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Jackie

@plasterjak.bsky.social
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Retired gardening addict, owned by a cat, living in Brontë country, W Yorks Socialist, ex nhs community mental health worker/ community arts. Likes; live indie music, a pub lunch, sculpture, art

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Jackie @plasterjak.bsky.social · 5h
🌱Got Mum to the hairdressers, she was delighted,I earned some brownie points. On the way home a red kite swooped down on to the road in front and back up into to the field, never seen one before and it was pretty close up. Think the roses in the garden are having a fine 2nd flush!
Claire Austen rose with plenty of buds, against the blue skyKew Gardens rose Sainsbury's rose as I like to call it- bought from the supermarket Vanessa Bell pale yellow rose
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Jackie @plasterjak.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Good news, my daughter got promoted yesterday! Very proud and happy for her 🥰
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Jackie @plasterjak.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Pre sunset, very yellow sky out there now
Short rainbow on the horizon, looking across the field over the valley
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Jackie @plasterjak.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
🌱 second flush with wasp. Been bog eyed most of the day after those horrid stinging eye drops, wearing off now thankfully
Centura Montana in flower with a wasp on one side of the bud
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Jackie @plasterjak.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
🌱 The garden has been very busy, insects making the most of a beautiful day. Been watching a huge buff tailed bumble bee- must be a queen, lumbering around the last of the trailing lobelia
Hesperantha coccinea with some Verbena bonariensis
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Jackie @plasterjak.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Sigh, great to get out for a walk but it was the first one since my holiday and very different from paddling along the sea edge. Plenty of good mornings but missed saying bom dia.
A herd of Jacob sheep lying down in a field
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Jackie @plasterjak.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Husband has treated himself and tortured me with tickets to see the 4K restored 1958 version of Dracula with VIP access to the accompanying exhibition at the Science and Media Museum Bradford. 😫 It's for his 60th birthday so I will put up and shut up, apart from moaning on here!
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Jackie @plasterjak.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Michaelmas daisies time
Looking straight down on a pink Aster surrounded by green foliage
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Jackie @plasterjak.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Uncovered a newt in the garden 🌱
A small newt on garden soil
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Jackie @plasterjak.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
A little vision of prettiness off the side of the boardwalk here in Lagos, Portugal 🌱
A close up of hares tail grass mixed with a purple wild flower possibly toadflax
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Jackie @plasterjak.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
🌱A white sweet pea bloom along with the pink ones
A tangle of everlasting sweet peas, pink flowers and a branch with white flowers
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Jackie @plasterjak.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Husband grabbed the Radio Times because Wham were on the front. £5.50! 😲 For one week?! Good grief
Front cover of the tv listing's magazine with Gierge Michael and Andrew Ridgley posing in China in the 80s
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Jackie @plasterjak.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Helping out Mum who is volunteering in the titchy village library this morning. Been date stamping books and everything 😆
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Yayoi Kusama (1929-2026) RIP
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Jackie @plasterjak.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
🌱2nd flush starting, Vanessa Bell and Gertrude Jekyll
Light yellow rose with green leaves and buds surroundingPink rose withe green leaves surrounding
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Jackie @plasterjak.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
I like this combo!
Sea holly lavender blue hues against a backdrop of yellow from the creeping jenny
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Jackie @plasterjak.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
🌱Two echinacea survived the slugs and snails, others were scoffed early on. Rudbeckia planted to honour my Dad, his favourites.
Two Pink echinacea inthe foreground with yellow rudbeckia behind
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Jackie @plasterjak.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
This was on the back of the door from the storage area in the old Mark's and Spencers shop, Keighley. I've never worked in retail so don't know if it's a common sign. I found it a bit odd!
A large sign fixed to a door saying Are You Questioning Strangers? Red lettering, the word You in a different font
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Jackie @plasterjak.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Pulled my calf muscle half way round a walk so hobbled back slowly. Not sure if that's going to be much help for my cardio. Bugger!
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Jackie @plasterjak.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
🌱Garden is very windswept today
Nepeta in the background, purple loosestrife, blue and magenta cornflowers in the foreground
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Jackie @plasterjak.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
A nice reminder of how far my garden has come in 4 years and a pleasure to be able to use it today. Fed up of hiding from the heat.
Two photos, a before and after shot of the garden. The first a concrete desert, the second a chaotic but very green space
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Jackie @plasterjak.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Says an old, out dated TV show host, extremely incontinent
Photo of Trump talking shit
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Yakhunt @yakhunt.net · 19/06/2026
"Oh dear, looks it's back to digging handfuls of tampons out of soil stacks for you then. Don't call me, Bye"
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Jackie @plasterjak.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
I'm a saddo, took this photo of the garden at almost peak frothyness because I'm up in Scotland for 6 days cat sitting for my daughter. I will miss my flowers! Husband will send me photo's of our cat 😁
A bed of mock orange, roses, sweet william in my garden
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Jackie @plasterjak.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
🌱Painted Ladies are new visitors to this garden and they are very welcome. Enjoying the nepeta which has gone a bit wayward, constant drone of bumble bees all over it
PaintedLady butterfly feeding on the nepeta
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Jackie @plasterjak.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
🌱 Emily Brontë rose, David Austin. After a rain shower. Pub lunch today but no booze in solidarity with my mate who can't drink any longer. We just get excited for fish goujons 😋
Close up of an open rose bloom with many petals, 3 reddish buds surrounded by rich green leaves
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Quilt art by Spanish quilter and textile artist Cristina Arcenegui Bono #WomensArt
White quilt with image of two children reafing seen from above
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Jackie @plasterjak.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Gone way down the channels to find a 70's music channel. Bit obsessed. Now playing Since You've Been Gone by Rainbow and I'm back by the jukebox at youth club
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Jackie @plasterjak.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
🌱been waiting for the roses to open up. Here's Scarborough Fair, David Austin.
