Pat Walshe
@yutoriwalking.bsky.social
Interested in hiking, cycling, photography.
Like the concept of Yutori ゆとりConsciously slowing down to allow us to savour the world around us with no goal except to see and be. Spaciousness.
Like the concept of Yutori ゆとりConsciously slowing down to allow us to savour the world around us with no goal except to see and be. Spaciousness.
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Profound Words to Sprinkle On
Your Christmas Week ✨️
(No need to choose a winner.
Take them all. Share them all.)
Your Christmas Week ✨️
(No need to choose a winner.
Take them all. Share them all.)
December 22, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Profound Words to Sprinkle On
Your Christmas Week ✨️
(No need to choose a winner.
Take them all. Share them all.)
Your Christmas Week ✨️
(No need to choose a winner.
Take them all. Share them all.)
Ukraine’s Iconic Carol ‘Shchedryk’ (Carol of the Bells)
Performed at Bombed Power Plant
www.kyivpost.com/videos/66610 ❤️
Performed at Bombed Power Plant
www.kyivpost.com/videos/66610 ❤️
Ukraine’s Iconic Carol ‘Shchedryk’ Performed at Bombed Power Plant
Ukraine’s iconic “Shchedryk,” known in English as “Carol of the Bells,” was performed at a damaged power plant in a wartime appeal for global support of Ukraine’s energy sector amid Russian attacks
www.kyivpost.com
December 22, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Ukraine’s Iconic Carol ‘Shchedryk’ (Carol of the Bells)
Performed at Bombed Power Plant
www.kyivpost.com/videos/66610 ❤️
Performed at Bombed Power Plant
www.kyivpost.com/videos/66610 ❤️
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This simply isn’t the way to do rewilding; nor is it going to win people over.
A model that seeks to acquire landholdings so quickly is clearly going to make mistakes in community engagement & in land management, and I’ve seen solid evidence of both by these guys.
bsky.app/profile/theg...
A model that seeks to acquire landholdings so quickly is clearly going to make mistakes in community engagement & in land management, and I’ve seen solid evidence of both by these guys.
bsky.app/profile/theg...
‘Unashamedly capitalist’ rewilders claim ‘Moneyball’ approach could make millions - but experts sceptical
‘Unashamedly capitalist’ rewilders claim ‘Moneyball’ approach could make millions - but experts sceptical
Rich Stockdale says model of ‘regenerative capitalism’ would maximise profits by planting trees, restoring peatlands, and installing windfarms across its estates
The founder of an investment firm buying large estates across Britain to restore woods and peatland has said it is “unashamedly and proudly” capitalist, and plans to make tens of millions of pounds in profit.
Rich Stockdale, the chief executive of Oxygen Conservation, said his model of “regenerative capitalism” was a “force for good” because it would offer investors significant profits by planting trees, restoring peatlands, operating solar farms and holiday homes and installing new windfarms across its estates. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 22, 2025 at 12:53 PM
This simply isn’t the way to do rewilding; nor is it going to win people over.
A model that seeks to acquire landholdings so quickly is clearly going to make mistakes in community engagement & in land management, and I’ve seen solid evidence of both by these guys.
bsky.app/profile/theg...
A model that seeks to acquire landholdings so quickly is clearly going to make mistakes in community engagement & in land management, and I’ve seen solid evidence of both by these guys.
bsky.app/profile/theg...
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As Labour announce they’ll ban trail hunting, man in Barbour jacket and mustard trousers accuses them of being out of touch with public: www.bbc.com/news/article...
December 21, 2025 at 11:35 PM
As Labour announce they’ll ban trail hunting, man in Barbour jacket and mustard trousers accuses them of being out of touch with public: www.bbc.com/news/article...
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The Yorkshire Dales Access Hub is a one‑stop online resource designed to make the outdoors more accessible - helping people with a wide range of disabilities plan their perfect visit to the National Park.
👉 Explore more: https://accesshub.yorkshiredales.org.uk/
👉 Explore more: https://accesshub.yorkshiredales.org.uk/
December 21, 2025 at 10:30 AM
The Yorkshire Dales Access Hub is a one‑stop online resource designed to make the outdoors more accessible - helping people with a wide range of disabilities plan their perfect visit to the National Park.
