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Lyn Edmonds
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Wife, Mum, Grandma; Lead of Away from the Western Front
& formerly Lead of Gallipoli Centenary Education Project; retired Clinical Librarian - also posts @aftwf1418.bsky.social
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A worthy winner Helen and a lovely memory of our successful Creative Writing Competition which highlighted campaigns that took place Away from the Western Front; winners, runners-up and highly-commended can still be read here: awayfromthewesternfront.org/archive/crea...
November 14, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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Nothing unusual I understand: a Shaggy Ink-cap and an old specimen of Chicken-of-the-Woods that to me resembles a small brown teddy bear with its ears nibbled; seen last week in @cubotanicgarden.bsky.social
#FungiFriends #FungiFriday #Fungus #Mushroom #MushroomMonday 🧸
Close-up of a small Shaggy Ink-cap mushroom, mainly white in colour, bell-shaped and scaly, surrounded by green leaves and other vegetation A light brown Chicken-of-the-Woods mushroom growing on tree
November 14, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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An unusual autumn tree fruit amongst the fallen leaves in @cubotanicgarden.bsky.social yesterday - a very bright green textured Osage Orange, Maclura pomifera: so pleased it wasn't windy under the trees as they are the size of grapefruits!
#OsageOrange #Autumn #TreeFruit
Four fairly large bright green bumpy textured Osage Orange tree fruits that have fallen on the ground and lie amongst autumn leaves; these are not oranges and are sometimes referred to as Hedge Apples
November 12, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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An autumnal Swamp Cypress tree with some of its roots rising out of the lake and its lower trunk decorated with fallen needle-like leaves that are orange-brown in colour; seen in @cubotanicgarden.bsky.social
#SwampCypress #TreeTuesday #TreeTrunkTuesday #ThickTrunkTuesday
A Swamp Cypress tree growing in a lake with some of its roots rising up and looking like 'knobbly knees' surrounding the tree trunk and the lower part of the trunk is covered with fallen needle-like leaves that are orange-brown in colour; there are reflections of this tree and others in the water and some ducks on the lake too
November 11, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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#TheWinter10
Part 3/3

Smooth Sow-thistle, Sonchus oleraceu, Red Dead-nettle, Lamium purpureum, Spotted Dead-nettle, Lamium maculatum, possibly a garden escape, and Green Alkanet, Pentaglottis sempervirens
#WildflowerHour @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social
Close-up of a small pale yellow flower with even paler edges to its petals, against a lightly blurred green and brown background Top-down view of small pink flowers growing between the plant's green leaves Top-down view of small hooded pink flowers with the plant's variegated green and white leaves Top-down view of a small blue flower with a white centre alongside the plant's hairy and deep-veined green leaves
November 9, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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#TheWinter10
Part 2/3

Pot Marigold, Calendula officinalis, possibly a garden escape; Greater Knapweed, Centaurea scabiosa fading fast; Meadow Crane's-bill, Geranium pratense, I think, and Bristly Oxtongue, Helminthotheca echioides
#WildflowerHour @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social
A yellow flower with green leaves growing against a brick wall Close-up of a purple flower at the end of a stem, with some small green leaves below, against a lightly blurred green and brown background Side view of a bright violet blue flower at the end of a stem with some small green leaves below, against a lightly blurred green and brown background Close-up of a small tightly closed flower surrounded by 5 small bristly leaves with others in the background
November 9, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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#TheWinter10
Part 1/3

