Jacqueline (Bee) Durban
@radicalhoneybee.bsky.social
#SmallBeauties, wild hope, & the quiet magic of a nice cup of tea. Writer. Wobbly Wayfarer. Possible hedgerow heretic. Hedgevicar of the #LittleChurchOfLoveOfTheWorld.
Yesterday's mini-beasts to say that, tonight from 9-10pm, is our #SmallBeautiesHour, preceded by #RemindCelestineAboutSmallBeautiesHourHour for @celestineandthehare.com! Do join us to celebrate the #SmallBeauties and perfect blisses of these early summer days. All very welcome #BecauseOfClem.
June 2, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Yesterday's mini-beasts to say that, tonight from 9-10pm, is our #SmallBeautiesHour, preceded by #RemindCelestineAboutSmallBeautiesHourHour for @celestineandthehare.com! Do join us to celebrate the #SmallBeauties and perfect blisses of these early summer days. All very welcome #BecauseOfClem.
Apple blossom to say that it's now #RemindCelestineAboutSmallBeautiesHourHour for @celestineandthehare.com & us all. #SmallBeautiesHour begins at 9pm. Join us sharing #SmallBeauties from your days #BecauseOfClem. I'm back to other work today but I will look forward to seeing the posts later.
April 21, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Apple blossom to say that it's now #RemindCelestineAboutSmallBeautiesHourHour for @celestineandthehare.com & us all. #SmallBeautiesHour begins at 9pm. Join us sharing #SmallBeauties from your days #BecauseOfClem. I'm back to other work today but I will look forward to seeing the posts later.
Some of today's #SmallBeauties for #SmallBeautiesHour: 2 weeks Spring Sabbatical for me, flowering redcurrants against blue sky, the teeniest tiniest daffodil, life growing in the cracks; groundsel, fennel, green alkanet, dandelions, hairy bittercress. Joy! #BecauseOfClem.
March 31, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Some of today's #SmallBeauties for #SmallBeautiesHour: 2 weeks Spring Sabbatical for me, flowering redcurrants against blue sky, the teeniest tiniest daffodil, life growing in the cracks; groundsel, fennel, green alkanet, dandelions, hairy bittercress. Joy! #BecauseOfClem.
Some of yesterday's #SmallBeauties for #SmallBeautiesHour: a bunch of tulips from our neighbours, a Mothers' Day card from my lady employer to say thank you for looking after her, Mothering Sunday daffodils from church, the most wonderful coconut macaroons. #BecauseOfClem
March 31, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Some of yesterday's #SmallBeauties for #SmallBeautiesHour: a bunch of tulips from our neighbours, a Mothers' Day card from my lady employer to say thank you for looking after her, Mothering Sunday daffodils from church, the most wonderful coconut macaroons. #BecauseOfClem
More March #SmallBeauties for #SmallBeautiesHour #BecauseOfClem: hedgehermitage benchlife, a sky full of blossom & bees, making wild garlic soup, a cat transfer in the lift at the health centre, a taxi driver wanting to learn which of my crutches goes in which hand. So kind.
March 31, 2025 at 8:33 PM
More March #SmallBeauties for #SmallBeautiesHour #BecauseOfClem: hedgehermitage benchlife, a sky full of blossom & bees, making wild garlic soup, a cat transfer in the lift at the health centre, a taxi driver wanting to learn which of my crutches goes in which hand. So kind.
More March #SmallBeauties for #SmallBeautiesHour #BecauseOfClem: a rebel poppy growing where she 'shouldn't', my favourite nettle catching the light, delicious (& ethical) dates to break the Ramadan fast ~ & look at the tin! And the return of slugs from their winter slumber.
March 31, 2025 at 8:32 PM
More March #SmallBeauties for #SmallBeautiesHour #BecauseOfClem: a rebel poppy growing where she 'shouldn't', my favourite nettle catching the light, delicious (& ethical) dates to break the Ramadan fast ~ & look at the tin! And the return of slugs from their winter slumber.
Hooray for being here for #smallbeautieshour for the next 3 weeks! I have missed it! Here then are some March #SmallBeauties: loving the presence of the everyday angel pigeons on warming days, the promise of clouds of yew pollen, the beauty of lacy hydrangea skeletons, violets.
March 31, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Hooray for being here for #smallbeautieshour for the next 3 weeks! I have missed it! Here then are some March #SmallBeauties: loving the presence of the everyday angel pigeons on warming days, the promise of clouds of yew pollen, the beauty of lacy hydrangea skeletons, violets.
The return of the baby nettles to say that it's now #RemindCelestineAboutSmallBeautiesHourHour for @celestineandthehare.com & us all. #SmallBeautiesHour begins at 9pm! Do join us sharing #SmallBeauties & tiny joys as little anchors in all that's good in this wobbly world. All very welcome!
February 10, 2025 at 8:06 PM
The return of the baby nettles to say that it's now #RemindCelestineAboutSmallBeautiesHourHour for @celestineandthehare.com & us all. #SmallBeautiesHour begins at 9pm! Do join us sharing #SmallBeauties & tiny joys as little anchors in all that's good in this wobbly world. All very welcome!
