Patrick Limb @patchlimb.bsky.social · 22/08/2026And when I say old - something happened here 454 years ago! 020
Patrick Limb @patchlimb.bsky.social · 26/07/2026Went to this last year - looks like I best get down to ‘Making Waves’ before the end of August! 100
Patrick Limb @patchlimb.bsky.social · 13/07/2026Sam Neill was a star turn in the lesser known ‘Dean Spanley’- great film. Hope he rests in peace. 020
Patrick Limb @patchlimb.bsky.social · 18/06/2026The Art of the Keel Over makes for an interesting read. 120
Patrick Limb @patchlimb.bsky.social · 17/06/2026Perhaps algorithms are a force for good! The new staple diet for me seems to be Hockney clips. And they are wonderful. 040
Patrick Limb @patchlimb.bsky.social · 04/06/2026Tinsel • Ponies • Lecturing! - Whatever next 3 words? 020
Patrick Limb @patchlimb.bsky.social · 30/05/2026Allison wanted a small Landie for her big birthday. Not sure she counted on it coming in 2,336 pieces 170
Patrick Limb @patchlimb.bsky.social · 30/05/2026When the peonies bloomed, It seemed as though were No flowers around them. – Kiitsu 181
Patrick Limb @patchlimb.bsky.social · 21/04/2026Wildlife solution to seagulls at the Alnwick tip 0162
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 091
Patrick Limb @patchlimb.bsky.social · 22/09/2025Part 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: 160
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’ 2111
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’ 2141
Patrick Limb @patchlimb.bsky.social · 29/07/2025Now the hot winds blows The first lotus blossoms bright - ‘Young hawk learn to fly’ #MicroSeasons #Haiku 1140
Patrick Limb @patchlimb.bsky.social · 17/07/2025It’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. 140
Patrick Limb @patchlimb.bsky.social · 17/07/2025Three! “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)) 160
Patrick Limb @patchlimb.bsky.social · 17/07/2025You 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. 220
Patrick Limb @patchlimb.bsky.social · 17/07/2025Went for the early Bath (House) #Howick #Northumberland 2151
Patrick Limb @patchlimb.bsky.social · 14/07/2025Vive la France! (La Belle Cabaretière, Marcel-François Leprin) 160
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 160
Patrick Limb @patchlimb.bsky.social · 05/07/2025Do remember they can’t cancel the spring (Hockney, 2020) 160
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) 2122
Patrick Limb @patchlimb.bsky.social · 14/06/2025A fine, but not final, poem from Edward Limb in the latest edition of ‘The London Magazine’. 180
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 1112
Patrick Limb @patchlimb.bsky.social · 12/06/2025With the boy for the finale to Khatia Buniatishvili’s Barbican residency 160