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Searching for the WOW in life. History, humour, space and spaniels is a good place to start.

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Nicholas Pegg @nicholaspegg.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
In the garden today: the last of this year’s giant poppies is ‘Beauty of Livermere’, named after the Suffolk village where it was first cultivated. Great Livermere Rectory was also home to the medievalist and ghost story maestro M.R.James, who set several of his most celebrated tales in the area.
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
A heartwarming response to my post of today on Instagram, I just had to screenshot and share. It's not complicated: just give nature a break. 🌏
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Portrait of a woman, 1435. Don't know what I love more: the eyes, the subtlety of the purple robe, the incredible headscarf (the layers! the folds!) or the pins. The pins! Robert Campin, you did well.
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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Some designs stand the test of time! 🩴 Ancient Egyptian flip-flop-style fibre sandals, still looking remarkably wearable, and as good as the day they were made some 3,400 years ago! From the Tomb of Yuya and Tjuya. Dynasty 18, reign of Amenhotep III. Egyptian Museum, Cairo 📷 by me #Archaeology
My photo shows a pair of fibre ‘flip-flop’ style sandals with toe-thong and strap made of split papyrus. They were excavated from the near-intact tomb of Yuya and Tjuya (great-grandparents of Tutankhamun), in the Valley of the Kings at the Thebes. The sandals are made of grass and reeds, with the toe and side straps made of split papyrus.
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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Seven years today since we first introduced you to this absolute unit.
A very large Exmoor Horn sheep.
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History and Heritage Yorkshire @handhyorkshire.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
I'm not going into the history of Fountains Abbey. Just admiring the stonework in this image by Allan Harris CC BY-ND 2.0
I'm not going in to the history of Fountains Abbey. Just admiring the stonework in this image by Allan Harris
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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
there's a lot we can learn from animals. such as: wearing sunscreen, sunbathing in compost, and generally being a pig
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Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
the gorse is absolutely spectacular right now
Photo of a rocky grey stone cliff in the sunshine, on the ledges gorse is in flower, creating vibrant yellows splashes of colour across the sirface of the rocks.
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Orkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
No we're not on holiday in the Maldives, this is the view from the ferry this morning as #BookyMcBookface sails north to spend the day on the beautiful #Orkney island of Sanday. ❤️
Calm blue seas and a blue sky with the sun just rising over the horizon
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Jonathan Foyle @jonathanfoyle.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
The ridiculously fine C15 coffered barrel vault of Shepton Mallet church.
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Elle @elleisanisland.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
In the 14th century, someone who didn't have a highlighter handy thought to use octopus tentacles to mark the most important parts. I love it so much (Manuscript from the Bankcroft library, UC Berkeley)
An ancient manuscript. Along the left margin is a drawn-on octopus whose tentacles point out important sentences on the page.
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Merchant Adventurers’ Hall @merchantshallyork.org · 01/04/2025
Did you know that in the Tudor period the Great Hall roof was used to dry clothes? The roof space was so large it provided enough room for everyone in York to use it and it was free! Ladders were provided for the highest levels which were reserved for pants. 🩲
We are looking at a picture of a timber room with a large timber framed roof. Cartoon clothes are hung from different levels and include jeans, jackets, socks, dresses, t-shirts and socks. Two baskets of clothes are sat on the floor.
