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Susan McCreery
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Writer. ALL THE UNLOVED out now. Retired proofreader (90 issues!) for Australian Geographic. Still work for trade publishers. Newbie freediver. Ocean, flowers, movies, birds, books, cats, silliness. Thirroul/Dharawal, Australia.

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Susan McCreery @susanmccreery.bsky.social · Nov 8
The colours and textures of a little afternoon beachcombing.💫
Motley collection of sea glass & bits of shell laid out on a rock. Sea in background on a clear day.
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Swam the light fantastic in Thirroul's ocean-fed pool at lunchtime today.✨️
Image of a 50m swimming pool with clear aqua water & string of small flags across the deep end. Brilliant blue skies above & a few Norfolk pines outside the fence. Thirroul, NSW.
November 27, 2025 at 6:20 AM
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Vincent Van Gogh, 'Fishing Boats at Sea', 1888.
An oil painting by Vincent Van Gogh, 'Fishing Boats at Sea', from 1888. The scene is dominated by a rough sea, with strong waves represented by thick, undulating brushstrokes in shades of deep blue, teal, yellow, and gray. In the upper left corner, two larger fishing boats with yellow sails are in the foreground. Other smaller boats with similar sails are visible in the distance, sailing towards the horizon. The sky above is cloudy, with shades of dark blue and gray. The painting exudes a sense of movement and the force of nature.
November 27, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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this day’s wonder
in golden hour marsh waterways the heron basks in mirrored clouds beyond the scarlet tendrilled edge
November 26, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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the ear of the whale is full as curious as the eye
November 26, 2025 at 3:47 AM
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Just listened to ABC Radio National in Australia – "The Year that Made Me" with the wonderful Julian Morrow. Grateful to have been invited and featured. This is for you: www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
The Year that Made Me: Anna Iltnere, 2016 - ABC listen
Anna Iltnere felt the pull of the sea when she moved from Riga - the capital of Lativia - to her new home looking out on the Baltic Sea. She started collecting books about the sea to try and find the ...
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November 22, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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"I paint my joy and I sing my sorrow."
-Joni Mitchell
💖☀️🌙💖
Reflections of trees in water.
November 25, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
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I see some book piracy discourse, and, to make a positive argument in favor of buying books, your marginal ability to influence what books get published and support the careers of writers you like is massive compared to most other forms of media.
November 25, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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A pair of Gang-gang Cockatoos have stopped by a few times this week! The male is camera shy, but I managed to get a few shots of the female.
#birds
Photograph of a female Gang-gang Cockatoo - a grey parrot with light grey beak and orange/yellow edges on its neck and breast feathers. It appears to be nibbling on a dead branch, but was actually climbing it and using its beak as a hand (as parrots tend to do). In this light its eye looks brown. Same subject, but different lighting and pose. This is a more conventional bird portrait, with the cockatoo's back to the camera but the head turned side-on. Its soft, willowy crest is raised and its eyes appear much darker in this light. Its grey back feathers have light grey edges and thin yellow bars.
November 25, 2025 at 3:58 AM
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Lillian Gish, 1920
woman holding a tiny little kitten
November 25, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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Greek doors, an occasional series.

Fournoi 🇬🇷
Image of well-maintained double timber doors painted a deep blue & set in a creamy recess. There's a lace curtain hanging halfway up the glass panels inside. All locks, handles, etc. appear to be in working order. The leaves of an olive tree can be seen at top of frame.
November 25, 2025 at 6:02 AM
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safe haven

#MushroomMonday #fungifriends #fungi #photography #nature #weallneedsomebody #comfort #wellbeing #community
two little shrooms huddle together on a moss covered fallen tree. A third shroom is visible behind the cuddlers. Rust coloured pine needles litter the moss and beyond the fallen tree ivy grows with determined intention.
November 24, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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Bobbin
for #SensoryArt theme of #Lines

#EastCoastKin #photography #wood #light #bobbin #history #monochrome #blackandwhite
(iPhone camera)
Photograph taken looking slightly up at a single wooden bobbin resting on a wooden storage box. The curves of the bobbin contrast with the lines of wooden rods making up the box. Light from the small window above creates gentle shadows. Taken at Stott Park Bobbin Mill in the Lake District, run brilliantly by English Heritage.
November 24, 2025 at 7:09 AM
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‘He was just trying to earn a few kopecks’: how newly translated stories reveal Chekhov’s silly side - With daft jokes and experimental wordplay, the first comprehensive translations of his lesser-known stories show Chekhov in a new light www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
💙📚 #LiteratureSky
November 24, 2025 at 3:50 AM
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Summer toms in their pert caps on way.
Three green pear-shaped tomatoes hanging on the vine. These are 'Beam's Yellow Pear', an heirloom tomato from Diggers.
November 24, 2025 at 6:26 AM
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Out to sea, and a hint of rainbow over the Farne Islands.

#photography #landscapephotography #photographers
A seascape, rocks in the foreground with large waves crashing over them. Grey skies with a splash of light on the horizon and a tiny rainbow.
November 23, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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Narrow-leaved paperbark, after rain.
#FlowerReport 🌿 #ozplants
The feathery white flowers & narrow alternate leaves of Melaleuca linariifolia on a wet day. Glimpse of a pond alongside. Seen slightly inland, south coast NSW.
November 23, 2025 at 5:50 AM
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La Réponse, Françoise Gilot 1965
La Réponse, Françoise Gilot 1965
November 22, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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Françoise Hardy with her cat Cassette
📷 Benoit Gysembergh, Paris, 1980

#caturday
Hardy leans back in her leather sofa & holds her young cat
November 23, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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Hello #SilverTrunkSunday
Silver gum tree trunks in the sun.
November 22, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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On cuddle alert.
#caturday #cats
Bella the black cat with wide-awake eyes snuggled into human's side on bed. Human hand appears to caress & scritch & Bella relaxes.
November 22, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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George Eliot, Novelist, Poet, Translator, #BornOnThisDay in 1819, in Nuneaton, England

“That things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.”

🎨 Frederic William Burton
George Eliot
November 22, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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Oíche mhaith.

“You cried for night - it falls. Now cry in darkness.”
― Samuel Beckett
November 22, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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Tonight’s movie selection is “His Girl Friday” (1940), starring Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell - a "screwball comedy" film directed by Howard Hawks
Black and white screen shot of Rosalind Russell and Cary Grant as Walter Burns and Hildy Johnson. They are faced in opposite directions, both frantically talking into old-timey telephones.
November 22, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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Spotted gum transformed by a little rain.

Seen in Kangaroo Valley today.💚🌿
The trunk of a spotted gum (Corymbia maculata) showing vibrant green & tan spots where it has been wet by rain. The dry part of the trunk remains grey. Kangaroo Valley, NSW.
November 22, 2025 at 6:27 AM
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#Dailyglimmer Lutruwita Went to the Tasmanian Bushland Garden yesterday. Delightful spring display of Tassie plants, cool sculptures plus a Manna Gum gully complete with, not 1 but 2 tiger snakes 😳 1/
A pale pink flower Boronia floribunda - a gentle four petalled flower with spiky green leaves Dusty daisy bush, Oleria phlogopappa. A cluster of white daisy flower with pale purple centres A stand of tall Manna gum trees. Eucalyptus viminalis. Tall trees with white bark against a stark blue sky with fluffy clouds The beautiful white and soft grey patterns of Manns gum
November 20, 2025 at 9:45 PM