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Trees for Life @treesforlife.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It’s been a bumper year for hazel, with #trees producing an abundance of nuts. 🌰 Our seed collection #volunteers have gathered an incredible 70kg+ of hazelnuts, from the Trossachs all the way north to Sutherland👉https://treesforlife.org.uk/about-us/what-we-do/tree-seed-collection/

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Claraisreading 🌿💙📚📚 @claramay.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Cuttings from lower down the stem may be sturdier?

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Claraisreading 🌿💙📚📚 @claramay.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

100% this. And 'through the night' when awake with tiny children at all hours. A very particular nostalgia.

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Luke Turner @luketurner.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I really miss Elizabeth Alker on Radio 3 of a weekend, her morning programme had such breadth and personality to it and got me through so many early starts when Max was wee. With Thinking Aloud & Free Thinking also gone this week it’s so depressing how the BBC are gutting quality radio

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Claraisreading 🌿💙📚📚 @claramay.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Well done, Hank - bet those sisterly snuggles helped. They are very sweet ❤️

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Claraisreading 🌿💙📚📚 @claramay.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Sounds delicious – have a lovely meal together

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Sue Cowley @suecowley.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The thing that really strikes me about ai is how many people (including me) are looking for a way to actively avoid having it forced on us because it makes everything worse. What other 'exciting new technology' could we say that about? It has made internet searches practically unusable.

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Claraisreading 🌿💙📚📚 @claramay.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

100% support this sentiment, which is applicable in many sectors

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Claraisreading 🌿💙📚📚 @claramay.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

random Ransome-related internet-rummaging discovery: A Bodley Head Monograph from the 1960s, edited by Kathleen Lines: (This can be found on the Internet Archive)

Front cover of
One of a series? of THE BODLEY HEAD MONOGRAPHS
Arthur Ransome BY HUGH SHELLEY
Rudyard Kipling BY ROSEMARY SUTCLIFF
Walter de la Mare BY LEONARD CLARK

Inside jacket flap text: The Bodley Head Monographs are short, critical accounts of the life and work of out- standing writers for children. Kathleen Lines, the General Editor of the series, has planned these studies especially with the children's librarian or student of children's literature in mind.
The three Monographs reprinted in this volume are devoted to three great English writers: Arthur Ransome, whose death in June 1967 has entailed considerable revision to the text; Rudyard Kipling, whose Jungle Books are now reaching a new audience through the medium of the cinema; Walter de la Mare, a poet and storyteller whose understanding of
children was unique. Hugh Shelley was of an age to identify himself with the Swallows when Swallows and Amazons first appeared; Rosemary Sutcliff admits, 'My reason for writing this Monograph will be obvious to anyone who reads it: I have loved Kipling for as long as I can remember'; Leonard Clark, himself a poet, was a friend of Walter de la Mare and has edited his Complete Poems.

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Claraisreading 🌿💙📚📚 @claramay.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Finished! Very rewarding. So well researched, and written in the 1980s, so she was able to talk with people who’d known her subject.

Old black and white photos from the book Arthur Ransome and Captain Flint’s Trunk - variously showing sailing boats and tents.

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Claraisreading 🌿💙📚📚 @claramay.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

for #WildflowerHour - Creeping Thistle in flower in the field, as the grass recovers from a late hay cut and enjoys the recent rain:

Sugar-pink colour flowers on a thistle plant amongst green grass

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Claraisreading 🌿💙📚📚 @claramay.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

So glad that the move has turned out so well for you! It sounds lovely.

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Claraisreading 🌿💙📚📚 @claramay.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Yes I have enjoyed the wisdom of some of her substack essays. Saw her speak at Stroud last year at the book fest. Thanks for the reminder, I have reserved this at the Library.

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

‘We sought the hollow ash that was shelter from the rain With our pockets full of peas we had stolen from the grain How delicious was the dinner time on such a showry day O words are poor receipts for what time hath stole away The ancient pulpit trees and the play’ ~ John Clare #BookWormSat

🖼️ Samuel Palmer (1805-1881), The Weald of Kent (c 1833-4)
Autumn scene from hillside with tree overlooking sprawling countryside below, painting.

