Jayne
@sacredwench.bsky.social
Of coal and clay, and Staffordshire red.
Nature, local history, landscape and place. Always birds.
Nature, local history, landscape and place. Always birds.
Pinned
Sunday morning with Mr Crowley.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Archive on 4 - Aleister Crowley - Master of the Dark Arts - BBC Sounds
Paul Morley explores the scandalous life and intriguing musical legacy of Aleister Crowley
www.bbc.co.uk
October 26, 2025 at 6:41 AM
Sunday morning with Mr Crowley.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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Hear from BTO's Chris Hewson about Nightingales in this article on #BirdMigration, and discover the incredible journey this species takes, along with the fascinating migrations of Bewick's Swans and Desertas Petrels! #Ornithology
Bird migration is changing. What does this reveal about our planet? – visualised
Bird migration is changing. What does this reveal about our planet? – visualised
Bird migrations rank as one of nature’s greatest spectacles. Thanks to GPS tracking, scientists are uncovering extraordinary insights into ancient and mysterious journeys – and new threats that are reshaping them.
www.theguardian.com
October 16, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Hear from BTO's Chris Hewson about Nightingales in this article on #BirdMigration, and discover the incredible journey this species takes, along with the fascinating migrations of Bewick's Swans and Desertas Petrels! #Ornithology
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#31daysofgraves
Day 12: Notable Woman
Mother Mary Juliana Hardman 1813-1884 with Catherine McAuley at St Mary's Convent, Handsworth by Philip Jackson.
Juliana was the first Mother Superior at St Mary’s, she built almonry's for the poor and several schools in Birmingham.
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Day 12: Notable Woman
Mother Mary Juliana Hardman 1813-1884 with Catherine McAuley at St Mary's Convent, Handsworth by Philip Jackson.
Juliana was the first Mother Superior at St Mary’s, she built almonry's for the poor and several schools in Birmingham.
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October 11, 2025 at 11:29 PM
#31daysofgraves
Day 12: Notable Woman
Mother Mary Juliana Hardman 1813-1884 with Catherine McAuley at St Mary's Convent, Handsworth by Philip Jackson.
Juliana was the first Mother Superior at St Mary’s, she built almonry's for the poor and several schools in Birmingham.
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Day 12: Notable Woman
Mother Mary Juliana Hardman 1813-1884 with Catherine McAuley at St Mary's Convent, Handsworth by Philip Jackson.
Juliana was the first Mother Superior at St Mary’s, she built almonry's for the poor and several schools in Birmingham.
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1776: The hanging beech-woods begin to be beautifully tinged, & to afford most lovely scapes, very engaging to the eye, & imagination. They afford sweet lights & shades. Maples are also finely tinged. These scenes are worthy the pencil of a Reubens.
October 12, 2025 at 6:00 AM
1776: The hanging beech-woods begin to be beautifully tinged, & to afford most lovely scapes, very engaging to the eye, & imagination. They afford sweet lights & shades. Maples are also finely tinged. These scenes are worthy the pencil of a Reubens.
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One book sale in seventeen days. Yikes. Help us to avoid the worst of all possible fates - the crowdfunder - by buying our scrupulously edited, meticulously designed, handsomely produced and fastidiously packaged books here:
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October 7, 2025 at 7:23 PM
One book sale in seventeen days. Yikes. Help us to avoid the worst of all possible fates - the crowdfunder - by buying our scrupulously edited, meticulously designed, handsomely produced and fastidiously packaged books here:
longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...
longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...
Harlequin ladybirds everywhere. I've had to close the doors and windows. Nature is not healing.
October 6, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Harlequin ladybirds everywhere. I've had to close the doors and windows. Nature is not healing.
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WOW. Posting also to the 🧪 feed
Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
October 5, 2025 at 10:50 AM
WOW. Posting also to the 🧪 feed
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Same with stacking rocks on beaches and mountains. Rocks are where animals live! It also demonstrates a particularly unpleasant arrogance and lack of appreciation for nature IMO
STOP with the stacking rocks in streams! How many more dead critters do you need? www.wbir.com/article/news...
'Life is tough in a mountain stream' | GSMNP urging visitors not to disturb or build with rocks after Eastern Hellbender Salamander crushed
Eastern hellbenders lay between 100 to 300 eggs beneath the rocks. If those are crushed, "entire generations can be lost in an instant."
www.wbir.com
September 18, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Same with stacking rocks on beaches and mountains. Rocks are where animals live! It also demonstrates a particularly unpleasant arrogance and lack of appreciation for nature IMO
1970: Birmingham - The Venice of England? | Loook Stranger | BBC Archive.
