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Here's a #Shedvent gift for you: it's the recipe for Guy's xocolatl spice powder, from VIANNE... www.joanne-harris.co.uk/news/decembe...
December in the Shed… | Joanne Harris
www.joanne-harris.co.uk
December 2, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Here's a #Shedvent gift for you: it's the recipe for Guy's xocolatl spice powder, from VIANNE... www.joanne-harris.co.uk/news/decembe...
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Nightclubs of Scotland: On the dance floor at Ritzy's, Bridge Place, Aberdeen. (1980s)
December 2, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Nightclubs of Scotland: On the dance floor at Ritzy's, Bridge Place, Aberdeen. (1980s)
Being slain by the lurgy may I recommend Nigel Slater’s Christmas Chronicles book?
Comforting winter food, stories, delights 🍽️❄️🔥
uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
Comforting winter food, stories, delights 🍽️❄️🔥
uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
The Christmas Chronicles: Notes, Stories & 100 Essential Recipes for Midwinter
Notes, Stories & 100 Essential Recipes for Midwinter
uk.bookshop.org
December 1, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Being slain by the lurgy may I recommend Nigel Slater’s Christmas Chronicles book?
Comforting winter food, stories, delights 🍽️❄️🔥
uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
Comforting winter food, stories, delights 🍽️❄️🔥
uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
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Over the Parke (where I first in my life, it being a great frost, did see people sliding with their skeates, which is a very pretty art), to Mr. Coventry’s chamber to St. James’s.
December 1, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Over the Parke (where I first in my life, it being a great frost, did see people sliding with their skeates, which is a very pretty art), to Mr. Coventry’s chamber to St. James’s.
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Your annual reminder that the most revealing difference between Irish and Scottish Gaelic is definitely in the words for December: Mí na Nollag (Month of Christmas) in Ireland, and An Dubhlachd (the Blackness) in Scotland. So once again may I wish you all a lovely Blackness.
December 1, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Your annual reminder that the most revealing difference between Irish and Scottish Gaelic is definitely in the words for December: Mí na Nollag (Month of Christmas) in Ireland, and An Dubhlachd (the Blackness) in Scotland. So once again may I wish you all a lovely Blackness.
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Refilling your ‘elephant done by a medieval artist that had never seen one’ - 15th century, Morgan Library & Museum, MS M.1045, f. 22v
December 1, 2025 at 5:40 AM
Refilling your ‘elephant done by a medieval artist that had never seen one’ - 15th century, Morgan Library & Museum, MS M.1045, f. 22v
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'Rising of the sun' by contemporary UK artist Catherine Hyde #womensart #December1st
December 1, 2025 at 7:24 AM
'Rising of the sun' by contemporary UK artist Catherine Hyde #womensart #December1st
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bisig, adj: busy, occupied. (BIH-zih / ˈbɪ-zɪj)
Image: Calendar page for December in the Prayer Book of Bonne of Luxembourg; France (Paris), before 1349; @metcloisters.bsky.social object 69.86.
#OldEnglish #WOTD
Image: Calendar page for December in the Prayer Book of Bonne of Luxembourg; France (Paris), before 1349; @metcloisters.bsky.social object 69.86.
#OldEnglish #WOTD
December 1, 2025 at 8:01 AM
bisig, adj: busy, occupied. (BIH-zih / ˈbɪ-zɪj)
Image: Calendar page for December in the Prayer Book of Bonne of Luxembourg; France (Paris), before 1349; @metcloisters.bsky.social object 69.86.
#OldEnglish #WOTD
Image: Calendar page for December in the Prayer Book of Bonne of Luxembourg; France (Paris), before 1349; @metcloisters.bsky.social object 69.86.
#OldEnglish #WOTD
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Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar, window 1
‘The village’
Artist: SR Badmin
‘The village’
Artist: SR Badmin
December 1, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar, window 1
‘The village’
Artist: SR Badmin
‘The village’
Artist: SR Badmin
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Little Blue Horse, 1912 #expressionism #franzmarc
December 1, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Little Blue Horse, 1912 #expressionism #franzmarc
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Look at this! For the first time since it was found, partially excavated and dispersed in the 1950s, someone has digitally reconstructed the 6th century mosaic from Qasr el-Lebia in Cyrenacia, Libya. 😮🤯
#MosaicMonday
#MosaicMonday
December 1, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Look at this! For the first time since it was found, partially excavated and dispersed in the 1950s, someone has digitally reconstructed the 6th century mosaic from Qasr el-Lebia in Cyrenacia, Libya. 😮🤯
#MosaicMonday
#MosaicMonday
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😆 🤣 😂 😹
December 1, 2025 at 9:43 AM
😆 🤣 😂 😹
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I was diagnosed with #HIV in 1998, when I was 30.
Many of my friends had died of AIDS. I did not expect to live to 50.
I’m 58 now.
HIV treatment works.
Treatment also makes it impossible for me to pass HIV on during sex.
Ensure HIV treatment for all.
End HIV stigma.
#WorldAIDSDay
Many of my friends had died of AIDS. I did not expect to live to 50.
I’m 58 now.
HIV treatment works.
Treatment also makes it impossible for me to pass HIV on during sex.
Ensure HIV treatment for all.
End HIV stigma.
#WorldAIDSDay
December 1, 2025 at 8:46 AM
I was diagnosed with #HIV in 1998, when I was 30.
