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Brigit Strawbridge @brigitstrawbridge.bsky.social · 13h

Ever since we moved to Cornwall, Dippers have been living and breeding on the stream near our house. I watched them daily and fell for them hook, line and sinker. Their disappearance last winter left me feeling quite bereft.... But LOOK who I spotted earlier this week!!! #overjoyed #happy

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VenetiaJane’s Garden @venetiajane.bsky.social · 14h

Autumn-flowering Cyclamen hederifolium has the curious old name ‘sowbread’, recalling the wild pigs said to root up its tubers to eat. Vita Sackville-West saw something altogether more delicate in its swept-back petals, likening them to ‘leveret ears laid back’. #FolkloreThursday

A collage of four photographs of autumn-flowering Cyclamen hederifolium. Delicate flowers in shades of pale lilac, pink and magenta rise on slender stems above heart-shaped, ivy-like leaves, beautifully marbled with silver and green. A close-up reveals the swept-back petals, resembling the ears of a young hare, with deeper magenta colouring at their base. The flowers grow in clusters among moss and fallen autumn leaves.

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VenetiaJane’s Garden @venetiajane.bsky.social · 14h

Here is an extract from ‘Autumn’, where the poet and novelist Vita Sackville-West (1892–1962), creator of Sissinghurst Castle Garden, likens cyclamen petals to ‘leveret ears laid back’. It is part of her wonderful long poem The Garden, which is well worth reading.

Photograph of a printed page showing two stanzas from ‘Autumn’, part of Vita Sackville-West’s The Garden. The extract reads:

Autumn’s a preparation for renewal,
Yet not entirely shorn
Of tardy beauty, last and saddest jewel
Bedizening where it may not adorn.
Few of the autumn blooms are deeply dear,
Lacking the spirit volatile and chaste
That blows across the ground when pied appear
The midget sweets of Spring, and in their haste
The vaporous trees break blossom pale and clear,
—Carpet and canopy, together born.

Stalwarts of Autumn lack that quality;
Only the little frightened cyclamen
With leveret ears laid back look fresh and young,
Or those pure chalices that Kentish men
Call Naked Boys, but by a lovelier name
Others call Naked Ladies, slender, bare,
Dressed only in their amethystine flame,
The Meadow Saffron magically sprung
By dawn in morning orchards in the grass
Near paths where shepherds on their errand pass
But ender-night beheld no crocus-colour there.

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The English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Our English Oaks are the last to wake up in Spring, and last to fall asleep in Autumn Well they are the Kings of the Forest, so like to my make an unequivocal and uncontested entrance and exit England won’t miss them while they sleep, because they are England

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The Hermit of Everything @hermiteveryday.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

You don’t have to promise. No need to collect words that can break. Bravery is knowing who you are and being true to yourself. You don’t need to shout it. You can sit quietly while the wind whispers. You are being you and that is beautiful even in silence. #vssdaily promise #vss365 bravery

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The English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

An angel, robed in spotless white, Bent down and kissed the sleeping Night. Night woke to blush; the sprite was gone. Men saw the blush and called it Dawn. Paul Laurence Dunbar

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

It’s too scholarly to be a true hatchet job, but this is still a joy to read. Goodwin is “a drop-out from academic life who prefer[s] the public exercise of his own unedited anxieties to empirical rigour”. More of a scalpel job. Really good stuff

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VenetiaJane’s Garden @venetiajane.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

The Roman goddess Cardea guarded door hinges and thresholds. In Ovid’s Fasti, she touches doorposts with strawberry tree (Arbutus unedo) leaves to protect an infant from the striges, vampire-like night birds sometimes said to be witches transformed by magic. #FairytaleTuesday

Collage of photographs of the strawberry tree (Arbutus unedo), showing clusters of small, creamy-white, bell-shaped flowers among glossy green leaves, alongside close-up views of the distinctive round, textured fruits as they ripen from pale yellow through orange to bright red.

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Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

This made me smile 😄✨️ • Kenneth C. Steven •

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The English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

An English Bluebell a day until I run out of photos #118

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The English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Ilex aquifolium, the common holly Found in shady areas of forests of oak, & one of very few native hardwood evergreen trees in Britain, & a pioneer species that repopulates the margins of forests We leave ours to grow into trees, & this is where the magic starts 1/2

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Dr Toby Driver @drtobydriver.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Waking up to a Carnyx 🐗📢 The talented Letty Stott playing a Carnyx last night alongside the sacred waters of Llyn Cerrig Bach votive lake, Ynys Mon/Anglesey 🎶😮 Have a great Sunday everyone 🍻 🎥 My own - volume up!

