David Bocking
@bbobillsmothers.bsky.social
It’s Looking A Bit Black Over Bill’s Mother’s - the out there magazine for Sheffield, the Outdoor City. http://abitblackoverbillsmothers.com/
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Sheffielders have been visiting Wyming Brook for a century.
But over the last few years, the beauty spot has been changing, and not everyone is happy about it.
The debate raises thorny questions about what nature is for and in whose interests we should intervene.
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But over the last few years, the beauty spot has been changing, and not everyone is happy about it.
The debate raises thorny questions about what nature is for and in whose interests we should intervene.
✍️ @bbobillsmothers.bsky.social
Why change Wyming Brook?
After 900 larch trees were felled in 2023, the Lord of the Rings-like landscape changed. Snails, moss and wrens like it. But what about the humans?
www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk
November 12, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Sheffielders have been visiting Wyming Brook for a century.
But over the last few years, the beauty spot has been changing, and not everyone is happy about it.
The debate raises thorny questions about what nature is for and in whose interests we should intervene.
✍️ @bbobillsmothers.bsky.social
But over the last few years, the beauty spot has been changing, and not everyone is happy about it.
The debate raises thorny questions about what nature is for and in whose interests we should intervene.
✍️ @bbobillsmothers.bsky.social
Shedding light on Wyming Brook - new post for @sheffieldtribune.bsky.social - www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/why-change-w...
Why change Wyming Brook?
After 900 larch trees were felled in 2023, the Lord of the Rings-like landscape changed. Snails, moss and wrens like it. But what about the humans?
www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk
November 12, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Shedding light on Wyming Brook - new post for @sheffieldtribune.bsky.social - www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/why-change-w...
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Great chat with Paulette Edward’s BBC Radio Sheffield about walking, everyday activity & much more!
@livingstreets.bsky.social
Listen here 12.20ish- www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
@livingstreets.bsky.social
Listen here 12.20ish- www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
November 10, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Great chat with Paulette Edward’s BBC Radio Sheffield about walking, everyday activity & much more!
@livingstreets.bsky.social
Listen here 12.20ish- www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
@livingstreets.bsky.social
Listen here 12.20ish- www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Today’s post for #Sheffield #TheOutdoorCity - slime at Wyming Brook, a new generation want the #RighttoRoam + Muddy Mother on sticks - open.substack.com/pub/abitblac...
Sunday at Bill's Mother's: 9th Nov 2025
Right to Roam: a new Sheffield generation. Slime and sunlight. And Muddy Mother on the value of sticks.
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November 9, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Today’s post for #Sheffield #TheOutdoorCity - slime at Wyming Brook, a new generation want the #RighttoRoam + Muddy Mother on sticks - open.substack.com/pub/abitblac...
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Graves Park community climate and biodiversity project article 2
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November 1, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Graves Park community climate and biodiversity project article 2
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More about #Sheffield beavers here... 🦫🦫🦫
October 27, 2025 at 2:08 PM
More about #Sheffield beavers here... 🦫🦫🦫
Latest 🏞️ notpaper for #Sheffield #TheOutdoorCity #PeakDistrict - ta @maryoz.bsky.social @slowwaysuk.bsky.social - open.substack.com/pub/abitblac...
Sunday at Bill's Mother's: 26th Oct 2025
Slow Ways: the new movement for old paths. Endcliffe meadow. And: latest 🦫 news.
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October 27, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Latest 🏞️ notpaper for #Sheffield #TheOutdoorCity #PeakDistrict - ta @maryoz.bsky.social @slowwaysuk.bsky.social - open.substack.com/pub/abitblac...
Thanks @slowwaysuk.bsky.social - & keep up the great work!
“I’ve done so many A to B walks that a circular walk from a car seems pointless to me now"
David Bocking @bbobillsmothers.bsky.social went on a #SlowWays hike with the brilliant @maryoz.bsky.social and Susan. Read all about it on his Substack!
David Bocking @bbobillsmothers.bsky.social went on a #SlowWays hike with the brilliant @maryoz.bsky.social and Susan. Read all about it on his Substack!
Sunday at Bill's Mother's: 26th Oct 2025
Slow Ways: the new movement for old paths. Endcliffe meadow. And: latest 🦫 news.
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October 27, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Thanks @slowwaysuk.bsky.social - & keep up the great work!
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“There is a reason repair shops have disappeared from the high street, it’s not an economically viable activity any more.”
“But we’re not Amazon or Boohoo. We want the volunteers to have an enjoyable time.”
The Tribune spends a day with Reyt Repair, Sheffield’s only full-time social repair shop.
