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Ana McKellar
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Always curious. On a narrowboat, hoping for a passivhaus one day.
Landscape history, nature and biodiversity.
Partially-sighted. Please use descriptive alt-text to help screen-readers and include all.
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4aamari.bsky.social
December’s curtain rises
a voluminous sweep of opening and silvering clouds lifts above golden glowing horizon over marshland waters sparkling silver and swirling frozen edges
December 7, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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Coventry Canal and Oxford Canal at Hawkesbury Junction. Both were troubled projects, the Coventry requiring completion by two other canal companies and the Oxford requiring a second Act to raise the funds to complete it.
#boatlife
#ukcanals #canal #narrowboat
#KeepCanalsAlive #FundBritainsWaterways
Photo taken from the top of a cast-iron footbridge over the junction of the Coventry Canal, which passes down the left hand side of the image, and the Oxford Canal, which begins at the junction. In the middle distance to the left stands the former pump house which fed the Coventry with water. To the right, a stop lock watched over by a lock-keeper's cottage protected the water of the two separately owned canal companies.
December 8, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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4aamari.bsky.social
we had dreamed of snow
neighborhood streetlights on new-fallen snow on lens and eyelashes makes dream of sky and trees above
December 7, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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catherinemmunro.bsky.social
My book,Ponies at the Edge of the World, tells the story of Shetland ponies and the people who love them. Based on my PhD research, and journey to live in #Shetland, it reflects on how our relationship with others, human, animal and landscape, affect how we feel at home in a place
Chestnut Shetland pony with flaxen mane with brown Shetland pony behind with ponies at the edge of the world in foreground
December 8, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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allantadams.bsky.social
74-78 Low Petergate, York.
76 Petergate, in the middle, a 3-storey 15th century building with a 2-storey 16th century block to rear. In the 19th century an arched carriageway was pushed through the front range to give access to the rear of number 74, to left, today numbered 74A.

#pencil #drawing
Pencil drawing of a street scene with people passing three storey buildings. In the centre is a medieval building with overhanging storeys that have been altered with an arched doorway. To the right is another timber framed building with overhanging upper floors.
December 8, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar, window 8
‘Winter Farmyard’
Artist: Ronald Lampitt
On a snowy day, a small figure with his dog shines a torch as he walks past a snow-topped barn. This barn has strong echoes of ‘the repair shop’
December 8, 2025 at 8:06 AM
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Last restock of seaglass pendents and earings before Christmas 🎄
All handmade with glass found on #Shetland beaches. Will be restocking fairy lights soon!

www.etsy.com/uk/shop/Shet...
Blue and green seaglass earings Blue and green seaglass pendents
December 8, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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There’s a bit more to this story! The college barges were the precursor to the college boathouses you see today: they were used for viewing and drinking, sure, but also changing, land training, and equipment storage.
They’re a remarkable bit of Oxford and rowing history- short thread incoming
hbsj.bsky.social Hugh Jones @hbsj.bsky.social · 20h
Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of @ox.ac.uk's barges which used to be moored along the Thames, or Isis, in Oxford

Ideal platforms for the drinking of Pimms and general larking about, whilst more sporty types rowed

If you like this image, please retweet it - remember, BlueSky has #NoAlgorithm
An old monochrome picture postcard showing various barges, with recreational cabins, moored along one side of a river
December 8, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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myshetland.co.uk/dreich-2/

Hasn't stopped raining all day.

#myshetland #shetland #dreich #sheep #shetlandponies #shetlandislands
Dreich
I don’t think it is actually going to stop raining until next year.  It was dreich (a great word for today). And it was just getting light when I went outside serving up breakfast to everyone…
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December 8, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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Beginners Classes in Stained Glass run throughout the year at www.stainedglass.scot/nightclasses...
Gift Vouchers available.
Beginners Classes in Stained Glass
We offer a wide range of classes for people of all experience levels, from complete beginners to advanced students. Weekend workshops or evening night classes.
www.stainedglass.scot
December 8, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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The point is: lots of people will have accepted the first image because it looks kind of right and it's on an art page. The doctored image is already turning up in search results. We are cooked if we don't start to push back against this stuff. AI is poisonous to human endeavour, pass it on <end>
December 8, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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#Day7

This is the time
When alders proclaim
The One Truth

When you have lived through
Your Spring
And your Summer
And then your Autumn

And you are now
Living through the long nights
Of your Winter
All that lies ahead of you
Is your waiting Spring

