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Mair Rigby @mairsrambles.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Very much enjoyed reading The Selected Stories of Sylvia Townsend Warner. Clever, funny, moving, unsettling, sometimes gut-punching. A celebration of subverted norms, weird occurrences, misfits and people at the margins of society. I must read more of her work.

A paperback copy of Selected Stories of Sylvia Townsend Warner published by Virago. The cover shows a painting by Vanessa Bell of a bowl of apples sitting next to a balcony window looking out onto a street.

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Mair Rigby @mairsrambles.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

My Dad died 15 years ago this weekend. He was my main support in life. I still think about him every day, dream about him often, and wouldn't be surprised if I walked in and found him in the kitchen with a mug of tea and the cat on his lap.

A black and white photograph of a man with a beard standing outside holding a small baby (me) wrapped in a white blanket with a lacy white hat on.

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Mair Rigby @mairsrambles.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Tori Amos and band unbelievably good in Bristol last night. Just the catharsis and energiser I need right now.

Tori Amos and her band performing on stage with green lighting. She is playing a black grand piano.

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Mair Rigby @mairsrambles.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Stunning gig from Courtney Marie Andrews in Bristol last night. So good.

Courtney Marie Andrews performing on stage. She is a short white woman playing a guitar and singing into a microphone.

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Mair Rigby @mairsrambles.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Fantastic gig from Amythyst Kiah in Bristol last night. Much needed end-of-January energizer! Recommend seeing her if you get the chance.

Amythyst kiah performing. She is a young black woman playing a banjo and singing into the microphone.

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Mair Rigby @mairsrambles.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

LezDiff festival in Cardiff next weekend. Sadly I can't go, but it looks great! lezdiff.org

Poster for the Lezdiff festival 30 and 31 Jan 2026 full info at lezdiff.org Cardiff international Lesbian film and arts festival. It features an orange and purple colour scheme with a cartoon image of a lesbian holding a film clapperboard

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Mair Rigby @mairsrambles.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Plenty of winter to go, but today it was still light at 4pm.

Bare winter trees in a park with a clear blue sky

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Mair Rigby @mairsrambles.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

Baked aubergines with gochujang and tomatoes by @nigelslater.bsky.social Very good vegan recipe.

A rectangular roasting dish containing a breadcrumb topped casserole, nicely browned on top.

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Mair Rigby @mairsrambles.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

Wonderful gig from Thea Gilmore in Cardiff tonight. I've been a fan since 2003 and she played some of my favourites.

Thea Gilmore playing a guitar and singing while standing. She is a slim white woman with long dark hair wearing a short red dress.

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Mair Rigby @mairsrambles.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Good things today: - Talked to lots of lovely people - Got given a free succulent - Dosbarth cymraeg da heno

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Mair Rigby @mairsrambles.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

I had a lovely morning participating in the @beinghumanfest.bsky.social 'History, Memory, Resistance: Section 28 in Wales' event in Cardiff. I was quite nervous going in honestly, but it was a really warm and healing space.

Photograph of the poster advertising the Being Human event 'History, Memory, Resistance: Section 28 in Wales'. It shows a flyer with a rainbow flag on a red background.

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Mair Rigby @mairsrambles.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Saw a good Sheela Na Gig in Church Stretton

A old stone carving in the wall of a church. It depicts a female figure holding her vulva open

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Mair Rigby @mairsrambles.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Back from a lovely little walking holiday in the Shropshire hills.

A footpath through a valley with hills on both sides covered in flowering gorse and ferns. There is a stream on the left of the path.

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Mair Rigby @mairsrambles.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Spotted a stunning red admiral butterfly in the park

A large butterfly with black wings with bright red stripes and white blotches sitting on pink and yellow flowers.

A red admiral butterfly with its wings closed showing red, white and black patterns on the top half and brown marbling patterns on the lower half. It is sitting on bright pink and yellow flowers.

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Mair Rigby @mairsrambles.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Excited to be at the International Research Culture Conference at University of Warwick today #IRCC25

A lecture theatre with a slide on a large screen with the title of the Conference.

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Mair Rigby @mairsrambles.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Reading this for next @doersandimprovers.bsky.social bookclub as I travel around for work this week.

My ereader showing the cover of the book Music as Medicine bt Daniel Levitin. It features a picture of a musical stave with pills instead of notes.

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Mair Rigby @mairsrambles.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Throwing Muses on 🔥 in Cardiff tonight.

The singer Kristin Hersh performing on stage. She is a small, slim, white woman with dark hair playing a black electric guitar.

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Mair Rigby @mairsrambles.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

Beautiful small copper butterfly.

A small copper butterfly sitting on yellow ragwort flowers. It has orange and brown markings on its wings.

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Mair Rigby @mairsrambles.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Call for submissions: Unblock Magazine. 'Unblock is a new magazine with a focus on the voices and experiences of female academics of black and/or racially minoritised backgrounds. Deadline 15 September. forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...

Flyer calling for submission to Unblock Magazine. The text reads 'Unblock is excited to announce a call for submissions to amplify female academics of black and/or racially minoritised backgrounds. We seek contributions that highlight perspectives and explore shared challenges while fostering new solutions in academia. Contributions can include academic discussions, personal narratives, book reviews, creative writing, and diverse forms of expression like artwork and poetry, with varying lengths and scopes. Join us in creating a platform for diverse voices to be heard'.

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Mair Rigby @mairsrambles.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

I love hornet mimic hoverflies. "Grrr I'm a big scary hornet, yes I am".

A large hornet mimic hoverfly resting on a white flower. It is a winged insect with a stripey body imitating a hornet.

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Mair Rigby @mairsrambles.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Need to remember to put my feet on the grass every now and then.

