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Martina Farrow
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Job was illustration, before accident disabled my right arm. Learning to be a left-handed gardener 🌱 East Sussex 🇪🇺
#nomow #mowsaic #wildgarden #wildlife #wildflowers
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Martina Farrow @martifarrow.bsky.social · Dec 22
Late for #WildflowerHour
Scarlet berries of Stinky Iris, starry OxEye Daisy, an old Rose branch with new Lichen & nice dark Ivy.
Peace 💫🕊️
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macfarlanenews.bsky.social
ALERT: Senate has approves resolution to (finally) hang Jan 6th plaque honoring police

It'll hang in US Senate (w/ approval of GOP Leader John Thune) until Architect of Capitol finds permanent location

It could hang in 3rd floor visitor area, where rioters marauded on Jan 6
January 8, 2026 at 9:15 PM
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social
A 1944 Pastoral: Land Girls Pruning at East Malling' by painter Evelyn Dunbar who recorded UK women's work during the Second World War #WomensArt
Painting featuring women working pruning trees with stepladders in a winter orchard wearing coats and headscarfs,
January 7, 2026 at 4:37 AM
martifarrow.bsky.social
🌱For #WildflowerHour
Red dead-nettle
Vinca
Sow thistle?
Red Valerian
Love & best wishes to all 💕🗓️🕊️
Three plants of pink flowered Red dead-nettle, among downy leaves of Goosegrass Purple flower of Vinca with petals fading to white at their centre. Around are its fresh green leaves Think this is a sad remnant of a Sow thistle’s yellow flower? Petals are closed up. Also surrounded by Goosegrass foliage Deep crimson flower head of Red Valerian. Fresh green leaves. Growing happily at the base of our house wall. Partner asks when it can be cut back/removed? I reply “when all the flowers are finished” 😇
January 4, 2026 at 7:34 PM
martifarrow.bsky.social
#BloomScrolling #Blessings
Thankful for all mercies 🌱
May all beings be well, happy & at peace 💕🙏🕊️
Window with twilight deep blue sky, on last day of 2025. A row of coloured ball lights along the sill, a small gold wire Xmas tree & three potted houseplants. At the right is a tall cream candle, lit. Happy sugar-pink pelargonium ‘Lotusland’ - zonal/ivy-leaved. In a terracotta pot with neighbours in a plant tray. Many spent petals from Pelargonium sidoides are scattered about - looks like mouse poop! Sunlit flowers of Orchid on windowsill - creamy white petals with magenta centres Miraculous survivor from Woolworths, many many years ago - didn’t think this string of coloured lights would *still* work … again? Surprise! Pink, pale green, orange,red & blue fairy lights on a shelf with a pinecone garland - also Woolworths. Little red bows are dotted along its length, between the brown cones.
January 1, 2026 at 12:50 AM
martifarrow.bsky.social
#MushroomMonday
Like pearls in the grass, from a recent sunny morning.
ID welcome 🌱
Three sunlit, pearl-like fungi growing through green grass which is dotted with foggy dew drops
December 29, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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spockresists.bsky.social
The Walk for Peace monks have reached Georgia State line.
December 27, 2025 at 6:45 AM
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lbflyawayhome.bsky.social
Other work by the Ladybird artists
‘Gusty Twilight’
Artist: CF Tunnicliffe
A dramatic yet slightly stylised depiction of a barn owl in profile raising its wings to steady itself in a strong gust of wind as it perches on a bare winter tree
December 28, 2025 at 7:36 PM
martifarrow.bsky.social
For final #WildflowerHour of 2025, Hawthorn berries & Mistletoe in a venerable Hawthorn tree ❣️
May all beings be well, happy and at peace ✨🙏🕊️
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@bsbibotany.bsky.social 🌱
Twisty trunk of old Hawthorn tree in a field, has a beautiful crop of chubby red fruits. Golden sunlight, & a wisp of Romney ewe’s wool on wire fence Distant old Hawthorn tree with glowing red berries. At top left of the tree is a sphere of Mistletoe. Fields stretch across the flat valley of River Brede with a pale blue sky. In the foreground, long windblown grasses are speckled with russet Oak leaves Sherical bundle of Mistletoe growing in an old Hawthorn tree, with possibly a couple more inside its branches? Golden sunshine on red Haws
December 28, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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qasimrashid.com
To help counter the anti-Muslim and Islamophobic disinformation from Trump and his acolytes, I started a newsletter titled "Islam Today."

