@azureblue23.bsky.social
Well this is nice ☀️💫🌕
My long life experience finds me grateful for all good things 🤗💐🦋
My long life experience finds me grateful for all good things 🤗💐🦋
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Apparently Shirley said something to Marilyn about a man you'd had who was very good - I must borrow him.
December 6, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Apparently Shirley said something to Marilyn about a man you'd had who was very good - I must borrow him.
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Tonight's 'Cold' 'Supermoon' - the last one of 2025.
Will actually reach 100% truly full around 11pm GMT this evening. Currently just 221,000 miles away!
#astronomy #astrophotography @stormhour.com @photohour.bsky.social
Will actually reach 100% truly full around 11pm GMT this evening. Currently just 221,000 miles away!
#astronomy #astrophotography @stormhour.com @photohour.bsky.social
December 4, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Tonight's 'Cold' 'Supermoon' - the last one of 2025.
Will actually reach 100% truly full around 11pm GMT this evening. Currently just 221,000 miles away!
#astronomy #astrophotography @stormhour.com @photohour.bsky.social
Will actually reach 100% truly full around 11pm GMT this evening. Currently just 221,000 miles away!
#astronomy #astrophotography @stormhour.com @photohour.bsky.social
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NEW FILM - CHRISTMAS SPECIAL 🎄😺
Teddy is taking his Secret Santa seriously this year, delivering some Christmas magic to Simon's Cat and Kitten 🎁
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlot...
Teddy is taking his Secret Santa seriously this year, delivering some Christmas magic to Simon's Cat and Kitten 🎁
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlot...
Secret Santa - Teddy's Gift
YouTube video by Simon's Cat
www.youtube.com
December 4, 2025 at 2:29 PM
NEW FILM - CHRISTMAS SPECIAL 🎄😺
Teddy is taking his Secret Santa seriously this year, delivering some Christmas magic to Simon's Cat and Kitten 🎁
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlot...
Teddy is taking his Secret Santa seriously this year, delivering some Christmas magic to Simon's Cat and Kitten 🎁
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlot...
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They're owned by a bouncing Czech now who wants to maximise profits and minimise the amount of temporary staff that they have to employ for the mad Xmas rush, so I'm guessing that it was 100% deliberate
Parcels make them money, apparently, but letters don't 🤷♂️
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Parcels make them money, apparently, but letters don't 🤷♂️
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Royal Mail takeover by Czech billionaire approved
The £3.6bn deal by Daniel Kretinsky is cleared after agreeing
www.bbc.co.uk
December 3, 2025 at 2:48 PM
They're owned by a bouncing Czech now who wants to maximise profits and minimise the amount of temporary staff that they have to employ for the mad Xmas rush, so I'm guessing that it was 100% deliberate
Parcels make them money, apparently, but letters don't 🤷♂️
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Parcels make them money, apparently, but letters don't 🤷♂️
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Anyone else discovered their local post box sealed up and ‘Out Of Service’?
Has Royal Mail committed suicide by making it almost impossible for old folk to post Xmas cards?
Has Royal Mail committed suicide by making it almost impossible for old folk to post Xmas cards?
December 3, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Anyone else discovered their local post box sealed up and ‘Out Of Service’?
Has Royal Mail committed suicide by making it almost impossible for old folk to post Xmas cards?
Has Royal Mail committed suicide by making it almost impossible for old folk to post Xmas cards?
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Banket Bars (more properly, banketstaafstukje) are #RecipeOfTheDay and I couldn’t love them more! Banket is the Dutch almond pastry that more usually comes in logs, but I cut them into short lengths before baking, which rather gives them a look of sweet sausage rolls. www.nigella.com/recipes/bank...
Banket Bars
It can be hard to adopt other countries’ Christmas traditions and cherish them like our own, but when it comes to this Dutch log of almond paste, encased in puff pastry, I have no problem whatsoever!
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www.nigella.com
December 2, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Banket Bars (more properly, banketstaafstukje) are #RecipeOfTheDay and I couldn’t love them more! Banket is the Dutch almond pastry that more usually comes in logs, but I cut them into short lengths before baking, which rather gives them a look of sweet sausage rolls. www.nigella.com/recipes/bank...
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Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar, window 1
‘The village’
Artist: SR Badmin
‘The village’
Artist: SR Badmin
December 1, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar, window 1
‘The village’
Artist: SR Badmin
‘The village’
Artist: SR Badmin
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Who's ready for our third #DailyNature challenge month? Let's celebrate winter!
💙❄️🌬️🌨️
How:
*Dec 1st - 31st
*Post a daily nature observation
*Include #DailyNature
See:
*Solstice
*Murmurations
*Seed heads, moss, reds & dark
Here's a starter pack to get going:
go.bsky.app/RUhJfc6
#NatureWriting
💙❄️🌬️🌨️
How:
*Dec 1st - 31st
*Post a daily nature observation
*Include #DailyNature
See:
*Solstice
*Murmurations
*Seed heads, moss, reds & dark
Here's a starter pack to get going:
go.bsky.app/RUhJfc6
#NatureWriting
December 1, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Who's ready for our third #DailyNature challenge month? Let's celebrate winter!
