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Gail Myerscough @gailmyerscough.co.uk · 05/10/2026

After reading End of a Century by @pacarnahan.bsky.social it was an honour to be asked to design the cover. I loved this book and I hope new cover helps to sell a few more copies. www.gailmyerscough.co.uk/end-of-a-cen...

Book cover design for End of a Century by Paul Carnahan.

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Gail Myerscough @gailmyerscough.co.uk · 03/10/2026

In the press! My So Much Vinyl print is featured in this week’s My Weekly magazine www.gailmyerscough.co.uk/product-page...

A grid of four images showing my So Much Vinyl print in MyWeekly magazine.

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Chloe Cumming @chloecumming.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Hoot! Squawk! Bkark! Squee! (Bird noises there) I have added three new birds to my bird art shop store art gallery website, so someone can actually BUY them if they want, I know, how lucky would that person be!? 💨 www.chloecumming.com/birds

Serene soft mixed media wide head Ural owl

Yellow faced chaotic masked lapwing, not a scientific diagram

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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Come on down to the Council House for International Day of Birmingham, see the Re-Union Jack ♥️ #OneBrum Goldship have repurposed dozens of dirty & torn polyester flags removed from Birmingham's lamp posts to create a huge Union Jack, adorned with the names of people who have called Birmingham home

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GOLDSHIP Re-Union Jack 2026

Repurposed polyester flags/Mixed media.

Re-Union Jack is an ongoing community art project conceived by GoldShip, the creative duo of textile sculptor Clare Elisabeth and event producer Sam Shipman.

Repurposing dozens of dirty and torn polyester flags removed from Birmingham's lamp posts, Clare and Sam, alongside countless contributors from the wider community, pieced them together to create a huge Union Jack.

The flag was then transformed over several months by countless more contributors into a visual celebration of the people and stories that have helped shape the West Midlands. Across its surface are the names of influential Midlanders, spanning from the Anglo-Saxon Beorma, after whom Birmingham takes its name, through to the present day. Each has a connection to migration, immigration or the positive influence of people who have made the West Midlands their home.

Together, these names reflect the region's extraordinary history as a vibrant melting pot of cultures, ideas, talent and communities - and the positive contribution that migration has made to its identity.

The flag has since been signed in black by many of the people whose names feature upon it as a collective endorsement of its message of unity, inclusion and community.

Photo of huge Union (Jack) Flag on lighting truss in the hall of the Council House.
It's glorious and bears many names upon it of the people of Birmingham
Each has a connection to migration, immigration or the positive influence of people who have made the West Midlands their home.

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Julian Hughes @penrhynbirder.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Do you have nature records in notebooks that you never look at and wonder what to do with? I've transcribed 10,000 records from the 1960-70s from a Welsh ornithological legend into @birdtrack.bsky.social and @cofnod.org.uk. And it was fascinating... #BirdingWales www.cofnod.org.uk/news/natural...

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Naturalists' Notebooks: a treasure trove - Cofnod

Naturalists' Notebooks: a treasure trove

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Chloe Cumming @chloecumming.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Look, I have a lot of nice stuff here if you like my work which I have to assume you might if you follow me www.chloecumming.com

A grid of many pictures that can be warm and can be strange but are actually heartfelt . Mixed media or whatever

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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 19/09/2026

I’ve worn a grubby RNLI cap for decades. I sound London, but I was born in Truro and I was a basically feral (Gen X) kid wandering the coast path with a dog until sunset for a lot of my early life. The lifeboats are in the fabric like trawlers and farms and pasties and fish and chips.

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Chloe Cumming @chloecumming.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I do still have a few of the Pylon drawings if that might be of interest to discerning onlookers. www.chloecumming.com/inkwater

Wobbly collapsed pylon with blue and green and hill

Pink sky pink cloud double strange pylons

Old fashioned double pole pylon with goldy yellows

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Chloe Cumming @chloecumming.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Happy news! I, Chloe the artist, have added these four drawings to my online art shop which is also called a ‘website’. It’s on the web. Chimney, pylon, test card, flappy arms test card. My stuff is worth a look. Thanks. www.chloecumming.com

Oil pastel chimney with a seagull on top, quite soft and wobbly

Test card image with additional loops and kooky colours

Carole the girl with flappy Arms while bubbles the clown is all leaning forwards with fluorescent green

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Chloe Cumming @chloecumming.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

This is a lot of silly words but basically I was saying I have good drawings that are pretty good value considering the aplomb in which I am held, and some are of ladies www.chloecumming.com

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Dave O'Brien @daveob66.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

#WildflowerHour #FavouritePlant Possibly my favourite flower of 2026 are these variants of Water Avens. I found several in woods at Pickering, N. Yorkshire. @whitbynats.bsky.social @northyorkmoors.org.uk

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Ria @rianor.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Some of the last heather #WildFlowerHour

Some of the last heather, pale pink flowers in the morning sunlight

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The Linnean Society of London @linneansociety.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

It is back to school everyone! And to mark that, we have here William Keble Martin's paintbox which was used for his well loved Concise British Flora in Colour (1965) published when Martin was 88. It has 1,400 species of plants and has been the inspiration for many budding botanists ever since.

