Joy Coulbeck
@obejoyful.bsky.social
Artist, folk singer, keeper of books, mother, grandmother, hope not hate 🎨🎸📚🍂🌻💙🇪🇺
Just what I needed to see this morning. Thank you @rdpphoto.bsky.social
April 8, 2025 at 6:46 AM
Just what I needed to see this morning. Thank you @rdpphoto.bsky.social
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Today is Candlemas- which must be the best name in the calendar.
Candlemas - a celebration of the return of light
Artist: Gerald Witcomb
Candlemas - a celebration of the return of light
Artist: Gerald Witcomb
February 2, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Today is Candlemas- which must be the best name in the calendar.
Candlemas - a celebration of the return of light
Artist: Gerald Witcomb
Candlemas - a celebration of the return of light
Artist: Gerald Witcomb
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Too wild today to work outside so I've been sorting out seeds - such a delightful job. Most are for us, to grow plants for the nursery. The surplus will go on ...drumroll...our new online shop which should be live on 1st Feb :-)
January 24, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Too wild today to work outside so I've been sorting out seeds - such a delightful job. Most are for us, to grow plants for the nursery. The surplus will go on ...drumroll...our new online shop which should be live on 1st Feb :-)
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Happy Imbolc! This old Celtic festival marks the start of spring, the beginning of the lambing season, and may have been dedicated to a goddess called Brigit, later St Brigid - the first female saint in Irish literature.
February 1, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Happy Imbolc! This old Celtic festival marks the start of spring, the beginning of the lambing season, and may have been dedicated to a goddess called Brigit, later St Brigid - the first female saint in Irish literature.
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I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world.
Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO
Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO
January 31, 2025 at 7:04 PM
I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world.
Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO
Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO
The bird place won’t let me
deactivate my account. What can I do? It just says error occurred try again later every time I try. Suggestions gratefully appreciated!
deactivate my account. What can I do? It just says error occurred try again later every time I try. Suggestions gratefully appreciated!
January 7, 2025 at 7:13 PM
The bird place won’t let me
deactivate my account. What can I do? It just says error occurred try again later every time I try. Suggestions gratefully appreciated!
deactivate my account. What can I do? It just says error occurred try again later every time I try. Suggestions gratefully appreciated!
Watching the delightful Mary Berry programme but I can’t detect what oil she keeps using. It sounds like samphire but nothing comes up on Google. Anyone know please?
November 26, 2024 at 7:50 PM
Watching the delightful Mary Berry programme but I can’t detect what oil she keeps using. It sounds like samphire but nothing comes up on Google. Anyone know please?
I keep combing my lists on the other place trying to find who’s over here so I can follow them. It’s a long job - maybe there’s a quicker way but I don’t know it. Need a cuppa! ☕️
November 19, 2024 at 8:19 PM
I keep combing my lists on the other place trying to find who’s over here so I can follow them. It’s a long job - maybe there’s a quicker way but I don’t know it. Need a cuppa! ☕️
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Stephen King, master of the horror novel, just quit Twitter because it'd become too "dark."
That's how horrifying Twitter is right now.
There may never be a more perfect expression of this fact.
That's how horrifying Twitter is right now.
There may never be a more perfect expression of this fact.
November 15, 2024 at 3:07 AM
Stephen King, master of the horror novel, just quit Twitter because it'd become too "dark."
That's how horrifying Twitter is right now.
There may never be a more perfect expression of this fact.
That's how horrifying Twitter is right now.
There may never be a more perfect expression of this fact.
Thinking about deleting my other account since EM is now following me.. what??😱. Does anyone know if you arrange folk into lists here. I shall miss my weather list in particular.
November 16, 2024 at 7:16 PM
Thinking about deleting my other account since EM is now following me.. what??😱. Does anyone know if you arrange folk into lists here. I shall miss my weather list in particular.
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Today would have been Carl Sagan's 90th birthday. He wrote this in 1995. Carl was absolutely right. #CarlSaganDay
November 9, 2024 at 11:34 PM
Today would have been Carl Sagan's 90th birthday. He wrote this in 1995. Carl was absolutely right. #CarlSaganDay
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Autumn Blackbirds on Crab Apples - by Malvern based Batik artist, Marie-Therese King.
