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Linda Daunter
@lindadaunter.bsky.social
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Still don't know what I want to do when I'm grown up.

In the meantime, I write (mostly short stories, flash fiction & unfinished novels), draw, paint, take photos, garden, daydream and dance when nobody's watching.

📍North West England
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Trying - and failing - to capture the magical moment on a stormy day when a brief burst of sunlight lit up the last of this silver birch tree's #bright yellow leaves before the wind blew them away.

#BlueSkyArtShow #watercolour #pencils
Painting on paper, using watercolours and Graphitint pencils, showing a windswept silver birch tree with autumnal yellow, green and brown leaves on an exposed moorland site beneath a dark, blue-grey sky.
November 15, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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It may technically be 24 hours long, but when you have to put the light on mid-afternoon because it's so dark outside, a #November day feels so short!
Looking through a raindrop covered window to a grey sky and blurred autumn foliage.
November 10, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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Amazing how a #BookPost can brighten an otherwise cold, dark and very wet day.

Thank you, @uncertainstories.com 10 out of 10 for your packaging skills - and the freebies.
Love the design of your Broken Ground anthology. I think I'll be reading it very s-l-o-w-l-y to make it last!

#ShortStories
A shallow cardboard box on a wooden table opened to show its contents: a book-shaped parcel wrapped neatly in white tissue paper with a pink and black circular seal on it, and a printed card from Uncertain Stories.
November 1, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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My fuchsias have put on a fantastic display this year. Hoping they'll survive the winter, but taken some cuttings to keep indoors just in case 🤞
Flowering fuchsia plant in mock stone garden container. Flowers have pale pink outer petals with deep pink centres.
October 25, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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The theme of today's #BlueSkyArtShow is #Inside so here's a sketch of the view from inside my house when the washing line in my back garden is full.
Plenty of wind to dry the washing today, but too cold to do any gardening out there! 🥶

#laundry #drawing #ink #ColouredPencil
A pen and ink sketch on brown paper with some coloured pencil added. Picture shows the view from a window looking out onto a small garden. There is a pot plant on the inside window sill with long, thin leaves. Outside, to the left, part of a rotary clothes line with washing on it can be seen. To the right, there is a small greenhouse, in the centre there is a bird feeder, and behind it a garage with trellis on its side wall and a flower bed at its base runs down to the end of the garden. In the background, the tops of a couple of trees and the roof of a neighbouring house can be seen.
October 25, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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Couldn't resist buying this Michaelmas daisy plant at the market last week. Love that shade of purple!

All I have to do now is find a space in the garden for it 🤔

#gardening #MichaelmasDaisy #AutumnColour
A healthy looking Michaelmas daisy plant - also known as an aster - covered in purple flowers. The plant is in a pot wrapped in a brown paper bag and standing on a wooden garden table.
October 20, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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And still the roses come!

My #DavidAustin roses - Roald Dahl and The Lady Gardener have bloomed all summer and are still producing new buds. Love them!

#roses #gardening
A bunch of roses in shades of yellow, apricot and pink in a ceramic jug decorated with fruits and flowers.
October 12, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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Still a little bit of summer in the garden.

#gardening #flowers
A newly opened yellow rose. A bright pink cosmos flower with yellow centre. A fuchsia plant in a mock stone garden container, with lots of flowers that have pale pink outer petals and dark pink inner parts.
October 9, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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Unless you're British 😉

Don't worry, I am British but still have to look it up.
Interestingly, while it is commonly assumed that till is an abbreviated form of until (the spellings 'till and 'til reflect this), till is in fact the earlier form. Until appears to have been formed by the addition of Old Norse und ‘as far as’ several hundred years after the date of the first records for till.
October 7, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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Of course I follow my grandmother's recipe for traditional Welsh cakes - except I substitute her lard for #vegetarian spread, use half white, half wholemeal flour instead of all white, swap white sugar for demerara (and less of it), and add 2 handfuls of sultanas instead of one.

#SameButDifferent
Freshly cooked Welsh cakes, sprinkled with sugar, on a cooling rack. Yum!
October 3, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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I'm sure the spider didn't choose to spin a web here in order to help the Perennial Pea plant grow higher, and the pea had no idea the spider would use its flowers as a comfortable hiding place while it waited to trap its dinner, but here they are living happily and helpfully together.

#symbiosis
The green tip of a Perennial Pea plant growing up against a brick wall with its tendrils wrapped around threads from a spider web. A garden spider is resting on a cluster of pale pink Perennial Pea flowers. Its fine, almost invisible web is attached to the flowers at the bottom and extends upwards.
September 29, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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One image to fit the #summer theme for today's #BlueSkyArtShow ?

How about this #pastel painting of some lilac?

Only wish I could learn to paint the gorgeous scent!
Pastel painting of a spray of lilac flowers and leaves on grey paper. ©️LindaDaunter
September 6, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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Proof of my kindness to slugs. Here are two exploring their forever home.
(Well it will be forever if they have the sense to stay there!)
September 3, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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Just to clarify ...

