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A beautiful sunny morning along the River Dodder in Dublin today but the herons were just interested in chasing each other.

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Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Our books are well-constructed, good and useful things, and if you buy one, it will enable us to make more. Recent titles include Matthew Clegg's 'Have You Always Been Here?', Fay Musselwhite's 'The Gleaning', and Steve Ely's 'Eely'. You can order them here: longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...

Ten Longbarrow hardbacks, spines facing out.

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Ron Davies @rondavies.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Early river stroll. Clouds tinged with gold as the sun rises. A light mist lingering over the trees. That family of ducks have decided to walk today. Overhead a heron flaps slowly downstream. Two swans guard their cygnet by the far bank. This will be my last river stroll for a few weeks.

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Ron Davies @rondavies.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Late river stroll. The evening of what has been a beautiful day. The lowering sun sinks into thin hazy clouds along the horizon, just adding a touch of colour at day’s end.

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Ian McMillan @imcmillan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Early stroll. The moon, outshining the stars. A tree’s shadow on the cemetery fence. Two orange balls on a lawn. A cyclist almost rides into me, shouts ‘Sorry pal!’ A sign says THIS ROAD WILL BE CLOSED; it doesn’t say when.

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Ron Davies @rondavies.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Early river stroll. Colder, a clear sky, but the first mists of autumn shroud the valley. Dew soaked grass, moisture drips from the trees and glistens on spiders webs. When the sun rose above the mist it became an achingly beautiful morning. Everything glowed and glittered as light poured through.

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Chris Lee @canillaschris.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

#MorningObservations #Warm. Occasional clouds. The #mystery of 3 large white stones, a smashed #flower pot & a #missing plant. A walked #dog is praised for good behaviour. A passing #cyclist nods recognition. The snaking #path of a roadside barrier draws my eye to the immediate #future... #morning

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Ron Davies @rondavies.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

#FingerpostFriday A new sign on the Suir Blueway. Kilsheelan, Tipperary, Ireland.

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Ian McMillan @imcmillan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Early stroll. The evolving moon. ROAD CLOSED sign as metal metaphor. A jacket hung on a fence. A man stands beside a white van, arms folded. That cat, splashed by streetlight.

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Julian Hoffman @julianhoffman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Absolutely over the moon and deeply honoured to see Waterstones select LIFELINES as one of their Paperbacks of the Year for 2026! They've backed this book right from the very beginning and I'm so grateful for the incredible support. @eandtbooks.bsky.social @waterstones.bsky.social

Image from Waterstones Paperbacks of the Year promotion with the cover of Lifelines by Julian Hoffman against a gold and starred background.

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Ron Davies @rondavies.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Late evening river stroll. After a day of clear skies the clouds rolled in towards evening but there were still some gaps that let the last warm glow of the sunset filter through at the end of day.

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Ron Davies @rondavies.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Early river stroll. Clear skies at dawn, colder. Dew sparkles on the grass, sunlight seems to bounce off every surface. Robins sing from the trees. A heron flaps slowly downstream. The mountain, Slievenamon, basks in the first warmth of sunlight. The old stone bridge is golden in the morning light.

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Ron Davies @rondavies.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Late river stroll. Clear skies and the sun lowering behind the old oak. The river glitters with light. Beyond the bridge a sudden shower caught in the sunlight forms a beautiful strong rainbow.

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Ian Tattum @iantattum.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Good to see it on display in Thessaloniki Airport

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Ian McMillan @imcmillan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Early stroll. The watchful moon. Leathery fallen leaves. I’m ten minutes late so the road is busier. Time never hesitates, but sometimes it seems to. A silent man silently walks a silent dog.

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Ron Davies @rondavies.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Early river stroll. Showers, gusting wind. Sleeping swans ignore a rainbow. Dawn light is orange through the rain then the sky darkens. Rain descends, a grey curtain blocks the view. Thunder shakes the valley and ducks take flight. The clouds roll on and sunlight takes control once more.