A crow in flight on a blue sky day to say that, tonight from 9-10pm, is our #SmallBeautiesHour, preceded by #RemindCelestineAboutSmallBeautiesHourHour for @celestineandthehare.com, which is now! Join us sharing your #SmallBeauties & tiny joys from these wobbly days. We do this #BecauseOfClem.
February 3, 2025 at 7:34 PM
A crow in flight on a blue sky day to say that, tonight from 9-10pm, is our #SmallBeautiesHour, preceded by #RemindCelestineAboutSmallBeautiesHourHour for @celestineandthehare.com, which is now! Join us sharing your #SmallBeauties & tiny joys from these wobbly days. We do this #BecauseOfClem.
The beautiful face of Lantern-eyed Danny Dyer, who is #NotOurCat, to say that it's now #RemindCelestineAboutSmallBeautiesHourHour for @celestineandthehare.com. #SmallBeautiesHour is at 9pm. All welcome to join us sharing & enjoying #SmallBeauties in these strange, wobbly times #BecauseOfClem.
January 27, 2025 at 7:30 PM
The beautiful face of Lantern-eyed Danny Dyer, who is #NotOurCat, to say that it's now #RemindCelestineAboutSmallBeautiesHourHour for @celestineandthehare.com. #SmallBeautiesHour is at 9pm. All welcome to join us sharing & enjoying #SmallBeauties in these strange, wobbly times #BecauseOfClem.
Not my cat snoozing on my legs in bed to say that it's now #RemindCelestineAboutSmallBeautiesHourHour for @celestineandthehare.com. Our #SmallBeautiesHour begins at 9pm. Be there and be small beautified #BecauseOfClem. Bring your #SmallBeauties & yourself. All very welcome!
January 20, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Not my cat snoozing on my legs in bed to say that it's now #RemindCelestineAboutSmallBeautiesHourHour for @celestineandthehare.com. Our #SmallBeautiesHour begins at 9pm. Be there and be small beautified #BecauseOfClem. Bring your #SmallBeauties & yourself. All very welcome!
January 16, 2025 at 11:58 AM
An exciting fungi finding to say that, tonight from 9pm, is our #SmallBeautiesHour, preceded by #RemindCelestineAboutSmallBeautiesHourHour for @celestineandthehare.com. Join us in this final sharing of #SmallBeauties of 2024 to end the old year well & start the new year bright #BecauseOfClem.
December 30, 2024 at 12:56 PM
An exciting fungi finding to say that, tonight from 9pm, is our #SmallBeautiesHour, preceded by #RemindCelestineAboutSmallBeautiesHourHour for @celestineandthehare.com. Join us in this final sharing of #SmallBeauties of 2024 to end the old year well & start the new year bright #BecauseOfClem.
Day 39 of #CommonersAdvent is The Canticle of the Bees: the Spells & Songs of Christmas Eve.
...the Psalmody of the Bees, Burning the Ashen Faggot, and Welsh Plygain singing. What could be more beautiful!?
beedurban.substack.com/p/the-cantic...
#Advent2024
...the Psalmody of the Bees, Burning the Ashen Faggot, and Welsh Plygain singing. What could be more beautiful!?
beedurban.substack.com/p/the-cantic...
#Advent2024
December 25, 2024 at 10:51 PM
Day 39 of #CommonersAdvent is The Canticle of the Bees: the Spells & Songs of Christmas Eve.
...the Psalmody of the Bees, Burning the Ashen Faggot, and Welsh Plygain singing. What could be more beautiful!?
beedurban.substack.com/p/the-cantic...
#Advent2024
...the Psalmody of the Bees, Burning the Ashen Faggot, and Welsh Plygain singing. What could be more beautiful!?
beedurban.substack.com/p/the-cantic...
#Advent2024
Days 34 & 35 of #CommonersAdvent are 'From Lack to Light', for a-Thomassing on St Thomas’ Day & the light of the Morning Star.
beedurban.substack.com/p/from-lack-...
#Advent2024
beedurban.substack.com/p/from-lack-...
#Advent2024
December 23, 2024 at 9:32 AM
Days 34 & 35 of #CommonersAdvent are 'From Lack to Light', for a-Thomassing on St Thomas’ Day & the light of the Morning Star.
beedurban.substack.com/p/from-lack-...
#Advent2024
beedurban.substack.com/p/from-lack-...
#Advent2024
Day 33 of #CommonersAdvent is ‘Embertide for a Shrew’
How does a tiny being survive the long dark?
...the frost & snow is scattered with the pattern of her pawprints & the trail of her tail; a constellation of faith that life endures.
beedurban.substack.com/p/embertide-...
#Advent2024
How does a tiny being survive the long dark?
...the frost & snow is scattered with the pattern of her pawprints & the trail of her tail; a constellation of faith that life endures.
beedurban.substack.com/p/embertide-...
#Advent2024
December 20, 2024 at 4:50 AM
Day 33 of #CommonersAdvent is ‘Embertide for a Shrew’
How does a tiny being survive the long dark?
