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Katie Flanagan @katiedflanagan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

One Guide, plus bread roll, retrieved from the Guides trip to the Food Festival.

Katie Flanagan @katiedflanagan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This week’s recipe box: spiced cauliflower, chickpea and tahini tray bake. That’s tonight’s tea (well, for two out of three), couscous for tomorrow’s lunch and the rest of it for tomorrow night’s tea with jacket potatoes

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Dr Jill Whitelock @jillwhitelock.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Another photograph of the beautiful Wild clary in West Cambridge. #WildflowerHour

Purplish blue Wild clary flowers against a blurred green background.

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Katie Flanagan @katiedflanagan.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I have mown the lawn. Hopefully for the last time this year as it becomes increasingly difficult in Autumn to coincide times I’m available with it being daylight and dry enough to get it done. Plus lawn mowing is not on my list of fun gardening activities

Turquoise lawn mower with black handle and red cable on a freshly mown lawn

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Katie Flanagan @katiedflanagan.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Tomato harvest, finally! It was a bad idea waiting to plant the tomatoes out until after our May half term holiday, although you’d think All The Sun over the summer would have helped.

Three red tomatoes on a wood-effect worktop

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Katie Flanagan @katiedflanagan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

No swimming lesson today because sick child. As a responsible parent, I left sick child at home with the other responsible parent and went off to the garden centre to ponder cyclamen. The garden centre was handing out free Autumn gonks(?!) which is just the thing for cheering up the sick child.

Autumn gonk wearing hat decorated with a leaf and flower sitting on a kitchen worktop in front of a toaster

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Katie Flanagan @katiedflanagan.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

A week left to apply for this - deadline is 25 Sept 2026.

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Katie Flanagan @katiedflanagan.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

My Japanese Anemone hasn’t died, despite getting very shrivelled up in the heatwaves. It now has fresh leaves and some flowers and looks a lot better now I’ve removed all the shrivelled up bits.

Deep pink Japanese Anemone flowers with green leaves and some soil in the background.

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Katie Flanagan @katiedflanagan.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Come and work for us @sciencemuseum.org.uk! We're looking for a Librarian to provide access and engagement with a wide range of audiences to our #library, #archives and #rarebooks. Permanent, PT (28 hrs pw) role. #libraryjobs ce0111li.webitrent.com/ce0111li_web...

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Melissa Terras @melissaterras.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

New solo-authored paper from me - first in a while. "Digitization, Conflict, and Crisis: Institutional Urgency and Digital Cultural Heritage". Jan 26 I sat and wrote about the relationship between heritage digitisation and climate crisis. Then watched the world burn. muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

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Katie Flanagan @katiedflanagan.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Lovely walk @yorkswildlife.bsky.social Strensall Common, bug hunting for the Guides Entomology badge, and enjoying the sound of birdsong.

Remains of a much bigger pond, now a small pool surrounded by mud.

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Katie Flanagan @katiedflanagan.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Collected more plums. This time from a neighbour who had picked 27kg(!!!!)

A lime green bowl with handles, containing Victoria plums

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Katie Flanagan @katiedflanagan.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

A few days of rain this week and the grass is already going back to green. Did I mention my TWO full waterbutts?!

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Katie Flanagan @katiedflanagan.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

This week’s holiday club requires wellies (plus packed lunch, 2 x snacks). Which was fine until I realised the existing wellies no longer fit. Fortunately there is another Big Tesco, with travelator, not far from church.

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Katie Flanagan @katiedflanagan.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Today is going very well. Acquired at church: a lot of plums and books.

Large pile of Diary of a Wimpy kid books

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Katie Flanagan @katiedflanagan.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Has anyone seen the theatre adaptation of The Penelopiad? I’m trying to decide if it’d be worth all the hassle of getting two of us to the theatre simultaneously.

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Katie Flanagan @katiedflanagan.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

A trip to the library (week five of the school holidays and I am running low on innovative ideas for things to do) to get a coffee and plan a future holiday.

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Katie Flanagan @katiedflanagan.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

21.09, just found the email from holiday club (more sporty, less culture this week) announcing that it is Wet Wednesday tomorrow. That means still need to pack a change of clothes, towel and a water blaster(?!?!). Packed lunch ✅ 2 x snacks ✅

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Katie Flanagan @katiedflanagan.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I’ve got not one, but TWO full waterbutts!

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Katie Flanagan @katiedflanagan.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I’d put the radishes away in the fridge and now I’ve discovered a plum trying to hide amongst them.

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Katie Flanagan @katiedflanagan.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

This week’s veg box recipe box: pasta alla norma

Pale speckled bowl containing tagliatelle with a tomato red sauce on top and green basil leaves garnishing it

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Katie Flanagan @katiedflanagan.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Today I was informed that I can’t possibly understand the modern girl, as I was born in 1752. Yes, I am 274 years old.