Nettle-leaved bellflower, Campanula trachelium and White Ramping Fumitory, Fumaria capreolata
#WildflowerHour @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social
Close-up of a purple Nettle-leaved bellflower, with a lightly blurred green and brown background Close-up of a cluster of mainly small white flowers with dark red tips, surrounded by green leaves
November 9, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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In celebration of its #JacobinDay, a Pomegranate, Punica granatum, fruit seen recently in @cubotanicgarden.bsky.social
#Pomegranate #Cambridge
November 9, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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Beautiful large bright yellow flower of #Evening Primrose, Oenothera macrocarpa (📱photo July 2025)
#BlueSkyArtShow #Evening #EveningPrimrose #YellowFlowers
Close-up of a large yellow Evening Primrose flower in sunlight with shadows on its petals
November 8, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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Reposting with a correction with thanks to @viccbrown.bsky.social - the fly in the photo on the right is a female Locust Blowfly, Stomorhina lunata, which I'm pleased to have seen; 📱photo 30.10.25 in Cambridge
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A Long Hoverfly, Sphaerophoria scripta, enjoying the nectar of some Pink Yarrow until rudely disturbed by a Horse Fly, Tabanus molestus
#Hoverfly #HorseFly #PinkYarrow #WildWebsWednesday
A Long Hoverfly with black and yellow stripes along its slender body on the pink florets of a Yarrow flower A large black and grey Horse Fly on the same pink florets of a Yarrow flower after disturbing the Long Hoverfly
November 5, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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A Long Hoverfly, Sphaerophoria scripta, enjoying the nectar of some Pink Yarrow until rudely disturbed by a Horse Fly, Tabanus molestus
#Hoverfly #HorseFly #PinkYarrow #WildWebsWednesday
A Long Hoverfly with black and yellow stripes along its slender body on the pink florets of a Yarrow flower A large black and grey Horse Fly on the same pink florets of a Yarrow flower after disturbing the Long Hoverfly
November 5, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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A grey brick wall with 3 narrow opaque windows, seen in Cambridge
#WindowsOnWednesday #WindowsWednesday #WallsOnWednesday
A grey brick wall with 3 narrow opaque windows
November 5, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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Oriental Plane Tree, Platanus orientalis, in @cubotanicgarden.bsky.social (📱photo 1.10.25); according to legend the Tree of Hippocrates in Kos, is reputed to have been an Oriental Plane Tree under which the ancient Greek physician taught medicine
#TreeTuesday #TreeTrunkTuesday #ThickTrunkTuesday
Trunk of an Oriental Plane Tree, Platanus orientalis, with fallen leaves in the foreground and grass, shrubs and trees beyond
November 4, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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Delighted to see this eye-catching Viburnum shrub in @cubotanicgarden.bsky.social that has started to bloom; it seems to be Viburnum farreri, with clusters of pink buds that open into tubular, fragrant, white or pink flowers 💗
#Viburnum #ColorADay #ColourADay #PinkMon #PinkMonday #BloomScrolling
Clusters of tiny pink buds and white flowers on dark brown stems of a flowering shrub, Viburnum farreri
November 3, 2025 at 10:14 AM
edmondslyn.bsky.social
#TheWinter10
Part 3/3
Devil's-bit scabious, Succisa pratensis, Prickly Sow-thistle, Sonchus asper, Nipplewort, Lapsana communis and the last flower of a Viper's Bugloss, Echium vulgare, seen this week in Cambridge
#WildflowerHour @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social
Close-up of a Devil's-bit Scabious, Succisa pratensis, flowerhead with purple florets, pink anthers protruding from the flower against a lightly blurred background of green and brown leaves Yellow flower of Prickly Sow-thistle, Sonchus asper Small yellow flowers of Nipplewort, Lapsana communis, with green leaves in the background Small blue flower of Viper's Bugloss, Echium vulgare, surrounded by green leaves
November 2, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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#TheWinter10
Part 2/3
Common Mallow, Malva sylvestris, Ox-eye Daisy, Leucanthemum vulgare, Lesser Calamint, Calamintha nepeta and Red Campion, Silene dioica, seen this week in Cambridge
#WildflowerHour @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social
Common Mallow, Malva sylvestris, with five brightly coloured pink petals and green and brown leaves in the background Ox-eye Daisy, Leucanthemum vulgare, with white petals and a yellow centre Lesser Calamint, Calamintha nepeta, small pale lilac coloured flowers, with green leaves in the background Red Campion, Silene dioica, a solitary pink flower with a white centre, surrounded by green leaves
November 2, 2025 at 8:11 PM
edmondslyn.bsky.social
#TheWinter10
Part 1/3
Musk Mallow, Malva moschata, with raindrops and Common Ragwort, Jacobaea vulgaris, seen this week in Cambridge
#WildflowerHour @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social
Musk Mallow, Malva moschata, a pink flower splashed with raindrops and with green leaves in the background Common Ragwort, Jacobaea vulgaris, a cluster of small yellow flowers, with green and brown leaves in the background
November 2, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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#AlphabetChallenge #WeekRforRock

