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Laine Thompson @marlinhoister.bsky.social · 11h

Got a little distracted after reading @mariapopova.bsky.social post on G.K. Chesterton and The Dandelion. having nothing better to do I have spent a little time trawling through old videos and notes to find this little pamphlet I created a few years ago. Dandelion Dreams. #afternoonwhimsy

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Laine Thompson @marlinhoister.bsky.social · 12h

“What was wonderful about childhood is that anything in it was a wonder. It was not merely a world full of miracles; it was a miraculous world.”

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Laine Thompson @marlinhoister.bsky.social · 14h

@einelesende.bsky.social Just noticed you popping up on a post on my timeline. Sunny but breezy here today. Haven’t heard from you in a while. Hope all is well.🙂

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Laine Thompson @marlinhoister.bsky.social · 14h

#My9Albums Just a small snapshot. Subject to frequent change. Tried not to think too hard and these were the ones that popped up in the moment. Thinking of others like James Taylor, Cat Stevens, Dory Previn, Crosby Stills Nash & Young who popped up as I downloaded this.

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Laine Thompson @marlinhoister.bsky.social · 16h

A black and white ballet on 50’s/60’s TV. Very fuzzy recall now except one twin prince had a mole placed on his cheek at birth by the villain who came after him when he was grown up to take him down to the underworld. Have slept with the covers pulled tight over my own cheek mole ever since.

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Laine Thompson @marlinhoister.bsky.social · 20h

Must be 30 years since I visited here. This leaves a warm glow.🙂

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Laine Thompson @marlinhoister.bsky.social · 20h

Good morning 🌅 … this is the way we walked

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Laine Thompson @marlinhoister.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

And a chance to settle down to hear the complaints against Reynard with a glass of King Noble's Special Whitsun Clary. (Well, at least a good red (if not from Gascony), with a splash of clear honey, ginger and cinnamon added so if not totally authentic it'll do) Once shared with my little shadow.

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Laine Thompson @marlinhoister.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Reminds me of this... Overlooking fish sands, where the cobles once landed with their catch, is a Headland story trail post with a strange little ditty about Fish Annie who would wander round the Town selling fish from a pram. Often it was none too fresh. Still selling in 1961 aged 75 I’m told.

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Laine Thompson @marlinhoister.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Early morning gathering of the starlings…

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Laine Thompson @marlinhoister.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

"the story of the struggle with water is the root of organized society, and it started when people stopped and noticed that the water around them moved." Orion Magazine - Water: A Biography orionmagazine.org/article/wate...

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Water: A Biography - Orion Magazine

Standing still in a world of moving water

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Laine Thompson @marlinhoister.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I walked out this Sunday morning under the light of the moon and a glitter of stars. Orion above me. Pin-prick sharp amongst hazy beginnings. Early wander in the damp coolness, breeze brushing my face. The weather a barometer to my thoughts absorbed with light, water, wind, warmth... or lack of it.

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Laine Thompson @marlinhoister.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Bit of afternoon sunshine and a Red Admiral stops by. (Fleeting visit so not the best photo op lol).

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Laine Thompson @marlinhoister.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Dear me. (Or other well worn expletives.) Everywhere touting bl🍅🍅dy Christmas. It’s noble the beginning of October ffs.

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Laine Thompson @marlinhoister.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Another one of James Brunt’s photos from his visit to work with some Y1s last week. Finger drawing in sea coal. Reminds me of the ammonites associated with St Hilda.

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Laine Thompson @marlinhoister.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Someone is looking for a second breakfast.

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Laine Thompson @marlinhoister.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

What a fabulous article on a fascinating collection.

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Laine Thompson @marlinhoister.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Yay! My little Robin is back. (Not sure it’s last years visitor obviously, but it’s a similar date and time as last year so… 🤷🏻‍♀️)

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Laine Thompson @marlinhoister.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is the way we walked… Chill in the air, stars in a clear sky, sea calm. Oystercatchers below the sea wall. Wild geese overhead. And another awesome sunrise. (There was a kind of lonely sadness about the window. The house empty. Beyond the glass a wreck of a kitchen. The sign a reminder.)

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

But it is one thing to read about dragons and another to meet them.

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Laine Thompson @marlinhoister.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The old arch frames the morning as the slipway steps take each slap of sea before it shatters into spray. Beyond, the lighthouse on the Pilot Pier stands silent against the tide’s weight pressing the sea wall.

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Laine Thompson @marlinhoister.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

After our morning rambles these last few days with the moon still bright in the sky, I stood staring for more than just a moment in time. It made me think of the cover on Joan Aiken’s eerie gothic thriller The Moon’s Revenge with Alan Lee’s wonderful illustrations. Now reading.

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Maria Popova @mariapopova.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination” Hear Mary Oliver, in her lovely time-rasped voice, read one of the greatest poems ever written: www.themarginalian.org/2014/09/24/m...

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Mary Oliver Reads Her Beloved Poem “Wild Geese”

“Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination…”

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Laine Thompson @marlinhoister.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Not quite sure about this one. Folk horror isn’t really one of my usual choices. But …

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Laine Thompson @marlinhoister.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Just had a garden visit from a little wren. Big smile on my face.

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Emma @emmasartworks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Grey Plover at North Gare last week - very smart little bird! Plus Curlew, Oystercatcher and Redshank. Pen and watercolour sketches. 🪶🐡 #birdingNorthEast #waders

Sketches of Grey Plover and other shorebirds at Teesmouth, northeast England

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Hannah Booth @hannahbooth.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

As September comes to a close and autumn takes gentle hold it's time for the latest North Sea dispatches. This round takes in the regal, the forbidden and the unexpected. All testament to just how much the North Sea still matters.

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Royal yachts, a coveted Rembrandt and drama under the mudflats

North Sea Dispatches #12

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Laine Thompson @marlinhoister.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The beginning of this month saw the removal of Whitby’s whalebone arch. The arch was installed in 2002 but had deteriorated through exposure to the weather. A new arch will be installed after making bronze moulds from the existing bones. My photo from Dec 2018 www.northyorks.gov.uk/news/2026/wh...

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Elvis Dylan @elvisdylan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

#vss365 #MicroFiction #Writing #WritingCommunity at the shore, silence settled over his soul that silence offered a #reprieve from the turbulence of his life it allowed him to measure the dimensions of the problems he was about to face

A painting of a man at the seashore, wind blowing strongly

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Laine Thompson @marlinhoister.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The last day of September… …caught myself singing The Big Ship Sails on the Alley Alley O this morning. No idea why. No big ships in sight this morning. Just a dreek September morning.

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Laine Thompson @marlinhoister.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Watching video on here is once again a challenge. Seems to be a regular occurrence atm. (It works fine on my iPhone. Just doesn’t seem to like the iPad. 🤷🏻‍♀️)

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Laine Thompson @marlinhoister.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This morning I stood looking at the moon wondering what she made of humanity. All those years orbiting Earth, watching the slow evolution of everything. The first life, plants, vertebrates, dinosaurs, mammals, birds. Mass extinction events. And along comes man…yet another weapon of mass destruction.

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