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Ron Davies @rondavies.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Just about making it for #ThickTrunkTuesday with this Nettle Leaf Tree in the village of Old Peritheia, Corfu. So called because the leaves are like nettles. At certain times of the year they attract hundreds of nettle leaf butterflies.

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Ian McMillan @imcmillan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Early stroll. Leaves waiting to fall, to briefly fly. My shoes are private transport. A trail of abandoned crisps. The horse gazes at Vic’s garage. The sky fills the space allotted to it.

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Mary Earnshaw @maryearnshaw.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Authors. Writing biogs for yourselves. A master class. This is from 'When the Cat's Away ' by the late - 😥 - Kinky Friedman. I have his landline and cellphone numbers and foolishly never used them - am still tempted, his spirit might have access...

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Ian McMillan @imcmillan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Early stroll. The ruminating sky. A man in a doorway waves a cigarette in greeting. A mysterious rumbling that seems to come from the depths of a field. The faded yellow of the old grit bin. A child’s shoe outside the dark chapel.

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Annie Worsley @annieworsley.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

A coffee time read: Coast, Croft and Hill: Letters from the Highlands with Lochaber crofter and writer, Kirsteen Bell published by @caughtbytheriver.bsky.social It's always a pleasure to share our letters with everyone. Happy reading! www.caughtbytheriver.net/2026/09/crof...

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Ron Davies @rondavies.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Today, mild and calm for the iron men on Crosby beach. The change in seasons seems on hold as summer warmth lingers but the harsh light of summer has been replaced by the softer glow of autumn.

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Ron Davies @rondavies.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Yesterday. Old Perithia, nestling below Mt. Pantokrator was the destination for a butterfly walk led by Anne Sordinas of Corfu Butterfly Conservation and author Julian Hoffmann as part of this years Corfu Literary Festival. A brilliant day despite the rolls of thunder echoing around the valley.

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Ron Davies @rondavies.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Yesterday afternoon Corfu. The view from Kanani. An approaching storm over the usually blue waters of the Ionian Sea beyond Mouse Island and Viacherna Monastery.

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Ron Davies @rondavies.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

A beautiful blue sky and blue sea today in Corfu looking towards mainland Greece. As Lawrence Durrell wrote in ‘Prospero’s Cell’: “Somewhere between Calabria and Corfu the blue really begins.”

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Ron Davies @rondavies.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Amazing clouds over Corfu today as a terrific storm approached.

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Ron Davies @rondavies.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The glorious palette of nature in a single leaf.

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Janet @bookwormjan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

My beautiful Broadhursts is definitely gone for ever. No salvage operation with a new owner 😢 lbndaily.co.uk/amp/former-b...

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Former bookshop set for residential conversion - Liverpool Business News

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Chris Lee @canillaschris.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

#MorningObservations ... Warm. Drifting #cloud. A blinding flash of reflected #sunlight from a quarry lorry mirror. The toothless grin of a #local. Neatly tied bundles of olive twigs left by the roadside. A #Malaga bound jet's arced #contrail. The morning's unfettered #glory... #words #photo #spain

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Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

From river to pond, the heron steps and pauses over a mined world. 'Have You Always Been Here?': a new post on the Longbarrow Press site longbarrowpress.com/2026/09/18/h...

Three pamphlets by Matthew Clegg - Eyes Front, Crystals & Dust, The Living - arranged on a garden table.

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Ian McMillan @imcmillan.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Early stroll. A fence’s linear narrative. That parked red van, streetlit. I accidentally kick a pebble down the pavement. A geometry of stacked white window frames. In a bus shelter someone’s face, illuminated by a phone screen.

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Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

From river to pond, the heron steps and pauses over a mined world. Three postcards (350gsm uncoated cardstock) accompanying three new pamphlets (Eyes Front, Crystals & Dust, The Living) by Matthew Clegg. Haiku on reverse. Have You Always Been Here? Out now longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...

Three postcards with watercolour artwork depicting herons.

