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English Teacher. I have been know to write something about once every decade. Running out of decades.
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A tree full of birds, including redwing blackbirds, song sparrows, a brown creeper, some warblers, pine siskins, chestnut backed chickadees, and i could've sworn i saw a cedar waxwing.
January 25, 2025 at 9:39 PM
A tree full of birds, including redwing blackbirds, song sparrows, a brown creeper, some warblers, pine siskins, chestnut backed chickadees, and i could've sworn i saw a cedar waxwing.
I’ve managed to get to my fifties without ever visiting Liverpool. So I went yesterday- and what a beautiful city! The Walker Gallery has to be one of the best public art galleries outside London - especially now Birmingham’s appears to have been purged
January 12, 2025 at 7:39 PM
I’ve managed to get to my fifties without ever visiting Liverpool. So I went yesterday- and what a beautiful city! The Walker Gallery has to be one of the best public art galleries outside London - especially now Birmingham’s appears to have been purged
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Bum-barrels twit on bush and tree
Scarse bigger then a bumble bee
And in a white thorn’s leafy rest
It builds its curious pudding-nest
Wi hole beside as if a mouse
Had built the little barrel house
- John Clare
Long-tailed tit (Bumbarrel) painting - by @johnwalterswildife.bsky.social #birds 🪶🌿
Scarse bigger then a bumble bee
And in a white thorn’s leafy rest
It builds its curious pudding-nest
Wi hole beside as if a mouse
Had built the little barrel house
- John Clare
Long-tailed tit (Bumbarrel) painting - by @johnwalterswildife.bsky.social #birds 🪶🌿
January 6, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Bum-barrels twit on bush and tree
Scarse bigger then a bumble bee
And in a white thorn’s leafy rest
It builds its curious pudding-nest
Wi hole beside as if a mouse
Had built the little barrel house
- John Clare
Long-tailed tit (Bumbarrel) painting - by @johnwalterswildife.bsky.social #birds 🪶🌿
Scarse bigger then a bumble bee
And in a white thorn’s leafy rest
It builds its curious pudding-nest
Wi hole beside as if a mouse
Had built the little barrel house
- John Clare
Long-tailed tit (Bumbarrel) painting - by @johnwalterswildife.bsky.social #birds 🪶🌿
The Severn in flood again - turn a corner and the road becomes river
January 4, 2025 at 8:59 AM
The Severn in flood again - turn a corner and the road becomes river
I love how the river in flood transforms my town every year - even if it must cause a heap of anxiety and misery to the people who live in the flood plain. These street lights illuminate a path nobody can follow.
December 17, 2024 at 9:04 PM
I love how the river in flood transforms my town every year - even if it must cause a heap of anxiety and misery to the people who live in the flood plain. These street lights illuminate a path nobody can follow.
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This is a year in which night with all its connotative weight has fallen on me. Still, there’s light to be found - Donne was da supernova
This is a year in which night with all its connotative weight has fallen on me. Still, there’s light to be found - Donne was da supernova
A Nocturnal upon St. Lucy's Day
'Tis the year's midnight, and it is the day's, Lucy's, who scarce seven hours herself unmasks; The sun is spent, and now his flasks Send forth light squibs, no constant rays; The world's whole sap is ...
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December 17, 2024 at 8:46 PM
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This is a year in which night with all its connotative weight has fallen on me. Still, there’s light to be found - Donne was da supernova
This is a year in which night with all its connotative weight has fallen on me. Still, there’s light to be found - Donne was da supernova
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New Christmas lights just went up in Clacton.
(Farage is still the MP who makes most money from second jobs. By a long way.)
(Farage is still the MP who makes most money from second jobs. By a long way.)
December 17, 2024 at 5:05 PM
New Christmas lights just went up in Clacton.
(Farage is still the MP who makes most money from second jobs. By a long way.)
(Farage is still the MP who makes most money from second jobs. By a long way.)
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“When Lake Annecy began deteriorating ecologically in the 1950s…community pressure led to the decision to completely renovate the sewage networks. It’s now known as the cleanest lake in Europe.”
On the devastation, defence & possible salvation of Windermere:
👉 eu.patagonia.com/gb/en/storie...
On the devastation, defence & possible salvation of Windermere:
👉 eu.patagonia.com/gb/en/storie...
December 16, 2024 at 8:17 PM
“When Lake Annecy began deteriorating ecologically in the 1950s…community pressure led to the decision to completely renovate the sewage networks. It’s now known as the cleanest lake in Europe.”
On the devastation, defence & possible salvation of Windermere:
👉 eu.patagonia.com/gb/en/storie...
On the devastation, defence & possible salvation of Windermere:
👉 eu.patagonia.com/gb/en/storie...
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Music sector workers to lose nearly a quarter of income to AI in next four years, global study finds
Music sector workers to lose nearly a quarter of income to AI in next four years, global study finds
AI boom will enrich giant tech companies but creators’ rights and income will be drastically reduced unless policymakers intervene, report warns
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December 4, 2024 at 6:27 AM
Music sector workers to lose nearly a quarter of income to AI in next four years, global study finds
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‘A kitschy wonder’: inside Holy Land USA theme park – in pictures
‘A kitschy wonder’: inside Holy Land USA theme park – in pictures
Photographer Lisa Barlow was intrigued by the miniature replica of Jerusalem she found in Connecticut. Then she fell in love with the people who lived nearby Continue reading...
