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Jill Holliday

@jillholl.bsky.social

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Semi-retired software bod, trying to spend more time with my camera and outside, up a fell if possible. Photography, wildlife, pottery, gardening. Love and teach skiing, particularly adaptive.

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Jill Holliday @jillholl.bsky.social · 2d

the forum site can do it too, hence I'm not posting the link. Dropbox advice seemed to be to turn off antivirus. Needless to say, I won't be doing that or going near Dropbox again and will be finding a better site to transfer files. 2/2

Jill Holliday @jillholl.bsky.social · 2d

A warning for any @dropbox.com users. I tried to download some files from Dropbox earlier and have since spent a couple of hours investigating why my Windows PC lost its internet connection. Found a forum post saying accessing the Dropbox site had done that!!! It also seems that accessing ... 🧵1/2

Jill Holliday @jillholl.bsky.social · 2d

Beautiful!

Jill Holliday @jillholl.bsky.social · 6d

A #SurreyHills sunset yesterday for #Sharemondays2025

Hills with trees are silhouetted against the setting sun, mainly obscured behind a layer of grey cloud. Higher clouds with a pinky tinge loom over the scene.

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 6d

She was arrested for holding a sign reading:

“I do not support the proscription of Palestine Action”

How that would warrant arrest is very unclear. I wonder if the police here even understand the boundaries of the bizarre law they’ve been forced to enforce.

Jill Holliday @jillholl.bsky.social · 7d

Wonderful organ concert in Salibury Cathedral last night - music from Interstellar plus bonus Planets. Fantastic sound in a beautiful setting

Looking up past arches, organ pipes and a crucifix to the highly decorated cathedral ceiling.

Cathedral ceiling with painted circular decoration and gilding

Beautiful archways and vaulting along the cathedral nave

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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 10d

Happy National Poetry Day to all those who celebrate.

This year’s theme is ‘play’ so here’s a poem which plays with some letters. It’s called ‘The Problem of Writing Poems in the Shape of Deciduous Trees’.

The Problem of Writing Poems
in the Shape of Deciduous Trees

[The poem has been written in the shape of a deciduous tree with letters (or ‘leaves’) missing from the text]:

a comm n
pr ble whe writin
p ems in the shape of decid o s
trees is t at once t ere ar ives the fir t
sti rings of he new aut mn breeze, he
oems will begi to shake hemselves
ge tly ntil their letters loos n
d
like leaves, an
they
start
to
float
down
then

[The missing letters from the tree have landed on the last line to form the phrase]

turntomushuponthegroun

[The final ‘d’ is floating down to complete the phrase.]

Jill Holliday @jillholl.bsky.social · 11d

Awful! 🤣

Jill Holliday @jillholl.bsky.social · 11d

It was worth it 😊 I couldn't resist sticking around even though I'd planned on going home!

Jill Holliday @jillholl.bsky.social · 11d

Great minds! 😊

Jill Holliday @jillholl.bsky.social · 11d

I didn't realise we'd even taken almost identical shots until I saw yours! 😂

Jill Holliday @jillholl.bsky.social · 11d

Was an amazing encounter!

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Occasionally Lost @mostlyrambling.bsky.social · 12d

Today's Mavis pic...

Isn't it frustrating when there's a long wait between your drink and your meal being served?

🐾

A German Shepherd sitting on a dining chair at a table with a striped tablecloth on it. There is an empty mug on a coaster in front of her and she is looking around the photographer at something behind. There is a black fridge-freezer with fridge magnets and a calendar behind the dog.

Jill Holliday @jillholl.bsky.social · 12d

It was rather a good pose - he looked quite proud of himself! Quite glad he didn't decide to kick off to show the younger ones who's boss 😬

Jill Holliday @jillholl.bsky.social · 12d

One of theose calm evenings with lovely light - you seem to have been having a few too 😀

Jill Holliday @jillholl.bsky.social · 12d

Thank you Sharon 😊

Jill Holliday @jillholl.bsky.social · 12d

I know! Does make it rather obvious we were standing next to each other! 😂 He was my favourite though. I did spot the red antler but I wasn't sure whether it was just discoloured - are they actually fighting yet?

Jill Holliday @jillholl.bsky.social · 12d

Beautiful stag with additional decoration in Bushy Park yesterday
#Sharemondays2025

A beautiful stag who had been doing a lot of bellowing and was obviously quite pleased with his bracken headdress

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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 15d

In the early 1960s a senior Conservative minister, John Profumo, resigned and inflicted perhaps decisive damage to the electoral prospects of his party for a decade ….. for far less than this

Dr. Ian Garner @irgarner.bsky.social · 15d

In Britain, a former far-right Reform party politician has been convicted of taking bribes to promote Russian viewpoints.

Another scandal that should be the end of Reform but will be ignored unless we make a lot of noise about it.

Ex-Reform UK Wales leader Nathan Gill pleads guilty to bribery charges

Nathan Gill admits eight charges of bribery while being a Member of the European Parliament.

Jill Holliday @jillholl.bsky.social · 15d

Butter wouldn't melt ...

Jill Holliday @jillholl.bsky.social · 17d

I can think of someone @farnhamred.bsky.social 😂

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 19d

The even more unbelievable crime fact (which I learned relatively recently) is that burglary has fallen by more than 90% since the 1990s.

Did anyone notice? Nope. Does anyone believe it? Nope. But is is true? It is!

Tom Clark @tom-clark.bsky.social · 19d

Useful reminder from Peter Kellner on the problems we refuse to acknowledge are getting better, and the politics of hopelessness that this breeds

open.substack.com/pub/kellnerp...

Jill Holliday @jillholl.bsky.social · 18d

Beautiful 😊 (Although that does sound like a challenge!)

Jill Holliday @jillholl.bsky.social · 18d

Beautiful Sarah 😀

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Dr Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social · 21d

When you save a document to the cloud, it's actually looked after by a Samoyed.

The time it takes to download is really for figuring out which Samoyed has your file.