Joyce B
@joybar.bsky.social
Yorkshire lass. Writing, wildlife, clocks, laughter, kindness, history, genealogy.
ND - dxd autistic at 62 - T1D pumper/MECFS.
Author of Yorkshire 19thc historical fantasy romance novels 'Goatsucker Harvest' & 'Cloudhover Solstice' on Amazon.
ND - dxd autistic at 62 - T1D pumper/MECFS.
Author of Yorkshire 19thc historical fantasy romance novels 'Goatsucker Harvest' & 'Cloudhover Solstice' on Amazon.
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Joyce B
@joybar.bsky.social
· Mar 24
My historical fantasy fiction novels set in 1850s Yorkshire: 'Goatsucker Harvest' and 'Cloudhover Solstice'.
Available for your personal reading pleasure from Amazon. Let my words and your imagination sail you away from this ordinary world! #Books #Yorkshireauthor #alternativehistory
Available for your personal reading pleasure from Amazon. Let my words and your imagination sail you away from this ordinary world! #Books #Yorkshireauthor #alternativehistory
What to look for in #autumn...got my own little fungus foray right here in the back garden. 😉🍄🍄🍄
#fungi #mycology
#fungi #mycology
October 11, 2025 at 2:25 PM
What to look for in #autumn...got my own little fungus foray right here in the back garden. 😉🍄🍄🍄
#fungi #mycology
#fungi #mycology
Hovered by back door hearing only potential distant rumbling from the Red Arrows on their way north, but this cuddly character kept me company anyway. Skies still thundery grey over Wickersley.
Fair exchange is no robbery! 😄
#greysquirrel
[photos taken on mobile from back of my bridge camera.]
Fair exchange is no robbery! 😄
#greysquirrel
[photos taken on mobile from back of my bridge camera.]
July 20, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Hovered by back door hearing only potential distant rumbling from the Red Arrows on their way north, but this cuddly character kept me company anyway. Skies still thundery grey over Wickersley.
Fair exchange is no robbery! 😄
#greysquirrel
[photos taken on mobile from back of my bridge camera.]
Fair exchange is no robbery! 😄
#greysquirrel
[photos taken on mobile from back of my bridge camera.]
After decades of obsessively researching my ancestry from paper records, with my extended family tree groaning with 14k+ individuals, I'm finally seeing if my DNA holds any surprises and delights.
Wrote this to pass the time as I wait for the spit kit to arrive... #genealogy #familyhistory #poetry
Wrote this to pass the time as I wait for the spit kit to arrive... #genealogy #familyhistory #poetry
July 8, 2025 at 2:01 PM
After decades of obsessively researching my ancestry from paper records, with my extended family tree groaning with 14k+ individuals, I'm finally seeing if my DNA holds any surprises and delights.
Wrote this to pass the time as I wait for the spit kit to arrive... #genealogy #familyhistory #poetry
Wrote this to pass the time as I wait for the spit kit to arrive... #genealogy #familyhistory #poetry
Garden glimpses: Spiraea japonica 'Shirobana' (Joseph's Coat); Persicaria bistorta 'Superba'; Hosta in flower #gardening #flowers #shrubs #summer #plants
July 7, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Garden glimpses: Spiraea japonica 'Shirobana' (Joseph's Coat); Persicaria bistorta 'Superba'; Hosta in flower #gardening #flowers #shrubs #summer #plants
Cuter than cute baby Blackbird who hung around waiting for me to open the side gate so it could rejoin its parents in the back garden. #gardenfriends #turdusmerula
July 1, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Cuter than cute baby Blackbird who hung around waiting for me to open the side gate so it could rejoin its parents in the back garden. #gardenfriends #turdusmerula
Hebe salicifolia aka Shrubby Veronica.
I'm blessed with three hebe shrubs of different varieties and colours: deep purple under the fatsia japonica, pink under the lilac tree and white in the middle of the northern border between cotoneasters and other shrubs.
Glorious blooming summer!
I'm blessed with three hebe shrubs of different varieties and colours: deep purple under the fatsia japonica, pink under the lilac tree and white in the middle of the northern border between cotoneasters and other shrubs.
Glorious blooming summer!
June 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Hebe salicifolia aka Shrubby Veronica.
I'm blessed with three hebe shrubs of different varieties and colours: deep purple under the fatsia japonica, pink under the lilac tree and white in the middle of the northern border between cotoneasters and other shrubs.
Glorious blooming summer!
I'm blessed with three hebe shrubs of different varieties and colours: deep purple under the fatsia japonica, pink under the lilac tree and white in the middle of the northern border between cotoneasters and other shrubs.
Glorious blooming summer!
It's summer solstice! Perfect time for a voyage out of the ordinary, full of love, romance, intrigue, mystery, adventure, courage and laughter on a historical quest to save seabirds from a terrible fate in Victorian Flamborough.
'Cloudhover Solstice' is waiting to sail you away!
amzn.eu/d/fsHjS7O
'Cloudhover Solstice' is waiting to sail you away!
amzn.eu/d/fsHjS7O
Cloudhover Solstice eBook : Barrass, Joyce: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store
Cloudhover Solstice eBook : Barrass, Joyce: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store
amzn.eu
June 20, 2025 at 8:01 AM
It's summer solstice! Perfect time for a voyage out of the ordinary, full of love, romance, intrigue, mystery, adventure, courage and laughter on a historical quest to save seabirds from a terrible fate in Victorian Flamborough.
'Cloudhover Solstice' is waiting to sail you away!
amzn.eu/d/fsHjS7O
'Cloudhover Solstice' is waiting to sail you away!
amzn.eu/d/fsHjS7O
This secretive little artist leaves his looping silver
nocturnal masterpieces on my conservatory floor through the summer. Today, the heatwave caused him to leave himself exposed on a cooler surface, so I could photo him and escort him to a more suitable location on the compost heap.
