Julia Brigdale
@julia-in-between.bsky.social
Waterstones Romsey building their author events profile with this wonderful writer and all round beautiful person, Nicola Chester. And what a book to focus on, with a nod to the New Forest and a deeper gaze into farming on the Berkshire downs.
Join me @waterstones.bsky.social Romsey, Thursday 6th November, when I’ll be chatting about discovering some incredible, forgotten, rural women, cowgirls, farm wildlife & what happened when the farmgate was shut on women 80yrs ago. #GhostsoftheFarm @chelseagreenbooks.bsky.social
October 28, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Waterstones Romsey building their author events profile with this wonderful writer and all round beautiful person, Nicola Chester. And what a book to focus on, with a nod to the New Forest and a deeper gaze into farming on the Berkshire downs.
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This thread.. thank you, thank you @nmgarrard.bsky.social. If you like the sound of this, do please read, buy, borrow, listen, gift, review. These forgotten women & their ghosts will love you for it, as will I!
#GhostsOfTheFarm by @nicolawriting.bsky.social is an outstanding fusion of memoir and creative historical non-fiction. It is tender and sentiment-filled, without ever being sentimental, and strikes a deeply painful, elegiac note without losing hope…
October 23, 2025 at 9:11 AM
This thread.. thank you, thank you @nmgarrard.bsky.social. If you like the sound of this, do please read, buy, borrow, listen, gift, review. These forgotten women & their ghosts will love you for it, as will I!
What an extraordinary man #gaza #humankindness
October 8, 2025 at 6:58 PM
What an extraordinary man #gaza #humankindness
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now, I find, must only ever be 2-3 feet deep at most and perhaps from now on, seeing as I have witnessed its truth, it will be more willing to welcome me
October 6, 2025 at 10:26 AM
now, I find, must only ever be 2-3 feet deep at most and perhaps from now on, seeing as I have witnessed its truth, it will be more willing to welcome me
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A still summer-dry pond, which I have only ever understood to be black-water-deep-filled and oppressive
October 6, 2025 at 10:26 AM
A still summer-dry pond, which I have only ever understood to be black-water-deep-filled and oppressive
A still summer-dry pond, which I have only ever understood to be black-water-deep-filled and oppressive
October 6, 2025 at 10:26 AM
A still summer-dry pond, which I have only ever understood to be black-water-deep-filled and oppressive
The first of this year’s quince crop, just over the same again ripening still on the tree. The most ever from this fairly young tree and like everything else fruiting this season, it’s really gone for it.
September 28, 2025 at 10:48 AM
The first of this year’s quince crop, just over the same again ripening still on the tree. The most ever from this fairly young tree and like everything else fruiting this season, it’s really gone for it.
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My dearest wife,
It is week two of the Siege of Portland, and still these barbarians will not yield to our troops. We have severed the cords of their latte machines but they are making cowboy coffee in their camps, where loud ukulele songs of resistance even now drift in on the breeze.
It is week two of the Siege of Portland, and still these barbarians will not yield to our troops. We have severed the cords of their latte machines but they are making cowboy coffee in their camps, where loud ukulele songs of resistance even now drift in on the breeze.
Letter from the Portland War Front (humor about something deadly serious)
My dearest wife,
It is week two of the Siege of Portland, and still these barbarians will not yield to our troops. We have severed the cords of their latte machines but they are making cowboy coffee ...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com
September 28, 2025 at 5:06 AM
My dearest wife,
It is week two of the Siege of Portland, and still these barbarians will not yield to our troops. We have severed the cords of their latte machines but they are making cowboy coffee in their camps, where loud ukulele songs of resistance even now drift in on the breeze.
It is week two of the Siege of Portland, and still these barbarians will not yield to our troops. We have severed the cords of their latte machines but they are making cowboy coffee in their camps, where loud ukulele songs of resistance even now drift in on the breeze.
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If you pick up the Guardian Weekend Magazine today, please read about my daughter Milly’s battle with Lyme disease. And if you’re feeling bold, drop your copy into your local GP. There are thousands of Millys out there. Most are currently not helped at all by the NHS or, worse, not believed.
