Piedwarbler @piedwarbler.bsky.social · 2hI’ve blocked my jumper and it’s just drying gently. #knitting 🧶 1120
Piedwarbler @piedwarbler.bsky.social · 4hBlocking my knitted Icelandic yarn jumper and the colour is running 🧶🫶😳 I hope it will be okay! #knitting 3100
Piedwarbler @piedwarbler.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Went to the Horrocks exhibition at the Harris in Preston. Highly recommend! Exquisite. 040
Piedwarbler @piedwarbler.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Finished knitting my tank top today. 🧶 I think it’s taken about a year. I didn’t knit through the summer. It was too hot! 😵💫💕🫶 3170
Piedwarbler @piedwarbler.bsky.social · 01/10/2026If you’re watching Traitors I hope you’ve got a TV licence. Otherwise you’d better switch off and go watch Netflix 020
Piedwarbler @piedwarbler.bsky.social · 30/09/2026With generpus help and advice from @debbietknits.bsky.social I have finished knitting the neck of my tank top at last. Now just the armhole edgings and sewing up to complete 🧶 2232
Piedwarbler @piedwarbler.bsky.social · 24/09/2026What an amazing day out as a pilgrim at Holy Island - ‘God is always greater than all of our troubles’ 150
Piedwarbler @piedwarbler.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Penpal visit from the US. Five days in Lancaster, Burscough, Windermere, Liverpool and York - phew! 041
Reposted by PiedwarblerKath Buckley @buckers2023.bsky.social · 11/09/2026I can’t help wondering what percentage of the people who are anti the Assisted Dying Bill have actually watched someone they love die a slow painful death. 🤔 3101
Piedwarbler @piedwarbler.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Having your penpal to stay from the USA for a week is the best thing 💕 060
Piedwarbler @piedwarbler.bsky.social · 31/08/2026The question writer on Only Connect tonight has a weird sense of connections 020
Piedwarbler @piedwarbler.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Questioning my pattern reading tonight. This doesn’t look right. I am sure I’ve gone very wrong. 🧶 I’m in the middle of trying to shape the front of this jumper. It doesn’t look like I think it should? Can any knitter help me please? 🙏 261
Reposted by PiedwarblerIan McMillan @imcmillan.bsky.social · 31/08/2026www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/.... Evening stroll soundtrack: this wonderful example of experimental radio, part of Radio 4 Extra’s marvellous Hidden Treasures series @bbcsounds.bsky.socialbbc.co.ukAugust 2026: There Will Come Soft Rains by Ray Bradbury - BBC SoundsOne day in the life of a house where ghosts of previous occupants are gradually revealed 2305
Piedwarbler @piedwarbler.bsky.social · 28/08/2026www.theguardian.com/music/2026/a... Well this is very sadtheguardian.comReading and Leeds have dropped BBC Introducing for a new ‘nepo baby stage’. Where does it leave DIY artists?As R&L replace the BBC’s unsigned artists stage with one filled with rock scions and a Simon Cowell boyband, many are decrying disappearing opportunities for grassroots acts 030
Reposted by PiedwarblerJoel @itsjoels.bsky.social · 25/08/2026This is the letter kids got at the end of Dolly’s Imagination Library. I defy you to read this and not cry. 7243894311286
Piedwarbler @piedwarbler.bsky.social · 25/08/2026I’m so sad that we have lost Dolly Parton. She was a truly good person, who worked so hard to get young children reading. I based one of my interventions on her Imagination Library programme when I was teaching, albeit on a much, much smaller scale. RIP Dolly x 020
Piedwarbler @piedwarbler.bsky.social · 24/08/2026@bcky.bsky.social Been chatting to the Snork Maiden and we were thinking of a meet up - fancy it? 110
Piedwarbler @piedwarbler.bsky.social · 17/08/2026It’s raining! Proper rain! In my little corner of Lancashire! 3110
Piedwarbler @piedwarbler.bsky.social · 17/08/2026I won this book in a giveaway by the Reading Paramedic on Instagram and it’s really lovely. 040
Piedwarbler @piedwarbler.bsky.social · 14/08/2026The Perseids did not disappoint. I lay in my hammock until 12.40am and I saw a dozen shooting stars. 191
Piedwarbler @piedwarbler.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Lovely day in Morecambe on the penny arcades, walking on the prom, eating ice cream, viewing the eclipse, and watching the RNLI put the lifeboat to bed. 160
Piedwarbler @piedwarbler.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Marvellously written, or too clever for its own good? I am three chapters in; finding the style a little bit tiresome. Shirley likes an adjective or several, as well as the past perfect. Hoping the story might carry me along. 130
Reposted by PiedwarblerIan Denton @iand777.bsky.social · 09/08/2026Once upon a time there was a Blackbird family called the Tappers. There was Pa Tapper, Ma Tapper & Babbi Tapper, who all like to bathe before breakfast. The moral of this story is: Always provide water for wildlife during #Droughts #Birds 🦉🌿💧 660776
Piedwarbler @piedwarbler.bsky.social · 09/08/2026What an absolutely wonderful evening on BBC4 this evening. 010
