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I’m usually found doing this. Taking photos of small things and walking.
Welsh speaker 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Siarad Cymraeg
Nain a Mam
Living in beautiful West Yorkshire.
Keeping my posts politics free for my mental health . Safe place 🌈
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He has transformed into a Robin.
The world is safe!
I give you Robin Trump !

Taken in 2018 in my snowy garden.
I took this in my garden in 2018 I called him Robin Trump It’s a little Robin bird sitting on the seed feeder on a very snowy day. His head feathers are tuffty and the same colour as Trump’s hair but nicer. I’ve haven’t seen a Robin with such a hairdo since! It’s resemblance is uncanny 🤭
December 22, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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Something is burrowing under my patio slabs. Stones have been excavated!

Any idea what it could be?
I’m thinking rat 🐀
Am I right?

I’m in West Yorkshire so don’t think it’s anything exotic!!

#BurrowingCreatures
#UKGardens
Small light coloured stones in a pile by my patio slabs. They’ve been dug out from under the patio. Next to the stones to the right’s of it is earth been dug out. The green there is mostly moss as it’s a small area under trees. Close up of the stones and a burrow hole under the slab. They’ve stones are about 1” long. The other burrow under the slab with mostly earth excavated. Close up of the mound of stones. Thinking it’s a strong creature. Definitely not a mouse.
December 21, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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Guess my favourite film 🎥?
#AhHa
#Janet
Red lips and white teeth.
December 19, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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My current read.
My name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout.
2016 book by this American novelist.
#BlueskyBooks
#TBR
Will let you know ….
The book I’m now reading with a pair of brown glasses holding down the cover. Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2016 Cream cover with My Name is Lucy Barton in bright red text. A cut out window in the cover shows the Chrysler Building in the New York skyline. I’ve always been drawn to a good cover. Same book showing the window in which you can see the New York skyline beneath. The windows on the buildings shine a metallic blue. It’s Lucy’s view from her hospital bed window in the novel.
December 18, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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Holmfirth yesterday. Winter Jasmine in the little park.
Such a lovely yellow colour in the middle of a wet soggy Winters day.
#WinterJasmine
#winterColour
A bright yellow 5 petal Winter Jasmine on a stalk with buds below. Behind in a blurred view is the whole bush.
December 15, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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Here are the Tawny Owls 🦉 calling at dusk in the trees at the back of our house.
I love their calls.
#TawnyOwls
#Gwdihw
Welsh 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 name for owls is so beautiful.
Gwdihw 🦉
Pronounced - Goodyhoo
Can you spot the owl? I didn’t!!
December 14, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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I’ve just deleted a post in which I killed off Dick van Dyke! 😱
Sorry, I meant to wish him a Happy 100th birthday. 🎉
🫣
Please accept my apology and enjoy your birthday Sir!!
December 13, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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Thank you so much for that. Good old Grandad!
My grandchildren love handling it along with all my other natural treasures. Some found by me on beaches and some handed down.
December 12, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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This is a small box and my grandchildren’s favourite thing to play with and ask questions. I’ve had to learn a bit about everything in it.
The Shark Purses I’ve collected myself from North Wales beaches.
Amethyst, pyrite, marble, fossils, pine cones, shells, lava. It’s got it all!
#NaturalWorld
A box of treasures from the natural world. Shark purses where baby sharks and skate are born in with the tendrils where they attach to rocks and seaweed. Fools gold, pyrite. Shells and stones like marble and pine cones. Most are in the box and some on the tablecloth. The big black one is lava. There’s a large snail like polished fossil . The wooden box has a bee motif. Love showing these to my 8,6 and 2 year old grandchildren. All boys and they love them.
December 12, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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Saw this and thought about mine!
It came from my Grandad who told me it was real. I’m 70!! I’ve always believed him. Is it?
So tactile and beautiful in a mossy green colour. Cold stone. How do you tell if it is?
December 12, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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My antibiotics!
“You take the Bluepill the story ends. You will wake up in your own bed and believe whatever you want to believe “

#TheMatrix in case you didn’t know 😂

I believe I feel better! 😅
Love #NHS💙
Thank you ☺️
A blue pill on a pine wood surface. It’s an antibiotic capsule. I feel better. Thank you! ☺️ Love science and #NHS💙
December 11, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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He wants to see our 5 year social media record before we are allowed to enter America.
You think we want to enter America while this deranged clown is in office?
F*#JaneGodley was right!
The hero Jane Godley holding a banner in white with blue writing saying Trump is a Cunt. She’s right! She stands on a golf course in Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 with a policeman walking towards her. Lots of green golf course behind her and a helicopter with some white terraced houses. RIP
December 10, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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Today I made:-
Butternut squash and ginger soup with hints of curry spices for lunch. More in the freezer now.

Then made all the Xmas Day Roast potatoes for the freezer.
Covered in goose fat, rosemary and thyme.

Then I had me time - pj’s and reading with a glass of wine!