👉 Explore more: https://accesshub.yorkshiredales.org.uk/
👉 Explore more: https://accesshub.yorkshiredales.org.uk/
What Happens When a Public Right of Way Is Blocked — and What You Can Do About It
www.prowexplorer.com/blog/what-ha...
www.prowexplorer.com/blog/what-ha...
Blocked Public Rights of Way: How Section 130A Helps Keep Paths Open — PROW Explorer
Public rights of way shouldn’t be blocked. Learn how Section 130A of the Highways Act lets path users push councils to act when footpaths and bridleways are obstructed.
www.prowexplorer.com
December 20, 2025 at 8:09 AM
What Happens When a Public Right of Way Is Blocked — and What You Can Do About It
www.prowexplorer.com/blog/what-ha...
www.prowexplorer.com/blog/what-ha...
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A beautiful version of Stille Nacht - or Silent Night - sung by O'Hooley & Tidow in our Winterfolk in West Yorkshire episode - out now.
🎄 For more seasonal songs - listen here: pod.fo/e/366708
🎄 For more seasonal songs - listen here: pod.fo/e/366708
December 19, 2025 at 5:46 PM
A beautiful version of Stille Nacht - or Silent Night - sung by O'Hooley & Tidow in our Winterfolk in West Yorkshire episode - out now.
🎄 For more seasonal songs - listen here: pod.fo/e/366708
🎄 For more seasonal songs - listen here: pod.fo/e/366708
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182 years ago this very day, 'A Christmas Carol' by Charles Dickens hit the streets of old London Town.
December 19, 2025 at 4:34 PM
182 years ago this very day, 'A Christmas Carol' by Charles Dickens hit the streets of old London Town.
What a wonderful concept & practice
‘The practice of the wind phone began in 2010 when Japanese garden designer Itaru Sasaki installed a disconnected phone booth outside his home to have a space to speak to his late cousin. In Japanese, “phone of the wind” translates to “kaze no denwa.”’
‘The practice of the wind phone began in 2010 when Japanese garden designer Itaru Sasaki installed a disconnected phone booth outside his home to have a space to speak to his late cousin. In Japanese, “phone of the wind” translates to “kaze no denwa.”’
December 19, 2025 at 2:43 PM
What a wonderful concept & practice
‘The practice of the wind phone began in 2010 when Japanese garden designer Itaru Sasaki installed a disconnected phone booth outside his home to have a space to speak to his late cousin. In Japanese, “phone of the wind” translates to “kaze no denwa.”’
‘The practice of the wind phone began in 2010 when Japanese garden designer Itaru Sasaki installed a disconnected phone booth outside his home to have a space to speak to his late cousin. In Japanese, “phone of the wind” translates to “kaze no denwa.”’
A newly discovered spiderweb stretches across two countries – and holds 100,000 spiders
www.sciencefocus.com/news/spider-...
The web is 106 square metres (1,140 square feet) in size and is thought to be home to up to 111,000 spiders. That’s roughly half the size of a tennis court.
www.sciencefocus.com/news/spider-...
The web is 106 square metres (1,140 square feet) in size and is thought to be home to up to 111,000 spiders. That’s roughly half the size of a tennis court.
This newly discovered spiderweb stretches across two countries – and holds 100,000 creatures | BBC Science Focus Magazine
The colony was found in a permanently dark cave, and was crafted by two different species of spider. Here’s how big it really is
www.sciencefocus.com
December 19, 2025 at 2:38 PM
A newly discovered spiderweb stretches across two countries – and holds 100,000 spiders
www.sciencefocus.com/news/spider-...
The web is 106 square metres (1,140 square feet) in size and is thought to be home to up to 111,000 spiders. That’s roughly half the size of a tennis court.
www.sciencefocus.com/news/spider-...
The web is 106 square metres (1,140 square feet) in size and is thought to be home to up to 111,000 spiders. That’s roughly half the size of a tennis court.
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Major update to our map of Anglo-Saxon London... we've now added etymologies for each place name, so you can find out what your bit of London used to be called.... and why londonist.substack.com/p/mapping-an...
Mapping Anglo-Saxon London: A Big Update
A glimpse of London, 1,000 years past.
londonist.substack.com
December 10, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Major update to our map of Anglo-Saxon London... we've now added etymologies for each place name, so you can find out what your bit of London used to be called.... and why londonist.substack.com/p/mapping-an...
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Waterproof jackets reviewed by me and Kirsty Pallas. | TGO Magazine www.thegreatoutdoorsmag.com/gear-guides/...
