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Steve Varga

@satclive8.bsky.social
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Likes music, nature, photography, folklore and lots of other stuff. Shropshire.

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National Trust @nationaltrust.org.uk · 12/08/2026
ANNOUNCEMENT: All our sundials will be out of order this evening between about 6pm and 8pm, we apologise for any inconvenience this may cause. Normal service will resume tomorrow. In unrelated news, enjoy the eclipse later... Photos: Mike Selby, Annapurna Mellor, Chris Davies, John Millar
A wall-mounted sundial inside a walled garden. Text on the sundial reads: "fear god, obey ye king"A traditional sundial on a plinth, formal gardens surround itThe sun beams down on a traditional sundial, with heather visible in the backgroundA shot of a sundial from above. It's mounted on a stone plinth. Text on the side reads "KEW BRIDGE"
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Steve Varga @satclive8.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Wonderful Green Man at Eyton-Under-Heywood church. Thanks to @g0blinegg.bsky.social for writing about it a while ago, we finally got round to visiting yesterday.
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Steve Varga @satclive8.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Swallows are nesting in nearly every room at Stokesay Castle. I only had my Sony compact with me so shot what I could.
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Steve Varga @satclive8.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
@oldiemike.bsky.social
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Ian McMillan @imcmillan.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Fantastic!
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Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
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Steve Varga @satclive8.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
A Scarlet Tiger Moth in the garden this afternoon.
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Ms AB @justagalandadog.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Shrewsbury folk, there's a far right march tomorrow starting in the Quarry at 11.00 & going to the Guildhall. I saw a couple of balaclava'd idiots putting up flags on the lampposts along St Chad's Terr. There's also a Stand Up to Racism rally in the Square, not sure of timing. Take care out there.
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Steve Varga @satclive8.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Portrait of a puffin from last week's trip to the Farne Islands.
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JointheDots @joiningupthedots.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Bizarre moment Reform Councillor Kieran Lay, Thorne and Moorends Ward, asks Full Council for measures to monitor UFO activity as part of reopening Doncaster Sheffield Airport 🛸
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Steve Varga @satclive8.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Clun Green Man Festival today, Summer's coming!
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Steve Varga @satclive8.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Another Green World. May at Whixall Moss.
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Sewage Data Alerts @alerts.sewagedata.co.uk · 30/04/2026
🚨 NEW DISCHARGE NEAR River Severn in Shrewsbury 💩 Severn Trent Water has started discharging raw sewage 0.41mi from this bathing water 📋 This bathing water was rated Poor by the EA ⏰ This discharge started at 11:21 🔗 sewagedata.co.uk/?asset=SVT01837
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Steve Varga @satclive8.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
A spring afternoon on Grinshill Hill today.
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Vox 🇺🇲 @voxrox.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
#WonderfulBirdWednesday Right in the middle of rain, the photo was captured the split second a droplet of water landed on the #Robins head like a crown! 👑 04/2026 #Birds #Nature #FlawlessTiming 🌟 #FMSPAD #SomethingThatFlies #Birdsky #Wildlife #Photography #BirdPhotography #Macrophotography
A color, macrophoto of a Robin perched on a branch in Virginia, during late April, 2026. The capture was taken during rain and the photographer snapped the photo at the split second a raindrop fell on the top of the bird's head, making it appear like a "natural" crown.
📸 Dawn Denise Boyer of Gloucester, Virginia
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Steve Varga @satclive8.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
I was spotted by a woodpecker in the garden this afternoon...
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Steve Varga @satclive8.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
A little bit of Folk Horror in South Shropshire this afternoon.
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Steve Varga @satclive8.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
A bit of street photography in Rome last week.
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Steve Varga @satclive8.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
The Whixall starling murmuration this evening
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Marina Purkiss @marina-purkiss.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
This makes no sense… An MP can wake up one morning, ditch the party you elected them for, & sign up to a completely different manifesto… No thanks If they defect to a different party, we should get a vote Sign the petition & help make that law. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
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Petition: By-elections to be called automatically when MPs defect to another party
When an MP decides they want to defect to another party a by-election should be automatically triggered to allow the constituents the opportunity have their democratic right to agree or not with their...
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Steve Varga @satclive8.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Fieldfare in the garden today.
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Steve Varga @satclive8.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
On Haughmond Hill
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Protect the Wild @protectthewild.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Please vote for us! It only takes 10 seconds and it’s free :) mygivingcircle.org/protect-the-...
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Vote for Protect the Wild to share in £300,000 of grants
Vote for Protect the Wild to share £70,000 this Grants Round.
