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PatchieSteve @patchiesteve.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Winter has come and gone but our unbroken skin remains soaked by sun upon a branch in space we are spun miraculously uneaten by wood pigeon or squirrel red as mars among a fragrance of white-petaled stars, we are but still, mere drops of #water #vss365

Small red crab apple dangles from branch, alone among a flurry of white spring blossom

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PatchieSteve @patchiesteve.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

I subscribed to Strong Words without knowing anything about it, except from hearing its editor speak on a BBC Artworks podcast. I'm now most of the way through issue 59 and enjoying it immensley. If you love books and the printed word, I'm sure you'll love this 📚. @strongwordsmag.bsky.social

Strong Words magazine. Issue 59 - Autumn. Peacock on the cover

Subscription page for Strong Words magazine. Six issues for £42 with code NEWGIFT. www.webscribe.co.uk/magazine/strongwords or call 01442 820580

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PatchieSteve @patchiesteve.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

It arrived in the post today. Second-hand from Ebay 😁📚

I am holding the book The man who watched the trains go by by George Simenon

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PatchieSteve @patchiesteve.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Thank you, Monique. It's part of Europe from the Albert Memorial in London, opposite the Albert Hall

Monarchs and a bull statue, corner piece of the Albert Memorial, representing Europe. Blue sky above with puffy white clouds

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PatchieSteve @patchiesteve.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

My garden continues to surprise. This beautiful rose was such a joy when it decided to bloom this morning - it did not look like it was going to be this spectacular when it was a small bud. The comma looks so full with life, too, its bright copper catching my eye. Took a few days to settle on leaf 🦋

Beautiful yellow rose 🌿 freshly bloomed today

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PatchieSteve @patchiesteve.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Red I slow to a stop Here, be flowers Here, be me Rising from the green Onward I go

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PatchieSteve @patchiesteve.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

The bee bumbles round, a ball in a roulette wheel, all its honey on red

A bee in a red poppy among red poppies, grass and my bike tyre

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PatchieSteve @patchiesteve.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

The first bloom of my rosa mundi brings joy to my days.

The beautiful light and dark pink bloom of a rosa mundi

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PatchieSteve @patchiesteve.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Anyone know which hungry caterpillar this is? Not a quiz, I just can't work it out 😁🌿🐛

A caterpillar on a stem, but which is it?

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PatchieSteve @patchiesteve.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

That's very helpful, thanks, Emma. I think I may have a couple of Ash in my garden. This tall one, about 60 feet high, may be one. With crow's (magpie's) nest to spy pirates and land ahoy!

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PatchieSteve @patchiesteve.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

One of my favourite local oaks. A beauty 🌳 full with leaf inside, waiting to burst forth. One of the last of the UK trees to spring into green, I believe

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PatchieSteve @patchiesteve.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Met a frog on my way to the train station. Up early! Jump to it

A frog in the middle of the pavement. 6am

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PatchieSteve @patchiesteve.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Another great cover from Private Eye 💙

Latest issue of Private Eye, a British satirical magazine. Cover says, Russia demands to keep captured territory. Picture of Putin on phone saying including the White House.

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PatchieSteve @patchiesteve.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Yes 😍. I have been gardening today and was admiring this little gathering

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PatchieSteve @patchiesteve.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

A brimstone butterfly settles among my wild geraniums. Second butterfly of the day, after the peacock earlier.

A brimstone butterfly among the wild geraniums, wings closed, settled.

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PatchieSteve @patchiesteve.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

The long tailed tit darts around my branches, sounding like two ball bearings colliding against each other. It's too quick for me to catch in all its glory.

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PatchieSteve @patchiesteve.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

The magpies are nesting, high up above my garden seat. Barking like angry dogs

Magpie nest, high up in a tall tree. Blue sky

Magpie nest, high up in a tall tree. Blue sky. Close up

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PatchieSteve @patchiesteve.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

A peacock butterfly has come to bathe beside me while I garden in the sun, a Robin sings in the blossom and a magpie barks quietly from up on high

A peacock butterfly bathes in a sunny spot in my garden

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PatchieSteve @patchiesteve.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Just settling down for an evening of reading Gulag by @anneapplebaum.bsky.social

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PatchieSteve @patchiesteve.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Their heads do nod as I pass, gathered together in fallen leaves, not grass. How they whisper, how they #chime. With golden trumpets, they put on a play, and I, a crowd of one, do pause briefly to see. No fee. They're just the ticket for me, to lighten my step, lift my chin, begin this day. #vss365

A chime of little daffodils gathered in a huddle on last autumn's leaves

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PatchieSteve @patchiesteve.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

A beautiful crocus sprung open for the sun, and me and every bee, and all who pass on this wooded walk.

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PatchieSteve @patchiesteve.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

I found some calm in the soil. Found me a worm as I dug, planted two white primroses, side by side to keep each other company and brighten the day, to keep me steady as I head on my way.

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PatchieSteve @patchiesteve.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

I did 😁 and yes. I decided on a very small book.

Light, by Eva Figes. Picture if book... and my feet 😆

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PatchieSteve @patchiesteve.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

@dauntbooks.bsky.social enjoyed an afternoon of browsing at this beautiful and busy bookshop near Bond Street in London #bookshops

At Daunt Books bookshop on Marleybone High Street, London. Worth a visit 📚 #bookshops

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PatchieSteve @patchiesteve.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

I'm glad it didn't ruin it for you. Talking of which, my last puzzle was of the ruins of Corfe😁 I love a good puzzle, good for the head.

