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Anita Dow

@goanitadow.bsky.social

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Love reading & reviewing books, dog-sitting, music, art, history, nature, Mars. Work with composer/author H.E.Wilburson on The Martian Diaries - an award-winning sequel to The War Of The Worlds 👽 https://www.martiandiaries.com

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Anita Dow @goanitadow.bsky.social · Sep 5

My grapevine has produced a lot of fruit this year. It seems to be a very good year for all kinds of fruit in my part of southeast England 🍇🍒🫐

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Anita Dow @goanitadow.bsky.social · 8h

I bet you really have to concentrate hard with that knitting pattern

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Catherine @shadowdogdesigns.bsky.social · 2d

#Photographer Bernd Nowack Shares the Story Behind Viral #Photo of the #Moon Perfectly Centered Behind a #Tree

Link for more info: mymodernmet.com/full-moon-tr...

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Octavius Guy, Esq. @sendforoctavius.bsky.social · 21h

Monday October 9, 1854.

"Your former colleagues seem woefully ill informed." Sir John sniffed, rifled through a drawer, and tossed a poorly written note at me.

"You put us in clink," it read. "Bring us fifty quid to Brandram's Wharf this very night or we finish wot we started!"

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Octavius Guy, Esq. @sendforoctavius.bsky.social · 1d

Sunday October 8, 1854.

"Did Bertha have any leads?" asked George as we huddled against the rain under the church's meagre eaves. Everyone else had made a run for it.

"She reckons they're headed for the Highlands. The one who wasn't caught has a brother with a remote croft there."

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Anita Dow @goanitadow.bsky.social · 16h

Our lawn produces dozens of mushrooms every year but they aren’t a nice flavour. ( They definitely aren’t toadstools)

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🇵🇹 Viana do Castelo 🇵🇹 @viana-do-castelo.bsky.social · 3d

29°C in Viana do Castelo 🇵🇹
Golden sand, endless ocean and a warm breeze… a slice of paradise where summer never ends ☀️🌊✨
#VianaDoCastelo #Portugal #Beach #Travel #Nature #Ocean #Summer #Photography #Video #BeachVibes #Wanderlust #Sea #Paradise

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Anita Dow @goanitadow.bsky.social · 16h

This looks like Michaelmas Daisy

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Anita Dow @goanitadow.bsky.social · 16h

You don’t have to be a sports fan to appreciate this inspirational story 🤩

Ivan Wainewright Author @ivanwainewright.bsky.social · 16h

I know there's a lot of "It's never too late..." posts, but this video is really inspiring. Tom Cillo, who at 58 years old, enters as a freshman to play College Football (American Football). Wow. 🙌
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCAd...
#nevertoolate #Inspiration

58-Year-Old Freshman Walks Onto College Football Team to Fulfill Lifelong Dream

YouTube video by CBS Sports College Football

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Paintings of London @paintingsoflondon.bsky.social · 21h

'London, a view of Somerset House seen through an arch of Waterloo Bridge' (c.1865) by Henry Pether

(Private collection)

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Anita Dow @goanitadow.bsky.social · 17h

Huge knitted WW2 exhibition goes on display

Titled The Longest Yarn, the exhibition includes 80 panels, each one metre long, made by 300 volunteers. It features knitted aircraft, soldiers, airmen and other scenes from World War Two in the display at Stoke Minster.

#Knitting #KnitSky

World War Two knitted exhibition The Longest Yarn goes on display

Charlotte Park, from Stoke-on-Trent, is one of 300 volunteer knitters involved in The Longest Yarn 2.

feeds.bbci.co.uk

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🇵🇹 Viana do Castelo 🇵🇹 @viana-do-castelo.bsky.social · 7d

On October 4th from 10 AM to 1 PM the Vindimas Fair takes place at Republic Square in Viana do Castelo: regional products traditional dances & songs by the groups of Areosa and Perre. Don’t miss it

#VianaDoCastelo #Wine #Culture #Folklore #VinhoVerde #Portugal #LocalProducts #Tradition #photography

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Catherine @shadowdogdesigns.bsky.social · 7d

#Saturn’s moon #Enceladus shows potential for habitability - organic molecules have been found

Link: cosmosmagazine.com/space/astron...

