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Nicola Chester
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Nature. Writer. Reader. Rural. Guardian Country Diary, BBC Countryfile, RSPB. Award winning On Gallows Down. Ghosts of the Farm coming 30/11! Climate Fic Prize Judge. North Wessex Downs. https://nicolachester.com/ https://linktr.ee/nicolachesterwriting
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Nicola Chester @nicolawriting.bsky.social · Apr 15
Thrilled to announce my new book & reveal its stunning cover! Ghosts of the Farm - Two Women’s Journeys Through Time, Land & Community, published by the lovely @chelseagreenbooks.bsky.social in the UK & US, on 30th September. Available to pre-order now. It’s a delicious, urgent kind of haunting 1/5
Suffragette purple & harvest orange cover: an aerial abstract of fields.
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Nicola Chester @nicolawriting.bsky.social · 7h
Wonderful, thank you!
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Nicola Chester @nicolawriting.bsky.social · 7h
Ah, ok thank you!
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Nicola Chester @nicolawriting.bsky.social · 7h
Oh how wonderful! I’ve travelled so little, but this was epic! I got off to a good start!
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Nicola Chester @nicolawriting.bsky.social · 7h
Absolutely!
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Nicola Chester @nicolawriting.bsky.social · 8h
Fascinating & delightful stuff from @nicwilson.bsky.social!
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Nic Wilson @nicwilson.bsky.social · 18h
In today's @theguardian.com country diary, I spy a robber on my salvias...

#countrydiary #naturewriting
Country diary: Pirates of the patio have found their treasure | Nic Wilson
Hitchin, Hertfordshire: Some insects have evolved a long proboscis to reach the nectar of salvias and fuschias. Some take a cheeky shortcut
www.theguardian.com
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Nicola Chester @nicolawriting.bsky.social · 8h
Fascinating stuff - love the Amethyst Lips!
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Nicola Chester @nicolawriting.bsky.social · 17h
Place of work, home & mode of transport, 1988, 1989. High River & Bragg Creek, Alberta. #GhostsoftheFarm @chelseagreenbooks.bsky.social Turning up treasures in a house move to the strains of ‘Four strong winds that blow lonely .. ‘
Scene of a cattle farm winter feed lot - high fenced corrals & pens. Green roof-shingled ‘American’ barn & farmhouse before Rocky Mountain foothills Two western-style horse riders and a dog, heading to the bar & its hitching rail. Little black quarter horse stallion ‘Bow’ or ‘Mr Bojangles’, tacked up in western saddle & bridle, with a ‘lariat’ rope on his saddle. Confession: never could handle the rope, though had many lessons! Another view of the farm before winter & the clouds just before a Chinnook wind
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Nicola Chester @nicolawriting.bsky.social · 17h
Grateful it’s there…
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Nicola Chester @nicolawriting.bsky.social · 17h
Place of work, home & mode of transport, 1988, 1989. High River & Bragg Creek, Alberta. #GhostsoftheFarm @chelseagreenbooks.bsky.social Turning up treasures in a house move to the strains of ‘Four strong winds that blow lonely .. ‘
Scene of a cattle farm winter feed lot - high fenced corrals & pens. Green roof-shingled ‘American’ barn & farmhouse before Rocky Mountain foothills Two western-style horse riders and a dog, heading to the bar & its hitching rail. Little black quarter horse stallion ‘Bow’ or ‘Mr Bojangles’, tacked up in western saddle & bridle, with a ‘lariat’ rope on his saddle. Confession: never could handle the rope, though had many lessons! Another view of the farm before winter & the clouds just before a Chinnook wind
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Nicola Chester @nicolawriting.bsky.social · 18h
The lungo drom runs directly through Hookland …
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Nicola Chester @nicolawriting.bsky.social · 18h
Wonderful stuff here (thank you @englishfolkfan.bsky.social for alerting me!) on the power, reasons & necessity of song for #Romani people. Such an absorbing listen. Song as far far more than a performative act…
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Nicola Chester @nicolawriting.bsky.social · 19h
Wonderful wonderful! Thank you so much Lesley!
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Nicola Chester @nicolawriting.bsky.social · 19h
Oh! Oh wow! Thanks for this Lesley!
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Nicola Chester @nicolawriting.bsky.social · 19h
Oh my! So glad it’s exciting times! Courage, & looking forward! x
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Nicola Chester @nicolawriting.bsky.social · 1d
Oof, yes, I can imagine that would have been very hard indeed. We're going less than a mile away, which seems so silly! We'll still have a view of the hill and the farm ...
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Nicola Chester @nicolawriting.bsky.social · 1d
In the rather swish Absolutely Berkshire Magazine with #GhostsoftheFarm #booksky ‘We ask an awful lot from our farmers, in a way we don’t from other people’s jobs. But we need farming to work for all of us. Farmers, consumers, climate & wildlife are the 4 legs holding up the table we eat from.’
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Nicola Chester @nicolawriting.bsky.social · 2d
Thank you Ollie … silly really. We are very fortunate! And yes! Very much treasured tote (love that design) No one is allowed to actually use it! Admire only …
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Nicola Chester @nicolawriting.bsky.social · 2d
It can .. but all is well really. Just so many memories!
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Nicola Chester @nicolawriting.bsky.social · 2d
Thank you so much Mary x
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Nicola Chester @nicolawriting.bsky.social · 2d
Too hard ...
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Nicola Chester @nicolawriting.bsky.social · 2d
Writing in a near-empty house with one chair left. Nick Cave, #intomyarms on the radio, so I went to the sweet spot in our tiny kitchen, where the acoustics make me sound like I did when I was younger, to belt out one last song. Couldn’t finish it. #movinghome
Messy corner of a kitchen, with plates & bowls piled up for packing, tins & the big teapot still on the shelves
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Nicola Chester @nicolawriting.bsky.social · 2d
Last night's #moon with her #moondogs ...
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Nicola Chester @nicolawriting.bsky.social · 3d
Look! If you can, look at the moon! Either side her smiling face, two ‘moondogs’ like shining dimples! A rare sight - & out here in the dark, above the old blacksmith’s shop beside the pub, so strange & bright! #moondogs #moon
Full moon above a squat red brick building & tall, lombardy (longbody) poplars, with pale moon spots either side.
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Nicola Chester @nicolawriting.bsky.social · 2d
It was wonderful!
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Nicola Chester @nicolawriting.bsky.social · 3d
Ah, perfect though!
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Nicola Chester @nicolawriting.bsky.social · 3d
Ooh that’s so beautiful though! Cloudy ish here too now.
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