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Caroline Lamont Smith @physicsbear.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Hmmm... were squirrels a harbinger of medieval doom, or did people just not like squirrels??

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Caroline Lamont Smith @physicsbear.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This squirrel looks strangely forlorn and in need of more acorns. Or perhaps cuddles.

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RSPB @rspb.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Congratulations! You've reached the Bearded Tit part of your feed.

A Bearded Tit peeks around a tall reed with its head tilted curiously towards the camera, as though checking you've made it to the right place. Its soft grey head, peachy-buff body and distinctive black moustache markings stand out against a beautifully blurred reedbed.

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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Autumnal embroidery: hawthorn berries, heather & new cow parsley leaf 🌿✂️🧵🪡

A design I’ve embroidered on my jumper inspired by sprigs of hawthorn berries and heather along with a fresh cow parsley leaf

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Caroline Lamont Smith @physicsbear.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

That's *gorgeous*. First glance I thought, "ooh, pretty pile of things on a jumper", and then I realised some of it was embroidery. Completely awesome skills and loveliness.

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Caroline Lamont Smith @physicsbear.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

"x" marks the spot where I left my sticks

A section of 1:25000 OS map showing the northern part of the Helvellyn range, with a small red x near Hart Side crag

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Caroline Lamont Smith @physicsbear.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Already we're into the realm of barely credible, and yet Dave then made a special trip to my family's cottage, to leave the poles hanging from the back door handle, from where my cousin has since retrieved them. Truly Dave is a prince among men. Be more Dave.

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Caroline Lamont Smith @physicsbear.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

A nice chap called Dave replied saying he might be heading up that way and would look out for them. Dave did indeed head up that way, but got side-tracked by rescuing a sheep. As you do. A week later he went back, and found the missing trekking poles.

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Caroline Lamont Smith @physicsbear.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Faith in human nature restored. Whilst walking/camping in the Lake District, I left my trekking poles on a windswept fellside, off the beaten track, on a rarely-visited fell. More in hope than expectation I posted on a "lost and found in Cumbria" FB page.

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Jeffw @jeffw.bsky.social · 22/11/2023

You're so Venn. You probably think this diagram is about you

A Venn diagram with two circles featuring YOU which intersect unsurprisingly with YOU

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Caroline Lamont Smith @physicsbear.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I'm blessed to have a nearly-15 year old who loves the fells as much as I do, and who is as happy on top of Nethermost Pike in cloud this year as he was in sunshine 4 years ago

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Caroline Lamont Smith @physicsbear.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Comment in project meeting today, "we need to do X or we'll take a bath on this contract". Later, Colleague A asks Colleague B what this meant. Colleague B explains what "taking a cold bath means". Confusion reigns.

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Caroline Lamont Smith @physicsbear.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

Stiles are very much my thing, but the eejit is very much not, so I shall (sadly) be abstaining from voting this year 😞.

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Caroline Lamont Smith @physicsbear.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

It won't pay my bills either, but isn't life richer for this kind of detail? 😊

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Caroline Lamont Smith @physicsbear.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

Spent the morning in tears, on and off. Did some painting, felt better. A short story.

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Caroline Lamont Smith @physicsbear.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

Yes. A good book should have the power to move, whether that's thought or tears or laughter. I think I had a lot of tears waiting to be triggered by the ideas in this one

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Caroline Lamont Smith @physicsbear.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

I've loved all your books, but the end of this one struck particularly. I hope I try to make my own small difference to the world 🙏

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Caroline Lamont Smith @physicsbear.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

Just finished reading @herdyshepherd.bsky.social "The Place of Tides". A beautiful book, but now sat watching the rain streaming down the window as tears stream down my face asking myself if I'm making any kind of positive difference to the world, however small.

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Caroline Lamont Smith @physicsbear.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Cousin Ann's ashes laid to rest beside her mother (my great aunt), my grandparents, my father and my uncle ♥️

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Caroline Lamont Smith @physicsbear.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Why yes, you idiot moggy, I do have a friend with a very long ladder, and fortunately he also has infinite patience to wrestle with you 25ft off the ground to get you home safely

A man in a black top and black peaked cap holds onto the base of a ladder stretching up a tree in a leafy wood. Other, shorter, ladders are propped against neighbouring trees, unused.

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Caroline Lamont Smith @physicsbear.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Hello down there! I seem to be a little bit stuck. Any chance you have a ladder long enough to come and get me? Of course I'll co-operate, and not try and escape along a branch not strong enough for my weight, or cling fiercely to the tree with every fibre of my being when you try and pick me up.

A view straight up a slender tree trunk into the upper branches, where a calico cat stares down from a perch on a narrow branch

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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Just 5 spaces left on my small museums for mental health w'shop this Sat,on how collecting & arranging small objects improves mental health. Incl BRILLIANT research showing that playing TETRIS makes us more resilient to stress 👇Earlybird price expires tmrw👇 workshops.emmamitchell.uk/courses/smal...

