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Tracey Lister

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#AlphabetChallenge week #AforAbstract
I love the perspective of this shot showing the scale of the waterfall.

This is my daughter posing in front of Skógarfoss waterfall in Iceland

For this eagle eyed viewers there is also a sneaky #birdoftheday in there too.
Taken May 2014

Photo is a huge waterfall in Iceland. There us a young girl standing in the view. She looks tiny in comparison

January 11, 2026 at 11:47 AM

Tracey Lister

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#alphabetchallenge #weekAforabstract
Plastic bottles recycled into sea creatures in the entrance to the School of Ocean Sciences at Bangor University
#art #recycle #Bangor

January 10, 2026 at 2:34 PM

Tracey Lister

@traceylister.bsky.social

#Birdoftheday #shortbeaks
Greedy Portuguese pigeon getting a little too close to our lunch while on holiday in Porto

January 8, 2026 at 12:40 PM

Tracey Lister

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Nearly lost the pigs in blankets. Good try Alfie 🤣
#borderterrier #Christmas #dogsofbluesky

December 25, 2025 at 1:47 PM

Tracey Lister

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Alfie settling down for a good night's sleep
#terriertuesday #borderterrier #toungueouttuesday

December 23, 2025 at 10:36 PM

Tracey Lister

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Nearly Christmas day 🎅
#TerrierTuesday theme of #Festivespirit
Cheers everyone from Alfie.

Photo taken Christmas morning 2024
#btposse #borderterrier #dogs

December 23, 2025 at 3:48 PM

Tracey Lister

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Alfie enjoying the wind at Arnside.
We always categorise the weather as a one ear or two ear wind
#Terriertuesday theme of #Earography

Terrier facing into the wind as both his ears try for takeoff

December 2, 2025 at 8:49 AM

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Mick Lister

@listermj.bsky.social

#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekTForTelevision
Early Doors (BBC 2003-2004)
The Bow Bar, Victoria Street, Edinburgh.
A pint of heavy and a pint of stout.
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#edinburgh #scotland #bowbar #pubs #beer #photography #eastcoastkin

Picture inside a traditional pub, The Bow Bar in Edinburgh. From the perspective of the drinkers sat behind the table.
Two pints of dark beer, a heavy and a stout are on beermats on an old table.
Looking forwards there are rows of wooden tables and chairs. There are mirrors and pictures on the wall, To the right is a wood panelled bar.
The ceiling is red with a reflection of the ceiling lights in it.
Early Doors is a BBC sitcom written by Craig Cash and Phil Mealey. Both writers appear in the series, playing the characters Joe and Duffy, who are best friends. Early Doors is set at The Grapes, a small public house in Heaton Norris, Stockport, where daily life revolves around comical issues of love, loneliness and blocked urinals.

November 16, 2025 at 12:23 PM

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Caitlin Lister

@caitlinlister.bsky.social

#WallsOnWednesday

Love lane in Dublin! One of my favourite little hidden places in the city.

The wall on the right is filled with tiles with quotes about love from various songs and shows as well as heart patterns!

The wall on the left is painted with hearts that appear to be leaves on trees!

November 5, 2025 at 12:58 PM

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Caitlin Lister

@caitlinlister.bsky.social

#WindowsOnWednesday
A summer sunset taken from my bedroom window through the blinds

October 29, 2025 at 12:00 PM

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Caitlin Lister

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#WeekRforRock #AlphabetChallenge

A selection of stalagmite and stalactite formations in the Resava Cave, Jelovac, Serbia in July 2025

October 27, 2025 at 2:08 PM

Tracey Lister

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Alfie flashing his fangs for this weeks #TerrierTuesday theme of #Howloween
(This photo was taken some years ago as he no longer has many teeth left on the bottom shelf 🤣)

October 28, 2025 at 9:11 AM

Tracey Lister

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An oldie but a favourite of mine.
Alfie had a successful day trick or treating for this weeks spooky #TerrierTuesday theme of #Howloween

October 28, 2025 at 8:50 AM

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Caitlin Lister

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#BlueSkyArtShow
Sunset over the River Duoro on my last day in Porto (September 2025).
Wasn’t expecting a sunset on this night as it was super cloudy but this one appeared for about 10 minutes!

