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Deborah Harrison

@deborahjoy.bsky.social
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Retired Occupational Therapist; interested in health & wellbeing, and occupational justice. Dipping my toes into nature, history, literature & photography. Enjoying the quiet life in Norfolk and Cumbria.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Poster promoting Count Binface, in the famous Obama style
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
You want to *really* step through the looking glass? Immerse yourself in wild nature.
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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
That's funny, I could have sworn he said something about not needing Royal Navy vessels because the war was already won. You broke it Don, you fix it.
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Writing for Wellbeing @writeforwellbeing.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
‘Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.’ — Henry Ward Beecher writingforwellbeing.co.uk #writing #WritingCommunity #WritersCommunity #WorldBookDay #books #reading
Painting of room with full bookshelves, books stacked on table and floors, a woman standing looking at an open book, and a cat curled up on the quilt-covered sofa
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Caught by the River @caughtbytheriver.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
‘Our wee sloping track became a sledging-slope of unconfined joy. The ponies — guests on the croft — caught the contagion and cavorted.’ On the crofts of @annieworsley.bsky.social & Kirsteen Bell, pine needles puncture the shimmer and shade of winter www.caughtbytheriver.net/2026/01/crof...
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Deborah Harrison @deborahjoy.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
True 😂
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Deborah Harrison @deborahjoy.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Autumn pond; lovely colours from the rowan, field maple and hornbeam.
A garden pond with green grass in the front and autumn colours to the safe and back from trees and hedges.
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Deborah Harrison @deborahjoy.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Marvellous writing for Halloween, weaving together magic and science. Thank you @annieworsley.bsky.social
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Deborah Harrison @deborahjoy.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Lovely rainbows Annie 🌈 😊
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George The Station Cat @george-station-cat.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Night night sweet dreamies Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength. Have patience with all things, But, first of all with yourself
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Breezie @breeze420.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien
a tree reaches above a small hamburger stand framing a "dinner" sign with it's leaves.
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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 08/10/2025
A 500-year-old oak was felled for convenience. In Suffolk, a retired classics teacher decided that wouldn’t happen again. He tells Aidan Baker his story. Read the lesson of the lost oak. 🌳
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The lesson of the lost oak: why one Suffolk man’s mission matters
Suffolk tree-lover David Hopkins talks about the work of adding to the Woodland Trust's 'Ancient Tree Inventory'
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Annie Worsley @annieworsley.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Happy autumn equinox! I was hoping for clear skies but it's cloudy. So here's the sun setting at its equinoctial position on the northern tip of the Trotternish peninsula on Skye. View from the old wooden post on the clifftop near home over the sea to Skye in 2019 😊
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Deborah Harrison @deborahjoy.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
#autumn
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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 17/09/2025
Suicide is the major cause of deaths for those under 35. The issue is being highlighted as The Baton of Hope comes to Norwich 👇 Mental health support is key. Norwich is lucky to have the Norfolk Clubhouse, described by Sir Noman Lamb as an 'enlightened' support model...
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Mental health: the revolutionary power of the Clubhouse model
Mental health services have come a long way since asylums. But have today’s mental hospitals changed enough? Or, is there a new approach?
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Deborah Harrison @deborahjoy.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Worth clicking the link and taking a look. Thanks for sharing @annieworsley.bsky.social
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Guy Thomas 〓〓 @guywrites.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
You cannot pour from an empty pot. Please make sure you take time to rest and recharge. Self care is not selfish, it is vital. We cannot give fully to others if we are lacking in ourselves. Be kind to all things but start with You. 😊 #Cornwall #sunset #calm #life #peace #mindfulness #photography
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Deborah Harrison @deborahjoy.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Thursday is the new Friday #weekend
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Annie Worsley @annieworsley.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
When meadows are as rich and profound as constellations. Hay making, August, 2025.
