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Laura

@kelpiewrangler.bsky.social

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Vellichorist, frustrated sculptress/painter, gardener, collector of flotsam, and jetsam.

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Laura @kelpiewrangler.bsky.social · Jun 30

Strewth, it's tropical out there. #heatwave

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Neil Drysdale @neildrysdale.bsky.social · 1d

I'm delighted to hear that Gaelic drama "An-t-Eilean" has been renewed. I spoke to lead actress Sorcha Groundsell about the first series and it was a terrific chat with a rising star who has appeared in several other notable roles!

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Interview: Sorcha Groundsell, star of new BBC crime drama An t-Eilean set in Western Isles

The Western Isles actor is at the helm of "An T-Eilean", the first major crime drama to be filmed in Gaelic.

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Laura @kelpiewrangler.bsky.social · 8h

I can see her as well

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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 12h

HOPE AUNTY DOLLY IS FEELING BETTER. LOVE TO ALL.

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Simon Spanton @simonguy.bsky.social · 16h

Park life.

A photo of a golden roan working cocker-spaniel, stood on short grass, with a white football boot in his mouth.

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The Highland Council @highland.gov.uk · 16h

The theme for this year's event in Inverness is 'Gathering for Regeneration'.

Read more here 👇
www.highland.gov.uk/news/article...

Highland to host KIMO international meeting and conference | The Highland Council

Highland to host KIMO international meeting and conference - The Highland Council will this week offer a warm welcome to delegates attending the annual general meeting and conference of the local…

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Laura @kelpiewrangler.bsky.social · 17h

Scammers are using AI to lure shoppers to fake businesses - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Scammers are using AI to lure shoppers to fake businesses

Foreign firms use AI-generated images and false back stories to pose as family-run UK businesses.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Laura @kelpiewrangler.bsky.social · 17h

Esme Young would give approval of the size of bow🎀

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Liza Adamczewski aka the accidental ecologist @lizaadamczewski.bsky.social · 18h

I just noticed there’s a bit of a conversation going on between the Staffordshire hound and Baba the Elephant on my dresser this morning. I wonder what secrets are being shared.

A Staffordshire hound and a harvest cup with an elephant toy in it sit on a dresser

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Laura @kelpiewrangler.bsky.social · 17h

Love a polkadot

Laura @kelpiewrangler.bsky.social · 1d

What are you going to make with the pink fabric?

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Dean Wilson @deanwilson.bsky.social · 1d

One moon, two seagulls.
#Withernsea
#Harvestmoon

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Laura @kelpiewrangler.bsky.social · 2d

Describe your Bluesky account in a single image

Jane Marple supposedly reading the Danemouth Herald newspaper, but in fact, watching what's going on another table.

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Lucy Antal aka Grab Your Spoon @lucyantal.bsky.social · 2d

Hive mind. Need lots of small packs of peas/ beans to give away to school kids, so only want say 25 seeds per pack. Any ideas where I can source - UK only please. Thank you peas. 😉

the world needs peas with a green peas holding a pod of peas

Alt: the world needs peas with a green peas holding a pod of peas

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The Hermit of Everything @hermiteveryday.bsky.social · 2d

I’ve never seen the moon crying but I tasted a star once and it was salty like sadness and joy combined. I wonder if all the tears fall into the ocean and when the waves sigh it is from melancholy, holding so many secrets.The stones now worried into sand, shells whispering comfort.

#fromoneline 393

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Laura @kelpiewrangler.bsky.social · 2d

That's fine, I'll just have to persevere. Maybe giant sunflowers are the way to go. 🌻

Laura @kelpiewrangler.bsky.social · 2d

Love the Queens tribute - "Very few writers get to be a legend in their own lifetime but Jilly was one... may her hereafter be filled with impossibly handsome men and devoted dogs"

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Mollie Goodfellow @hansmollman.bsky.social · 2d

Knickers at half mast today everyone, for Jilly Cooper x

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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 2d

Jilly Cooper is lovely.

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Laura @kelpiewrangler.bsky.social · 2d

They look like decent sized seeds. I've had no luck with sunflowers for a couple of years. Do you recommend any particular type?

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Laura @kelpiewrangler.bsky.social · 2d

Yes

Laura @kelpiewrangler.bsky.social · 3d

Ditto plus the home alone films

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isabeltranslates @isabeltranslates.bsky.social · 3d

Summing up my life in one meme...

Missing from the image: the snowstorm representing new books arriving on the TBR.

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Meme.

A large, flat, snow-covered rooftop. In the bottom left corner stands a figure with a broom. A very small section of the roof has been cleared, showing that the snow is maybe 2-3 feet deep. The cleared section is marked 'BOOKS READ THIS YEAR' and the uncleared section 'TO BE READ'.

Missing from the image: the snowstorm representing new books arriving on the TBR.

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 3d

A 3,500 year-old Egyptian glass cosmetic jar with two little duck heads!

Glass was a relatively new material at that time, so this jar would have been a precious possession.

From Merit’s beauty case, found inside Theban tomb (TT8) of Merit and her husband Kha in 1906. 📷 Museo Egizio

#Archaeology

Museo Egizio Turin photo showing a small, dark-blue, core-formed, round glass jar which tapers in at the shoulders below the neck. It has yellow, white, and light blue festoon decoration trailed around the main body. There is a single yellow trail just below the neck of the jar. There is a dark-blue circular glass lid, the top of which is adorned with two dark-blue duck heads with yellow bills, a yellow trailed stripe on the top of each duck’s head, and indents for their eyes. The jar is displayed on a perspex (?) stand against a grey background. Glass jar dimensions: 7.6 cm x 9.6 cm.

Core-forming is one of the earliest glassmaking techniques. Glassmakers shaped the body of the vessel around a core, wound colored trails around it. They then let the vessel cool and removed the core.

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History and Heritage Yorkshire @handhyorkshire.bsky.social · 3d

I think I must be developing a form of OCD. I so desperately want to go and rearrange these bins in numerical order. Is it just me? Image Tim Green CC BY 4.0

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Laura @kelpiewrangler.bsky.social · 3d

My neighbours heuchera ended up four houses down the lane.

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