Rael571
@rael571.bsky.social
Librarian & introvert
LOCATION: Gogledd Cymru
LIKES: Books, silence, serenity, trees, cats, the smell of frankincense
DISLIKES: Noise, crowds, being the centre of attention or being nominated/tagged
LOCATION: Gogledd Cymru
LIKES: Books, silence, serenity, trees, cats, the smell of frankincense
DISLIKES: Noise, crowds, being the centre of attention or being nominated/tagged
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Rael571
@rael571.bsky.social
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My banner photo comes from the page for The Lost Gardens of Heligan in Cornwall, illustrating their ‘Night Garden’ exhibition, beginning Sat. 15th Nov. 2025. They refer to her as “The Heligan Mud Maid’ on their page but I always think of her as ‘The Sleeping Goddess’. She’s very beautiful, anyway.
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It would help so much if you could RT my post above about my etsy shop.I confess I've really struggled with pretty severe mental illness this yr which has prevented me from working for much of it. A repost will put my shop in front of a few more eyes.I appreciate your support here so much,thankyou🌿
November 16, 2025 at 11:48 AM
It would help so much if you could RT my post above about my etsy shop.I confess I've really struggled with pretty severe mental illness this yr which has prevented me from working for much of it. A repost will put my shop in front of a few more eyes.I appreciate your support here so much,thankyou🌿
I can hardly wait to see this when it's created. It'll be absolutely brilliant.
I'm going to buy myself a tiny Christmas tree👇 (that doesn't cost a limb plus my firstborn) & make all its decorations by hand. Younger daughter is *very* much in.Will post what we make.There'll probs be tiny handmade festive owls & gently twinkling yuley ammonites. Doing it for my mental 'elf.Yep🌲🧠
When my depression’s especially bad I bring myself to the garden centre for the very good fractals. Ngl I’m tempted to buy myself a tiny Christmas tree & handmake all the decorations as a project to help my brain.🌿
PS I found that rowan leaf on the ground.
PS I found that rowan leaf on the ground.
November 14, 2025 at 12:10 PM
I can hardly wait to see this when it's created. It'll be absolutely brilliant.
My banner photo comes from the page for The Lost Gardens of Heligan in Cornwall, illustrating their ‘Night Garden’ exhibition, beginning Sat. 15th Nov. 2025. They refer to her as “The Heligan Mud Maid’ on their page but I always think of her as ‘The Sleeping Goddess’. She’s very beautiful, anyway.
November 12, 2025 at 11:22 AM
My banner photo comes from the page for The Lost Gardens of Heligan in Cornwall, illustrating their ‘Night Garden’ exhibition, beginning Sat. 15th Nov. 2025. They refer to her as “The Heligan Mud Maid’ on their page but I always think of her as ‘The Sleeping Goddess’. She’s very beautiful, anyway.
Do yourself (your Self) a favour and read this rather creepy and disquieting story. It'll be worth it.
"Today, as we are all only too aware, a ringing phone is invariably something to hide from. Who, of our friends, actually calls us any more, unless it is to convey bad news? As for the other people who use the phone, unscheduled, to speak to us, what do they boil down to?"
www.tom-cox.com/lillian/
www.tom-cox.com/lillian/
Lillian
I didn't realise when I woke up this morning that I was going to write a spooky story in its entirety, nor quite what it was going to be about (apart from an unnerving memory from my childhood about a...
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November 6, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Do yourself (your Self) a favour and read this rather creepy and disquieting story. It'll be worth it.
I’ve just finished reading ‘Everything Will Swallow You’ by @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social and thought I’d write a review. While it’d be better not to buy it from the world-eating online store that shall not be named, a review there might be useful.
November 3, 2025 at 12:47 PM
I’ve just finished reading ‘Everything Will Swallow You’ by @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social and thought I’d write a review. While it’d be better not to buy it from the world-eating online store that shall not be named, a review there might be useful.
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Around half of my Victorian ink bottle creative kits have now sold.
Kits include a booklet I've written on how this kind of project alters our brains to improve mental health, tiny dried flower posy in a handprinted gift box.
Dispatches in time for🌲-I ship anywhere:
www.etsy.com/uk/shop/silv...
Kits include a booklet I've written on how this kind of project alters our brains to improve mental health, tiny dried flower posy in a handprinted gift box.
Dispatches in time for🌲-I ship anywhere:
www.etsy.com/uk/shop/silv...
November 2, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Around half of my Victorian ink bottle creative kits have now sold.
Kits include a booklet I've written on how this kind of project alters our brains to improve mental health, tiny dried flower posy in a handprinted gift box.
Dispatches in time for🌲-I ship anywhere:
www.etsy.com/uk/shop/silv...
Kits include a booklet I've written on how this kind of project alters our brains to improve mental health, tiny dried flower posy in a handprinted gift box.
Dispatches in time for🌲-I ship anywhere:
www.etsy.com/uk/shop/silv...
The magical and beautiful art of Sam Cannon.
