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Susanna Reece

@susannareece.bsky.social
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Law, knitting, botany, Italian in descending order of competence. Oxford, Shetland and Italy.

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Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
This. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The more Putin escalates his attacks on Europe, the more Europe should support Ukraine | Timothy Garton Ash
Moscow’s imperialist strongman believes decadent European democracies can be cowed. Our job is to prove him wrong, says Guardian columnist Timothy Garton Ash
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Ross Mackenzie @rossmackenzie.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
An early gym session left plenty of time to wander beside the river Oglio, between Cogno-Esine and Darfo #boarioterme #valcamonica
Up river from Boario Down river from Boario Boario sunlitOld Montecchio bridge
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Ron McIntyre @ronmac11.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Detail from one of the twelve journals written by Margaret Elizabeth Fountaine (1862-1940). The inscription reads; These were the first flowers given to me by Khalil Neimy, after we were engaged. Baalbek, Syria, June 1901. Margaret was collector of butterflies. #museums #butterflies
A photo of a handwritten journal showing a posy of flowers pressed onto the page.
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Penlee House Gallery & Museum @penleehousegallery.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
NEW BOOK — £25 The Art of the Newlyn School: Paintings of Cornish Life and Light, 1880–1930, by Alison Bevan. Featuring 150+ colour illustrations and major works from Penlee House and The Bowerman Collection. penleehouse.org.uk/product/the-... Get your copy at Penlee House.
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The Art of the Newlyn School: Paintings of Cornish Life and Light 1880–1930 - Penlee House
With over 150 colour illustrations, the publication includes almost all of the major paintings in the two most important collections of Newlyn School works: Penlee House Gallery & Museum and The Bower...
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Ross Mackenzie @rossmackenzie.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Monthly report for September 2026 rossmac.blogspot.com/2026/10/mont...
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Crime Girl @crimegirl.co.uk · 28/09/2026
I am a barrister who once spent time seconded to the CPS serious crimes unit making charging decisions. Today, you can pretend to be one too and work through the decision-making framework in a very serious case. The police have multiple suspects in custody and the phone just rang. 👨 👨 👨 👨 👨 📱 👮‍♀️ 🚨
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Harvest Moon (Golden Hare) by Tamsin Abbott, English stained glass artist. #HarvestMoon is the #fullmoon closest to the autumn equinox #WomensArt
Stained glass artwork in gold and black featuring a hare lying down amonst grasses under a golden full moon
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Babs Pease, contemporary artist and printmaker living in rural Scotland #WomensArt
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BSBI Scotland @bsbiscotland.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
BSBI Scotland Officer Matt Harding gets excited about making new plant discoveries in the Scottish mountains! 😍😂 Despite having one of the best studied floras in the world, there is so much left to learn and discover about Scottish plants! #intrepid #BSBIMembers #100Plants2026 #WildFlowerHour
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OSCE media freedom @oscemediafreedom.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
📢 We are pleased to announce our annual Central Asia Media Conference. “Building Shared Reality: Information Integrity, Media Ethics and Trust in the Digital Age” 📅 9-10 October 📍 Bishkek 🇰🇬 Check out the event page 👇 rfom.osce.org/event/667392 #CAMC2026
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OSCE Central Asia Media Conference "Building Shared Reality: Information Integrity, Media Ethics and Trust in the Digital Age"
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Ella Maillart @ellamaillart.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
'Descending The Gravel Slopes Of Jengart', Tian Shan Mountains, Kyrgyzstan, 1932 "We begin to descend ourselves. ... My own mount's bumpings has begun to shake loose its load and the saddle and all the rest begins to slip over towards its round barrel." #EllaMaillart #Photography #Kyrgyzstan
'Descending The Gravel Slopes Of Jengart', Tian Shen Mountains, Kyrgyzstan, 1932

