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Pru Madeley

@prum.bsky.social
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Retired teacher, lover of the natural world, the arts & science. Determined to outlive these autocratic leaders intent on screwing over the planet and ordinary people in the process. Still clinging on to the last shreds of my optimistic nature 🇪🇺🕊️

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Pru Madeley @prum.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Well this has gone up in the field behind us today. No idea what it is.??
Some sort of A frame in the field behind our house.
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Pru Madeley @prum.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Our hotlips salvia has gone beserk in the summer sun and the bees and hummingbird hawk moth are totally here for it!
The hotlips salvia , with rose in the foreground.
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Pru Madeley @prum.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The barmy Siamese who is 15, is very happy I cut down the euonymos which smothered the trunk of a cordyline. She is loves climbing it and going for a walk over the rooftops.
Siamese cat climbing the roof tiles after climbing Cordyline tree on the right.
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Pru Madeley @prum.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Just back from a brilliant week walking in the Lake District. I have been going since I was 11 and it works its magic every time .
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Pru Madeley @prum.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Great to share this solar eclipse with our grandchildren. Lots of lovely people on the South Downs who kindly shared their solar glasses with us. What an awesome spectacle it was too.
The solar eclipse through our colander.Somw nuce effects through our colanders of the solar eclipse
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Pru Madeley @prum.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Just two of the monumental blue cobalt,ceramic sculptures at Petworth House by Felicity Aylieff and her incredible team. Part of an exhibition, inspired by the Chinese pottery collecton at Petworth House. Personally, I loved it.
Two, very tall pieces of pottery sculpture in Petworth Park. The house is in the background and I am between them.
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Pru Madeley @prum.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
I am completely absorbed by this book. I have not read anything quite like it before. The translation is wonderful. So beautifully told. Slow and thoughtful.
Front cover of the book Taiwan Travelogue.
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Pru Madeley @prum.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Well it was over 15,000 when I started an hour ago!
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Pru Madeley @prum.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
This year we are growing Siamese cats in our pots. Needless to say they need full sun and a daily feed!
Siamese cat sitting in a terracotta pot.
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Pru Madeley @prum.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Beautiful visit to our local bluebell woods today. Just beginning to turn, but still gorgeous.
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Pru Madeley @prum.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Potted up my over wintered dahlia tubers and Cez took their box over immediately!
Siamese cat sitting in cardboard box,enjoying the sun.
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Pru Madeley @prum.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
I love this shadow of the branches of my meighbour's oak tree that appears especially vividly at this time of year before the leaves emerge.
Shadow of the oak tree on my lawn
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Pru Madeley @prum.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Good afternoon dear Kitty! Happy National pet day to you and Soxie, with big hugs from me and Cez. Hope things are going well Kitty. Xx🐈 🌷
Siamese cat sitting on my legs.
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Pru Madeley @prum.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
January may not have a lot going for it but it is Seville orange marmalade time!
Orange peel and a muslin bag of pith and pips, simmering in a preserving pan.
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Pru Madeley @prum.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Stormy night, but blue skies this morning. Hooray. Do hope everyone is ok. Localised flooding in parts here around the Arun.
Four brown and one white ehite sheep grazing in a field. Woodland in the background and a blue sky.
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Pru Madeley @prum.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
I very much enjoyed this book I received at Christmas. What beautiful and remarkable animals hares are.
The book Raising Hare by Chloe Dalton.
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Pru Madeley @prum.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Morning dear Kitty, I have everything crossed that things go smoothly next week. Sending you lots of good vibes from me and Cez. Xx❤️
Cholate point Siamese.
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Pru Madeley @prum.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
The Siamese and I are currently huddled under a rug on the sofa,whilst Radio 3 plays The Dream of Gerontius and I wrestle with today's cryptic crossword. #keepingmysanityinamadworld
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Pru Madeley @prum.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
The harbour and reedbeds just stunning this morning. Plus a bird watching feast of water fowl. Pintail, teal, godwits, shoveler, widgeon, redshanks snipe, oystercatcher and curlew and others, all looking splendid in their winter plumage.