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Caroline Lamont Smith @physicsbear.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

For the record, scrapping indefinite leave to remain and deporting people is wrong *not* because it hasn't been costed properly, or the "figures are wrong" but because it's a disgraceful, immoral, inhumane, idiotic thing to do. And appeals to racist shitgibbons.

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Caroline Lamont Smith @physicsbear.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

The boy's in Yr9 now, so time for teachers to knuckle down and make sure the kids really hate English literature. 13 year old boys are definitely interested in Jane Eyre and An Inspector Calls. Or Ann In Spectacles as we now call it. Husband does love a pun.

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Caroline Lamont Smith @physicsbear.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

I would 100% sign up for this if it weren't for the fact that I'll be celebrating bestest friend's 50th by consuming enough port and cheese to put us in a cheese-coma. But I do intend to make a mini museum of wondrous engineering bits n bobs. Which isn't quite the same, but inspired by you

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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

My new small museums for mental health w'shop is on Sat 4 Oct Recent compelling research shows that collecting & arranging collections neatly alleviates anxiety & lifts mood. Includes: 🌿2 hr zoom-we'll make & photograph small museums 🗝️30% off my Etsy shop: workshops.emmamitchell.uk/courses/smal...

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Caroline Lamont Smith @physicsbear.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

"And while it's reeling from that, we'd follow up with a whist drive, a car boot sale, some street theatre and possibly even some benefit concerts. Ok? Now, if that's not enough, I'm sorry, it's time for the T-shirts"

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Caroline Lamont Smith @physicsbear.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

All the wanging on about how the liberal left are the violent ones reminds me of Rimmer in Red Dwarf, mocking liberals, "The time for talking is over. Call it extreme if you like, but I propose we hit it hard and hit it fast with a major - and I mean major - leaflet campaign"

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Caroline Lamont Smith @physicsbear.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Need to go back. The boy's only climbed Bowfell once, which is not enough.

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Caroline Lamont Smith @physicsbear.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

An attempt (not entirely satisfactory) at #Haweswater from the Old Corpse Road.

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Caroline Lamont Smith @physicsbear.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

The Drunken Duck has always been a fine pub, and I started sampling their wares early. Me and my mother, 1977

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Caroline Lamont Smith @physicsbear.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Amazing what I can do if I ignore housework, laundry, DIY and other assorted life admin 😂

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Caroline Lamont Smith @physicsbear.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Reasonably happy with my use of my bank holiday Monday. Would rather be there in person than drawing it from the Fens, but you can't have everything!

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Caroline Lamont Smith @physicsbear.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

I didn't quite get the same angle in April and August, but I still rather like the contrast of blossom then sloes and the treeless branches in Spring being lush green in Summer

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Caroline Lamont Smith @physicsbear.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Sadly I am not here. It was much nicer than work

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Caroline Lamont Smith @physicsbear.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

For reasons lost in the mists of time, my boy & I have a "thing" about spoons that requires one of us to say, "Ho traveller! It is dangerous to go alone! Here, take this abnormally large spoon to aid you on your journey."

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Emma @emmasartworks.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Shells and skeletons from the beach at Hartlepool - Saddle Oyster shell, common cuttlefish, Rayed Artemis, Shore Crab, Common Whelk and Humpback Scallop. Watercolour painting. 🐡 #art #nature

Watercolour painting of beach finds from Hartlepool, northeast England - a Saddle Oyster shell, common cuttlefish, Rayed Artemis, Shore Crab, Common Whelk and Humpback Scallop.

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RSPB @rspb.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

BIG NEWS: For the first time in six years, Britain's rarest breeding bird has successfully nested in the UK! A pair of Montagu's Harriers have raised four healthy chicks, all of which have taken their first flights.

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Caroline Lamont Smith @physicsbear.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Cockwombles made me do it. Donated to RNLI. Keep up the life-saving everyone.

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Ian Carter @iancarter67.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

The dark line is a Badger path. The lawn was wildflower meadow and so little light reached the ground. Now it has been cut the dead, yellow grass is revealed. But where the Badgers cross they trample the long grass letting light down to the ground. Worth looking out for in recently cut fields.

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Dr Rebecca Warren @drrjwarren.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Oh my word! The power of those wings, lifting bird and fish from submersion!

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Caroline Lamont Smith @physicsbear.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

I'm not saying we horde things at work but one of my colleagues got a power supply out of a drawer (and used it) that had a label on it saying "Made in West Germany". OK, yes, I am saying we horde things.

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Caroline Lamont Smith @physicsbear.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Cricket is far too stressful. That is all.

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Caroline Lamont Smith @physicsbear.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

May I present to you my thirteen year old? Who has worn his coat *and winter gloves* to school twice this week, because... Er... It was <20C when he left for school? His parents told him he didn't need to? He's 13?

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