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Elmtree
@elmtreem.bsky.social
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Writer, storyteller, lover of the weird. Books, documentaries, stories, archaeology, history, coffee, mysticism and myth. I make a mean focaccia
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Elmtree @elmtreem.bsky.social · Feb 13
💙📚 She’s just marvellous

😍😍 #BookSky
elmtreem.bsky.social
Ahhhhhhhhhhh. Not generally a Tool woman, don’t listen that often..but ahhhhhhhhhhh 😌😌

Going into the weekend with this is definitely not a bad way to go at all

🩶

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TOOL - Pneuma (Audio)
YouTube video by TOOLVEVO
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November 14, 2025 at 7:21 PM
elmtreem.bsky.social
Happy Friday! Absolutely hammering it here in Wales as usual but I’m video editing at work with headphones on firing up some classics

This one never fails to get me bouncing in my seat!! 😁

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Therapy?-Nowhere
YouTube video by unsimplesqizofrenico
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November 14, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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lentescura.bsky.social
"Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all."

Emily Dickinson
November 4, 2025 at 11:02 AM
elmtreem.bsky.social
Aha…any Austen 💙📚fans out there - this guy did an amazing budget Pride and Prejudice (the 90s version) and now he’s on to Sense and Sensibility

Does a great Edward (those ones on IG) can’t wait for Brandon to show up 😄

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Budget Sense and Sensibility | Part 1
YouTube video by Ben Fensome
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November 13, 2025 at 7:30 PM
elmtreem.bsky.social
Been rereading Ardath by Marie Corelli which features lines from Endymion by Keats at the beginning. One thing led to another and ended up reading aloud all of Endymion last night. Actually really loved it. Now I’m on a Keats/mythology related mission…

🤓

💙📚
Front cover to Ardath by Marie Corelli which features a dark green lower part and cream upper and a green vine pattern across the top
November 12, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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irishrainforest.bsky.social
Living sculpture.

Notice also the pool of water held in the crook of this ancient oak on the shores of Kenmare River (bay).
November 11, 2025 at 5:46 AM
elmtreem.bsky.social
Just baked a goats cheese and pomegranate #sourdough and I am absolutely not waiting for it to cool..cutting this one to have with leftover omelette and veg mix 🍽️

#BreadSky #baking
Baked oval sourdough loaf on a cooling rack with parchment paper under it, it’s golden brown and you can see some of the pomegranate seeds dotted around the loaf
November 9, 2025 at 10:00 AM
elmtreem.bsky.social
I love the colours 🥰

Getting into pastry now, second try at these - roast veg and goats cheese
Chopped red pepper, red onion and courgette in a tray ready to be browned in oven Leek, pomegranate, sweet potato and parsnip in a large pan on stove Sourdough dough that’s been laminated with goats cheese and pomegranate Roasted veg and goats cheese tart and three little tartlets with leftover pastry, with egg and cream filling
November 8, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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hookland.bsky.social
When we cross into a stone circle, we not only journey into the Long Neolithic, we walk into ritual, into a continuing sense of sacred. We mustn't look at it as a completed story. It is ongoing. Our being there only adds a new chapter to it. – Dr. K. Brophy #StandingStoneSunday
November 2, 2025 at 2:40 PM
elmtreem.bsky.social
Autumn sea 🌊, gotta love the mix of cloud and sun. These wee taken only about ten minutes apart!

At Southerndown/Dunraven Bay, S Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
On a rocky beach, calm but rhythmic waves as tide comes in. Sunlight breaking through grey clouds and lighting up the grey rock Blue sky and light fluffy clouds above a rocky beach Blue sky and light fluffy clouds above a rocky beach
November 2, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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ajevans21.bsky.social
Mary Oliver, 1986

#poetry #poem #MaryOliver
October 31, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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wiltshiremuseum.bsky.social
This #findsfriday we have a flute made from the long bone of a crane with two holes in its side.
Two halves of a bone flute, right ends snapped. Top part with holes
October 31, 2025 at 10:23 AM
elmtreem.bsky.social
Something beautiful for you this Wednesday

Just gorgeous 🩶

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Gregory Alan Isakov - The Stable Song (Bing Lounge)
YouTube video by 101.9 KINK.FM
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October 29, 2025 at 11:57 AM
elmtreem.bsky.social
Back in work today for a super short week & had to kick my morning off with this, & now a repeat..because yes, yes I was singing this to the cake in the hope it would make it less bumpy. Can’t say it worked too well but given my singing is understandable 😃

🍽️ #baking
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October 29, 2025 at 10:03 AM
elmtreem.bsky.social
Well finished the first (pre) Halloween cake. We shall not discuss the buttercream frosting which was so hard to do (but it was a first attempt!!) …but just gave it away & they loved the little ghosties and pumpkins!! It’s carrot cake with walnut & fondant ghosts/pumpkins 👻🎃

