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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 12h

'Storm light' by UK contemporary printmaker Mikki Bowers #WomensArt

Print featuring a flock of birds in silhouette flying over a hedgerow in a purple sky

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Bob Fry @bobfry.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

October Country by Ray Bradbury. (for @tomsbrown.bsky.social & all others who love this month)

OCTOBER COUNTRY
... that country where it is always turning late in the year. That country where the hills are fog and the rivers are mist; where noons go quickly, dusks and twilights linger, and midnights stay. That country composed in the main of cellars, sub-cellars, coal-bins, closets, attics, and pantries faced away from the sun.
That country whose people are autumn people, thinking only autumn thoughts. Whose people passing at night on the empty walks sound like rain....

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The Ghost Monk @theghostmonk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"What dwelling shall receive me? in what vale Shall be my harbour? underneath what grove Shall I take up my home? and what clear stream Shall with its murmur lull me into rest? The earth is all before me." -- From 'The Prelude' by Wordsworth #BookWormSat #poetry

William Blacklock, 'View To Hillsdale in Cumberland', mid 19th Century.

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Robbie Rowe @privateshufti.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

#BookWormSat "There was not a human soul near. Sad October and her saddest self seemed the only two existences haunting that lane" Tess Of The D’Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy

Illustration for Tess Of The D’Urbervilles, A Pure Woman, by Thomas Hardy, with engravings by Vivien Gribble (Macmillan, 1926).

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Robbie Rowe @privateshufti.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

1st day of partial retirement 🕺 A few chores this am, then a walk to the library, a bit of reading, cooking this evening followed by yoga class

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

If you feel like donating to the RNLI, here’s a link. I just have. Their minimum donation is £2: I think it might be nice for them to receive a lot of donations this week, even if they’re mostly very modest. Just so they know a lot of people out here appreciate their work. rnli.org/support-us/g...

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Donate to the RNLI and help save lives at sea

Your donations really make a difference. We depend on your generosity to educate people to stay safe and prevent tragedies on and offshore. Donate here.

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Robbie Rowe @privateshufti.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Surprised to see a few #swifts still in the sky above Biarritz yesterday. Thought they would have departed south by early August? 🪶

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Mark Thompson @markreckons.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

No arrests made. I'm not surprised. After all... Some of those that work forces are the same that burn crosses.

Disruption at Port of Dover as masked 'stop the boats' protesters block roads

The government says it condemns "the behaviour in Dover" and the hours-long disruption it caused.

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Robbie Rowe @privateshufti.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Mackerel sky Tuesday 1st September 2026 #Weather

Undulating patterns in high altitude clouds, resembling the markings on the flanks of mackerel

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Folk Horror Revival 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @folkhorrorrevival.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

#WyrdWednesday 'Night scene, with small dog startled at the sight of demons in dead old tree trunks' Wood-engraved tail-piece to 'A Memoir of Thomas Bewick Written by Himself', 1862. Bewick is the artist mentioned in both M.R. James' 'Casting the runes' and in Charlotte Brontë's 'Jane Eyre'.

Black and white line drawing of a scene at night. On the left is a small dog which is reacting with alarm at several tree trunks and branches which have taken on the appearance of three demon-like creatures with upraised arms.

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Robbie Rowe @privateshufti.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

The smoke from the A31 fire in the New Forest earlier this month

A large plume of smoke drifts east across a pale blue sky in the early evening, above tiled roofs

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Copernicus ECMWF @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

The daily global average sea surface temperature has reached its highest level on record. On 22 August 2026, data from the #CopernicusClimate showed 21.1°C, exceeding the previous record set in March 2024. 🔗Read the press release: climate.copernicus.eu/copernicus-d... @ecmwf.int ⬇️

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Dirk Puehl @wunderkammertales.eurosky.social · 24/08/2026

" I have always imagined Paradise as a kind of library." Jorge Luis Borges was born #otd 1899 🎨 Érik Desmazières

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Robbie Rowe @privateshufti.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

"Her lips were red, her looks were free, Her locks were yellow as gold: Her skin was as white as leprosy, The Night-mare LIFE-IN-DEATH was she, Who thicks man's blood with cold" The spirit of life-in-death wins the soul of the mariner. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Coleridge #BookWormSat 💙📚

Death and life-in-death wager for the souls of the crew. Engraving by Gustave Doré

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Wild Card @wildcard.land · 21/08/2026

“By reconnecting river systems with the surrounding area and creating natural sponges in the landscape, we’ve created a system that stores water during drought, keeping wetlands and the surrounding habitats healthy” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Rewilded land remains green amid drought-stricken English countryside, images show