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VenetiaJane’s Garden @venetiajane.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Beautiful but deadly, wolfsbane (Aconitum napellus), or monkshood, is steeped in werewolf lore. Said to repel werewolves or break the curse of lycanthropy, it also appeared in recipes for witches’ ointments believed to grant powers of flight and transformation. #FolkloreSunday

Collage of wolfsbane and werewolf lore. Top left: 1941 pulp illustration of a werewolf crouched in moonlit woodland (Weird Tales, “The Werewolf Howls”). Right and bottom: close-up photos of purple wolfsbane (monkshood) flowers with green foliage.

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Brigit Strawbridge @brigitstrawbridge.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Some of the plants still producing flowers in our garden... Mostly being enjoyed by Common Carder bumblebees and Hummingbird Hawk moths, but a few hoverflies and wasps, too.

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Ryan Shirlow @ryanshirlow.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

been playing with it this morning and wow, what a game changer

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 31/07/2026

Find the 5 words from your birth year that perfectly describe YOUR vibe ⬇️ www.merriam-webster.com/time-traveler/

I recently discovered Merriam-Webster's Time Traveler feature which tells you which words are the same age as you.
I'm convinced there are 5 words from your birth year that perfectly describe your vibe.
Mine (1987):
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-adhd
• brain fart
-dad joke
-potty-mouthed
-thirtysomething

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VenetiaJane’s Garden @venetiajane.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

“Dark clouds and drifting showers, Ye come, ye come, sweet flowers! With meek and touching grace; And o’er the parting season’s wing A wreath of lingering beauty fling.” – from ‘Autumn Flowers’ by Agnes Strickland (1796-1874).

A nine-photo collage of autumn flowers, butterflies and berries. Yellow and orange strawflowers, pink and red fuchsias, a pale pink rose, crimson plume thistles, purple verbena and clusters of glossy red berries. Red admirals, a small tortoiseshell and a white butterfly feed among the flowers against softly blurred autumn backgrounds.

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The English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Mosses, liverworts, & lichens are small, moisture-loving organisms, so they love ancient woodland Mosses and liverworts are bryophytes (primitive plants). Lichens are fungi & algae. They benefit from their respective host without harming them

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VenetiaJane’s Garden @venetiajane.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Vividly colourful autumn leaves, berries and wildlife, including a red admiral butterfly and a red squirrel, photographed during my visit to St Andrews Botanic Garden last week. Have a great #Friday everyone!

A collage of four photographs taken at St Andrews Botanic Garden. Left: branches covered in brilliant pink, red, orange and green autumn leaves, with small red berries. Top right: sprays of tiny red berries among green leaves. Bottom centre: a red admiral butterfly with orange, black and white wings spread among pale lilac asters with yellow centres. Bottom right: a red squirrel with tufted ears, reddish-brown fur and a white chest, sitting upright in the grass and looking towards the camera.

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VenetiaJane’s Garden @venetiajane.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"The little robin in the quiet glen, Hidden from fame and all the strife of men, Sings unto Time a pastoral, and gives A music that lives on and ever lives." – from 'The Eternity of Nature' by John Clare (1793-1864). #poetry #autumn

A robin with bright orange-red breast perches on a diagonal branch among golden autumn leaves, against a softly blurred background of cream, blue and ochre.

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Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Gently read... • Elizabeth-Ellen Long •

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Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Always a delight to read... • Mary Oliver •

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Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Beginning Sunday with... • Wendell Berry •

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Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began... 'The Journey' by Mary Oliver

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VenetiaJane’s Garden @venetiajane.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

“The year, with fickle pulse, Weary of bloom, begins to live for fruit. Hope now is born at turning of the tide, And spreads her hue along the gauzy lines Of spider webs between the blades of grass.” — ‘The Turn of Summer’ by Augustus Radcliffe Grote (1841-1903). #AutumnEquinox

Autumn collage featuring bright red rose hips, a dew-beaded spider’s web, vivid pink and russet leaves, clusters of orange berries, acorns on an oak twig, a bracket fungus growing from a tree trunk, ripening blackberries and golden-yellow fern fronds.

