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Richard Bell @wildyorkshire.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The Blusher and the Boletus Eater at Sutton Bank. wildyorkshire.blog/2026/09/the-...

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Richard Bell @wildyorkshire.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Inspired by Hugh Richards' book 'Veg in One Bed', I'm keen to keep growing what I can during the autumn. #veggarden #veginonebed #gardenjournal wildyorkshire.blog/2026/09/veg-...

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Richard Bell @wildyorkshire.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

It hasn't been a good year for our cordon apples. #apple #penandink #gardensketchbook wildyorkshire.blog/2026/09/cord...

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Richard Bell @wildyorkshire.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

From my summer 1992 sketchbook, a gritstone wall on Penistone Hill, Haworth. wildyorkshire.blog/2026/09/peni...

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Richard Bell @wildyorkshire.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Millstone Edge, near Hathersage. #millstoneedger #millstonegrit #yorkshirerock wildyorkshire.blog/2026/09/mill...

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Richard Bell @wildyorkshire.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

A weasel carries a small rodent - or possibly a kit (one of its young) - across Balk Lane. #weasel #naturejournal #wildlifesketchbook wildyorkshire.blog/2026/09/weas...

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Richard Bell @wildyorkshire.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

“this vile, dirty planet of ours, – which, o’ my conscience, with reverence be it spoken, I take to be made up of the shreds and clippings of the rest . . ." We’re planning a trip to Shandy Hall so I thought that it was about time that I tackled 'Tristram Shandy'. wildyorkshire.blog/2026/09/shre...

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Richard Bell @wildyorkshire.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The tail-less squirrel we've been watching in the back garden came visiting yesterday, entering via our open patio window and getting almost as far as the fireplace before Barbara, who was reading on the sofa, looked up and spotted it. wildyorkshire.blog/2026/09/the-...

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Richard Bell @wildyorkshire.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Sandstone blocks in the raised bed behind the pond. #gardensketchbook #penandink #drawingrocks wildyorkshire.blog/2026/09/sand...

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Richard Bell @wildyorkshire.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

These nursery web spiders hunt in our little patch of meadow. The female constructs a tent-like nursery web between grass stems. The perfect mother but not he ideal mate: the male presents her with a silk-wrapped prey item – perhaps to avoid being eaten himself! wildyorkshire.blog/2026/08/nurs...

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Richard Bell @wildyorkshire.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I headed into Coxley Wood for some shade yesterday. wildyorkshire.blog/2026/08/gree...

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Richard Bell @wildyorkshire.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I've been getting used to my new hiking boots gradually, building up to trying them on the circuit of Langsett Reservoir a couple of weeks ago. #vivobarefoot #forestESC #hikingboot wildyorkshire.blog/2026/08/fore...

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Richard Bell @wildyorkshire.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Crescent-shaped patterns on the wall as yesterday's eclipse was projected through a lattice of foliage and the vertical blinds of the Primrose Hall, Horbury. You can get a similar effect by projecting the Sun’s disc through a colander. wildyorkshire.blog/2026/08/part...

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Richard Bell @wildyorkshire.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Lion head, Old Babylonian, in the Burrel Collection. and, yes, it does look more like a baboon from the side view. wildyorkshire.blog/2026/08/the-...

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Richard Bell @wildyorkshire.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Stoneycliffe Wood this morning. wildyorkshire.blog/2026/07/off-...

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Richard Bell @wildyorkshire.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

A mole snuffles around in the leaf litter at the edge of the woodland path, ploughing through the acorns, twigs and leaf litter. #mole #naturejournal #wildlifesketches wildyorkshire.blog/2026/06/unde...

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Richard Bell @wildyorkshire.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

This Highland calf at Blacker Hall Farm was keeping out of the sun in the shelter of a mesh awning, venturing out only briefly to check out the food trough. wildyorkshire.blog/2026/06/chew...

