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Jeanette Spear

@yetispear.bsky.social

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In no particular order .. boats, colour, (spanish) horses, paintings, cheese, theatre, jigsaws, trees, Salvage Hunters, Scotland. (Desktop Account) Struggling to use same account on PC and mobile

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Jeanette Spear @yetispear.bsky.social · Mar 12

Photos taken at Hartpury during the ANCCE competition GBPRE 2017 when Rio was Champion Section 11 and Champion mare and Movement Champion
#ANCCE
#LGANCCE
#CampeonaConcurso

Grey horse standing up for the judge at GBPRE 2017

From the right is Oriunda X after being made Champion mare at GBPRE 2017 with her handler Oriol Matas
From the left is the steward, runner up mare Primadonna and her owner Krissy Real

A close up head shot of Oriunda X with her handler the amazing Oriol Matas at GBPRE 2017

Jeanette Spear @yetispear.bsky.social · 9h

Is that St George on a teeny, tiny little horse, or is he standing in front of it? Hard to see but it's traditional for him to be mounted so I'm going to add him to the collection.

#ridersonsmallhorses

John Vigar @johnevigar.bsky.social · 15h

Swannington, Norfolk, St Margaret.
By far the most important object in the church is a Norman pillar piscina carved with St George and the Dragon. It was hidden in the rood loft staircase and only discovered when that was unblocked a hundred years ago.

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Shropshire and Beyond @shropshirebeyond.bsky.social · 13h

1/ Just look at these vivid autumn colours at Callow Hollow, one of the beautiful valleys of the Long Mynd. The steep slopes were picked out in the bright sunshine, but I needed some shadows to add depth to the picture. It felt like only a few minutes before ... #Shropshire

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Jeanette Spear @yetispear.bsky.social · 1d

Each new design has seats which are more upright and 'firmer' than the last.

Prove me wrong and tell me those seats can be sat in for 2 hours without making bits of me numb

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🎵🪕The Castle Tap Sessions🎶🪗 @castletapsessions.bsky.social · 1d

Come-all-ye for another evening of good ale, good cheese, your good company...
🎸🎵🧀🎵🍻🎵🫖🎵🪗
...and your songs and tunes
WEDNESDAY 2nd OCTOBER in the ♥️ of #TheDing
See you there with our convivial hosts, The Castle Tap, 120 Castle St, Reading RG1 7RJ
@rdgwhatson.bsky.social @acespacenewbury.bsky.social

Advert for the Castle Tap Sessions shows a black and whit photo of people playing music and singing in a pub.

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Jeanette Spear @yetispear.bsky.social · 1d

The last holiday camp I took a stroll around was in E Germany a few years after the wall came down. The Russians had stopped visiting (!) and it was VERY quiet. No queues for the water sports and kayaks.
Looked like it was only ever used during the Summer months, but I could be wrong.

Jeanette Spear @yetispear.bsky.social · 2d

I never knew about this until now.

George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 2d

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death.
The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.

After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died.
While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants.
Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....

Jeanette Spear @yetispear.bsky.social · 2d

I'm learning to love Robins more and more. They never stop singing and their song is always cheerful.

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Jeanette Spear @yetispear.bsky.social · 2d

A terrible headline, but I expect Rylan will help to expand your audience. Many people don't know what they're missing and they're about to find out. Which has to be good, right?

Jeanette Spear @yetispear.bsky.social · 2d

Me too. Blue Peter must have been running all day ....

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Jeanette Spear @yetispear.bsky.social · 5d

You are blessed. Must be a good day to buy the winning lottery ticket

Jeanette Spear @yetispear.bsky.social · 5d

The new boy looking filthy but very handsome.

He's eyeing up the hay under my arm and wondering what the delay is

Picture of a white horse tied up outside his stable and looking towards the camera

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Radio Lento @radiolento.bsky.social · 5d

NEW! Episode 283 - Night trees of Boggle Hole (sleep safe)

Up the beach from Robin Hood's Bay to the Youth Hostel. A perfect location. No road noise, no planes.

Here's our first episode from this special place. Just the sounds of the trees at night.

bit.ly/LenBog

#FingerpostFriday

wooden fingerpost sign at night on the beach. Pointing inland along the Cleveland Way to Robin Hood's Bay and Boggle Hole YHA.

