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Gretel le Maître 🐘

@gretellemaitre.bsky.social
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Trying to be kind. Church and old buildings explorer; love words, cricket, history, theatre, books, art, music, nature, birds, manuscripts. 😊 Only here for gentle stuff. www.buzzsprout.com/2412300/episodes…

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Gretel le Maître 🐘 @gretellemaitre.bsky.social · 18h
Architectural loveliness in the heart of Chelsea.
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Gretel le Maître 🐘 @gretellemaitre.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
A one day pilgrimage walk to honour one’s ancestors? www.britishpilgrimage.org/events/londo...
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London Ancestors Pilgrimage
With BPT’s Guy Hayward singing London folk songs along the way, you will delve into the heart of England’s history in the modern city.
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Gretel le Maître 🐘 @gretellemaitre.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
A catch-up photo montage 🤗💭
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BBC Radio 3 Now Playing Bot (Unofficial) @bbcradio3bot.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
BBC Radio 3 Radio 3 in Concert Now Playing Sergey Rachmaninov & Francesco Piemontesi 13 Preludes Op.32 ; No.5 In G Major
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Gretel le Maître 🐘 @gretellemaitre.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
A new epidode 🙋‍♀️🌷🙏 www.buzzsprout.com/2412300/epis...
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Anglo-Saxon Chronicles Martyrdom of Archbishop Elfeah; Sunday Bells; and Mr Tupman outplayed in The Pickwick Papers - Gretel le Maître Ponders Beauty, with Bede & other guests
Gretel le Maître likes to look for the beauty and curiosities in life, one day at a time.  She shares with you snippets from books about history, art and literature and regularly takes you on adv...
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Gretel le Maître 🐘 @gretellemaitre.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The colourful life of an underpass 🌈
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Gretel le Maître 🐘 @gretellemaitre.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
St Katharine’s Chapel, Limehouse, London.
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Gretel le Maître 🐘 @gretellemaitre.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Train companion 🤓
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Gretel le Maître 🐘 @gretellemaitre.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Looking north to the south side of fascinating All Hallows By the Tower, London. Founded in 675 when Bede was a probably a wee toddler. Bede used Christ’s date of birth as his universal dating system. I use Bede’s birth as my reference point. I like to think he would have chuckled venerably.
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Gretel le Maître 🐘 @gretellemaitre.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The lovely east window, All Hallows By The Tower, London.
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Dan Benbow @danbenbow.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Had enough? Check your voter registration/polling place & raise your voice. Democracy can‘t wait. #LetsGetVoteReady
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Gretel le Maître 🐘 @gretellemaitre.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
You’re very welcome to join me for tonight’s episode, where we meet Rory Bremner and take a trip to real London. No pesky adverts or requests for money. www.buzzsprout.com/2412300/epis...
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Gretel le Maître 🐘 @gretellemaitre.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
After dark the poor lions at the Tower of London are finally allowed time to stretch their legs. An inky sky this evening.
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Gretel le Maître 🐘 @gretellemaitre.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Greens, browns, blues and whites.
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Gretel le Maître 🐘 @gretellemaitre.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Yesterday’s colourful encounter
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Gretel le Maître 🐘 @gretellemaitre.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Dorset this morning ☺️
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Shaun Mitchem @svpmitchem.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Wow - “from the 6th century CE we detect widespread influx of ancestry in over 70% of individuals in southern 'Anglo-Saxon' Britain, with limited local admixture”.
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Tim Daw @timdaw.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I've put a new tool online: a 3D flyover of the Stonehenge landscape, not just Stonehenge but also Woodhenge and the new Bulford post alignment. It runs in your web browser, no app to download. Details: www.sarsen.org/flyover
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Stonehenge Landscape Flyover
Fly over the Stonehenge landscape, and watch the sun rise in 2500 BC I've put a new tool online: a 3D flyover of the Stonehenge landscape...
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Gretel le Maître 🐘 @gretellemaitre.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Beautiful photograph of Leslie and Alan. I’m not sure of the play. When I direct Macbeth I’m going to have more of this, and less of the ‘striding madly with pointed fingers and mutual clutching’. Why not a softer interpretation, as though an ageing Romeo and Juliet have stumbled into a cul-de-sac
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Gretel le Maître 🐘 @gretellemaitre.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
A rooktree 🐦‍⬛
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Gretel le Maître 🐘 @gretellemaitre.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Gretel le Maître 🐘 @gretellemaitre.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Green and fertile fields of Sherborne, Dorset
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Gretel le Maître 🐘 @gretellemaitre.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Golds and green, in Somerset just before sunset
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Gretel le Maître 🐘 @gretellemaitre.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A beautiful listen ☺️ www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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Classical Wind Down - A calming classical soundtrack for a peaceful evening - BBC Sounds
De-stress and wind down from your day with a mix of soothing and reflective music.
