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Richard E (The Bean Barn)

@thebeanbarn.bsky.social
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🇦🇺Coffee roaster (retired), CFA, grandad to 8. Interests: coffee (of course), history/archeology 🇦🇺Trust for Nature conservancy. Wadawurrung/Dja Dja Wurrung country. There is no planet B.

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Richard E (The Bean Barn) @thebeanbarn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
A very very small “town” (population about 500 and we don’t even have a shop) named Dereel. Victoria,Australia 37°49’0”S 143°45’0”E We have a 15 acre block mostly bush.
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Richard E (The Bean Barn) @thebeanbarn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Happy to be cat-napped today 🙏🙏❤️💙
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Richard E (The Bean Barn) @thebeanbarn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Definite proof that Spring has arrived here. 🙏🙏❤️💙
Two adult Aust Wood Ducks with 15 ducklings. Green grass with bush behind.
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Richard E (The Bean Barn) @thebeanbarn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Spring flowers. Yay
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Richard E (The Bean Barn) @thebeanbarn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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Richard E (The Bean Barn) @thebeanbarn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Morning Rob
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Richard E (The Bean Barn) @thebeanbarn.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Cheeky - a semi wild Sulphur Crested Cockatoo feeding from a hand. #BirdsCloseUp #BirdoftheDay 🙏🙏❤️💙
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Richard E (The Bean Barn) @thebeanbarn.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
If you see this, post a picture of you getaway vehicle 🙏🙏❤️💙
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Richard E (The Bean Barn) @thebeanbarn.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
This is/was Kookie. A semi tame wild kookaburra who was here when we bought our place. Instantly recognisable because she had no primary tail feathers (looked like a buzz bomb when she flew). She would come from the back forest if I had food for her. Got hit by a car and she died in my arms.🙏🙏❤️💙💔
Australian kookaburra - a big kingfisher - being held in a pair of hands.
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Richard E (The Bean Barn) @thebeanbarn.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
And so we must join 🇨🇦 here in 🇦🇺 Let’s get the toxic out of our lives
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Richard E (The Bean Barn) @thebeanbarn.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
January sunset, Sthn Vic, Aust
Sunset through gum trees. Corner of house dam on the left side. Southern Victoria, Australia
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Richard E (The Bean Barn) @thebeanbarn.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
At our local place it’s crimson rosellas, sulphur crested cockatoos, wrens, eastern spinebills, plus lots of little brown birds
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Richard E (The Bean Barn) @thebeanbarn.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Damn - I’ve been cat-napped again
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Richard E (The Bean Barn) @thebeanbarn.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
@ournewhomecoach.bsky.social
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Richard E (The Bean Barn) @thebeanbarn.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
It’s @sandyhorne.bsky.social month on the BOM calendar
Photo on calendar of South Australian dust devils. Photographed by accomplished photographer Sandy Horne.
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Richard E (The Bean Barn) @thebeanbarn.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
This morning (Australia)
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Richard E (The Bean Barn) @thebeanbarn.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
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Richard E (The Bean Barn) @thebeanbarn.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
The rainbow lorikeets are back. Bullied all our cockatoos and rosellas away
Pair of rainbow lorikeets on a bird feeder surrounded by bush
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Richard E (The Bean Barn) @thebeanbarn.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
I’ve been cat-napped. Not moving until dinner time. 🙏🙏❤️💙
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Richard E (The Bean Barn) @thebeanbarn.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
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Richard E (The Bean Barn) @thebeanbarn.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Warning. And it still worries me 8yrs later
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Richard E (The Bean Barn) @thebeanbarn.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
I’ve been grounded
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Richard E (The Bean Barn) @thebeanbarn.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
I thought (when I got home) “we don’t a broken branch like that!”
Sitting on a branch (4 metres above the ground) a Tawny Frogmouth. Southern Australia.
