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Yvonne Conchie
@yvonneconchie.bsky.social
All things sustainable, rural, & community: historic buildings, up-wilding, regenerative land, interdependence, thrutopia.
Freelance chartered geographer
North Pennines, UK
www.conchie.co
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Hello friends!

I am a freelance chartered #geographer specialising in #rural and #heritage based, #community led projects in the north of England.

I support organisations to make the best of their #wildlife, #stories, #buildings, & #landscapes

See www.conchie.co

#SustainabilityUK
#GeoSky
#EnvHum
Many many moons ago I worked with Steve Westerberg, Geltsdale's site manager, at Thornley Woods for Gateshead Council. The twinkle of joy in his eyes and voice at the simple sound of a curlew overhead here - is my defining memory of him. What an incredible place he's reinstating on the moors here.
February 19, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Reposted by Yvonne Conchie
Buried in today's Daily Telegraph, Church Commissioner Alan Smith writes:

"Fossil fuel investors are at risk of becoming the real anti-capitalists"
January 14, 2025 at 7:02 AM
How to repurpose your Christmas tree 🎄
Make a leaky dam!

#SlowTheFlow
#SustainabilityUk
#Ecology
#SmallholdersUk
January 4, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Health, wealth and happiness to you and yours, from me and mine, for 2025 from the Tar Barreling Dale
#HNY
#2025
youtu.be/VLvlryogbr4?...
Embers Of Allendale
YouTube video by Franchesca Harrison
youtu.be
January 1, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Book recommendation: accessible graphic novel tying together all the scary snap shots of the #metacrisis and showing #thrutopia solutions- how we got where we are, and how to get from here to where we need to be
www.penguin.co.uk/books/457628...
December 27, 2024 at 4:44 PM
Beautiful first light this morning in the
#NorthPennines
"Perfect for playing football" says the old dog
December 3, 2024 at 10:57 PM
Way down south at Eltham Palace on the far side of London this week, for the @heritage-crafts.bsky.social Awards with my 15yo bursary winner son.
The view from Henry VIII's childhood home, and what a view, but how it must have changed since then.
November 30, 2024 at 9:54 AM
Reposted by Yvonne Conchie
Every year on Thanksgiving at 12pm, I, like many others, turn on the radio to listen to "Alice's Restaurant." Growing up, I'd sit w/my parents and listen; now, I sit w/my kids

Alice died today at 83

You can get anything you want at Alice's Restaurant (excepting Alice)

www.wbur.org/news/2024/11...
The real Alice of Arlo Guthrie’s “Alice’s Restaurant” dies at 83
The hippie-era icon who inspired folk singer Arlo Guthrie’s epic, Berkshire's based anti-establishment song “Alice’s Restaurant” has died. Alice Brock took her final breath at a hospice home in Wellfl...
www.wbur.org
November 22, 2024 at 10:46 PM
#Blanchland #Abbey - Christmas makers fair, celebration of the 6As project and plans for the #TreasuresOfBlanchland
Do join us 10-4 Sat 23rd + Sun 24th November 2024.
Wrap up warm - we don't have heating yet!
www.blanchland.org/visit-blanch...

@hexhamtv.bsky.social
@northpennines.bsky.social
November 21, 2024 at 11:11 AM
Wifi boosting up in the belfry, then #geophysics around the Abbey precinct, then heading to Alston makers markets and thene on to #SherwoodForest to pick up my bro before taking my proto-blacksmith to the reenactors markets for the weekend.

youtu.be/zdvkeb4Bs3Y?...
Blanchland past & present aerial map animation
YouTube video by 6As of Blanchland project
youtu.be
November 15, 2024 at 7:49 AM
Hello friends!

I am a freelance chartered #geographer specialising in #rural and #heritage based, #community led projects in the north of England.

I support organisations to make the best of their #wildlife, #stories, #buildings, & #landscapes

See www.conchie.co

#SustainabilityUK
#GeoSky
#EnvHum
November 14, 2024 at 1:41 PM
#squeezegap
Defensible C13th tower entrance at #BlanchlandAbbey making it tricky for the Border Reivers to attack.
November 8, 2024 at 2:52 PM
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November 8, 2024 at 2:40 PM