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Rebecca Tickell
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"It's all grist to the mill." Education for the win. Questioner. DPhil student, HMC, Uni of Oxford. Threads @ rebeccatickell & tooting [email protected]
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If you see this, post your getaway vehicle
The Batmobile 🦇
November 23, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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First time in #Boston and I love it 😍 🇺🇸
Catching the end of the #fall / #autumn colour is a real privilege.

#Photography
#Cityscape
#Trees
#Colour
A beautiful ginkgo tree, resplendent in its full yellow-gold crown, in #Boston Public Gardens. Statue in silhouette in the foreground (can’t remember who). All against a gorgeous blue sky. Skyscrapers and trees bearing reds and golds in #Boston Public Gardens. Looking down Commonwealth Avenue towards the statue of Alexander Hamilton #Boston Archway of trees showing greens and golds #autumn A spiky piece of rainbow city art sprouting from a pavement in #Boston. Surrounded by trees - russet and gold - and skyscrapers, two people walking towards it across a busy road.
November 17, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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Needed some sea air and the chance to stretch my legs. Gorgeous day at #Bridlington but far too warm for the 5th November 🎆
Bridlington South Beach looking towards the town. Blue sky and clouds. Bridlington South Beach looking towards Wilsthorpe. Sun partially obscured by clouds, crows 🐦‍⬛ foraging at the shoreline.
November 5, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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Coffee time spent with the legend that is Beatriz Ferreyra 💿🛸 is time well spent. She’s 88 years old and still, I believe, going strong.

#Vinyl
Album cover and record on turntable - UFO+ by Beatriz Ferreyra. Treated myself to some new vinyl last weekend courtesy of Jumbo records in Leeds - some real bargains to be had.
November 1, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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Catching up with myself again in North #Norfolk 💙 💛

#TimeAndTide
#Landscape
#Photography
#Nature
#Coast
Sand, sea and sky, Titchwell beach, North Norfolk, England. A Godwit taking a break from feeding in the mud at Titchwell Marsh, North Norfolk, England. Ripple marks, Brancaster beach, North Norfolk, England. Sand, sea and sky, Titchwell beach, North Norfolk, England.
October 15, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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This is a place in Yorkshire Sculpture Park where you can sit and listen to Longplayer by Jem Finer, a 1,000 year long musical composition
(there’s a speaker on the tree and a wooden bench nearby).

#Relax
#RelaxingMusic
#Nature
#Photography
#Time
#BlueSkyArtShow

@blueskyartshow.bsky.social
A tree, a speaker, and a space; to listen*, to relax and to be. *Jem Finer’s Longplayer at Yorkshire Sculpture Park.
October 4, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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Just the thought of this has made me feel nauseous 🤢 I can’t image what it must have felt like to have seen it in situ.

It’s bad enough when people feed pigeons. The pigeon feeding stations in Mumbai need to be experienced to be be believed.
Pigeon feeding station in Mumbai. Pigeons are assembling ready for the bags of grain to be spilt open; many more pigeons are on their way in.
September 19, 2025 at 6:51 AM
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The rise of the UberMATs in England. Inevitable given the model successive governments have chosen to run with. How this will change our society is, as yet, unknown but there’s some fertile ground here for some meaningful #EducationalResearch to happen.

#EduSky
#TeacherEducation
Big fish eats four little fishes.
September 3, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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Perhaps followed by a glass or two of this?
A wine bottle label: Cat’s Pee on a Gooseberry Bush
August 31, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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This week’s theme #shiny
#BlueSkyArtShow @blueskyartshow.bsky.social

#Photography
#Blue
#Relflection
#Art
A blue vitreous disc #shiny casting its reflection on the floor at Denver Art Museum. Unfortunately, I didn’t note the name of the artist when I took this photo.
August 30, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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Chasing the end of summer with a short break in #Paris has been reinvigorating. It's definitely a city I need to visit more.

#Photography
#Cityscape #City
#Travel
#Time
A night time view of the Eiffel Tower from a side street. Wildflower planting in front of the Grand Palais in Paris. Some Parisian street art: St Ralph of The Simpsons. The old station clock in the Musée d'Orsay Paris.
August 28, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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A visit to #CrowlandAbbey (Croyland) today, believed to be the resting place of #HerewardTheWake

Well worth a visit.

#Benedictine
#StGuthlac
#DissolutionOfTheMonasteries
#England
#Lincolnshire
#Architecture
#Church
#Photography
Crowland Abbey - West front of the ruined nave (13th C) next to the church and bell tower. Crowland Abbey - Green Man Crowland Abbey - Dog-toothed Norman arch. Crowland Abbey - Wooden epitaph on wall reads: “Beneath this place six foot in length, against ye Clarke pew, lyeth the Body of Abrm. Baly, he dyed ye 3 of Jan. 1704 Also ye Body of Mary his Wid: she dyed the 21 of May, 1705. Also ye Body of Abrm. son of ye sd. Abrm. and Mary he dyed ye 13 Jan. 1704 also 2 which dyed in their Enfancy. "Mans life is like unto a winters day, some brake their fast, and so depart away, others stay dinner then departs full fed, the longest age but supps and goes to bed. U, Reader, then behold and see: as wee must now so must ye bee."
August 21, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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A brooding #BylandAbbey this afternoon #NorthYorkshire
#NorthYorkMoorsNationalPark

Heavy skies to mark the end of a dust-dry summer.

