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Steve Jackson

@atcherleyons.bsky.social

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#Genealogy. #FamilyHistory and #OneNameStudy of the Atcherley family. #OnePlaceStudies of Waters Upton and Fawsley, #HouseHistory of Marton Hall. Green. Vegan. Lover of SciFi; #nature and #WildlifePhotography; countryside; puns. Not here to doomscroll.

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Steve Jackson @atcherleyons.bsky.social · Nov 6

#PlumeScrolling Daggerstrike Murderbeak, a Grey Heron I photographed at Forest Farm, Cardiff, back in May. So glad I decided to prioritise #NaturePhotography earlier this year, before my thyroid condition began to limit what I could do! #Birds 🦉 🌿

In this photo, almost all of the Grey Heron can be seen standing in some long grass, with buttercups and other wildflowers - the vegetation is covering most of the bird's long legs however. As the bird's name suggests, the plumage is mainly various shades of grey, but the top of the head is black, they eye is yellow with a black pupil and black rim, and the long, powerful beak is blackish above and an orangey-yellow below.

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Steve Jackson @atcherleyons.bsky.social · 11h

Might be worth a try. Though for me it would have to be without Chat GPT as I'm allergic to generative AI (well, to its environmental impacts).

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Steve Jackson @atcherleyons.bsky.social · 11h

Would that include a restricted image set?

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Steve Jackson @atcherleyons.bsky.social · 11h

Excellent – the latest Time Police novel is out today, and a link up with the ‘tea-sodden disaster magnets’ of the Institute of Historical Research at St Mary’s is in progress. “Once again everything was about to go tits up. He had no idea just how up the tits were about to go. [...]”

Steve Jackson @atcherleyons.bsky.social · 11h

There would definitely be a few entries for people who came from or went to Waters Upton, but mainly I would want to transcribe and put them online somewhere for the benefit of others. If I could only manufacture more time... 😂

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Steve Jackson @atcherleyons.bsky.social · 11h

I'm not sure there's anything else for Waters Upton. Need to go digging to see if there might be something for Fawsley. And if I didn't already have so much to transcribe, I'd love to do the post 1812 parish registers for Hodnet in Shropshire (via BTs), which aren't online anywhere AFAIK.

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Rob Crank Photography @robcrank68.bsky.social · 12h

On Monday i went to visit the Red Squirrels, i got there early and didn't have to wait too long for them to come out.
After a few hours i sat by the river for a brew, then saw a splash and up came 3 Otters which was a 1st for me.

Penrith & District Red Squirrel Group

#Otters #Squirrels #mammals

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Steve Jackson @atcherleyons.bsky.social · 12h

Positivity in my area over 30%. And a potential side effect of my thyroid medication is decreased resistance to infection... 😷

Dan O'Hara @skeuomorphology.bsky.social · 14h

The PCR positivity map is out, and UKHSA have finally deigned to describe covid activity as "medium".

UKHSA national positivity is 13.23%.

Adjusted for non-reporting we make it 15.27%.

jamestindall.info/skeuomorphol...

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Steve Jackson @atcherleyons.bsky.social · 13h

Got some great #OnePlaceStudy records this way (Bishops Transcripts, School Log Book, Overseers Accounts, Vestry Minutes)! Some transcribed and added to my Waters Upton website, some still to be completed. Thanks again Áine! #GenHour

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Robin Parker @thegreatskua.bsky.social · 17h

It’s always a joy to see a Stoat, even if only very briefly. This one bounced across a path at RSPB Greylake in the Somerset Levels this morning & I managed just a single photo before it disappeared into the vegetation.
#ukwildlife

A head-on view of a Stoat with all four feet off the ground, crossing a path on the Somerset Levels.

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Steve Jackson @atcherleyons.bsky.social · 15h

#31DaysOfGraves Day 9: Hand

Back to my Fawsley #OnePlaceStudy, and 2 pics combined. You may recognise the Birds from Day 5 in the upper part of the image; this view reveals figures with hands held in prayer. Below are Jane Knightley (née Skenard) and husband Sir Richard again, hands also in prayer.

Two photos combined in one image. Top: Part of a massive monument on a church wall. On a whitish background are a coat of arms plus crest in the centre, on either side of which is a black tablet with gold lettering, then a figure (top half only, on a pillar), upright, in grey-blue garb with gold hair and belt, and hands held together, and finally more heraldic designs adding colour (red, gold, silver, black and blue) to the scene. Below: The top parts of two recumbent alabaster effigies, with their hands held in prayer.

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Andrew Locking @andrews-walks.bsky.social · 16h

Crummock Water reflections

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Steve Jackson @atcherleyons.bsky.social · 16h

If you are following #31DaysOfGraves posts, you'll have seen several gravestones like this today as the prompt for Day 9 is Hand. Another pic from Treflys St Michael, near Morfa Bychan.