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Catherine @shadowdogdesigns.bsky.social · 6d

October #Stargazing: A #supermoon, new #comet, and a whole lot of #meteors

Link for more: www.popsci.com/science/star...

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Go4Know @go4know.com · 6d

🔥 New Article About Chocolate & 500+ Exclusive Posts. Join Us:
patreon.com/go4know

#knowledge #blog #education #edusky #writing #ai #aiart #chatgpt #photo #photography #chocolate #science #innovation #food #flavor #nutrition #research #experiment

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Octavius Guy, Esq. @sendforoctavius.bsky.social · 7d

Monday October 2, 1854.

George and I were seated in our office, each trying to tempt Mr Tibbles from his box, when one of the junior clerks burst in with the news: three prisoners had escaped from Pentonville Prison on the Caledonian Road.

Oddly the pigeons I'd seen nearby sprung to mind.

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Octavius Guy, Esq. @sendforoctavius.bsky.social · 6d

Tuesday October 3, 1854.

On Saturday last, having toured the new meat market at Copenhagen Fields, I'd happened upon a man kneeling over a cage in the field at the north-eastern corner.

I heard the flurry of wings and saw two pigeons take to the sky, headed for Pentonville Prison.

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Up Hill Down Dale Walks @uphilldowndalew.bsky.social · 7d

Nothing madly exciting but a nice view from just below Curbar Edge looking across #Derbyshire.

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Anita Dow @goanitadow.bsky.social · 6d

A thought provoking article, especially the penultimate paragraph.

Catherine @shadowdogdesigns.bsky.social · 8d

The Forgotten Weather Station Where Polar #Bears Now Stare Out From Broken Windows #PolarBears ❤️

Link for more info, photos and video: www.zmescience.com/feature-post...

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Catherine @shadowdogdesigns.bsky.social · 8d

#Dogs #Dog #LoveThem #BestFriend #LoveDogs #GoodDog #DogsAreLove

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Octavius Guy, Esq. @sendforoctavius.bsky.social · 8d

Sunday October 1, 1854.

To church in Camden; the sermon was boring.

Afterwards I told George what I'd seen yesterday: "They've taken the fields and sectioned them off, and built brick abattoirs everywhere."

I don't know why, but I didn't mention the man I'd seen with the pigeons.

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Octavius Guy, Esq. @sendforoctavius.bsky.social · 9d

Saturday September 30, 1854.

After eating a leisurely breakfast I considered what to do with my day.

Since it wasn't raining, I took a stroll up the Caledonian Road to see what progress had been made at Copenhagen Fields, the site where London's new meat market will go.

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Pennan Brae @pennanbrae.bsky.social · 12d

Clouds adding some drama to the evening sky. #kelowna #okanagan

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Catherine @shadowdogdesigns.bsky.social · 9d

#Dogs #Dog #PersonalCheerleader #BestDay #BestFriend #LoveDogs #GoodDog #DogsAreLove

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Catherine @shadowdogdesigns.bsky.social · 9d

Kazuaki Koseki’s Dreamy #Photos Capture #Japan’s Forests Shimmering with #Fireflies

Link for more info and photos: www.thisiscolossal.com/2024/09/kazu...

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Anita Dow @goanitadow.bsky.social · 8d

I love these wild pansies. I know them as Heartsease but they have lots of folk names including Three-Faces-In-a-Hood and Jack-Jump-Up-And-Kiss-Me 🌸

Up Hill Down Dale Walks @uphilldowndalew.bsky.social · 9d

Some sort of Pansy (Viola Tricolour) just two flowers on their own in the grass. I think it's a wild flower?

#flowers #wildflower

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