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Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes @lemoustier.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

🎄 📚 A Christmas book post: Endless love to everyone who has supported #Kindred over the years - if you've read & loved it, consider gifting it to someone else this year, or you can give me a little 🎁 with a review! (on whichever website you prefer)

Collage of reader photos of the book Kindred: Neanderthal Life Love Death and Art.

Jacket image for Kindred: Neanderthal Life Love Death and Art. Parchment background, with three hand drawn images across centre: small pierced shell, stone scraper tool, and vulture claw.

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Stephen K @stephenk101.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

A little sketch I did recently of a fox. Just copied another sketch I found on the internet.

An image of a pencil sketch on white A3 paper of a foxes face, looking off the left.

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Stephen K @stephenk101.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Lovely chunky bark, spotted along the River Ure near Ripon.

An image of a felled tree, with a forked trunk and deeply-ridged bark, lying amongst bracken and other foliage on a riverbank.

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Stephen K @stephenk101.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

A walk up Plover Hill and Pen Y Ghent amidst dramatic skies in the Yorkshire Dales. My first Dales peaks bagged and I’m looking forward to tick off some more.

A view up a country lane, looking towards fields and a hill in the background, tree cover overhead.

A view over grassed hillside, interspersed with limestone ridges, with a hill in the background, with billowing grey clouds above.

A view looking down on a valley from a hill top, hills in the background, a rocky outcrop in the left foreground, on a cloudy day.

A view looking down a pathway, parallel with a limestone wall, leading to a rocky hill in the background, on an overcast day.

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Stephen K @stephenk101.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Loads of butterflies this morning were just chilling on the pathways along my walk this morning.

A picture of a red admiral butterfly, spreading its wings in the morning sun on a gravel path.

A picture of a tortoiseshell butterfly, spreading its wings in the morning sun on a gravel path.

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Stephen K @stephenk101.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Late again with my read pile for February 2025. All good. Particularly enjoyed The Story of the Forest by Linda Grant and The L-Shaped Room by Lynne Reid Banks. Returning to a little ancient greek as well, mainly to get some D&D inspiration. 💙📚

A pile of books including: The Story of the Forest by Linda Grant, Jason and the Golden Fleece by Apollonius, The Little Virtues by Natalia Ginzburg, The L-Shaped Room by Lynne Reid Banks, One Day I Will Write About This Place by Binyavanga Wainaina, Heligoland by Shena Mackay and The Trouble With Happiness and Other Stories by Tove Ditlevsen.

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Stephen K @stephenk101.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Catching up what I read in January 2025. Finishing off some children’s / fantasy books from the Christmas break. Trying out some D&D related fantasy this year. I thought The Orchard On Fire by Shena Mackay was brilliant. 💙📚

A pile of the following books: Dragons Of Autumn Twilight by Margaret Weiss and Tracy Hickman, The Days Of Abandonment by Elena Ferrante, The Orchard On Fire by Shena Mackay, The Artificial Silk Girl by Irmgard Keun, Tom’s Midnight Garden by Philippa Pearce and The King Of The Copper Mountains by Paul Biegel.

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Stephen K @stephenk101.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

A walk up Stanage Edge in the Peak District a couple of weeks ago.

A view of a rocky escarpment , leading off into the distance, on a cloudy day.

A view from the top of a rocky escarpment, looking down onto a green - brown valley. The escarpment rocks are exposed and weathered. The sky has a high cloud cover.

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Stephen K @stephenk101.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

A nice walk up Parlick Fell and Fair Snape Fell in the Forest of Bowland last week.

A view of Parlick Fell from Fair Snape Fell against a pale blue sky with wisps of cloud.

A view of the trig point at the top of Fair Snape Fell, on a sunny day with blue sky.

A view of the pole and stone wind shelter at the top of Parlick Fell, against a blue sky, overlooking the plains of Lancashire.

A view of Parlick Fell from Wolf Fell, overlooking the Lancashire country side on a sunny day, with blue sky and a slight haze in the air.

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Stephen K @stephenk101.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

December was a good reading month, with a few children’s / fantasy books I tend to read this time of year. Kindred by @lemoustier.bsky.social is brilliant. 💙📚

A stack of the following books: Loitering With Intent by Muriel Spark, Greengage Summer by Rumer Godden, Greenwitch by Susan Cooper, The Weirdstone of Brasingamen and The Moon of Gomrath by Alan Garner, The Forest of Hours by Kerstin Ekman & Kindred by Rebecca Wragg-Sykes.