More of Marie-Therese's gorgeous artwork, here: mariethereseking.uk
#birds #birdart #batik #art 🪶
More of Marie-Therese's gorgeous artwork, here: mariethereseking.uk
#birds #birdart #batik #art 🪶
November 10, 2024 at 7:21 AM
Autumn Blackbirds on Crab Apples - by Malvern based Batik artist, Marie-Therese King.
More of Marie-Therese's gorgeous artwork, here: mariethereseking.uk
#birds #birdart #batik #art 🪶
More of Marie-Therese's gorgeous artwork, here: mariethereseking.uk
#birds #birdart #batik #art 🪶
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This Sunday of Remembrance:
Project Small Exchanges: aide-memoire. “Wounded Child No Surviving Family.”
"WCNSF.'' acronym for Gaza Aid Workers.
"Lest we Forget."
Project Small Exchanges: aide-memoire. “Wounded Child No Surviving Family.”
"WCNSF.'' acronym for Gaza Aid Workers.
"Lest we Forget."
November 10, 2024 at 8:06 AM
This Sunday of Remembrance:
Project Small Exchanges: aide-memoire. “Wounded Child No Surviving Family.”
"WCNSF.'' acronym for Gaza Aid Workers.
"Lest we Forget."
Project Small Exchanges: aide-memoire. “Wounded Child No Surviving Family.”
"WCNSF.'' acronym for Gaza Aid Workers.
"Lest we Forget."
@riotgrandma.bsky.social hey glad to have found you! Hope you are well
October 20, 2023 at 5:31 PM
@riotgrandma.bsky.social hey glad to have found you! Hope you are well
@lomelindi12.bsky.social Hey there! Just found you - glad to see you here. Xx
October 20, 2023 at 8:37 AM
@lomelindi12.bsky.social Hey there! Just found you - glad to see you here. Xx
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“By the lakeside”
Teal, Shoveller, Lapwing and heron
Artist: CF Tunnicliffe
Teal, Shoveller, Lapwing and heron
Artist: CF Tunnicliffe
October 16, 2023 at 8:01 AM
“By the lakeside”
Teal, Shoveller, Lapwing and heron
Artist: CF Tunnicliffe
Teal, Shoveller, Lapwing and heron
Artist: CF Tunnicliffe
Loving it that we’ve got #wildflowerhour here
Hooray for another #wildflowerhpur here! My contributions come from an the walls and car parks of an urban walk this morning: Mexican fleabane, buddleia, ivy-leaved toadflax and something yellow (sorry! ID welcomed).
October 8, 2023 at 9:42 PM
Loving it that we’ve got #wildflowerhour here
Enjoying being on here and slowly finding like minded folks but now I must get some sleep so see y’all tomorrow. Another Lake District view taken by my son.
October 7, 2023 at 9:34 PM
Enjoying being on here and slowly finding like minded folks but now I must get some sleep so see y’all tomorrow. Another Lake District view taken by my son.
Can’t keep eyes open … look forward to finding more friends tomorrow. Here is one of my son’s lovely photos . Night night
October 6, 2023 at 10:09 PM
Can’t keep eyes open … look forward to finding more friends tomorrow. Here is one of my son’s lovely photos . Night night
@judsawyer.bsky.social thank you so very much for helping me to get here!
October 6, 2023 at 9:46 PM
@judsawyer.bsky.social thank you so very much for helping me to get here!
Sorry, sorry - thank you to Judith for the invitation. I shouldn’t have written my first post whilst half asleep!
October 6, 2023 at 9:46 PM
Sorry, sorry - thank you to Judith for the invitation. I shouldn’t have written my first post whilst half asleep!
Well this is refreshing .. thanks to Hilary for the invitation. Pity I can’t find my friends but I’ll keep trying.
October 6, 2023 at 9:29 PM
Well this is refreshing .. thanks to Hilary for the invitation. Pity I can’t find my friends but I’ll keep trying.