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Heather Tulip
@octotulip.bsky.social
Living in Cornwall. Avid reader - would spend my last £ on a book! Music is my first love, especially disco 🪩 Love walking & exploring NT properties & old churches 🙂 Work for the NT, all views expressed are my own
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An illuminated frog at Heligan night garden last month 🙂🐸
January 22, 2026 at 6:35 AM
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Beautiful purple tulip at Biddulph Grange, Staffordshire 🌷
January 21, 2026 at 6:30 AM
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Close up to a donkey at Flicka Foundation, Mabe, Cornwall ❤️
January 20, 2026 at 5:14 AM
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A close up of the eye of Morgowr the sea giant at Dark Cornwall’s myth & legend All Hallows Eve event at Trelissick last year ❤️
January 19, 2026 at 7:34 AM
The wonderful Morrab Library in Penzance, one of my favourite places in the whole world 😍 So many rooms with lovely garden views, with desks to work at or chairs to simply sit & read - heaven! 📚
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January 18, 2026 at 6:02 AM
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Some of my favourite bookshops ❤️ End of the World, Penzance, The Bookshop in Helston, The 2nd hand bookshop at Trelissick & Barter Books in Alnwick. An honorary mention also to Sherlock & Pages in Frome, of which I have no photo!
January 17, 2026 at 6:29 AM
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When in Northumberland I often visit locations featured in @ljross.bsky.social books 🙂 Cragside, Lady’s Well, The Poison Garden & Belsay are all titles in her wonderful D.I. Ryan series 📚
January 16, 2026 at 6:26 AM
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I do love a good NT library! Nymans, West Sussex, Standen House, West Sussex, Antony, Cornwall & Kingston Lacy, Dorset 📚
January 15, 2026 at 7:46 AM
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An experiment on the tube!
Would reading a book about poisons encourage people to strike up a conversation or would they ignore as usual? 😂
January 14, 2026 at 5:39 AM
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A lovely selection of books in the library at Greenway, Devon, former holiday home of Agatha Christie, whilst in another room there are many first editions of her books 🙂📚
January 13, 2026 at 5:45 AM
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Virginia Woolf’s collection of Shakespeare, all wrapped & inscribed by her own hand, in her bedroom at Monk’s House, Rodmell, East Sussex 📚
January 12, 2026 at 6:59 AM
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Submergence, a light & sound installation at Heligan night garden 🤩
January 11, 2026 at 5:51 AM
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The amazing Hive installation at Kew Gardens 😍
January 10, 2026 at 7:43 AM
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A wall of abstract street art!
Falmouth, Cornwall
January 10, 2026 at 6:31 AM
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Reborn Sounds Of Childhood Dreams I by Ibrahim Salahi, on display at Tate Modern, London
January 9, 2026 at 9:34 PM
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A piece of abstract street graffiti, found between Newlyn & Mousehole, Cornwall
January 8, 2026 at 5:11 AM
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The Three Dancers by Pablo Picasso, on display at Tate Modern, London
January 7, 2026 at 6:50 AM
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Abstract art meets advertisement! St Austell, Cornwall
January 6, 2026 at 5:56 AM
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Swinging by Vassily Kandinsky, on display at Tate Modern, London
January 5, 2026 at 5:26 AM
January 4, 2026 at 6:31 AM
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One of the many amazing creatures to be found at the Heligan Night Garden this winter 🤩
January 3, 2026 at 5:50 AM
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St John the Baptist church, Frome, Somerset & Penzance library 🙂
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January 2, 2026 at 7:05 AM
January 1, 2026 at 7:09 AM
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A cosy library standard lamp at Castle Drogo, Devon
December 31, 2025 at 5:37 AM
December 30, 2025 at 5:57 AM