Katharine Norbury
@katharinenorbury.bsky.social
Curious, walker, swimmer, thinker; anam cara.
WOMEN ON NATURE
@Unbounders
THE FISH LADDER
@BloomsburyBooks
Shortlist
@WainwrightPrize
#neurodivergent
@UnitedAgents
WOMEN ON NATURE
@Unbounders
THE FISH LADDER
@BloomsburyBooks
Shortlist
@WainwrightPrize
#neurodivergent
@UnitedAgents
Sunrise, Little Adam’s Peak
November 19, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Sunrise, Little Adam’s Peak
Very sorry to learn of the death of the brilliant Rachel Cooke who gave me my first - firm but very fair - review as a writer. In gratitude 🙏 observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
Remembering Rachel Cooke | The Observer
observer.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Very sorry to learn of the death of the brilliant Rachel Cooke who gave me my first - firm but very fair - review as a writer. In gratitude 🙏 observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
If these red flags are an accurate representation of those who have died on Everest then maybe it is time to acknowledge the mountain’s sacred identity as the home of Miyolangsangma and stop going where we are uninvited.
All those flags ... that's a pretty challenging golf course.
November 13, 2025 at 6:18 AM
If these red flags are an accurate representation of those who have died on Everest then maybe it is time to acknowledge the mountain’s sacred identity as the home of Miyolangsangma and stop going where we are uninvited.
In a very few minutes this little fellow will be released into the ocean where, with a fair metaphorical and actual wind, they will live 100 years longer than me.
November 7, 2025 at 12:02 PM
In a very few minutes this little fellow will be released into the ocean where, with a fair metaphorical and actual wind, they will live 100 years longer than me.
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Signed copies of THE LANGUAGE OF TREES now available @waterstones.bsky.social in Dorchester. Lovely to see it in the Nature section with WILD SERVICE by @righttoroam.bsky.social, DISPERSALS by @jessicajlee.bsky.social, and other beauties. 🌿
#naturewriting #booksky #rewild
#naturewriting #booksky #rewild
October 29, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Signed copies of THE LANGUAGE OF TREES now available @waterstones.bsky.social in Dorchester. Lovely to see it in the Nature section with WILD SERVICE by @righttoroam.bsky.social, DISPERSALS by @jessicajlee.bsky.social, and other beauties. 🌿
#naturewriting #booksky #rewild
#naturewriting #booksky #rewild
Another glorious forest day (within the M25!)
October 26, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Another glorious forest day (within the M25!)
#NHS A prophetic voice from 1985? The Two Ronnies - www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrqw...
The Two Ronnies (13th February 1985). Ronnie C has trouble at a fully automated doctor's surgery.
YouTube video by S A M (keep smiling 😂🤣 )
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October 20, 2025 at 9:17 PM
#NHS A prophetic voice from 1985? The Two Ronnies - www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrqw...
Reposted by Katharine Norbury
Reposted by Katharine Norbury
Recording of BBC radio 'Beyond Belief' I contributed to.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 4 - Beyond Belief, Consciousness
Does faith, spirituality, and relational depth require left or right-brain thinking?
www.bbc.co.uk
October 15, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Recording of BBC radio 'Beyond Belief' I contributed to.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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Wage war on nature to build new homes: that’s Labour’s offer, but it’s a con trick | George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... I have to agree with George here. The big NGOs have been ominously quiet about this Bill, compared with the excellent #WaronNature campaign against Liz Truss.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... I have to agree with George here. The big NGOs have been ominously quiet about this Bill, compared with the excellent #WaronNature campaign against Liz Truss.
Wage war on nature to build new homes: that’s Labour’s offer, but it’s a con trick | George Monbiot
The government’s new planning bill is tearing down environmental protections to benefit developers. This nation of nature lovers won’t stand for it, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
October 16, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Wage war on nature to build new homes: that’s Labour’s offer, but it’s a con trick | George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... I have to agree with George here. The big NGOs have been ominously quiet about this Bill, compared with the excellent #WaronNature campaign against Liz Truss.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... I have to agree with George here. The big NGOs have been ominously quiet about this Bill, compared with the excellent #WaronNature campaign against Liz Truss.
Reposted by Katharine Norbury
Just extraordinary to witness this nature-hating government sabotaging Labour’s own legacy. And for absolutely no reason: nature protection isn’t blocking development - it’s a necessary prerequisite for it (& for everything else, come to that…)
Plans to weaken protections for national parks will have ‘disastrous consequences’ say green groups
Exclusive: Letter from 170-plus organisations calls on government to drop proposed changes to planning law
www.theguardian.com
October 9, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Just extraordinary to witness this nature-hating government sabotaging Labour’s own legacy. And for absolutely no reason: nature protection isn’t blocking development - it’s a necessary prerequisite for it (& for everything else, come to that…)
“Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?”