Piedwarbler @piedwarbler.bsky.social · 07/08/2026My US penpal is coming to stay in a couple of weeks, for five days. She is landing in Manchester, not London. We live in Lancashire. I’m collecting suggestions for places to take her, please and thank you! 🙏 She is 30 something, and likes old buildings and the sea. She’s from Iowa x 321
Piedwarbler @piedwarbler.bsky.social · 05/08/2026@teacherspensions.bsky.social Please can you explain the latest position re the pension rectification for retired members like me, who are still waiting? I filled in my form and have heard nothing since 🙏 000
Piedwarbler @piedwarbler.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Wonderful time at Brockholes spotting deer, egrets, sand martins and terns as well as butterflies. I let a couple of young girls look through my binoculars at the deer 040
Piedwarbler @piedwarbler.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Reading The Fountain Overflows, by Rebecca West. 020
Piedwarbler @piedwarbler.bsky.social · 01/08/2026Just caught up with the Prog Rock Proms on iPlayer (well worth paying my TV licence fee) and loved hearing a couple of Genesis tracks I haven’t heard in so many years. Pity Guy Garvey couldn’t remember the words to Entangled, but he sang it well. 💕 130
Reposted by PiedwarblerRSPB @rspb.bsky.social · 22/07/2026Any credible 10-year plan must put nature at its heart. @andyburnham.bsky.social, @angelaeagle1.bsky.social and @miattafahnbulleh.bsky.social: you now have the opportunity – and the responsibility – to back the action and investment nature needs, and put the UK back on track. We hope you step up. 315229
Reposted by PiedwarblerRSPB @rspb.bsky.social · 22/07/2026The Prime Minister, @andyburnham.bsky.social, has spoken about being honest about the challenges we face. So, as we welcome our new Prime Minister and cabinet, let's start there: Nature is disappearing. The climate crisis is accelerating. The UK cannot thrive while both continue unchecked. 8386124
Piedwarbler @piedwarbler.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Very sad about RSPB Minsmere. I dread to think of the scale of destruction of the habitat of so many wild and beautiful creatures. The climate emergency is destroying so much. And it’s only just beginning 060
Piedwarbler @piedwarbler.bsky.social · 30/07/2026I loved this portrait of Dante Gabriel Rossetti at the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery last week. His liquid blue eyes seem to be looking into my soul. I also love the date, with time’s arrow underscoring it. #preRaphaelite #Birmingham 050
Reposted by PiedwarblerBarack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 29/07/2026It’s that time of year again: here are some of the books I’ve enjoyed this summer. If you’ve read any good ones, let me know! 29952191042
Piedwarbler @piedwarbler.bsky.social · 29/07/2026And this, remarkably, has survived. A medieval wall painting showing the crucifixion, that was originally in the refectory, where the monks would have eaten. Alas, only the legs remain. An additional floor was added and the top of the painting lost for ever. 061
Piedwarbler @piedwarbler.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Another picture from our visit to Coventry. This is at the Charterhouse, where monks lived. It was then owned by Robert Dudley around the time he hosted Elizabeth I at Kenilworth. Perhaps her train of servants stayed here. 030
Piedwarbler @piedwarbler.bsky.social · 28/07/2026My darling boy has usurped my place on my garden chair and is ensconced 040
Reposted by PiedwarblerIan McMillan @imcmillan.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Just watched Not I on BBC iPlayer; astonishing monologue by Samuel Beckett, part of a newly-released set of stage dramas. Well worth seeking out. 2516
Piedwarbler @piedwarbler.bsky.social · 27/07/2026@vicderbyshire.bsky.social Oh how I wish you’d had longer with Mr Dimbleby this evening. Please, have him on again! 000
Piedwarbler @piedwarbler.bsky.social · 26/07/2026The beautiful, the one and only, #KenilworthBooks - very unfortunately closed at 8pm when I went to see it, but I did window shop, and do recommend very highly 000
Piedwarbler @piedwarbler.bsky.social · 22/07/2026Tortoiseshell butterfly in my garden this afternoon💕 160
Reposted by PiedwarblerEmma Harding @emmaharding.bsky.social · 20/07/2026Post-war love, post-war trauma & the fall of the Berlin Wall. Geoff Dyer & Cariad Lloyd join @harriettsg.bsky.social to recommend A Good Read 3pm Mon @BBCRadio4 Books by Shirley Hazzard, Richard Flanagan & Sheena Kalayil. More book recs @BBCSounds Producer Eliza Lomas www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...bbc.co.ukBBC Radio 4 - A Good Read, Cariad Lloyd and Geoff DyerHarriett Gilbert is with a comedian and a writer to talk favourite books. 074
Reposted by PiedwarblerThomas I-G @thomasig.bsky.social · 20/07/2026"You are staying as Culture Secretary" "I'm Culture Secretary?!" 537772
Piedwarbler @piedwarbler.bsky.social · 21/07/2026@vickymackenzie.bsky.social Did you listen to Geoff Dyer on A Good Read this week? His book was The Transit of Venus by Shirley Hazzard. He was on with Cariad Lloyd 230