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Richard Bell @wildyorkshire.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

The sandstone wall of the bed behind our pond. #penandwash #watercoloursketch #gardensketchbook wildyorkshire.blog/2026/05/rais...

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Richard Bell @wildyorkshire.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Wentbridge with Wakefield Nats at the weekend. Many thanks to our guide, Les Driffield. wildyorkshire.blog/2026/05/magn...

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Richard Bell @wildyorkshire.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Drawing the pigmy goats at Blacker Hall Farm reminds me of the two-minute pose warm-up drawings at the start of a life-drawing class. #blackerhallfarm #drawinggoats #pigmygoats wildyorkshire.blog/2026/04/pigm...

Just in case you haven't had enough goats . . .

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Richard Bell @wildyorkshire.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Clippings collected by Sophia Barnett, a young worsted cloth mender who worked in Valley Mills, Pudsey, over a century ago. I'm struggling to find the identity of the cartoon character, referred to as 'Smiler'. Any ideas? wildyorkshire.blog/2026/04/soph...

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Richard Bell @wildyorkshire.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Dog violet, germander speedwell, tawny ming bee and an alderfly on our walk by the river and canal this morning. wildyorkshire.blog/2026/03/rive...

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Richard Bell @wildyorkshire.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Remembering Rob, who I’ve drawn as a grizzled mariner: the guy who scans the horizon for pods of rogue orcas; a safe hand at the wheel as the sun rises over the Sahara off the port bow. wildyorkshire.blog/2026/02/remb...

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Richard Bell @wildyorkshire.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

A wood pigeon poddles along, following a potential mate. She's not impressed. #birdsketches #naturejournal #gardenbirds wildyorkshire.blog/2026/02/laug...

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Richard Bell @wildyorkshire.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

It’s time to get those boots muddy again. My regular ‘Wild Yorkshire’ nature diary in February’s ‘Dalesman’ on the alleged benefits of yomping through mud and splashing through puddles. No, honestly, you’ll enjoy it :-) #dalesman #walking #muddywalks wildyorkshire.blog/2026/01/clag...

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Richard Bell @wildyorkshire.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

A heist, a tapestry and a flood. Councillor Oddie and novelist Stan Barstow feature in my article in February’s ‘Dalesman’ magazine, ‘Stones, Stitches and Stories’ celebrating 120 years of Horbury’s Carnegie Free Library. #dalesman #horburylibrary #CarnegieFreeLibrary #mariecorelli #stanbarstow

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Richard Bell @wildyorkshire.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Staying with my penfriend, Philippe, Le Havre, Easter, 1968. #lehavre #1968 #traveljournal wildyorkshire.blog/2026/01/leav...

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Richard Bell @wildyorkshire.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Not the ideal reading for a 40-hour journey, April, 1968: "I attempted to Read Origin of the Species but heard voices and saw faces in the corridor out of the corners of my eye and the spaces between the type on the page formed figures suggested by the narrative” wildyorkshire.blog/2026/01/orig...

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Richard Bell @wildyorkshire.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

As part of a revamp of our front garden, I’ve just replanted half a bucket of daffodils, which, as they were all tête-à-tête, amounted to several hundred. They should be in flower in a month or two. #daffodils #procreatedrawing #ipadprocreate wildyorkshire.blog/2026/01/daff...

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Richard Bell @wildyorkshire.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

As usual, some of the star birds we’d hope for, such as the great-spotted woodpecker and the sparrowhawk, didn’t put in an appearance as we completed this year’s hour of observation for the RSPB’s Big Garden Birdwatch. #biggardenbirdwatch #gardenbirds wildyorkshire.blog/2026/01/big-...

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Richard Bell @wildyorkshire.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

RSPB St Aidan's this morning. wildyorkshire.blog/2026/01/st-a...

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Richard Bell @wildyorkshire.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

House spider and logs at Nostell. #housespider #spidersketches wildyorkshire.blog/2026/01/hous...