My 75 words that were published on www.paragraphplanet.com yesterday told a purely fictional story. I do not poison, squash or throw away the slugs in my garden. They are gently relocated to my nature reserve - the uncultivated patch behind the shed.
Screenshot of 75 word paragraph published on Paragraph Planet's website. Text reads : Pests. Sylvia always made sure her neighbours were out before slinging slugs over the garden fence, so she was just as shocked by the scream that rose from the other side as Edith from Number Eight had been when the slimy creatures rained down on her head. Both women stood on tiptoe to peer over the fence. Edith saw the trowel in Sylvia's hand. Sylvia saw the bowl of stolen raspberries. Neither said a word.
September 3, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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Here's something to brighten up a dull, wet Monday.
Already imagining the colourful garden I'm going to have next year!

😍🌻🌸💐🌼🌺🐝🦋

Thank you, @higgledygarden.bsky.social

#gardening #flowers
Seven brown paper seed packets with red Higgledy Garden logo stamped on them plus a coloured leaflet and handwritten note from Higgledy Garden, all in a loose pile on a wooden table.
September 1, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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Weather just right for the beginning of St Anne's Kite Festival yesterday - breezy enough to keep kites aloft but warm sunshine, and the rain kept away!

www.discoverfylde.co.uk/kitefestival/

#kites #LythamStAnnes #Lancashire #seaside
A sandy beach with groups of people watching a variety of colourful kites flying against a blue sky with white clouds. On the right of the foreground, the end of a Victorian pier can be seen with two people on top of it enjoying the view over the beach.
August 30, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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Can anyone tell me what these #insects are in my garden? Some kind of #wasps or #hoverflies ? Have they made these holes, is there a nest of them underneath? Or are they predators hunting something else that lives there?
August 23, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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Even on a sunny Sunday in August it's possible to find an empty, free car park and quiet country footpaths in #Lancashire

#DayTrip #exploring #countryside
One small blue car on an otherwise empty large gravelled parking area shaded by tall trees. A sunny, blue sky photo of a small, winding river with wildflowers and trees on its banks. Sheep are grazing in a field to its right and hills can be seen in the far distance. Photo of a Public Footpath sign fixed to a gate post in the foreground with a grassy path leading into the distance behind it. On the left of the path there is a field with sheep in it bounded by a wire fence, on the right there is a tall maize crop growing. Next to the gate post there is a clump of thistles with fluffy seed heads.
August 18, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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Where have all the blackbirds gone?

My rowan tree has a bumper crop of berries but a lot have already been blown of by recent strong winds. In previous years blackbirds & starlings have feasted on them but garden is eerily quiet now.

Are berries earlier than usual? #ClimateChange?
Clusters of bright red berries surrounded by green leaves of a rowan tree - also known as mountain ash - against a blue sky background.
August 13, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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Hoping a #Jagged hedge is OK for inclusion in this week's #BlueSkyArtShow.
Ten minute pencil sketch in car park while I was waiting for my husband, followed by a quick colouring in at home.
Love the cream and bright pink of the little terraced house - reminds me of raspberry ripple ice-cream!
Pencil sketch roughly coloured in with coloured pencils. Upper storey of small house seen above a green hedge with spikey leaves. Grey slate roof, two narrow windows with open curtains and vague objects inside. The house wall is pale cream, gutter, fascia, drain pipe at side and window sills are all bright pink.
August 9, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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Walking past my local community orchard during the dying gusts of #StormFloris I was alarmed by apples flying around me.

I usually leave the fruit for others to pick, but as these were landing at my feet it seemed rude not to rescue them.

Apple crumble for tea then!
#apples #windfall #FreeFood
About two dozen apples, mostly green with some red markings, inside a woven fabric bag.
August 5, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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When you neglect a few of the radishes you sowed last year, bumblebees get another source of nectar and you'll soon be able to harvest some free seeds for the next crop.

#bumblebee #GrowYourOwn #organic #gardening
A large mostly black bumblebee is feeding on a cluster of white flowers.
May 25, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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Spent a few moments enjoying this morning's barely there clouds and the scent of my neighbour's lilac ...

But now I must get to work!
The top of a lilac tree with clusters of lilac flowers and dark green leaves against a blue sky and wispy white clouds.
May 15, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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First rose of the year.
I've been watching buds on the rose bushes in my front garden, wondering when they'll flower, and completely missed this beauty opening in the back.
Don't know variety, old bush planted by previous occupant, but flowers all summer and has a lovely scent.

#gardening #roses
An open rose, mostly pale pink with cream patches on a few petals, surrounded by dark green leaves.
May 5, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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Just started The Whale at the End of the World by @johnironmonger.bsky.social I've seen a lot of good things about the author's new novel, The Wager and the Bear, but decided to start with his first book set in the same fictional Cornish village. Enjoying it so far ...
Paperback book titled The Whale at the End of the World by John Ironmonger. Cover has an illustration of a whale swimming just under the surface of the sea surrounded by small fishes, with a cluster of houses and a lighthouse on the land in the background.
May 5, 2025 at 12:25 PM