Icy footpath through the reedbeds. My OH standing on the left. An oak tree in the distance. Blue sky all around. Bright sun across the water with frosty foreground. Bright blue sky. Chichester cathedral in the background and some  frosted rooftops. Blue  channel in the foreground, dotted with gulls.
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Pru Madeley @prum.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
Brrr, I need to get up and out of this cosy bedbut it's very hard tto disturb a snuggled purring cat. Anyway, here goes. Morning Bluesky pals, have a good one.
Siamese cat, snoozing.
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Pru Madeley @prum.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Happy New Year Bluesky pals, from a very frosty West Sussex. Wishing everyone all the very best for whatever 2026 throws our way. Together, we can rise to any challenges and celebrate the good times too. Let's do this!
Sheep in a frozen, frosty field,behind my house this morning.
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Pru Madeley @prum.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
The sheep are back in the field behind our garden. Lambing time not too far off. Very nice end to the year. 😊
Sheep grazing in a field with woods behind.
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Pru Madeley @prum.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
Got out into the garden this morning to finally plant my tulip bulbs. Baptised my new Christmas gardening gloves. Love them and they wash well too. 👍
Pink gardening gloves.
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Pru Madeley @prum.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
A very Happy Christmas Bluesky pals. Sending tidings of peace, joy and comfort, wherever you are. With love from us both, Pru and Cez xx
Decorated Christmas Tree in a window, with fields behind. Siamese cat lying on the radiator having a wash.
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Pru Madeley @prum.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
Lovely sky this morning. Have a good day Bluesky pals. My youngest is 36 today, have a cake to ice!
Early sunrise over garden and field.
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Pru Madeley @prum.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
I have just finished reading this and I think I enjoyed it even more than Small Pleasures. Clare Chambers is brilliant at evoking a period in recent history, in this case the early 60s. It was a treat to read.
The cover of the book Shy Creatures by Clare Chambers with a large stylised picture of what looks to me like a magpie in flight across a golden disc. Adorned on either side with badgers at the top and flowers in the middle.
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Pru Madeley @prum.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Good morning dear Kitty. Good vibes coming your way from me and Cez, who I might add has now retreated the the warmth of the airing cupboard!
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Pru Madeley @prum.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.
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Pru Madeley @prum.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
A very wet day here, so Delia's Christmas pud it is. I have had and been using, this recipe book for the last 35 Christmases, but you can probably guess that from the state of this page!
Page from my 35 year old Delia Smith Christmas recipe book, for Christmas pudding.
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Pru Madeley @prum.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Christmas cake baked. Now cooled, fed and wrapped up in its tin. I hope it tastes as good as it smelt. Pud next!
Large Christmas fruit cake, just out of the oven.
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Pru Madeley @prum.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Blimey, it's a grey old morning here in West Sussex. The cat's happy though having snuck under the duvet.
Siamese cat, sleeping peacefully under the duvet.
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Pru Madeley @prum.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Beautiful week in Anglesey and Snowdonia.
Cross perched high on a rocky outcrop, with a white path sweeping around to the left, below blue skies. Mountains reflected in a small lake in early morning sunshine.
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Pru Madeley @prum.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Oh I'm so happy to see this post Kitty! Happy Caturday to you too.. Take care and have a lovely weekend. Cez sends greetings too. 🌞😻🐈
Siamese cat lying in a large plant pot and enjoying the sun.
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Pru Madeley @prum.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
It's been a fab year for Tumbling Tom cherry tomatoes. All grown outside. They just keep coming!
Red, Tumbling Tom cherry tomatoes in a white colander.
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Pru Madeley @prum.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
I thought my cosmos in my garden weren't bad this year, but the NT at Nymans have excelled themselves!