💙❄️🌬️🌨️
How:
*Dec 1st - 31st
*Post a daily nature observation
*Include #DailyNature
See:
*Solstice
*Murmurations
*Seed heads, moss, reds & dark
Here's a starter pack to get going:
go.bsky.app/RUhJfc6
#NatureWriting
💙❄️🌬️🌨️
How:
*Dec 1st - 31st
*Post a daily nature observation
*Include #DailyNature
See:
*Solstice
*Murmurations
*Seed heads, moss, reds & dark
Here's a starter pack to get going:
go.bsky.app/RUhJfc6
#NatureWriting
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Kirstie Macleod and 380 embroiderers from around the world have made this exquisite 'Red Dress'. Every stitch has a story or vision. On show @nationaltrust.org.uk Killerton along with the festive decorations. Well worth a visit. #Craft #NeedleWork #Sewing
November 30, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Kirstie Macleod and 380 embroiderers from around the world have made this exquisite 'Red Dress'. Every stitch has a story or vision. On show @nationaltrust.org.uk Killerton along with the festive decorations. Well worth a visit. #Craft #NeedleWork #Sewing
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Getting ready for a busy Saturday? Take a moment with the waves of Chesil Beach to prepare before or soothe after. 🌊
285 Late October on Chesil Beach (sleep safe)
YouTube video by Radio Lento
youtu.be
November 29, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Getting ready for a busy Saturday? Take a moment with the waves of Chesil Beach to prepare before or soothe after. 🌊
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Sunrise over grease ice forming on Lake Winnipeg this morning. A little bit of calm for your day.
November 28, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Sunrise over grease ice forming on Lake Winnipeg this morning. A little bit of calm for your day.
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I will never tire of these wonderful comics about Ada Lovelace (and Charles Babbage] from Sydney Padua
sydneypadua.com/2dgoggles/co...
sydneypadua.com/2dgoggles/co...
![4 panel comic showing the origin of Ada Lovelace
1. Ada was the daughter of "mad, bad, and dangerous to know" poet and nutcase Lord Byron.
[A dramatic Lord Byron drawn with a quill in one hand and desperate romantic admirers clinging around him]
2. Her mother Anabel fled her husband but was afraid their daughter would inherit his WILD BLOOD!!
[Woman fleeing from him with a swaddled baby in arms]
3. ADA MUST NEVER BECOME POETICAL!
[Stern looking woman, possibly her mum but maybe a governess, standing while grimly declaiming, while in a the background a small girl reads a book]
ONLY ONE THING HAS THE POWER TO SUBDUE POETRY..
4. ...MATHEMATICS!!
[Drawing of a young Ada engrossed in a book about ADVANCED CALCULUS]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2kf2qj56o2vq7jfaq4x4ogp6/bafkreidcxkn3sxzfze7ethmmm6l63hu7kbnacnayjnhqk3rhrlrvskfkzu@jpeg)
November 27, 2025 at 9:01 AM
I will never tire of these wonderful comics about Ada Lovelace (and Charles Babbage] from Sydney Padua
sydneypadua.com/2dgoggles/co...
sydneypadua.com/2dgoggles/co...
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Latest update from @britishlibrary.bsky.social says they are launching a new version of their main catalogue on Monday 8 December and around that time also launch an interim version of their Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue. Hooray!
www.bl.uk/stories/news...
www.bl.uk/stories/news...
Restoring our services – November 2025 update
In the coming weeks and months we will be restoring a number of key functions.
www.bl.uk
November 22, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Latest update from @britishlibrary.bsky.social says they are launching a new version of their main catalogue on Monday 8 December and around that time also launch an interim version of their Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue. Hooray!
www.bl.uk/stories/news...
www.bl.uk/stories/news...
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I flew to Canada this week to go to a Paul McCartney concert and I wrote about it here:
open.substack.com/pub/naomiald...
open.substack.com/pub/naomiald...
going through hell, keeping going
on art, grief, and the emotional heroism of just bloody keeping on making your work
open.substack.com
November 23, 2025 at 8:23 AM
I flew to Canada this week to go to a Paul McCartney concert and I wrote about it here:
open.substack.com/pub/naomiald...
open.substack.com/pub/naomiald...
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Wonderful communal version of Gaudete - how it must have been played & sung, communally
youtu.be/Yew4i2-ox-E?...
youtu.be/Yew4i2-ox-E?...
Gaudete (1581) Anonymous Bremerton WestSound Symphony and Chorale
YouTube video by Almanraeder
youtu.be
November 19, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Wonderful communal version of Gaudete - how it must have been played & sung, communally
youtu.be/Yew4i2-ox-E?...
youtu.be/Yew4i2-ox-E?...
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Just made macaroni cheese. The best yet.
