ThornyHedges
@thornyhedges.bsky.social
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Family, friends, music, green spaces, horticulture & nature are my happy places with a book or two thrown in for good measure. #wildlife #trees #photography #nature #cats
Family, friends, music, green spaces, horticulture & nature are my happy places with a book or two thrown in for good measure. #wildlife #trees #photography #nature #cats
My head if filled with lines from random songs, which pop up when I see or hear things, fir example youtu.be/ZAfjgTc-t0U?...
November 26, 2025 at 12:44 PM
My head if filled with lines from random songs, which pop up when I see or hear things, fir example youtu.be/ZAfjgTc-t0U?...
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Other work by the Ladybird artists
‘Stopham Bridge in Autumn’
Artist: SR Badmin
‘Stopham Bridge in Autumn’
Artist: SR Badmin
November 26, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Other work by the Ladybird artists
‘Stopham Bridge in Autumn’
Artist: SR Badmin
‘Stopham Bridge in Autumn’
Artist: SR Badmin
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Crooked, an old image from "Intimate Winter", part of the wonderful Landscape Editions books at @kozubooks.bsky.social
#Scotland
#Photography
#Scotland
#Photography
November 25, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Crooked, an old image from "Intimate Winter", part of the wonderful Landscape Editions books at @kozubooks.bsky.social
#Scotland
#Photography
#Scotland
#Photography
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What more appropriate plant to share on Budget Day than a Money Tree? Crassula ovata, also known as the jade plant or tree-of-happiness, is said to bring prosperity and good luck to your home, but you must never give the plant away, or your good fortune will go with it! #folklore
November 26, 2025 at 11:58 AM
What more appropriate plant to share on Budget Day than a Money Tree? Crassula ovata, also known as the jade plant or tree-of-happiness, is said to bring prosperity and good luck to your home, but you must never give the plant away, or your good fortune will go with it! #folklore
Yup, plenty books and plants here 😉
Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
November 26, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Yup, plenty books and plants here 😉
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Alison Holt, contemporary textile artist who creates machine and hand embroidered artworks #WomensArt
November 26, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Alison Holt, contemporary textile artist who creates machine and hand embroidered artworks #WomensArt
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Visit your nearest library this #NationalTreeWeek and discover activity booklets, posters, activity sheets and even special leafy bookmarks and tree-themed book displays.🌳
#libraries-week/#libraries" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">treecouncil.org.uk/seasonal-campaigns/national-tree-week/#libraries
#libraries-week/#libraries" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">treecouncil.org.uk/seasonal-campaigns/national-tree-week/#libraries
National Tree Week - join the UK's largest tree celebration
National Tree Week is the UK’s largest annual tree celebration, marking the start of the winter tree planting season
treecouncil.org.uk
November 25, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Visit your nearest library this #NationalTreeWeek and discover activity booklets, posters, activity sheets and even special leafy bookmarks and tree-themed book displays.🌳
#libraries-week/#libraries" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">treecouncil.org.uk/seasonal-campaigns/national-tree-week/#libraries
#libraries-week/#libraries" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">treecouncil.org.uk/seasonal-campaigns/national-tree-week/#libraries
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Doing your festive shopping? Give the gift of natural history and check out our online store; not only can you find beautiful artwork, you will be supporting our charity.
If you're shopping for Christmas, make sure you've put in your order by Dec 15 to make sure it arrives in time! buff.ly/ALGBtb2
If you're shopping for Christmas, make sure you've put in your order by Dec 15 to make sure it arrives in time! buff.ly/ALGBtb2
November 25, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Doing your festive shopping? Give the gift of natural history and check out our online store; not only can you find beautiful artwork, you will be supporting our charity.
If you're shopping for Christmas, make sure you've put in your order by Dec 15 to make sure it arrives in time! buff.ly/ALGBtb2
If you're shopping for Christmas, make sure you've put in your order by Dec 15 to make sure it arrives in time! buff.ly/ALGBtb2
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New publishing opportunity!
The London Record Society are looking for someone to edit a volume based on the archive of the Working Ladies' Guild, which supported impoverished women in late nineteenth-century Britain.
Further information and contact details in the text below.
The London Record Society are looking for someone to edit a volume based on the archive of the Working Ladies' Guild, which supported impoverished women in late nineteenth-century Britain.
Further information and contact details in the text below.
November 24, 2025 at 8:00 AM
New publishing opportunity!
The London Record Society are looking for someone to edit a volume based on the archive of the Working Ladies' Guild, which supported impoverished women in late nineteenth-century Britain.
Further information and contact details in the text below.
The London Record Society are looking for someone to edit a volume based on the archive of the Working Ladies' Guild, which supported impoverished women in late nineteenth-century Britain.
Further information and contact details in the text below.
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narrator: 50 years ago...
me: [nods] in 1945
narrator: in 1975...
me: what
me: [nods] in 1945
narrator: in 1975...
me: what
November 25, 2025 at 2:11 AM
narrator: 50 years ago...
me: [nods] in 1945
narrator: in 1975...
me: what
me: [nods] in 1945
narrator: in 1975...
me: what
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Other work by the Ladybird artists.
Mallards over the Marshes
Artist: Roland Green
Mallards over the Marshes
Artist: Roland Green
November 24, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Other work by the Ladybird artists.
Mallards over the Marshes
Artist: Roland Green
Mallards over the Marshes
Artist: Roland Green
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I hate when people ask me, “Why are you so quiet?” I’m quiet because that’s how I function. I don’t ask others, “Why do you talk so much?” That would be rude.
November 24, 2025 at 4:46 PM
I hate when people ask me, “Why are you so quiet?” I’m quiet because that’s how I function. I don’t ask others, “Why do you talk so much?” That would be rude.