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December 3, 2024 at 7:16 AM
‘A kitschy wonder’: inside Holy Land USA theme park – in pictures
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Winter sunrise in the estuary of the Afon Dyfi, Ceredigion, Wales, UK.
November 30, 2024 at 10:35 PM
Winter sunrise in the estuary of the Afon Dyfi, Ceredigion, Wales, UK.
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A stoat! 😍 Racing for shelter with its brunch so that the magpies don't confiscate it 🐀
Liberton, Edinburgh #ukwildlife
Liberton, Edinburgh #ukwildlife
November 30, 2024 at 12:59 PM
A stoat! 😍 Racing for shelter with its brunch so that the magpies don't confiscate it 🐀
Liberton, Edinburgh #ukwildlife
Liberton, Edinburgh #ukwildlife
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One of the best things about winter's minimalism is the way deciduous trees focus attention on form, texture & the relationship between branches & shards of sky. I'll be sharing some that warm my cockles in winter over the next few weeks. Have any of your favourites bared all yet? #trees #winter
November 28, 2024 at 3:27 PM
Can’t be many songs that cut quite like this youtu.be/QgG0gMszOqY?...
Lost in the Stars (From Lost in the Stars)
YouTube video by Lotte Lenya - Topic
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November 28, 2024 at 8:44 AM
Can’t be many songs that cut quite like this youtu.be/QgG0gMszOqY?...
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Looking forward to this event organised by @monorailmusic.bsky.social at the Glad Cafe on Tuesday talking about The Secret Public - come on down. Great poster by Stephen Pastel from a Polaroid by Linder Sterling
November 27, 2024 at 1:32 PM
Looking forward to this event organised by @monorailmusic.bsky.social at the Glad Cafe on Tuesday talking about The Secret Public - come on down. Great poster by Stephen Pastel from a Polaroid by Linder Sterling
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The poet Apollinaire in 1916 after he was wounded during Word War I. He coined the term Surrealism in 1917 to describe that new art movement
“When man resolved to imitate walking, he invented the wheel, which does not look like a leg. In doing this, he was practicing surrealism without knowing it.”
“When man resolved to imitate walking, he invented the wheel, which does not look like a leg. In doing this, he was practicing surrealism without knowing it.”
March 5, 2024 at 5:02 PM
The poet Apollinaire in 1916 after he was wounded during Word War I. He coined the term Surrealism in 1917 to describe that new art movement
“When man resolved to imitate walking, he invented the wheel, which does not look like a leg. In doing this, he was practicing surrealism without knowing it.”
“When man resolved to imitate walking, he invented the wheel, which does not look like a leg. In doing this, he was practicing surrealism without knowing it.”
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“The ability to start out upon your own impulse is fundamental to the gift of keeping going upon your own terms. . . . Getting started, keeping going, getting started
again in art and in life, it seems to me this is the essential rhythm."
- Seamus Heaney
again in art and in life, it seems to me this is the essential rhythm."
- Seamus Heaney
November 26, 2024 at 6:15 AM
“The ability to start out upon your own impulse is fundamental to the gift of keeping going upon your own terms. . . . Getting started, keeping going, getting started
again in art and in life, it seems to me this is the essential rhythm."
- Seamus Heaney
again in art and in life, it seems to me this is the essential rhythm."
- Seamus Heaney
November 25, 2024 at 7:40 PM
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Harpo Marx (with Amelia Earhart) - BOTD
November 23, 2024 at 5:46 PM
Harpo Marx (with Amelia Earhart) - BOTD
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Word of the day is ‘librocubicularist’: one who loves nothing better than reading in bed.
(Not easy to say, but I’m glad to know it exists).
(Not easy to say, but I’m glad to know it exists).
November 24, 2024 at 10:47 AM
Word of the day is ‘librocubicularist’: one who loves nothing better than reading in bed.
(Not easy to say, but I’m glad to know it exists).
(Not easy to say, but I’m glad to know it exists).
Listening to Brendel playing Schubert. Marking essays on ‘An Inspector Calls’. This is good.
November 24, 2024 at 12:16 PM
Listening to Brendel playing Schubert. Marking essays on ‘An Inspector Calls’. This is good.
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A touch of winter comfort, an antidote to despair. I love this book a lot.
Not a house in sight. Stripped, wind-swept
moorland, gritstone walls in bad repair, snow
quite likely. Here we wait, as if waiting
for the return of truthful politics.
'Truth, Justice, and the Companionship of Owls'
Peter Riley
longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...
moorland, gritstone walls in bad repair, snow
quite likely. Here we wait, as if waiting
for the return of truthful politics.
'Truth, Justice, and the Companionship of Owls'
Peter Riley
longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...
November 21, 2024 at 8:06 PM
A touch of winter comfort, an antidote to despair. I love this book a lot.