#yellowslug
nocturnal masterpieces on my conservatory floor through the summer. Today, the heatwave caused him to leave himself exposed on a cooler surface, so I could photo him and escort him to a more suitable location on the compost heap.
#yellowslug
June 19, 2025 at 9:35 AM
This secretive little artist leaves his looping silver
nocturnal masterpieces on my conservatory floor through the summer. Today, the heatwave caused him to leave himself exposed on a cooler surface, so I could photo him and escort him to a more suitable location on the compost heap.
#yellowslug
nocturnal masterpieces on my conservatory floor through the summer. Today, the heatwave caused him to leave himself exposed on a cooler surface, so I could photo him and escort him to a more suitable location on the compost heap.
#yellowslug
My bird bath being surrounded by my over-enthusiastic Hosta 'Sum and Substance" - really living up to its name this year. 🌱🌿⛲
June 19, 2025 at 9:24 AM
My bird bath being surrounded by my over-enthusiastic Hosta 'Sum and Substance" - really living up to its name this year. 🌱🌿⛲
Didn't think I could love nature any more than I do, but midway between cataract ops, after a lifetime of myopia, today down Wickersley Gorse, South Yorkshire, UK, without specs for the first time in 50+ years, 20/20 vision now in my right, overwhelmed by colour and clarity, my joy is complete! 😃
June 18, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Didn't think I could love nature any more than I do, but midway between cataract ops, after a lifetime of myopia, today down Wickersley Gorse, South Yorkshire, UK, without specs for the first time in 50+ years, 20/20 vision now in my right, overwhelmed by colour and clarity, my joy is complete! 😃
Foxglove and bracken, Wickersley Gorse, South Yorkshire, UK
June 18, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Foxglove and bracken, Wickersley Gorse, South Yorkshire, UK
Cool trees, trickling beck, singing birds, cornfields, bracken and all the secluded beauty of Wickersley Gorse, South Yorkshire, UK on this sweltering summer afternoon.
June 18, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Cool trees, trickling beck, singing birds, cornfields, bracken and all the secluded beauty of Wickersley Gorse, South Yorkshire, UK on this sweltering summer afternoon.
Author's latest pencil sketch of Bram, co-hero of my novels 'Goatsucker Harvest', 'Cloudhover Solstice' and the next one, my work in progress. ❤
(And that, dear followers, is why I'm a writer, not a sketch artist, but I enjoy both, which is really all that matters 😂)
(And that, dear followers, is why I'm a writer, not a sketch artist, but I enjoy both, which is really all that matters 😂)
June 7, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Author's latest pencil sketch of Bram, co-hero of my novels 'Goatsucker Harvest', 'Cloudhover Solstice' and the next one, my work in progress. ❤
(And that, dear followers, is why I'm a writer, not a sketch artist, but I enjoy both, which is really all that matters 😂)
(And that, dear followers, is why I'm a writer, not a sketch artist, but I enjoy both, which is really all that matters 😂)
A beloved visitor right by the back door - Song Thrush (Turdus philomelos) ❤
(Taken on my android phone from back of my Kodak Pixpro AZ405)
#birds #thrushes #gardenfriends
(Taken on my android phone from back of my Kodak Pixpro AZ405)
#birds #thrushes #gardenfriends
June 2, 2025 at 1:30 PM
A beloved visitor right by the back door - Song Thrush (Turdus philomelos) ❤
(Taken on my android phone from back of my Kodak Pixpro AZ405)
#birds #thrushes #gardenfriends
(Taken on my android phone from back of my Kodak Pixpro AZ405)
#birds #thrushes #gardenfriends
Glimmers from my garden today: Aquilegia (Grannies' Bonnets/Columbine); Cerastium tormentosum (Snow-in-Summer); Osteospermum (Cape Daisy)
May 10, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Glimmers from my garden today: Aquilegia (Grannies' Bonnets/Columbine); Cerastium tormentosum (Snow-in-Summer); Osteospermum (Cape Daisy)
Sun and cumulus, South Yorkshire today #cloudspotting
May 10, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Sun and cumulus, South Yorkshire today #cloudspotting
My lilac tree is blossoming! 😍
May 2, 2025 at 4:08 PM
My lilac tree is blossoming! 😍
Hawthorn doing a preemptive strike with its May blossom this penultimate day of April; wild garlic (ramsons); dandelion; horse chestnut 'candle' - Wickersley Gorse, South Yorkshire
#spring #Yorkshire #woodland #plants #trees
#spring #Yorkshire #woodland #plants #trees
April 29, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Hawthorn doing a preemptive strike with its May blossom this penultimate day of April; wild garlic (ramsons); dandelion; horse chestnut 'candle' - Wickersley Gorse, South Yorkshire
#spring #Yorkshire #woodland #plants #trees
#spring #Yorkshire #woodland #plants #trees
Flag on tower of St Albans Parish Church for St George's Day, Wickersley, South Yorkshire.
April 28, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Flag on tower of St Albans Parish Church for St George's Day, Wickersley, South Yorkshire.
Bluebell season, St. George's Day (rescheduled this year from the 23rd to save it falling in Easter week), Wickersley Gorse, South Yorkshire.
(Also - spot the Wood Pigeon.😉)
(Also - spot the Wood Pigeon.😉)
April 28, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Bluebell season, St. George's Day (rescheduled this year from the 23rd to save it falling in Easter week), Wickersley Gorse, South Yorkshire.
(Also - spot the Wood Pigeon.😉)
(Also - spot the Wood Pigeon.😉)