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Claire Debenham @clairedeb.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

The grapes are ripe, but the vine is still putting out spray after spray of new flowers. #climatechange

A bunch of ripe seedless grapes, green with a purplish sheen, hanging amid vine leaves.

Sprays of young grape flowers growing on the same vine.

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Claire Debenham @clairedeb.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Woke tofu-shitting kittylitterati

A silver-tabby-and-white cat rubs his cheek against an unopened pack of Tigerino Plant-Based Tofi Pellets 100% Biodegradable cat litter.

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Claire Debenham @clairedeb.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

The bed is inviolably the cat's domain, and the bedding all has to be changed around him.

A silver tabby and white cat sprawls grumpily on the sheet of a double bed, with hands putting on a new duvet cover visible behind him.

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Claire Debenham @clairedeb.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Bought a cheap pair of second-hand skates so I can go fen skating, thus practically guaranteeing no more hard frosts until at least next year.

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Claire Debenham @clairedeb.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Anni got very excited and wanted to chase them so wasn't allowed on, but did get to try out the ice for herself on the next meadow.

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Claire Debenham @clairedeb.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Just a few fen skaters risking the ice at Upware this morning.

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Claire Debenham @clairedeb.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Started the year as I mean to go on, by scrubbing off a couple of swastikas spray-painted on a barn door up the road. New ones appear every few weeks, and are either painted over or scratched off with wire wool by neighbours. After several iterations, it's starting to look quite artistic.

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Claire Debenham @clairedeb.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

First mince pies of this Advent, with mincemeat made with raisins from the grapes from our vine, candied yuzu peel from our tiny yuzu tree, apples from our next-door neighbour, and foraged walnuts.

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Claire Debenham @clairedeb.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Storm Claudia making her presence felt here.

St Mary's Street in Ely, partly flooded.

The junction of Cromwell Road and St Mary's Street in Ely, with the road completely flooded.

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Claire Debenham @clairedeb.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

A cake for autumn: honey, pumpkin and walnut loaf.

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Claire Debenham @clairedeb.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Miniature kiwi fruit harvest from the garden. The vine was planted three years ago, but it's the first time they've ripened enough to eat.

Miniature green kiwi fruits growing amid leaves that are starting to turn yelllow against an old brick wall.

Two cut halves of a miniature kiwi fruit sitting on a worktop, against a teaspoon for scale.

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Claire Debenham @clairedeb.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

In this week’s Private Eye. How long before other big agencies follow suit?

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Claire Debenham @clairedeb.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

How can this possibly be "malicious communication" under UK law?

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Claire Debenham @clairedeb.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Five years after moving in to our house, we're painting the kitchen, the final room to be redone. This has involved the purchase of seven new tester pots in addition to the ones we had already.

A pyramid of 48 tester paint pots, mainly from Farrow & Ball and Little Greene, in various mainly tasteful colours.

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Claire Debenham @clairedeb.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

A gorgeous flush of poplar fieldcaps, Cyclocybe cylindracea.

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Claire Debenham @clairedeb.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

Ghost tree in the Dean's Meadow by Ely Cathedral.

A dead tree stands in the middle of a recently mown meadow, with the lantern of Ely Cathedral in the background.

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Claire Debenham @clairedeb.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Mosque doorway, Al Balad, Jeddah.

An arched doorway, with the left half of the decorated wooden door closed and the right hand open, revealing stone steps down to a courtyard in which have been left a single pair of sandals.

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Claire Debenham @clairedeb.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

This is what will finally push me into using Kagi as my primary search engine. It's only by going to multiple links and critically evaluating their content that I can find useful answers to translation-related queries. www.ft.com/content/dec8...

Screenshot from the FT, reading: 'Chief executive Sundar Pichai used the conference to launch what he called a "total reimaging of search" to address the challenge from AI chatbots. What the company is calling "AI mode" will be embedded in its search bar, browser and apps, allowing users to receive conversational answers to questions instead of a list of blue links.'

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Claire Debenham @clairedeb.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Homemade elderflower cordial is delicious, honestly. Even if it does look exactly like a hospital pee bottle.

A glass bottle almost full of a yellow-green liquid standing on a kitchen worktop.