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Christopher Harrison Photography @charrisonphotos.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Happy world photography day, Bluesky. I’ve loved every moment of the Photography community here, it’s been welcoming. So thank you! Here are some of my favourite woodland photographs from Spring, Summer, Autumn & Winter. #worldphotographyday #photography
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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 10/08/2025
A nature writer transformed a former field into a wildlife paradise over 15 years, showing that small-scale nature restoration can bring back nightingales, butterflies and bees. James Canton tells his story to Jenny Rhodes.
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How to create your own little pocket of paradise
James Canton explains how he made his wildlife heaven in rural North Essex, and how we can all do something for nature
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Deborah Harrison @deborahjoy.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
Summer pond, home to a moorhen family that I am not clever enough to photograph.
A garden pond surrounded by green plants and a purple flower in the foreground. Green hedge in the background.
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George The Station Cat @george-station-cat.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Good morning and welcome to Fish For Tea Friday Move forward, even on the days you feel like sitting down. Embrace your life journey with gratitude, so that how you travel your path is more important than reaching your ultimate destination.
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Deborah Harrison @deborahjoy.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Be more bumblebee 🐝❤️
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Brigit Strawbridge @brigitstrawbridge.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Great to see @chelseagreenbooks.bsky.social on Bluesky! As well as publishing my book, they've published brill books by @nicolawriting.bsky.social @themarshtit.bsky.social @vickihird.bsky.social @derekgow1965.bsky.social & @robintransition.bsky.social, whose new book looks FABULOUS! Worth a follow
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Deborah Harrison @deborahjoy.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Beautiful 😍
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Hairy Neil @rovingrollo.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Morning All ! It's Saturday and time for the #BlueSkyArtShow on the theme of #Joy Here's our dog Bella from 2020 on the beach near Bamburgh Castle... who says a dog can't smile ? She's nearly 16 now and still has the odd gallop #Dogs #DogsofBlueSky #Photography #EastCoastKin
A black and white Jack Russell terrier running at full tilt across the beach towards the camera. Her mouth is open and her eyes have twinkle as if she is smiling. All four feet are off the ground.
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Annie Worsley @annieworsley.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
A new post on the blog. Wildflowers on the shore and a special gift from a crofting neighbour. notesfromasmallcroftbythesea.wordpress.com/2025/06/12/a...
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All along the quiet shore
We have just chased out a group of rogue sheep from the croft for the seventh time. Two large ewes and their two chubby lambs, each with a creamy fleece and brown spots around the nose were owned b…
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Deborah Harrison @deborahjoy.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Ox-eye daisies are zinging in the garden this morning #nature #flowers
Ox-eye daisies. Yellow centres and white petals against a background of dark green leaves.
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
'Rising Tides' by contemporary US painter Samantha French #WomensArt
Painting featuring a Black woman, head and shoulders, floating under turquoise water with eyes closed smiling and with bubbles coming out of her nose
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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
Thank you for your encouragement on here. My disabilities have been...disabling recently, I've not been able to do much & I haven't felt like a valuable human, BUT I *can* post a photo here & maybe lift someone's mood a little with it,even when I can barely move.That's a really good thing.🌿 For you:
A bunch of flowers I grew in my garden, including roses, sweet peas, cornflowers, borage & forget me nots
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
'Fruit Tart' by Kimika Hara, hand embroiderer from Kapan #WomensArt
Embroidery featuring a slice of fruit tart on a small plate with a fork on a yellow background
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Quadram Institute @quadraminstitute.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
“The Patronage of HRH The Princess Royal is brilliant for the Quadram Institute, and brilliant for our research park, confirming as it does #Norwich and #Norfolk’s growing reputation for scientific innovation and excellence on the world stage.” 💬 The Lord-Lieutenant of Norfolk, The Lady Dannatt MBE
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Quadram Institute honoured to announce The Princess Royal as Patron - Quadram Institute
The announcement of The Princess Royal’s patronage of the Quadram Institute follows a recent visit to the institute to meet scientists, PhD students, patients, clinical trial volunteers and NHS staff…
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Annie Worsley @annieworsley.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
A calm afternoon of hunting for sea creatures with the little ones... we missed the best of the sun but had the beach all to ourselves. Opinan, Wester Ross, view over the sands and sea to Skye.
