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🌱Karen Stevens 💙

@lucytoo.bsky.social

210 followers 170 following 890 posts

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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🌱Karen Stevens 💙 @lucytoo.bsky.social · 10d

It seems the Guardian Fantasy House Hunt agrees!

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The Marsh Family @marshfamilysongs.bsky.social · 13d

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

"Grand Old Duke of York" - parody of English nursery rhyme by the Marsh Family on Prince Andrew

YouTube video by Marsh Family

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🌱Karen Stevens 💙 @lucytoo.bsky.social · 18d

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘When I pass piles of fishing nets, I see piles of money’: a one man recycling revolution on the Cornish coast

Determined to find a solution to the discarded plastic nets, Ian Falconer found a way to convert them into filament for 3D printing, for use in products from motorbikes to sunglasses

www.theguardian.com

🌱Karen Stevens 💙 @lucytoo.bsky.social · 24d

I have just signed this.

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 26d

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.

Joe McLaren's fabulous cover for Everything Will Swallow You

A close up of the small tear on this first edition of Everything Will Swallow You

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🌱Karen Stevens 💙 @lucytoo.bsky.social · Oct 3

Oops 😢

🌱Karen Stevens 💙 @lucytoo.bsky.social · Sep 14

Well done! 🎉

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🌱Karen Stevens 💙 @lucytoo.bsky.social · Sep 14

So beautiful 🤩

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The Marsh Family @marshfamilysongs.bsky.social · Sep 7

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."

"Measles and Polio Down in the Schoolyard" - Marsh Family parody of Paul Simon "Me and Julio" on RFK

YouTube video by Marsh Family

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🌱Karen Stevens 💙 @lucytoo.bsky.social · Sep 3

😂

🌱Karen Stevens 💙 @lucytoo.bsky.social · Sep 3

I really miss the Manchester trams.

🌱Karen Stevens 💙 @lucytoo.bsky.social · Aug 28

I have just started watching a rerun of Ally McBeal, a 90s flash back 😊

🌱Karen Stevens 💙 @lucytoo.bsky.social · Jul 27

Mirabelles?

🌱Karen Stevens 💙 @lucytoo.bsky.social · Jul 24

I feel sadness for those who hate, it must blight their lives.

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🌱Karen Stevens 💙 @lucytoo.bsky.social · Jul 24

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&

🌱Karen Stevens 💙 @lucytoo.bsky.social · Jul 9

So envious, we have none!

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RC deWinter @rcdewinter.bsky.social · Jun 23

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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · Jun 16

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

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Dan Raven-Ellison @danravenellison.bsky.social · Jun 13

Love to get out and explore by walking, running, cycling, wheelchair, pushchair, scooter or horse?

We've got a plan to make it much better for you 👍

Check it out crowdfunder.co.uk/p/slowways and help spread the word!

#SlowWays @slowwaysuk.bsky.social
🐌⭐️

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🌱Karen Stevens 💙 @lucytoo.bsky.social · Jun 12

Ditto 😊

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Signe Johansen @signesjohansen.bsky.social · Jun 12

Oh Hot Lips. Loved watching M*A*S*H as a kid with my parents (they didn’t really believe in children’s television as such 🫠)

Danny Deraney @dannyderaney.bsky.social · May 31

I don't know if there is a more appropriate goodbye to Loretta Swit, than her last scene in MASH in the series finale.

Loretta won two Emmy's for her role as Major Houlihan.

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🌱Karen Stevens 💙 @lucytoo.bsky.social · Jun 1

The choir are magnificent 🤩

🌱Karen Stevens 💙 @lucytoo.bsky.social · Jun 1

Wonderful!

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🌱Karen Stevens 💙 @lucytoo.bsky.social · May 28

I have this rose, next to Alberic Barbier. I love them both.

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🌱Karen Stevens 💙 @lucytoo.bsky.social · May 20

Happy birthday, Tom! 🎂