🌱Karen Stevens 💙
@lucytoo.bsky.social
Lancastrian, European, optimist. Ex Leeds Uni. Love my husband, family, books, music, crafts, nature, gardens and gardening, good food & wine. No time for unkind, negative or rude people. After a life scientific, a new post-career future beckons.
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Why is it so hard to reuse buildings in Britain?
We really need to move to a more circular built environment.
www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/opinion...
We really need to move to a more circular built environment.
www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/opinion...
Why is it so hard to reuse buildings in Britain?
Shropshire Council’s push to demolish its former HQ, the late-1960s Shirehall in Shrewsbury, encapsulates everything wrong with how we treat our existing buildings, argues Leanne Tritton
www.architectsjournal.co.uk
January 28, 2026 at 10:30 PM
Why is it so hard to reuse buildings in Britain?
We really need to move to a more circular built environment.
www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/opinion...
We really need to move to a more circular built environment.
www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/opinion...
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How I love a misty #Shropshire landscape, with its eerie white silence transporting you into a world of your own. I was standing on the ramparts of Nordy Bank hill fort on Brown Clee for this shot, watching as an ethereal scene unfolded beneath me.
January 21, 2026 at 8:10 AM
How I love a misty #Shropshire landscape, with its eerie white silence transporting you into a world of your own. I was standing on the ramparts of Nordy Bank hill fort on Brown Clee for this shot, watching as an ethereal scene unfolded beneath me.
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And then, one day, David Byrne of Talking Heads was finally old enough to pull off the Crazy Evangelical Preacher look...
youtu.be/ENi4rkh2YmY?...
youtu.be/ENi4rkh2YmY?...
‘Once In A Lifetime’ from David Byrne’s (Talking Heads) “American Utopia” on Broadway 05OCT19
YouTube video by dougaqua
youtu.be
January 19, 2026 at 9:56 AM
And then, one day, David Byrne of Talking Heads was finally old enough to pull off the Crazy Evangelical Preacher look...
youtu.be/ENi4rkh2YmY?...
youtu.be/ENi4rkh2YmY?...
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Please ask your MP to add their name to this Parliamentary call for a prime-time televised emergency briefing to the nation on the threats posed by #climate and #nature breakdown - and the enormous opportunities if we take urgent action.
www.nebriefing.org/parliamentar...
#NEB2025 #TimeToStepUp
www.nebriefing.org/parliamentar...
#NEB2025 #TimeToStepUp
Parliamentary call for a televised emergency briefing
For MPs and Peers to express support for briefing the nation on the threats from climate & nature breakdown to the UK’s security, food supply, health and economy.
www.nebriefing.org
January 11, 2026 at 12:43 PM
Please ask your MP to add their name to this Parliamentary call for a prime-time televised emergency briefing to the nation on the threats posed by #climate and #nature breakdown - and the enormous opportunities if we take urgent action.
www.nebriefing.org/parliamentar...
#NEB2025 #TimeToStepUp
www.nebriefing.org/parliamentar...
#NEB2025 #TimeToStepUp
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The conversation on Threads
January 4, 2026 at 11:11 AM
The conversation on Threads
It’s time for a seasonal ritual, The Hogfather…
December 27, 2025 at 6:37 PM
It’s time for a seasonal ritual, The Hogfather…
I know it’s very late but I have made my Christmas puddings today, an unsurpassable recipe by @nigelslater.bsky.social 😊
December 21, 2025 at 6:38 PM
I know it’s very late but I have made my Christmas puddings today, an unsurpassable recipe by @nigelslater.bsky.social 😊
This year’s decorations have been fun!
December 14, 2025 at 8:43 PM
This year’s decorations have been fun!
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During the #Bradford Council meeting on Dec 9, the local Conservatives proposed to cut Council Tax Support for the most vulnerable in the district. Green Councillor Matt Edwards (@greenmattbfd.bsky.social) had this brilliant reply:
December 12, 2025 at 6:45 AM
During the #Bradford Council meeting on Dec 9, the local Conservatives proposed to cut Council Tax Support for the most vulnerable in the district. Green Councillor Matt Edwards (@greenmattbfd.bsky.social) had this brilliant reply:
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On the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me, a partridge in a pear tree. Ate it.
December 1, 2025 at 8:27 AM
On the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me, a partridge in a pear tree. Ate it.
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THREAD. A collection of photographs of excellent sheep I have met on walks.
