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Careful reader, thoughtful writer, nature-lover, garden-potterer, history-dabbler. Readily distracted by birds. 🐦‍⬛


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The Unhurried Reader 📚🦊🇺🇦 @theunhurriedreader.bsky.social · May 30
The fact that @annelouiseavery.bsky.social has continued to produce such thought-provoking, heart-warming and beautifully-constructed tales, full of wisdom and wit, whilst being so ill all the while, has always seemed a kind of miracle to me. Please support her via Patreon or Ko-fi if you can.
annelouiseavery.bsky.social Anne Louise Avery @annelouiseavery.bsky.social · May 30
I've had medical appointments every day this week & I'm having an infusion tomorrow. I'm so tired, I can't get out of bed today. Please support me! Join my patreon, which has hundreds of stories & recipes, or buy me a chocolate over on Kofi! ko-fi.com/annelouiseav... www.patreon.com/c/annelouise...
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The most wonderful news: the seams collective’s first translation mentee, peasant justice activist Amanda Echanis, has been acquitted after 5 yrs as a political prisoner. She has been reunited with her son!

www.rappler.com/philippines/...
Court frees activist-student leader Amanda Echanis after 5 years
Echanis, arrested in 2020, made history in 2025 after becoming the first political prisoner to be elected as a councilor of UP Diliman's student council
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January 16, 2026 at 10:25 AM
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drdan.bsky.social
Free talk coming to Frome!

Sat 31 Jan, 11am
A Flock of Ravens: The business of death in eighteenth century England.

Join me at Christ Church in Frome for a talk about the early undertaking trade and 18th century funerals. No tickets - just turn up!⚰️

#history #deathhistory #frome
Caricature of an undertaker meeting an elderly man and offering his services. The undertaker is carrying a coffin on his back and holds his hat tightly in his hands. The old man is enraged with his visitor. The old man’s dog is also barking fiercely at the undertaker.
January 16, 2026 at 10:30 AM
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'Leaving His Majesty's Theatre' (c.1907) by Yoshio Markino
January 16, 2026 at 7:54 AM
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venetiajane.bsky.social
Some say the poisonous-fruited Euonymus is named after Euonyme who, in Orphic tradition, is the mother of the Erinyes, or “Furies”, the three sister-goddesses who represent vengeance. It is commonly called the spindle-tree because its wood was used to craft spindles, or distaffs.
A collage of spindle (Euonymus) showing the vivid pink seed capsules split open to reveal bright orange seeds, alongside pointed leaves turning pink and red against a soft green background.
January 16, 2026 at 8:00 AM
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This is "Demolition of Bow Brewery" by Elwin Hawthorne from 1931. It is one of our range of greeting cards which, along with our range of prints, are now available with 40% off all orders until 23.59 on 01/02.26 here:- www.eastlondongroup.co.uk . #ElwinHawthorne #EastLondonGroup
January 16, 2026 at 9:18 AM
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Twenty-eight curlews stabbing through the frost on the Police Scotland headquarters playing field.
January 16, 2026 at 9:56 AM
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Shallow sunrays reach through a winterbare copse, spill onto a field edge where dear linnets feed within fodder crop; the dank air resounds with their liquid chatter, and tall seeding weeds quiver by their touch. Flashing white, knitted tight, they all break cover, rise up and away over sepia tones.
January 16, 2026 at 10:06 AM
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@wendypratt.bsky.social thinking of you.
January 16, 2026 at 10:11 AM
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#Ukraine #Kyiv 🇺🇦
strategywoman.bsky.social Yaroslava @strategywoman.bsky.social · 3d
Let me take you on a short walk in Kyiv.

It’s the most beautiful and the hardest winter of my life.
January 15, 2026 at 4:56 PM
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pluribus-unum.co
A maxim from a few of my fellow farmers (from over here across the pond):

Make making habitat a habit.
January 15, 2026 at 12:41 PM
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annelouiseavery.bsky.social
In the cold, wind-swept fields up on the highway towards Bridport, there lived an affable and good-humoured old donkey. He had a sweet little thatched hut which he retreated into when the snows came or the rain lashed in from the sea,
Image: The Flight into Egypt. From an English manuscript of the 13th century. Biblioteca Marciana, Venice. Wall painting from the Sanderum Church in Denmark.
January 14, 2026 at 10:36 AM
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I'd be boycotting Estee Lauder and Clinique, if I could remember the last time I bought anything from either brand.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
How a billionaire with interests in Greenland encouraged Trump to acquire the territory
US president’s friend Ronald Lauder – who first proposed Arctic expansion – is now making deals in the island
www.theguardian.com
January 15, 2026 at 4:36 PM
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RSPB asks for evidence of burning on peatlands across the UK raptorpersecutionuk.org/2026/01/15/r...
RSPB asks for evidence of burning on peatlands across the UK
RSPB press release: RSPB ASKS FOR EVIDENCE OF BURNING ON PEATLANDS The RSPB is asking members of the public to report incidents of moorland burning on peatlands using their burning reporting app or…
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January 15, 2026 at 11:55 AM
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On Notes from the Margin this week - The Elizabeth I Pregnancy Portrait (Not) - symbolism and interpretation

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The Elizabeth I Pregnancy Portrait
(Not)
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January 15, 2026 at 10:03 AM
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calmerfuture.bsky.social
I find Emma's work really helpful

even the texture of the backdrop cloth is soothing 😻
silverpebble2.bsky.social Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 4d
A small film of spring flowers from my garden because we recover from stress 60% more quickly when we look at plants & if we find them beautiful our brains release dopamine, lifting mood. Pause for a few moments to help your synaptic soup 🌿🧠:
January 15, 2026 at 9:32 AM
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annelouiseavery.bsky.social
For sale! Another rare early woodblock by Ohara Koson 小原 古邨 (1877-1945) depicting a bull-headed shrike eying a spider. In superb condition. DM for details or buy directly from my little Etsy shop here: etsy.com/uk/listing/4...
Ohara Koson, A Bull-headed Shrike eying a Spider, 1910.
January 14, 2026 at 7:30 PM
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How quickly the day turns to this.
January 14, 2026 at 8:52 AM
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In today's @theguardian.com country diary, I meet a fellow swimmer better adapted to cold water than I am!

