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Emma Bridges
@emmabridges.bsky.social
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Senior Lecturer and Staff Tutor in Classical Studies at the Open University. Thinks a lot about making humanities education accessible.
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Thank you for the inspiration @silverpebble2.bsky.social #TinyJoys
Three tiny posies: purple violas in a blue glass bottle; tiny pink tulips and pink/white alliums in a cream ceramic bottle; blue periwinkles in a green glass bottle.
April 26, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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Today's literal #TinyJoys are these adorable antique shop purchases ready for making tiny posies, inspired by @silverpebble2.bsky.social
A tiny pale green glass ink bottle, a tiny blue glass bottle and a ceramic container once used for storing cream.
April 26, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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'tis the season for very many garden-related #TinyJoys. Today it's the turn of these tiny tulips which opened overnight 🌷
Tiny tulips with star-shaped flower heads growing at the base of a tree. The outer petals are creamy white and they have bright yellow middles.
March 21, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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If you see this, quote with flowers from your gallery.
Star shaped purple and white clematis flowers and their green leaves growing against a fence.
February 6, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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#TinyJoys is a daily recce of the garden to see what's growing... won't be long now!
Green shoots poking up against a background of bare soil and fallen leaves. Tree covered in tiny leaf buds. A single snowdrop in bud.
January 9, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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Today's #TinyJoys is adding birthday dates to my fabulous 2025 calendar from @flaroh.bsky.social. January features Helen 'Lovestruck'
A wall calendar open on January. The illustration shows a woman dressed in red; yellow and blue with streaming dark hair and an arrow piercing her chest. In the background are two sailing ships.
January 5, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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#TinyJoys is having the time to complete a wintry jigsaw puzzle
Completed jigsaw puzzle showing a snowy scene with a little cottage in the centre, two hares in the foreground and a magical-looking night sky with colours ranging from fiery yellow to deep blue, and a shooting star.
January 4, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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What a sky. #TinyJoys
Sunset sky in hues of fiery pinks and dusky purples with the silhouette of bare trees
December 15, 2024 at 4:15 PM
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literally just snapped this here
Sunset sky in hues of fiery pinks and dusky purples with the silhouette of bare trees
December 15, 2024 at 4:14 PM
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#TinyJoys = an hour in the garden before dusk to pot up some spring bulbs and violas in a couple of giant pots (gravel for squirrel proofing with any luck 🤞)
A large stone pot with several viola plants visible and a layer of gravel (underneath which is a selection of not-yet-visible spring bulbs just waiting to surprise me when they do their magic thing)
November 3, 2024 at 5:43 PM
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A new hobby which I've recently discovered is very soothing and also helps concentration in online meetings. Often inspired by my garden too - double #TinyJoys 🪻🌸
Embroidered allium and salvia flowers in shades of purple with green leaves. Multi-coloured embroidered flowers.
October 5, 2024 at 3:55 PM
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Even inspired my recent embroidery... #TinyJoys
Embroidery hoop with an embroidered dahlia flower with a yellow and orange middle and red petals
October 5, 2024 at 3:49 PM
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Snap! The gift that keeps on giving... just picked these and still dozens in flower/bud.
A bunch of colourful dahlias.
October 5, 2024 at 3:47 PM
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Treat in the post today thanks to @carolawrence.bsky.social and @flaroh.bsky.social - congrats to author and illustrator on this stunning guide to the Greek gods and goddesses. Will make an interesting accompaniment to Kaos viewing 😄
A hardback book by Caroline Lawrence titled 'Pantheon: an illustrated handbook to the Greek gods and goddesses' illustrated by Flora Kirk. The cover features an image of a goddess in blue tones, wearing a gold leafy headdress and a gold earrings. A double page spread featuring the goddess Athena, with an illustration of her in shades of red, wearing a golden helmet and aegis and accompanied by an owl and an olive branch.
September 13, 2024 at 3:44 PM
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More often than not my #tinyjoys these days are garden-related. Atm the dahlias are putting on a show (my first attempt at growing them and it feels like a kind of magic to have created these beauties from scruffy-looking tubers).
Vividly coloured single dahlia flower with a yellow middle surrounded by bright red/orange petals. Several giant spiky-petalled dahlia flowers which looking fireworks in shades of mostly deep red with smatterings of yellow. Single deep fuchsia-pink dahlia flower. In the background are green leaves and peach-coloured dahlias. A bunch of white dahlia flowers whose petals are edged with deep pink/purple.
August 29, 2024 at 6:33 PM
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You can read a chapter of my book for free here until 5 Jan: academic.oup.com/book/47079/c.... And if you fancy owning your own copy after that OUP are currently offering a 30% discount (details in image and alt text).
Flyer for Warriors' Wives: Ancient Greek Myth and Modern Experience by Emma Bridges, with the info 'Order online with AAFLYG6 promotion code to save 30%. Please note that the currency is in UK sterling and US dollars, and the discount is only valid on global.oup.com'
December 8, 2023 at 4:23 PM
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If you fancy some non-fiction this is nourishing and beautiful and fascinating and life-affirming. Most definitely one for chilling with.
A book called 'The Well Gardened Mind' by Sue Stuart-Smith.
December 5, 2023 at 8:17 AM