#DailyNature #naturewriting #life #winter #spring
Alder catkins and cones, drip in winter rain and remind us that, while we may be taken up with winter, it and all our plant and tree neighbours are reading for spring.
December 7, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’
jonkingh.bsky.social Jonathan Kingham @jonkingh.bsky.social · 2d
This is so disgusting.
December 7, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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lbflyawayhome.bsky.social
Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar
Window 7
‘Frost’
Artist: CF Tunnicliffe
A view over a ploughed field towards an ancient barn topped with snow. There is a hard hoar frost tracing cobwebs and making the going hard for the corvids in the field
December 7, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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I discovered that the building on the corner of Petergate has Yorkshire sash windows upstairs drawing this. Saving the doorway on the left for when the light is better. Structurally the archway cut into a jetty makes no sense.

#ArchitecturalIllustration
#pencil #drawing
An incomplete pencil drawing of timber framed buildings. Some of the drawing is lightly worked in outline while other parts are shaded to portray the scene in monochrome tones. An arch at the lower left is interesting because it is built into the structure in a strange way. A pencil and eraser resting on a piece of paper on an incomplete pencil drawing.
December 7, 2025 at 8:36 AM
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The Goring Gap from Lardon Chase is a spectacular view of Streatley and Goring on Thames, which are picturesque villages on the borders of Berkshire and Oxfordshire.
The River Thames runs through the valley on its way to London and cuts between the Berkshire Downs and the Chilterns.
Oil on board.
The Goring Gap. Oil on board by Anna Dillo
December 7, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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Some research drawings I did in 2022 when I had a commission form reconstruction drawings & other illustrations for a booklet on the Westmorland Dales. 1 of the drawings was a similar building to the 1st pic, a seasonal cottage. The sheep came in handy as well as the stone walls.

#pencil #drawing
Pencil sketch of a two-room cottage on the site of a ruin, with drystone walls & corrugated iron roof covering an earlier turf roof. Pencil sketch of a seasonal herdman's hut made of drystone walls with turf roof. To the right of the doorway a black patch marks a vent for a fireplace instead of a chimney. Pencil sketch of a Wharfedale sheep with other sheep sheltering behind a wall in the background and field barn beyond the wall. In the distance some hills are lightly shaded. Pencil sketch of a flock of sheep entering a sheep fold.
December 7, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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By the river at sunrise OTD in 2023
An orange sunrise. There is a misty river at left, and a footpath down the middle with a tree beside it. There are frosted green grass and plants at right.
December 6, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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The serrated peaks of Patagonia's Mount Cerro Torre, one of nature's outstanding sculptures, softly emerge from a veil of clouds, as they are touched by the early morning light.

#photography #travel #bluesky #nature #landscape #naturephotography #landscapephotography #mountains
December 6, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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Meadow cyclist at sunrise OTD in 2023
Cyclist on a frosty field as the sun rises through trees and mist. The sky changes colour from gold at the sun level up to pale blue above.
December 6, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar, window 6
‘Lane in Winter’
Artist: Rowland Hilder
The early winter light over snow has created and almost apricot coloured sky. The country Lane is probably in Kent and we see a small farm yard with oast houses
December 6, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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#Day6

The day builds with mythic light
And the whispered scent of rain.
Six swans leave their echo
Of wing-song on the air.
The bleat of a sheep
Caught tight among the briar.
The golden rain haze
In the west
Draws closer.

#DailyNature #naturewriting #naturepoetry
December 6, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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Behold! The famous Orkney Library & Archive knitted #Christmas tree begins another season of festive cheer in the library! 🎄🧶❤️
A Christmas tree made of knitted squares with knitted and crocheted decorations
December 6, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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We’ve had Black Friday & Cyber Monday, today is #SmallBusinessSaturday.

Maybe if you have Christmas shopping to do or just fancy a treat for yourself maybe consider buying from a small business … makes a real difference to real people 😊

www.wild-indigo.com
December 6, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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PODCAST

Last night, I walked along the sea, finally remembered to open NIGHTTIME ON STILL WATERS, and as I listened a smile settled on my face.

Listening is soothing without being shallow, it’s like meeting thoughts which are old friends and for once come together in a carefree space.

Thank you!
Nighttime on Still Waters
This is the Narrowboat 'Erica' narrowcasting into the night from somewhere on Britain's canals and waterways. A podcast that gently explores life afloat (and on la…
www.noswpod.com
December 5, 2025 at 10:33 PM