You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
November 14, 2025 at 9:48 AM
THREAD. A collection of photographs of excellent sheep I have met on walks.
You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
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Thanks to everyone sharing this post, and indulging my optimist's experiment to see if a book completely ignored by the literary establishment, written by an author with no famous friends and released by a small publisher, with no big marketing budget behind it, can float solely on word of mouth.
Author wrote best book he's ever written.
Publisher disintegrated/fucked off with author's earnings.
Book was finally published by new publisher.
Author has bought two hardbacks, for full price, to give away, signed.
Please repost/reply if you'd like a chance to win one..
bsky.app/profile/zygo...
Publisher disintegrated/fucked off with author's earnings.
Book was finally published by new publisher.
Author has bought two hardbacks, for full price, to give away, signed.
Please repost/reply if you'd like a chance to win one..
bsky.app/profile/zygo...
November 13, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Thanks to everyone sharing this post, and indulging my optimist's experiment to see if a book completely ignored by the literary establishment, written by an author with no famous friends and released by a small publisher, with no big marketing budget behind it, can float solely on word of mouth.
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... And here's another extract, in case you want to try to gauge more thoroughly whether or not you'll hate it: www.tom-cox.com/the-reason-y...
The Reason Your Shampoo Wants You to Use More Shampoo is Because That Means You Will Buy More of Your Shampoo
An extract from my upcoming third novel, Everything Will Swallow You
www.tom-cox.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:12 PM
... And here's another extract, in case you want to try to gauge more thoroughly whether or not you'll hate it: www.tom-cox.com/the-reason-y...
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This is my latest novel. (It almost killed me.) One person who reposts this extract www.tom-cox.com/granny-kettl... will receive a signed hardback AND one of these fab original linocuts
You might like it if you like:
Folklore
Old buildings
Friendship
Records
The power & magic of landscape
..
You might like it if you like:
Folklore
Old buildings
Friendship
Records
The power & magic of landscape
..
November 10, 2025 at 7:06 PM
This is my latest novel. (It almost killed me.) One person who reposts this extract www.tom-cox.com/granny-kettl... will receive a signed hardback AND one of these fab original linocuts
You might like it if you like:
Folklore
Old buildings
Friendship
Records
The power & magic of landscape
..
You might like it if you like:
Folklore
Old buildings
Friendship
Records
The power & magic of landscape
..
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I have two - TWO - of these gorgeous original A4 meadow hare linoprints by my mum, Jo, to give away to a couple of lucky people here on Bluesky today.
Rules are simple: to be in with a chance to win, you just have to repost this piece I wrote about Jo and her art: www.tom-cox.com/the-magic-ro...
Rules are simple: to be in with a chance to win, you just have to repost this piece I wrote about Jo and her art: www.tom-cox.com/the-magic-ro...
November 5, 2025 at 12:39 PM
I have two - TWO - of these gorgeous original A4 meadow hare linoprints by my mum, Jo, to give away to a couple of lucky people here on Bluesky today.
Rules are simple: to be in with a chance to win, you just have to repost this piece I wrote about Jo and her art: www.tom-cox.com/the-magic-ro...
Rules are simple: to be in with a chance to win, you just have to repost this piece I wrote about Jo and her art: www.tom-cox.com/the-magic-ro...
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A Map Of Britain After The 2029 Technology Crash, by me and my dad.
November 5, 2025 at 7:13 AM
A Map Of Britain After The 2029 Technology Crash, by me and my dad.
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My favourite fact about Iceland is that we have many, many crime writers but only one forensic pathologist, and he was so busy answering all of their questions that he decided to have a small seminar for writers to get some peace.
It immediately sold out so he had another one that also sold out.
It immediately sold out so he had another one that also sold out.
July 3, 2023 at 12:04 PM
My favourite fact about Iceland is that we have many, many crime writers but only one forensic pathologist, and he was so busy answering all of their questions that he decided to have a small seminar for writers to get some peace.
It immediately sold out so he had another one that also sold out.
It immediately sold out so he had another one that also sold out.