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Steve Varga @satclive8.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
A visit to Wistman's Wood on Dartmoor this week. One of the few remaining remnants of temperate rainforest in the UK. Local legends of spectral hounds are believed to have been the inspiration for Conan Doyle's The Hound of the Baskervilles
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Steve Varga @satclive8.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
At Attingham Park today.
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
If you can’t comment on a foreign billionaire calling for your government to be brought down, what is the point of you?
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Steve Varga @satclive8.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
West Kennet Long Barrow from a trip earlier this week.
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MᴀᴛᴛA @shropshirematt.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Wow
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Steve Varga @satclive8.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
A fun afternoon at the Battle of Shrewsbury reconstruction. Harry Hotspur lost again...
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Steve Varga @satclive8.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
A pair of Silver Studded Blues creating a new generation at Prees Heath today.
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Helen Morgan MP @helenmorganlibdem.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
😠 I'm very disappointed that the Post Office is cutting services at a time they need improving, not axing. ✉️ Outreach services are under threat in Cockshutt, Clive, Knockin, Weston Rhyn, West Felton, Ruyton and Shawbury. 🖊️ This is wrong - sign my petition! www.helenmorgan.org.uk/post-offices
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Helen Morgan's Rural Post Office campaign
Sign Helen's petition to protect rural Post Office services
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Steve Varga @satclive8.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Clun Green Man Festival today. Summer is a coming in.
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Wild Justice @wildjustice.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Fewer than 500 more signatures needed to reach 100,000 & trigger a Westminster parliament debate on the future of driven grouse shooting. Plz sign and share - we might get there today! @ruthtingay.bsky.social @chrisgpackham.bsky.social @markavery.bsky.social petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
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Petition: Ban driven grouse shooting
Chris Packham, Ruth Tingay and Mark Avery (Wild Justice) believe that driven grouse shooting is bad for people, the environment and wildlife. People; we think grouse shooting is economically insignifi...
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Steve Varga @satclive8.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Seen at The Shroppie Fly in Audlem today. I went for a soft drink.
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Lipotidae (Extinct) @lipotidae.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
How far can we repost this around the world? Please repost and put your Town and Country in the comments. Thank you from Babbinswood Community Farm #Shropshire #Babbinswood. #UK
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Steve Varga @satclive8.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
On Clee Hill this afternoon.
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Steve Varga @satclive8.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
If you see this, quote post a beach photo from your gallery if you have one. Don’t forget the Alt text. Anglesey 2021
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Lipotidae (Extinct) @lipotidae.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
We need Ewe to help us out. Please post and repost and do what you can. www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/save-babbi... Babbinswood Farm. #Shropshire
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Steve Varga @satclive8.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
@thekentacorn.bsky.social Still going strong
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James Wright @jpwarchaeology.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Amused that after Historic England posted about Henry Tudor Inn my DMs lit up with sceptical folk. Am I really more trustworthy on this subject than the national curator!? Have I cut through so that folk no longer believe oldest pub claims!? For once the story is true though 🍺
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Marc Morris @marcmorris.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
A much-married, philandering, orange-coloured, megalomaniacal narcissist, possibly mentally impaired later in life, Henry VIII died #OnThisDay 1547.
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Steve Varga @satclive8.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Colemere
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Chaz Hutton @chazhutton.com · 15/01/2025
A little comic about desire paths.
Ok so…
There’s a nice little park on a corner, and a path running directly to one edge of the park. That’s the first image, but there’s 12 other images here. In the second image, there is now a desire path running diagonally across the park. Next image, the path has been blocked by a park bench that the council has put in as a deterrent. Unfazed, in image 4 the path now deftly avoids the park bench. In images 5 and 6 the process is repeated, this time with a strategically placed bin which the desire path also avoids. Presumably in a fit of rage, the council plants an entire hedge to stop people creating new desire paths but eventually this too is defeated and a new path find a way. Finally, the council admits defeat and turns the desire path into a proper paved pathway.  After a little while, a new desire path curving off this new paved pathway begins to emerge…
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Nic Wilson @nicwilson.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Would you like to get @Guardian country diary on your feed every morning with vignettes about the natural world from across the UK? Includes 11 of 30 diarists (more coming...) & you can add your relevant posts by including the hashtag #countrydiary. Pls pin & share with other interested folk. 🙏
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Steve Varga @satclive8.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
Shrewsbury from Hencote Lane this afternoon
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Steve Varga @satclive8.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Sorting through some old photos, here's a street scene from Havana, taken a few years ago.
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Steve Varga @satclive8.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Last snow for a while? Fire and ice at Attingham Park last week.
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Steve Varga @satclive8.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
An old photo from All Stretton.
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Mark Rees @reviewwales.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
How to foil a vampire 🦇
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Steve Varga @satclive8.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
On Grinshill Hill this morning
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