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Rosalind Ahmed
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Museums, galleries, medieval and Irish literature, folklore, poetry, botany, Cumbrian walks, Oxfam bookstores. Remainer trying to do the right thing in a world that's going/gone off balance. All 📸 mine, unless stated
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#LookAndSee #MusicChallenge #MusicSky
Hans Andersen's duckling is about to transform into a swan, while others around them enjoy all the scene has to offer: "Feeling Good"
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February 5, 2026 at 1:36 PM
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I memorise the flecks
& tones within the irises
of your eyes

I trace the lines
upon your face,
mapping
your topography

& lay down
in memory
the timbre
of your breathing

this is how I weave
the tapestry of us

& it's so much vaster,
so much more whole

than you & I
alone.

#poem #poetry #SkyPoets
February 5, 2026 at 10:28 AM
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Progress on the Fountains Abbey drawing. Working on the south range of the cloister buildings. The abbot's house and infirmary are still to be drawn (if they aren't hidden by the tree that frames the view on the right.

#ArchitecturalIllustration
#pencil #drawing
#ArtYear
A mechanical pencil I use to draw a view of Fountains Abbey. The ruined buildings of the cloister are being drawn, the abbey church is in the background. A pencil at rest on the drawing of Fountain Abbey.
February 5, 2026 at 9:32 AM
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Beech tree and the setting sun
#ThickTrunkTuesday
📸 Haydon Fell Northumberland on 31 January, 2026
February 3, 2026 at 7:20 PM
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Yes, I think @catfreak.bsky.social put all the info in ALT ☺️
February 2, 2026 at 9:35 PM
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Vampire bats and their little in-jokes 🦇🖤🦇🖤🦇
February 2, 2026 at 6:34 AM
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For #NationalHedgehogDay a 1996 painting by County Durham artist
Sheila Gertrude Mackie
(1928–2010)
A hedgehog peers out of a nest like structure with lords-and-ladies and forget-me-nots in the foreground
February 2, 2026 at 12:56 PM
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Coming up online Feb 27 -

The Life & Work of May Morris: “A Remarkable Woman”
Speaker: Fiona Rose
Host: Gordon Russell Design Museum
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Talk Schedule: 27th February 2026, 6pm The Life & Work of May Morris: “A Remarkable Woman” Towards the end of her life May Morris (1862-1938) - designer, craftsperson, and younger daughter of Will...
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February 1, 2026 at 7:55 PM
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"Sneering" and "to undermine" - the rw playbook. If the impact wasn't so destructive, I could almost feel sorry for these empty vessels. Almost
February 2, 2026 at 12:45 PM
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T.H. White! Excellent choice. And will look up Dennis Nollan, thanks
February 2, 2026 at 11:55 AM
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#LookAndSee #MusicChallenge #MusicSky
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February 2, 2026 at 11:09 AM
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#IsmuasMonthOfMusic #MusicChallenge
2: a song that captures a generation
90s
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February 2, 2026 at 11:07 AM
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I will be contacting writers in the coming weeks with invitations to participate in our new poetry series, but today I am going to kick things off with a a poem of my own from @thebrokenspine.co.uk slimline anthology Rites and Trials. My thanks to @alanparrywriter.co.uk for including my work!
February 1, 2026 at 3:56 PM
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For a learned #OwlishMonday 'The Philosopher's Corner' Maria Richards Oakey (1873)
An owl elegantly holds a quill pen whilst perched on a book. An inkwell tests on a second book
February 2, 2026 at 11:01 AM
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🥹 Thanks for reminding us of this beautiful track
February 2, 2026 at 8:40 AM
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#BreakingKindSongs
2: a sunny day
🌞 Allen Stone Sunny Days
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#MusicSky
February 2, 2026 at 8:38 AM
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Peter Dinklage reading Amanda Gorman's poem about Renee Good, a fellow poet.
February 1, 2026 at 3:06 PM
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happy #smallpoemsunday! 💜

feel free to share small poems you wrote, or ones you love by other poets :)

this week I’d like to share four small poems/snippets from Issue Four of Post-Pop Lit — links & credits follow below~
Do you need anything else from Beauty I asked. There were so many mothers with their daughters in the TJ Maxx or girls with their friends a toddler trying so hard to see over the counter, crying when he couldn’t Hardcore This is hardcore because I can still see. I have all my senses, that's you in the large shadow behind me. This is it. The island. The finale. Promise you, I am hardcore. Meet me on the island, I know you're an island too. Mayfly I live my life a mayfly Who doubtless, from the prudent sky Where passions soar and stories try, Has many tragic words to say But must endeavor On his way Because forever Is just a day. i have made peace with being the 50 cent in every situation the truth will always come to root even if i'm perpetually too early soon anything we can touch smell feel hear see will be owned by four companies at the most i'm here to hold your hand through this it's going to be ass
February 1, 2026 at 4:42 PM
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#Stunday spectacular skyscapes over Stagshaw (northern UK) today #EastCoastKin
February 1, 2026 at 8:48 PM
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In the first UCD Library #CulturalHeritage Collections blog post of 2026 Ailbe Van Der Heide of @bealoideasucd.bsky.social describes the folklore and traditions surrounding sheep.

Read: ucdculturalheritagecollections.com/2026/01/29/t...

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Black and white photo: Sheep flock, Co. Wicklow. Photographer: Maurice Curtin, 1936, NFC B014.10.00002
January 29, 2026 at 12:48 PM
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Lots of cheerful yellow-flowered things coming up for #Imbolc & #StBrigid'sDay at #Hazelwood in Sligo: it really does feel like the first day of Spring. @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social #WBYeats @coillte.bsky.social @irishwoodlandtrust.bsky.social @irishwildlifetrust.bsky.social
Primrose (Primula vulgaris), Opposite-leaved Golden-saxifrage (Chrysosplenium oppositifolium) and Lesser Celandine (Ficaria verna) at Hazelwood, Sligo.
February 1, 2026 at 8:38 PM
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First day of #spring Sunday stroll.
Birch tree bearing fungi in Stagshaw woodland
#Imbolc #iseemoss🔬
#EastCoastKin
February 1, 2026 at 8:26 PM
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Hazel catkins (sometimes called lamb's tails) on this, the first day of spring.
These male flowers thrive on the damp, wooded banks of Stagshaw burn in west Northumberland #wildflowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social
These dangling, yellow flowers are one of the first signs of spring
February 1, 2026 at 8:15 PM
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lifeblood...
#pennedreveries
i simply think of you and i feel the thrum of vitality flow through me your existence the lifeblood giving my dreams life i could compose an epic ode for each inch of you a full symphony for every way i want to make love to you no silence no dissonance just how you inspire me to create to breathe to hope
February 1, 2026 at 5:31 PM
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LEONTES: I'll ha' thee burnt.

PAULINA: I care not: It is an heretic
that makes the fire, not she which burns in't.

"The Winter's Tale": Act II Scene iii

#ShakespeareSunday
a woman in a wonder woman costume is standing in front of a car and says heroine .
Alt: Wonder Woman captioned 'HEROINE'
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February 1, 2026 at 12:45 PM