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Robbie Rowe @privateshufti.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Not sure if my reach on here is good enough for this ask, but here goes: I'm in #Glasgow for a few days next week & looking for recommendations. If you could visit 1 #art gallery in Glasgow, what would it be? I'm likely to be free on Thursday & Friday

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Robbie Rowe @privateshufti.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

#FirstBirdOfMyDay A great tit, furtive and stealthy, prospecting in a laurel bush 🪶

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Robbie Rowe @privateshufti.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

#FirstBirdOfMyDay Feral pigeons hunched on slate roofs slick with rain

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Robbie Rowe @privateshufti.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

#FirstBirdOfMyDay Feral pigeons hunched on slate roofs slick with rain

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Robbie Rowe @privateshufti.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Ivy bees... feeding on ivy flowers. The whole bush was buzzing with them, accompanied by drone flies, wasps, the odd red admiral #autumn #insects

Ivy bee having a quick groom on a bramble leaf

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Robbie Rowe @privateshufti.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Farewell to Eden by Sebastian Faulks, & The Savage Landscape by Cal Flynn 💙📚

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

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

'Canbottlins' - a new dialect word for me ♥️

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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 · 28/09/2026

Just about to finish The Rapture by Liz Jensen. Next up: Enlightenment by Sarah Perry 💙📚

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Robbie Rowe @privateshufti.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

#FirstBirdOfMyDay A jackdaw on a chimney pot, preening in the sun

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

Plus ever-belligerent robins and slowmo wood pigeons

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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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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 17/09/2026

Cornish Landscape Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson, 1917

drawing of a winding road in the countryside, replete with windswept trees and a low stone wall

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Robbie Rowe @privateshufti.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I've recently finished Annihilation by Jeff VanDerMeer (really enjoyed, can't wait to read the rest of the Southern Reach series). Now reading Bird School by Adam Nicolson - making me a bit homesick TBH

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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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Robbie Rowe @privateshufti.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I really enjoyed Creation Lake, the 1st of her books I'd read. Great unreliable narrator!

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Robbie Rowe @privateshufti.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I loved the opening chapter though

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Robbie Rowe @privateshufti.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I was enjoying it initially but I'm not sure about the bit I'm on now where the family have gone to Dreiturm

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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 · 24/08/2026

I'm reading The Director by Daniel Kehlmann, also still on the Mary Beard on & off 💙📚

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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 · 19/08/2026

Saw one nectaring on honeysuckle in the rain this morning

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Robbie Rowe @privateshufti.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Huge 2nd brood this year locally

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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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Robbie Rowe @privateshufti.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I've just started Treacle Walker by Alan Garner, also reading Confronting the Classics by Mary Beard 💙📚

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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 · 17/08/2026

The app wasn't working for me at all yesterday pm / eve

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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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Robbie Rowe @privateshufti.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

And also a clouded yellow summer, saw 3 at once in my local patch

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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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