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Mark Walling @markwalling.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Mary Hall, reimagined by AI, in the spring of 1905 among the rhododendrons. 🌺

Mark Walling @markwalling.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Remember my post about Mary Hall’s postcards? Well, I’ve started uploading them to Instagram! Follow @maryspostcardcollection for full high-res images, transcriptions, and the family secrets they reveal. This is where the detective work happens…

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Mark Walling @markwalling.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Just acquired a new rose for my mum’s garden. It’s called “The King’s Rose”, it was launched for the Chelsea Flower Show. Some people have said it doesn’t have a scent, but I can vouch it has rose and honey tones. I like it a lot 😀

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Mark Walling @markwalling.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Yes and yes! 👍 I gave your signed copy to my mum for her to read first. I’ve been browsing my old postcard collection of my Great Grand Aunt - here’s one from Aug 1905 about the Walney Pierrot shows. The quip from her friend was a bit tart! PS: I’m sure many people wish you ❤️ about your OH.

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Mark Walling @markwalling.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Very good - we need some cheer after all this gloomy weather. ☁️☁️ Hardy cyclamen are also a happy sight this time of year…🌺🌺

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Mark Walling @markwalling.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Well, I loved both of my visits to the Creetown Gem Rock Museum, so maybe there’s hope for me yet… 😊 PS: I’d also like to give a shout-out for Morganite!

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Mark Walling @markwalling.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Hmmm…or a session musician for Propaganda!

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Mark Walling @markwalling.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

For example, here’s a postcard Molly received from South Africa in 1910. From Lambert Bell, the husband of her friend Edith Bell, he thanks Molly and her girlfriends for cheering Edith up and sending him a short movie of this event! I had no idea this was possible for everyday folk in 1910.

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Mark Walling @markwalling.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

I’ve been looking through scores of old postcards collected by my Great, great Aunt, Mary “Molly” Hall (1876-1928). Thanks to these, arguably the Edwardian equivalent of text messaging, I’ve been understanding her working class life. One filled with female friends and family responsibilities.

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Mark Walling @markwalling.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

And the weather is rubbishy as well! 💦 🌬 As a brief respite from todays travails, may I introduce you to my favourite rose? 🌹 The variety is “Eustacia Vye”. This pic was taken from my back garden 4 months ago. #flowerpower

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Mark Walling @markwalling.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Matilda has been passing on this message… 😉

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Mark Walling @markwalling.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

That’s wickedly accurate! 😉 So says: “If books and sheep had a social media lovechild, it would be Mark…” 10/10 by the way for promoting blueskyroast, as I just can’t keep up with what AI can do these days.

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Mark Walling @markwalling.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

I guess you’d have to monitor the % as the population expands to understand the correlation?From what I’ve read today, there’s no economic downside to farmers as the EU refunds them for kills (8m per year) PS: I found this lovely illustration on the “Rewilding Europe” website.

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Mark Walling @markwalling.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

An afternoon sky from SW Cumbria. What difference would it make? A heightened sense of what “joy” really means, perhaps…?

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Mark Walling @markwalling.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Fascinating. For comparison I decided to use an app called Gencraft to “Create an image of Mark Walling”. So it correctly both guessed my gender, and that I’m an older person. (Mark was most popular in the U.K. as a forename between 1960-1970). Why portray me as a Caucasian though?

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