Lady wearing a rucksack, standing in front of a wonderful array of mainly pink and white cosmos with some meadow flowers inter-mingling. Pink and white cosmos, gravel paths and a small fountain. More pink cosmos in a flower border with some red poppies and white umbellifers.
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Pru Madeley @prum.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
You're leaving me and going up to London on one of the hottest days of the year? says Cez. You humans are totally bonkers! How true.
Siamese cat sitting in a white bidet.
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Pru Madeley @prum.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Beautiful morning! So still. Have a good week Bluesky pals. Keep in the shape if you can.
Dappled sunlight, casting shadows on the patchy green grass, which is surrounded by a silver birch and sycamore tree. A small, sightly delapidated garden seat with a blue cushion is at the bottom of the garden. A small border of cosmos and zinnias edge the grass.
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Pru Madeley @prum.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
Bit late to Bluesky today, so hope you're having a lovely Sunday dear Kitty. It's a difficult world, but together we can keep resilient. Oh and daft cats help a lot. Here's mine, who thinks it's never so hot that she can't get under a duvet!! 😂🐈🌞
The brown paws of my Siamese cat sticking out from under the duvet, even though it's 24 degrees outside!
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Pru Madeley @prum.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
The beautiful sound of falling rain. Happy Caturday. This was as Cez yesterday, having a spruce up among the geraniums.
Siamese cat, sitting on the garden seat, giving herself a good wash, with salmon pink geraniums in the foreground.
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Pru Madeley @prum.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
When the world's completely lost the plot, thank heavens for the comfort a cat.
Siamese cat, fast asleep on me this morning.
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Pru Madeley @prum.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Happy Caturday dear Kitty. Glad you've had some rain. Enjoy your week off. Cez and I hope you've got some nice treats lined up for yourself.
Siamese cat sitting on my fleecy onsie.
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Pru Madeley @prum.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
We visited my natal county of Hampshire on Tuesday. The rose garden at Mottisfont NT is an absolute delight and almost at peak time I would say. If you love roses and you're in strking distance I strongly recommend a visit. My snaps do not do it justice!
Red and pink roses climbing over a brick wall, with blue and purple irises in the foreground. Blue irises and red roses. Mixed borders with herbaceous perennials and roses growing in a walled garden. Climbing roses, pink and white in the walled garden with bush roses either side of a path.
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Pru Madeley @prum.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
All go this morning. Making a sausage puff pastry plait, whilst keeping an eale eye on my place in the Proms queue. Started off at 4292 and now at 1333 and descending fast! Happy Caturday everyone.
Siamese cat on the windowsill, listening to the radio next to her.
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Pru Madeley @prum.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
41 years ago it was a bright, sunny and warm day!
Bride and groom getting showered in confetti by guests.
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Pru Madeley @prum.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Only Siamese would decide it's a tad warmer outside on the tiny window ledge!!
Siamese cat, sunbathing on the tiny ledge outside tge bedroom window.
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Pru Madeley @prum.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Fabulous walk over the downland and parkland of West Dean today. Cowslips everywhere and an abundance of ewes and lambs. Warm sun too. Joyous!
Lambs and ewes beneath a shady oak tree. A knockkneed lamb. Ewe grazing, lamb peeping out beside her. Yellow cowslips carpeting the parkland floor.
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Pru Madeley @prum.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
How lovely Kelly. I have too, been a really good long weekend of family, egg hunts, and bluebell woods.
Tall beech tree trunks in the foreground and a sea of bluebells between the trees.
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Pru Madeley @prum.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Made Mary Berry's hot cross bun loaf today.
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Pru Madeley @prum.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
*Oh to be in England now that April's there". Have a beautiful day everyone.
Sun shining through tge branches of the oak trees, and cherry blossom to the green field beyond.
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Pru Madeley @prum.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
My totally wonderful big sis is 74 today!! How did that happen? She's been the absolute best sister a girl could have. ❤️
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