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kalamari.bsky.social
@kalamari.bsky.social
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Avid reader. Posts only occasionally, mainly landscapes, likes and follows appreciated. Supporting the positive vibes of BlueSky by blocking bots, blatant marketing, misogyny and misandry.All photographs mine unless reposts.
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trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social
Thanks for the reminder @janemunday.bsky.social. Every summer, I repost this article DROWNING DOES NOT LOOK LIKE DROWNING. To date, I know of FOUR kids who were saved after someone who'd clicked on the link learnt how to spot actual drowning. Take time to read and pass on.

slate.com/technology/2...
Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning
Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.
slate.com
June 19, 2025 at 4:22 PM
kalamari.bsky.social
A thick tree trunk with an Owlet. This was taken some weeks ago, the owlet will be fledged by now.

#ThickTrunkTuesday
#NationalTrust
#FelbriggHallNT
#Birds
An ageing & weathered grey tree trunk with a nest hole. There's an owlet peeping out of the hole - it was calling for food.
July 29, 2025 at 7:06 PM
kalamari.bsky.social
Happy Friday, here's a cyclist's dream fingerpost.

#FingerpostFriday
A three way signpost (fingerpost) with each route identified as 'via quiet lanes'.
July 25, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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with1v.bsky.social
Gary has been banned from the club for suggesting that Berger and Minge are the best thing to happen to Saturday night since Morecambe and Wise. #NewAlanBennetts
July 19, 2025 at 9:26 PM
kalamari.bsky.social
I loved the warm colour of this length of trunk, ageing in the grounds of Moseley Old Hall

##ThickTrunkTuesday
##NationalTrust
#MoseleyOldHallNT
#Photography
A length of fallen tree trunk, stripped of bark, the wood a warm yellow.
July 8, 2025 at 9:37 AM
kalamari.bsky.social
My garden Robin posing with his head turned #sideways

#BlueSkyArtShow
A red breasted Robin in a spring border. A few green shoots pushing up through last autumn's leaf litter.
July 5, 2025 at 6:11 AM
kalamari.bsky.social
A view of the Rotunda at Ickworth House, near Bury St Edmunds.

With a thick trunk of course!

#ThickTrunkTuesday
#NationalTrust
#IckworthHouse
#Photography
July 1, 2025 at 6:02 AM
kalamari.bsky.social
A tree in the gardens of Nymans, West Sussex. In the background are the ruins of the house, which is currently partly restored.

#ThickTrunkTuesday
#Photography
A substantial tree, around 7 branches reaching up to a high level canopy. In the background, right and left gable ends of the ruined Nymans House.
June 24, 2025 at 7:50 AM
kalamari.bsky.social
There's only the narrowest of gaps between Mars and the nave of Chichester Cathedral

#BlueSkyArtShow
#narrow
#photography
A giant globe, covered with NASA image of Mars, suspended in the nave of Chichester Cathedral
June 22, 2025 at 11:29 AM
kalamari.bsky.social
This is a 350 year old Sweet Chestnut at Moseley Old Hall, Staffordshire, UK. The Romans made flour from sweet chestnuts.

#ThickTrunkTuesday
#Photography
An old Sweet Chestnut tree, many lifeless branches silhouetted against the sky.
June 10, 2025 at 12:53 PM
kalamari.bsky.social
A punk badger in sheep's clothing.
The Eyebrows are a tribute to Dennis Healey.

#Alphabetchallenge
#WeekWforWacky
#Photography
A ewe looking out from behind a tree. It has black ears, one with a yellow tag, one with a red tag. There are distinctive black eyebrows and black chin. The face strongly resembles a badger, the coloured tags give a punk effect.
June 2, 2025 at 11:29 AM
kalamari.bsky.social
The North #Underneath the South.

##BlueSkyArtShow
A 3m diameter globe, placed with the southern hemisphere up, so the north is underneath. Outside the LSE, London.
May 31, 2025 at 4:33 AM
kalamari.bsky.social
My #strawberry harvest tonight.

I have a lot of completion with the local wildlife, so I pick as soon as they start to ripen.
A bowl full of strawberries, one evening's harvest.
May 29, 2025 at 7:41 PM
kalamari.bsky.social
Two bees head down in chive flowers.

#wildwebswednesday
A cluster of purple chive flowers. Two bees are head down, pushing in to reach the nectar.
May 28, 2025 at 2:14 PM
kalamari.bsky.social
Small insect (I welcome an ID) on a Peony flower.
Kent, UK

#wildwebswednesday
A small insect on the edge of a light pink tinged petals of a peony. Lower centre the golden yellow centre.
May 28, 2025 at 2:11 PM
kalamari.bsky.social
Have you brought the picnic?

#ThickTrunkTuesday
A woodland with a substantial Beech tree trunk, in front a small picnic table with four scattered chairs
May 27, 2025 at 4:28 AM
kalamari.bsky.social
Five petals

#Alphabetchallenge
#WeekVforfive
Five pink to purple petals on a small flower. Better colour descriptions are possible but beyond my skills.
May 26, 2025 at 7:16 PM
kalamari.bsky.social
Who's looking at you?

#LightandShadow
#BlueSkyArtShow
The mountains of Madeira, lit in the distance by the morning sun behind. The foreground is shaded, except for two encircled green bushes, giving the impression of the viewer being observed.
May 23, 2025 at 7:59 AM
kalamari.bsky.social
Apologies, I'm very pleased with this one after a run of 6/6 and 5/6

#Wordle 1,434 3/6

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May 23, 2025 at 3:45 AM
kalamari.bsky.social
##Alphabetchallenge
#WeekUforUp

Looking Up to the top of the Church Tower - and the lantern lighting the entrance.
Saint Mary the Virgin, Salehurst, Kent, UK
A wide angle view of the Church Tower reaching to the blue sky, flanked by trees, with a lantern central at the top of the picture.
May 19, 2025 at 3:33 PM
kalamari.bsky.social
Perfect velvet lining the inside of a Scarlet Elf Cup

#Texture
#BlueSkyArtShow
#photography
May 17, 2025 at 3:33 AM
kalamari.bsky.social
#WeekTforTime
May 15, 2025 at 4:57 PM
kalamari.bsky.social
Is 9 your favourite number?

#Alphabetchallenge
#TforTime
A clock face where each hour from 1 to 12 is shown as a calculation of nines. For example two is '(9+9)/9'
May 15, 2025 at 4:56 PM
kalamari.bsky.social
Rigging #lines on the Cutty Sark, Greenwich.

##BlueSkyArtShow
May 10, 2025 at 12:23 PM
kalamari.bsky.social
Silver rocks on an overcast day, the South West Coast Path, Cornwall

#Alphabetchallenge
#WeekSforSilver
Rocks with a natural, silvery, reflective lustre, on the South West Coast Path, Cornwall. A calm sea behind, a steep, grassy, slope in the foreground.
May 9, 2025 at 10:58 AM