National Trust’s Holnicote estate says restored wetlands and rivers offer proof of resilience to drought, wildfires and flooding

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Robbie Rowe @privateshufti.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Saw my 1st striped hawkmoth this year (see pinned post) #TeamMoth

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Robbie Rowe @privateshufti.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

#FirstBirdOfMyDay In the cool of the morning: a jay, harshly swearing from the tired vegetation

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Rooftops, 2022 by Emma Haworth, contemporary London-based painter #WomensArt

Painting with a view over UK houses and gardens in the morning as birds flu overhead

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Robbie Rowe @privateshufti.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Hummingbird hawkmoth right outside the patio doors just now, attracted to honeysuckle #TeamMoth

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National Trust @nationaltrust.org.uk · 14/08/2026

Love is in the... water ❤️ Volunteer divers in Studland Bay have seen seahorses in courtship displays involving dancing and tail-twining. They have also spotted heavily pregnant males (yes, seahorses and their kin are the only animals where the male has a true pregnancy). Baby seahorses incoming!

Two light brown seahorses with a yellow-tipped crest intwine tails on the sea floor amongst green reeds

Two light brown speckled seahorses floating a little above the sandy floor, surrounded by green and yellow reeds

A ridged yellow seahorse with a visibly round tummy floating amongst reeds and pale underwater foliage

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Robbie Rowe @privateshufti.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

#FirstBirdOfMyDay A wren - the tiny shouter - singing somewhere in the front garden 🪶

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@maryfrancesness @maryfrancesness.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

▫️ backdrop for a lost story ▫️

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Stop considering it. Just ban them. Do it now. Disposable barbecues are (a) useless as BBQs, take ages, food often still raw in middle, (b) environmentally horrible, (c) incredibly good at starting massive fires. There is no good argument for them. Bin them off www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

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Burnham to consider ban on disposable barbecues as wildfires rage in UK

PM to look at imposing restriction in public spaces, though campaigners fear it does not go far enough

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Rowdy Geirsson @rgeirsson.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

And the wolf shall swallow the sun. Another beauty by Ib Spang Olsen for Ole Restrup’s old-timey book of Norse mythology. #wyrdwednesday

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Louvain Rees ⚰️ @hellohistoria.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

#BookLoversDay 📚 "She walks among the tombs" 🪦 'A Picture Book for Little Children' • 1812 📚 #History

The image is an old-style black-and-white illustration showing a woman walking near a balustrade. She reaches out towards a tree with one hand, while an urn on a pedestal stands nearby.

Below the image, the text reads:

"She walks among the tombs."

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Robbie Rowe @privateshufti.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Common fleabane (L) & ragwort with nectaring small coppers #WildFlowerHour #DaisyFamily

A large clump of yellow daisy-like flowers in bright sunlight

2 copper and black butterflies perched on yellow flowers in a parched field

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Robbie Rowe @privateshufti.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Reading this in the shady bower, where even the noonday sun cannot dispel the deepest shadows in the ghost orchard. Thanks @hookland.bsky.social #Hookland #ReEnchantment

Cover of Hookland Fragments featuring Bone Bear linocut by Maria Strutz, along with Hookland 'right to reside' postcard. Both displayed on a sun-dappled wooden table in the ghost orchard

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Beau @drbeaubeaumont.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

“Furry Celeste” was right there, guys.

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Sarah Nour @sarahnour.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

"The Cat only grinned when it saw Alice. It looked good-natured, she thought: still it had very long claws and a great many teeth, so she felt that it ought to be treated with respect." —Alice in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll #BookWormSat

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Jay Troyer @gr8flbluejay.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Annie Soudain, British (1949- ), Meadow Path, 2017, reduction linocut, 38 x 41 cm, private collection

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Robbie Rowe @privateshufti.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Muscled, black with steel-green eye swishing through the rye grass with thoughts of mouse-and-apple pie Tail balancing at half-mast Look out, little furry folk! He's the all-night working cat Eats but one in every ten leaves the others on the mat Jethro Tull lyrics for #BookWormSat #Cats 😾

Album cover for Jethro Tull's Heavy Horses, featuring a bearded man in tweeds leading 2 shire horses in harness

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Robbie Rowe @privateshufti.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

#FirstBirdOfMyDay A stock dove cooing from the copse next door 🪶

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Beth Brooke @bethbpoet.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

We haven’t had rain for so long now in my part of Dorset. I have reached that point where I think rain is the stuff of myth. Old poem about no rain.

