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Patrick Limb

@patchlimb.bsky.social

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Half-English, half-French, half-Scots KC @ropewalklaw. Completing biography of Capt FC Dietrichsen. Learning how to handle the Northumberland Small Pipes.

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Patrick Limb @patchlimb.bsky.social · Nov 20

‘Where the river flows out to the sea’ - published in LTB’s online journal in ‘The Clearing’ - tempus fluit
#NatureWriting

Where the river flows out to the sea by Patrick Limb - Little Toller Books

A new essay by Patrick Limb for The Clearing on returning home to the village of his youth, during his mother's illness.

www.littletoller.co.uk

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Patrick Limb @patchlimb.bsky.social · 10d

Pivoting from “in the hole” to “in the bunker” really is quality sledging.

Patrick Limb @patchlimb.bsky.social · 16d

Part of a series of four stained glass panels representing the four seasons designed by William Morris for the inglenook fireplace in the Dining Room at Cragside, Northumberland and made in 1873. Saw them at the weekend - the other three are here, though I botched my snap of Winter:

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Patrick Limb @patchlimb.bsky.social · 16d

Greetings Autumn
#Cragside #Northumberland

A stained glass panel representing Autumn, designed by William Morris.

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Patrick Limb @patchlimb.bsky.social · 16d

“We must strive to become intellectual nomads, keep moving, keep learning, resist confining ourselves in any cultural or mental ghetto, and spend more time not in select centres but at the margins, which is where real change always comes from.”

- Elif Shafak

Patrick Limb @patchlimb.bsky.social · 19d

Femke Bol!!!

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Patrick Limb @patchlimb.bsky.social · Sep 8

Fish Face
#SugarSands #Northumberland

Patrick Limb @patchlimb.bsky.social · Aug 17

Of dear, the apostrophe!

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Patrick Limb @patchlimb.bsky.social · Aug 17

“Because freedom, I am told, is nothing but the distance between the hunter and it’s prey.”

- Ocean Vuong, ‘On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous’

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Patrick Limb @patchlimb.bsky.social · Aug 15

Lawdy, the social media output for the app called ‘liven’ is anything but …

Patrick Limb @patchlimb.bsky.social · Aug 15

Hah! The very same. A truly wonderful read.

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Patrick Limb @patchlimb.bsky.social · Aug 15

All that you predicted is, I fear, coming true … and yet, and yet:

“why should we be tender to let an arrogant piece of flesh threat us, play judge and executioner all himself" (Cymbeline)

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Patrick Limb @patchlimb.bsky.social · Aug 15

Google Lens suggests "Colorful Path" by artist Jessel Miller

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Patrick Limb @patchlimb.bsky.social · Aug 15

“I’ll let you into a secret: when times are confusing, everybody is a little lost. No one is an inwardly confident as they present themselves to be. Hence the reason we must read, my boy. Books, like paper lanterns, provide us with a light amidst the fog”

- Elif Shafak ‘There are Rivers in the Sky’

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Patrick Limb @patchlimb.bsky.social · Jul 29

A found poem!

Patrick Limb @patchlimb.bsky.social · Jul 29

Now the hot winds blows
The first lotus blossoms bright -
‘Young hawk learn to fly’
#MicroSeasons #Haiku

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Patrick Limb @patchlimb.bsky.social · Jul 19

Google Translate is suggesting the ‘Pacific’, as in “Crossing the Pacific Ocean yesterday morning - and returning at night in the fog. My favorite trip”. If so, that is a very speedy boat!