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Patrick McCormack
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A wanderer, wonderer and picker-up of unconsidered trifles.
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Silbury Hill has a baby
#StandingStoneSunday
December 28, 2025 at 3:35 AM
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A very rare sighting of one of the anaconda-beech tree chimaera of Cranborne Chase. Even the General (Pitt-Rivers) never set his eyes on one of these most elusive of creatures.
December 28, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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Happy 25th to everyone from a chilly hilltop in west Wiltshire: 2°C and falling!
December 25, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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paulchamberlain.bsky.social
Was a lovely pre sun rise
December 21, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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Happy Solstice! 🌞
Whether it's bright or grey where you are, the sun's strength is now growing each day 🌝
#solstice #edvardmunch
December 21, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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yorkswoldsweather.bsky.social
Evening Colours. 6°C. Song Thrush chirping.
Evening Colours. 6°C. Song Thrush chirping.
December 19, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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In the damp and gloom of winter, let your spirit be lifted and set free by Vaughan Williams' The Lark Ascending, first performed #otd in 1920 at Shirehampton Public Hall, Bristol 😊
Here's the centenary performance in the same venue: youtu.be/3b0rN43q6jo
#vaughanwilliams #classical #larkascending
THE LARK ASCENDING (performed as originally heard)
YouTube video by TaggleElgate
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December 15, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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trimontiumtrust.bsky.social
For today's #hillfortswednesday: A clip of a superb #Welsh hillfort. Tre'r Ceiri is located 450 metres above sea level, on an exposed peak of Yr Eifl on the Llŷn Peninsula in #Gwynedd . It is one of the best preserved & was one of the most densely populated hillforts in #Britain.

©TrimontiumTrust
December 10, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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Happy Birthday, ED! ✍️

Exultation is the going
Of an inland soul to sea,
Past the houses past the headlands
Into deep Eternity.

Bred as we, among the mountains
Can the sailor understand
The divine intoxication
Of the first league out from land?

#emilydickinson #edickinson #poetry #Amherst
December 10, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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maxmoran.bsky.social
Near the Source of the River Severn, Hafren Forest, Powys, Wales 01.03.25

#WaterfallWednesday #scape
#landscapephotography
#PhotographersofBlueSky
December 10, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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yorkswoldsweather.bsky.social
Just A Hint Of Sunlight. 8°C with rain approaching. Starlings.
Just A Hint Of Sunlight. 8°C with rain approaching. Starlings
December 7, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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slipperyjack.bsky.social
The bounce on these fellas...
December 5, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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Monkey has collapsed on my lap after washing himself thoroughly.
#caturday #proofofcat
November 29, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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A fine day on the Quantocks. Views to Dunkery, Rhossili, Gower, south Wales coast, Bannau Brycheiniog, Sugar Loaf, Skirrid Fawr and new Severn Bridge. Not inconsiderably pleased 😊
#Quantocks #landscape #exmoor #Gower #bannaubrycheiniog
November 25, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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Add a pot of tea and a companionable cat, and it would be bliss indeed 🫖 🐈
hookland.bsky.social hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · Nov 25
Give me sunlight, a comfortable chair and a wall of books! This makes me declare myself a most satisfied soul. For the library is a territory of wonder. It is home to a thousand wise voices who know words that open gates to the imagination. – #CLNolan, BBC National Programme, 1934 #Libraries
November 25, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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irishrainforest.bsky.social
Horizontal slabs of pressure-hardened seabed, halfway up a mountain.

We live on such a wonderful planet 🌍
November 23, 2025 at 5:43 AM
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A chilly, but bright, pilgrimage to Cranborne Chase. Having paid my respects to The General in Tollard Royal, fine views (and frost-bitten ears) walking to Win Green and back. My reward: tea, cake and books in Shaftesbury 🫖🍰📚
#pittrivers #cranbornechase #Shaftesbury @foldedorset.bsky.social
November 23, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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philolithia.bsky.social
First snow on the mountains this winter: view up the Dysynni Valley to Craig Aderyn / Bird Rock and Cadair Idris.
Bright red berries on an otherwise bare silver-branched hawthorn overlook a field of long scrubby yellow dead grasses bordered by muddy-green-leaved willows and alders. Beyond, the dark hump of the distinctive outcrop of Craig Aderyn looms up and, beyond this, the snow-covered slopes of Cadair Idris disappear into white snow clouds.
November 19, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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The old lane to the coast path at dawn...

Treen, Cornwall, on Thursday 🤩
November 8, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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hjm.bsky.social
HERE IT IS!!!!!
H Is For Hawk - Official Trailer
YouTube video by LionsgateFilmsUK
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November 4, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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Was pretty stunned to come across these Paul Nash trees yesterday
October 30, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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October 27, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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An Evening Wander. 8°C and a cold wind. The hoot of an owl.
An Evening Wander. 8°C and a cold wind. The hoot of an owl.
October 24, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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humanists.uk
“I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time — when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the key manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness. The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media — the 30-second sound bite (now down to 10 seconds kind of celebration of ignorance.”
October 21, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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Ynys Enlli / Bardsey Island, Gwynedd, Cymru / Wales 23.03.24

#BlueSkyMonday #scape
#landscape #seascape
#landscapephotography
#photographersofbluesky
An island with a small hill bordered by sea with passing cloud shadows and cloudy blue sky.
October 20, 2025 at 4:22 AM