Take time for you ❤️
Soup in a large mug that I bought in Cornwall about 40 years ago! 😅 We always have soup in them. Black and white glaze on the mug with Cornwall written on it and places depicted in the glaze. Soup looks darker than it was. It was lovely. Butternut squash roasted in the air fryer for 15 mins. Then added to the fried onions, garlic, fresh ginger, Garam masala, chilli flakes, s&p, veg stock and coconut milk. Tasty with bread and butter. The mug has a stainless steel ribbed spoon in it. Some brown rolls in their package in the background. Two metal trays on top of my black stove. They are covered in baking paper and herbed roast potatoes ready for the freezer. I par boiled them for 8 mins. Quite large potatoes. Now covered in goose fat, rosemary and thyme. S&P too. Roast for 20-25 in air fryer on Xmas day. Chefs kiss 👌 That’s me done. Book (nearly finished) pj’s (pink) and feet up. Quilt made by my beautiful Sister. 🥰
December 9, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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Think he’s my 2025 human.
Best of the best.
Kevin Sinfield
He’s done so much for his friend Rob Burrow and the MND community.
He has time for everyone and such a lovely man.
#MND
#KevinSinfield
#RugbyLeague
#Leeds
Rain! Put bin bags on! Kevin running the last leg of his 7/7 marathons in a blue and white rugby league jersey. Wading through water with black bin bags on his feet. Laughing 😆 all the way! Just Kevin in his Leeds shirt looking like the hero he is. Well done 👏👏👏👏
December 8, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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Be dwi yn wisgo i barti Nadolig Bluesky.

What I’m wearing to the Bluesky Xmas party.
Mari Lwyd. A sepia photograph of a man in a dark woolen suit wearing a flat cap. He’s holding a stick or long riding crop which is attached to the bridle of Mari Lwyd. Mari is a horse’s skull with colourful ribbons and a large white sheet hiding the man underneath. An old Welsh tradition of going door to door and knocking to be let in. The door will be closed to Mari Lwyd until the battle of the poetry and songs are over. They stand in front of a white washed cottage with a short dry stone wall. Someone is at the door.
December 8, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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Friday night shower to Sophie Ellis-Bextor’s Kitchen Disco Radio2 featuring Madonna and Wham is good for me!
Self care is high on the agenda. Oh! Yes, and a glass of chilled Chardonnay!
Have a very good evening.
#LoveRadio
#RetroRadio
#RobertsRadio
You need one in every room!
Silver Roberts Radio set to 89.30 FM in front of stone tiles in my shower room. Radio is retro style. My glasses in front and it’s sitting on my original Lloyd Loom laundry basket. Guess that is just me! Have a lovely Friday whatever you’re doing.
December 5, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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Bath time for succulents.
Since I’ve started doing this they’ve grown so much.
Twice in Summer and once in Winter or before I move them to another pot.
#Succulents
#HousePlants
#TLC
Three succulents with green spiky leaves in a clear glass bowl of cold water. It sits in my red washing up bowl. I plunge them in turning now and then so the leaves and roots get water. Around 15 mins does it. I then place them back into their respective holes left in the cacti & succulent compost in the tubs. An underwater shot of the same plants in the glass bowl on a black granite countertop. Top of my toaster behind.
December 5, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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Look at these beautiful Lapis Lazuli stars. They’re for my 3 Grandsons for their Xmas 🎄 Tree.
They’re shimmer with specs of gold pyrite.
Already drilled by The Crystal Apothecary in Holmfirth. My favourite place to shop now!
#TheCrystalApothecary
#Stones
#Nature
Three stone stars threaded through with silver thread. Lapis Lazuli in blues with gold bits through. They’re on a brown paper bag with the logo of The Crystal Apothecary on. It’s a gorgeous shop in Holmfirth. A lovely lady who is knowledgeable and so friendly chatted to me about the stones. I will certainly be back.
December 4, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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Moon is bright. Can’t sleep!

Also can’t take a good photo of the moon. 🙄
Bright moon in a cloudy sky at night. Trees in the lower foreground black against the sky
December 4, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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Happy St Andrew’s Day to all the Scots wherever you live. Have a lovely day!
Scotland St Andrews Day November 30th written below a flag with hearts and starry fireworks symbolised.
November 30, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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It’s getting lovely and dark now.
Won’t be long!!
Two Kilner jars with sloe berries in the bottom and filled with now dark red gin. They stand on my kitchen table on a stylised trees cover.
November 26, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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Cuddle cushions and books 📚
That’s what I’m getting my 3 grandsons this Xmas 🎅
Books 📚 will be themed to the cushions
Football
Gaming
Dinosaurs
They are 8,6 &2 so it’s toy central at home.
Might do the same for OH!! 🤶
#ReadingBooks
#BlueskyBooks
For clarity this is a cuddle cushion. Humped back and two arm rests. This one is football themed in blues and greens. I first got one when I had heart surgery in 2021. So comfy when you need to rest your elbows instead of stretching your arms which hurt at the time. When grandkids come over they fight for my cushion even now! 🙄 They can read in bed with it or put in on the sofa. Reading time !
November 25, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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Look at the colour on that!!
Carrot and Sweet Potato Soup with coriander and smoked paprika.
#SoupSeason
#HomemadeSoup
#BatchCooking
These are for the freezer. The rest is for lunch tomorrow with crusty bread 🥖
One large and one smaller portion of soup cooling for the freezer. One in foil and the other in a plastic tub. The soup is bright orange. Carrot and sweet potato with paprika! But spicy too as I’ve added some chilli 🌶️ flakes.
November 24, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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From my TBR pile. My next book 📕
The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton.
Set in 1686 Amsterdam.
Think this one is my kind of book.
#TBR
#BlueSkyReads
#Books
#Fiction
Cover of The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton shows three figures in 1680’s costume in Dutch blue. The text below the title says - Haunting, magical and full of surprises S. J. Watson.
November 22, 2025 at 7:59 AM
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Today’s doodle!
Turns out it’s a bit Homer Simpson! 🤣
#Doodling
#Mindfulness
Cold icy day with a little snow still lying. I’ll be glad when it goes.
A coloured in doodle in multicolour. Think there a face there so gave it a mouth wide open with two teeth and a tongue. Think he’s a bit Homer Simpson but that’s just me.
November 20, 2025 at 5:03 PM