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relentlessly average 🦋💫
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Our food is becoming more calorifc, less nutritious – and possibly more toxic.
Climate change is affecting your food – and not in your favour
Our food is becoming more calorifc, less nutritious – and possibly more toxic.
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December 4, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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We're celebrating 12 Days of #MedievalIlluminations. Today, 9 medieval moons.

Tag yourself, we're the tiny blue one. 🌚
December 4, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Happy to have been able to give blood earlier today. An email nudge to book an appointment came through yesterday and luckily I was free at the right time. ❄️

www.blood.co.uk
December 4, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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Tonight the Cold Moon rises 🌕❄️

Known too as the Long Night Moon or the Moon Before Yule, it lifts into the deepening dark as we head toward the year’s longest nights.

It will be the last supermoon of 2025.

Moonrise: 14:44*

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December 4, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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Have you met baby Kaikai?

This 6-month-old little girl is a rascal!

Without her mom around anymore, they, along with the older elephant orphans, will help raise her until she’s ready to return to the wild and live as she should once again.

In about 8 years.

Thank you @sheldricktrust.bsky.social!
December 4, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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Day 3 of my #AdventCalendar
[sound up]
December 3, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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🎶 ‘God rest ye merry gentlemen, Let nothing you dismay’ 🎶
#advent #christmas #carol #dickens
‘A Christmas Carol’ by Charles Dickens, published December 1843 1/2
🎻 Printed silk satin dress, trimmed with velvet ribbon, in fashionable tartan pattern, ca 1845. Hand-sewn, maker unknown. V&A
#Advent
December 3, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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Day 3 of my Edwardian #AdventCalendar is this delicate c. 1909 evening dress in pale lilac-grey silk and silk chiffon trimmed with bands of embroidered lace that was made by Pickett, London, and worn by English socialite Miss Heather Firbank. V&A collection. #fashionhistory
December 3, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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Oooh aren't you lucky! A Bullfinch is perched in your feed... 😍

📷 @vickyoutenphoto.bsky.social
December 3, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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Great culture can save lives. Literally.

Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard
December 2, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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Advent Sunday & London was bitterly cold and wreathed in a damp fog which smelt of underground rivers and coal smoke. The Dragon of Kensington Church Street, however, was exceedingly well wrapped up in a Sèvres blue muffler and matching mittens.
November 30, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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#AshmoleanAdvent Day 1: Snow at Kinryūzan Temple

Our Ashmolean Advent Calendar is here! Check back each day until Christmas for a new seasonal treat from our collections.

The first festive treat from the collection is Utagawa Kuniyoshi’s View of Snow on Benten Hill at Kinryūzan Temple in Asakusa.
December 1, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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Katja Lang, contemporary German artist who focuses on stillness and spaces #WomensArt #December
December 1, 2025 at 6:38 AM
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A Merry December to all.
🖼️ Décembre, Eugène Grasset, 1896.
December 1, 2025 at 6:33 AM
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GlitterLab, a company in southern Poland, specializes in creating unique Christmas decorations. Known as the "magicians of glass," they craft custom ornaments for clients like Swarovski and Harrods.
The Polish 'magicians of glass' who create Christmas baubles for clients worldwide
GlitterLab, a company in southern Poland, specializes in creating unique Christmas decorations. Known as the "magicians of glass," they craft custom ornaments for clients like Swarovski and Harrods.
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December 1, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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Who’s in?
December 1, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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Crowds turned out yesterday despite the rain for the annual Abingdon Christmas Extravaganza which brought together entertainment, a parade, a market, and the Christmas lights switch-on. The town was further entertained by music, dancing and donkeys.
More details and pictures on abingdonblog.co.uk
November 30, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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This, from Ethan Hawke, is beautiful.

#TomStoppard
November 30, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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here, Tom, take all the money that I have.
November 29, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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BREAKING: British playwright Tom Stoppard, who won an Academy Award for the screenplay for “Shakespeare In Love," dies at 88.
Playwright Tom Stoppard who won Academy Award for screenplay for “Shakespeare In Love" has died
British playwright Tom Stoppard, who won an Academy Award for the screenplay for 1998’s “Shakespeare In Love” has died. He was 88.
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November 29, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Do you want to play questions?
YouTube video by Jaelinque
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November 29, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Christmas has arrived in Abingdon, went out to support my friend’s choir (she’s hidden at the back) and browse the market. Very much feeling the spirit of the season now. ☺️🎄🎶
November 29, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
I see some book piracy discourse, and, to make a positive argument in favor of buying books, your marginal ability to influence what books get published and support the careers of writers you like is massive compared to most other forms of media.
November 25, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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November 29, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Girl on a space hopper, 1971,
Byker series, Newwcastle, UK, by Finnish photographer Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen #womensart #FridayFeeling
November 28, 2025 at 7:06 AM