A moorhen perching and posing on a #rock in the lake in
@cubotanicgarden.bsky.social
#Moorhen #UKWildlife #WaterfowlWednesday
A black moorhen with a yellow-tipped red beak and yellow legs standing on a rock and facing to the front in a lake which has green lily pads and leaf litter in the background
November 1, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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#BlueSkyArtShow #Autumn

A Black Mulberry Tree wearing its #Autumn colours before its leaves fall and just catching the sun before it clouds over in @cubotanicgarden.bsky.social
#BlackMulberry #Trees
A tree with large heart-shaped leaves turning from green to yellow, with grass in the foreground
November 1, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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Public footpath signs at the rear gate of St Mary's Churchyard, Godmanchester, Cambridgeshire
#FingerpostFriday #FootpathFriday
A tall grey metal post on the right side of the image with two signs indicating a public footpath to the right and the left of it and an old grey metal gate on the left side of the image, with trees and a hedge in the background
October 31, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Reposted by Lyn Edmonds
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The Armistice of Mudros ended hostilities between the Ottoman Empire and the Allies of the First World War; it was signed on 30 October 1918 aboard HMS Agamemnon in Mudros Harbour, Lemnos and it took effect the next day
#MudrosArmistice #WW1 #FWW
HMS Agamemnon, during the Gallipoli campaign in 1915; Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
October 30, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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Lightly splashed with raindrops, a delicate, almost transparent yellow flower of the Common Hollyhock, Alcea rosea; seen October 2025 in @cubotanicgarden.bsky.social
#ColorADay #ColourADay #YellowThu #YellowThursday #ThursdayFlowers #BloomScrolling
Close-up of a yellow flower with very delicate petals, lightly splashed with raindrops against a lightly blurred green and brown background
October 30, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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Thomas à Becket®, a lovely crimson-red rose bred by David Austin and seen September 2025 in the Rose Garden at Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
#RoseWednesday #RedWed #RedWednesday #BloomScrolling @midsandeastnt.bsky.social🌹
Close-up of flowerheads and buds of a crimson-red rose surrounded by green leaves of the rose bush, with tall trees and cloudy blue sky beyond
October 29, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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Often hidden by vegetation an intriguing weather-worn carved relief attached to an old tiled wall near the Lode Mill in the grounds of Anglesey Abbey; have enquired about its story but sadly no reply yet
#WallsOnWednesday #ReliefWednesday @midsandeastnt.bsky.social
A weather-worn carved stone relief fixed to a wall, which has rows of tiles along the top; there are green plants growing on either side of the relief and in the lower foreground
October 29, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Reposted by Lyn Edmonds
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'He nobly answered duty’s call, his life he gave for us and all’

Remembering today Pte James Morris, 20th Bn #Manchester Regt, born #Withington, who died 28 Oct 1918 in the 29th Stationary Hospital, Turin

For more info:
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Private James Morris' grave in Turin Town Cemetery, which is marked with a Commonwealth War Graves headstone showing his name, rank, regiment, soldier number, age, date of death and epitaph; he died on 28 October 1918 in the 29th Stationary Hospital, Turin
October 28, 2025 at 1:27 PM