A close up of an open pink rose surrounded by green leaves
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
I'm delighted that we will now have the opportunity to run even more councils and prove beyond doubt what a bunch of incompetent numbskulls we are.
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Jackie @plasterjak.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Walked via Holden Park in Oakworth which has a victorian man made grotto all down one side courtesy of sir Isaac Holden I guess
A view of a pathway through a  man made grotto with boulders either side, plants growing amongst them
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Jackie @plasterjak.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
The evening routine has commenced, Barry comes to sit on my knee, half on half off due to his wobbly backend. After a minute of stroking I say don't lick my jumper 🙄 He gives it a while then tries to steal the seat. All a ploy to get me to warm the sofa. Every night 😅
Close up of a tabby cat sitting on my knee
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Jackie @plasterjak.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Happy plod round the fields and wood this morning. Beautiful sunshine, dry paths but fab to find the pond had filled and a duck making the most of it. It was dry last year. My legs are waking up their muscle memory, heart is a little way behind, more practice needed!
A view up through the trees in the wood. The sunlight is shining down on the mossy hillA mallard duck dipping upside down in a pondA moss covered high stone wall, with a gap making an entrance into the wood
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Lola Lippi 🎨 @lolalippi.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Aquest matí ... 'Retrat feminí' 🎨 Francesc Torres Monsó, 1949 📍Espais Volart, Barcelona
Escultura en pedra d'una dona. Un retrat d'una parella a la paret darrere.
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Jackie @plasterjak.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
🌱The Pasque flower has opened in sunshine today
3 flowers open on this pasque flowers, cerise pink petals with yellow centre
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Jackie @plasterjak.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
The painting Snowmen from the Jim Moir exhibition at Cartwright Hall Bradford. I loved this one, it is sculptural and bizarre. Look at those teeth!
6 gorilla like heads painted in a white wash which makes the grotesque realism of their grotty human like teeth really stand out
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Jackie @plasterjak.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Yawn, I'm so tired after 2 poor nights of sleep, due to a wobbly cat. I'd go for a lie down but....
Sleeping tabby cat on my bed up near the pillow
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ΜΑΝΟΣ ΤΡΑΧΙΑΣ™ @trahias.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Vanessa Stockard (Australian, b.1975) "Satan Taking a Break from Hate Crimes," 2022 Oil on dibond #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt #catlover
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Jackie @plasterjak.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
A beautiful day to be collecting the cat and his cone of shame from the vets. A long week or so ahead. Need to cancel trip to Mum's, pub lunch on Fri and gallery on Sat 😭 Hope Barry has a good recovery 🙏
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Jackie @plasterjak.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Sad to hear Glen Baxter has gone today. I still have this poster, it was signed but the signature faded a long time ago, we ambushed him in the Manor House and he was kind enough to indulge us enthusiastic art students. Always fond of his stuff
An exhibition poster for Glen Baxter prints from 1985. The image is in a cartoon style with 3 boys looking at a retro machine with a TV screen, it shows the torso of a boy in shorts heading off to the left, he has a dog tail!
Text says "The situation looks hopeless sir, those Baxter drawings are heading straight to Ilkley!"
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Jackie @plasterjak.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Grumbling about having to go out on a Friday night. Off to see Gorillaz in Bradford, it seemed like a good idea at the time! Im sure they'll be great but a 2pm start is preferred nowadays! 😆
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Jackie @plasterjak.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Rest easy Country Joe
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Jackie @plasterjak.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Oof, Echo and the Bunnymen were poor last night. That's the last time I go to the 02 and take the cattlemarket last train home. I was yawning from 10pm
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Chilliboi @chilliboi.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
The amount of joy and positivity in the U.K. this morning is wonderful. People voted for community, for inclusion, for collectivism and togetherness. This election has been a complete rejection of division, othering and nasty politics
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Käthe Kollwitz (1867–1945), German artist who worked with painting, printmaking and sculpture and was known for her self portraits and depictions of the effects of poverty, hunger and war on the working classes #womensart
Print of a sitting figure, crossed legged on the floor, with a child in their arms
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Jackie @plasterjak.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
My husband brought a gilet home from work, I scoffed at it. Shoved it on to nip into the garden and actually... Hmm.
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Jackie @plasterjak.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
A post of ladybirds and a corner of donkeys! Very breezy walk, cobwebs truly blown away
A close up of a wooden fence post with a cluster of ladybirds huddled togetherThe corner of a field with 8 donkeys sheltering, on a very breezy day
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Octopus Teapot by Japanese ceramic artist Keiko Masumoto #womensart
Blue and white patterned ceramic teapot in the shape of an octopus with head to the right and legs to the left
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Jackie @plasterjak.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Went for my first senior swim today and they didn't query my age! 😭 My fantasy of cutting up and down the pool in efficient laps dissipated pretty fast. God I was stiff..followed by the contortions in the changing room trying to keep clothes dry, I'm worn out 😆
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Jackie @plasterjak.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
#Haworth is in focus currently, any walkers who use The Worth Way route or train enthusiasts visiting the Worth Valley railway, please could you object to this planning application. It will cut into the Worth Valley, Bradford's jewel in the crown planning.bradford.gov.uk/online-appli...
planning.bradford.gov.uk
25/04637/MAO | Outline application for residential development of land for 15 dwellings requesting consideration of access | Land South Of Goose Cote Lane Keighley West Yorkshire
You can select up to 25 documents to download in one archive file at a time.
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