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Claire Debenham @clairedeb.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Rolls Royce with street cat, Jeddah.

The tail and one back leg of a ginger street cat sticking out from under the front wheel of a blue Rolls Royce in a parking garage. (There were several more street cats under the car that were too shy to pose for the camera.)

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Claire Debenham @clairedeb.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

in every wood, in every spring there is a different green

a mainly black dog standing in a sunlit wood with white tree trunks and vivid green leaves and grass

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Claire Debenham @clairedeb.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

I admire his camouflage technique.

A silver-tabby-and-white cat lying so his markings blend in with the duvet cover stripes.

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Claire Debenham @clairedeb.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

If you see this, post some fungi.

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Claire Debenham @clairedeb.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Happy #BlueSkyMonday to those who celebrate. Lake Akkajaure, August 2016.

Moutains, forest, and a glacier reflected in the absolute blue stillness of the lake.

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Claire Debenham @clairedeb.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

The sun will break through eventually.

The west tower of Ely Cathedral on a misty morning, with a lit street lamp on the bottom left and the sun starting to burn through the mist at the top right.

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Claire Debenham @clairedeb.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

If you see this post, quote with a bridge from your gallery

The iron bridge at Ironbridge (the first iron bridge in the world), in autumn, framing buildings across the river.

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Claire Debenham @clairedeb.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

After dog-walking on Magog Down the other day I was delighted to discover that King of the Wind, a children's novel about the Godolphin Arabian that I'd loved as a child, features the horse and his rider being exiled to the depths of ... Wicken Fen.

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Claire Debenham @clairedeb.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

I've amended my privacy settings, and removed Copilot from the Ribbon. But I still get this $&%king prompt in each new document, and the icon at the start of each new line.

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Claire Debenham @clairedeb.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Waterside sunset in #Ely. The trees were almost aflame.

Sunset over the River Great Ouse in Ely.

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Claire Debenham @clairedeb.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

Sir Isaac Newton in Christmas mood.

A white marble statue of Sir Isaac Newton, wearing a Santa hat and with Christmas tree baubles tied around his ankle.

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Claire Debenham @clairedeb.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

To anyone who's lived in Japan for any length of time, the Ely Cathedral "Angel Tree" looks just like a Christmas/Tanabata mashup.

A man on the left examining one of the prayers written on coloured labels hanging from a Christmas tree.

Text saying: "The Angel Tree. Enjoy a moment of reflection in the pre Christmas rush. Write your prayer, message, thought or just the name of a loved one on the back of an angel and hang it on the Angel Tree. An Angel Tree prayer - the gift that doesn't need wrapping. This tree has been donated by Brands of Ely"

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Claire Debenham @clairedeb.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

I keep thinking mushroom season is over, then finding another crop of field blewits.

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Claire Debenham @clairedeb.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

One of my books of the year. It's both scholarly and witty, a really engaging read from which I've learned a lot. Highly recommended.

Book cover of "Lower than the Angels: A History of Sex and Christianity" by Diarmaid MacCulloch.

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Claire Debenham @clairedeb.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

More thoughts by @seatrout.bsky.social on the aftermath of the Makin report, this time on his Substack. andrewbrown.substack.com/p/what-help-...

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Claire Debenham @clairedeb.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Teaching @fenlandlapphund.bsky.social how to behave nicely in the pub. This needs a lot of practice, obviously.

A mainly black Finnish Lapphund dog lying on a patterned carpet.

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Claire Debenham @clairedeb.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Achievement unlocked: homemade mincemeat.

Three jars of homemade mincemeat on a worktop.

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Claire Debenham @clairedeb.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Field blewits from this morning's dog walk.

Wild mushrooms (field blewits) in a white basket.

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Claire Debenham @clairedeb.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

My great-great grandfather photographed Engels in London in 1888.

Friedrich Engels photographed by William Elliott Debenham.

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Claire Debenham @clairedeb.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

We Are Sound, the vocal collective I sing with in Cambridge, is finally back. And back in style, with two shows in Trinity College Chapel on the Saturday before Christmas. www.tickettailor.com/events/weare...

Announcement of the We Are Sound Christmas Cocktail in Trinity College Chapel on December 21.

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