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Carrie 🌿
@carriejoyhouse.bsky.social
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Community engagement professional with an interest in:
- Asset Based Community Development 🤝
- access to greenspace 🏞️
- nature's recovery 🌿

Studying for a CHE in Field Ecology 🐞

Also enjoys yarn crafts and beer. Not always at the same time.

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Glorious decor #inside Penrhyn Castle for the #BlueSkyArtShow. Photo taken September 2023.

#PenrhynCastle #NationalTrust
October 25, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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The #angles of the Titanic museum in Belfast echo the size and shape of the ship's hull. Interesting and symbolic #architecture for #BlueSkyArtShow
Photo of the Titanic museum in Belfast, showing two of the exterior walls which form the shape of a ship's hull. The cladding consists of silver aluminium triangular shards. There are 3000 unique shards across the building's exterior.
September 20, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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New #home in progress...

#BlueSkyArtShow
An open tin of ivy green emulsion paint sat on a cotton dust sheet, alongside a paintbrush, paint roller tray, paint sample card, and other decorating paraphernalia.
September 13, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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The #jagged rocks of Morte Point, on the North Devon coast. Photo taken September 2018. This part of Devon is known for its history of shipwrecks and smuggling.

#BlueSkyArtShow
Standing slabs of jagged, grey rock, stretching in a line down to a blue-grey sea. Almost like the plates on a stegosaurus's back.
August 9, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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FOUND cat. Lostock Hall, Preston, UK, PR5. Contact the number if this is your cat. Proof of ownership required. Please share 🙏

#lostcat #foundcat #lostpet #foundpet
A black and white cat with a distinctive smudge on its nose was found in Lostock Hall, Preston, PR5, on 26th July. Please message or call 07772485507 if this is your cat.
July 29, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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Crochet top for @paul-ds.bsky.social 🧶 Made from Rico Creative Cotton aran yarn
July 27, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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The perfect accompaniment for this afternoon's epic match. Vamos Carlos! 🔥 #wimbledon
July 13, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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Street art bringing #SummerDaze vibes to Belfast city 🌸

#BlueSkyArtShow #streetart
A storage container which has been painted by an artist. The artwork features orchids, wild roses, campions, a peacock butterfly, and a bee. The container is under a concrete bridge.
July 12, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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Some of the beautiful street art we spotted in Belfast last week

#belfast #streetart #urbanlandscape #streetartbelfast
July 8, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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Brilliant to see THE HERDS visit Pennington Flash this afternoon, a joint venture with Wigan Council and Manchester International Festival. These amazing creatures stopped at Wigan during their 20,000km journey to raise awareness of the #climatecrisis 🌍 🦒🦍🦓🐘

#theherds
Three puppeteers in black clothing operate a life-sized gorilla puppet made from cardboard and other materials. The gorilla appears to be running. There are people in the background enjoying the parade of animals. A life-sized lion puppet made from cardboard and other similar materials. A life-sized giraffe puppet is towering over a crowd of people on Pennington Flash golf course. The giraffe's upper body and neck can be seen above the heads of the people who are watching it walk through the crowd. A life-sized baboon puppet is operated by two puppeteers dressed in black. The puppet is made from cardboard and is standing in the natural environment of Pennington Flash nature reserve.
July 5, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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Another one for #BlueSkyArtShow, a bit closer to home. This #narrow footbridge is at Duxbury Woods near Chorley, Lancashire. Photo taken a few years ago - the tall tree has since fallen down
June 21, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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A #narrow street in Zadar Old Town, Croatia. I love exploring on foot when I go to a new place, so today's #BlueSkyArtShow feed is a treat
June 21, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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Some #UrbanPlants and their friends for #WildflowerHour. Plants provide vital habitat, food and shelter for urban wildlife. All photos taken at Wigan Flashes - part of the Flashes of Wigan and Leigh National Nature Reserve.

#nationalnatureserve #nnr #wigan #wiganflashes #ukwildlife #urbanwildlife
An oxeye daisy sheltering a tree bumblebee from the rain An oak leaf with red galls on it - possibly made by a pea gall wasp Ferns growing out of cracks in the stone blocks lining the Leeds and Liverpool Canal. Two adult swans and a cygnet are swimming in the canal behind the plants. A pale purple marsh orchid just starting to bloom
June 15, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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A lil bee sheltering from the rain 🐝

#ukwildlife #nature #naturephotography #insect #invertebrate 🌍
A small black, orange and white fluffy bumblebee, clinging to the underside of an oxeye daisy petal. There are raindrops on the flower and the surrounding grass.
June 9, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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Restharrow, everlasting pea and a bonus bee orchid for #WildFlowerHour 🌸 All photos taken today at RSPB Marshside in Southport

#peafamily #wildflower #orchid #britishwildlife
June 8, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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An especially #vibrant sunset captured on a Welsh beach in September 2023. It was like the air turned orange!

#BlueSkyArtShow #sunset #sunsetphotography #northwales
The sun setting over the sea in North Wales. The bright yellow-orange sun is just touching the horizon, and the clouds above it are wisps of orange and light grey. The beach is made from pebbles. In the slightly blurred foreground are two pairs of feet (this is me and my partner). The whole photo has a warm orange tone.
June 7, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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Finished knitting my cardigan 🧶 Made with Stylecraft Savannah, a lovely soft cotton yarn. Perfect cover-up for summer, I think 😊
June 6, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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#Underneath the duga radar at Chernobyl. Photo taken in 2019.

#BlueSkyArtShow
May 31, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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A few more for #WildFlowerHour, seen this week near Boscastle in Cornwall. Including a stunning Cornish hedge putting on a #WildFlowerShow 😍

#bloomscrolling
May 25, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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Coastal beauties for #WildFlowerHour 😍 Spotted this week on a trip to Boscastle, Cornwall
May 25, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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Epic picnic with a view
Two mushroom, walnut and stilton pasties, a punnet of fresh Cornish strawberries, one can and one bottle of Cornish lager, all laid out on a picnic bench. Blue sea and rugged cliffs are stretching into the distance behind.
May 23, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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Sand just doing its thing #texture #BlueSkyArtShow
May 17, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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Look at all the tiny lives being supported by the self-seeded rowan tree growing in a pot in my small garden. These are in turn feeding the baby blue tits in next door's nest box 👀

#naturegarden #invertebrates #ukwildlife
A green caterpillar with an orange spiky tail, believed to be a copper underwing species, clinging to an upper twig of a small rowan tree. The caterpillar has eaten a chunk out of the twig. Small black ants farming a group of small, bright green aphids on a twig. Ants do this to 'milk' the aphids for honeydew by massaging their abdomens.
May 16, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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Raindrops magnifying the #lines on a feather

#BlueSkyArtShow #closeupnature #naturephotography #ukwildlife
A close-up of a woodpigeon feather lying on a wooden table. Raindrops have settled on the feather into circular droplets, each one magnifying the lines created by the feather's barbs.
May 10, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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A selection of #green woodworking tools for today's #BlueSkyArtShow. An art in itself!

#greenwoodworking #crafts #heritagecrafts #traditionalcrafts
A collection of hatchets, axes, froes, mallets and auger bits laid out on a table. The axes have leather sheaths over the cutting edges. At the top left of the photo is the most important tool... a cup of tea.
May 3, 2025 at 10:16 AM