Cluny Macpherson
@clunym.bsky.social
Dad. Carer for our Rosie. Chair of Leeds Museums and Galleries Development Trust & Vice-chair of Leeds Conservatoire. Volunteer for British Trust for Ornithology. Latest score: Cluny 2 Cancer 0
Yay! I saw a Swallow today. In Leeds. Not this one.#spring
April 7, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Yay! I saw a Swallow today. In Leeds. Not this one.#spring
That'll be the same Quakers that won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1947 and basically invented non-violent protest. Now a threat to the state, apparently. 🙄
🚨 Outrage as 20 police officers break into Westminster Quaker Meeting House and arrest six. 🚨
This shocking violation of a place of worship is a direct result of crackdowns on protest and dissent - freedom of speech, assembly and democracy are at risk.🕊️
👉 www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...
This shocking violation of a place of worship is a direct result of crackdowns on protest and dissent - freedom of speech, assembly and democracy are at risk.🕊️
👉 www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...
Quakers condemn police raid on Westminster Meeting House
Police broke into a Quaker Meeting House last night (27 March) and arrested six young people holding a meeting over concerns for the climate and Gaza.
www.quaker.org.uk
March 29, 2025 at 9:44 AM
That'll be the same Quakers that won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1947 and basically invented non-violent protest. Now a threat to the state, apparently. 🙄
I use the brilliant @inaturalist.bsky.social app to log and identify wildlife sightings, as do nearly 5m other users. There are now 250m images of more than 500k species, but only one photo of this beetle, Trex soridatus, and I took it. In my small world I am pathetically proud. 🤴
March 4, 2025 at 9:04 AM
I use the brilliant @inaturalist.bsky.social app to log and identify wildlife sightings, as do nearly 5m other users. There are now 250m images of more than 500k species, but only one photo of this beetle, Trex soridatus, and I took it. In my small world I am pathetically proud. 🤴
Any freelance #bookkeepers out there fancy helping out a new charity in Leeds with its finance? A few hours a month for Leeds Museums and Galleries Development Trust. If you know about gift aid thats an added plus.
February 17, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Any freelance #bookkeepers out there fancy helping out a new charity in Leeds with its finance? A few hours a month for Leeds Museums and Galleries Development Trust. If you know about gift aid thats an added plus.
Happy to see that the funding - that was agreed (but apparently not budgeted for) by the previous government - being reconfirmed by the current Government for the National Poetry Centre and British Library North. Top projects in Leeds. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... @britishlibrary.bsky.social
Poetry centre and old Ikea get share of £67m culture fund
Ten major projects get government funding, but another £30m is withdrawn from six more areas.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 17, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Happy to see that the funding - that was agreed (but apparently not budgeted for) by the previous government - being reconfirmed by the current Government for the National Poetry Centre and British Library North. Top projects in Leeds. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... @britishlibrary.bsky.social
Great news!
After a public consultation, protests and a public meeting held last weekend, Leeds City Council have announced they will not close Abbey House museum.
👉 Read more in the @wldispatch.bsky.social : zurl.co/JsZJs
👉 Read more in the @wldispatch.bsky.social : zurl.co/JsZJs
February 4, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Great news!
Yay! First run in nearly a year after insertional achilles tendinopathy 😌. Its amazing what a retrocalcaneal bursa injection, having my Kagar's fat pad stripped (!), and doing 5,445 eccentric calf raises can do.
January 22, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Yay! First run in nearly a year after insertional achilles tendinopathy 😌. Its amazing what a retrocalcaneal bursa injection, having my Kagar's fat pad stripped (!), and doing 5,445 eccentric calf raises can do.
In our year long survey of bird communities in the urban river corridor known as Meanwood Valley in Leeds we recorded 53 bird species.
Study on the characteristics of bird communities in urban river corridor parks and green spaces | link.springer.com/ar... | Environment, Development and Sustainability | #ornithology 🪶
January 21, 2025 at 10:12 PM
In our year long survey of bird communities in the urban river corridor known as Meanwood Valley in Leeds we recorded 53 bird species.
Magpie chilling in the snow
January 5, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Magpie chilling in the snow
If you have a few minutes to spare...
I’m always looking for things that explain a lot but that people have a hard time remembering.
Examples: Air is stuff. Pee comes from blood. All land vertebrates have a single common ancestor. Venus is bright enough to cast visible shadows. Clouds are heavy. Bones are alive.
Any others you know?
Examples: Air is stuff. Pee comes from blood. All land vertebrates have a single common ancestor. Venus is bright enough to cast visible shadows. Clouds are heavy. Bones are alive.
Any others you know?
December 29, 2024 at 11:25 AM
If you have a few minutes to spare...