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Journal of Art in Society @artinsociety.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
French artist Jean-Pierre Laurens’ quietly-restrained depiction of his sister-in-law Alice with her young son, mourning the loss of her husband Raymond who died in the last weeks of WW1 (The Mourning Wife, 1922)
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Guy Thomas 〓〓 @guywrites.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
As we start a new week, it’s a timely reminder that we should make time to pause, return to our breathing and be in the present moment. It doesn’t mean sitting in silence in nature. It means bringing our awareness back to ourself and knowing everything else is external. Our calm comes from within. 😊
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The English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
The old and the new
An oak tree hanging on to last year’s leaves whilst this years tree buds grow next to them
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Andy Marshall @fotofacade.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
✨The 12th-century Romanesque nave at Ely Cathedral rarely steals the spotlight (thanks to that lantern tower), but it’s absolutely jaw-dropping – so I put my tilt-shift lens to work... 📸 #throwbackthursday
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The English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Yesterday, and in broad daylight, I walked straight into a badger digging in our bluebell fields. Bluebell bulbs were flying. He didn’t notice me, as humans are scarce around here, and because he was facing away from me. So I playfully kicked him up the bum 🤭
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Orkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Today is the first day of spring and it's good to have the sun on our balls again. 🌞
The balls of Orkney Library & Archive in the sunshine. The sky is blue.
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David Thomas MooahahahAHAHA! @dtmooreeditor.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
during social distancing times, MERL had a life-size cardboard standee of this dude by the entrance with the slogan "please stand one absolute unit apart" 😀
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Orkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
we saw this unit and thought of you
A painting of a very chunky cow
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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
look at this absolute unit
A very large Exmoor Horn ram, with a small yet noticeable smile.
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MꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
This is a tremendous website, I highly recommend a scroll. The Deep Sea Here's a fun fact from the site. neal.fun/deep-sea/
Deepest dive of a narwhal.
1814 Meters deep. Narwhals dive to this depth up to 15 times a day in search for food.
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Orkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
We have an announcement. The Mobile Library visit to Rousay & Egilsay scheduled for today (Monday 17th) has been postponed due to unforeseen mechanical servicing. This visit has now been rescheduled for NEXT MONDAY (24th March) at all the normal stop times. Apologies for any inconvenience.
BookyMcBookface the Mobile Library on the ferry to Rousay. The shark from Jaws has been added to the photograph.
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Orkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Happy #StPatricksDay ☘️📚
A pint of Guinness made from black Penguin Classics with the top few books turned around to look like foam
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The English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
A 1,000 year old castle encloses a 2,000 year old Roman lighthouse, & is also built on an even older Iron Age hill fort It defends the shortest route from continental Europe across the Straight of Dover It is so vast it can be seen from France as intended when designed
The massive fortifications of Dover Castle
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
East Window, 2008 designed by Iranian artist Shirazeh Houshiary, St Martin-in-the-Field, London #womensart
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Sandra 🍒💗 @cherry-heart.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Hello Bluesky! Thought I’d give this a whirl. I make things with crochet, knitting and sewing. I occasionally get up to other creative endeavours too. 💕
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Dr Rebecca Warren @drrjwarren.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
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Jonathan Foyle @jonathanfoyle.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Bath Abbey this afternoon
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Guy Thomas 〓〓 @guywrites.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
End your day with some Cornish calm. Soothe your head with the sound of the waves, and imagine the salt air caressing your face. Pause and breathe. Your best today was good enough. Your emotions were valid. Know there is always hope, and there is always good in this world. Rest well, my friends. 😊
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Andy Marshall @fotofacade.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
A little contribution for #windowsonwednesday Don’t know why, but I was drawn to this little window fashioned within the timber framing of the Talbot Inn in Much Wenlock. Maybe it’s the bull nose glass - (the cut off from the glass blowers blow pipe).
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Jack-o-lantEryn @eryn.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
I present to you... The most perfect photo ever taken of the most perfect little boy lamb 😭
A young lamb, perfectly fluffy & very clean. He has the pinkest ears & his sweet face is looking at the camera. He is in a huge pasture with lots of friends to play with.
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
The Rialto, Venice, 1494: Members of Scuola process over bridge with the relic of the True Cross. At left the relic heals a madman. Everywhere else nobody pays attention. Fantastic work by Vittore Carpaccio, whose day is today.
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Dr Jill Whitelock @jillwhitelock.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Sweet violet portrait. #WildflowerHour
Two purple Sweet violet flowers in grass, one shown ‘face on’, the other to the side.
