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Careful reader, thoughtful writer, nature-lover, garden-potterer, history-dabbler. Readily distracted by birds. 🐦‍⬛


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The fact that @annelouiseavery.bsky.social has continued to produce such thought-provoking, heart-warming and beautifully-constructed tales, full of wisdom and wit, whilst being so ill all the while, has always seemed a kind of miracle to me. Please support her via Patreon or Ko-fi if you can.
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THREAD.

A collection of photographs of birds I have met in the UK countryside.

You will find the all-important captions to the photos in the alt text.
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The Sixth Window. The Feast of Saint Nicholas. Well-wrapped up in an enormous rose-coloured muffler, carrying a sturdy wicker basket in paw, Babcia had taken the early bus into Dorchester to do some Christmas shopping on her own.
December 6, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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December 6, 2025 at 9:54 AM
At last! I've just found the BBC dramatisation of Precious Bane on YouTube.

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Precious Bane (1989)
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December 6, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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6 Dec: Cross-leaved Heath, Erica tetralix, is the flower dedicated to St Nicholas, whose feast day is celebrated today. Through the compassion and generosity of his legendary miracles, he became known as the gift-bearer, bringing joy and hope to all at the year’s darkest time.
December 6, 2025 at 7:03 AM
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"May you be forever blessed for that moment of bliss and happiness which you gave to another lonely and grateful heart. Isn't such a moment sufficient for the whole of one's life?"
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Road in Vetheuil in Winter
🎨 Claude Monet (1879)
December 6, 2025 at 7:12 AM
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Nearly 50% funded. Can we get there over the weekend? £36.50 needed! Thank you all for the reposts & donations so far. 😘

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Stockbridge Village Christmas Support | Collctiv
Knowsley food aid organisations have been badly hit by the demise of the Knowsley Foodbank distributer. We are raising ££ to help the Stockbridge Village pantry give people a nicer Christmas.
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December 6, 2025 at 7:16 AM
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Just finished @nicolawriting.bsky.social’s #GhostsOfTheFarm. Bloody hell, she’s only done it again—another staggeringly beautiful book. I couldn’t stop thinking: “God, I wish I’d written that line!” No one does elegiac like she does; tender, subtle, exquisite. #naturewriting
December 6, 2025 at 7:50 AM
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I know it makes me a bit weird and unfashionable but something I have noticed is that people who have read my books generally seem to like them more than people who haven't.
December 6, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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Way, way beyond price, is hearing a thrush’s song when walking streets on a cold, dark & wet December morn. Two hours later & he is yet to leave my mind. I get on with today in the afterglow of the music he made.
December 6, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Congratulations!
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From the archive for Sylvia Townsend Warner, #BornOnThisDay in 1893, my thoughts on the excellent LOLLY WILLOWES.

A magical novel in more ways than one! #BookSky #nyrbwomen25 #BOTD #books #archiveday #backlisted 💙📚

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Lolly Willowes by Sylvia Townsend Warner
Lolly Willowes – the debut novel of the English writer Sylvia Townsend Warner – was an instant success on its publication in 1926. Now regarded as something of an early feminist classic, it tells t…
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The Fifth Window. The Elderly Squirrel was carefully arranging his Christmas cards on the Georgian mantlepiece in his little sitting room. There were five cards in sum.
December 4, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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#OldFoxChristmasFilms Day Five: Joulutarina (Christmas Story; 2007).

Directed by Juha Wuolijoki, this quiet and very beautiful Finnish film tells the story of how an orphaned boy grows up to become Father Christmas through the pragmatic kindness of his surrounding community.
December 4, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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It’s the time of year when I do my Christmas auction. This mouse icon is up for auction and it’s to raise money for Shelter Cymru & Doctors without borders. 100% of the money raised will go to these charities on a 50-50 basis.
December 4, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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December 4, 2025 at 7:23 PM
It looks as though #Cloudflare are having problems again. I've found numerous websites inaccessible, all with the same error message.
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