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Save Redland Library @saveredlandlibr.bsky.social · 4m

1:45pm TODAY on @BBCRadio4

Winter Well
Ep 2 of 5, Let the Light In

Hayden Lorimer offers a guide to thriving in winter, sharing advice on how to get through the darker months.

BBC Radio 4 - Winter Well, Episode 2 - Let the Light In

A guide to thriving in winter, offering advice on how to get through the darker months.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Woodland Trust Scotland @wtscotsocial.bsky.social · 1h

A mature 'flying' rowan growing alongside a yew at Loch Lomond. Sometimes called 'cuckoo' or 'air' trees, flying trees are often rowans, because their seeds are easily deposited in high branches by birds. Unusual to see one so big though! 'Flying' tree facts 👉 buff.ly/pBJNCJo #ThickTrunkTuesday

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Mary Jo Richards @mjrichards.bsky.social · 1h

#thicktrunktuesday contribution
📷 Minolta Maxxum 7000
🎞️ Kodak Ultramax 400
#believeinfilm
#filmphotography
#trees
#filmisnotdead

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Rick M @rickmartin.bsky.social · 1h

#ThickTrunkTuesday #Trees #TreeClub #EastCoastKin 🌱🌳

Tree by a bridge on a small stream in the woods

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FungiJoJofromCanada @fungijojo.bsky.social · 1h

Happy #thicktrunktuesday

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Jason Baluyut @jasonbaluyut.bsky.social · 41m

#ThickTrunkTuesday
#TextureTuesday
Tree and field, stones and sunlight.

#photography #trees #stones #texture #lightandshadow

Photo of the trunk of a mature tree growing in a gap in a low wall of stacked stones. The image highlights the texture of the stones and bark, dappled with sunlight. Beyond the tree and stone wall is a vivid green field with mown grass and distant trees. Taken at the Glass House historic site in New Canaan, Connecticut.

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𝕋𝕪 𝕊𝕦𝕝𝕝𝕚𝕧𝕒𝕟 ☮️💟🕉️ @thetysullivan.bsky.social · 36m

“Limbs Like #Cobwebs Touched The Sky”

#31DaysofHalloween #Spooktober
#ThickTrunkTuesday
#EastCoastKin
#blackandwhitephotography #bnw #ClassicMono #PhotographersUnited #PhotographersOfBlueSky #tree #forest

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Save Redland Library @saveredlandlibr.bsky.social · 17m

1:05pm TODAY on @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social

The 1943 #Romantic #Comedy film🎥 “THE MORE THE MERRIER” directed by George Stevens from a screenplay by Robert Russell, Frank Ross, Richard Flournoy + Lewis R Foster

🌟Jean Arthur, Joel McCrea, Charles Coburn, Richard Gaines. Bruce Bennett, Frank Sully

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Save Redland Library @saveredlandlibr.bsky.social · 50m

Shared for #PenguinTuesday 🐧

Adelie Penguins

Dr Michelle LaRue @drmichellelarue.bsky.social · 9h

Adelie penguins porpoise because it's efficient and it allows them to breathe while they are hurrying to wherever they are going which in this case was back to the colony at Paulet Island
🧪🌍🦑🦉

Full shot of dozens of Adelie penguins porpoising out of the water with an ice shelf in the distance

Save Redland Library @saveredlandlibr.bsky.social · 51m

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Blue Penguin

Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 1d

Blue penguins are the smallest species of penguins in the world and are largely solitary at sea (hence why it's not with other penguins) This blue penguin adult had a severe head wound and was entangled in a plastic net. New Zealand's coast is often under rough conditions.

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Save Redland Library @saveredlandlibr.bsky.social · 28d

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Acid Rain @bearysweet.bsky.social · 28d

Behold, the March of the Baby Penguins.

🐧🐧🐧

#penguins #adorable #penguinchicks

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Save Redland Library @saveredlandlibr.bsky.social · 28d

Shared for #PenguinTuesday 🐧

Penguins of World☑️ @penguins--ofworld.bsky.social · 28d

African penguins at Boulders Beach, South Africa 2019.

#PenguinLove #PenguinFacts #PenguinWatch

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Save Redland Library @saveredlandlibr.bsky.social · 53m

1pm TODAY on @pbsamerica.bsky.social

The Man Who Destroyed Oscar Wilde

2022 documentary on the epic story of the famous playwright's downfall. #OscarWilde's grandson, Merlin Holland, tells of the man whom Wilde called a friend but who fought a court duel against him.

