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Mandy Patrish @mandypatrish.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Harvested and drying for winter bird seed

Two sizable sunflower seedheads sitting on a black metal bench

Mandy Patrish @mandypatrish.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

This is my Mum's recipe but it's pretty flexible. I like it spicy so I add a bit more mustard and turmeric. Boil the onions in water till they're soft then add the vinegar with the other ingredients. Keep tasting to get the sweet/spice balance to your taste. Enjoy!

$1 1\2 lbs onions 1 medium cauliflower 1 1/2 lbs 3/4 marrow 1 1/4 lbs 1/2 cucumber 1 - 1 1/2 lbs sugar 1/4 oz Turmeric - 1 teaspoon 3/4 oz Mustard - 1 Dessert spoon 1 1/4 pts vinegar 1 1/2 pts water Corn flour$

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Mandy Patrish @mandypatrish.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

The Northumberland coast in March this year. Looking across the bay to Beadnell Lime Kilns.

Coastal view looking across a bay. Rocks and sand in the foreground, then a calm sea with gentle waves lapping the shore. The sea reflects the blue sky with distant grey clouds. Across the bay golden dunes, houses and stonebuilt structures can be seen on the horizon.

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Mandy Patrish @mandypatrish.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

'Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines' Sonnet 18 #ShakespeareSunday Summer holidays

A woman in a bright orange translucent long dress lies against cushions on a marble bench. In the distance a fierce sun reflects off a calm sea. Lord Frederick Leighton's painting 'Flaming June'

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Mandy Patrish @mandypatrish.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

'Doth the moon shine that night we play our play?' 'A calendar, a calendar! Look in the almanack; find out moonshine, find out moonshine.' MND A3S1 #ShakespeareSunday Sun and Moon

Title page from Warcup's Gallen Almanack of 1672.
The text includes:
"Containing the Lunations Eclipses, Aspects of the Planets, and daily disposition of the Air.
With Directions to such as use Marts or Fairs, also to Travellers that coast the Kingdom.
Lately amplified with many notes of good consequence."

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Mandy Patrish @mandypatrish.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

'We few, we happy few, we band of brothers' Henry V #ShakespeareSunday

Members of the England mens football team celebrate a victory

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Mandy Patrish @mandypatrish.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

A little scented leaf pelargonium called Orange Fizz. Pretty flowers and the leaves really do smell of fizzy orange.

A plant with soft crinkly green leaves and pinky mauve flowers with a darker central splash.

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Mandy Patrish @mandypatrish.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

The heatwave joy of a café with aircon and Ella Fitzgerald playing. Cool 😎

A mug of coffee (latte) on a wooden table, with a white carnation in a small glass vase.

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Mandy Patrish @mandypatrish.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Juvenile gannet at @rspbbemptoncliffs.bsky.social demonstrating my inability to take good photos. But what a lovely way to spend #SuperSeabirdSunday

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Mandy Patrish @mandypatrish.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

'How shall I be revenged on him? For revenged I will be, as sure as his guts are made of puddings' Th Merry Wives of Windsor A1S4 #ShakespeareSunday

Two ladies standing behind a bar, looking fierce and formidable. Barbara Windsor and Pam St Clement, playing Peggy Mitchell and Pat Butcher in Eastenders.

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Mandy Patrish @mandypatrish.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Lichfield is my local cathedral. Minster Pool - the medieval fishpond just below the cathedral - is still there, and beautiful. Not sure how many eels though.

Minster Pool in Lichfield, Staffordshire. The expanse of water reflects the blue sky, the surrounding trees, and the three spires of Lichfield Cathedral.

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Mandy Patrish @mandypatrish.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Will be at the RST later to see Alfred Enoch aa Henry V. It lives!