1970: BIRMINGHAM - The Venice of England? | Look Stranger | BBC Archive
YouTube video by BBC Archive
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September 6, 2025 at 11:50 AM
1970: Birmingham - The Venice of England? | Loook Stranger | BBC Archive.
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Absolutely delighted that Dan Briggs, son of the BBC's first official historian Asa Briggs, has written to The Observer supporting the need for on-request vetting to re-instated at the BBC Written Archives Centre (p.29; not I think online).
Letter's wording is in the .alt element.
#waccampaign
Letter's wording is in the .alt element.
#waccampaign
August 31, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Absolutely delighted that Dan Briggs, son of the BBC's first official historian Asa Briggs, has written to The Observer supporting the need for on-request vetting to re-instated at the BBC Written Archives Centre (p.29; not I think online).
Letter's wording is in the .alt element.
#waccampaign
Letter's wording is in the .alt element.
#waccampaign
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Wow 😲
How lucky is our colleague Becky to see a tawny owl hunting in her garden in daylight? They’re usually more active at night but they are sometimes seen hunting during the day 🦉
#wildlife #nature #NatureLovers #NatureVibes #WildlifeConservation #Worcestershire #birds #birdwatching #owl #owls
How lucky is our colleague Becky to see a tawny owl hunting in her garden in daylight? They’re usually more active at night but they are sometimes seen hunting during the day 🦉
#wildlife #nature #NatureLovers #NatureVibes #WildlifeConservation #Worcestershire #birds #birdwatching #owl #owls
September 2, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Wow 😲
How lucky is our colleague Becky to see a tawny owl hunting in her garden in daylight? They’re usually more active at night but they are sometimes seen hunting during the day 🦉
#wildlife #nature #NatureLovers #NatureVibes #WildlifeConservation #Worcestershire #birds #birdwatching #owl #owls
How lucky is our colleague Becky to see a tawny owl hunting in her garden in daylight? They’re usually more active at night but they are sometimes seen hunting during the day 🦉
#wildlife #nature #NatureLovers #NatureVibes #WildlifeConservation #Worcestershire #birds #birdwatching #owl #owls
First light. Amblecote Road to Wychbury.
September 2, 2025 at 6:26 AM
First light. Amblecote Road to Wychbury.
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Real ship timbers!
Dated 953-65 and from an English ship built in the south-east. Reused in the walling of a Viking-era house on Hungate, York.
Currently on display at the Yorkshire Museum.
Dated 953-65 and from an English ship built in the south-east. Reused in the walling of a Viking-era house on Hungate, York.
Currently on display at the Yorkshire Museum.
August 17, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Real ship timbers!
Dated 953-65 and from an English ship built in the south-east. Reused in the walling of a Viking-era house on Hungate, York.
Currently on display at the Yorkshire Museum.
Dated 953-65 and from an English ship built in the south-east. Reused in the walling of a Viking-era house on Hungate, York.
Currently on display at the Yorkshire Museum.
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Yikes - the land surrounding the Cerne Abbas Giant is up for sale!
Lot 1 is top-quality chalk downland bursting with wildflowers & butterflies - orchids, skippers… going for £950k. It absolutely needs to be preserved. Hope the NT or similar can buy
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Lot 1 is top-quality chalk downland bursting with wildflowers & butterflies - orchids, skippers… going for £950k. It absolutely needs to be preserved. Hope the NT or similar can buy
wdcdn.co/media/pdf/0f... wdcdn.co/media/pdf/0f...
August 17, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Yikes - the land surrounding the Cerne Abbas Giant is up for sale!
Lot 1 is top-quality chalk downland bursting with wildflowers & butterflies - orchids, skippers… going for £950k. It absolutely needs to be preserved. Hope the NT or similar can buy
wdcdn.co/media/pdf/0f... wdcdn.co/media/pdf/0f...
Lot 1 is top-quality chalk downland bursting with wildflowers & butterflies - orchids, skippers… going for £950k. It absolutely needs to be preserved. Hope the NT or similar can buy
wdcdn.co/media/pdf/0f... wdcdn.co/media/pdf/0f...
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🔭 Look back into history and see where it all began...
2025 marks 80 years since Sir Bernard Lovell first arrived at Jodrell Bank on a cold December morning, interested in discovering whether radar (which he had learnt about during the Second Word War) could be used to study cosmic rays.
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2025 marks 80 years since Sir Bernard Lovell first arrived at Jodrell Bank on a cold December morning, interested in discovering whether radar (which he had learnt about during the Second Word War) could be used to study cosmic rays.
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August 8, 2025 at 10:36 AM
🔭 Look back into history and see where it all began...
2025 marks 80 years since Sir Bernard Lovell first arrived at Jodrell Bank on a cold December morning, interested in discovering whether radar (which he had learnt about during the Second Word War) could be used to study cosmic rays.
