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Family, friends, music, green spaces, horticulture & nature are my happy places with a book or two thrown in for good measure. #wildlife #trees #photography #nature #cats
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ThornyHedges @thornyhedges.bsky.social · 7d
You're never too old for an advent calendar!

2025 Lego City, 1st December.
Lego boy wearing a polar bear suit and carrying an ice lolly.
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edhawkins.org
Exciting jobs & PhD studentship!

1) postdoc in historical windstorms: jobs.reading.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

2) postdoc in extreme event storylines: jobs.reading.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

3) PhD in redeveloping the Central England Temperature series (led by Tim Osborn): www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
December 8, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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brilliantmaps.bsky.social
I was today years old when I learned that the UK's numbering system for A and B-Roads is based on zones and is not random.

(Explains why the two major ones near me are the A2 and A20).

Map credit: @roads.org.uk

More about how the zones work: brilliantmaps.com/a-and-b-r...
December 8, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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theweeowl.bsky.social
A deep forest as snow begins to fall. This little original artwork would be a lovely Christmas gift idea, visit my shop to find out more...
folksy.com/find/item/85...

#Landscape #Winter #Forest #OriginalArt #Painting #Artwork #GiftIdeas #ArtShop #ShopIndy #Christmas #ChristmasGifts
A small colour drawing of a dark deep forest, layers of trees going off to the distance, darker in the foreground. There is a little snowfall beginning. An original art work, please note that the frame is not included. Colour pencil and mixed media on acid free toned artist paper 5 by 7 inches (12.7 by 17.8 cm).
December 8, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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in-otter-news.bsky.social
Oh Steve...
December 8, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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rbgkew.bsky.social
Interested in Persian collections? This Wednesday, we will be hosting a talk about the Persian materials within our archive, focusing on the unexpected cultural & social histories:
Learn more 👉 ow.ly/ENHb50XCLJ2
#KewLA
Photo of a woman in a yellow top, with dark hair, drawing sitting at a desk, with other opposite. Colouring pencils and textile are visible on the table. 2) Sketch of a maintain range, mostly in pencil, but with some colour (green) indicating the plants and trees on the mountain range. Some place names are indicated with arrows in manuscript.
December 8, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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iflscience.com
Venus is not the closest planet to Mercury 😮

www.iflscience.com/people-are-s...
People Are Surprised To Learn That The Closest Planet To Neptune Turns Out To Be Mercury
Everything you've been taught is a lie.
www.iflscience.com
December 8, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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pastandotherplaces.bsky.social
Traffic Scotland's gritter tracker. #ice 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 #traffic
www.traffic.gov.scot/gritter-trac...
December 8, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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aoibheni.bsky.social
All right, crafty folks.
I need everyone who sees this to keep a look out for the following shawls. They were lost by FedEx on the way to Barcelona Knits, and have been declared "unrecoverable".
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This is thoussands of euros of work & materials, not to mention their value at Trunk Shows & Workshops.
A blonde haired white woman wearing black is standing in front of a light pink wall and is holding out a large gold and purple tunisian crochet shawl A close up of a pair of hands holding a section of a gold and purple shawl. The section has laternative stripes of the two colours. An over-head photo of a blue and orange curving shawl laid out on a wooden floor. A close up of a blue and orange shawl laid out of a wooden floor, showing the triangular segments that make it up.
December 5, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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eicathomefinn.bsky.social
'The dictionary will not be huge because relatively few words survive, but experts from Aberystwyth University say they expect they will end up with more than 1,000 words.'
Linguists start compiling first ever complete dictionary of ancient Celtic
More than 1,000 words used as far back as 325BC to be collected for insight into past linguistic landscape
www.theguardian.com
December 8, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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lbflyawayhome.bsky.social
Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar, window 8
‘Winter Farmyard’
Artist: Ronald Lampitt
On a snowy day, a small figure with his dog shines a torch as he walks past a snow-topped barn. This barn has strong echoes of ‘the repair shop’
December 8, 2025 at 8:06 AM
thornyhedges.bsky.social
This was released during my 1st yr at secondary school. I remember banging our desks singing, "We don't need no education..."
stevenw888.bsky.social The 70s Guy @stevenw888.bsky.social · 7d
Released 30 Nov 1979, the album 'The Wall' by Pink Floyd. Bassist Roger Waters conceived The Wall during Pink Floyd's 1977 In the Flesh tour, modelling the character of Pink after himself and Pink Floyd's former songwriter Syd Barrett. #PinkFloyd #TheWall
December 7, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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stevenw888.bsky.social
Nick Park (born 6th December 1958) is a British animator who created Wallace and Gromit, Creature Comforts, Chicken Run, Shaun the Sheep, and Early Man. He has received five BAFTA Awards, including the BAFTA for Best Short Animation for 'A Matter of Loaf and Death'. #NickPark
December 6, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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lbflyawayhome.bsky.social
The reluctant shopper, 1952

Artist: A Macgregor
(Jonathan’s Shopping Day)
A rather cartoon-like illustration of a sad looking rabbit wrapped up warmly in red raincoat and scarf huddled under an umbrella against the snow. He is holding a big yellow shopping basket
December 7, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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One week in! Who's been enjoying our Christmas countdown?🎄

A tiny feathered favourite brings the festive cheer today...