“But we’re not Amazon or Boohoo. We want the volunteers to have an enjoyable time.”
The Tribune spends a day with Reyt Repair, Sheffield’s only full-time social repair shop.
In a world where stuff is designed to break, a Pitsmoor crew are fighting back
The Sheffield repair shop bringing back ‘make do and mend’
www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk
October 25, 2025 at 8:53 AM
“There is a reason repair shops have disappeared from the high street, it’s not an economically viable activity any more.”
“But we’re not Amazon or Boohoo. We want the volunteers to have an enjoyable time.”
The Tribune spends a day with Reyt Repair, Sheffield’s only full-time social repair shop.
“But we’re not Amazon or Boohoo. We want the volunteers to have an enjoyable time.”
The Tribune spends a day with Reyt Repair, Sheffield’s only full-time social repair shop.
+ 🐦⬛🐍 , 🍄 +🏮\ 🏴 Today’s notpaper for #Sheffield #TheOutdoorCity - open.substack.com/pub/abitblac...
Sunday at Bill's Mother's: 19th Oct 2025
Teeming toadstools. Lawmakers of Dog City. Flags or Lanterns. And: Secret Seating 15
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October 19, 2025 at 6:35 PM
+ 🐦⬛🐍 , 🍄 +🏮\ 🏴 Today’s notpaper for #Sheffield #TheOutdoorCity - open.substack.com/pub/abitblac...
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Reminder:
Redmires Visible Migration Field Trip
Sunday 19th 7.30am
Meet at Top Reservoir Car Park
More details at www.sbsg.org/diary-dates/...
Redmires Visible Migration Field Trip
Sunday 19th 7.30am
Meet at Top Reservoir Car Park
More details at www.sbsg.org/diary-dates/...
Visible Migration Field Meeting
Sheffield Bird Study Group was formed in December 1972 as a forum for birdwatchers in and around the city with an active interest in ornithology. We aim to promote an interest in birds in the communit...
www.sbsg.org
October 16, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Reminder:
Redmires Visible Migration Field Trip
Sunday 19th 7.30am
Meet at Top Reservoir Car Park
More details at www.sbsg.org/diary-dates/...
Redmires Visible Migration Field Trip
Sunday 19th 7.30am
Meet at Top Reservoir Car Park
More details at www.sbsg.org/diary-dates/...
More niche exclusives from the out there newsletter for #Sheffield #TheOutdoorCity on Sunday. 🚊⬆️⬇️, 🏞️£,🐞,🌦️🧑🏼🎨 & lots more. abitblackoverbillsmothers.substack.com
October 14, 2025 at 11:31 AM
More niche exclusives from the out there newsletter for #Sheffield #TheOutdoorCity on Sunday. 🚊⬆️⬇️, 🏞️£,🐞,🌦️🧑🏼🎨 & lots more. abitblackoverbillsmothers.substack.com
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Some more pictures from the lovely Edale Hathersage @slowwaysuk.bsky.social route. @bbobillsmothers.bsky.social Sorry I haven't got more views from up on the ridge, but they looked a bit dull under the grey sky when they were only phone sized!
October 9, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Some more pictures from the lovely Edale Hathersage @slowwaysuk.bsky.social route. @bbobillsmothers.bsky.social Sorry I haven't got more views from up on the ridge, but they looked a bit dull under the grey sky when they were only phone sized!
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“You need to listen to the people, have a vision and stick with it.”
@bbobillsmothers.bsky.social on Broomhall — how the inner-city Sheffield neighbourhood transformed itself from a rat run-filed red light district into a calm and liveable community 🚶♀️🛴🚴♂️🦽
@bbobillsmothers.bsky.social on Broomhall — how the inner-city Sheffield neighbourhood transformed itself from a rat run-filed red light district into a calm and liveable community 🚶♀️🛴🚴♂️🦽
From red light district and rat runs to calm streets
Broomhall is a model for redesigning Sheffield
www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk
October 7, 2025 at 11:27 AM
“You need to listen to the people, have a vision and stick with it.”
@bbobillsmothers.bsky.social on Broomhall — how the inner-city Sheffield neighbourhood transformed itself from a rat run-filed red light district into a calm and liveable community 🚶♀️🛴🚴♂️🦽
@bbobillsmothers.bsky.social on Broomhall — how the inner-city Sheffield neighbourhood transformed itself from a rat run-filed red light district into a calm and liveable community 🚶♀️🛴🚴♂️🦽
Today’s post for #Sheffield #TheOutdoorCity makes us #38 & rising in the #Substack international news category. Goodness me. open.substack.com/pub/abitblac...
