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Katharine Norbury

@katharinenorbury.bsky.social

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Curious, walker, swimmer, thinker; anam cara. WOMEN ON NATURE @Unbounders THE FISH LADDER @BloomsburyBooks Shortlist @WainwrightPrize #neurodivergent @UnitedAgents

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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 2d

Just extraordinary to witness this nature-hating government sabotaging Labour’s own legacy. And for absolutely no reason: nature protection isn’t blocking development - it’s a necessary prerequisite for it (& for everything else, come to that…)

Plans to weaken protections for national parks will have ‘disastrous consequences’ say green groups

Exclusive: Letter from 170-plus organisations calls on government to drop proposed changes to planning law

www.theguardian.com

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Katharine Norbury @katharinenorbury.bsky.social · 1d

“Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?”
—Mary Oliver

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Katharine Norbury @katharinenorbury.bsky.social · 2d

Lovely, thank you 🙏

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Paul Connolly @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social · 2d

The title of Richard Holmes’ book about the young Tennyson, The Boundless Deep, comes from Tennyson’s poem Crossing the Bar, a melodic masterpiece. Here’s a recording of me reading it #poetrycommunity #poetsonbluesky #Tennyson #poetryismusic

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Katharine Norbury @katharinenorbury.bsky.social · 5d

Thank you. So are some of those things escapees from arboretums and 19th C gardens?

Katharine Norbury @katharinenorbury.bsky.social · 5d

Where is it?

Katharine Norbury @katharinenorbury.bsky.social · 5d

Roof tiles moulded on the leg of a man named Martini and the kiln in which they were fired. #Abruzzo

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Sam Read Bookseller @samreadbookseller.bsky.social · 6d

We've got some busy event times this month, and this coming week. First, we'll be selling early copies of the paperback of @pollyrowena.bsky.social's #TheCompanyOfOwls at a talk on '‘Companions of nature: sickbed consolations & mimic hootings', Uni of Cumbria, Ambleside, Tue 7th Oct, 6.30pm.

www.ticketsource.co.uk

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Katharine Norbury @katharinenorbury.bsky.social · 8d

The goddess Diana

A pebble shaped like a primitive sculpture of a human with a triple cored apple at her feet. Or the place where her feet might be.

Katharine Norbury @katharinenorbury.bsky.social · 8d

The goddess Diana

Katharine Norbury @katharinenorbury.bsky.social · 8d

Happy Transitus of St Francis of Assisi 🦋

St Francis of Assisi, from a fresco near the entrance of the Benedictine abbey of Subiaco, painted between March 1228 and March 1229

Katharine Norbury @katharinenorbury.bsky.social · 9d

Aftermath…

Katharine Norbury @katharinenorbury.bsky.social · 9d

Giving thanks for the life of Jane Goodall, whose roots and shoots movement filled her with hope. It’s also the tenth anniversary of Pope Francis’s encyclical Laudato Si’. Jane’s rallying cry was: “Together we CAN! Together we WILL!” Let’s carry the torch. 🔥

An image of Jane Goodall and Douglas Abrams’ The Book of Hope showing a portrait of Jane.

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Katharine Norbury @katharinenorbury.bsky.social · 10d

Presage of a coming storm

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Katharine Norbury @katharinenorbury.bsky.social · 10d

The Well at the World’s End inspired the only book I have ever written. So much so I went to look for it! (And indeed drank from the place where the lovers filled their kettle, with water so clear it seemed invisible…)

Katharine Norbury @katharinenorbury.bsky.social · 10d

I haven’t read BG but have often meant to and this is the perfect nudge. 🙏

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Katharine Norbury @katharinenorbury.bsky.social · 10d

Thank you for this.

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Katharine Norbury @katharinenorbury.bsky.social · 11d

“Fat generals will be ousted from the Pentagon and all staff weighed twice a year”. @telegraphnews.bsky.social

Katharine Norbury @katharinenorbury.bsky.social · 11d

“Fat generals will be ousted from the Pentagon and all staff weighed twice a year under Donald Trump’s new-look department of war.”

@telegraphnews.bsky.social

Katharine Norbury @katharinenorbury.bsky.social · 12d

👍🏻

Katharine Norbury @katharinenorbury.bsky.social · 13d

Hello Amanda! How lovely to hear from you. Will DM… :)

Katharine Norbury @katharinenorbury.bsky.social · 13d

Wee Willy Winky

A face made of stones on a pebble beach. A jaunty shell hat reminded me of the nursery rhyme / bed hat.

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Katharine Norbury @katharinenorbury.bsky.social · 15d

Or, indeed, Napoleon :)

Katharine Norbury @katharinenorbury.bsky.social · 15d

Unless he’s going to fire all of them and their replacements will be taking up their new positions in situ on that very same day.

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Katharine Norbury @katharinenorbury.bsky.social · 15d

I do feel perhaps that someone with influence might point out the flaw in the strategy. #whilethe800+catsareaway

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