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David Atkinson @davidatkinsonpoet.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Posting early, tomorrow I'll be in the Adriatic beyond the the reaches of the world wide Web 😁❤️🚢🚫🌍🕸️ Most war poems are really peace poems On the International Day of Peace Carol Ann Duffy, nodding to Owen, runs those old images backwards, unwinding the horror of the trenches #poetry #poemoftheday

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Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Written on this date 207 years ago. • John Keats •

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David Atkinson @davidatkinsonpoet.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I love the attention in Jackie Kay’s poem, if we look for stories in the landscape it will provide them – but not always the story we seek Also, the idea of not looking hard for something but looking the other way - that thing that eludes us might find us when we least expect it #poetry #poemofday

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Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Your Sunday Poem 💛

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VenetiaJane’s Garden @venetiajane.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Ye silent wooers of the wishing flowers That, blushing, lure you to their honeyed halls, Dance out your golden day, and steal its hours, Till o'er you, as o'er men, Death's slumber falls: Till Spring shall blow "Resurgum” o'er the lea, And name you types of Immortality! - J. Rigg

A Brown Argus butterfly, wings closed to reveal its intricate brown, orange, black and white underwing markings, feeding on the vivid orange-red cone of a pink echinacea flower, against a softly blurred green background.

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VenetiaJane’s Garden @venetiajane.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

“What new delight thy slender spires to find, With tress of hyacinthine bells entwined! Fragrance like thine no rose of June can yield: No lily can eclipse thy snow, dear prize, Flung backward from sweet Summer as she flies.” – from ‘Lady’s Tresses’ by E. S. Forman (1827-1908).

Collage of autumn lady’s-tresses (Spiranthes spiralis), a small orchid with tiny white flowers spiralling around a downy green stem. Close-up photographs show the hairy stem and delicate flowers. Centre: botanical plate of Spiranthes autumnalis (now S. spiralis) and Goodyera repens from Otto Wilhelm Thomé’s ‘Flora von Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz’ (1885). Upper left: description of autumn lady’s-tresses from H. Isabel Adams’s ’Wild Flowers of the British Isles’ (1907–10).

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David Atkinson @davidatkinsonpoet.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I've been posting a daily poem for just over a year In celebration I'm sharing the 10 most popular poems of the last 12 months In 1st place we have Noor Hindi ‘Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words’ – Robert Frost #poetry #poemofday

Poem - 'F**k Your Lecture on Craft My People Are Dying' by Noor Hindi

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David Atkinson @davidatkinsonpoet.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I've been posting a daily poem for just over a year In celebration I'm sharing the 10 most popular poems of the last 12 months In 2nd is Jay Hulme’s poem about grace & belonging, about being loved just as you are & accepting this truth Conversion therapy - still legal in UK 😡 #poetry #poemofday

Poem - 'Jesus at the Gay Bar' by Jay Hulme

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Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Gently read... 'Froxfield' by Edward Thomas

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The Hermit of Everything @hermiteveryday.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Dusk..things fall silent, Deer emerge at the edges, Grey slender phantoms. #dailyhaikuprompt dusk

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David Atkinson @davidatkinsonpoet.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I've been posting a daily poem for just over a year In celebration I'm sharing the 10 most popular poems of the last 12 months 6th – has echos of Niemöller’s poem ‘First They Came’ The 1st houses are already ashes. Many still think the wind is blowing in the opposite direction #poetry #poemofday

Poem - 'The Problem with Early Warnings' by Charles Rafferty

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Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Your Sunday Poem 🍂 • Wendell Berry •

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David Atkinson @davidatkinsonpoet.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I've been posting a daily poem for just over a year In celebration I'm sharing the 10 most popular poems of the last 12 months 6th - poignant in the week we lost Wendell It's easy to point fingers. It's also important to ask what's my culpability, either directly or by apathy #poetry #poemofday

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Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

As a means of praising the sunny Saturday morning that I'm currently experiencing... • Helen Hunt Jackson •

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VenetiaJane’s Garden @venetiajane.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Here is the whole poem ‘The Garden in September’ by the English poet Robert Bridges. There is more information about his life and work here: history.rcp.ac.uk/blog/robert-...

Three-page extract of Robert Bridges’ poem ‘The Garden in September’. The poem describes a September garden in early autumn, with misty sunshine, hollyhocks, sunflowers, asters, bees and butterflies, followed by fading summer scents, gentle breezes, flies, pigeons and rooks.

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VenetiaJane’s Garden @venetiajane.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

“And in the feathery aster bees on wing Seize and set free the honied flowers, Till thousand stars leap with their visiting: While ever across the path lazily flit, Unpiloted in the sun, The dreamy butterflies… “ – from ‘The Garden in September’ by Robert Bridges (1844-1930).

Collage of late-summer garden flowers and visiting insects. A bumblebee feeds on a vivid pink aster, while purple-blue asters attract butterflies and a bee. A brown butterfly rests on a pale lilac aster, with a final view of a cluster of bright pink aster blooms.

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Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Marvellous 🤌🏼✨️ • Kenneth C. Steven •

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Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Wendell Berry has passed on.

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