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Claraisreading 🌿💙📚📚 @claramay.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

#NowReading Arthur Ransome and Captain Flint‘s Trunk by Christina Hardyment. Very enjoyable.

Front cover, in Ransome style, of Arthur Ransome and Capt. Flint’s Trunk by Christina Hardyment

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Claraisreading 🌿💙📚📚 @claramay.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It's online on the Internet archive, so you can have a look

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Claraisreading 🌿💙📚📚 @claramay.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Do try it, Erica. I have no hesitation at all and recommending this to lovers of the books. It's obvs written by somebody who both knows and loves the Books, and understands both creative writing and sailing.

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Claraisreading 🌿💙📚📚 @claramay.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Good plan. If you like that sort of thing, it’s a really good one

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Claraisreading 🌿💙📚📚 @claramay.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Christina Hardyment retraces Ransom’s footsteps, visiting both the Lake District and Pin Mill, with her own young family:

Sam told me that there had been a real Mrs Powell, the sailmaker’s wife, and, with her permission, Ransome had put her in her cottage into the book just as they were. The only trouble was that she had had to learn how to make omelettes fast, because fans were soon turning up to sample them

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Claraisreading 🌿💙📚📚 @claramay.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

#NowReading Arthur Ransome and Captain Flint‘s Trunk by Christina Hardyment. Very enjoyable.

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University of Brighton Design Archives @designarchives.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A selection of fabrics and wallpapers from the Festival of Britain exhibition, 1951, published in 'Design from the Festival', one of the many digitised resources available on our website - designarchives.brighton.ac.uk/resources/do... @designcouncil.bsky.social archive DCA/32/2/1/78

a 2-page magazine spread with colour and black and white photos of wallpapers and textiles. Patterns include florals, checks, stripes

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Claraisreading 🌿💙📚📚 @claramay.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

You’re welcome! Recently gave them to some young people with a new baby... years of Elsa Bescow etc to look forward to

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Donna Rainey @donnarainey4.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Managed to get a bird on the #moon tonight.

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Claraisreading 🌿💙📚📚 @claramay.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

sounds lovely. Just don't tell them about Christmas.

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Claraisreading 🌿💙📚📚 @claramay.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I'm sure I saw this in that Post-Impressionist Paintings exhibition!

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Andy Lewis @andylewis.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Every time someone links to this film, I have to repost it. It's one of the most significant bits of British 20th century art. Everything about it is incredible. Groundbreaking music production by Daphne Oram. Amazing camera work by Wolfgang Suschitzky (who later filmed Get Carter).-

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TW @twesq.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

this is fantastic and I learned something new

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Jude Rogers @juderogers.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

...so read my long love-letter to this show, in which I explore all its complications and unanswered questions, here. juderogers.substack.com/p/the-unansw...

juderogers.substack.com

The unanswered questions of 70 Up

The death of Nick, goodbye to Neil, and the power of watching fourteen real lives in time-lapse – the return of my Mid-Week Culture Culture Blast

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Claraisreading 🌿💙📚📚 @claramay.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Oh, this does sound wonderful. Thank you.

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Claraisreading 🌿💙📚📚 @claramay.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

100% for May We Feed The King, which sounds great and I haven’t even read it yet, there is a queue at the Library 👑

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wildflowerhour @wildflowerhour.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Joining in with #Wildflowerhour is easy! Look for wild & naturalised blooms from across Britain & Ireland during the week & then share Sunday 8-9pm!

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Shropshire and Beyond @shropshirebeyond.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I do like an inviting path! This is the old drovers' road on Adstone Hill, near the western side of the Long Mynd. These green walkways date back to medieval times and were used to herd livestock across the hills and valleys. I was there for a couple of hours and all I #Shropshire

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Cath Hodsman @cathhodsman.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

In cinemas, from the 2nd Oct. Oh my word, I have to watch this..

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