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Ron Davies @rondavies.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Waiting for the tide. Gulls and the iron men of Antony Gormley’s Another Place stand side by side on Crosby beach as the tide turns yesterday afternoon. #IronMenCrosby

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Ron Davies @rondavies.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

A mind freshening beach walk today. A dramatic sky, clouds racing overhead, driven by a strong westerly wind carrying the sounds of the sea, whose rough surface was silvered by glimmers of sunlight during high tide this afternoon at Crosby beach. #IronMenCrosby

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Ron Davies @rondavies.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Just arrived. Another beautifully packaged publication from @longbarrowpress.bsky.social The trio of pamphlets and postcards entitled “Have you always been here?” by Matthew Clegg @eyesfront.bsky.social Looking forward to reading.

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Ron Davies @rondavies.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Chester Cathedral basks in September sunlight, light and shadow revealing the magnificent architecture but there is a hint of autumn in the air and cyclamen are flowering around the trees in the grounds.

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Chris Lee @canillaschris.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Today's sunny Sunday morning circular cycle in the sierra was a slightly shorter sortie than usual on account of me suspect sacroilliac... but was massively enjoyable none the less. More in Alt text. #sundaymorning #ride #scape #travel #nature #horse #mountain #trees #mountainbike #emtb #spain #ECK

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Ron Davies @rondavies.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

A warm wind carries the sounds of the sea as an outgoing tide leaves a pool dappled beach reflecting the vast, rapidly changing skies above the iron men on Crosby beach this afternoon. #IronMenCrosby

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Annie Worsley @annieworsley.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Hay harvest done. Pale gold fields edged in purple - scabious and knapweeds and late flowering clover - I spy autumn unfolding…

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Ron Davies @rondavies.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

On 11th September 2002 the Royal Liver Building in Liverpool commemorated the twin tower disaster in New York of 9-11 with twin beams of light reaching skyward.

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Chris Lee @canillaschris.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

#MorningObservations #September. Mother nature drops her shoulders & exhales. The sun, now in cyclical middle age rests a while before rising. Gold tinges village walls, hillsides & the morning sky. There is calm. A young cat senses change... #words #photo #cat #morning #ECK #anadalusia #sunrise

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Ian McMillan @imcmillan.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Early stroll. The sky’s palette of colours. The moon seems further away than usual. I cross the road where I always cross the road. A taxi waits to monetise time and space. The horse seems to be concentrating hard on the cockerel’s sound.

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Ron Davies @rondavies.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

A weak sun glimmers through the cloud layer over Crosby beach this afternoon. The tide outgoing but the sea restless, a continuous murmur of waves rolling ashore. The mountain peaks of distant Eryri are clear of cloud but just a grey shadow against the foot of the sky. #IronMenCrosby

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Ian McMillan @imcmillan.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Early stroll. The sky asks: do my clouds look big in this? The fierce red eyes of that car’s brakelights. Streetlights like a string of pearls. A roadsign’s enigmatic triangular shadow. Rain begins/a rain begins/the rain begins.

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James Gilbert @jamesgilbertmr.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

A new poem. It’s called “Stop, Look & Sparrows”. Freshly written & follows a situation I had last week. (Perhaps a 2-minute read, & so any reads here appreciated.)

A photo of a printed poem, written by me, titled “Stop, Look & Sparrows”.

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Ron Davies @rondavies.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

An outgoing tide but incoming weather. Grey clouds gather over Crosby beach and threaten rain after early sunshine this morning. #IronMenCrosby

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Mary Earnshaw @maryearnshaw.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

'In the company of flowers we know happiness. In the company of trees we are able to think, they foster meditation. Trees are very intellectual. There is nowhere on earth we can think so well as in a thin wood ' John Stewart Collis, in 'Down to Earth' Part Two, The Wood.

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Jean Atkin @jmatkin.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

A stone book among the cockle shells.

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Ian McMillan @imcmillan.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Early stroll. The heavy moon. The bread van rolls by. Blue bin as plastic obelisk. Trees about to model their autumn collection. Time’s slow wander, minute by minute.

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