A pack animal train with loaded cargo traverses a steep, barren scree slope with large boulders and rocky terrain in the Tian Shan mountains.  One pack horse stands in the foreground facing the camera, while other loaded animals and handlers stretch up the diagonal path of the steep hillside in the background.
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Susanna Reece @susannareece.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I believe it has stopped!
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Susanna Reece @susannareece.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I have now been told by Oxford City Council that The Business Regulation Team is aware of the matter and is addressing it.
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Susanna Reece @susannareece.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I have also reported it online using the City Council’s Noise Complaint Form - www.oxford.gov.uk/noise-pollut... There’s an option to download an App and add a recording, too
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Report a noise problem – Oxford City Council
Details of noise complaints that we do and don't deal with
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Susanna Reece @susannareece.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The high-pitched ringing sound is still going on, continuous for over 24 hours now. Is @oxfordcitycouncil.bsky.social really not prepared to take action? Definitely within their remit. There’s enough noise pollution in Headington already without this harmful addition @headingtonnews.bsky.social
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Susanna Reece @susannareece.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Yes, similar here, I think
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wildflowerhour @wildflowerhour.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Joining in with #Wildflowerhour is easy! Look for wild & naturalised blooms from across Britain & Ireland during the week & then share Sunday 8-9pm!
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Susanna Reece @susannareece.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
This has appeared in my garden in Oxford this summer, too
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Susanna Reece @susannareece.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Hemp Agrimony puffing up nicely in @friendlyevalley.bsky.social #Oxford #WildflowerHour @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social
Hemp Agrimony in seedHemp Agrimony in seed
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Oxford Clarion @oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The Oxford Maternity Library is looking for volunteers in order to continue operating. It is a volunteer-run, not-for-profit service, loaning good quality pregnancy and breastfeeding-friendly clothing for low cost, running for over ten years at Florence Park Community Centre.
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Hire Maternity Clothes in Oxford | Oxford Maternity Clothes Library
Hire good-quality, low-cost maternity and nursing clothes from Oxford Maternity Clothes Library. We run monthly libraries at Florence Park Community Centre.
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Ella Maillart @ellamaillart.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
'A Kyrgyz Boy and His Mother', Ella Maillart, 1932 "Since 1916, many attempts have been made to wean them from their nomadic lives and settle them in colonies founded by Russians. But they show little interest in cultivating the earth. ..." #EllaMaillart #Photography #Kyrgyzstan #TianShan #Nomad
 'A Kyrgyz Boy and His Mother', Ella Maillart, 1932

A woman weaves a 'terme' - patterned tapestry - using camel wool in the Tian Shan region of Kyrgyzstan. Her young son in a heavy winter coat and plush fur hat stands nearby watching the traditional craft process. 

