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Jan Lilleyman
@whiterose1919.bsky.social
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Firm believer in Sam Vines’ boots theory of wealth. Not as green as I’m cabbage-looking. Leeds-based but Derbyshire is home, likes politics, books, early years chat, food.
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My poor dog has come back from the groomer with a curiously shaved mouth, giving him an odd “black lipsticked pouting Goth” look
Toffee coloured labradoodle with a mostly white muzzle shaved to show a black mouth shaved into an odd pout - goes well with his usual black eyeliner effect 😄
December 4, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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I’m not sure that Morrisons is really giving its More card holders much value for money here 😄

I do miss being able to tag companies on here like we could on Twitter - it’s the only thing I really find lacking.
Peroni is £2.75 a bottle but More card holders can buy two for £6 Kronenbourg is £2.50 a bottle but More card holders can buy two for £6 Moretti is £2.90 a bottle but More card holders can buy two for £6
November 10, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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Gorgeous start to the morning - the mist was hanging in the valley over the river and canal, completely obscuring the woods, but the sky was a bright blue and the sun picked out all the shades of autumn in the trees and bracken.
In the foreground is grass strewn with fallen autumn leaves, then deep russet red bracken against the hedgerow, a tree to the left has lost almost all its leaves but the tree to the right is clinging on to shreds of yellow- between the two the mist hangs over the valley, and the sky shades from pink at the horizon to a deeper blue overhead.
November 10, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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Just yards from two busy A roads in Leeds is a little pocket of serenity - the Japanese Garden in Hall Park, Horsforth. It’s glorious in all weathers, but in Autumn it really comes into its own, with the scarlet of the paintwork on the bridges and shelters reflected in the foliage of the acers.
Green grass in the foreground of a redbrick-walled garden, scattered with yellow fallen leaves from the tree overhead. To the back left is a scarlet painted wooden bridge and shelter, to the back right is an acer shining all colours of flame red. In the centre is a small lake covered in lily pads. Green grass in the foreground of a redbrick-walled garden. To the back left is a scarlet painted wooden bridge and shelter, to the back right is an acer shining all colours of flame red. In the centre is a small lake covered in lily pads. A different angle of this brick walled garden (I seem to remember being told that it was a tennis court when Horsforth Hall still existed but I don’t know if that is true?). To the left is a shrub that I think may be a pieris but I’m not any sort of horticulturist so may well be wrong - shading from a lime green at the base 70 through all shades of pink until it glows at the very top. To the right is a scarlet-painted wooden arched bridge which crosses the short stream that runs from the waterfall to the small lake. Standing stones on a gravel patch - we visit this garden often and this but is always used by the pre-school children to measure which one is their height. To the back of the picture is the scarlet bridge and the stream running into the pond
November 1, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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#lufc not the worst option to have above us in the table 😄
Photo shows the “Explore” tab of BlueSky, which currently has Zohran Mamdani as the number one hot topic, and Leeds United below him in second place
October 24, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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Last night’s spectacular Derbyshire sunset
Orange purple skies framed in a tangle of foliage Distant views of hills with orange and pink skies framed in the branches of trees A vivid sky of orange, reds, pinks fading to blues with purple brown hills shadowed in the foreground
October 12, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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Still one of my favourite books to read out loud - it always gets an appreciative and interactive response from the under fives. I keep meaning to buy more Ian Whybrow books - does anyone have any recommendations? #kidlit #eyfs
Holding a book called Along Came a Bedtime by Ian Whybrow and Guy Parker-Rees, a rather battered blue book with a covering of yellow stars and a crescent moon, and a big bear and a little bear in a bright red car in the curve of the moon
October 6, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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We seemed to do that one and Get Off Bear in constant rotation last year - both great teaching books with lots of spin off ideas for my 1-4 year olds.
Photo of softback children’s book Get Off Bear by Tony Neal featuring a variety of animals trying to pull a bear on a sledge uphill
September 26, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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Double page from the same book again with swirling patterns of autumn foliage. The words read Whipping wind and stirring breeze Blasting bare the autumn trees Piles of amber gold and red Gather on the road instead. Down and down the foliage spins chestnut, oak and ash. Until...
September 26, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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We love this one at the moment. One of our neighbours has a hedgehog cam which has picked up lots of activity to show the children, and the illustrations of the different leaves and beetles give us lots to look for on our walks and stick to our “Amazon box and double sided sticky tape” boards 😂
Image shows the front cover of the paperback book Hedgehogs don’t live in the City by Lucy Reynolds and Jenna Herman, with a hedgehog in the bottom left corner and moths in the lower right and upper left corner and a swirling mass of falling autumnal oak, ash and chestnut leaves on the rest of the cover.
September 26, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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Limoges - unexpectedly lovely, full of nooks and crannies, peaceful ancient churches, tempting shops and very good icecream! And cheap flights from LBA 😄
Anyone want to buy a bookshop? This medieval shop has an ancient green painted wooden frontage, little low doorway, a jumble of old books in the window and a large white March Hare (or Alice in Wonderland’s White Rabbit) just inside the doorway Narrow street with medieval wooden fronted buildings and a huge brown wooden arched door leading into a tiny and very old stone church. Medieval cobbled street with a variety of wooden fronted buildings, with multicoloured baloons suspended above head height, in the foreground a bar sign for a restaurant called Petits Ventres Another cobbled street, with medieval wooden fronted haphazard buildings, with the upper floors over hanging the lower one, again with colourful balloons decorating the street
August 10, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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Bluebells and birdsong (and dog 😄)
May 10, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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Saw loads of these butterflies on today’s walk - as well as lots of red admirals and cabbage whites - but what’s it, please? #butterflies
Photo shows a brown butterfly with pale spots on its wings basking in the sunlight on a bramble leaf.
May 1, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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Such a gorgeous season - two weekend walks and two different flower delights 😍 #cherryblossom #bluebells #spring
A sea of woodland bluebells and fresh green leaves on the trees Close up of bluebells with one white bell in the middle Close up of white cherry blossom White cherry blossom with a hint of pink - the unfurled buds show more pink that fades to white once they are opened
April 28, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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Try ChatGPT, they said - it’ll give you ideas you wouldn’t come up with on your own…