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Katie Flanagan @katiedflanagan.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Ever so slightly damp view of Minster as I’ve actually got rained on on my commute today.

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Katie Flanagan @katiedflanagan.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

We’re working on the Guides Entomology badge, so made a pooter this afternoon so we can stare closely at insects. Much caterpillar excitement too as a colleague who Knows About These Things thinks the funky caterpillar we found last week might be a scarce one www.ywt.org.uk/blog/scarce-...

A pooter (thing for catching insects) made out of a big yogurt pot, two plastic tubes and some blu-tack. Held by a smallish white hand with a brown lawn and green hedge in the background.

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Katie Flanagan @katiedflanagan.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

I have been successionally sowing seeds for salad leaves with the idea of producing a continuous supply. This was going well until the blackbird realised there’s a nice container of damp soil to find worms in.

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Katie Flanagan @katiedflanagan.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

I was initially confused by the appearance of mince pies at church in August. Then realised they’re apple pies.

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Katie Flanagan @katiedflanagan.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Hooray room thermostats have dropped to below 25° after a very hot week.

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Katie Flanagan @katiedflanagan.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Look at these awesome tomatoes, picked in a friend’s garden last night

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Katie Flanagan @katiedflanagan.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

A level results and clearing time of year again. As a very shy and retiring 20yo I decided to get a job in my university’s clearing hotlines call centre for a fortnight to boost my confidence. It was quite a fortnight.

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Rachel MacGregor @anoldhand.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I should probably start a debate on best/worst spots to live/work in tourist season 😁

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Katie Flanagan @katiedflanagan.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

With no swimming lessons in August, I had been envisaging fun family days out. Instead I find myself on the travelator in Tesco.

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Katie Flanagan @katiedflanagan.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Why is the only vibrant green growing thing in the garden the bindweed? How does it do it?!

Two bright green bindweed plants enthusiastically growing out of a yellow/brown lawn

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Bumblebee Conservation Trust @bumblebeetrust.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Help us caption this photo 🐝 This Buff-tailed bumblebee fast asleep in a flower is the insect equivalent of staying in bed on a Saturday morning 🩷 📷 Michaela Flint

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Highly enjoyable by @soumayakeynes.ft.com on what your out of office says about you: (I didn’t put one)

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What your out-of-office really means

An email translator for the summer holidays

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Katie Birkwood @girlinthe.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Can confirm (not that it was ever in doubt) that @bibliojenni.bsky.social has a lovely library and has made a super Hereford Gospels exhibition.

A chained library, light glinting through the bookcases.

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Katie Flanagan @katiedflanagan.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Finished work early today to attend the cultural performance of the year. Holiday Club does Shakespeare in a Week! The family dog was also required to attend, wearing his best woolly jumper which felt a bit mean in this weather.

Very well loved soft toy dog wearing a rainbow woolly knitted jumper and sitting on a knee in a theatre auditorium

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

People going to be eating a lot more pasta this year for reasons

John Lewis said colander sales were up by 40 per cent year on year as people without eclipse glasses followed advice to direct the sun's rays through the holes of a colander to see a projection of the eclipse on a piece of paper.

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Anna @superteadrinker.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Tomorrow is going to be a great day to buy a colander from a charity shop

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Katie Flanagan @katiedflanagan.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

So, who has been standing in the garden armed with a colander and feeling slightly daft? I had to wash mine up first as I’d drained the pasta earlier.

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Katie Flanagan @katiedflanagan.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I wore my #TeaUp summer dress to work today. I really should have done this earlier. I made it over 11 years ago, in the days when I had time to do a two day dressmaking course, then was too bigly pregnant by that summer to wear it, and it only got worn once. It is nice and floaty and cool.

Dress fabric in black cotton with a design of teapots and cupcakes on it.

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Katie Flanagan @katiedflanagan.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

The Japanese Anemone is flowering, but really close to the ground, below a lot of leaves that have shrivelled up in the heat. I think I need to take some more root cuttings and think about growing it elsewhere in the garden.

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Katie Flanagan @katiedflanagan.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

This week’s veg box creation: creamy green lentil, baby red chard and bay gratin. Very tasty and eaten enthusiastically by two thirds of the household.

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Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland (BSBI) @bsbibotany.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

It's Sunday, it's 8pm, so it must be #WildFlowerHour! Please share pix of any wild or naturalised plants you saw in bloom this week across Britain & Ireland, esp. if they were in the #DaisyFamily for tonight's @wildflowerhour.bsky.social challenge. Mystery plant? Use #WildFlowerID to summon ID help!

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Katie Flanagan @katiedflanagan.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Six years ago there was a cohort of four year olds about to start school without all the usual settling in activities because of Covid restrictions. So I knitted multiple sets of doll school uniform for my kid and friends’ kids to help with the process.

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