We pitted the best waterproof jackets for 2025 against the weather
Mountaineering Instructor Kirsty Pallas and Equipment Editor Chris Townsend review the best waterproof jackets when the weather gets heavy.
www.thegreatoutdoorsmag.com
December 17, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Waterproof jackets reviewed by me and Kirsty Pallas. | TGO Magazine www.thegreatoutdoorsmag.com/gear-guides/...
Jingle Bells (Batman Smells): an incomplete festive folk-rhyme taxonomy
loreandordure.com/2025/12/16/j...
loreandordure.com/2025/12/16/j...
Jingle Bells (Batman Smells): an incomplete festive folk-rhyme taxonomy
Gather round the fire, everyone, and let me tell you a story. It has everything you could want in a Christmas blockbuster: superheroes and villains, a car crash, children singing, a mystery to solv…
loreandordure.com
December 17, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Jingle Bells (Batman Smells): an incomplete festive folk-rhyme taxonomy
loreandordure.com/2025/12/16/j...
loreandordure.com/2025/12/16/j...
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Wasps! What are they good for? Absolutely Everything, (Say it again) Listen to our latest podcast with @waspwoman.bsky.social Seirian Sumner, who will be sure to change the way you view these creatures, critical to our ecosystems.
December 15, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Wasps! What are they good for? Absolutely Everything, (Say it again) Listen to our latest podcast with @waspwoman.bsky.social Seirian Sumner, who will be sure to change the way you view these creatures, critical to our ecosystems.
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There’s still time to order Eat Sleep Cycle and Pedal Power before Christmas! I have 300 copies and 200 envelopes under the bed 😳 so get your orders in! 🤶🎁🎄
Could be the perfect Christmas present for you or the cyclist in your life?*
Christmas bundles of my books are now available on my website: £15 for two signed books. Order here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
*tinsel not included
Christmas bundles of my books are now available on my website: £15 for two signed books. Order here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
*tinsel not included
December 12, 2025 at 9:18 AM
There’s still time to order Eat Sleep Cycle and Pedal Power before Christmas! I have 300 copies and 200 envelopes under the bed 😳 so get your orders in! 🤶🎁🎄
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Old photo: Cill Chriosd (Christ's Church), former parish church of Strath, Isle of Skye, was abandoned around 1840, during the unforgivable highland clearances.
Its history, and the remaining gravestones, almost illegible with the growth of moss, create an air of deep melancholy...
Its history, and the remaining gravestones, almost illegible with the growth of moss, create an air of deep melancholy...
December 11, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Old photo: Cill Chriosd (Christ's Church), former parish church of Strath, Isle of Skye, was abandoned around 1840, during the unforgivable highland clearances.
Its history, and the remaining gravestones, almost illegible with the growth of moss, create an air of deep melancholy...
Its history, and the remaining gravestones, almost illegible with the growth of moss, create an air of deep melancholy...
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BBC News - Huge undersea wall dating from 5000 BC found in France
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Huge undersea wall dating from 5000 BC found in France
The 120 metre wall was either a fish-trap or a dyke for protection against rising sea-levels, archeologists believe.
www.bbc.com
December 11, 2025 at 7:15 PM
BBC News - Huge undersea wall dating from 5000 BC found in France
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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"The earliest known instance of human-created fire took place in the east of England 400,000 years ago.
The ability to create fire... changed everything for humans. It provided warmth at will and enabled our ancestors to cook and eat meat."
www.bbc.co.uk/news/resourc...
The ability to create fire... changed everything for humans. It provided warmth at will and enabled our ancestors to cook and eat meat."
www.bbc.co.uk/news/resourc...
The moment the earliest known human-made fire was uncovered - BBC News
Archaeologists in the UK have discovered the world's oldest evidence of humans lighting fires
www.bbc.co.uk
December 11, 2025 at 3:02 PM
"The earliest known instance of human-created fire took place in the east of England 400,000 years ago.
The ability to create fire... changed everything for humans. It provided warmth at will and enabled our ancestors to cook and eat meat."
www.bbc.co.uk/news/resourc...
The ability to create fire... changed everything for humans. It provided warmth at will and enabled our ancestors to cook and eat meat."
www.bbc.co.uk/news/resourc...
Am really looking forward to this.