Cook 2 cups of macaroni, drain, return to pan. Mix in tub of mascarpone, pinch of smoked paprika and 0.5tsp dijon mustard. Mix in 160g grated cheddar and 50g parmesan. Add a bit of milk to loosen the sauce and that's it.
Cook 2 cups of macaroni, drain, return to pan. Mix in tub of mascarpone, pinch of smoked paprika and 0.5tsp dijon mustard. Mix in 160g grated cheddar and 50g parmesan. Add a bit of milk to loosen the sauce and that's it.
November 19, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Just made macaroni cheese. The best yet.
Cook 2 cups of macaroni, drain, return to pan. Mix in tub of mascarpone, pinch of smoked paprika and 0.5tsp dijon mustard. Mix in 160g grated cheddar and 50g parmesan. Add a bit of milk to loosen the sauce and that's it.
Cook 2 cups of macaroni, drain, return to pan. Mix in tub of mascarpone, pinch of smoked paprika and 0.5tsp dijon mustard. Mix in 160g grated cheddar and 50g parmesan. Add a bit of milk to loosen the sauce and that's it.
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When I get deliveries of chilled and frozen foodstuffs from environmentally conscientious suppliers these days it comes with wool insulation. It's compostable, but that's not an option here, so I'm thinking of using it for upholstery projects.
November 19, 2025 at 9:18 AM
When I get deliveries of chilled and frozen foodstuffs from environmentally conscientious suppliers these days it comes with wool insulation. It's compostable, but that's not an option here, so I'm thinking of using it for upholstery projects.
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The geology department at the University of Leicester, where myself and countless others did our palaeontology PhDs, is at serious risk of closure
Please show your support by signing the below!
c.org/KtYyZB8dHk
Please show your support by signing the below!
c.org/KtYyZB8dHk
Save Geology at the University of Leicester
Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?
c.org
November 19, 2025 at 9:50 AM
The geology department at the University of Leicester, where myself and countless others did our palaeontology PhDs, is at serious risk of closure
Please show your support by signing the below!
c.org/KtYyZB8dHk
Please show your support by signing the below!
c.org/KtYyZB8dHk
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A bit of Sir Walter Scott poetry on Prebend’s Bridge in Durham
November 16, 2025 at 3:18 PM
A bit of Sir Walter Scott poetry on Prebend’s Bridge in Durham
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I’m gonna keep sharing these ovarian cancer symptoms whenever I see them.
I will add - from personal experience - diarrhoea and fatigue.
Get it checked! Remember, there’s no routine screening for ovarian cancer.
I will add - from personal experience - diarrhoea and fatigue.
Get it checked! Remember, there’s no routine screening for ovarian cancer.
November 16, 2025 at 3:53 PM
I’m gonna keep sharing these ovarian cancer symptoms whenever I see them.
I will add - from personal experience - diarrhoea and fatigue.
Get it checked! Remember, there’s no routine screening for ovarian cancer.
I will add - from personal experience - diarrhoea and fatigue.
Get it checked! Remember, there’s no routine screening for ovarian cancer.
Is there any possibility that we could all pause obsessing about politicians and their proven mendacity?
Other life forms are available.
Thank you.
Other life forms are available.
Thank you.
November 16, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Is there any possibility that we could all pause obsessing about politicians and their proven mendacity?
Other life forms are available.
Thank you.
Other life forms are available.
Thank you.
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White chocolate is too cloying just to eat, but it can do miraculous things. And in this White Chocolate Cheesecake, a no-bake affair, it imparts a fragrant vanilla flavour and ensures a perfect, sliceable yet tender set. May #RecipeOfTheDay bring joy to your weekend! www.nigella.com/recipes/whit...
White Chocolate Cheesecake
The white chocolate is only a delicate presence here. It brings a gorgeous, rounded vanilla flavour and helps the cheesecake set in the fridge overnight to a perfect, tenderly firm consistency. And wh...
www.nigella.com
November 14, 2025 at 11:05 AM
White chocolate is too cloying just to eat, but it can do miraculous things. And in this White Chocolate Cheesecake, a no-bake affair, it imparts a fragrant vanilla flavour and ensures a perfect, sliceable yet tender set. May #RecipeOfTheDay bring joy to your weekend! www.nigella.com/recipes/whit...
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I’ll use this recipe, but adding Marmite in place of the salt. Can’t say how much until I make it, though! www.nigella.com/recipes/salt...
Salted Caramel Sauce
Real salted caramel requires patience, dexterity and a sugar-thermometer, none of which come naturally to me, but a salted caramel sauce can be rustled up in a matter of moments. True, in those moment...
www.nigella.com
November 14, 2025 at 11:19 AM
I’ll use this recipe, but adding Marmite in place of the salt. Can’t say how much until I make it, though! www.nigella.com/recipes/salt...
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Love being reminded to do this every year. It's a win/win all round
November 11, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Love being reminded to do this every year. It's a win/win all round