One newish picture, but otherwise, awfully old pictures. Especially those beach huts. But I love the words in it.
The moon is beautiful tonight and never gets less inspiring.
The moon is beautiful tonight and never gets less inspiring.
November 3, 2025 at 8:49 AM
The magical and beautiful art of Sam Cannon.
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No matter how broken & tired your brain may feel you’re a valuable human.
I’m saying this to myself as well as you 🌿
I’m saying this to myself as well as you 🌿
October 31, 2025 at 11:12 PM
No matter how broken & tired your brain may feel you’re a valuable human.
I’m saying this to myself as well as you 🌿
I’m saying this to myself as well as you 🌿
This book is truly weird in parts but really hugely entertaining and deserves to be read and loved.
Any shares of this much appreciated! When my ex-publishers collapsed, taking over £20,000 of my earnings with them into the void, all my books suffered but none more than 1983. This is me trying to repair that. It’s about:
Childhood
Education
Aliens
Alpacas
The East Midlands
The old future we lost
Childhood
Education
Aliens
Alpacas
The East Midlands
The old future we lost
Hello! My CEO Roscoe and I are giving away TWO signed copies of my novel 1983 to two randomly selected people who repost this & pop a reply below. You also get a free postcard of this illustration of Roscoe by my mum.
It’s been called “Stranger Things rewritten by Kurt Vonnegut & Sue Townsend”…
It’s been called “Stranger Things rewritten by Kurt Vonnegut & Sue Townsend”…
November 1, 2025 at 11:30 AM
This book is truly weird in parts but really hugely entertaining and deserves to be read and loved.
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October 31, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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Farewell October, pictures taken this month, #Dartmoor, #Devon.
#photography Clockwise from top left, Fourwinds, bracken at Burrator, Holloway at Lydford, fungi at Burrator, meadow at Lydford, fungi at Burrator, beeches near Brentor, Peter Tavy coombe, middle, Peter Tavy coombe.
#photography Clockwise from top left, Fourwinds, bracken at Burrator, Holloway at Lydford, fungi at Burrator, meadow at Lydford, fungi at Burrator, beeches near Brentor, Peter Tavy coombe, middle, Peter Tavy coombe.
October 31, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Farewell October, pictures taken this month, #Dartmoor, #Devon.
#photography Clockwise from top left, Fourwinds, bracken at Burrator, Holloway at Lydford, fungi at Burrator, meadow at Lydford, fungi at Burrator, beeches near Brentor, Peter Tavy coombe, middle, Peter Tavy coombe.
#photography Clockwise from top left, Fourwinds, bracken at Burrator, Holloway at Lydford, fungi at Burrator, meadow at Lydford, fungi at Burrator, beeches near Brentor, Peter Tavy coombe, middle, Peter Tavy coombe.
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Happy Samhain, this sacred festival has been cheapened into scary thrills and plastic tat. The ancient festival is about illness and death, the ancestors and the spirits that haunt our minds and our land. As we descend to the dark, let us embrace it #dartmoor #devon #halloween #samhain #photography
October 31, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Happy Samhain, this sacred festival has been cheapened into scary thrills and plastic tat. The ancient festival is about illness and death, the ancestors and the spirits that haunt our minds and our land. As we descend to the dark, let us embrace it #dartmoor #devon #halloween #samhain #photography
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If I had a pound for every James Joyce novel I'd read, I'd have 13 pence.
October 31, 2025 at 8:09 AM
If I had a pound for every James Joyce novel I'd read, I'd have 13 pence.
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Reading is food for your mind. Like food, different reading choices serve different purposes. Some books are read for pleasure; some to satisfy a need. Some are like junk food; great as long as that's not all you eat. Some help to counter an imbalance in knowledge or experience. Variety is the key.
October 30, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Reading is food for your mind. Like food, different reading choices serve different purposes. Some books are read for pleasure; some to satisfy a need. Some are like junk food; great as long as that's not all you eat. Some help to counter an imbalance in knowledge or experience. Variety is the key.
What a uniqe and beautiful, imaginative gift one of these would make!
11 of the Victorian ink bottle kits I posted about yday have sold but I've a few I'll be listing in my Etsy shop at 8.30pm this eve👇.
Kits incl a booklet I've written on how creative activity improves mental health+dried flower posy+giftbox.
I ship anywhere,incl the US: www.etsy.com/uk/shop/silv...
Kits incl a booklet I've written on how creative activity improves mental health+dried flower posy+giftbox.
I ship anywhere,incl the US: www.etsy.com/uk/shop/silv...
October 30, 2025 at 12:21 PM
What a uniqe and beautiful, imaginative gift one of these would make!
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If you’re struggling with uncertainty, low mood, struggling to like yourself today or are just exhausted & overwhelmed by everything, hey, me too, you’re not alone-this photo’s for you and your brain. Sending love 🌿
October 29, 2025 at 1:05 PM
If you’re struggling with uncertainty, low mood, struggling to like yourself today or are just exhausted & overwhelmed by everything, hey, me too, you’re not alone-this photo’s for you and your brain. Sending love 🌿
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Grandmother Badger's little family have just arrived! I've introduced them to her and they're already settling in and munching on their travelling choklit while they wait for a story.