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PatchieSteve @patchiesteve.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

This made me think of a bookmark I found in a book in a little bookshop the other day, I didn't take the book, but I took the bookmark, which whispers about a bookshop in London that I now wish to visit. If it's still there. What came first, the book or the bookmark... now sleeping in Little, Big.

Bookmark advertising Daunt Books in London.

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PatchieSteve @patchiesteve.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

❤️✍️ good to read you, Kel. Oh, and Rowley arrived today. Thanks for leading me to him

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PatchieSteve @patchiesteve.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

I wonder if you read this article in The Times Saturday Review about Tirzah Garwood, wife of Ravilious.

Article from The Times Saturday Review of Saturday 9 November about artist Tirzah Garwood, wife of Eric Ravillious.

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PatchieSteve @patchiesteve.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

I love an old style cover ❤️ I'll be continuing with this...

Patrick White novel, The Tree of Man, picture of tree with fire at its base. Penguin

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PatchieSteve @patchiesteve.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Good old Reader's Digest❤️🌸

Field Scabious (Knautia arvenils) entry from Reader's Digest Field Guid to the Wild Flowers of Britain. Pink flowers and two paragraphs about the plant.

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PatchieSteve @patchiesteve.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Good morning, afternoon or evening. Whichever suits this moment in your day. Coming to the end of these #LandmarksVSS #prompts. One more after this. And this one is... #dumbledore - bumblebee (English regional) Write some magic.

A photo of Robert Macfarlane's book about regional words from the various parts of the UK.

Book rests on a pile of leaves near the river Ouse, but you can't see the river in the pic.

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PatchieSteve @patchiesteve.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

No time for tea, moments away from 16 million 😁

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PatchieSteve @patchiesteve.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

I'm among leaves, leaving, falling skyward 🍃

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PatchieSteve @patchiesteve.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

Post a blue sky in honour of being here

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PatchieSteve @patchiesteve.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

Hello from a deep and dark Saturday morning in the UK. Your #LandmarksVSS #prompt word for the week ahead is... #woor - low-hanging sea mist that dims the light and chills the air (Manx) Enjoy your words.

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PatchieSteve @patchiesteve.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

The wind gets up. The leaves of the tree rustle a murmur. It sounds like rootskyearthlove, and it blows through the holes, the cracks and crevices, the hollows. The End of The Between is here with an interview with whatshisname... @patchiesteve.bsky.social. Visit writteninhope.ink/the-between

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PatchieSteve @patchiesteve.bsky.social · 25/10/2024

"Can I let you into a secret? I actually live in my own sort of Between!" We interview our very own @teabeesea.bsky.social in Episode 25½ of The Between: Lost and Found, in which you'll also find news of what happened to Montagu and his Renegade Engineers. Visit writteninhope.ink/the-between

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PatchieSteve @patchiesteve.bsky.social · 11/10/2024

A hare stood on its hind legs, ears erect, whiskers twitching. It watched the lone figure descend, until the night swallowed her. And then it vanished, too. The Between is at a loose end in Episode 25, as we talk to the inspiring @makingfiction.com. Visit writteninhope.ink/the-between

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PatchieSteve @patchiesteve.bsky.social · 27/09/2024

Time for one last heist in Episode 24½ of The Between. Plus, we learn how to master a mouse chapter, and sit down for a chat with @cstrawbridgeart.bsky.social to discover more about her beautiful artwork and tales drawn from the natural world. Visit writteninhope.ink/the-between

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PatchieSteve @patchiesteve.bsky.social · 21/09/2024

Hello from the dark morning of another #LandmarksVSS Saturday. We're just in time to find the weekly #prompt nestled on the autumnal ground: #atchorn - acorn (Herefordshire) I look forward to watching it grow into your story. Your poem. Your words.

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PatchieSteve @patchiesteve.bsky.social · 17/09/2024

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #394,903!

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PatchieSteve @patchiesteve.bsky.social · 13/09/2024

The gun pressed into Hope’s side as she slowly pulled out the comb. Get dis-comb-obulated in Episode 24 at writteninhope.ink/the-between. This free-for-all issue is brilliantly guest edited by the wonderful @marshawritesit and includes an interview with the fabulous @nreillyjohnson

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PatchieSteve @patchiesteve.bsky.social · 31/08/2024

The nights are drawing in as autumn raises its head from a leafy pillow, and the latest #LandmarksVSS #prompt falls rather noisily from its branch... #gaffle - of ducks: to feed together in the mud (Northamptonshire) Have a great week.

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PatchieSteve @patchiesteve.bsky.social · 30/08/2024

The great Coronation Teapot seemed full of echoes of his failure, the cups with unpoured opportunity. The Between continues in Episode 23½ with Merriweather's return, another trip back to 1977, and a wander with the wonderful @fhaedra.bsky.social. Find out more at writteninhope.ink/the-between

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PatchieSteve @patchiesteve.bsky.social · 24/08/2024

In between the raindrops plops a #landmarksvss #prompt... #dubhagan - deep part of a pool; also the pupil of an eye (Gaelic) Have a great week of writing and reading, everyone.

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PatchieSteve @patchiesteve.bsky.social · 17/08/2024

Hello, Another Saturday, another #LandmarksVSS #prompt. This week, it's... #burr - excrescence on the base of a tree: some boad-leaved trees with a burr, especially walnut, can be very valuable, the burr being prized for its internal patterning (forestry) Have a great week!

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PatchieSteve @patchiesteve.bsky.social · 16/08/2024

Syreeta shrugged, stuck out her offending, rosy tongue, and ran off across the field. There's fortunes good, bad, and told in Episode 23 of The Between. Plus, an interview with Doctor Warwick. Subscribers can visit writteninhope.ink/the-between to download the latest episode.

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