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Richard Bell @wildyorkshire.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

Soot-blackened sheep on the Peak District moors, from an archive 'Look at Life' film, c.1960. #sheep #hillsheep #peakdistrict wildyorkshire.blog/2026/01/soot...

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Richard Bell @wildyorkshire.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

The days are getting longer but by the time I get around to painting this in the late afternoon, getting on for half past four, the light is fading fast. #watercolour #sketchbook #watercoloursketch wildyorkshire.blog/2026/01/fadi...

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Richard Bell @wildyorkshire.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

A flying visit from the sparrowhawk. #wildlifesketchbook #gardenbirds #naturesketchbook wildyorkshire.blog/2026/01/28670/

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Richard Bell @wildyorkshire.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Facing upstream, I get the impression that the Hepworth is gently moving, the feeling you get when you’re on a train in a station and the train on the adjacent line starts gradually edging away in the opposite direction. #thehepworth #RiverCalder #sketchbook wildyorkshire.blog/2026/01/the-...

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Richard Bell @wildyorkshire.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

We hear a flock of grey geese – probably pink-footed – approaching. They’re flying low, heading slightly north of east, towards the Calder Valley. I guess there are about 200 in a couple of ragged ‘Vs’. #wildlifesketchbook #naturejournal #wildgeese wildyorkshire.blog/2026/01/grey...

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Richard Bell @wildyorkshire.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

On our walk to Emroyd Common, along a footpath between fields we walk through a cloister-like tunnel of hollies. #wildlifesketchbook #naturejournal #holly #footpath wildyorkshire.blog/2026/01/holl...

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Richard Bell @wildyorkshire.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Roe deer and a buzzard impersonator of a frosty, crunchy-underfoot walk through Emroyd Common this morning. #naturejournal #naturesketchbook #roedeer wildyorkshire.blog/2026/01/roe-...

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Richard Bell @wildyorkshire.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Struggling to draw garden birds flitting around the feeders, I realise why I like to get out drawing ducks, geese and swans resting and preening at the water’s edge. #drawingbirds #birdsketches #gardenbirds wildyorkshire.blog/2026/01/bird...

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Richard Bell @wildyorkshire.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Please don't try this at home! #rosemary #culpeper #culpepersherbal wildyorkshire.blog/2026/01/culp...

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Richard Bell @wildyorkshire.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

It must be decades since I last opened this old Quality Street tin, stowed away in the attic. No box lid and I don’t remember the subject – a joust perhaps – so we’re going to have to reconstruct this piece by piece . . . starting with the edges.

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Richard Bell @wildyorkshire.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

Writing Christmas cards is now often the only time of year when I settle into an extended session of writing with a fountain pen. #handwriting #shakyhands wildyorkshire.blog/2025/12/hand...

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Richard Bell @wildyorkshire.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

Yorkshire colour swatches for a Dalesman article that I’m working on. Unfortunately it hasn’t been so colourful today. #yorkshirecolour #naturalcolour #colourswatches wildyorkshire.blog/2025/11/york...

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Richard Bell @wildyorkshire.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

A bit of drama for a forthcoming 'Dalesman' article. #dalesman #procreatedrawing wildyorkshire.blog/2025/11/the-...

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Richard Bell @wildyorkshire.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Novelist Stan Barstow at Lumb Bank, leading an Arvon Foundation creative writing course, 1975. Drawn from a photograph, photographer not credited, in his 2001 autobiography, In My Own Good Time. #stanbarstow #procreatedrawing #bellerivebrush #bellerivepen wildyorkshire.blog/2025/11/stan...

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Richard Bell @wildyorkshire.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

My thanks to Deborah Lough Costumes for information on the lobster-red uniform that my ancestor Billy Swift wore at the Battle of Trafalgar: rose madder dyed cloth for privates, scarlet for officers. #trafalgar #deborahloughcostumes #rosemadder wildyorkshire.blog/2025/11/mari...

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