#baking 🍽️ #Halloween
Cake on a cake board with a light orange and cream buttercream frosting which is not well smoothed, chopped walnuts around the edge and three fondant ghosts with long eyes and four pumpkins made out of fondant
October 28, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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leguinbot.bsky.social
I see life as a shared gift, received from others and passed on to others, living and dying as one process, in which lies both our suffering and our reward. Without mortality to purchase it, how can we have the consciousness of eternity? I think the price is worth paying.
October 28, 2025 at 11:30 AM
elmtreem.bsky.social
On leave and in my infinite wisdom decided to start, (emphasis on start), to learn full buttercream cake covering today. Fucking hell it is not a natural skill for me!

This is just the practice cake too (for a friend), working on the actual cake I’ve got planned for Friday tomorrow 😵‍💫😵‍💫

#baking
a woman is laying on a table covered in cake and plates
Alt: a woman is laying on a table covered in cake and plates
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October 27, 2025 at 10:35 PM
elmtreem.bsky.social
Ahh little bimble up Pen Pych today, which is a tabletop mountain (apparently, one of only two in Europe) in the valleys, 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

has a fantastic little waterfall about two thirds of the way up, love this place
October 26, 2025 at 2:59 PM
elmtreem.bsky.social
Here’s the #sourdough bakes this week - apricot and chia seed loaf and apricot and chia seed twisted / braided
Six baked apricot and chia seed sourdough bread rolls fresh out of the oven. Made with a salted butter and apricot paste braided on some and others rolled in chia seeds. Rolls are round with a braided / twisted pattern. Dough itself proofed with chia seeds in it also Apricot and chia seed baked sourdough loaf with a wheat stalk scoring pattern on a wooden chopping board
October 26, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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alisonfisk.bsky.social
Marvellous Minoan cups made by Bronze Age potters about 3,800 years ago!

Which is your favourite? ❤️

Heraklion Archaeological Museum 📷 by me 🏺

#Archaeology
My photo collage shows five cylindrical Minoan cups each with a single handle and slightly flaring rim. Each cup is decorated with a different geometric polychrome motif: Top left: swirling white vine-like lines and round reddish-orange medallions framed by white circles on a black background. Top right : large white spiral on front of cup with a reddish-orange oval shape with stylised white petals beside it, on a black background. Middle left: diagonal zig-zag stripes in alternating black and white above and below a band around the middle of the cup Bottom left: swirling white lines and reddish-orange and white geometric band on a black background. Bottom right: diagonal white stripes below a row of red dots outlined with white circles on a black background. This type of ornamental Minoan pottery is known as Kamares Ware, named after the Kamares Cave on Mount Ida on the Greek island of Crete where this kind of pottery was first discovered. Kamares Ware vessels were luxury items produced by palace workshops at Phaistos and Knossos on Crete. These five cups were excavated at Phaistos and are dated 1800-1700 BC.
October 25, 2025 at 1:04 PM
elmtreem.bsky.social
Oooo made a veggie lasagna today as I had loads of veg to use up - it’s really nice!!

Did this with a garlic, herb and chilli flake tomato sauce and a mozzarella, cheddar & salted butter white sauce. Had it with homemade paprika sweet potato fries. Will do this one again ☺️

🍽️ #FoodSky
Three pans with respectively - Tomato sauce, white sauce and mixed diced vegetables (sweet and white potatoes, carrot, spinach, asparagus, carrot, red and white onion and red bell pepper) on the oven hob
October 25, 2025 at 1:15 PM
elmtreem.bsky.social
Zach the brave is enjoying his #caturday 😍
October 25, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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anniestegg.bsky.social
"Mother of Stars" 20x24 inches, oils on wooden panel⁠
Come visit us in the main show on the second floor in Reading, PA. We'll have new original art, books, and more!⁠
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#nyx #goddessart #goddessofthenight #mythology #mythologyart
A painting of the goddess, Nyx.
October 24, 2025 at 3:47 PM
elmtreem.bsky.social
Happy Friday! Woke up at crazy o’ clock and realised the night sky was bright with stars still. So glad I went outside - even with my not great phone camera it still captured this 🤩
Image of early morning sky (about 6.30am), Wales. You can see Orion and I believe Gemini, Taurus, Jupiter and Sirius. Dark sky getting lighter towards the horizon, actual sky was much darker but the phone lightened it
October 24, 2025 at 6:51 AM
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social
Art Nouveau embroidery design created by Ann Macbeth, head of the Embroidery Dept. at the Glasgow School of Art, 1908-1920 #womensart
October 23, 2025 at 4:32 AM