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Gretel le Maître 🐘 @gretellemaitre.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Inherited mother’s gloves. Shaped like her hands. Autumn has blown in this week. And the world turns. 🍂
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Gretel le Maître 🐘 @gretellemaitre.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The beauty of ironmongery. (As opposed to woodmongery. We can have fishmongery but not meatmongery…) 😅😊
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Gretel le Maître 🐘 @gretellemaitre.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A photograph to make you sneeze! A Sherborne sky.
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Gretel le Maître 🐘 @gretellemaitre.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Sherborne architecture: no window the same. A feast for one’s eyes.
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Gretel le Maître 🐘 @gretellemaitre.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Compatriots in red… oh and Lundy’s little gem. Beauty and curiosities matter. ☺️
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Gretel le Maître 🐘 @gretellemaitre.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Thrilling Cheyne ironmongery. Patiently waiting for every few more months to go by until it’s spotted and appreciated. I see a pretty-headed beetle holding its halo in place…
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Gretel le Maître 🐘 @gretellemaitre.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Awfully busy …
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Gretel le Maître 🐘 @gretellemaitre.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Facing west. This ground in front of Sherborne Abbey is full of late townsfolk. It’s now a central area for the town, where people picnic and tots totter on the grass. Once the green area was at the top of town, through where the old stagecoaches came. During Covid this was a place for reflection.
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Gretel le Maître 🐘 @gretellemaitre.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
www.britishpilgrimage.org/stories/mich...
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Michaelmas and Angelic Pilgrimage
Celebrate Michaelmas by honouring St Michael, the Archangel, who symbolises strength and protection. Learn about traditions, pilgrimages and feasts in his name.
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Gretel le Maître 🐘 @gretellemaitre.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Gretel you must not get into bad habits….. Dog on the bed? Yeeks…
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Gretel le Maître 🐘 @gretellemaitre.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The glowing evening fields. ☺️
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Gretel le Maître 🐘 @gretellemaitre.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Subtle, fast-changing skies as dusk drew near this evening. Night is for rest and dreams. Day is for endeavour. But the twins of Dawn and Dusk- they are for anything! A time when the animals and skies frolic and play, when shadows are long and reality is unclear. Dusky mischief ☺️
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Gretel le Maître 🐘 @gretellemaitre.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The colours of early autumn and Doggo hoping for fromage 🧀 🍂
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Gretel le Maître 🐘 @gretellemaitre.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Where are the squirrels 🐿️?
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Gretel le Maître 🐘 @gretellemaitre.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Pretty early evening sunshine in Dwr Settlement…
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Gretel le Maître 🐘 @gretellemaitre.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Huge rocks (relatively 😬) Pup brings me out of rivers. Why? She had a play date with her great uncle (not Bulgaria) from whom she got the wheeze. Good thinking, thought she. Forget chewable, light, throwable sticks; I’ll haul immense petrocs out of running water, throw them on Mamma’s bunion etc.
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Gretel le Maître 🐘 @gretellemaitre.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Pup heaves rocks out of the river 😅
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Gretel le Maître 🐘 @gretellemaitre.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The very special River Thames. It’s all about its tidal nature. Beaches appear along it every day. Different shapes and sizes: new material exposed. The Queen of rivers. And there is no King! 😅
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Gretel le Maître 🐘 @gretellemaitre.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Home! Doesn’t home always feel wonderful. Here is the sky that awaited us and a book. Hurrah! 🥳
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Gretel le Maître 🐘 @gretellemaitre.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Chelsea sights, yesterday, with four-pawed friend… 🐾
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Gretel le Maître 🐘 @gretellemaitre.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Scout about to lift off with ear power… Bat’sea park hier… Gretel kicking leaves… 🍂 shitty old day but best foot forward… onwards and upwards… let my ears fly me high into the blue sky too … #AnimalsAreOurGurus 😅
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Gretel le Maître 🐘 @gretellemaitre.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
www.britishpilgrimage.org/stories/mabo...
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Mabon and the Autumn Equinox: a celebration of balance, abundance, and nature’s transition
What Mabon and Alban Elfed mean, when the 2026 autumn equinox falls, and how to mark it — with British pilgrimage routes at their autumn best.
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Gretel le Maître 🐘 @gretellemaitre.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The Surprise, Chelsea. A delightful pub with wonderful staff and delicious food. The perfect cosy vibe.
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Gretel le Maître 🐘 @gretellemaitre.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Paradise Walk
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Gretel le Maître 🐘 @gretellemaitre.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
There was no stopping her 🫣
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Gretel le Maître 🐘 @gretellemaitre.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The bridge of joy. The bridge of doom. The bridge of sighs. Pup today, keeping me above water. ☺️
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