#RSPBAdvent25
December 7, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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rbgkew.bsky.social
Do we have archives relating to your history? Probably! Our archive reflects global histories & is open to all. Conservator Shabnam Balouch has helped uncover our Persian archive, and you can find out more at an upcoming talk & our free public workshops in January! #EYAYourArchives #KewLA
Poster for an exhibition at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, titled 'Persia Reimagined: From Herbarium to Heritage'. The exhibition dates 30 September 2025 to 21 January 2026. The text is laid over a collage of archive materials: a coloured illustration of a yellow-flowered Rosa persica, yellow and orange Persian lime and typewritten text.
December 7, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social
Crochet mandala street decorations, a collective creation by women in Licata, Italy #WomensArt
(via Howtofeelgood. net)
Photo looking up at suspended circular differently patterned and coloured crochet work, in a band above a street at night with Italian houses on either side
December 7, 2025 at 5:35 AM
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social
Alison Holt, contemporary textile artist who creates machine and hand embroidered landscapes #WomensArt #snow #winter
Pictorial textile artwork featuring a sheep standing under a large tree in snow
December 7, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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lbflyawayhome.bsky.social
Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar
Window 7
‘Frost’
Artist: CF Tunnicliffe
A view over a ploughed field towards an ancient barn topped with snow. There is a hard hoar frost tracing cobwebs and making the going hard for the corvids in the field
December 7, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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lbflyawayhome.bsky.social
‘Evergreen’
Plants and how they Grow (1965)
Artist: Ronald Lampitt
A collection of different evergreen plants set in a snowy background against a yellow sky
December 6, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social
'Cley windmill in winter', machine and hand embroidery by UK textile artist Rachel Wright #WomensArt
Pictorial textile artwork featuring a windmill on top of a hill in silhouette against a striped winter sunset
December 6, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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groomb.bsky.social
I'll be talking about 'These Isles: A People's History of England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales' in an online talk for Sandbach History Society, Tues Jan 6th 8pm. Visitors welcome to sign up, £5. Contact [email protected]. sandbachhistorysociety.org.uk
December 6, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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rbgkew.bsky.social
For #EYAAnniversaries, we delved into collections on our Millennium Seed Bank, which opened at Wakehurst 25 years ago. Among the reports & articles on the development of one of the world’s largest seed banks, we discovered publicity materials featuring none other than Sir David Attenborough! #KewLA
Various materials layered on top of each other so that corners and sections of pages are obscured. On the bottom is newsletter article opened on a two-page spread with a light green border and the title in the centre reads ‘The Millenium Seed Bank Project’. Underneath the title, two images are fully visible – on the left hand side, a person collecting seeds in Cumbria and to the right, a model version of the ‘Wellcome Trust Millennium Building’. Materials on top of the article from left to right are: section of a report on the Kew Seed Bank; a leaflet with a cream background and image of a small plant titled ‘Your Opportunity to Sponsor a Millennium Seed Bank Tree’; a leaflet with a logo of a plant with a green steam, yellow petals and a green globe in the centre reading ‘millennium seed bank appeal kew’ with a photograph of Sir David Attenborough outside the Palm House to the right. Article - MAFF Bulletin, Crown Copyright.
December 6, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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racheldeering.bsky.social
A vintage botanical illustration of the Abies nordmanniana, commonly known as the Nordmann fir.
December 6, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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compoundchem.com
For day 6 of #ChemAdven, poultry chemistry connects two traditional Christmas meals: the classic turkey roast and the Japanese custom of fried chicken at Christmas 🍗

#ChemSky 🧪
Infographics on turkey and fried chicken, showing some of the characteristic flavour compounds found in each, including furans, furanones, and amino acid breakdown products Infographics on turkey and fried chicken, showing some of the characteristic flavour compounds found in each, including furans, furanones, and amino acid breakdown products
December 6, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social
Sarah Evans, contemporary Welsh artist and landscape painter #womensart
Painting of a field in snow with a lone bare tree to the right and a single house jn the background under a grey winter sky
December 6, 2025 at 6:37 AM