#countrydiary #naturewriting
Country diary: Which is the ‘fast sinker’ out of me and the grebe? | Nic Wilson
Waresley, Cambridgeshire: In a near-freezing lake, I’m treated to an up-close view of one of my favourite birds
www.theguardian.com
January 14, 2026 at 8:46 AM
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jacquiwine.bsky.social
This glorious exhibition closes on Sunday 18th Jan. Definitely worth catching if you’re in #London this week! #Art #ArtSky #WayneThiebaud
jacquiwine.bsky.social JacquiWine @jacquiwine.bsky.social · Oct 12
An abundance of diner and delicatessen deliciousness in the WAYNE THIEBAUD: AMERICAN STILL LIFE exhibition at the Courtauld.

Loved this - I’ll definitely be going back for second helpings! #ArtSky #WayneThiebaud
17 CAKES 1963 Oil on canvas In this celebrated painting, Wayne Thiebaud gives an epic account of one of his favourite motifs, a display of bright and brash cakes familiar from bakeries and diners across America. Working on an unusually large scale for a still-life painting, he accords both the genre itself and his commonplace subject matter monumental status. Thiebaud uses his paint thickly and lushly to accentuate what he considered the distinctly American character of the patterned, vividly coloured and excessively frosted offerings. Cakes was a standout work in exhibitions in New York and Los Angeles in 1963 and helped confirm Thiebaud's emerging reputation as a distinctive painter of modern American life. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Gift in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art from the Collectors Committee, the 50th Anniversary Gift Committee, and The Circle, with additional support from the Abrams Family in memory of Harry N. Abrams 10 THREE CONES 1964 Oil on canvasboard This small painting offers a fragment of individual pleasure: ice cream cones on a stand, just scooped and ready to enjoy. This frozen moment of anticipation conjures a wider world of modern American leisure and sense of plenty during this period. However, the subject is inherently short-lived; ice creams are quick to melt or be eaten. As Wayne Thiebaud described, 'The ice cream cone, for me, represents a kind of joy, a sort of temporariness... That very bright spirit that it once had, that kind of colour, light, liveliness, soon will be gone.' In this, Thiebaud continued a long tradition of still-life painting as an exploration of the fleeting nature of life. Acquavella 12 BOSTON CREMES 1962 Oil on canvas Wayne Thiebaud's interest in objects of everyday consumerism meant that he was often categorised as a Pop artist and was included in several seminal Pop Art exhibitions throughout the 1960s. However, his lushly painted works are at odds with the cool detachment and slick surfaces more typical of that movement. This painting shows Thiebaud working at the extreme of his distinctive approach, with its whipped, buttery brushstrokes conjuring the substance of the creamy cakes themselves. As he put it, 'white, gooey, shiny, sticky oil paint spread out on the top of a painted cake becomes frosting. It is playing with reality'. Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento 15 CANDY COUNTER 1969 Oil on canvas When he produced this work at the end of his breakthrough decade, Wayne Thiebaud had established a significant reputation as a painter of modern American still life. Critics had interpreted his work in different ways: as expressing the beauty of the everyday, as an exploration of nostalgic Americana, or even a critique of the excesses of consumerism. This imagined candy counter plays to all these interpretations, with its brighter colours making everything even more vivid than in earlier works. Thiebaud thought of his still lifes as scenes of modern life or staged performances: 'The objects are... like small landscapes, buildings or characters in a play with costumes'. By this time, Thiebaud's work extended beyond still life and, during his long career, he was also famed for his figure paintings and cityscapes. Private collection
January 14, 2026 at 8:24 AM
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Name 4 of your favourite ‘80s movies (non horror). Mine are:
January 14, 2026 at 8:28 AM
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Other work of the Ladybird artists
Woodblock print
‘Bullfinch’
Artist: Allen Seaby
Seaby was very influenced by Japanese printing as can be clearly seen from this pared-down depiction of two bullfinches on a snow-lined tree against a blue background
January 14, 2026 at 8:20 AM
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Stop scrolling and post two characters that bring you happiness.
Anne Elliot and Captain Frederick Wentworth, portrayed by Amanda Root and Ciarán Hinds in the BBC’s splendid adaptation of Persuasion by Jane Austen.
January 14, 2026 at 8:22 AM
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Walking up that (Tudor) mount in winter proofs it is a popular viewing point, enjoyed by wildlife and the humans who inhabit the space.
January 14, 2026 at 8:12 AM
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Good morning. Found this pic on my phone from 2021. I thought it was a perfect ‘pick me up’ photo for #humpday.
May your day gift you beauty like this.
#trees
#nature
#woodland
#photography
January 14, 2026 at 6:49 AM
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The day began with a sky of darkest blue, the golden old moon hanging low over the village, the Plough directly above the cottage doorstep, beloved frost on the grass.

I can see that it’s going to be the kind of bright morning that makes me want to clean windows.

I’m sure the impulse will pass.
January 14, 2026 at 7:20 AM