—Mary Oliver
with your one wild and precious life?”
—Mary Oliver
October 10, 2025 at 6:22 PM
“Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?”
—Mary Oliver
with your one wild and precious life?”
—Mary Oliver
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The title of Richard Holmes’ book about the young Tennyson, The Boundless Deep, comes from Tennyson’s poem Crossing the Bar, a melodic masterpiece. Here’s a recording of me reading it #poetrycommunity #poetsonbluesky #Tennyson #poetryismusic
October 9, 2025 at 4:24 PM
The title of Richard Holmes’ book about the young Tennyson, The Boundless Deep, comes from Tennyson’s poem Crossing the Bar, a melodic masterpiece. Here’s a recording of me reading it #poetrycommunity #poetsonbluesky #Tennyson #poetryismusic
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We've got some busy event times this month, and this coming week. First, we'll be selling early copies of the paperback of @pollyrowena.bsky.social's #TheCompanyOfOwls at a talk on '‘Companions of nature: sickbed consolations & mimic hootings', Uni of Cumbria, Ambleside, Tue 7th Oct, 6.30pm.
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October 5, 2025 at 7:50 PM
We've got some busy event times this month, and this coming week. First, we'll be selling early copies of the paperback of @pollyrowena.bsky.social's #TheCompanyOfOwls at a talk on '‘Companions of nature: sickbed consolations & mimic hootings', Uni of Cumbria, Ambleside, Tue 7th Oct, 6.30pm.
The goddess Diana
October 3, 2025 at 2:31 PM
The goddess Diana
The goddess Diana
October 3, 2025 at 2:29 PM
The goddess Diana
Happy Transitus of St Francis of Assisi 🦋
October 3, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Happy Transitus of St Francis of Assisi 🦋
Giving thanks for the life of Jane Goodall, whose roots and shoots movement filled her with hope. It’s also the tenth anniversary of Pope Francis’s encyclical Laudato Si’. Jane’s rallying cry was: “Together we CAN! Together we WILL!” Let’s carry the torch. 🔥
October 2, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Giving thanks for the life of Jane Goodall, whose roots and shoots movement filled her with hope. It’s also the tenth anniversary of Pope Francis’s encyclical Laudato Si’. Jane’s rallying cry was: “Together we CAN! Together we WILL!” Let’s carry the torch. 🔥
Presage of a coming storm
October 2, 2025 at 6:12 AM
Presage of a coming storm
Wee Willy Winky
September 28, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Wee Willy Winky
“Hegseth orders rare, urgent meeting of hundreds of generals, admirals”. In one place!
The Pied Piper of Hamlin comes immediately to mind. Followed by fish in a barrel. Or all your eggs in one basket.
I wonder what Machiavelli or Sun Tzu or the goddess Athena would have to say about it?
The Pied Piper of Hamlin comes immediately to mind. Followed by fish in a barrel. Or all your eggs in one basket.
I wonder what Machiavelli or Sun Tzu or the goddess Athena would have to say about it?
September 26, 2025 at 9:01 AM
“Hegseth orders rare, urgent meeting of hundreds of generals, admirals”. In one place!
The Pied Piper of Hamlin comes immediately to mind. Followed by fish in a barrel. Or all your eggs in one basket.
I wonder what Machiavelli or Sun Tzu or the goddess Athena would have to say about it?
The Pied Piper of Hamlin comes immediately to mind. Followed by fish in a barrel. Or all your eggs in one basket.
I wonder what Machiavelli or Sun Tzu or the goddess Athena would have to say about it?
Reposted by Katharine Norbury
Imagining a parallel world in which 22 billion was injected into the UK arts industry.
I don't doubt there'll be initial investment - from companies ramming AI down people's throats - but ascribing that 'boost' to AI itself is utterly disingenuous. The reporting on AI is like discussing the merits of religion and the existence of god by only talking to the heads of various churches.
Microsoft says its new £22bn investment in the UK's AI sector should boost Britain's economy in next few years
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
September 17, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Imagining a parallel world in which 22 billion was injected into the UK arts industry.
Extraordinary image!
My photo published in @britishwildlife.bsky.social earlier this year has prompted this carefully considered paper. I wrote about my encounter with this ghost of an extinct species in my book The Long Spring #naturewriting
EARLY VIEW in IBIS
A Neolithic rock engraving apparently showing a Great Auk being captured | onlinelibrary.wiley....
Tim R. Birkhead, Robert Montgomerie | #ornithology 🪶
A Neolithic rock engraving apparently showing a Great Auk being captured | onlinelibrary.wiley....
Tim R. Birkhead, Robert Montgomerie | #ornithology 🪶
September 18, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Extraordinary image!