming makes me happy. No DMs from handsome middle aged men with yachts and fancy cars with no posts please

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Angela Gilroy @angelharpmusic.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Cement works from Pinder Lane, Hope Valley #blueskyarts #drawingoutdoors
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Angela Gilroy @angelharpmusic.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Got the campsite to myself tonight
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Angela Gilroy @angelharpmusic.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Broiling skies at Conisbrough Viaduct today
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Ellie Mae O'Hagan @elliemaeohagan.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I love the dedication in My Life on the Road by Gloria Steinhem
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
There aren’t a huge number of folk in my industry I truly admire. DENZEL however is one I very much do. “So what a responsibility you all have, to tell the truth. Not just to be first, but to tell the truth.”
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Angela Gilroy @angelharpmusic.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
A few sketches from my cycling holiday in Brecon last week #blueskyarts
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Angela Gilroy @angelharpmusic.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Happy Yorkshire Day
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Angela Gilroy @angelharpmusic.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Can't wait to get a chance to read this!
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Angela Gilroy @angelharpmusic.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
youtube.com/watch?v=B5eh... Hector the Hero, diatonic harmonica in A, at my wild camp spot by the Leithen during my #coastandcastles cycling trip last week #folkmusic
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Hector the Hero, Diatonic #harmonica in A, by the Leithen #wildcamping #Scotland
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Angela Gilroy @angelharpmusic.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Made it! Newcastle to Edinburgh #coastandcastles
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Angela Gilroy @angelharpmusic.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Pit houses. Former mining village, Newtongrange. All pit villages had decent homes provided by the pit. We're in a place where a secure home's a luxury. The wealthy stockpile homes for profit then complain that there are laws to make them habitable. Burnham must be true to his word re housing
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Angela Gilroy @angelharpmusic.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Reward for uphill Theres always another down Of course, then there's up #coastandcastles #bikepacking
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Angela Gilroy @angelharpmusic.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Melrose is nice but there's no Greggs, so I shan't be going again #coastandcastles #bikepacking #Scotland
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Angela Gilroy @angelharpmusic.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
He doesn't mind cruelty to people who aren't going to vote for him anyway. Now who does that bring to mind?
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Angela Gilroy @angelharpmusic.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
38 miles today and im now camping near Seahouses. My knees are sore but im smiling. F&Cs at Amble, cresswell, amble, craster, Alnmouth, Warksworth, Seahouses. Seals! #cyclecamping #Northumberland
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Angela Gilroy @angelharpmusic.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Having a little cycling holiday. Starting at Tynemouth and with any luck may reach Edinburgh in the next 7 days or so. #cycling #bikepacking #camping
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Angela Gilroy @angelharpmusic.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
£1.50 chance purchase had me gripped throughout. Navigating the ragged shifting Frisian coast, gripped me, as Carruthers grows under the tutelage of his friend Davies, from superficial fop to a daring freelance spy. Damn, Childers wrote only 1 novel! And suffered a sad end to his extraordinary life
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Angela Gilroy @angelharpmusic.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Tiny, perfect Welsh mountain pony on my bike camping trip in the Peaks last weekend. Gave it a hairdo and everything
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Angela Gilroy @angelharpmusic.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
My homage to David Hockney
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Angela Gilroy @angelharpmusic.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
His colours today Yorkshire. Everywhere - Hockney. A love of my life #DavidHockney
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
The petition to apply to rejoin the EU is nearing 100k – the point at which Parliament could consider debating it. But this story isn’t just about signatures – it’s also about why campaigners think this moment feels different.
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Brexit at 10: campaigners push petition to reopen Britain’s European debate
With a rejoin petition approaching 100,000 signatures, campaigners hope the anniversary creates political momentum
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Dave Green @artist-in-a-shed.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
The correct date on this one!
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Angela Gilroy @angelharpmusic.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Been making cards and wrapping paper for my best mates birthday
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Reading Is Sexy @readingissexy.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
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Angela Gilroy @angelharpmusic.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Old sewage pumping station, top of Wheatley Hall road. Just spotted this building recently, revealed by recent work on the area. Been dying to draw it. Found time this weekend over 3 sessions. I love this little architectural treasure. @bluesky.arts #womensart #sketchingoutside
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Almost everything we argue about is a substitute for the thing we should be arguing about: the immense wealth & power of an oligarchic class, which captures governments, ruins lives and wrecks the living planet. This class redirects our rage at scapegoats. To resist its lies is to resist its power.