September 27, 2025 at 9:23 AM
If you pick up the Guardian Weekend Magazine today, please read about my daughter Milly’s battle with Lyme disease. And if you’re feeling bold, drop your copy into your local GP. There are thousands of Millys out there. Most are currently not helped at all by the NHS or, worse, not believed.
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This is the story of my daughter Milly and Lyme Disease. There was no rash, no "summer flu", NHS blood tests negative. And she's been ill for a quarter of her life.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
Thank you @lymediseaseuk.bsky.social & @lymeresourcecentre.bsky.social for raising UK awareness.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
Thank you @lymediseaseuk.bsky.social & @lymeresourcecentre.bsky.social for raising UK awareness.
As my daughter got sicker and sicker, our quest for answers dragged on. How did we all miss the bacteria taking over her body?
I write about nature, but when Milly got sick with a mystery illness, it never occurred to me that a long-forgotten tick bite could be the cause
www.theguardian.com
September 28, 2025 at 8:20 AM
This is the story of my daughter Milly and Lyme Disease. There was no rash, no "summer flu", NHS blood tests negative. And she's been ill for a quarter of her life.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
Thank you @lymediseaseuk.bsky.social & @lymeresourcecentre.bsky.social for raising UK awareness.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
Thank you @lymediseaseuk.bsky.social & @lymeresourcecentre.bsky.social for raising UK awareness.
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Please spread the word – we urgently need more Lyme-literate doctors, the NHS must take this seriously, @ukhsa.bsky.social needs to log ALL cases. How many more Millys are there out there who believe they have long covid or other illnesses and they actually have undiagnosed Lyme?
September 28, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Please spread the word – we urgently need more Lyme-literate doctors, the NHS must take this seriously, @ukhsa.bsky.social needs to log ALL cases. How many more Millys are there out there who believe they have long covid or other illnesses and they actually have undiagnosed Lyme?
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It's strange how sometimes your online shop can seem to have been rendered invisible! 😁 Here's a link if you need a few cards, or just fancy a browse to save some bits for later:
www.etsy.com/shop/SarahRo...
#shopindie #shopsmall #artist #UKGiftAM
www.etsy.com/shop/SarahRo...
#shopindie #shopsmall #artist #UKGiftAM
September 20, 2025 at 8:06 AM
It's strange how sometimes your online shop can seem to have been rendered invisible! 😁 Here's a link if you need a few cards, or just fancy a browse to save some bits for later:
www.etsy.com/shop/SarahRo...
#shopindie #shopsmall #artist #UKGiftAM
www.etsy.com/shop/SarahRo...
#shopindie #shopsmall #artist #UKGiftAM
It’s going pretty well, not SO distracted by the view that no work gets done, quite the opposite; as planned/hoped, the self-imposed few days solo in the motorhome is proving fruitful #amwriting #amediting
September 4, 2025 at 12:13 PM
It’s going pretty well, not SO distracted by the view that no work gets done, quite the opposite; as planned/hoped, the self-imposed few days solo in the motorhome is proving fruitful #amwriting #amediting
So very honoured to have read @nicolawriting.bsky.social ‘s new book, Ghosts of the Farm (30 Sept ‘25). Full of the best of what Nicola does so uniquely: the layering of perspectives and stories, coming together in a rich, poetic appraisal of our human relationship with nature & place. Bravo 👏
July 11, 2025 at 12:15 PM
So very honoured to have read @nicolawriting.bsky.social ‘s new book, Ghosts of the Farm (30 Sept ‘25). Full of the best of what Nicola does so uniquely: the layering of perspectives and stories, coming together in a rich, poetic appraisal of our human relationship with nature & place. Bravo 👏
Today’s treasure, Viola odorata alba (correct me if I have got the nomenclature wrong). First this clump and then others and further sprinkles along the hedgerow.
March 24, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Today’s treasure, Viola odorata alba (correct me if I have got the nomenclature wrong). First this clump and then others and further sprinkles along the hedgerow.