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🏅Competition time! 📣 Help us spot hedgehogs in our camera images and you could win a @naturespy.bsky.social camera! The more images you classify between now and 31st December, the more entries into the prize draw.
Find out more 👇
www.hedgehogstreet.org/nhmp-spotting-competition
Find out more 👇
www.hedgehogstreet.org/nhmp-spotting-competition
NHMP spotting competition - Hedgehog Street
Counting hogs We’re using a combination of camera traps, AI and citizen science to monitor hedgehogs in our National Hedgehog […]
www.hedgehogstreet.org
November 24, 2025 at 6:54 PM
🏅Competition time! 📣 Help us spot hedgehogs in our camera images and you could win a @naturespy.bsky.social camera! The more images you classify between now and 31st December, the more entries into the prize draw.
Find out more 👇
www.hedgehogstreet.org/nhmp-spotting-competition
Find out more 👇
www.hedgehogstreet.org/nhmp-spotting-competition
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📖 Exciting reading for today, the anniversary of the publication of On The Origin Of Species:
The Darwin Online project has just released Darwin's address book, filled with unique insights not found anywhere else. It has been transcribed and is now readable at the link below!
buff.ly/uqYc9IL
The Darwin Online project has just released Darwin's address book, filled with unique insights not found anywhere else. It has been transcribed and is now readable at the link below!
buff.ly/uqYc9IL
November 24, 2025 at 3:59 PM
📖 Exciting reading for today, the anniversary of the publication of On The Origin Of Species:
The Darwin Online project has just released Darwin's address book, filled with unique insights not found anywhere else. It has been transcribed and is now readable at the link below!
buff.ly/uqYc9IL
The Darwin Online project has just released Darwin's address book, filled with unique insights not found anywhere else. It has been transcribed and is now readable at the link below!
buff.ly/uqYc9IL
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Congratulations to @affrichighlands.bsky.social who have won the Nature & Climate Action Award at @rspbscotland.bsky.social Nature of Scotland Awards 2025! 🎉
Read the full story 👉 affrichighlands.org/news/rewildi...
Read the full story 👉 affrichighlands.org/news/rewildi...
Rewilding Affric Highlands wins at RSPB Scotland’s Nature of Scotland Awards 2025
The charity received the accolade at a ceremony held at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre (EICC) on 20 November, where 53 award finalists from all over Scotland gathered to celebrate with…
affrichighlands.org
November 24, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Congratulations to @affrichighlands.bsky.social who have won the Nature & Climate Action Award at @rspbscotland.bsky.social Nature of Scotland Awards 2025! 🎉
Read the full story 👉 affrichighlands.org/news/rewildi...
Read the full story 👉 affrichighlands.org/news/rewildi...
I spotted this during our walk earlier today. A tree branch was growing around a telephone line and subsequently cut at either end. 🤔
November 24, 2025 at 1:57 PM
I spotted this during our walk earlier today. A tree branch was growing around a telephone line and subsequently cut at either end. 🤔
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November 24, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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TIL: conchologists
Search is on for the German hairy snail in London
Conchologists, and citizen scientists team up to seek out endangered mollusc species along River Thames
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:25 AM
TIL: conchologists
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On this day 24th November 1877 the novel Black Beauty was first published.
Anna Sewell said she wrote the novel "to induce kindness, sympathy, and an understanding treatment of horses"
Artist: Harry Wingfield
Anna Sewell said she wrote the novel "to induce kindness, sympathy, and an understanding treatment of horses"
Artist: Harry Wingfield
November 24, 2025 at 8:26 AM
On this day 24th November 1877 the novel Black Beauty was first published.
Anna Sewell said she wrote the novel "to induce kindness, sympathy, and an understanding treatment of horses"
Artist: Harry Wingfield
Anna Sewell said she wrote the novel "to induce kindness, sympathy, and an understanding treatment of horses"
Artist: Harry Wingfield
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November 23, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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Other work of the Ladybird artists.
‘Evening party at the big house’
Artist: Ronald Lampitt (1958)
‘Evening party at the big house’
Artist: Ronald Lampitt (1958)
November 23, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Other work of the Ladybird artists.
‘Evening party at the big house’
Artist: Ronald Lampitt (1958)
‘Evening party at the big house’
Artist: Ronald Lampitt (1958)
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A newborn baby dwarf seahorse riding swell in the Miami Native Coral Lab #coralmorphologic
November 23, 2025 at 4:15 PM
A newborn baby dwarf seahorse riding swell in the Miami Native Coral Lab #coralmorphologic
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Did you know Kew’s Library and Archives hold 7,000+ Indian illustrations? This vibrant Pajanelia longifolia piece by Vishnupersad - commissioned by Nathaniel Wallich - is now on show. Explore Flora Indica at the Shirley Sherwood Gallery through April 2026. #KewLA
November 23, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Did you know Kew’s Library and Archives hold 7,000+ Indian illustrations? This vibrant Pajanelia longifolia piece by Vishnupersad - commissioned by Nathaniel Wallich - is now on show. Explore Flora Indica at the Shirley Sherwood Gallery through April 2026. #KewLA
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This Wednesday, all welcome.
I’ll be giving an online talk on ‘Northern Writers’ for Elizabeth Gaskell’s House on Weds Nov 26th, 7pm, £6. (Lancashire Day, but I’ll be talking about writers from across northern England.) Book here: elizabethgaskellhouse.co.uk/events/north/
November 23, 2025 at 1:43 PM
This Wednesday, all welcome.
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Starlings, Basil Ede.
November 23, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Starlings, Basil Ede.