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Richard E (The Bean Barn) @thebeanbarn.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Oh look - it started to burn - what a pity (absolutely not) 🙏🙏❤️💙
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Richard E (The Bean Barn) @thebeanbarn.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Equal best place for coffee in Ballarat (Pleasant St)
119 pleasant st. Ballarat
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Richard E (The Bean Barn) @thebeanbarn.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Play on! 🙏🙏❤️💙
Just do it for Neale. Play on! Big Freeze 12 beanie with the late Neale Daniher on the background TV
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Richard E (The Bean Barn) @thebeanbarn.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
a cup of coffee with Australian bush in the background
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Richard E (The Bean Barn) @thebeanbarn.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
That’s me today! (From FB)🙏🙏❤️💙
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Richard E (The Bean Barn) @thebeanbarn.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Australian kookaburra (kookie) just after being hit by a car.
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Richard E (The Bean Barn) @thebeanbarn.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
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Richard E (The Bean Barn) @thebeanbarn.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Had some vitamin B(ush) A few common heath, some tiny greenhood orchids, hundreds of parsons bands orchids, thousands and thousands of mosquito orchids, greenhood leaves (sp to be determined in spring), tracks of kangaroos and echidnas and trees, lots of trees.
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Richard E (The Bean Barn) @thebeanbarn.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
And here’s my view atm
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Richard E (The Bean Barn) @thebeanbarn.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Thank to @janeygodley.bsky.social Just a quick reminder
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Richard E (The Bean Barn) @thebeanbarn.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
I’m sitting under a 150yr old oak tree in the middle of Ballarat’s main drag. In the shade and watching the tourists enjoy the town. I’m reasonably content. 🙏🙏❤️💙
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Richard E (The Bean Barn) @thebeanbarn.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
@callissclan.bsky.social Incoming?
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Richard E (The Bean Barn) @thebeanbarn.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
#BirdOfTheDay #yellow
Australian sulphur crested cockatoo (named Cheeky but a wild bird) who will eat from our hand.
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Richard E (The Bean Barn) @thebeanbarn.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
I’ll raise you our weather
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Richard E (The Bean Barn) @thebeanbarn.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
This comes with a huge WARNING (All that was wrong in Aust at the time) #Coldest100Worldleaders
Huge fucknuckle former aust pm. Flag mask upside down reflecting the parlous state of the pandemic and scotty from marketing’s tenure.
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Richard E (The Bean Barn) @thebeanbarn.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
A royal commission is called for after bondi what about one for these women? @albomp.bsky.social @catherineking.bsky.social Hancock Lane Ballarat.
The wall of photos of women unlawfully killed only since 2004.The key to the wall of photos of women unlawfully killed since 2014
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Richard E (The Bean Barn) @thebeanbarn.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Alt theme - this is Cheeky, a wild bird who loves to interact with us. 🙏🙏❤️💙
Sulphur crested cockatoo - bowing and greeting the photographer
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Richard E (The Bean Barn) @thebeanbarn.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Thank @janeygodley.bsky.social for reminding us
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Richard E (The Bean Barn) @thebeanbarn.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
And this one!
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Richard E (The Bean Barn) @thebeanbarn.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Really weird - temp down from 32° to 15° misty rain but still a nthly wind!
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Richard E (The Bean Barn) @thebeanbarn.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
And this is where he’s buried.
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Richard E (The Bean Barn) @thebeanbarn.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
At home just sth of Ballarat. That’s COLD 🥶
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Richard E (The Bean Barn) @thebeanbarn.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
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Richard E (The Bean Barn) @thebeanbarn.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
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Richard E (The Bean Barn) @thebeanbarn.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
Apropos of absolutely nothing and courtesy of @profaliceroberts.bsky.social (Domination p241) further proof that trickle down economics DOES NOT work and has never worked
‘What is’t to us, if taxes rise and fall, Thanks to our fortune, we pay none at all’
(Charles Churchill, 18th- century satarist
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Richard E (The Bean Barn) @thebeanbarn.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
Good morning merry xmas and my entrance will look like this
Coffee cup in the Australian bush on xmas morning
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Richard E (The Bean Barn) @thebeanbarn.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
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