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Matthew Scott @mscottcumbria.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The guardian at the gate. 🐈‍⬛😻🐈‍⬛😻

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Matthew Scott @mscottcumbria.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Two years ago tonight we stayed at Goulding’s Lodge in Monument Valley. That backdrop is real, not a film set.

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Matthew Scott @mscottcumbria.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I shall. “Currently out of print in the UK” - obvs 🤷🏻‍♂️🙄🤦🏻‍♂️

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Matthew Scott @mscottcumbria.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Looked up Mr Browne, fascinating. I typed this post whilst walking on to Latterbarrow. That’ll teach me 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️

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Matthew Scott @mscottcumbria.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

A substantial stile that has seen better days, and goes to deep, dark, woods (if you dare!). On the path to Latterbarrow from Old Intake. Part of a circular 9 mile walk from Far Sawrey. #stile #stileneedswork #lakedistrict

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

This is the news I've been waiting for: Blackwell's will be stocking my new short story collection, which means readers outside the UK can pre-order it for September 15th with FREE INTERNATIONAL DELIVERY... Oh yes, and they have SIGNED copies too! blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...

My latest book, being guarded by Rod, our friendly garden herring gull.

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Matthew Scott @mscottcumbria.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

My @bsky.app feed has lots of content from Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social in it. Not a complaint! Making life more bearable in an increasingly bewildering world. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

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Stiles @lakesstiles.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

'Stiles: an instructional guide to getting your leg over' was fortunately averted before someone signed this off for publication

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Joel @itsjoels.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

This is the letter kids got at the end of Dolly’s Imagination Library. I defy you to read this and not cry.

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𝙹*𝚊𝚍𝚘𝚛𝚎 𝙼𝚊𝚐𝚛𝚒𝚝𝚝𝚎 🍏 @artmyoldfriend.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton mural by Kim Radford. (Dolly Parton mural honoring her contributions to Childhood Literacy. Painted on the wall at Hume-Fogg Magnet High School. Best viewed from 715 Commerce St, Nashville.) RIP Dolly. 💔

Dolly Parton mural honoring her contributions to Childhood Literacy. Painted on the wall at Hume-Fogg Magnet High School. Best viewed from 715 Commerce St, Nashville.

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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton's family asked that, in lieu of flowers, fans make a donation to the singer's Imagination Library. Here's what the charity does ⬇️ www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

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Turning Pages: Inside Dolly Parton's Imagination Library

Core team of 15 staff and thousands of volunteers and partners help the country-music philanthropist deliver books to kids around the world.

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Dolly Rebecca Parton RIP, ❤️ US singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, actress, author, businesswoman and humanitarian #WomensArt

Monochrome photograph feating a white woman in a doorway with raised leg holding an acoustic guitar, smiling

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Matthew Scott @mscottcumbria.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

@bookingcom.bsky.social I have an issue with a big change in flight times for a flight booked through you. Your 'service' centre says I have to contact the airline direct - despite my payment being to you. How to I escalate a complaint about you to your CEO in the UK? 😡

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Matthew Scott @mscottcumbria.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I have shared with my mate, who’s good lady wife is a die-hard Villa fan*. Brilliant. Thank you. *he supports AFC Wimbledon and miserable most of the time….

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Matthew Scott @mscottcumbria.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Ah, my home town. I was 2 in 1964 but remember very crowded beaches even in the early/mid 1970’s. Wakes weeks ‘Glasgow Fortnight’ etc.. Immortalised by Jethro Tull 🙂 youtu.be/InCqhZXdahA

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Central Beach, Blackpool, 1964.

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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

When a (proper) coroner’s inquest is preferable to a public inquiry A short post in respect of the death of Jason Arday emptycity.substack.com/p/when-a-pro... (Replies restricted on this particular one, I am afraid.)

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Matthew Scott @mscottcumbria.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Why did I not think to go and set up by a stile?! 🤦🏻‍♂️ Think of the cosmic powers I might have acquired!!

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Matthew Scott @mscottcumbria.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Just got to find our colander…..rest of kit working ok. Just need the clouds to thin out a bit more 🤞

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Matthew Scott @mscottcumbria.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Fascinating cloudage seen from Lake Windermere this evening. #clouds #lakedistrict

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Carl Bovis @carlbovisnature.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Hi everyone. My sales have been woeful this month. 😔 Can I ask a favour please, can you visit my shop & browse. 🙏 No need to buy anything.. I'm putting this request on all my socials to see where the visits mostly come from. ❤️ Here's my shop; www.carlbovis.com/shop-3 🐦

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Art & Nature @capecodfairytales.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

#Poetry #Painting #Morning I start the morning gently In a quiet sort of way Just grateful for the time And another beautiful day 🎨 Emily Simmons

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Matthew Scott @mscottcumbria.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Early start today. Airport run for family. Breakfast by Moon light.

A bright Moon just above the shadows of a line of trees, with some cloud illuminated to either side.

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Matthew Scott @mscottcumbria.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Ah crap. Such sad news about Glen Hansard. Farewell Sir, and thank you. “Falling Slowly” is exactly what Fiona & I did - and ‘Once’ is part of our story; our romance; our love. We won’t ever forget you. 💔♥️💔♥️

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Matthew Scott @mscottcumbria.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

How wonderful. Well done. Former (mostly reformed…,but only mostly) ex-feral Coral cat sends greetings to you and to Treacle.

