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Janet Barrie @springhillops.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

So I'm cooking a new recipe from each cookery book I own. There are a lot. This one's next. Wish me luck...

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Janet Barrie @springhillops.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

Bit windy here last night. Hope everyone is ok.

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Janet Barrie @springhillops.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Nature reclaiming a mined-out copper seam in Newlands, one of my #OnePlaceStudies places. #OnePlaceWednesday

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Janet Barrie @springhillops.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Can't resist a war memorial. Not sure of the conflict here but there is a sad degree of surname congruence in this example from Georgia. Shared patronymics suggest some were brothers. RIP gentlemen.

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Janet Barrie @springhillops.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Recently been on holiday, can't resist a good graveyard on a #OnePlaceWednesday. Istanbul. Just grateful that my #OnePlaceStudies place only has one alphabet to deal with!

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Janet Barrie @springhillops.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Cuckoo pretending to be a wryneck. Yorkshire, earlier this year.

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Janet Barrie @springhillops.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

That's not a lion. That's a dog dressed up.

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Janet Barrie @springhillops.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

Queue for the ladies loo at the rugby. Never seemed to cross their minds that a women's sports event might attract women.

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Janet Barrie @springhillops.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Err... don't think so. Whalley parish church, the ancient parish of my #OnePlaceStudies place. #OnePlaceWednesday

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Janet Barrie @springhillops.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

Rather worse-for-wear Red Admiral in Keswick yesterday.

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Janet Barrie @springhillops.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

My day in numbers: 12.5 miles 3100 feet of uphill 7 summits 30 mph gusts 19 bird species 5 raven no people one whisky one happy Janet (Borrowdale in Westmorland)

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Janet Barrie @springhillops.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

The potato harvest is in! Think I'll rename my #OnePlaceSpuddies. ( Plus the last of the strawbs.) #OnePlaceSpuds #OnePlaceSutdies

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Janet Barrie @springhillops.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Herring gull in natural habitat.

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Janet Barrie @springhillops.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Mmm this goes beyond 'Metella in atrio sedet'. Think my Latin needs brushing up. #OnePlaceWednesday. #OnePlaceStudies.

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Janet Barrie @springhillops.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Great way to spend a summer evening. LANvYKS

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Janet Barrie @springhillops.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Two recent webinars with @oneplacestudies.bsky.social on churchyard carvings helped me look at St Clements on Harris with a new light. Sadly none in my #OnePlaceStudies place. (and yes, there is a sheela-na-gig). #OnePlaceWednesday

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Janet Barrie @springhillops.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Not sure we were supposed to photograph this slimline Victorian #postbox whilst on a birding holiday in Redcastle. Sadly all those in my #OnePlaceStudies place are standard EIIR issue. Any good ones in your places? #OnePlaceWednesday

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Janet Barrie @springhillops.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Not in my place, but there is a temperance bar locally, linked to the Methodist church. They don't sell tea, but black beer & raisin, dandelion & burdock, sarsaparilla and the like. Sadly it's just another cafe now.

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Janet Barrie @springhillops.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Fine example of #OnePlaceStudies by Hebrides People. £5 for an excellent exhibition, £70 to get out of the bookshop. Can't think how that happened... #OnePlaceWednesday

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Janet Barrie @springhillops.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

First thing I've seen in the CIIIR livery. Sadly, there probably won't be many postboxes.

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Janet Barrie @springhillops.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Interesting numbered stone in Little Switzerland, Cheshire. House number or upside-down datestone? Or?

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Janet Barrie @springhillops.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Deep inside the hillside in my #OPSForFree place of Newlands, this C17 waterwheel pit. #OnePlaceGeology drives this #OnePlaceStudy.

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Janet Barrie @springhillops.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Crumbs you say? Certainly. There are a few places in here with registered #OnePlaceStudies too

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Janet Barrie @springhillops.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Picked up this little beauty yesterday. History and cake, with recipes. What not to like? Oh yes. The increasing waistline. #OnePlaceStudies #OnePlaceCake anyone?

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Janet Barrie @springhillops.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

The last of my grandmother's #needlework artefacts, her retractable tape measure which sadly no longer extends. #OnePlaceStudies

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Janet Barrie @springhillops.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Grandmother's crochet hooks, look how fine the tips are! I'd love to know how old these are - any #skystorians of #needlework or #typology able to date them? #OnePlaceStudies

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Janet Barrie @springhillops.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

My grandmother' cotton reel, at least 55 years old. Love artefacts #OnePlaceWednesday

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Janet Barrie @springhillops.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Just booked for this little beauty run by the Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian and Archeological Society and the Prehistoric Society on Feb 8th 2025. Not much prehistoric stuff in my #OnePlaceStudies place unfortunately. #OnePlaceWednesday

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Janet Barrie @springhillops.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

I'm all for preservation but perhaps some things are best forgotten.

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Janet Barrie @springhillops.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

‪ No idea who did this to my locker but it cheered me up on a heavy day at work. #LittleThings #StealthGonk

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Janet Barrie @springhillops.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Carlisle. A fabulous, history-fulled underpass. #LocalHistory #Museums

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Janet Barrie @springhillops.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Storm Bert at Springhill. The perfect day for settling down with hot drinks, lots of nibbles and enjoying the @oneplacestudies.bsky.social #OnePlaceStudies conference this afternoon.

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Janet Barrie @springhillops.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

On a labour ward near me...are you one of these?

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Janet Barrie @springhillops.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Oh go on then. Remember the craze for self-frizzed hair? You can date it from that!

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Janet Barrie @springhillops.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Love this map in Birmingham museum. Always interested in ways of depicting place, but strongly suspect my #OnePlaceStudies place is too small to do justice.

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Janet Barrie @springhillops.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Sometimes the questions jump out at you across the centuries. How was this coin earned? How was it spent? Constantine I, c310, private collection (sadly not mine!).

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