A photo of an actor's face. The text reads RSC UNTIL 25 APRIL
HENRY V
BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

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Mandy Patrish @mandypatrish.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Had fun at the Harbourside Festival in Bristol last year, looking forward to seeing you at the Bristol Beacon next month #TLJGig #TheLongestJohns

Four musicians on stage in front of a blue backdrop. Andy, Anto, Robbie and JD of The Longest Johns at the Bristol Harbourside festival in 2025. (Florin on drums is there, just hidden behind JD)

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Mandy Patrish @mandypatrish.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Loads of blackthorn blossom out at the moment. Should be a good year for sloes ( and sloe gin 🍷)

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Mandy Patrish @mandypatrish.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

'To unpathed waters, undreamed shores' The Winter's Tale A4S4 #ShakespeareSunday theme: New & Blue

A seascape at sunset. The sea is calm with just a few ripples, and reflects the sky and patches of cloud in grey and peach and purple tones, with a purple/grey horizon in the far distance. Overhead the sky is a clear evening blue.

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Mandy Patrish @mandypatrish.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Hoatzin. Also known as the stinkbird.

A largish brown and cream bird, with pale markings on the wings, bright blue skin around a vivid red eye, a thick beak and a spiky crest of feathers on it's head.

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Mandy Patrish @mandypatrish.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Merry Christmas to you and your family Rob.

This year's Christmas tree in the house where I grew up, which now belongs to my brother and his wife. Scene of many happy family Christmases.

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Mandy Patrish @mandypatrish.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

The Alnwick Garden, swings in the cherry orchard.

An orchard of trees, some still with yellow and gold leaves, and more leaves scattered over the ground. Between the trees are frames supporting several bench swings.

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Mandy Patrish @mandypatrish.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Hydrangea, roses and rudbeckia I'd expect to last, but clematis? Also geranium 'Rozanne', nasturtiums, Japanese anemones, fuchsia, Mexican fleabane, pinks and the violas I planted in March which have been flowering ever since!

Yellow daisies with a black eye (rudbeckia) and blue flowers with a pale centre (geranium Rozanne)

Pale yellow nasturtium flowers against a mass of bright green foliage

A grey flower pot containing a fuchsia plant. Bright pink flowers with white centres are hanging down

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Mandy Patrish @mandypatrish.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

Mexican orange blossom flowering in November - madness!

A greeen shrub growing next to a red brick wall, covered in small white flowers.

Smallish white flowers with yellow centres dotted all over a shrub with shiny green leaves.

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Mandy Patrish @mandypatrish.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

Petruchio: I say it is the moon Katherine: I know it is the moon P: Nay, then you lie; it is the blessed sun K: Then, God be blessed, it is the blessed sun; But sun it is not, when you say it is not The Taming of the Shrew #ShakespeareSunday #TruthandLies

A dark haired man in a pink striped shirt is talking to a blonde woman in a pink and white dress. Raul Julia as Petruchio and Meryl Streep as Katherine

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Mandy Patrish @mandypatrish.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

'All hail, Macbeth! Hail to thee, Thane of Glamis!' #ShakespeareSunday Carving of the three witches on the Macbeth trail in the grounds of Glamis Castle

Wooden carving of three witches hunched over a cauldron

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Mandy Patrish @mandypatrish.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

This jade plant is a family heirloom. My father brought home a piece from a plant in the offices where he worked. He stuck it in a pot, and when I left home, I took a piece with me. Much like Dr Who it's been through a few regenerations from cuttings, but it's at least 50 years old.

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Mandy Patrish @mandypatrish.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

Rudbeckia lighting up a corner of my garden. They positively glow in the autumn sun.

Golden yellow daisies with a black centre to each flower

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Mandy Patrish @mandypatrish.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

'Now, good digestion wait on appetite, And health on both!' #ShakespeareSunday #Macbeth (Hope you're feeling better) (Photo credit @theadamchance.bsky.social)

A man wearing glasses, a cap and a red check shirt is holding a plate of food. Adam Chance (musician and member of Home Free) sitting in the window of a pizza shop holding a special 'biscuits and gravy' pizza.

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Mandy Patrish @mandypatrish.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Definitely made it to Northumberland ( credit to @northumb-astro.bsky.social )

Pink and green aurora from Cresswell, Northumberland

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Mandy Patrish @mandypatrish.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

It was a great show - and fun to meet fellow Home Fries

Andy, Robbie and JD on stage at the Bristol Harbourside Festival

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Mandy Patrish @mandypatrish.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

"Look not on his picture, but his book" Ben Jonson for #ShakespeareSunday, Theme Books and Libraries

The cover of a copy of the Alexander text of the Complete Works of Shakespeare, white with a blue and green version of an image of Shakespeare's face.

