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Chris The Boatman @romanyboatman.bsky.social · 6h

A dangerous thing, the didgeridoo.
Not because of the hollow log it's hewn,
But for the way it shakes and moves the ground,
A thunderous, hypnotic, ancient sound.

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 6h

Dedication in PG Wodehouse’s autobiography, 1957

To Who
J. Alastair Frisby
Who
Told Me I Would Never Have A Book Published
And
Advised me
To
Get a job selling jellied eels
SUCKS TO YOU, FRISBY

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Boddy on the Towpath @boddyonthetowpath.bsky.social · 6h

The Kings Lock pub and junction in Middlewich. Turning right takes you onto what is termed the shortest #canal in England, the Wardle. However I'm not buying it, it's just the end of the Middlewich branch of the Shropshire Union. The shortest proper canal is of course the Ulverston Canal. #cycling

Pencil style drawing of a canal to the left, and a footbridge rising to the right over a canal junction. In the background is a white building (The Kings Lock pub), and a few narrowboats moored up.

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Chris The Boatman @romanyboatman.bsky.social · 6h

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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 22h

My travelling ‘Ladybird artists’ exhibition is still going strong!

Next year, Cambridge and Mansfield
2027 (tbc) Southampton and Motherwell
2028 Lichfield

Photograph of myself, smiling cheesily as I stand in front of the wall of books which is the centrepiece of my ladybird artists exhibition

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Elizabeth Beston @elizabethbeston.bsky.social · 12h

Tintinnina! These little ciliates have beautiful ‘cups’ called loricae.
#marineplankton 🦑

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Chris The Boatman @romanyboatman.bsky.social · 11h

A #giftlink #giftarticle 🎁 Why the Green Cheese Turned White www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/s...

Why the Green Cheese Turned White

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Chris The Boatman @romanyboatman.bsky.social · 1d

A #giftlink #giftarticle 💐Why China Built 162 Square Miles of Solar Panels on the World’s Highest Plateau www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/b...

Why China Built 162 Square Miles of Solar Panels on the World’s Highest Plateau

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.bsky.social · Apr 29

This is a new image from #JWST.

The bright points with spikes are stars in the Milky Way.

Everything else is a galaxy.

Everything. Else. Is. A. Galaxy.

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Anna Zona @annazona.bsky.social · 1d

Summer in Puglia. #Fridayfaces #FacesOnFriday #advertisement #photography #photo #foto #art #streetphotography #anzaa #eastcoastkin

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Chris The Boatman @romanyboatman.bsky.social · 1d

That looks like a plant called Hemp Agrimony here in the UK, I wonder if it’s the same?

An iridescent green bodied fly on a pink Hemp Agrimony flower.

Chris The Boatman @romanyboatman.bsky.social · 2d

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Trudy Taylor @trudyt.bsky.social · 4d

From yesterday’s walk on a sunny Forest a huge birch polypore. #FungiFriends #Trees

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Chris The Boatman @romanyboatman.bsky.social · 3d

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El Eremita @dinamitteros.bsky.social · 3d

Edward Hopper.
Carretera de Wellfleet. 1931

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El Eremita @dinamitteros.bsky.social · 3d

Sirena. Una pesca justa. 1955

Norman Rockwell.

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Chris The Boatman @romanyboatman.bsky.social · 3d

Creeping Thistle
On today’s #towpathstroll
#UKCanals 🤳🌿

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Dean Wilson @deanwilson.bsky.social · 3d

Beach Finds
#Withernsea

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National Trust @nationaltrust.org.uk · 3d

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.