Grandmother Badger's little family have just arrived! I've introduced them to her and they're already settling in and munching on their travelling choklit while they wait for a story.
October 29, 2025 at 11:51 AM
@celestineandthehare.com
Grandmother Badger's little family have just arrived! I've introduced them to her and they're already settling in and munching on their travelling choklit while they wait for a story.
Grandmother Badger's little family have just arrived! I've introduced them to her and they're already settling in and munching on their travelling choklit while they wait for a story.
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The National Trust has offered me the chance to "win a scone experience". Intrigued by what this might entail. I have to assume it's more than just eating some scones and at least the chance to become a scone for a day, get covered in jam & cream & experience the full range of emotions of a scone.
October 29, 2025 at 7:49 AM
The National Trust has offered me the chance to "win a scone experience". Intrigued by what this might entail. I have to assume it's more than just eating some scones and at least the chance to become a scone for a day, get covered in jam & cream & experience the full range of emotions of a scone.
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Car: "Depress clutch to start."
Me to clutch: "The planet is being ruined by billionaire sociopaths, everyone's house is grey, the internet was a terrible mistake and I can't stop thinking about all the stuff I put in bins in the 1990s that I should have recycled. Also I think I've broken my toe."
Me to clutch: "The planet is being ruined by billionaire sociopaths, everyone's house is grey, the internet was a terrible mistake and I can't stop thinking about all the stuff I put in bins in the 1990s that I should have recycled. Also I think I've broken my toe."
October 21, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Car: "Depress clutch to start."
Me to clutch: "The planet is being ruined by billionaire sociopaths, everyone's house is grey, the internet was a terrible mistake and I can't stop thinking about all the stuff I put in bins in the 1990s that I should have recycled. Also I think I've broken my toe."
Me to clutch: "The planet is being ruined by billionaire sociopaths, everyone's house is grey, the internet was a terrible mistake and I can't stop thinking about all the stuff I put in bins in the 1990s that I should have recycled. Also I think I've broken my toe."
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My goodness. Please don’t send in ghosts. They are very frightening. We only rate dogs. Thank you... 12/10 (IG: theodore.goldenvelt)
October 27, 2025 at 3:43 PM
My goodness. Please don’t send in ghosts. They are very frightening. We only rate dogs. Thank you... 12/10 (IG: theodore.goldenvelt)
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Hello to my new followers.
I post bits and bobs on Bluesky but this is where my real writing is: www.tom-cox.com
It's a door to many many things.
Some of it is free, but for a minimum of £2 a month/£20 a yr you can have access to everything new I write, plus an archive of 100s of 1000s of words.
I post bits and bobs on Bluesky but this is where my real writing is: www.tom-cox.com
It's a door to many many things.
Some of it is free, but for a minimum of £2 a month/£20 a yr you can have access to everything new I write, plus an archive of 100s of 1000s of words.
October 24, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Hello to my new followers.
I post bits and bobs on Bluesky but this is where my real writing is: www.tom-cox.com
It's a door to many many things.
Some of it is free, but for a minimum of £2 a month/£20 a yr you can have access to everything new I write, plus an archive of 100s of 1000s of words.
I post bits and bobs on Bluesky but this is where my real writing is: www.tom-cox.com
It's a door to many many things.
Some of it is free, but for a minimum of £2 a month/£20 a yr you can have access to everything new I write, plus an archive of 100s of 1000s of words.
It absolutely is!
On the way home to do nothing is a top ten feeling for real
October 22, 2025 at 3:50 PM
It absolutely is!
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No, your artificial lawn is not a "life hack". It's another tiny nail in the planet's coffin.
October 21, 2025 at 11:15 AM
No, your artificial lawn is not a "life hack". It's another tiny nail in the planet's coffin.
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Suicide is the leading cause of death for men under 50 in the UK.
Opening up saves lives.
Let’s break the silence together. 🗣️
#DaddyBlackbird #SuicideAwareness #MentalHealthMatters #ItsOkayToTalk #MenNeedSupportToo #EndTheStigma
Opening up saves lives.
Let’s break the silence together. 🗣️
#DaddyBlackbird #SuicideAwareness #MentalHealthMatters #ItsOkayToTalk #MenNeedSupportToo #EndTheStigma
October 21, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Suicide is the leading cause of death for men under 50 in the UK.
Opening up saves lives.
Let’s break the silence together. 🗣️
#DaddyBlackbird #SuicideAwareness #MentalHealthMatters #ItsOkayToTalk #MenNeedSupportToo #EndTheStigma
Opening up saves lives.
Let’s break the silence together. 🗣️
#DaddyBlackbird #SuicideAwareness #MentalHealthMatters #ItsOkayToTalk #MenNeedSupportToo #EndTheStigma
One of my favourite physics stories...
October 20, 2025 at 10:23 AM
One of my favourite physics stories...