Photo of the top part of a gravestone, which has an Ivy leaf decoration around the outside, enclosing a pair of holding hands which represent the husband and wife buried in the grave below.

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Society for One-Place Studies @oneplacestudies.bsky.social · 21h

Starting on 13 Oct, so act quickly if you’re about to take your first steps to a #OnePlaceStudy or would like guidance & inspiration for a study you’ve already started. Society members can claim a 10% discount on this course, and a year’s free membership is offered to non-members taking the course.

Pharos Tutors @pharostutors.bsky.social · 22h

First Steps to a One-Place Study. This course enables you to begin to undertake a one-place study, by suggesting methods, sources and techniques that will enhance your understanding of a community and the people within it. www.pharostutors.com/first-steps-...

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Steve Jackson @atcherleyons.bsky.social · 19h

You got a great sighting. Owl’s well that ends well. Or something like that... 🦉

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Steve Jackson @atcherleyons.bsky.social · 19h

Great letter from @abrackenbury.bsky.social!

Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social · 1d

In @thetimes.com letters page today

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Rob Jackson @robcamera.bsky.social · 20h

It’s Red Squirrel Awareness Week
A beautiful Red from the Dingle on Anglesey.
#photography #UKwildlife #RedSquirrelAwareness

A Red Squirrel sitting on a branch. Her face full on to the camera, but looking down at the Hazelnut that is clasped in her front paws. Her ears pointing up with wonderful tufts, and her tail rising up behind her. The branch is moss covered and littered with already broken nutshells.

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Steve Jackson @atcherleyons.bsky.social · 20h

It certainly looks like one. But if it doesn’t move, it’s a model that has been installed to scare pigeons! 😄

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RSPB @rspb.bsky.social · 1d

Today’s #AutumnArrivalSpotlight... the Fieldfare! 🍒

Flocks arrive from Scandinavia, filling UK hedgerows and fields with their speckled breasts and blue-grey heads, feasting on berries and insects.

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Steve Jackson @atcherleyons.bsky.social · 1d

More glass for #31DaysOfGraves Day 8. My pics of the whole window (in Waters Upton church) aren't great, so here's an image combining the three parts of it memorialising Mary Elizabeth Hobson. She was living with her brother, the Rev Samuel Hobson, when she died at the age of 74. #OnePlaceWednesday

Three images combined, showing the bottom parts of three panes of a stained glass window erected "To the Glory of God and in loving memory of Mary Elizabeth only daughter of the late Rev. S. Hobson Vicar of Tuttington, Norfolk, Who died at waters Upton July 3rd 1917."

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Steve Jackson @atcherleyons.bsky.social · 1d

#OnePlaceWednesday + #31DaysOfGraves Day 8: Glass

Stained glass window in the chancel of St Mary’s church at Fawsley, my local #OnePlaceStudy, “erected in memory of Sir Charles and Lady Knightley By a grateful Tenantry” in 1866. With closer views of Sir Charles K & Lady Selina Mary K, née Hervey.

Five images combined, on a black background. In the centre is the a glass window in its entirety. Top left: A closer view of the bottom left pane of the window, depicting Sir Charles Knightley, facing right, his hands closed in prayer. Bottom left: An even closer view of the top part of the same pane, showing the head of Sir Charles. Top right: A closer view of the bottom right pane of the window, depicting Lady Selina Mary Knightley, facing left, her head bowed and hands closed in prayer. Bottom left: An even closer view of the top part of the same pane, showing the head of Lady Selina.

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Janet Hill @saskajanet.bsky.social · 2d

Look at her go!
#invertebrates 🌿

Screen shot of Project Monarch app map of progress of a monarch butterfly from southern Ontario to Oklahoma.

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Steve Jackson @atcherleyons.bsky.social · 1d

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Moose Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 1d

Cartoon. Two people in lab coats, one is showing the other a beaker. The person on the left says "Can| bortow
your chloroform?". The other person replies "Go ahead, knock yourself out"

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National Trust @nationaltrust.org.uk · 2d

We've got some fantastic nature news to brighten your day 🎉

Wicken Fen has become the first UK nature reserve to record an incredible 10,000 species. A moth that imitates a wasp was the 10,000th species to be recorded. This work is possible thanks to a major grant from The Nature Recovery Project.

A close-up of a glow-worm with a black plated body and a bright green glowing tail clinging to a stem of grass in the dark

A dark grey moth with bright beige splodges on its wings. It sits of a bright green leaf against a black background

A small brown bird with a cream chest and darker brown tail feathers perches on a reed against a background of blurred brown and green reeds

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