#Photography
#Architecture
#Cistercian
#DissolutionOfTheMonasteries
#Tiles
Byland Abbey - West front and ruined rose window. Byland Abbey - South transept from the west doorway. Byland Abbey - Beautiful 13th century tiles. Byland Abbey - Stone carving of a leaf (could also be a seed pod)
August 20, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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We need to ask ourselves:
Is it really worth it?

How many ‘b’s in blueberry again?

#GarbageInGarbageOut
Warming stripes for England from 1884 - 2019
August 20, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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Quote post with a picture of street graffiti on your phone.

The Leaning Tower of Pisa was all I had hoped it would be; whether or not it was chewier than Barrow-in-Furness’ bus depot is still a moot point.
Street graffiti in Pisa - Revenge: the leaning tower bashing a camera (tourist).
August 20, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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Love this!

#WorldElephantDay
A family group of elephants (three feature in this shot, matriarch leading) making their way across a stretch of scrubland in South Africa.
August 14, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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Time* to start Vol II ☕️

On the Calculation of Volume II by Solvej Balle

A highly recommended read for #BookSky folks.

*A excellent book to accompany this—before, during, after—would be The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli. I wonder if Balle has read it?
A photograph of a book cover: On the Calculation of Volume II by Solvej Balle.
August 12, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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Meow Wolf in #Denver vv similar to the epic Crystal Maze (UK).
Car on C-Street at Meow Wolf in Denver Futuristic at Meow Wolf in Denver Industrial punk (I think) at Meow Wolf in Denver Fungi - mushrooms and stuff - at Meow Wolf in Denver.
August 5, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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A beautiful place to read an amazing book. Add it to your list if you haven’t already #BookSky people
#Botanical #Plants
#Denver #Colorado
#Tsundoku

#OnTheCalculationOfVolume by Solvej Balle.
A book* on a bench in a park**. *On The Calculation of Volume **Denver Botanical Gardens A bloom - think fruit salad - Denver Botanical Gardens The Japanese Garden in Denver Botanical Gardens Denver Botanical Gardens - red flowers in foreground, and block of apartments in the far distance flanked by a pair of trees.
August 4, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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Very much enjoying mooching around #Denver #Colorado 🇺🇸
It’s a fantastic city with an amazing #art scene. #DenverArtMuseum #DAM is a must see.

#Photography #City #Cityscape
A city view - electric scooters and skyscrapers on a sidewalk in downtown Denver. Art work inside the Mountain States Telephone & Telegraph Company Headquarters Building, downtown Denver. Telephone ablaze in a ‘crucible of science’; alchemist and his owl looking on. There is a definitely a certain kind of magic to telephony. A sluggy-snail 🐌 The Tangled Self exhibition at Denver Art Museum (and me!). Street view of downtown Denver - Walk sign on a lamppost, red brick building - possibly an old store with painted signage - ahead
August 1, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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A trip out over lunch today to see St Edith’s. I can see why it’s known as “The Queen of the Wolds”. #YorshireWolds #Norman #Architecture #Stonework #Church #Photography
The South doorway at St Edith’s Church, Bishop Wilton. A Norman carving, South Doorway, St Edith’s Bishop Wilton. In the nave, looking toward the chancel @ St Edith’s Bishop Wilton A section of the mosaic floor - capturing a little bird - at St Edith’s, Bishop Wilton
July 21, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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If you see this, I implore you to post a pic from your device without context.
A picture of a mug of coffee on a table in the sunshine. The text on the mug is from the Ladybird Peter and Jane book series, it reads “Peter writes. Peter likes to write.”
July 18, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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Great theme #BlueSkyArtShow #SummerDaze
#Photography
#flowers #Flora #EnglishCountryGarden
#StatelyHome
Pink roses in the foreground, Burton Agnes Hall in the background 🎶 in an English Country Garden 🎶 #SummerDaze
July 12, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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Zig Zag …”1066, The Normans …”

#1980s
Screen shot of what a kid in England would have been watching in primary school in the early 80s, on the wheel-out telly: ‘Zig Zag (BBC Schools) follows shortly’ on BBC2, Bayeux tapestry is the background image.
July 12, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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A visit to St Michael's and All Angels, Garton on the Wolds, #EastRiding of #Yorkshire today. Beautiful drive out and the church interior is stunning 🤩 The paintings inside are breathtaking.

#Churches #Norman #Architecture
#Photography
#England
St Michael's and All Angels, Garton on the Wolds, #EastRiding of #Yorkshire, on a sunny day; view of the West door from the lychgate. St Michael's and All Angels, Garton on the Wolds, #EastRiding of #Yorkshire, West door close up - 4 orders #Norman St Michael's and All Angels, Garton on the Wolds, #EastRiding of #Yorkshire; a glimpse of the painted interior beyond the South door. The interior of St Michael's and All Angels, Garton on the Wolds, #EastRiding of #Yorkshire.
June 16, 2025 at 4:08 PM