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Here's a version of the English nursery rhyme, "The Grand Old Duke of York" 🎶 about the man who says he isn't going to call himself it anymore ... though whether he should be taken at his word ... 🤔
youtu.be/hoETmTJM014
youtu.be/hoETmTJM014
"Grand Old Duke of York" - parody of English nursery rhyme by the Marsh Family on Prince Andrew
YouTube video by Marsh Family
youtu.be
October 21, 2025 at 6:46 AM
Here's a version of the English nursery rhyme, "The Grand Old Duke of York" 🎶 about the man who says he isn't going to call himself it anymore ... though whether he should be taken at his word ... 🤔
youtu.be/hoETmTJM014
youtu.be/hoETmTJM014
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I'm giving away this signed 1st edition h/b of my new novel (it has a tiny jacket rip which means I wouldn't sell it) to one person who reposts this.
You might like it if you like:
Folkloric creatures
Old records
Intricate psychedelic stories
The idea of circular time
All shares much-appreciated.
You might like it if you like:
Folkloric creatures
Old records
Intricate psychedelic stories
The idea of circular time
All shares much-appreciated.
October 8, 2025 at 10:11 AM
I'm giving away this signed 1st edition h/b of my new novel (it has a tiny jacket rip which means I wouldn't sell it) to one person who reposts this.
You might like it if you like:
Folkloric creatures
Old records
Intricate psychedelic stories
The idea of circular time
All shares much-appreciated.
You might like it if you like:
Folkloric creatures
Old records
Intricate psychedelic stories
The idea of circular time
All shares much-appreciated.
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Here's a short happy-go-lucky 🎶 parody about the way that
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is now collapsing American healthcare - based off #PaulSimon's toe-tapping "Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard".
youtu.be/FDiXrd-R68U
It's called: "Measles and Polio Down in the Schoolyard."
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is now collapsing American healthcare - based off #PaulSimon's toe-tapping "Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard".
youtu.be/FDiXrd-R68U
It's called: "Measles and Polio Down in the Schoolyard."
"Measles and Polio Down in the Schoolyard" - Marsh Family parody of Paul Simon "Me and Julio" on RFK
YouTube video by Marsh Family
youtu.be
September 7, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Here's a short happy-go-lucky 🎶 parody about the way that
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is now collapsing American healthcare - based off #PaulSimon's toe-tapping "Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard".
youtu.be/FDiXrd-R68U
It's called: "Measles and Polio Down in the Schoolyard."
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is now collapsing American healthcare - based off #PaulSimon's toe-tapping "Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard".
youtu.be/FDiXrd-R68U
It's called: "Measles and Polio Down in the Schoolyard."
I have just started watching a rerun of Ally McBeal, a 90s flash back 😊
August 28, 2025 at 7:09 PM
I have just started watching a rerun of Ally McBeal, a 90s flash back 😊
Privatisation broke our water system.
@compassoffice.bksy.social have a people-first, evidence-based alternative, and I’m backing it.
Add your name to the People’s Plan for Water: https://actionnetwork.org/forms/water-belongs-to-all-of-us-back-the-peoples-plan-for-water?source=bluesky&
@compassoffice.bksy.social have a people-first, evidence-based alternative, and I’m backing it.
Add your name to the People’s Plan for Water: https://actionnetwork.org/forms/water-belongs-to-all-of-us-back-the-peoples-plan-for-water?source=bluesky&
July 24, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Privatisation broke our water system.
@compassoffice.bksy.social have a people-first, evidence-based alternative, and I’m backing it.
Add your name to the People’s Plan for Water: https://actionnetwork.org/forms/water-belongs-to-all-of-us-back-the-peoples-plan-for-water?source=bluesky&
@compassoffice.bksy.social have a people-first, evidence-based alternative, and I’m backing it.
Add your name to the People’s Plan for Water: https://actionnetwork.org/forms/water-belongs-to-all-of-us-back-the-peoples-plan-for-water?source=bluesky&
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I was asked to submit an 'Idea for Keir' for the latest issue of the @newstatesman.com
My proposal to the PM: save the NHS billions by opening up access to the English countryside - details below
Read the rest of the ideas here:
www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2025/0...
cc @righttoroam.bsky.social
My proposal to the PM: save the NHS billions by opening up access to the English countryside - details below
Read the rest of the ideas here:
www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2025/0...
cc @righttoroam.bsky.social
June 16, 2025 at 1:30 PM
I was asked to submit an 'Idea for Keir' for the latest issue of the @newstatesman.com
My proposal to the PM: save the NHS billions by opening up access to the English countryside - details below
Read the rest of the ideas here:
www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2025/0...
cc @righttoroam.bsky.social
My proposal to the PM: save the NHS billions by opening up access to the English countryside - details below
Read the rest of the ideas here:
www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2025/0...
cc @righttoroam.bsky.social