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John Simpson @johnsimpsonnews.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
I don’t think JD Vance meant to be dismissive of British and French military support in Iraq and Afghanistan. He just didn’t pause before opening his mouth. The people round Trump think they’re the masters of the universe at the moment. I don’t imagine it’ll last.
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Orkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Every year on #PancakeDay we make a Peter Pancake.
A stack of different copies of Peter Pan stacked on top of a book titled Cake
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Laura Phillips @lauraphillips.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Trumped. King Charles with President Zelensky at Sandringham this evening.
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King Charles with President Zelensky at Sandringham this evening.
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Orkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
The news can be hard work sometimes but it's the 1st of March and the spring bulbs are flowering and look how much William Hourston loved his dog. ❤️ #PhotographicArchives
A black and white archive photograph of Orkney photographer William Hourston and his dog
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Merchant Adventurers’ Hall @merchantshallyork.org · 01/03/2025
Why hello there March.
We are looking at a timber framed building on a gorgeous spring day. A cherry blossom tree in bloom has branches which  spread down in front of the building. The sky is blue and the plaster of the building glows yellow.
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 01/03/2025
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Clare - Little Conkers @littleconkers.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Here's a crochet pattern from a designer in Ukraine. 🇺🇦🧶 www.etsy.com/uk/listing/1...
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Digital Crochet Pattern Narcissus Flower - Etsy
This Patterns & Blueprints item by CrochetbyNataErkhova has 726 favorites from Etsy shoppers. Ships from United States. Listed on Feb 28, 2025
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The English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Ladies & Gentlemen, without further ado, please meet El Castaño Sagrado of Andalusia, Spain A Sweet Chestnut of biblical proportions 😮🌳 Photo: Ernesto Rubio Velasco
A massive Sweet Chestnut with a bike for scale
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Uncle Duke @uncleduke1969.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Roland couldn't wait to go to school. The other kids were gonna be totes jelly of his sweet-ass new kicks.
A seagull stands on the beach with pair of high top white sneakers. The angle is such that the bird appears to be wearing them.
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Guy Thomas 〓〓 @guywrites.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
If you’re in need of some soothing calm, some soul balm, lie down amongst the poppies here and listen to the birdsong as they serenade the sunset. Allow yourself to drift for a moment. May your evening be peaceful, my friends. 😊 #Cornwall #nature #sunset #flowers #birds #calm #peace #photography
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Orkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Mordor on the Orient Express
Biographies of J.R.R. Tolkien and Agatha Christie
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Clare - Little Conkers @littleconkers.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Eco-friendly flower brooch kit, with gorgeous hand-dyed British yarn, natural shell button and everything else you need. littleconkers.co.uk/shop/flower-... #CrochetKit #LetterboxGifts #MothersDay
Kraft box containing yarn, crochet hook, buttons, brooch back and yarn needle, with a crochet pattern to make a flower brooch.
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Orkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
You forgot didn't you? Yeah you did. Don't worry it's easy to forget, the weeks pass so quickly these days of tilting towards the sun! It's #Orkney. It's Monday night. It's 5pm. It's time for EPISODE EIGHT of 'How light is it in #Orkney at 5pm this week?' IT IS THIS LIGHT! 💡
The view out the back of the library. The sky is light blue and the sun is still just visible over the buildings on the horizon.
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Gretel le Maître 🐘 @gretellemaitre.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
St Martin’s On The Walls, a 1020s pre-conquest stunner, built on the Saxon ramparts that surround the wonderful pre-Saxon town of Wareham, on the south coast of England. The tall, narrow nave and chancel is typically Saxon in style.
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Fishbourne Roman Palace @romanpalace.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
If this post gets enough traction we can guarantee that @maryrosemuseum.bsky.social will start to stock these TudorPants in their museum shop. www.notonthehighstreet.com/twistedtwee/...
It's a pair of pants with a large portrait of King Henry the eighth on them, front and centre. And not in a good way.
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