‘THE HILL: Highland landscape folk album fundraiser’
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/thehillalbum
‘THE HILL: Highland landscape folk album fundraiser’
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/thehillalbum
THE HILL: Highland landscape folk album fundraiser
To produce an album of new folk music celebrating the hills of Strathspey and the Cairngorms, with accompanying folklore booklet.
www.crowdfunder.co.uk
December 11, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Am really looking forward to this.
‘THE HILL: Highland landscape folk album fundraiser’
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/thehillalbum
‘THE HILL: Highland landscape folk album fundraiser’
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/thehillalbum
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NEW: Mapping England's Landscape Recovery projects
The Government refused to release maps of these groundbreaking projects to restore nature
So I had a go at mapping them myself
1/
whoownsengland.org/2025/12/10/m...
The Government refused to release maps of these groundbreaking projects to restore nature
So I had a go at mapping them myself
1/
whoownsengland.org/2025/12/10/m...
Mapping England’s Landscape Recovery Projects
This post is by Guy Shrubsole. Image: West Penwith, Cornwall – one of over 50 Landscape Recovery pilots. Since Brexit, the UK Government has been engaged in lengthy reforms of farm payments &…
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December 11, 2025 at 10:14 AM
NEW: Mapping England's Landscape Recovery projects
The Government refused to release maps of these groundbreaking projects to restore nature
So I had a go at mapping them myself
1/
whoownsengland.org/2025/12/10/m...
The Government refused to release maps of these groundbreaking projects to restore nature
So I had a go at mapping them myself
1/
whoownsengland.org/2025/12/10/m...
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If you haven’t been following my squeezebox advent calendar this year, then today’s is a great one to begin catching up. Hohner Cornelia III in D/G with 48 stradella bass.
youtu.be/yXbvhw5EGO4?...
youtu.be/yXbvhw5EGO4?...
Squeezebox Advent Calendar with John Spiers - December 10th - Hohner Cornelia 1 in D/G
YouTube video by John Spiers
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December 10, 2025 at 10:23 AM
If you haven’t been following my squeezebox advent calendar this year, then today’s is a great one to begin catching up. Hohner Cornelia III in D/G with 48 stradella bass.
youtu.be/yXbvhw5EGO4?...
youtu.be/yXbvhw5EGO4?...
Linguists start compiling first ever complete dictionary of ancient Celtic.
More than 1,000 words used as far back as 325BC to be collected for insight into past linguistic landscape
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
More than 1,000 words used as far back as 325BC to be collected for insight into past linguistic landscape
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
Linguists start compiling first ever complete dictionary of ancient Celtic
More than 1,000 words used as far back as 325BC to be collected for insight into past linguistic landscape
www.theguardian.com
December 9, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Linguists start compiling first ever complete dictionary of ancient Celtic.
More than 1,000 words used as far back as 325BC to be collected for insight into past linguistic landscape
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
More than 1,000 words used as far back as 325BC to be collected for insight into past linguistic landscape
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
A great interview with Nicola Cougan (Derry Girls / Bridgerton)
- esp love her views and attitude on activism
www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
- esp love her views and attitude on activism
www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
‘True activism has to cost you something’: Bridgerton’s Nicola Coughlan on politics, paparazzi and parasocial fandom
The diminutive Derry Girls star isn’t afraid to speak her mind, even if it costs her fans and followers
www.theguardian.com
December 9, 2025 at 10:35 AM
A great interview with Nicola Cougan (Derry Girls / Bridgerton)
- esp love her views and attitude on activism
www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
- esp love her views and attitude on activism
www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
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Crochet mandala street decorations, a collective creation by women in Licata, Italy #WomensArt
(via Howtofeelgood. net)
(via Howtofeelgood. net)
December 7, 2025 at 5:35 AM
Crochet mandala street decorations, a collective creation by women in Licata, Italy #WomensArt
(via Howtofeelgood. net)
(via Howtofeelgood. net)
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Read these and be inspired to create some fun bike trips in 2026 !
I’ve had a nice little stream of orders for Eat Sleep Cycle and Pedal Power - thank you!! Plenty of time to order before Christmas if you’d like a copy or two… 🚲🎄
Could be the perfect Christmas present for you or the cyclist in your life?*
Christmas bundles of my books are now available on my website: £15 for two signed books. Order here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
*tinsel not included
Christmas bundles of my books are now available on my website: £15 for two signed books. Order here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
*tinsel not included
December 5, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Read these and be inspired to create some fun bike trips in 2026 !