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Jeanette Spear @yetispear.bsky.social · 5d

The video adds a pink hue, it's subtle but pretty

Jeanette Spear @yetispear.bsky.social · 8d

It looks lovely. I hope they respect the work you put in and obey the instructions

Jeanette Spear @yetispear.bsky.social · 8d

It looks beautiful but it will be a nightmare to clean

Jeanette Spear @yetispear.bsky.social · 9d

When the world looks dark we can rely on Waldy to put things into perspective.

I'm not sure about cheerful but I'm confident this will be an interesting watch

JANUSZCZAK @januszczak.bsky.social · 9d

Death, death, death… it’s something I tackle in Art’s Most Horrific on Sky Arts. Tomorrow night at 9pm! Wear something warm!

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Jeanette Spear @yetispear.bsky.social · 12d

Did I just see Big Ben (The Elizabeth Tower)?

Yes, yes I did

George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 12d

Signs of psychosis. No biggie

Jeanette Spear @yetispear.bsky.social · 13d

A swift google gives us all her details.

PATIENT GRISELDA is a 25-foot gaff cutter, designed by Francis Jones and originally built for journalist and writer John Lewis. She is a traditional wooden yacht with classic lines

oga.org.uk/boat_registe...

OGA - index

oga.org.uk

Jeanette Spear @yetispear.bsky.social · 13d

King and nobles having a discussion about the best way to deal with an arrow... and riding some very small horses

#ridersonsmallhorses

North Ages @northages.bsky.social · 13d

When the lads are arguing over whose fault it was the stag eluded the hunt and you have an actual arrow sprouting from your chest.

A 14th-century French representation of the death of William II 'Rufus, king of the English, during a hunt.

Jeanette Spear @yetispear.bsky.social · 13d

What a gorgeous plate

Avadi 🌀(DebraLittle) @avadi.bsky.social · 14d

They are still using the same themes in Roman pottery. I picked up this plate on Rome a couple decades ago. The fingerprints of the woman who made it are on the back.

A greyish green pottery plate from Rome with a chariot and rider in the center and spectators for the race around the edges.

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Jeanette Spear @yetispear.bsky.social · 14d

Looking like a Federation Guard from Blakes 7

Where's Blake when you need him?

Jeanette Spear @yetispear.bsky.social · 15d

It must be a low news or no news day

Stuff like this brings out the grumpy old woman in me

I can't believe I pay a subscription for this tosh.

Gaby Hinsliff @gabyhinsliff.bsky.social · 15d

on another note, my most boomer opinion is that this is the end of days and govt should ban it immediately www.theguardian.com/money/2025/s...

Sock it to the shoes: why more offices are going footwear-free

British companies are trialling no-shoes policies as a way to improve focus, comfort and morale – but not everyone is convinced

www.theguardian.com

Jeanette Spear @yetispear.bsky.social · 15d

This is just perfect

Radio Lento @radiolento.bsky.social · 17d

NEW!

Episode 282 - Night train to Paris (52 mins)

The gentle and soothing sound from inside a cabin as we crossed France in August. This episode is *sleep safe*, if you like trains.

> bit.ly/LenGdA1

view of a station at night as we pass through on the sleeper train.

Jeanette Spear @yetispear.bsky.social · 21d

Cool

Pascal Mamassian @mamassian.bsky.social · 21d

A nice shift in perceived colour between central and peripheral vision. The fixated disc looks purple while the others look blue.

The effect presumably comes from the absence of S-cones in the fovea.

From Hinnerk Schulz-Hildebrandt:
arxiv.org/pdf/2509.115...

An array of 9 purple discs on a blue background. Figure from Hinnerk Schulz-Hildebrandt.

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Trimontium Trust & Museum @trimontiumtrust.bsky.social · 21d

🌿🏰 #HillfortsWednesday: Bury Ditches in Shropshire is one of England’s best-preserved Iron Age hillforts. Dating to around 500 BC, it has up to four concentric ditches & ramparts, commanding stunning views over the Shropshire Hills. A perfect mix of history & scenery!

#IronAge #AncientBritain

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