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Angela Gilroy @angelharpmusic.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Over a couple of chilly sessions. Barnby Dun lifting bridge on the canal. We're spoiled for lovely and useful engineering round here. Everywhere you look there's something cleverly designed and masterfully built. I could spend all my time wandering and capturing these practical, beautiful objects.
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Squeezy John @johnspiers.co.uk · 16/04/2026
"Jesus Christ Superstar Came down from heaven on a Yamaha Pulled a skid Killed a kid And ended up in a dustbin lid." Amen
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Ian R. Pearsall @ianrpearsall.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Another increment of time in a Summer on the walls of Two Doors Studio - Today until Saturday .. www.ianrpearsall.co.uk
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Jones @theearlofpowys.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
If you return unwanted Reform local election leaflets to their party headquarters using their free post address, then it will cost the party £2.50 per envelope. Please don’t share this information; it could cost Nigel Farage a fortune.
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Angela Gilroy @angelharpmusic.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Ardagh Glass, Rockware as was, where my Dad worked. Its a bit of a landmark round here and I've always that it has beauty of a sort. Drawn over a couple of days in this lovely bright chill #womensart #sketchingoutside #factory #drawing @blueskyartshow.bsky.social
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Beren Cross @berencross.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Struijk to win it....WEMBLEY! #lufc
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Angela Gilroy @angelharpmusic.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
The pipe bridge at Old Sandall. I'm enjoying drawing a subject over more than one sitting, returning in different light and weather. It does mean things change but it means you feel part of the landscape yourself, as you sweat and are sunblind at one time and shiver and tense the next
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Angela Gilroy @angelharpmusic.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
There's a magnificent water tower on Ledger Way in Doncaster and I love it. I started drawing it last weekend and it might be finished now. #sketchingOutside @bluesky.arts #Doncaster
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Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Jenrick is truly stupid
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Angela Gilroy @angelharpmusic.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Spotted this busy and dynamic twisted willow in the community garden - opposite my house - that's been on my list for a while, first go at it this morning
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Angela Gilroy @angelharpmusic.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
The other side of the crow tree, from Graham Road, Kirk Sandall, behind the block of flats #sketchingoutside @bluesky.arts #corvids #crowsnest #artistsonbluesky #womensart
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Angela Gilroy @angelharpmusic.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Read it, loved it. Tense AND funny. How can that be?
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
I have no problem admitting I'm not a racist. Why can't the right just admit that they are? We all know it. The bullshit they invent to cover it up is pathetic. Right-wingers: have the courage of your fucking awful convictions.
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Ian McMillan @imcmillan.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
A good plan
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Angela Gilroy @angelharpmusic.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Right big fluffy things
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Angela Gilroy @angelharpmusic.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Had plans to go out hunting for beauty then saw that it was all there, just above my garden @bsky.art #sky #clouds #drawingoutside
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Angela Gilroy @angelharpmusic.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Been admiring this tree for a while with crow nests and crows - dwarfing houses all around. So I've been using foul language at the wind while I sat shivering and scribbling this morning. Blobs of sunshine teasing but ineffectual. I wanted to draw it before the foliage obscures it @bsky.art
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Doncaster Brewer @donnybrewer.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
More IWD brew pics.
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Angela Gilroy @angelharpmusic.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Mad but joyful tree at the back of Ardagh Glass Sandall industrial estate
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Angela Gilroy @angelharpmusic.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
3 poplars this grey morning from the playing field in kirk sandall @bsky.art #sketchingoutside #trees
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Angela Gilroy @angelharpmusic.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
I've missed drawing outside. Bit nippy and drizzly but still, good to be out amongst nature. Eventually mi feet were numb and I cycled home. But a did a sketch of Kirk Bramwith Drain bridge, which I've had my eye on for a while as a potential next lino print @bsky.art ##sketchingoutdoors
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Angela Gilroy @angelharpmusic.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
New linoprint. 4 colour reduction, waterbased inks. From a pastel I did in '88 looking over to Barnburgh colliery, the year before it closed. @bsky.art #linoprint #Barnburgh #SouthYorkshire #art
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Angela Gilroy @angelharpmusic.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Bloody old Lilac tree, but no has been. Give it a couple of months and watch it go. Boom. Best smell ever. Rockery could do with some work, but, can't be arsed. Quick sketch to try out my new outdoor drawing stool. Its smashing #blueskyart @bsky.art #sketchingoutside #springtime #nature
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Angela Gilroy @angelharpmusic.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Nanci writing @@bsky.art
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