October 23, 2025 at 11:55 AM

Tracey Lister

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Mick relaxing on holiday in Warkworth, Northumberland July 2022.

Alfie's not overly affectionate (unless food is involved) so a rare lads moment indeed
#terriertuesday theme of #cuddletime #btposse #dogs

Mick sitting in the conservatory on holiday with a pint in one hand and a border terrier in the other..... bliss 😊

October 14, 2025 at 10:28 AM

Tracey Lister

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We have a tiered/terraced garden and Alfie likes nothing better than climbing to the top and watching the world go by
This photo is 10 years old so there's no grey whiskers yet
#TerrierTuesday theme of #Tiltyhead

October 7, 2025 at 2:53 PM

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Mick Lister

@listermj.bsky.social

#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekNforNights
#UrbanGaze #HumansOfBlueSky
Outside the Duke of York, Belfast. (October 2023)
The dry weather that night was disproving the sign😀
#belfast #northernireland #pubs #weather #photography #eastcoastkin

A night scene outside the Duke of York, Belfast looking down a cobbled alleyway with illuminated pub buildings either side of it.
People are congregating outside, both sat on benches and stood up.
There are umbrellas suspended above the alleyway. These are different single colours - red, yellow, green, blue and lilac.
At the front top of the picture there is a red neon sign with the words "There's only seven types of rain in Belfast - Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday..."

October 2, 2025 at 8:25 AM

Tracey Lister

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Alfie not wanting his sleep disturbed
#TerrierTuesday theme of #UnderProtest
#Tongueout Tuesday #Btposse

Border terrier lying comfy on his blanket sticking his tongue out at the camera

September 9, 2025 at 12:34 PM

Tracey Lister

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Video showing my daughters view for her breakfast while on holiday in Italy
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekIforIconic #Pisa #Italy

August 25, 2025 at 3:08 PM

Tracey Lister

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Great atmosphere last night at Murrayfield watching AC/DC. Angus Young with his trademark cap never stopped all night 🎵🎶🎵🎶
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekHforHats #Edinburgh #Murrayfield

August 22, 2025 at 10:08 AM

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Mick Lister

@listermj.bsky.social

Blackberry-Picking by Seamus Heaney:
Late August,given heavy rain and sun
For a full week,the blackberries would ripen
At first,just one,a glossy purple clot
Among others,red,green,hard as a knot.
You ate that first one and its flesh was sweet
#nature #poetry #photography #eastcoastkin
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A close up of some blackberries on a bush. Four of them are black and fully ripened. Another two are not ripe, one green and one red. The background is slightly blurred and consists of green leaves and branches of the blackberry bush. There is blurred blue sky and clouds behind the bush.
What follows isHere is the poem Blackberry-Picking by Seamus Heaney.
(13 April 1939 – 30 August 2013) He was an Irish poet, playwright and translator. He received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature.
Blackberry-Picking:
Late August, given heavy rain and sun
For a full week, the blackberries would ripen.
At first, just one, a glossy purple clot
Among others, red, green, hard as a knot.
You ate that first one and its flesh was sweet
Like thickened wine: summer's blood was in it
Leaving stains upon the tongue and lust for
Picking. Then red ones inked up and that hunger
Sent us out with milk cans, pea tins, jam-pots
Where briars scratched and wet grass bleached our boots.
Round hayfields, cornfields and potato-drills
We trekked and picked until the cans were full,
Until the tinkling bottom had been covered
With green ones, and on top big dark blobs burned
Like a plate of eyes. Our hands were peppered
With thorn pricks, our palms sticky as Bluebeard's.
We hoarded the fresh berries in the byre.
But when the bath was filled we found a fur,
A rat-grey fungus, glutting on our cache.
The juice was stinking too. Once off the bush
The fruit fermented, the sweet flesh would turn sour.
I always felt like crying. It wasn't fair
That all the lovely canfuls smelt of rot.
Each year I hoped they'd keep, knew they would not.

August 21, 2025 at 10:05 AM

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