I guess that’s true as, whilst I’m still no closer to paint choosing, I’m now off down the rabbit hole of googling what on earth a Fourier coefficient is - I’m not sure my creaky o level maths is up to this 😂
My original question about paint colour suggestions for my living room has been answered with info on Fourier series, exponential notation and coefficients More Fourier series content, to do with formula, coefficients and sine and cosine. I have very little grasp of what this explanation is telling me … 🤷🏻‍♀️
April 12, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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It did the search job right, but there’s a bit of a flaw in the actual photo 😄
Photo of an owl in flight, but there’s a glitch in the photo that makes the owl look like a pair of cloven-hooved wellies have just slid off its legs mid-flight.
February 9, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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Spring is on its way 😍
Small pocket of bright snowdrops pushing up through fallen autumn leaves at the base of a holly hedge A drift of snowdrops, too many to count, shining white flowers and bright green stalks.
February 2, 2025 at 6:59 AM
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It’s a chunky monkey “with a girth of 23 feet” and up to 500 years old
Information board about the oak tree, saying it’s 350-500 years old, has a girth of 23 feet, it stands in the original deer park and was probably retained as a feature when the hall and gardens were created. Upper section of it was damaged so the tree is hollow, but remains perfectly healthy as nutrients can still be transported below the bark.
January 28, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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#thicktrunktuesday - in the grounds of the Georgian mansion now trades union-owned wedding/conference venue Wortley Hall - “the workers’ stately home”.
Very thick trunked sessile oak in full leaf in front of a lake.
January 28, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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Gorgeous walk in the mist and snow this morning in Derbyshire. We are lucky to have kept hold of our childhood home when my dad died - we rent it out as a holiday let until my sister can retire and move back in full time - and that means we spend as much time there ourselves as we possibly can.
Very tame robin keeping an eye on us on our walk Woodland path with the last traces of snow holding on around the bare trees Misty view of fields from the garden, bookended at one side of the photo by a bare oak tree and the other an ash tree, with snow laying on the ground An icicle-encrusted hedge, where water has been splashed from a puddle by passing cars and has frozen to resemble stalagtites.
January 12, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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#adoorablethursday at the beautiful medieval Haddon Hall Derbyshire
January 9, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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We have snow in #Leeds! Bilbo would like to know if anyone knows where his grass has gone 😄

Last photo not mine - posted on our community Facebook group 😍
Australian Labradoodle pup seeing snow for the first time Australian labradoodle puppy at 14 weeks old hunting for the grass under the snow Photo showing Horsforth Town Street in the snow - the old stone buildings looking appealing against an almost untouched carpeting of fresh snow under the streetlights
January 5, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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Fetched a Christmas tree today from the lovely Whiteleys of #Pudsey. We accidentally bought one so big that there was no room for 2 of us in the car, so we set off to walk whilst the tree was dropped off. And I’m pleased we did - otherwise we would never have stumbled across this sign 😍 #Leeds
White writing on a pink background - it says Tripe Dressing Baths. Presented to Pudsey civic society in 1987 having belonged to Ross’s Tripe dressers and retailers who occupied various premises in Pudsey and Stanningley 1938-1971.
December 14, 2024 at 6:29 PM
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View from the Malmaison Leeds on the morning after a fantastic performance from @paulheatonsolo.bsky.social at the @firstdirectarena.bsky.social. Looking out over the river watching a magnet fishing boat and the little yellow water taxi heading under Leeds Bridge.
December 1, 2024 at 10:55 AM
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Seriously?! This is not the time for my GBBO feed to die!
November 26, 2024 at 8:56 PM