CopyClare @bartlebeans.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Celebrating the extraordinary and influential Bishop Lancelot Andrewes who died 400 years ago, with the equally remarkable Rowan Williams @southwarkcathedral.bsky.social 000
CopyClare @bartlebeans.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller (1793–1865) The Ruins of the Greek Theatre at Taormina and Mount Etna 1844 #art #painting #pleinair 030
CopyClare @bartlebeans.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller (1793–1865) The Ruins of the Temple of Juno Lacinia near Agrigento 1846 000
CopyClare @bartlebeans.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller (1793–1865) Lake Wolfgang 000
CopyClare @bartlebeans.bsky.social · 20/09/2026‘It’s almost impossible to convince people who have formed a strong emotional belief that they are wrong by using reasoned argument. Since faith isn’t dependent on reason, how can reason be used to convince anyone they’re mistaken?’ The Nazi Mind: 12 Warnings from History @laurencerees.bsky.social 000
CopyClare @bartlebeans.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I went to a talk on #Vanbrugh at Stowe House yesterday. I noticed this hand-painted depiction of a Ringnecked Parakeet on the wall. It dates to the 1780s, 170 years before the making of the African Queen. #StoweHouse #parrot #parakeet @btobirds.bsky.social @thegeorgiangroup.bsky.social #Vanbrugh300 000
CopyClare @bartlebeans.bsky.social · 13/09/2026NO! Anti-Common Market materials from 1974. #EnochPowell #EU #Europe #Brexit #Reform #RightWing 010
CopyClare @bartlebeans.bsky.social · 13/09/2026From my father’s archives: “14 years of argument are over, says Wilson.” #EU #Europe #Brexit #Reform 031
CopyClare @bartlebeans.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Shocking use of a sacred space, tish … @friendlesschurches.bsky.social #ChurchCrawling @theresthistory.bsky.social 001
CopyClare @bartlebeans.bsky.social · 15/08/2026@cafeotodalston.bsky.social Catford to Khartoum !! 🎤🎸🥁🎧🎻🥫🍋🍸🥃🎺🎷 000
CopyClare @bartlebeans.bsky.social · 07/08/2026@williamorbit.bsky.social thank you for the after-parties 🌷🙏🏼💜 the best of times 🎶 000
CopyClare @bartlebeans.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Into the water with ‘em!!! Hoorargh! #tugowar #Ickford 000
CopyClare @bartlebeans.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Let’s goooooo!!! #Ickford v #Tiddington #Bucks 💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼 000
CopyClare @bartlebeans.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Time for the annual Ickford v Tiddington tog o’ war over the River #Thame 💪🏼 000
CopyClare @bartlebeans.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Hoping Messi sees a button and goes to Okido by mistake, mid match #ENGARG #Messi #okido_official #MessyMonster #messygoestokido 000
CopyClare @bartlebeans.bsky.social · 09/05/2026Our neighbour complains about the state of our garden, but we had a Whitethroat singing it this morning so he can bore off. #Gardens #Wildlife #EnglishGardens @btobirds.bsky.social 120
CopyClare @bartlebeans.bsky.social · 03/05/2026“Loaded with Urgent War Materials, a U. S. Army Air Transport Command Sky Giant Roars over Egypt’s Age-old Pyramids.” ~ National Geographic, December 1944 000
CopyClare @bartlebeans.bsky.social · 23/04/2026Happy birthday, Willie Waggledagger! 🏴 #Shakespeare #StGeorge 010
CopyClare @bartlebeans.bsky.social · 15/04/2026I actually saw Snowdon/Yr Wyddfa last week. Usually it’s just a cloud. #Wales 000
CopyClare @bartlebeans.bsky.social · 28/03/2026It’s amazing we’re still alive. #1970s #cuisine #foodads 000
CopyClare @bartlebeans.bsky.social · 02/03/2026Does anyone else remember these? I loved how the cream blobs stuck to the lid! #BirdsEye #Chocolate #Mousse #Puddings #Dessert #1970s #1980s 000
CopyClare @bartlebeans.bsky.social · 22/02/2026My 11yo drew The Moog to celebrate #KennethWilliams’ birthday. 🐶 000
CopyClare @bartlebeans.bsky.social · 20/02/2026Hard to top yesterday’s proceedings with my son: My Neighbour Totoro matinee on Drury Lane, a walk down Whitehall, a parliamentary pub stop + an excellent talk on the invention of British art by @bendorgrosvenor.bsky.social at St Margaret’s church @westminsterabbey.bsky.social 🙏🏼 #London #TotoroShow 120
CopyClare @bartlebeans.bsky.social · 10/02/2026A reminder that #Friends is over thirty years old 👇🏻👇🏻 000
CopyClare @bartlebeans.bsky.social · 01/01/2026Absolutely no idea who this Christmas card is from but they’re my kind of person. 010
CopyClare @bartlebeans.bsky.social · 27/12/2025Looking at some old pictures of the #Berlin #LoveParade circa 2003. It amazes me that the whole city was basically an outdoor club for the weekend. Times!! 010
CopyClare @bartlebeans.bsky.social · 04/12/2025“How likely are you to recommend this piece of 💩 Ai-driven communication to a friend?” 010
CopyClare @bartlebeans.bsky.social · 18/11/2025Liminal 2am moment in the children’s A&E. Brain playing tricks. 020
CopyClare @bartlebeans.bsky.social · 06/09/2025Can recommend Stanley Donwood THIS IS WHAT YOU GET at the Ashmolean @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social @radiohead.wastehq.social 020
CopyClare @bartlebeans.bsky.social · 30/08/2025This is a ‘young’ visitor’s guide to the Tower of London from 1974 and it strikes me that no young person would even focus on even a word of this today. What happened? #reading #history #education #schools #toweroflondon 011
CopyClare @bartlebeans.bsky.social · 23/08/2025Interior of the #Byzantine church of St Peter, Kastania (Kαστανίά), #Mani, #Greece 010
CopyClare @bartlebeans.bsky.social · 22/08/2025The tiny chapel in Chora (Χώρα) near Kardamyli (Καρδαμύλη), Greece, where Bruce Chatwin’s ashes were scattered. #TheMani #travel #writers 030
CopyClare @bartlebeans.bsky.social · 19/08/2025Sunset with fly-tipped sofa, obvs. #Greece #holidays 000
CopyClare @bartlebeans.bsky.social · 04/08/2025I visited Stowe today. It’s a very odd place. Something of the delapidated Georgian theme park about it. @thegeorgiangroup.bsky.social @nationaltrust.org.uk 000
CopyClare @bartlebeans.bsky.social · 15/07/2025Watching The Innocents on @channel4.bsky.social #Film4 brrrrr 000
CopyClare @bartlebeans.bsky.social · 09/07/2025Goodbye to the best dog ever. I’ll miss you, Tulip. 🐾 110
CopyClare @bartlebeans.bsky.social · 04/05/2025My 1776 copy of The Poems of Mr Gray (pub. Murray) belonged to Siegfried Sassoon. 110