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Soof is a style of traditional Kutch embroidery originating in Gujarat, India, reflecting neat geometric designs #womensart
Square textile art with symmetrical design of variations on squares and crosses, in addition to other geometric shapes and circles in different colours, with a border and cream background
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Oh Tea Suz @ohteasuz.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Reflection: YOU are the ‘intervention’.Occupation is the interface connecting us with our environment. By attending to & witnessing, enacted agency, we create a socket to plug into. The feedback of embodied presence, in relationship, closes the circuit. “I see you” is the most powerful message
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Deborah Harrison @deborahjoy.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
A memory from my wonderful trip to Cumbria last week for #blueskymonday. We had blue skies all day, every day. This is Hope Park in Keswick with Skiddaw against the sky.
The picture looks through an arch cut into a yew hedge into Hope Park in Keswick. In the far distance are some Edwardian houses and behind them is Skiddaw and blue sky.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
It’s plain for all to see.
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Deborah Harrison @deborahjoy.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
I enjoyed some forest bathing today at Whinlatter Forest, Cumbria #nature #wellbeing
Green grass and bushes with darker green conifers and a fell (mountain) in the background with blue sky.
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Deborah Harrison @deborahjoy.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
#blueskymonday #cumbria #lakedistrict #keswick
Derwentwater (blue) from Crow Park (green grass) in Keswick looking towards Borrowdale (blue/green). People sitting on the grass in the foreground. Jetties on the left.
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Deborah Harrison @deborahjoy.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
A beautiful day for retail therapy samreadbookseller.bsky.social #grasmere #cumbria #books
Sam Read bookshop in Grasmere Cumbria with bright blue sky and green trees to the left, grey tarmac of road in lower third of the picture. People outside the shop.
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Deborah Harrison @deborahjoy.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
“And every yellow flower has brought a promise of renewal, restoration, rebirth and regrowth, and hope for the future.” Words to hold on to in tough times.
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Deborah Harrison @deborahjoy.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
The garden hedges are full of beautiful May blossom. When my son gets home from London he just breathes in the air and smiles 💚 #home
Hawthorn, or ‘May’ blossom, white and pink, against green hawthorn leaves.
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Deborah Harrison @deborahjoy.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Happy May Day; the field maple has box fresh leaves. Glorious colours for #beltane #nofilter #nature
A field maple tree with bright green newly opened leaves against a bright blue sky.
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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Summer is icumen in! May Day morning greetings from above the Cerne Giant, Dorset, with the famous Dorset Ooser and the Wessex Morris Men
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Little Green Space @lgspace.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
A single 400-year-old ancient oak produces 234,000 litres of oxygen a year while soaking up carbon dioxide, and can support more than 2,000 species of bird, insect, fungus, and lichen. Nature is amazing - we need more of it, not less. Please repost if you agree 🌳
Old oak tree with twisted branches in autumn woodland of ancient oaks
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Caught by the River @caughtbytheriver.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
‘We woke to find a pair of antlers set down neatly in the mossy grass below the boys’ bedroom window. Left in the moonlight while we slept.’ March’s gifts are delivered to crofters @annieworsley.bsky.social and Kirsteen Bell on bog myrtle-scented winds www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/04/crof...
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Justsmudge @justsmudge.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
🌿☕ No Mow May is almost upon us.. prepare to down your tools.. let the daisies take over & the bee 🐝 highway spring 🌱 into action!! (Used to drive my husband bonkers but even he joins in now) 🌸🌼🌸🌼🌸🌼🌸🌼🌸🌼🌸🌼🌸 www.plantlife.org.uk/campaigns/no... @plantlifeuk.bsky.social
Chocolate Labrador in an uncut meadow surrounded by daisies
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Deborah Harrison @deborahjoy.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
#BlueSkyMonday #bloomscrolling #wildflowers #springtime
Small blue and pink flowers called forgetmenots in amongst their green leaves.
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Deborah Harrison @deborahjoy.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
❤️
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