Antique watercolor kit with brushes and squeezed paint tubes in an open velvet-lined case set before an open botanical reference showing detailed plant illustrations and labels.

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Sharon Moncur @sharonmoncur.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Good morning BlueSky I’m in The Times again today!

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Joanne Livsey @jolivsey.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

#WildflowerHour #SeedHeads from a Lincolnshire arable field margin this week.

Wildflower Seedheads. Teasel, Ragwort, Burdock.

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Bernoid @bernoid.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Handmade butterfly card sets & signed prints now available to buy at my new Etsy shop! This is my first stab at selling on Etsy, so I'll probably make some mistakes... but I shall do my best! 🦋 www.etsy.com/listing/4565... www.etsy.com/listing/4565...

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Suffolk Detectorist @sdetectorist.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekHforHearts Born out of civil unrest and a lack of official small change, the 17th century trade token. This is my top "heart" field find 🥰 Issued by Thomas Fovlger of Stradbroke in 1670

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Gail Myerscough @gailmyerscough.co.uk · 28/08/2026

Pete’s Prize Draw Every order placed this Bank Holiday weekend goes into a draw. One order wins £50 to spend in my shop. Pete will pick the winner. www.gailmyerscough.co.uk

Pete the cat with a poster explaining his prize draw.

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Chloe Cumming @chloecumming.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Right. I have now added six more recent pylon artworks to my ink/watercolour originals shop. Here are the first three. If you could share this post I’d be appreciative. If you want to buy one before sharing that’s also fine. www.chloecumming.com/inkwater

Leaning pylon with pole, a green hillside situation, ink lines, watercolour washes, soft colours, expressive marks

Windswept pylon, golden brown landscape with large broad based wonky pylon with loose expressive ink lines and some white highlights on the structure

More minimal ghostly pylon, with wet ink lines

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Joanne Livsey @jolivsey.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

It’s been a while. Welcome back puddles. #Lincolnshire

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Joanne Livsey @jolivsey.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

A few more jars of Bramble Jelly sorted.

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Joanne Livsey @jolivsey.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

With the promise of much-needed rain I spent half an hour picking almost 2kg of blackberries while they were still dry. Back home to start making bramble jelly.

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British Geological Survey @bgs.ac.uk · 25/08/2026

BGS SEISMIC INFORMATION: GRIMSBY, LINCOLNSHIRE 25 AUGUST 2026 18:47 UTC 2.2 ML The following preliminary information is available for this earthquake: DATE: 25 August 2026 ORIGIN TIME: 18:47 13s UTC LAT/LON: 53.540° North / 0.091° West GRID REF: 526.5 kmE / 406.5 kmN DEPTH: 5km MAGNITUDE: 2.2 ML

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British Geological Survey @bgs.ac.uk · 25/08/2026

If you are local and felt the event, or even if you didn't, please consider filling out our questionnaire, which helps us understand more about the quake. earthquakes.bgs.ac.uk/questionnair...

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BGS Earthquake Questionnaire

The British Geological Survey provides up-to-date information on recent and historical earthquakes, educational resources, and seismic hazard services

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Froglife @froglife.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

LAST CHANCE TO APPLY! Join Froglife as Project Manager – Coalface to Wildspace Yorkshire and help create and restore habitats for amphibians, reptiles and other wildlife while inspiring local communities. - Apply by 24th Aug - More info: ow.ly/enGg50Zw498 #ConservationJobs

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Peter Sketch @petersketch.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

On Friday morning my train was late so I explored Swindon station looking for plants with interesting #CommonNames. Of course Butterfly Bush (aka Buddleia) was everywhere, including this one poking through a fence and making a nice #WildflowerHour image.

Three vertical grey metal posts. Between them pokes a long flower spike of small, pale purple flowers.

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Mark @msj99.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Hummingbird Hawkmoth feeding on Viper’s Bugloss on the Lincolnshire coast @lincswildlife.bsky.social #teammoth

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Jack Wallington @jackwallington.com · 13/08/2026

Can 10 ppl complete the wild plants thriving or surviving in drought survey? It’s at 140, ideally we'll reach 200 but 150 would be brilliant :) results shared asap. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Can be in your area, doesn’t have to be in your garden and can include shrubs, trees and climbers.

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Which wild plants are coping with heat and drought?

Help identify which wild plants are thriving in your area or garden without watering during hot, dry weather. Check your garden and wild areas near you this month August 2026 and report how wild plant...

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Met Office - weather and climate @metoffice.gov.uk · 13/08/2026

Temperatures provisionally reached 38.1°C at Kew Gardens, making it the hottest day of the year so far. This is the second time this year we have reached 38°C. The only other time this has happened twice in one year was in 2022. It also makes it the 5th hottest day on record.

A map showing 38.1°C recorded at Kew Gardens. This makes it the hottest day of the year so far.

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

South Shields, 1978, photo by Markéta Luskačová.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 12/08/2026

I was supposed to be on CNN this afternoon to talk about the eclipse but they had a last-minute change in their coverage plans so uh if anyone else wants to put me on tv I guess lemme know I wore my nice shirt and everything

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johnfen1.bsky.social @johnfen1.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Still no rainwater to be found in the fused watertight leaf “bowls” around the stems. Tough drought resistant Wild Teasel flowering on #WildflowerHour