Bluebell no.2 in a different bit of woodland to yesterday’s initial find.
March 23, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Bluebell no.2 in a different bit of woodland to yesterday’s initial find.
Yesterday I went looking for windflowers, Anemonoides nemorosa, and found this, my first this spring. Further into the woodland and there were many.
March 22, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Yesterday I went looking for windflowers, Anemonoides nemorosa, and found this, my first this spring. Further into the woodland and there were many.
My favourite sign of spring. The first buds of the blackthorn blossom opening; I love the pin-prick effect of the multitude of flower buds, the winter twigs and the coating of lichen. So beautiful.
March 21, 2025 at 3:31 PM
My favourite sign of spring. The first buds of the blackthorn blossom opening; I love the pin-prick effect of the multitude of flower buds, the winter twigs and the coating of lichen. So beautiful.
March 18, 2025 at 9:22 AM
www.theguardian.com/environment/... The delights and, be careful, the perils, of foraging, with a timely nod to Nature's reciprocity from Michael White
Country diary: A cousin of the carrot with roastable roots | Michael White
Cranbrook, Kent: There’s a bounty of choice at the moment for the hungry forager, but it’s the alexanders that I’ve really got my eye on
www.theguardian.com
March 13, 2025 at 11:44 AM
www.theguardian.com/environment/... The delights and, be careful, the perils, of foraging, with a timely nod to Nature's reciprocity from Michael White
A timely blossom guide from @nicwilson.bsky.social A reminder that I need to get out and check my sepals to be sure of my blossom identification 😁
In today's @theguardian.com country diary, I'm taking a back-to-front look at spring blossom to see what the sepals can tell me.
#countrydiary #naturewriting #Hertfordshire
#countrydiary #naturewriting #Hertfordshire
Country diary: Cherry plum blossom brings a little spring spangle to the hedges | Nic Wilson
Hitchin, Hertfordshire: It’s often mistaken for blackthorn at this time of year, and you may be more familiar with its pink and purple varieties
www.theguardian.com
March 12, 2025 at 8:26 AM
A timely blossom guide from @nicwilson.bsky.social A reminder that I need to get out and check my sepals to be sure of my blossom identification 😁
An icy wind again. A herd of 20 roe deer ripple across the winter barley. A halo of light in the topper-most treetop; new leaf? catkins? rare sun-spot? The entrails of a deer smarting, glistening red in dried grass, no bones. A heron rising from the pond. Wild narcissi. Spring.
March 11, 2025 at 11:53 AM
An icy wind again. A herd of 20 roe deer ripple across the winter barley. A halo of light in the topper-most treetop; new leaf? catkins? rare sun-spot? The entrails of a deer smarting, glistening red in dried grass, no bones. A heron rising from the pond. Wild narcissi. Spring.
A box full of precious letters and diaries; looking back enables one to fathom the present, and move forward. I love hearing afresh my conversations with my grandpa, and dear, dear friends. #amwriting
March 11, 2025 at 9:42 AM
A box full of precious letters and diaries; looking back enables one to fathom the present, and move forward. I love hearing afresh my conversations with my grandpa, and dear, dear friends. #amwriting
My CDD* has at last come to an end
@themarshtit.bsky.social
In the usual place for my first chiffchaffs of the year, this yesterday, one calling from the woods nearby, another responding from within these trees ...
*chiffchaff deficiency disorder
@themarshtit.bsky.social
In the usual place for my first chiffchaffs of the year, this yesterday, one calling from the woods nearby, another responding from within these trees ...
*chiffchaff deficiency disorder
March 11, 2025 at 9:27 AM
My CDD* has at last come to an end
@themarshtit.bsky.social
In the usual place for my first chiffchaffs of the year, this yesterday, one calling from the woods nearby, another responding from within these trees ...
*chiffchaff deficiency disorder
@themarshtit.bsky.social
In the usual place for my first chiffchaffs of the year, this yesterday, one calling from the woods nearby, another responding from within these trees ...
*chiffchaff deficiency disorder