Many of my friends had died of AIDS. I did not expect to live to 50.
I’m 58 now.
HIV treatment works.
Treatment also makes it impossible for me to pass HIV on during sex.
Ensure HIV treatment for all.
End HIV stigma.
#WorldAIDSDay
Many of my friends had died of AIDS. I did not expect to live to 50.
I’m 58 now.
HIV treatment works.
Treatment also makes it impossible for me to pass HIV on during sex.
Ensure HIV treatment for all.
End HIV stigma.
#WorldAIDSDay
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With homelessness still a big issue in Britain, here's exactly how you can help when you see someone rough sleeping or otherwise in need.
Here's what to do if you see a homeless person
www.bigissue.com
December 1, 2025 at 9:29 AM
With homelessness still a big issue in Britain, here's exactly how you can help when you see someone rough sleeping or otherwise in need.
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Fill your timeline with some seasonal cheer 🎄
Here's a starer pack (remember those?) of accounts running digital advent calendars.
Includes 10 accounts (so far) @rspb.bsky.social @levparikian.bsky.social @annelouiseavery.bsky.social @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social @clothofnature.bsky.social +
Here's a starer pack (remember those?) of accounts running digital advent calendars.
Includes 10 accounts (so far) @rspb.bsky.social @levparikian.bsky.social @annelouiseavery.bsky.social @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social @clothofnature.bsky.social +
December 1, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Fill your timeline with some seasonal cheer 🎄
Here's a starer pack (remember those?) of accounts running digital advent calendars.
Includes 10 accounts (so far) @rspb.bsky.social @levparikian.bsky.social @annelouiseavery.bsky.social @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social @clothofnature.bsky.social +
Here's a starer pack (remember those?) of accounts running digital advent calendars.
Includes 10 accounts (so far) @rspb.bsky.social @levparikian.bsky.social @annelouiseavery.bsky.social @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social @clothofnature.bsky.social +
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1 Dec: The ‘Christmas Rose’ or ‘Winter Rose’ (Helleborus niger) is one of the birth flowers of #December. An old legend says that when humankind fell from grace and Paradise lay shrouded in snow, the angels carried this bloom to earth as a sign of love and mercy. #Plantlore
December 1, 2025 at 12:30 AM
1 Dec: The ‘Christmas Rose’ or ‘Winter Rose’ (Helleborus niger) is one of the birth flowers of #December. An old legend says that when humankind fell from grace and Paradise lay shrouded in snow, the angels carried this bloom to earth as a sign of love and mercy. #Plantlore
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December 1, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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Paul Cornoyer - Christmas in Madison Square Park (1864-1923)
December 23, 2024 at 6:36 AM
Paul Cornoyer - Christmas in Madison Square Park (1864-1923)
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Chinese lanterns shine as darkness falls and the moon rises behind the trees ~ Charles Courtney Currran’s atmospheric ‘The Lanterns’ (1913)
November 30, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Chinese lanterns shine as darkness falls and the moon rises behind the trees ~ Charles Courtney Currran’s atmospheric ‘The Lanterns’ (1913)
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Other work by the Ladybird artists
‘Farmyard at Dusk’
Artist: Ronald Lampitt
‘Farmyard at Dusk’
Artist: Ronald Lampitt
November 29, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Other work by the Ladybird artists
‘Farmyard at Dusk’
Artist: Ronald Lampitt
‘Farmyard at Dusk’
Artist: Ronald Lampitt
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“It is winter in Narnia,” said Mr. Tumnus, “and has been for ever so long… always winter, but never Christmas.”
𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑳𝒊𝒐𝒏, 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑾𝒊𝒕𝒄𝒉 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑾𝒂𝒓𝒅𝒓𝒐𝒃𝒆
❄️ C.S. Lewis ❄️
▪︎ Illustration by Pauline Baynes ▪︎
𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑳𝒊𝒐𝒏, 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑾𝒊𝒕𝒄𝒉 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑾𝒂𝒓𝒅𝒓𝒐𝒃𝒆
❄️ C.S. Lewis ❄️
▪︎ Illustration by Pauline Baynes ▪︎
November 29, 2025 at 8:42 PM
“It is winter in Narnia,” said Mr. Tumnus, “and has been for ever so long… always winter, but never Christmas.”
𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑳𝒊𝒐𝒏, 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑾𝒊𝒕𝒄𝒉 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑾𝒂𝒓𝒅𝒓𝒐𝒃𝒆
❄️ C.S. Lewis ❄️
▪︎ Illustration by Pauline Baynes ▪︎
𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑳𝒊𝒐𝒏, 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑾𝒊𝒕𝒄𝒉 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑾𝒂𝒓𝒅𝒓𝒐𝒃𝒆
❄️ C.S. Lewis ❄️
▪︎ Illustration by Pauline Baynes ▪︎
Some bugger gave me the lurgy…
November 28, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Some bugger gave me the lurgy…
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November 28, 2025 at 5:25 AM
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1776: The nuthatch hunts for nuts in the hedges, & brings them to the forked bough of a certain plum-tree, where it opens them by picking a ragged irregular hole in the small end of the shell. It throws the empty shell on the walk.
November 28, 2025 at 7:00 AM
1776: The nuthatch hunts for nuts in the hedges, & brings them to the forked bough of a certain plum-tree, where it opens them by picking a ragged irregular hole in the small end of the shell. It throws the empty shell on the walk.