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Rosie Meddon

@rosiemeddon.bsky.social

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Author of historical sagas, lover of the countryside, often to be found on my North Devon allotment. The first book in my new WW2 trilogy, Julia’s War, is published by Penguin Michael Joseph. Find out more at rosiemeddon.com

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Rosie Meddon @rosiemeddon.bsky.social · 2d

First time for days that we’ve seen anything even approaching a sunrise.

A dark bank of rain cloud above a band of orange and amber.

Purple grey clouds, illuminated in shades of orange, with a small hole through to clear blue sky. The top of a line of trees is silhouetted in the foreground.

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Rosie Meddon @rosiemeddon.bsky.social · 5d

I can see why you love it. If only it could talk. Any thoughts on its age?

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Rosie Meddon @rosiemeddon.bsky.social · 5d

Wow. Even more impressive.

Rosie Meddon @rosiemeddon.bsky.social · 5d

What a fab area you have for birds!

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Rosie Meddon @rosiemeddon.bsky.social · 5d

Distinctly blurred texture to this morning’s dawn.

A dawn sky. Grey clouds at the top, with streaky pale pink and cream bands above the foreground of silhouetted trees.

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Rosie Meddon @rosiemeddon.bsky.social · 6d

Yes to this.
My sister’s first mammogram almost certainly saved her life by spotting signs of cancer that wouldn’t have been detected so early by any other means.

barefootwriter @bfwriter.bsky.social · 7d

going for a boob squish (aka screening mammogram) today. because people talk about how awful it is, I was really pleasantly surprised at how much of a nothingburger it was for me the first time.

don't let other people's horror stories deter you from getting that first one!

Rosie Meddon @rosiemeddon.bsky.social · 6d

The sea is out there somewhere.
North Devon coast this morning. Mild and flat calm.

A massive expanse of sand uncovered at low tide, with a narrow band of calm blue-grey sea beneath a sky of light cloud.

A broad expanse of sand uncovered at low tide and dotted with people walking. A narrow band of calm blue-grey sea to the left, beneath a sky of light cloud.

Rosie Meddon @rosiemeddon.bsky.social · 7d

Ooh, so do I.

Brigit Strawbridge @brigitstrawbridge.bsky.social · 8d

I can't find a title for this glorious painting of autumn Aspen, but it's by Oregon based (Ukrainian born) artist, Anton Pavlenko, and I love it 💛

#trees #art #TreeArt #Aspen #Autumn

Painting of Aspen tree with gold yellow leaves against blue sky

Rosie Meddon @rosiemeddon.bsky.social · 7d

Shaggy Ink Caps.
Although it’s possible to see them throughout the summer, to me they always suggest autumn.

A cluster of greyish white shaggy ink cap mushrooms, in their various stages of development, in lush green grass.

Rosie Meddon @rosiemeddon.bsky.social · 12d

Lovely soft tones to this evening’s sunset over North Devon.

An evening sky of soft peach coloured clouds against a grey-blue background with the tip of a rooftop and the topmost branches of a small tree at the very bottom.

Rosie Meddon @rosiemeddon.bsky.social · 15d

It’s out there but too far to the left to show in this picture. It’s often hard to distinguish from a bank of cloud!

Rosie Meddon @rosiemeddon.bsky.social · 15d

Yep. Everyone’s dogs were enjoying it, as well. They’re allowed back on the beach through the winter.

Rosie Meddon @rosiemeddon.bsky.social · 16d

North Devon this afternoon.
Big beach, big sky.

A foreground of dark rocks. A middle ground of golden/brown sands, drying out in the sunshine. Between there and the blue sky - with several types of high altitude clouds - a narrow line of surf breaking.

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Rosie Meddon @rosiemeddon.bsky.social · 18d

Now that the sun is setting further south in the sky, I get a view of the sunset as well as the sunrise.

A predominantly grey cloudy sky highlighted in coral by the (out of sight) setting sun.

A skyscape with patchy cloud of grey and coral illuminated by the (out of sight) setting sun.

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Rosie Meddon @rosiemeddon.bsky.social · 19d

Japanese style garden ornament in a quiet and shady corner of RHS Rosemoor.

A stone Japanese style lantern ornament surrounded by shady lush greenery.

Rosie Meddon @rosiemeddon.bsky.social · 20d

Thank you!

Rosie Meddon @rosiemeddon.bsky.social · 20d

A quiet, very green and leafy corner of the Upper Stream Garden at RHS Rosemoor.

Every shape and type imaginable of leafy green foliage beneath trees surrounding babbling brook.

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Guy Thomas 〓〓 @guywrites.bsky.social · 20d

North Cliffs, Cornwall. As a Cornishman, the thing I miss the most about my beloved Kernow is the rugged beauty of the granite cliffs and the pounding Atlantic Ocean. Walks along the cliff top by the heather and the brambles, the salt-scent of the ocean and the roaring breakers below. Joy. 😊

#life

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Rosie Meddon @rosiemeddon.bsky.social · 21d

Yes!

Rosie Meddon @rosiemeddon.bsky.social · 21d

Mother Nature has some spectacular colours. Sulphur yellow lichen on a scrubby shrub on the clifftop this morning.

A tangled mass of thorny grey twigs, one of which is covered in bright yellow lichen.

Rosie Meddon @rosiemeddon.bsky.social · 21d

Not the finest picture I’ve ever taken, and I know someone will put me right if I’m wrong, but I think this little bird on the South West Coast Path in North Devon this morning was a Rock Pipit.

A post for a barbed wire fence, with green pasture beyond. On the top of the post is perched a small grey striped bird with dark legs, a paler chest, and a longish bill.

Rosie Meddon @rosiemeddon.bsky.social · 21d

Garden spiders have incredibly intricate markings for such tiny creatures.
Pleased to see so many of them at the allotment.

A spider, golden brown in colour, with striking brown and white markings, in the centre of its web.

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Rosie Meddon @rosiemeddon.bsky.social · 23d

Spectacularly colourful chard at RHS Rosemoor kitchen garden.

Rosie Meddon @rosiemeddon.bsky.social · 24d

Almost deserted beach on a warm and calm late September afternoon in North Devon.

Acres of deserted sand exposed at low tide. A narrow strip of sea beneath a lightly grey coloured sky.

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Rosie Meddon @rosiemeddon.bsky.social · 24d

Simply incredible.

Andy Marshall @fotofacade.bsky.social · 24d

A bit of photo-serotonin for Monday - the jaw dropping plasticity of Salisbury Cathedral's Chapter House - over 700 years old.

View upward inside Salisbury Cathedral’s chapter house, showing a central clustered column rising to a star-shaped vaulted ceiling, surrounded by stained glass windows glowing with coloured light.

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