A photograph of my legs looking down at my feet. I am wearing light blue jeans standing with bare feet on long grass.

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Mair Rigby @mairsrambles.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

Absolute gem of a blue butterfly basking in Cathays Cemetery this morning.

A common blue butterfly basking with its wings open on green grass

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Mair Rigby @mairsrambles.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Having a day off. Visited one of my favourite tree friends. This oak in Roath Park Wild Gardens

An oak tree with a bulbous trunk standing in a woodland park surrounded by other trees.

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Mair Rigby @mairsrambles.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Really liked this collection of poems. Powerful, deeply personal and political, and all about being alive. Joy Harjo, 'She Had Some Horses' (1983)

A paperback copy of the poetry collection, 'She Had Some Horses' by Joy Harjo. The cover features a painted image of three ghostly white horses coming towards the viewer on a dark background.

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Mair Rigby @mairsrambles.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Time to make the most of one of my favourite things, early summer morning walks.

A green playing field in a park with trees in the distance and a blue sky above.

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Mair Rigby @mairsrambles.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

I made banana bread and it smells great.

A nicely browned rectangular loaf of banana bread sitting on a wire cooling rack.

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Mair Rigby @mairsrambles.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Lots of bird activity in Cathays Cemetery this morning. Blackbirds and wrens singing. Goldcrests and tits in the trees. Flash of green woodpecker.

Two light pink blackberry blossoms surrounded by buds on a green blackberry bramble.

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Mair Rigby @mairsrambles.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Gofod 3 the biggest voluntary sector event in Wales is taking place on 2 July gofod3.cymru

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Mair Rigby @mairsrambles.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Lovely new yarn shop in Cardiff, but slightly concerned I might never see Andie again!

A woman with bobbed grey hair looking in the window of a shop with lots of colourful yarn balls.

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Mair Rigby @mairsrambles.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

Roath Park swan family doing well. All 8 still accounted for if not the picture.

An adult swan with six signets on a lake

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Mair Rigby @mairsrambles.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Incredible gig from Throwing Muses in Bristol tonight @throwingmuses.bsky.social

Kristin Hersh, front woman of the band Throwing Muses, singing and playing a guitar on stage. She is a small white woman with black hair.

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Mair Rigby @mairsrambles.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Three good things - Nice, quiet day working at home - Feeling relieved after a bit of good news which has reduced my stress levels - Saw a swan at the park with 8 signets

A swan with eight small, fluffy grey signets on a lake

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Mair Rigby @mairsrambles.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Lots of goslings in Roath Park at the moment 😍. One pair have nine!

A pair of black-headed geese with six small, fluffy, goslings.

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Mair Rigby @mairsrambles.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Of all the blossom on show at this time of year, I think the hawthorn is my favourite.

A large hawthorn bush covered in small white blossoms taken on a bright sunny day with blue sky in the background.

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Mair Rigby @mairsrambles.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Made the double lemon pilaf from 'Easy Wins' by Anna Jones for dinner. Very good. Recipe here taste.co.za/recipes/doub...

A round pan containing a yellow rice pilaf topped with flaked almonds and green herbs.

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Mair Rigby @mairsrambles.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

What a joy to see! A big, beautiful bumblebee on a bright march morning.

A large bumblebee with black and yellow stripes resting on grass

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Mair Rigby @mairsrambles.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

A poem I always return to at this time of year. Alice Oswald, 'Wood Not Yet Out'. ('and calls by name the leaves that aren't yet there'.)

Wood Not Yet Out

closed and containing everything, the land
leaning all round to block it from the wind,
a squirrel sprinting in startles and sees
sections of distance tilted through the trees
and where you jump the fence a flap of sacking
does for a stile, you walk through webs, the cracking
bushtwigs break their secrecies, the sun
vanishes up, instantly come and gone.
once in, you hardly notice as you move,
the wood keeps lifting up its hope, I love
to stand among the last trees listening down
to the releasing branches where I've been—
the rain, thinking I've gone, crackles the air
and calls by name the leaves that aren't yet there

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Mair Rigby @mairsrambles.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Small joys at a rather bleak time of year

A bunch of white snowdrop flowers with a river flowing down a small weir in the background

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Mair Rigby @mairsrambles.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Loved reading 'Tir: The Story of the Welsh Landscape' by Carwyn Graves with @doersandimprovers.bsky.social. Beautiful book about the history of peoples' relationship with the land in Wales and how we might move forward in more sustainable ways.

My e-reader showing the cover of the book Tir by Carwyn Graves. It features lino cut images of trees and animals.

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Mair Rigby @mairsrambles.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Baked some soda bread in honour of Imbolc/Brigid/Gwyl Forwyn and my Irish great grandmother who used to make it a lot, according to my Dad.

A loaf of soda bread, nicely browned on top and sprinkled with pumpkin and sunflower seeds

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Mair Rigby @mairsrambles.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Every weekend I make a new recipe from one of my cookbooks. This weekend I'm cooking from 'A Cook's Book' by @nigelslater.bsky.social

A hardcover copy of A Cook's Book by Nigel Slater. It has a pink and blue cover with a painted design.

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Mair Rigby @mairsrambles.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

One thing I'm going to start doing again this year is cooking a new recipe every weekend from one of my numerous cook books. We'll begin with Bazaar by Sabrina Ghayour.

A hardcover copy of the recipe book Bazaar by Sabrina Ghayour. It has a dark red cover with a gold vegetable design.

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Mair Rigby @mairsrambles.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Enjoyed this little ghost/horror story about generational trauma.Very readable with an engaging protagonist.

My ereader showing the cover of the novel A House with Good Bones by T. Kingfisher. It features a skull shaped door knocker surrounded by roses.

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