Sunday at Bill's Mother's: 5th Oct 2025
Making Monoliths. Feet First. Run Happy. Treasure Dog.
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October 5, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Today’s post for #Sheffield #TheOutdoorCity makes us #38 & rising in the #Substack international news category. Goodness me. open.substack.com/pub/abitblac...
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My last post of the year on the swifts we share a house with @longbarrowpress.bsky.social @sheffswiftnetwork.bsky.social @drjomaher.bsky.social
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Swift Diaries
Leave-Taking
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September 28, 2025 at 7:45 AM
My last post of the year on the swifts we share a house with @longbarrowpress.bsky.social @sheffswiftnetwork.bsky.social @drjomaher.bsky.social
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Today’s post for #Sheffield #TheOutdoorCity - #Sheffield10K with a fridge, gall season & hope for #SheffieldSwifts - open.substack.com/pub/abitblac...
Sunday at Bill's Mother's: 28th Sept 2025
10k with a fridge. Peer steers. Leaf life.
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September 28, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Today’s post for #Sheffield #TheOutdoorCity - #Sheffield10K with a fridge, gall season & hope for #SheffieldSwifts - open.substack.com/pub/abitblac...
Why run the #Sheffield 10K tomorrow with a fridge on your back? @e-beardmore.bsky.social has the story. Subscribe for all the out there news - open.substack.com/pub/abitblac...
September 27, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Why run the #Sheffield 10K tomorrow with a fridge on your back? @e-beardmore.bsky.social has the story. Subscribe for all the out there news - open.substack.com/pub/abitblac...
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Off to Sheffield for the @morrisfed.bsky.social AGM and day of dance, will post pics when I return homewards...
September 26, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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As if I needed more reasons to hate the laurel hedges spreading rapidly through suburbia... apparently there are people who want to put them on the list of invasive species... which can't be sold or planted...
Keep looking up! 16 Glossy Ibis in the skies of #TheOutdoorCity this morning spotted by @shefbirdstudy.bsky.social - see: open.substack.com/pub/abitblac...
Sunday at Bill's Mother's: 21st Sept 2025
Strange birds. Muddy Mother. Estonian easements. Street poison.
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September 25, 2025 at 2:01 PM
As if I needed more reasons to hate the laurel hedges spreading rapidly through suburbia... apparently there are people who want to put them on the list of invasive species... which can't be sold or planted...
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One of our local colour-ringed juvenile Ring Ouzels has turned up near Glossop. The lower bird in photo, seen feeding on Rowan & Hawthorn. Ringed in the nest at Stanage on 27/6/25 (second brood) - an 18km movement west
Thanks to reporter Paul Cole for sharing his photos #ukbirding #yorkshirebirding
Thanks to reporter Paul Cole for sharing his photos #ukbirding #yorkshirebirding
September 23, 2025 at 5:55 PM
One of our local colour-ringed juvenile Ring Ouzels has turned up near Glossop. The lower bird in photo, seen feeding on Rowan & Hawthorn. Ringed in the nest at Stanage on 27/6/25 (second brood) - an 18km movement west
Thanks to reporter Paul Cole for sharing his photos #ukbirding #yorkshirebirding
Thanks to reporter Paul Cole for sharing his photos #ukbirding #yorkshirebirding
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This is an interesting record of one of "our" birds exploring the wider region post-juvenile moult.
It has moved 18km through the Snake Valley, the first confirmed record of an Eastern Moors juv moving in a westerly direction pre-migration - knowledge only possible through colour-ringing #ukbirding
It has moved 18km through the Snake Valley, the first confirmed record of an Eastern Moors juv moving in a westerly direction pre-migration - knowledge only possible through colour-ringing #ukbirding
September 23, 2025 at 5:55 PM
This is an interesting record of one of "our" birds exploring the wider region post-juvenile moult.
It has moved 18km through the Snake Valley, the first confirmed record of an Eastern Moors juv moving in a westerly direction pre-migration - knowledge only possible through colour-ringing #ukbirding
It has moved 18km through the Snake Valley, the first confirmed record of an Eastern Moors juv moving in a westerly direction pre-migration - knowledge only possible through colour-ringing #ukbirding
Keep looking up! 16 Glossy Ibis in the skies of #TheOutdoorCity this morning spotted by @shefbirdstudy.bsky.social - see: open.substack.com/pub/abitblac...
Sunday at Bill's Mother's: 21st Sept 2025
Strange birds. Muddy Mother. Estonian easements. Street poison.
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September 23, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Keep looking up! 16 Glossy Ibis in the skies of #TheOutdoorCity this morning spotted by @shefbirdstudy.bsky.social - see: open.substack.com/pub/abitblac...