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Bee @thehonourablebee.bsky.social · 27d

#SmallBeauties
River lilies and an orange peel clematis
I love September.

Clematis flower with thick yellow petals that look like orange peel

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Bee @thehonourablebee.bsky.social · Sep 13

Shouldn't she be at home?
This is fucking gruesome.

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Bee @thehonourablebee.bsky.social · Sep 9

Oh! That is a thing of beauty.

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Bee @thehonourablebee.bsky.social · Sep 4

Ah, no. Heartbreaking. Sending hugs.

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Bee @thehonourablebee.bsky.social · Aug 30

Absolutely! Someone should tell his face though.

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Bee @thehonourablebee.bsky.social · Aug 22

Happy anniversary!

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · Aug 21

Andrea Hayes, textile artist based in Co. Tyrone, Northern Ireland, known for her textile landscapes #WomensArt

Pictorial textile artwork featuring a landscape with fields and distant mountain next to the sea

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Bee @thehonourablebee.bsky.social · Aug 20

I am so furious about this. We are not a civilised country. Our glorious leaders are doing nothing. Some of them are actively allowing one of our greatest assets to die. And as for the 'owner'. Well, I shall refrain from comment.
As I said. Furious.

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · Aug 17

Margaret Preston (1875-1963), Australian painter/printmaker, regarded as one of Australia's leading modernists of the early 20thc, was influenced by Japanese printmaking #ReframingWomenPrintmakers

Print featuring a pink vase filled with colourful flowers

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Bee @thehonourablebee.bsky.social · Aug 15

Oh, big fat Henry? That's OK then.

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Bee @thehonourablebee.bsky.social · Aug 11

A slightly surprised green man with acorns

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Bee @thehonourablebee.bsky.social · Aug 11

Bees in a courgette flower

A bright yellow courgette flower with two fat bumble bees inside

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Bee @thehonourablebee.bsky.social · Aug 11

Mr Biscuit among the wildflowers

A hairy scottie dog, Mr Biscuit, smiling among the wildflowers

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Bee @thehonourablebee.bsky.social · Aug 11

#SmallBeautiesHour
A lovely gargoyle

A stone grimacing cat gargoyle on the market cross in Newtownards

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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · Aug 10

It's a good job that Loyalists marching the streets of Belfast brandishing Ulster Volunteer Force flags don't carry Palestine Action placards, or people might think they were terrorist sympathisers

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Bee @thehonourablebee.bsky.social · Aug 10

I'm so sorry those ignorant bigots have been hounding you. It's not easy. Sending hugs and solidarity.

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Bee @thehonourablebee.bsky.social · Aug 6

Waving frantically from just below Napoleon's nose. Those buzzards are amazing.

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Bee @thehonourablebee.bsky.social · Aug 4

I do beg your pardon.

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Bee @thehonourablebee.bsky.social · Aug 4

#SmallBeautiesHour
A fat poppy seedhead

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Bee @thehonourablebee.bsky.social · Aug 4

#SmallBeautiesHour
Butterflies and vibrant colours

A painted lady butterfly on a verbena bonariensis

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · Aug 2

Contemporary UK artist Priscilla Watkins, known for her paintings of swimmers at Brockwell Lido, London #WomensArt

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Bee @thehonourablebee.bsky.social · Jul 31

I love a transom and this is a favourite

Stained glass transom over tbe door of a now defunct and much lamented nightclub in Ann Street, Belfast

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Bee @thehonourablebee.bsky.social · Jul 30

My builder said that when he was laying the patio. 'You don't want weeds growing in the cracks'. I showed him the bags of erigeron seeds I'd saved to brush into the cracks. He thinks I'm crazy. I know I'm not.

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Bee @thehonourablebee.bsky.social · Jul 28

#SmallBeautiesHour
She's starting to flower!

A stone head with trailing plant for hair

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Bee @thehonourablebee.bsky.social · Jul 28

#SmallBeautiesHour
Pink poppies and seedheads

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