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Patrick Limb

@patchlimb.bsky.social
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Half-English, half-French, half-Scots KC @ropewalklaw. Completing biography of Capt FC Dietrichsen. Learning how to handle the Northumberland Small Pipes.

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Patrick Limb @patchlimb.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
If you know you know
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Patrick Limb @patchlimb.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
From the bridge before the bridges
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Patrick Limb @patchlimb.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
And when I say old - something happened here 454 years ago!
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Patrick Limb @patchlimb.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Off to make waves with Lottie
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Patrick Limb @patchlimb.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Went to this last year - looks like I best get down to ‘Making Waves’ before the end of August!
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Patrick Limb @patchlimb.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Hiroshige!!
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Patrick Limb @patchlimb.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
The Holiday Reading Haul
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Patrick Limb @patchlimb.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Hockney dolphin
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Patrick Limb @patchlimb.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Sam Neill was a star turn in the lesser known ‘Dean Spanley’- great film. Hope he rests in peace.
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Patrick Limb @patchlimb.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Lutra lutra! #Coquet #Northumberland
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Patrick Limb @patchlimb.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
The Art of the Keel Over makes for an interesting read.
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Patrick Limb @patchlimb.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Perhaps algorithms are a force for good! The new staple diet for me seems to be Hockney clips. And they are wonderful.
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Patrick Limb @patchlimb.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Behold the sheep cat!
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Patrick Limb @patchlimb.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Tinsel • Ponies • Lecturing! - Whatever next 3 words?
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Patrick Limb @patchlimb.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Allison wanted a small Landie for her big birthday. Not sure she counted on it coming in 2,336 pieces
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Patrick Limb @patchlimb.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
When the peonies bloomed, It seemed as though were No flowers around them. – Kiitsu
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Patrick Limb @patchlimb.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
A-wimoweh!
Recumbent Lion
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Patrick Limb @patchlimb.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
The turn for home #Coquet
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Patrick Limb @patchlimb.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Is there any sign less relaxing?
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Patrick Limb @patchlimb.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Wildlife solution to seagulls at the Alnwick tip
Harris Hawk on a skip at tip - there to deter the seagulls from scavenging.
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Patrick Limb @patchlimb.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
The sheeples are back and all is well
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Patrick Limb @patchlimb.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Grainger Market - a good start to the day
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Patrick Limb @patchlimb.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.” - F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
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Patrick Limb @patchlimb.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Patch’s patch
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Patrick Limb @patchlimb.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Part of a series of four stained glass panels representing the four seasons designed by William Morris for the inglenook fireplace in the Dining Room at Cragside, Northumberland and made in 1873. Saw them at the weekend - the other three are here, though I botched my snap of Winter:
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Patrick Limb @patchlimb.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Greetings Autumn #Cragside #Northumberland
A stained glass panel representing Autumn, designed by William Morris.
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Patrick Limb @patchlimb.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Fish Face #SugarSands #Northumberland
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Patrick Limb @patchlimb.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
“Because freedom, I am told, is nothing but the distance between the hunter and it’s prey.” - Ocean Vuong, ‘On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous’
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Patrick Limb @patchlimb.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
“I’ll let you into a secret: when times are confusing, everybody is a little lost. No one is an inwardly confident as they present themselves to be. Hence the reason we must read, my boy. Books, like paper lanterns, provide us with a light amidst the fog” - Elif Shafak ‘There are Rivers in the Sky’
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Patrick Limb @patchlimb.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Now the hot winds blows The first lotus blossoms bright - ‘Young hawk learn to fly’ #MicroSeasons #Haiku
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Patrick Limb @patchlimb.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Nuff said!
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Patrick Limb @patchlimb.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
The nights are fair closing in …
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Patrick Limb @patchlimb.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
It’s a geologically rich area - loved these Sandstone cliffs, and this Carboniferous amphitheatre close by the House. And good on the seabirds too. It’s as Scottish round here as England gets! You and Paul should visit.
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Patrick Limb @patchlimb.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Three! “And that’s how I came to the edge of the pond: black and empty except for a spindle of bleached reeds at the far shore which, as I looked, wrinkled suddenly into three egrets – a shower of white fire!” - Mary Oliver, from ‘Egrets’ (Image: Jessie Arms Botke (1883-1971))
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Patrick Limb @patchlimb.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
You could for a week (or two) - and it has a better roof than Dunstanburgh Castle at the next headland. The Bathing House is rented for holidaying. The Castle is a premier foreground for full moon rising snaps.
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Patrick Limb @patchlimb.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Went for the early Bath (House) #Howick #Northumberland
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Patrick Limb @patchlimb.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Down by the River #Coquet #Northumberland
Two cormorants roostingGiant horsetailMallard shimmering by
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Patrick Limb @patchlimb.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Vive la France! (La Belle Cabaretière, Marcel-François Leprin)
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Patrick Limb @patchlimb.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
“Un petit coin de parapluie Contre un coin de paradis Elle avait quelque chose d'un ange Un petit coin de paradis Contre un coin de parapluie Je ne perdais pas au change, pardi” - Georges Brassens
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Patrick Limb @patchlimb.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
Oh dear, a Bowie reference
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Patrick Limb @patchlimb.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
Do remember they can’t cancel the spring (Hockney, 2020)
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Patrick Limb @patchlimb.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
Pop star, Superstar
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Patrick Limb @patchlimb.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Oh la la. The Moulin Rouge awaits.
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Patrick Limb @patchlimb.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
Generationally different dentistry
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Patrick Limb @patchlimb.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
Throwing shapes for your eyes #Northumberland
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Patrick Limb @patchlimb.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
“He who would do good to another, must do it in minute particulars. General good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite and flatterer.” - William Blake (Yesterday’s take home - the devil is ~ not ~ in the detail)
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Patrick Limb @patchlimb.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Coquet Island putting on a show #Northumberland
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Patrick Limb @patchlimb.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
A fine, but not final, poem from Edward Limb in the latest edition of ‘The London Magazine’.
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Patrick Limb @patchlimb.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
“Sailing right along on a three-day crescent moon, the long-eared owl longs for an earful of music: the pines humming in the wind.” Poem: Hachijintei Image: Hiroshige Exhibition: British Museum
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Patrick Limb @patchlimb.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
With the boy for the finale to Khatia Buniatishvili’s Barbican residency
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