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Save Redland Library @saveredlandlibr.bsky.social · 13d

Shared for #TramTuesday

Railmaps @railmaps.com.au · 29d

Today's historic pic: L class tram no 104 running a trip to Royal Park Zoo in Elizabeth St, Melbourne, March 9 1986. 1921-built L class trams were withdrawn from normal service in 1980, but 104 ran these tourist-oriented Sunday zoo trips until the 1990s. She's now at the Hawthorn Tramway museum.

Tall commercial buildings line each side of a commercial street in the central business district of Melbourne with the tower of Flinders Street station forming a terminated vista in the background. An L class tram in brown and cream livery with the number 104 painted in gold leaf on its front apron is approaching us with a number of 1970s/80s era private cars either side of it. The tram is displaying a ZOO Royal Park on its desto roll, and hung from its near side front window is a handwritten supplementary board displaying the same destination.

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Save Redland Library @saveredlandlibr.bsky.social · 13d

Shared for #TramTuesday

David Hearn @daveyph.bsky.social · Sep 3

Tram cars in Lime St Liverpool during the 1911 transport strike.

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Save Redland Library @saveredlandlibr.bsky.social · 13d

Shared for #TramTuesday

Stephen Frost @sfrost.bsky.social · Jul 6

“… trams are nothing new on the streets of Bristol. The city was one of the first in the country and indeed the world to install a tram network, and at its heyday it was the envy of many other cities”

Good history lesson on Bristol’s extensive old tram network: www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol...

The 1910 map of Bristol's tram network(Image: Visitors' Guide to Bristol + Clifton, Bristol Tramways & Carriage Co. 1911)

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OnlyHans @hanswesterink1969.bsky.social · 7d

Museumtramstel in #Amsterdam (August 2025)
#tramtuesday #tram #trolley #vintage #museum #GVB #EMA

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Vin Marsden Hendrick @vinmh.bsky.social · 6d

I’m actually in Berlin atm, but today we popped to nearby Potsdam and checked out the trams there. Each vehicle is unidirectional, with doors only on the right-hand side and turning loops at each terminus. The system has run continuously since 1907. #TramTuesday

A Tatra KT4 tram and a Variotram, both in the green and white livery of the Potsdam tramway, waiting on the turning loop of the terminus at Rehbrücke.

An orange liveried track maintenance vehicle, near the Alter Markt stop of the Potsdam Tramway.

A green and white Variotram of the Potsdam tramway passing through the Nauener gate.

Two green and white Tatta KT4 trams of the Potsdam Tramway passing each other near the Nauener gate.

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Save Redland Library @saveredlandlibr.bsky.social · 58m

Suggested read for #TramTuesday

Mike @mikeyashworth.bsky.social · Jan 10

On this day, 10 Jan 1949, Manchester finally managed to abandon its first generation electric tramways - a process started over a decade earlier but delayed by war. The brochure commemorating the event. @showmeasign.online #transport #manchester

↘️ flic.kr/p/absDCF

Manchester was one of the first British cities to repudiate the first generation of tramways - the electrified system opened in 1901 (under municipal control) having started life as horse drawn tramways in 1877. By the late 1920s the city decided to replace the tram system with buses - and, although the Department felt put upon, trolleybuses. The trams would most likely have gone c1941/2 but for the outbreak of war - it took another decade to finally scrap the system. Now, of course, Manchester is in the vanguard of re-introducing electric traction to the UK in the form of Metrolink.

The cover commemorating the end of the system on 10 January 1949 shows the whole gamut of varying forms of transportation that formed part of the history of the tram (including horse drawn ones) - the last illustration is of the last type of cars built for the city, known as Pilcher cars, many of which saw secondhand service in other towns after Manchester scrapped them. All text and illustrations are in white on a blue background and the city's coat of arms is also shown

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Save Redland Library @saveredlandlibr.bsky.social · 59m

Shared for #TramTuesday Bell worn by a horse that pulled one of the Dublin trams of yesteryear

Karl Burke @karlburke.bsky.social · Jul 6

76 years ago today (1949), the last tram of the Dublin United Tramway Company ran to Dalkey. This bell was worn by a horse pulling one of the earlier trams, the network having started electrification in 1901.
#history #transport #Dublin #Ireland

A brass bell which would have been worn by a horse pulling a Dublin tram in the late 19th C. to the early decades of the 20th C.

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Save Redland Library @saveredlandlibr.bsky.social · 1h

12:55pm TODAY on @Film4

The 1955 #Western film🎥 “THE VIOLENT MEN” directed by Rudolph Maté & written by Harry Kleiner

Based on Donald Hamilton’s 1955 novel📖 “Smoky Valley”

🌟Glenn Ford, Edward G. Robinson, Barbara Stanwyck, Dianne Foster, Brian Keith, May Wynn