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2025 marks 80 years since Sir Bernard Lovell first arrived at Jodrell Bank on a cold December morning, interested in discovering whether radar (which he had learnt about during the Second Word War) could be used to study cosmic rays.
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Saddened to learn that Dr Marie Rowlands passed away recently. I was incredibly lucky to sit next to her in some of our WM History MA lectures. At the time I had terrible imposter syndrome but she was really kind and so knowledgeable about the BC landscape - which I loved!
August 4, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Saddened to learn that Dr Marie Rowlands passed away recently. I was incredibly lucky to sit next to her in some of our WM History MA lectures. At the time I had terrible imposter syndrome but she was really kind and so knowledgeable about the BC landscape - which I loved!
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WILD WINGS (1964)
August 3, 2025 at 5:53 PM
WILD WINGS (1964)
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One striking thing about the NYer for me is that, while preserving a tone of status-quo decorum (and luxury ads), it has published some of the most radical and impactful journalism in this country's history, "Hiroshima," "Silent Spring," 1/3
August 3, 2025 at 3:25 PM
One striking thing about the NYer for me is that, while preserving a tone of status-quo decorum (and luxury ads), it has published some of the most radical and impactful journalism in this country's history, "Hiroshima," "Silent Spring," 1/3
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An overnight walk from Kirk Sandall to Goole, via the River Don Navigation, the New Junction Canal, the Aire and Calder Navigation and the Dutch River, 6.30pm Friday 25 July to 5.30am Saturday 26 July.
An improvised, illustrated thread of uncertain length, part reflection, part reconstruction. 1/
An improvised, illustrated thread of uncertain length, part reflection, part reconstruction. 1/
July 28, 2025 at 10:54 AM
An overnight walk from Kirk Sandall to Goole, via the River Don Navigation, the New Junction Canal, the Aire and Calder Navigation and the Dutch River, 6.30pm Friday 25 July to 5.30am Saturday 26 July.
An improvised, illustrated thread of uncertain length, part reflection, part reconstruction. 1/
An improvised, illustrated thread of uncertain length, part reflection, part reconstruction. 1/
Life’s a bit tough right now (caring for two elderly parents) but tawny owls, hawking pipistrelles, and our resident fox are helping a lot. Dog days and dusk, best bit of summer.
Also: three swifts - still here.
Crap apples/opples and hazel nuts everywhere.
Also: three swifts - still here.
Crap apples/opples and hazel nuts everywhere.
July 31, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Life’s a bit tough right now (caring for two elderly parents) but tawny owls, hawking pipistrelles, and our resident fox are helping a lot. Dog days and dusk, best bit of summer.
Also: three swifts - still here.
Crap apples/opples and hazel nuts everywhere.
Also: three swifts - still here.
Crap apples/opples and hazel nuts everywhere.
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1776: Wheat begins to turn colour. Ricked the hay & finished the rick. Fern owls chatter, & curlews clamor.
July 27, 2025 at 6:00 AM
1776: Wheat begins to turn colour. Ricked the hay & finished the rick. Fern owls chatter, & curlews clamor.
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What can you say about Ozzy? Whatever it is, it's in a Brummie accent.
Hard to imagine a world without him, Ozzy brought so much joy, humour and raw power to the world, in a life of many chapters. Ozzy was a cat who had way more than nine lives.
Hard to imagine a world without him, Ozzy brought so much joy, humour and raw power to the world, in a life of many chapters. Ozzy was a cat who had way more than nine lives.
July 22, 2025 at 7:26 PM
What can you say about Ozzy? Whatever it is, it's in a Brummie accent.
Hard to imagine a world without him, Ozzy brought so much joy, humour and raw power to the world, in a life of many chapters. Ozzy was a cat who had way more than nine lives.
Hard to imagine a world without him, Ozzy brought so much joy, humour and raw power to the world, in a life of many chapters. Ozzy was a cat who had way more than nine lives.
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Wrote a piece for @the-wildlifetrusts.bsky.social’s #30DaysWild. All about how to get more medieval with your connections to local place. Includes a ‘medieval’ map my daughter drew of a place in our village—a memory map of nature landmarks. #naturewriting www.wildlifetrusts.org/blog/30-days...
A history of birds and place | The Wildlife Trusts
We can learn about nature in the most unexpected ways. Even the names of places offer us an opportunity to learn, not only about the wildlife on our doorstep, but local history too. Author, naturalist...
www.wildlifetrusts.org
June 22, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Wrote a piece for @the-wildlifetrusts.bsky.social’s #30DaysWild. All about how to get more medieval with your connections to local place. Includes a ‘medieval’ map my daughter drew of a place in our village—a memory map of nature landmarks. #naturewriting www.wildlifetrusts.org/blog/30-days...