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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Sure, some men are jerks. Like the ‘influencer’ who carried a bath to the top of Snowdon for a selfie and dumped it there. But other men are heroes, like the teenage rugby team who carried it down. Well done lads. We see you. Show your sons. www.walesonline.co.uk/sport/rugby/...

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Stunned Welsh rugby team remove bathtub from Pen y Fan summit after stunt

The players helped National Trust workers remove the tub, which had been left at the summit following a supposed world record attempt

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Matthew Scott @mscottcumbria.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Fiona’s office view tonight. Side Pike from The New Dungeon Ghyll. 💚

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Farming & Water Scotland @farmwaterscot.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

It’s Farm Safety Week. From preventing combine fires to working at height, the Farm Safety Foundation have produced ‘The Little Book of Farm Safety’ with loads of practical information to help keep you and others safe on farm. Take a look at www.yellowwellies.org/resources/ page.

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Matthew Scott @mscottcumbria.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Hey @bethrigby.bsky.social you keep saying that Prime Ministers normally take office after General Elections. I’ve been a voter since 1980. I know what you say is utterly untrue. 👇🏼 Since this chart we’ve also had Truss & Sunak as ‘non GE’ Prime Ministers. Do better. fullfact.org/news/unelect...

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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Gabby: What was your highlight of the half time show? Wayne Rooney: When it finished. I thought it was crap. 10/10 punditry. No notes.

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Matthew Scott @mscottcumbria.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Solitary fisherman. Devoke Water in Cumbria. 15 June 2026 (I resisted the temptation to shout ‘stop winding!’ @bobmort.bsky.social 😉🙂) #LakeDistrict #Cumbria #DevokeWater

A wide view of Devoke Tarn in the foreground, with a solitary fly-fisherman casting his line whilst stood in the water. A stone-built boathouse in the mid distance. The English Lake District high mountains in the background showing through hazy cloud.

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Anne Louise Avery @annelouiseavery.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Midsummer was a very busy time for Old Fox. He rose even earlier than usual, long before first light, gathering baskets of flowers & leaves for the cottage wreaths – long fennel & dog daisies, green birch, Maiden’s lily & St John's Wort, wild roses & sweet plumes of meadowsweet.

Dorset Landscape No. 1, Gilbert Spencer (1892–1979), Sheffield Museums

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Matthew Scott @mscottcumbria.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

@ticketmaster.com You really should review your app for purchases. I bought 2 tickets for Take That, then another two in the same row for family we realised could come. 1 empty seat next to those 4. Your app & website refused to sell it to me for another family member. So it sat empty all night 🙄

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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

50 years after posing as ‘Peter and Jane’ for Ladybird artist Martin Aitchison, these two recreated the scene for me. Her smile!

A scene from the second level of the keywords reading scheme, 1964, showing Peter dropping a bucket of water on Jane‘s back as they play by a river

Jean and Andrew, aged around 70, re-create the scene, with ‘Peter’ threatening to pour his cup of tea over his sister‘s head

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Matthew Scott @mscottcumbria.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Beautiful, evocative, writing. Thank you. Also conjured memories for me of sitting in a hot field at sunset in Cropredy listening to Fairport Convention and Ralph McTell perform ‘The Hiring Fair’. Can’t find a video of that performance but this comes close youtu.be/wHWRYzXG9sU

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Fairport Convention - The Hiring Fair (2012)

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Matthew Scott @mscottcumbria.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Solstice Eve photos from home. Sunset afterglow above the Lake District fells, Venus shining in the 2nd one. The setting Moon. A starlight sky after Midnight, with hints of the Milky Way through wispy high cloud still lit by the Sun. #nightsky #solsticeeve #cumbria

Silhouetted hills and mountains in the distance with a band of orange light above them, blending to a twilight blue sky.

Silhouetted hills and mountains in the distance with a band of orange light above them, blending to a twilight blue sky. The planet Venus showing as a small white dot at mid right of the sky.

The Moon half lit by Sun light against a dark black night sky background

A wide angle view of the night sky with a tree in the foreground at bottom right. The 3 stars of the ‘Summer Triangle’ asterism are most prominent with a band of stars and dust from the Milky Way running across the picture along with wispy cloud that has a pink tinge from the earlier Sun set.

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Matthew Scott @mscottcumbria.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Coral cat does love the garden that Fiona has made here; as do I. 😻😍

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Matthew Scott @mscottcumbria.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

I’m not a Professor of moths. But willing to adopt that nomenclature if it helps. Then again I already follow you, with joy. Perhaps ‘Professor of pointless digital gestures’ would be more apt for me…..😬

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Matthew Scott @mscottcumbria.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

And we’re off. First Windermere Lake Cruises @windermereboats.bsky.social evening buffet cruise of 2026 with Fiona Music In The Lakes @fionamusiclakes.bsky.social 🙂⛴️🌅🎶

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Matthew Scott @mscottcumbria.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

I studied A level politics 1978-80 as she rose to power, then law at University, as she used that power to dismantle the things that made my journey possible. Her toxicity has a longer half-life than Chernobyl; with policies that lie at the root of most of Britain’s 21st Century ills.

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Matthew Scott @mscottcumbria.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Well, that’s beautiful. We’ve got one so far 😬🤣

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Matthew Scott @mscottcumbria.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

One of Jamie’s favourite walks, so there MUST be one (slip stile I think 🤔) 😉

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Matthew Scott @mscottcumbria.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Lots of Painted Lady butterflies in the garden this week. May well be a release of hatched specimens from the primary school just down the road 💚

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Matthew Scott @mscottcumbria.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Lovely evening - looking toward home from the car park of The Pheasant Inn at Casterton.,

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