And today I wrote about Jesus in Islam, and how much Muslims and Christians actually have in common. Enjoy!
islamtoday.substack.com/p/jesus-in-i...
Jesus in Islam
What Muslims Believe About the Son of Mary
islamtoday.substack.com
December 25, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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protectthewild.bsky.social
Well said!
December 24, 2025 at 6:30 PM
martifarrow.bsky.social
#BloomScrolling 🌸🕯️🌺
Pink striped Camellia & bright orange seeds of Foetid Iris.
Partner made Bûche de Noël for friends visiting 😋 Santa & reindeers left their foot/hoof prints in the icing
🪵🌲🦌🍫🎅🏽🎀🎄💝 #MerryChristmas
Two blooms of striped pink/red Camellia flowers in a little jug on a checked cloth Bright orange berries of Foetid Iris with dark green Ivy foliage in a tiny vase. Beside is a cream coloured pillar candle - lit - which stands in a little cream coloured dog-treat bowl that has a bone-shape in relief on the side. Some red berries are dotted around the bowl. Behind are long striped leaves of a Spider plant Very chocolatey Yule log with little holes in the icing where reindeer & Santa stood! Its serving plate is red with white polka dots and the word ‘Delicious’ in white script.
December 23, 2025 at 5:11 PM
martifarrow.bsky.social
✨🌞✨ Solstice greetings for #WildflowerHour 🎀🌿💕🦠
Red Valerian, #moss & #lichen
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@bsbibotany.bsky.social 🌱
Tiny glass jar with Red Valerian flower, on old wood garden table. Also a twig on which is growing ochre-coloured Lichen & small amount of blue/grey lichen Red Valerian flower in tiny glass jar on old wood garden table. Beside is a shallow terracotta dish on terracotta feet. In the dish is gravel, grit & a stone with moss and lichen dotted around. Behind are some cockle shells Plant of Red Valerian, a single stem of small clustered crimson flowers above fresh green foliage
December 21, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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I walked the line of HS2 from London to Birmingham. This is what I found: www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte... More widely, the scale of construction going on outside Birmingham was epic. All this striving for... no economic growth. The model isn't working anymore.
‘We hate it. It’s desecration’: the real cost of HS2
The long read: Ten years after I first followed the proposed route, I retraced my steps to see what life was like along the world’s most expensive, heavily delayed railway line
www.theguardian.com
December 16, 2025 at 8:18 AM
martifarrow.bsky.social
#TreeTuesday
🌸Prunus x subhirtella ‘Autumnalis’ - a mature Winter-flowering Cherry with a warm Ivy jumper.
