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Mair Rigby
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Tea drinker, nature lover, big reader. Enjoys walking, cooking, music. Works in HE in Wales. Vol sector background. Interested in engagement, research, reflective practice & wellbeing. Views my own! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🏳️‍🌈 https://linktr.ee/mairerigby
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Wonderful gig from Thea Gilmore in Cardiff tonight. I've been a fan since 2003 and she played some of my favourites.
Thea Gilmore playing a guitar and singing while standing. She is a slim white woman with long dark hair wearing a short red dress.
November 29, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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Good things today:
- Talked to lots of lovely people
- Got given a free succulent
- Dosbarth cymraeg da heno
A spiky green haworthia succulent plant
November 20, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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I had a lovely morning participating in the @beinghumanfest.bsky.social 'History, Memory, Resistance: Section 28 in Wales' event in Cardiff. I was quite nervous going in honestly, but it was a really warm and healing space.
Photograph of the poster advertising the Being Human event 'History, Memory, Resistance: Section 28 in Wales'. It shows a flyer with a rainbow flag on a red background.
November 15, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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Saw a good Sheela Na Gig in Church Stretton
A old stone carving in the wall of a church. It depicts a female figure holding her vulva open
September 26, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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Back from a lovely little walking holiday in the Shropshire hills.
A footpath through a valley with hills on both sides covered in flowering gorse and ferns. There is a stream on the left of the path.
September 26, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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Spotted a stunning red admiral butterfly in the park
A large butterfly with black wings with bright red stripes and white blotches sitting on pink and yellow flowers. A red admiral butterfly with its wings closed showing red, white and black patterns on the top half and brown marbling patterns on the lower half. It is sitting on bright pink and yellow flowers.
September 19, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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Excited to be at the International Research Culture Conference at University of Warwick today #IRCC25
A lecture theatre with a slide on a large screen with the title of the Conference.
September 17, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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Reading this for next @doersandimprovers.bsky.social bookclub as I travel around for work this week.
My ereader showing the cover of the book Music as Medicine bt Daniel Levitin. It features a picture of a musical stave with pills instead of notes.
September 4, 2025 at 5:57 AM
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Throwing Muses on 🔥 in Cardiff tonight.
The singer Kristin Hersh performing on stage. She is a small, slim, white woman with dark hair playing a black electric guitar.
August 29, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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Yesss
A round loaf of seeded soda bread, nicely risen and browned on top.
August 23, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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Game on!
An uncooked round loaf of soda bread before it goes in the oven for baking. It is a pale dough and topped with seeds.
August 23, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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Beautiful small copper butterfly.
A small copper butterfly sitting on yellow ragwort flowers. It has orange and brown markings on its wings.
August 23, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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Call for submissions: Unblock Magazine. 'Unblock is a new magazine with a focus on the voices and experiences of female academics of black and/or racially minoritised backgrounds. Deadline 15 September. forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...
Flyer calling for submission to Unblock Magazine. The text reads 'Unblock is excited to announce a call for submissions to amplify female academics of black and/or racially minoritised backgrounds. We seek contributions that highlight perspectives and explore shared challenges while fostering new solutions in academia. Contributions can include academic discussions, personal narratives, book reviews, creative writing, and diverse forms of expression like artwork and poetry, with varying lengths and scopes. Join us in creating a platform for diverse voices to be heard'.
August 21, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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I love hornet mimic hoverflies.

"Grrr I'm a big scary hornet, yes I am".
A large hornet mimic hoverfly resting on a white flower. It is a winged insect with a stripey body imitating a hornet.
July 16, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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Need to remember to put my feet on the grass every now and then.
A photograph of my legs looking down at my feet. I am wearing light blue jeans standing with bare feet on long grass.
July 12, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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Absolute gem of a blue butterfly basking in Cathays Cemetery this morning.
A common blue butterfly basking with its wings open on green grass
July 6, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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Having a day off. Visited one of my favourite tree friends. This oak in Roath Park Wild Gardens
An oak tree with a bulbous trunk standing in a woodland park surrounded by other trees.
July 4, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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Really liked this collection of poems. Powerful, deeply personal and political, and all about being alive.

Joy Harjo, 'She Had Some Horses' (1983)
A paperback copy of the poetry collection, 'She Had Some Horses' by Joy Harjo. The cover features a painted image of three ghostly white horses coming towards the viewer on a dark background.
June 29, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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Time to make the most of one of my favourite things, early summer morning walks.
A green playing field in a park with trees in the distance and a blue sky above.
June 23, 2025 at 7:24 AM
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I made banana bread and it smells great.
A nicely browned rectangular loaf of banana bread sitting on a wire cooling rack.
June 22, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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Lots of bird activity in Cathays Cemetery this morning. Blackbirds and wrens singing. Goldcrests and tits in the trees. Flash of green woodpecker.
Two light pink blackberry blossoms surrounded by buds on a green blackberry bramble.
June 22, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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Gofod 3 the biggest voluntary sector event in Wales is taking place on 2 July gofod3.cymru
A purple flyer advertising gofod 3
June 18, 2025 at 8:14 AM
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Lovely new yarn shop in Cardiff, but slightly concerned I might never see Andie again!
A woman with bobbed grey hair looking in the window of a shop with lots of colourful yarn balls.
June 14, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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Roath Park swan family doing well. All 8 still accounted for if not the picture.
An adult swan with six signets on a lake
June 1, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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Incredible gig from Throwing Muses in Bristol tonight @throwingmuses.bsky.social
Kristin Hersh, front woman of the band Throwing Muses, singing and playing a guitar on stage. She is a small white woman with black hair.
May 26, 2025 at 10:18 PM