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Stephen K @stephenk101.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

Lots of teeny tiny fungi sprouting at the moment.

A close-up image of a log, stripped of bark, out of which a small cluster of yellow/orange mushrooms are sprouting.

A close-up of lichen-covered tree bark with a few tiny whiteish mushrooms sprouting.

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Stephen K @stephenk101.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Books finished in November. Not a bad one amongst them. The du Maurier is “Vanishing Cornwall” - the spine has faded. I seem to be on a subconscious mission to read as many VMCs as I can. 💙📚

A stack of books including All Passion Spent by Vita Sackville-West, Invitation To The Waltz by Rosamond Lehmann, Berg by Ann Quin, Vanishing Cornwall by Daphne du Maurier & On The Side Of The Angels by Betty Miller.

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Stephen K @stephenk101.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Lovely sky this morning. Plus a few lenticular clouds spotted on the school run.

Picture of a morning sky, partially cloudy, dappled with pink, above a suburban street.

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Stephen K @stephenk101.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Ferns of ice on the windscreen this morning. Made up for the treacherous journey from the front door.

A picture taken looking through a car windscreen covered in ice in low morning light.

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Stephen K @stephenk101.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

💙📚 Another late entry, this time for titles read in October 2024. Typically my spooky month, so we have Robert Aickman on usual terrifying form, the wide-ranging collection of stories in the Virago Book of Witches, and the enormous Mysteries of Udolpho (which could have been shorter).

Stack of books including Ann Radcliffe’s The Mysteries of Udolpho, Robert Aickman’s The Wine Dark Sea, The Virago Book of Witches and Miles Franklin’s My Brilliant Career.

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Stephen K @stephenk101.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

💙📚 Just catching up with book reading update for September 2024. They by Kay Dick is chilling. Drive Your Plow was an engaging and original who-done-it. I’m not sure about the Yoko Tawada titles.

Stack of books including They by Kay Dick, The Last Children of Tokyo and Memoirs of a Polar Bear by Yoko Tawada, The Rooster House by Victoria Belim and The Shooting Party by Isabel Colegate.

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Stephen K @stephenk101.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Some random photos from a visit to Vianden, Luxembourg, with my eldest daughter back in August.

Image of Vianden castle in Luxembourg, overlooking the town of Vianden, on a sunny day with blue skies.

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Stephen K @stephenk101.bsky.social · 10/10/2024

Over Manchester, UK right now.

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Stephen K @stephenk101.bsky.social · 07/09/2024

Mushroom season is upon us.

Image of a large, brown mushroom at the side of a country path. Not sure what type.

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Stephen K @stephenk101.bsky.social · 03/09/2024

💙📚Books read in August 2004. The Sally Hayden is essential reading in understanding how human migration operates. A Line In The World is a nice meditative exploration of the Danish coastline. South Riding was as good as I hoped it would be.

A stack of books: Revelations of Divine Love by Julian of Norwich, My Fourth Time, We Drowned by Sally Hayden, A Line In The World by Dorthe Nors, The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald, South Riding by Winifred Holtby.

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Stephen K @stephenk101.bsky.social · 16/08/2024

A visit to Birdoswald roman fort and Hadrians Wall in Cumbria today. Thus concludes our recent little holiday around the north of England.

Image of Hadrians Wall running off into the distance across the northern pennines.

Image of the remains of the southern gateway into the Birdoswald fort; an opening in the stone wall that was once a double arched gateway.

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Stephen K @stephenk101.bsky.social · 15/08/2024

A visit to Holy Island in Northumberland yesterday. Perfect weather and enormous ice creams.

Image of Lindisfarne Castle against a blue sky.

Image of the walls, columns and arches that remain of Lindisfarne Priory, against a blue sky.

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Stephen K @stephenk101.bsky.social · 14/08/2024

A visit to Corbridge roman town near Hexham, Northumberland yesterday.

Image of the ruins at Corbridge roman town, featuring a series of stone pillar bases.

Image of some of the ruins at Corbridge roman town, featuring an excavated stone cellar / strongroom.

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Stephen K @stephenk101.bsky.social · 11/08/2024

Lots of speckled woods out and about today.

Picture of a speckled wood butterfly sitting on a leaf.

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Stephen K @stephenk101.bsky.social · 09/08/2024

💙📚 Books I read in July 2024. Not sure which was my favourite; they were all good. Business As Usual was surprisingly funny. I expect to be getting through more Drabble and Spark in the near future.

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