Ground looms like this were portable and well-suited for nomadic lifestyles. They were most frequently used to weave long, incredibly durable yurt bands. These decorative and functional structural straps wrapped tightly around the wooden lattice frames of yurts to protect them against fierce high-altitude winds.
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Anneliese Dodds MP @anneliesedoddsmp.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
They are making an appeal for donations to the Disaster Relief Fund and are nearly at their target if you can contribute. buff.ly/VbVSL9L
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Help For Nepal jointly with NCO: Emergency Flood Relief Appeal
Help for Nepal together with Nepalese Community Oxfordshire (NCO) is raising emergency funds to support victims of the devastating floods in Nepal. Your donation can help provide essential support to…
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Chris A Tye @chrisatyeart.co.uk · 12/09/2026
“Authentic Integrity - that’s my kind of AI” Bravo, Sakari Oramo. #lastnightoftheproms
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Promenaders’ Musical Charities @prommerscharities.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
After the Last Night of the Proms 2026, you have donated over £123,500, a new record! Thank you 🎉🎉 #BBCProms #LNOTP #LNOTP2026
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Susanna Reece @susannareece.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Yarrow is my top 2026 plant @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social @bsbiscotland.bsky.social #WildflowerHour
Pink Yarrow rescued from a mown-down verge in a vase in the Shetland Isles
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Ruth Watson @ruthwatson.eurosky.social · 09/09/2026
The courage of those who set out to save those at risk of drowning can never be overestimated. Each rescue is a challenge. I used to watch the Orkney lifeboat head out into rough seas with my heart in my mouth. Remarkable bravery. Donate to the #RNLI here: shop.rnli.org/products/don...
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Donation to RNLI
It costs us around £483,000 a day to run our lifesaving service. Your kind donation will help deliver our lifesaving work.
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Promenaders’ Musical Charities @prommerscharities.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
After Prom 46 you have donated over £67,000. Thank you 🙏 #BBCProms
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Baltic Takes (formerly badbaltictakes) @baltictakes.com · 21/08/2026
Estonians have an expression: Kui juba, siis juba. Basically: If we’re gonna do something, let’s really do it. So here’s BadBaltic.com What started as a snarky Twitter (and now Bluesky) account is now also an online magazine, Bad Baltic.
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Tony Gillie @drtonygillie.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
A very late entry for the #AwesomeOwls theme of today's #BirdOfTheDay. A Little Owl (Athene noctua) on the Plains near #Trujillo, #Extremadura, SW Spain. Captured here in its usual habitat: a dry stone wall. @helenbennett.bsky.social #ECK #Nature #Photography
Right in the centre of the photo a small Owl is facing left, but looking towards the camera. It's plumage is a mixture of white, with mostly light brown covered in small white spots. It's sitting in (and surrounded by) small lichen covered stones.
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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Advocate's Close, High Street, Edinburgh, 1868, photo by Archibald Burns (Scottish National Gallery).
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Susanna Reece @susannareece.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
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Louise Blight @louiseblight.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Adélie Penguins on sea ice, McMurdo Sound, Antarctica. #BirdOfTheDay #AtOneWithNature #birds #seabirds #wildlife #Antarctica
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Shetland News @shetnews.co.uk · 12/08/2026
Islanders were able to enjoy as once in a generation solar eclipse on Wednesday evening despite extensive cloud cover on the wester horizon. Thanks to everybody who has send in photos of tonight's eclipse shet.news/v24w7
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Susanna Reece @susannareece.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
A very enjoyable visit to Culross @n-t-s.bsky.social on my journey south from Aberdeen to Tebay today and an appropriate quote from @ursulakleguin.com
Signboard about Culross, which is the start of  the Fife Pilgrim Way to St Andrew’s via Dunfermline. The board explains that in mediaeval times this journey was as popular as the pilgrimage to Santiago di CompostelaView of the coast across the Firth of Forth at Culross in Fife, Scotland with a railway line running next to itA view from above of Culross, Scotland A quote by Ursula K Le Guin on a board in Culross, Scotland - “It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.”
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Susanna Reece @susannareece.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Crocosmia, Rosa Rugosa hips and Meadow Vetchling in the verges of #Shetland for #WildflowerHour @bsbibotany.bsky.social @bsbiscotland.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social
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Headington News @headingtonnews.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Happy birthday, Headington Shark: 40 years old today www.headington.org.uk/shark/
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Steve Rosenberg @bbcstever.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
40 years ago I began my Russian degree course at the University of Leeds. It was the era of perestroika & glasnost. Who could have imagined then what the world would look like four decades on. At night, on a short wave radio, I’d listen to music from the USSR. I still remember some of the melodies.
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My Russia journey began forty years ago
YouTube video by Steve Rosenberg
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Friends of Friendless Churches @friendlesschurches.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Cote Baptist Chapel in Oxfordshire was described in the county’s 1977 edition of The Buildings of England as resembling ‘good industrial buildings of c.1800’. 1/7
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Ross Mackenzie @rossmackenzie.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Wet and blustery morning at Sumburgh Head - but still lots of puffins on the cliffs #Shetland
Puffins in the rain Puffin with muddy beakPuffin on the rocksPuffin preening
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Susanna Reece @susannareece.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Fabulous photos of #Shetland puffins, pufflings and other auks from @rossmackenzie.bsky.social
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Mr. Symphonist @deeplyclassical.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
#NewReleases2026 #155 Love Haydn? Like Mozart? Enjoy early Beethoven? Then check out Paul Wranitzky (1756-1808), the symphonist they all rated. This smashing disc of three symphonies (he wrote 47 that we know of) is further proof that Howard Griffiths deserves a knighthood for services to music!
https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/9876928--paul-wranitzky-symphonies-op-35-nos-1-3
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Susanna Reece @susannareece.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
OSCE media freedom should surely have more than 127 followers on Blue Sky - @oscemediafreedom.bsky.social @lewisgoodall.com @jessicaelgot.bsky.social @hern.bsky.social
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Emily Jane Rothwell 🖤🌸🖋️ @emjanerothwell.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
the magic of the owl king art by Hannah Willow
A barn owl wears a gold necklace & crown made of gold leaves, the frame is gilded, &,  in the background, the owl is surrounded by a starry night & moon; it’s a majestic & magical portrait of regal owl, but the quiet portrait is enchanting & yet humble.
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Gaucin, Andalucia, Spain. Crocheted umbrella street decorations which also create shade made by local women's groups #WomensArt #Summer
Photo looking up to diamond shaped crochet decorations suspended above a narrow street with white houses all against a blue sky
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Susanna Reece @susannareece.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Have just had exactly the same thoughts.
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alexvonwitzleben.bsky.social @alexvonwitzleben.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
In Amsterdam, residents can apply for the city to remove the pavement stones and prepare a narrow planting bed helping Dutch streets become greener, cooler and better prepared for heavy rain. #ActOnClimate #Smartcities #ClimateActionNow
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Ross Mackenzie @rossmackenzie.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Another beautiful calm morning at Sumburgh Head - decent number of puffins about - including at least one lovely puffling. #shetland
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Simon Nixon @nixonsimon.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
How Europe lost the Battle of Ceuta; the four horsemen of the summer apocalypse; why Europe faces a climate sovereign doom loop; and why the Clacton by-election is not a joke - latest edition of Wealth of Nations just published open.substack.com/pub/nixons/p...
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Europe's Defeat
How Europe lost the Battle of Ceuta; the four horsemen of the summer apocalypse; why Europe faces a climate sovereign doom loop; and why the Clacton by-election is not a joke
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Susanna Reece @susannareece.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
@wildflowerhour.bsky.social #ByTheSea I can do! #Shetland @bsbibotany.bsky.social @bsbiscotland.bsky.social
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Ross Mackenzie @rossmackenzie.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Lots of puffin (& puffling) activity at Sumburgh Head in the morning sunshine #Shetland #pufflings
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