Happy Christmas Eve everyone! Today I shall be making the roast tomato soup that my dad used to make on Christmas Eve, and also hoovering.
December 24, 2024 at 9:33 AM
Happy Christmas Eve everyone! Today I shall be making the roast tomato soup that my dad used to make on Christmas Eve, and also hoovering.
Delighted to see this account. I used to write its folk/roots column, still have a few copies in the attic. 😍
Half a century has passed since the birth of Leeds Other Paper, an alternative local newspaper that uncovered many of the city’s less told stories. LOP lasted from 1974 to 1994, during which time it reported on social, political, economic and cultural life in Leeds from an alternative perspective.
December 14, 2024 at 11:27 AM
Delighted to see this account. I used to write its folk/roots column, still have a few copies in the attic. 😍
I so hope this isn't true. Undermining all the amazing people who work for LCC by association. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Leeds City Council planning staff arrested in corruption investigation
Police say they arrested four council staff and five others as part of a “complex investigation”.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 6, 2024 at 10:26 AM
I so hope this isn't true. Undermining all the amazing people who work for LCC by association. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Reposted by Cluny Macpherson
Today’s the day for Museum Shop Sunday. Stock up on beautiful gifts and books from Leeds Art Gallery and Leeds City Museum with 10% off at each venue, along with further discounts on selected items #golocal #supportyourmuseum
December 1, 2024 at 12:38 PM
Today’s the day for Museum Shop Sunday. Stock up on beautiful gifts and books from Leeds Art Gallery and Leeds City Museum with 10% off at each venue, along with further discounts on selected items #golocal #supportyourmuseum
Reposted by Cluny Macpherson
Mexican President Sheinbaum Pardo's letter to the U.S. president-elect, this time en inglés for the monolingual. 😉
(It took some searching, too many in the Anglosphere are very busy only quoting pieces, picking it apart to make passive aggressive points.)
(It took some searching, too many in the Anglosphere are very busy only quoting pieces, picking it apart to make passive aggressive points.)
Sheinbaum Responds to Trump
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum responded to US President-elect Donald Trump's recent call for a 25% tariff on imports in an open letter.
mexicosolidarity.com
November 27, 2024 at 2:40 AM
Mexican President Sheinbaum Pardo's letter to the U.S. president-elect, this time en inglés for the monolingual. 😉
(It took some searching, too many in the Anglosphere are very busy only quoting pieces, picking it apart to make passive aggressive points.)
(It took some searching, too many in the Anglosphere are very busy only quoting pieces, picking it apart to make passive aggressive points.)
still here today
The Cluniacs were a monastic order established in France having broken away from the Benedictines. In Yorkshire they established priories at Pontefract and Monk Bretton, and a nunnery at Arthington. The Priory at Pontefract was dedicated to St. John the Evangelist and founded about 1090
November 26, 2024 at 12:03 AM
still here today
I lived in shared rented houses well into my 20's. Loved it. Then went all nuclear-family for three decades. Also good. But where's the model enabling friends to return to a community living set up later in life? 🏘️
November 20, 2024 at 5:54 PM
I lived in shared rented houses well into my 20's. Loved it. Then went all nuclear-family for three decades. Also good. But where's the model enabling friends to return to a community living set up later in life? 🏘️
This month's lesson for Cluny is that it is quite complicated trying to set up a new charitable trust, whilst simultaneously trying to set up a housing co-operative. My brain hurts.
November 19, 2024 at 7:10 PM
This month's lesson for Cluny is that it is quite complicated trying to set up a new charitable trust, whilst simultaneously trying to set up a housing co-operative. My brain hurts.
There's a new Cluny in the world (Rueben Cluny) and I'm his great Uncle. You cant have too many Clunys, obviously. 😍
November 17, 2024 at 11:21 PM
There's a new Cluny in the world (Rueben Cluny) and I'm his great Uncle. You cant have too many Clunys, obviously. 😍
Keep your eyes peeled on any remaining Beech leaves and you might come across this little beauty. Created, I learn, by the larvae of a Small Beech Dot moth Stigmella tityrella. Very cool.
November 16, 2024 at 2:49 PM
Keep your eyes peeled on any remaining Beech leaves and you might come across this little beauty. Created, I learn, by the larvae of a Small Beech Dot moth Stigmella tityrella. Very cool.
My first post on here features a Barn Owl from Arkengarthdale, a Freyer's Purple Emperor from Bulgaria and two Sun Flies from Meanwood, Leeds. And why not?
November 15, 2024 at 8:11 PM
My first post on here features a Barn Owl from Arkengarthdale, a Freyer's Purple Emperor from Bulgaria and two Sun Flies from Meanwood, Leeds. And why not?