Ben Jonson's lines 'To the Reader', written for the First Folio edition of Shakespeare's plays (1623)

This figure, that thou here seest put
It was for gentle Shakespeare cut;
Wherein the Graver had a strife
with nature, to out-doo the life:
O, could he but have drawne his wit
As well in brasse as he hath hit
His face, the Print would then surpasse
All that was ever writ in brasse.
But, since he cannot, Reader, look
Not on his picture, but his Book.

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Mandy Patrish @mandypatrish.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Double yay! One cos all the cool kids are into birding and two cos Tim's posting on BlueSky. Have a few English gannets as a welcome.

Several large white birds with golden heads riding the wind over the edge of a sea cliff.

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Mandy Patrish @mandypatrish.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

Seabirds? Somebody say seabirds? Phone shot of guillemots on a sunset cruise to the Farne Islands last week. ##SuperSeabirdSunday @thefarnes.bsky.social

Dozens of guillemot gathered on a rocky outcrop. They look a bit like little penguins, standing upright with very dark brown backs and heads and white bellies. The warm light of the setting sun gives everything a soft glow - including the thick coating of creamy guano on the rocks.

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Mandy Patrish @mandypatrish.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Just a phone shot but had a brilliant day at RSPB Bempton @rspbbemptoncliffs.bsky.social last week. So many birds and the magnificent gannets. ##SuperSeabirdSunday

A group of 7 gannets - large white birds with golden heads and black wing tips - ride the wind over the edges of a sea cliff. The sea is blue/grey and the sky is bright with light clouds. The top of the cliff carries lots of green vegetation including tall spires of dark pink flowers.

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Mandy Patrish @mandypatrish.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Can I recommend #SuperSeabirdSunday for a weekly timeline cleanse of really nice bird pics? Cory's Shearwater to start you off

Cory's Shearwater. A grey bird with a tough yellow bill, darker grey wings and a white belly glides over rolling blue waves.

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Mandy Patrish @mandypatrish.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

A flowering currant full of bees in the spring sunshine is a glorious thing.

Close up of drooping clusters of small pink flowers and fresh green leaves

A large shrub covered in drooping clusters of small pink flowers, with fresh green leaves showing. The top of the plant is against a bright blue sky. If you were standing next to it you would hear bees buzzing around the flowers.

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Mandy Patrish @mandypatrish.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Richard III A5 S6 Enter a scrivener. "Here is the indictment of the good Lord Hastings; Which in a set hand fairly is engross'd That it may today be read o'er in Paul's" #ShakespeareSunday Theme: Reading and Writing

An Elizabethan document from the Court of Common Pleas, around 1595. Written in a formal manner, black text on cream parchment, with a large black wax seal hanging from a tape attached to the bottom.

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Mandy Patrish @mandypatrish.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Clear sky and aurora just showing over Northumberland thanks to Northumberland Astro livestream on YouTube

Trees and a house silhouetted against a clear starry sky. Near the horizon and behind the tree there is a green and red glow from the Aurora Borealis.

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Mandy Patrish @mandypatrish.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

'You must not, sir, mistake my niece: there is a kind of merry war betwixt Signior Benedick and her' My nieces waiting to see MAAN yesterday - very entertaining production! #ShakespeareSunday

My nieces outside the Theatre Royal Drury Lane, waiting to go in with me to see Tom Hiddleston and Hayley Atwell in Much Ado About Nothing.

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Mandy Patrish @mandypatrish.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

First primrose of the year tucked away under the witch hazel. We need some hopeful signs.

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Mandy Patrish @mandypatrish.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

'Come not between the dragon and his wrath' King Lear #ShakespeareSunday Chinese zodiac

An illustration of St George killing the dragon from a French 15th century Book of Hours. St George in armour is mounted on a white horse. The golden dragon is twisted round at the horse's feet as a spear strikes him in the mouth. A man and a woman dressed as nobles are kneeling in prayer and watching.

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Mandy Patrish @mandypatrish.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

It was a big garden bird washout for me on Friday and Saturday thanks to the weather and the local cats, but much better this morning. Here is a truly terrible photo of my 7 goldfinches! #BigGardenBirdwatch #RSPB

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