Reposted by @cwr100.bsky.socialNicholas Pegg @nicholaspegg.bsky.social · 03/06/2025In 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. 0755
Reposted by @cwr100.bsky.socialEoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 22/05/2025A 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. 🌏 128027
Reposted by @cwr100.bsky.socialDr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 26/04/2025Portrait 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. 1594347410
Reposted by @cwr100.bsky.socialAlison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 12/04/2025Some 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 8453117
Reposted by @cwr100.bsky.socialThe Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 09/04/2025Seven years today since we first introduced you to this absolute unit. 433955696
Reposted by @cwr100.bsky.socialHistory and Heritage Yorkshire @handhyorkshire.bsky.social · 08/04/2025I'm not going into the history of Fountains Abbey. Just admiring the stonework in this image by Allan Harris CC BY-ND 2.0 2868
Reposted by @cwr100.bsky.socialThe Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 08/04/2025there's a lot we can learn from animals. such as: wearing sunscreen, sunbathing in compost, and generally being a pig 17809115
Reposted by @cwr100.bsky.socialDr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 05/04/2025the gorse is absolutely spectacular right now 1552
Reposted by @cwr100.bsky.socialOrkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social · 03/04/2025No 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. ❤️ 648446
Reposted by @cwr100.bsky.socialJonathan Foyle @jonathanfoyle.bsky.social · 01/04/2025The ridiculously fine C15 coffered barrel vault of Shepton Mallet church. 110011
Reposted by @cwr100.bsky.socialElle @elleisanisland.bsky.social · 31/03/2025In 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) 332097569
Reposted by @cwr100.bsky.socialMerchant Adventurers’ Hall @merchantshallyork.org · 01/04/2025Did 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. 🩲 913318
Reposted by @cwr100.bsky.socialJournal of Art in Society @artinsociety.bsky.social · 31/03/2025French 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) 117020
Reposted by @cwr100.bsky.socialGuy Thomas 〓〓 @guywrites.bsky.social · 31/03/2025As 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. 😊 930434
Reposted by @cwr100.bsky.socialThe English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social · 26/03/2025The old and the new 313915
Reposted by @cwr100.bsky.socialAndy 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 722524
Reposted by @cwr100.bsky.socialThe English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social · 21/03/2025Yesterday, 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 🤭 7623
Reposted by @cwr100.bsky.socialOrkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social · 20/03/2025Today is the first day of spring and it's good to have the sun on our balls again. 🌞 2868586
Reposted by @cwr100.bsky.socialDavid Thomas MooahahahAHAHA! @dtmooreeditor.bsky.social · 19/03/2025during 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" 😀 335630
Reposted by @cwr100.bsky.socialOrkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social · 18/03/2025we saw this unit and thought of you 646130
Reposted by @cwr100.bsky.socialThe Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 18/03/2025look at this absolute unit 13795381608
Reposted by @cwr100.bsky.socialMꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 16/03/2025This is a tremendous website, I highly recommend a scroll. The Deep Sea Here's a fun fact from the site. neal.fun/deep-sea/ 35265103
Reposted by @cwr100.bsky.socialOrkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social · 17/03/2025We 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. 81628
Reposted by @cwr100.bsky.socialOrkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social · 17/03/2025Happy #StPatricksDay ☘️📚 927633
Reposted by @cwr100.bsky.socialThe English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social · 16/03/2025A 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 516915
Reposted by @cwr100.bsky.socialwomensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 16/03/2025East Window, 2008 designed by Iranian artist Shirazeh Houshiary, St Martin-in-the-Field, London #womensart 781098
Reposted by @cwr100.bsky.socialSandra 🍒💗 @cherry-heart.bsky.social · 24/01/2025Hello 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. 💕 12742
Reposted by @cwr100.bsky.socialJonathan Foyle @jonathanfoyle.bsky.social · 12/03/2025Bath Abbey this afternoon 617417
Reposted by @cwr100.bsky.socialGuy Thomas 〓〓 @guywrites.bsky.social · 12/03/2025End 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. 😊 441347122
Reposted by @cwr100.bsky.socialAndy Marshall @fotofacade.bsky.social · 12/03/2025A 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). 611313
Reposted by @cwr100.bsky.socialJack-o-lantEryn @eryn.bsky.social · 12/03/2025I present to you... The most perfect photo ever taken of the most perfect little boy lamb 😭 933450269
Reposted by @cwr100.bsky.socialDr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 11/03/2025The 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. 49413
Reposted by @cwr100.bsky.socialDr Jill Whitelock @jillwhitelock.bsky.social · 09/03/2025Sweet violet portrait. #WildflowerHour 119220
Reposted by @cwr100.bsky.socialJohn Simpson @johnsimpsonnews.bsky.social · 04/03/2025I 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. 3021425
Reposted by @cwr100.bsky.socialOrkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social · 04/03/2025Every year on #PancakeDay we make a Peter Pancake. 211145117
Reposted by @cwr100.bsky.socialLaura Phillips @lauraphillips.bsky.social · 02/03/2025Trumped. King Charles with President Zelensky at Sandringham this evening. 361300226
Reposted by @cwr100.bsky.socialOrkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social · 01/03/2025The 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 960470
Reposted by @cwr100.bsky.socialMerchant Adventurers’ Hall @merchantshallyork.org · 01/03/2025Why hello there March. 112710
Reposted by @cwr100.bsky.socialAdam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 01/03/2025 185411028726857
Reposted by @cwr100.bsky.socialClare - Little Conkers @littleconkers.bsky.social · 28/02/2025Here's a crochet pattern from a designer in Ukraine. 🇺🇦🧶 www.etsy.com/uk/listing/1...etsy.comDigital Crochet Pattern Narcissus Flower - EtsyThis Patterns & Blueprints item by CrochetbyNataErkhova has 726 favorites from Etsy shoppers. Ships from United States. Listed on Feb 28, 2025 0147
Reposted by @cwr100.bsky.socialThe English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social · 27/02/2025Ladies & Gentlemen, without further ado, please meet El Castaño Sagrado of Andalusia, Spain A Sweet Chestnut of biblical proportions 😮🌳 Photo: Ernesto Rubio Velasco 1443950
Reposted by @cwr100.bsky.socialUncle Duke @uncleduke1969.bsky.social · 27/02/2025Roland couldn't wait to go to school. The other kids were gonna be totes jelly of his sweet-ass new kicks. 1756496
Reposted by @cwr100.bsky.socialGuy Thomas 〓〓 @guywrites.bsky.social · 26/02/2025If 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 917624
Reposted by @cwr100.bsky.socialOrkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social · 24/02/2025Mordor on the Orient Express 744474430
Reposted by @cwr100.bsky.socialClare - Little Conkers @littleconkers.bsky.social · 24/02/2025Eco-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 062
Reposted by @cwr100.bsky.socialOrkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social · 24/02/2025You 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! 💡 943222
Reposted by @cwr100.bsky.socialGretel le Maître 🐘 @gretellemaitre.bsky.social · 22/02/2025St 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. 210323
Reposted by @cwr100.bsky.socialFishbourne Roman Palace @romanpalace.bsky.social · 20/02/2025If 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/... 2922025