Drought Comes To Langton Herring

We sit in bleached fields, the sun
has turned the ground into
a smashed pot, terracotta pieces
as far as the eye can see.

Everything is desiccated;
we are husks, brittle-skinned,
a rub of the hands reduces us
to dust.

Weeks pass, some of us burn,
dried by lack of rain, ignited by
relentless light and pounding heat.

In the far north, the ice melts.
Soon we will drown.

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Robbie Rowe @privateshufti.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Small coppers having a phenomenal second brood here in Southampton, more than I've ever seen. 3 nectaring together on ragwort amongst the parched grass in Hollybrook Cemetery yesterday, numerous others amongst the meadow browns & gatekeepers #UKButterflies #Lepidoptera

3 small butterflies nectaring on yellow flowers, with wings slightly open to reveal their copper-and-black wings. The background is parched grass

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Robbie Rowe @privateshufti.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

The rattling of a mistle thrush, obscured within a heat-stressed sycamore, leaves turning early #FirstBirdOfMyDay

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David Barnett @davidmbarnett.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Happy There Will Come Soft Rains Day to all who celebrate!

An open copy of Ray Bradbury's The Silver Locusts/Martian Chronicles, on the page with the story There Will Come Soft Rains

Highlighted text from Ray Bradbury's short story There Will Come Soft Rains, dating the story as happening on August 4, 2026.

A battered copy of Ray Bradbury's short story collection The Silver Locusts, aka The Martian Chronicles.

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🌳🌿Lover of Trees🌿🌳 @gwtreelover.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Morning Bluesky tree lovers! An ancient beauty captured by woodland photographer extraordinaire Andy Gray in Snowdonia, Wales Have a beautiful day. #photography #trees #nature #AlphabetChallenge #WeekEforEphemerel

Deep in the forest and ancient mature tree fills the screen with beautiful greens and knarled branches

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Hedley Thorne @hedleythorne.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

The Aston Upthorpe Downs. Juniper Valley to the left, rising to Lowbury Hill on the horizon, crossed Grim's Ditch. My "back garden" and also that of esteemed Landscape capturer @annadillon.bsky.social

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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

🧵On @thenewsagents.co.uk yesterday, school closures and the lab leak theory were offered as two examples of legitimate questions that were hard to ask. Both have in fact been asked constantly since 2020. But here's a thread on why I think they were wrong and dangerous on school closures 1/12

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Robbie Rowe @privateshufti.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

#FirstBirdOfMyDay Chakking of magpies, adults and offspring, plotting something sinister, or signposting each other to tasty titbits left by cats

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The Ghost Monk @theghostmonk.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

"Here are solemn, mighty walls, turf grown; circumvallations rounded and smooth with the passing of many thousand years. Here came Morgan daily, as he said, to dream of Avalon, to purge himself from the fuming corruption of the streets.' - Arthur Machen, 'Out Of The Earth' #BookWormSat #Machen

My photo showing the ramparts of a prehistoric hill fort in North Wales, similar to that described by Machen, although the one in his story is a promontory fort perched high above the sea.

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Rosalind Ahmed @21rosa.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Blodeuwedd Hours too soon a barn owl broke from woodshadow. Her white face rose out of darkness in a buttercup field. Colourless and soundless, feathers cream as meadowsweet and oakflowers... Her night lament beyond conversation, the owl follows her shadow like a cross over the fields #BookWormSat

✍🏻 Born in Cardiff, Gillian Clarke was National Poet of Wales 2008-2016.
In ancient Welsh myth, Blodeuwedd was, much like Eve, created by magic for the satisfaction of a man. However, her heart, desire and will were bent towards another. For this sin of freeing herself from something imposed upon her, the maiden made from flowers is turned into an owl, a night haunter deprived of human company but returned to her element of the more than human
🎨 'Blodeuwedd; Flower Face' Christopher Williams (1974)

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Mary B @beesincampanula.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

The force that through the green fuse drives the flower Drives my green age; that blasts the roots of trees Is my destroyer. And I am dumb to tell the crooked rose My youth is bent by the same wintry fever. The Force that through the green fuse… Dylan Thomas #BookWormSat

Summer: the Force that through the Green Fuse drives the Flower
Ceri Richards

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Robbie Rowe @privateshufti.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

'So they took the blossoms of the oak, and the blossoms of the broom, and the blossoms of the meadow-sweet, and produced from them a maiden, the fairest and most graceful that man ever saw. And they baptized her, and gave her the name of Blodeuwedd' #BookWormSat #Mabinogion 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Stamp depicting a shimmering Blodeuwedd framed between twisted trees, with a barn owl trailing a ghostly wake

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