Planted by previous residents, possibly in 1970s? 🌱
#BloomScrolling
Ivy-covered tree trunk of a senior Winter-flowering Cherry tree Pink starry flowers of Winter-flowering Cherry (prunus x subhirtella autumnalis) against dark green Ivy foliage, which covers the tree’s trunk & some branches
December 16, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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🌈🌺💜🌸
Salvia Amistad still flowering, to the delight of all, including a big Bee 🐝
Also Camellia beginning to bloom, lifting the spirits 🌱
#BloomScrolling #UKgardening
Indigo flowers of Salvia Amistad in December sunlight. Old Ash trees and a grassy sheep field behind (no sheep at the moment) Magenta rays of sunlight falling diagonally upon purple flowered Salvia Amistad. Old Ash trees in the lane behind. Against brown flowers of Hydrangea, purple Salvia Amistad are vibrant violet purple indigo. Salvia’s leaves are still fresh green First sunny sugar pink blooms of Camellia against its glossy green leaves. Dark green Ivy foliage contrasts behind, across the lane
December 15, 2025 at 12:35 PM
martifarrow.bsky.social
For #WildflowerHour sunshine blessings ✨
Sweet Violet 💜
Moss 🦠
Fern 🌿
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@bsbibotany.bsky.social 🌱
Purple flower of Sweet Violet among heart shaped green foliage Four flowers of Sweet Violet in sunshine Beautiful velvet green moss growing on top of a brick wall. A sunlit Oak leaf has settled there Geometric green zig-zag shapes of Fern fronds and their shadows, in sunshine
December 14, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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Local women crochet/knit woolly PJs for rescued vulnerable, ill and formally abused elephants to shield them from the nighttime cold, Elephant Conservation Care Center, India #UnravellingWomensArt
Four images of Indian women creating crochet covers for elephants in a sandy landscape
December 13, 2025 at 9:42 AM
martifarrow.bsky.social
🦠🪸☘️ Car is mucky, partner would like to clean it 🫧🪣🧽
but he’s only allowed after I try to relocate its #moss & #lichen colony 🙏🌱
On outer ledge of car windowsill is growing tiny grey blue green lichen. Beside it is a fallen flower bud from Autumn-flowering cherry tree Beautiful green tiny mossy ‘landscape’ along car windowsill Grey green blue lichen on dirty white car paintwork Car windowsill with lichen
December 11, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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Citizenship is a right, not a privilege. Our new briefing with @reprievehq.bsky.social reveals a shocking racial disparity in citizenship stripping practices.

3 in 5 people of colour are at risk of having their UK citizenship stripped, at the discretion of the Home Office 🧵👇
Stripped: The Citizenship Divide
New research exposes racist reality of UK citizenship stripping laws that place 3 in 5 people of colour at risk.
www.runnymedetrust.org
December 11, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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MINNEAPOLIS: “All I did was step outside as a Somali American citizen, and I got chased by a masked person, assaulted, kidnapped. It was inhumane. If this is what’s happening to a 🇺🇸 citizen on camera, imagine what could happen to your loved ones.”
December 11, 2025 at 4:00 AM
martifarrow.bsky.social
#RoseWednesday #BloomScrolling
I permit the long tangles & gently ignore pruning advice until the very last rosebud has flowered. In a sheltered corner at our gate - no idea of variety/name? 💗🌱
Peachy pink rose, almost fully open. Another bloom and hedgerow/ivy behind. The rose ‘bush’ is very leggy, large & mature with blue grey lichen along its older stems. Two pretty peach/pink roses on tall stems. A grey cloudy sky behind. Rose shares her corner with dark green ivy
December 10, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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newyorker.com
The cover of this week’s issue, “Christmas Avenue,” by Pierre-Emmanuel Lyet.
www.newyorker.com/magazine...
December 8, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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It is newsworthy that the president of the United States is increasingly verbally abusive of women reporters and he should be asked about it.
December 8, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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Well, these pics for #WildflowerHour were taken on frosty Friday - not been outside since!!
Wild weather has been a chilly, wet, windy challenge. Yes, I am a tender perennial 😇
Hope everyone’s well & warm 🌱
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@bsbibotany.bsky.social
Two purple indigo flowers of Sweet Violet beside two golden yellow Field Maple leaves next to the path in rare sunshine, on Friday Starry flower of Borage, heavenly blue. Its foliage, stems and unopened buds are downy hairy spiky Single flower of Vinca/periwinkle, with its own green foliage plus dark green leaves of Ivy, white-veined. It was frosty on Friday morning, melted here as tiny misted droplets on petals and foliage OxEye Daisy facing away into long dry grasses and Foxglove leaves. A couple of fallen yellow Field Maple leaves give extra colour in this sheltered bank
December 7, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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'The Skate Girls of Kabul' photographic series by Jessica Fulford-Dobson featuring girls from the Afghan capital before the Taliban took control. #womensart #NeverForget women and girls of Afghanistan #HumanRights
December 7, 2025 at 2:10 PM