Jenny May
jennymay.bsky.social
Jenny May
@jennymay.bsky.social
Writer of life and nature with folk nature stories, podcast and essays on nature and us. Also writes about living with incurable cancer because we need to talk. Love, kindness and joy are everything.
Welcome to @gpatch.bsky.social sound engineer extraordinaire
November 16, 2024 at 11:38 AM
Deactivated the old evil place account - felt cleansing like having a good spring clean.

Anyway, chips or mash tonight?
November 10, 2024 at 5:39 PM
May your Sunday be slow and seeped in long moments where you get lost in flow and pockets of brightness.

I’ll try to do some catching up on following back new arrivals today. Welcome everyone.
November 10, 2024 at 10:10 AM
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Morning. I've just set up a starter pack on life writing. Please, please share around so I can develop the life writing community & add to the 25 writers on the list. Thank you!

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November 9, 2024 at 11:34 AM
Well, November has been rather grey so far, but the iris seeds are always good for a splash of brightness at this time.
Look for colour and you will find it.
November 7, 2024 at 5:01 PM
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This workshop on living more intentionally with mortality:

I'll be damned if I buried most of my closest friends, all of my elders, study climate psychology, work in alternatives to incarceration and wrestle with a unique cancer, for NOTHING.

This shit should least be useful for SOMEONE.
Mortality Workshop — What A Shrink Thinks
www.whatashrinkthinks.com
November 1, 2024 at 9:16 PM
Started the day being bitten by a weasel. Then had lovely few hours playing with nephews but goodness, cancer energy does not match that of a 2&4 yo. Have a hospice call this arvo that I have NO energy for but too late to cancel. Jobs to do. Need to crash. Cuppa and a crossword before anything else.
October 30, 2024 at 1:57 PM
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Here you go, a lovely Halloween vampire to print, colour in, cut out and make. If you want to skip the colouring in there's a full colour version on my Patreon.com/HappyToast at the cheapest support level.
October 27, 2024 at 3:55 PM
Finished. For my nephew’s 2nd birthday. #knitting
October 27, 2024 at 2:58 PM
Current status of knitting project - the dreaded weaving in of ends before assembly. Might need a second coffee.
October 26, 2024 at 9:30 AM
When you realise you missed ONE word in a knitting instruction and are now going to have to redo a whole piece. Hrumph!
October 25, 2024 at 11:16 AM
Forever ago my husband printed off a fab @happytoast.bsky.social colouring sheet for me. I’ve just got round to doing a bird a day and it’s amazing how just a couple of minutes of zone out helps with the sometimes overwhelm. Thank you Happy Toast! Only two left.
October 24, 2024 at 9:23 AM
An autumnal nature newsletter for you full of birds, gatherings, delicious things and craft.
#naturewriting #NatureWriting
Autumn Gatherings
But it is not just the wildlife that pulls towards each other at this time, we do too.
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October 22, 2024 at 5:51 PM
It’s an afternoon for ginger tea, blanket, knitting and Columbo.

Just one more thing - could someone come cook tea for me.
October 20, 2024 at 4:30 PM
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*Looking for fellow #naturalists!*

If you’re a naturalist / nature lover / ecologist or similar and post prose, poetry or art about nature / wildlife / birds / landscapes, please do connect with me!
September 24, 2024 at 8:20 AM
The air is coated in the mellifluous melting trickle of waterfall song from robin. It rings out through blue skies & from green to green. A chorus rabble of squeals, clicks, whistles & bubbling brings background jazz beats from the starlings that line the roof & aerials.
#NatureWriting
October 18, 2024 at 11:48 AM
There is something in the light today that is making me feel giddy with joy; it’s bright but soft, it seems to be making everything glow.
October 17, 2024 at 2:37 PM
Happy birthday to @loneyjane.bsky.social who i believe I have been besties with for 36 years now!!!
Here, have some summer roses m’love.
October 17, 2024 at 8:32 AM
Blue sky is stippled with white clouds and a susurration emanates from the trees as a wind turns up its pace, on and off, rattling silver moons of honesty below and above blowing the bubbling talk from goldfinch as they head home to roost. #naturewriting #NatureWriting
October 16, 2024 at 3:51 PM
Pears from my mum’s tree poached in cinnamon and maple syrup with buffalo yoghurt - just the treat I needed. Isn’t food goooood :)
October 16, 2024 at 12:08 PM
I am very wobbly today but also filled with a Big Love. From my shaky body to you all, big squishy hugs and some frabjous leaves.
October 13, 2024 at 10:59 AM
Got to do my first injection on myself of new meds and feeling decidedly wussy about it. Going to have a hunk of dark nut choc on standby for after as a reward.
October 11, 2024 at 4:36 PM
October is Breast Cancer Awareness month and so, being a 7.5 ongoing veteran of it, I have just published a new post in my ongoing quest to normalise the discussion around cancer and ALL it entails. CW death and dying as well as life:
Let things come, let things go - Jenny May
Talking about life death and cancer for breast cancer awareness month
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October 8, 2024 at 8:00 AM
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One for the Bullfinch fans.
Bullfinches in blossom limited edition linocut print, printed in 5 hand blended inks. Find the print in our lovely little online art shop here> littleramstudio.etsy.com
If not up for buying then a ReSkeet would help us find a larger audience which would help us just now.
October 4, 2024 at 7:00 PM
Peanut butter and figs on toast - I can recommend.

Rock and roll Friday.
October 4, 2024 at 6:23 PM