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kellycat.bsky.social
@kellycat.bsky.social
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Recently retired, now spending lots of time outdoors and enjoying being away from a desk. 🐾🐈☀️🐴🌿🌼🦊🦇🦆🦢🐝🦋📷
Love cats, books, photography, my garden, allotment and wildlife.
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kellycat.bsky.social @kellycat.bsky.social · Nov 17
First post in this new place 🦋
Our beloved rescue cat. Sadly no longer with us 🌈 but lived a long and happy life after being saved by Cats Protection.
#adoptdontshop #catsprotection #tabby
Fluffy brown tabby cat with magnificent whiskers sitting outside in the garden surrounded by lots of lovely greenery.
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Looks like today's festive friend has some last minute Christmas errands to run...

Only two more sleeps to go! 🎄🎁😍

#RSPBAdvent25
December 23, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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A tiny bundle of winter cheer is bouncing through our snowy woodland today…

Shall we see who’s behind door 20? ❄️✨

#RSPBAdvent25
December 20, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar
Window 20
‘Winter Sunrise’
Artist: SR Badmin
A very delicate, finely-detailed mixed-media illustration looking down through winter trees passed a herd of deer towards a wooded valley and golden winter sunrise
December 20, 2025 at 8:11 AM
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A familiar friend is hiding behind today’s door...can you guess who? ✨

#RSPBAdvent25
December 14, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar, window 14
‘Ponies in the Snow’
Artist: CF Tunnicliffe
In a wooded lane filled with heavy snow, a group of sturdy ponies wait stoically by a gate. The snow-traced branches make an arch over their heads.
December 14, 2025 at 8:16 AM
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#GladdersAdventCalendar Day 10
December 10, 2025 at 7:03 AM
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One of the woodland's most colourful characters wants in on the festive fun...

Door 6 is calling! 🎄✨

#RSPBAdvent25
December 6, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar
Window 7
‘Frost’
Artist: CF Tunnicliffe
A view over a ploughed field towards an ancient barn topped with snow. There is a hard hoar frost tracing cobwebs and making the going hard for the corvids in the field
December 7, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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A mosaic of fallen leaves; beauty in decay.
A nine-panel collage of frosted leaves on the ground, featuring silver-rimmed bramble leaves and curled brown autumn leaves, each coated with a fine layer of white frost against grass and leaf litter.
December 7, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar, window 2

No one does bleak-but-beautiful-winter like
artist Rowland Hilder
A bleak and chilly scene of a flat landscape under a hard frost as a pale sun behind thin cloud gives the sky a brown tinge
December 2, 2025 at 8:14 AM
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Two festive friends are hiding behind today's door... Who could they be? ✨

#RSPBAdvent25
December 2, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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Our Christmas countdown for nature lovers is back! 😍🎄

A little bit of wildlife magic every morning...

Who's ready to open door 1 with us?

#RSPBAdvent
December 1, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar, window 1
‘The village’
Artist: SR Badmin
A village scene featuring lots of activity around a frozen pond with children skating, walking and playing
December 1, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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Other work by the Ladybird artists
‘Stopham Bridge in Autumn’
Artist: SR Badmin
The stone bridge with numerous bends is shown in a soft autumn light
November 26, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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Other work by the Ladybird artists.
Monsal Dale in Autumn
Cover picture, Readers Digest, 1983
Artist: SR Badmin
A scene full of intense autumnal colour, looking towards distant hills and crags with foreground of river and a farmstead
November 15, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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Beatrix Potter painted stunning watercolours of fungi as well as animals and we needed you to know that.
Watercolour of two fly agaric toadstools in a leafy setting. The toadstools have their characteristic white stems, red caps and white spots.
November 12, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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Other work by the Ladybird artists
Red Squirrel
Artist: CF Tunnicliffe
A pair of squirrels pose with great drama high up on a branch of scots pine.
November 7, 2025 at 8:16 AM
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Hare is looking forward to the largest, brightest, full moon of the year (Nov 5th)
#FullMoon #BeaverMoon #SuperMoon #WhenBeastsSpoke #MoonGazingHare #Hare #WildlifeArt
HARE WAITED AS QUIET FELL OVER THE EARTH. SHE FELT HERSELF CALM WITH THE FADING DAY. MOON CAME TO JOIN HER, AND TOGETHER THEY SAT AND LISTENED TO THE STILLNESS TOMORROW SHE'D BE WILD AGAIN, BUT TONIGHT SHE'D BE AS CALM AS THE WINTER AIR, AS SOFT AS THE SETTLING SNOW.
November 4, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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Our #AutumnArrivalSpotlight is on the Whooper Swan.

These elegant swans fly in from Iceland, their trumpet-like calls echoing across UK wetlands as they gather for winter.
October 30, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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'Fishing Otter' linocut and silkscreen print by Angela Harding, contemporary artist based in the UK #WomensArt
Print featuring an otter facing downwards while swimming and following fish in swirling turquoise water
October 22, 2025 at 4:41 AM
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“By the lakeside”
Teal, Shoveller, Lapwing and heron
Artist: CF Tunnicliffe
(What to Look for in Autumn, 1960)
The illustration shows the groups of birds on a muddy bank on a damp October day
October 22, 2025 at 7:03 AM
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"The prickly seed-shucks of the chestnut have fallen and burst open, some of them spilling the brown conkers out of the soft linings that have contained and nourished them“
Artist: CF Tunnicliffe
Writer: EL Grant Watson
A weasel standby a small log, surrounded by horse chestnut leaves and conkers
October 19, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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Other work by the Ladybird artists
‘Matlock Dale’, 1962
Artist: SR Badmin
A view from a vantage point looking through to the town as it climbs the crag, dotted with autumn trees, glowing in the early evening light
October 18, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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Other work of the Ladybird artists.
October (Shell Guide, 1957)
Artist: SR Badmin
Finally detailed mixed media illustration looking down into a mature glade of autumn trees. In the foreground the picture is framed by leaves and fruit of the same trees.
October 10, 2025 at 7:19 AM
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Harvest Mouse (1949)
Artist: Septimus Scott
Two harvest mice in a field of ripened wheat. One has climbed the stalk to the ear and has started to nibble. The other looks on. Colour is provided by splashes of red from poppies in the field.
July 18, 2025 at 7:21 PM