...the frost & snow is scattered with the pattern of her pawprints & the trail of her tail; a constellation of faith that life endures.
beedurban.substack.com/p/embertide-...
#Advent2024
How does a tiny being survive the long dark?
...the frost & snow is scattered with the pattern of her pawprints & the trail of her tail; a constellation of faith that life endures.
beedurban.substack.com/p/embertide-...
#Advent2024
Day 32 of #CommonersAdvent is ‘The Winter Art of Tamsin Abbott’.
I adore the glass engravings of Tamsin Abbott, who writes;
“My work is influenced by this ancient land and how we are connected to it. The hills, the woods, the plants...”
beedurban.substack.com/p/the-winter...
#Advent2024
I adore the glass engravings of Tamsin Abbott, who writes;
“My work is influenced by this ancient land and how we are connected to it. The hills, the woods, the plants...”
beedurban.substack.com/p/the-winter...
#Advent2024
December 20, 2024 at 4:49 AM
Day 32 of #CommonersAdvent is ‘The Winter Art of Tamsin Abbott’.
I adore the glass engravings of Tamsin Abbott, who writes;
“My work is influenced by this ancient land and how we are connected to it. The hills, the woods, the plants...”
beedurban.substack.com/p/the-winter...
#Advent2024
I adore the glass engravings of Tamsin Abbott, who writes;
“My work is influenced by this ancient land and how we are connected to it. The hills, the woods, the plants...”
beedurban.substack.com/p/the-winter...
#Advent2024
Day 31 of #CommonersAdvent is all about the old growth fen-magic of cranberries, plus two festive makings!
Cranberries are edge-dwellers of the bogs & fens, & are woven into the Christmas story in the most surprising of ways...
beedurban.substack.com/p/old-growth...
#Advent2024
Cranberries are edge-dwellers of the bogs & fens, & are woven into the Christmas story in the most surprising of ways...
beedurban.substack.com/p/old-growth...
#Advent2024
December 18, 2024 at 2:55 AM
Day 31 of #CommonersAdvent is all about the old growth fen-magic of cranberries, plus two festive makings!
Cranberries are edge-dwellers of the bogs & fens, & are woven into the Christmas story in the most surprising of ways...
beedurban.substack.com/p/old-growth...
#Advent2024
Cranberries are edge-dwellers of the bogs & fens, & are woven into the Christmas story in the most surprising of ways...
beedurban.substack.com/p/old-growth...
#Advent2024
Day 28 of Commoners’ Advent is for the guelder rose and the beauty of winter.
Guelder rose is a sacred plant in Ukraine and symbolises connection, protection and blessings granted by the ancestors.
beedurban.substack.com/p/a-rose-in-...
#CelticAdvent #Advent2024
Guelder rose is a sacred plant in Ukraine and symbolises connection, protection and blessings granted by the ancestors.
beedurban.substack.com/p/a-rose-in-...
#CelticAdvent #Advent2024
December 15, 2024 at 7:49 AM
Day 28 of Commoners’ Advent is for the guelder rose and the beauty of winter.
Guelder rose is a sacred plant in Ukraine and symbolises connection, protection and blessings granted by the ancestors.
beedurban.substack.com/p/a-rose-in-...
#CelticAdvent #Advent2024
Guelder rose is a sacred plant in Ukraine and symbolises connection, protection and blessings granted by the ancestors.
beedurban.substack.com/p/a-rose-in-...
#CelticAdvent #Advent2024
Day 27 of #CommonersAdvent is for St Lucy's Day; as we begin, imperceptibly at first, to turn towards the light we must first honour the ‘midnight of the year’.
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December 15, 2024 at 12:14 AM
Day 27 of #CommonersAdvent is for St Lucy's Day; as we begin, imperceptibly at first, to turn towards the light we must first honour the ‘midnight of the year’.
beedurban.substack.com/p/glad-lucia...
beedurban.substack.com/p/glad-lucia...
For #CommonersAdvent, day 26: Carolling the Trees
Our Midwinter festivities are deeply intertwined with the enduring praise song of evergreens, & so today, for day 26 of Commoners’ Advent, I want to explore three carols that hold trees at their heart.
beedurban.substack.com/p/carolling-...
Our Midwinter festivities are deeply intertwined with the enduring praise song of evergreens, & so today, for day 26 of Commoners’ Advent, I want to explore three carols that hold trees at their heart.
beedurban.substack.com/p/carolling-...
December 13, 2024 at 4:28 AM
For #CommonersAdvent, day 26: Carolling the Trees
Our Midwinter festivities are deeply intertwined with the enduring praise song of evergreens, & so today, for day 26 of Commoners’ Advent, I want to explore three carols that hold trees at their heart.
beedurban.substack.com/p/carolling-...
Our Midwinter festivities are deeply intertwined with the enduring praise song of evergreens, & so today, for day 26 of Commoners’ Advent, I want to explore three carols that hold trees at their heart.
beedurban.substack.com/p/carolling-...
For #CommonersAdvent, day 23 ~ Gathering Up the Sun: the Cotehele Christmas Flower Garland.
Following a scattering of petals to Green Saint George, the Church of the Shepherd & the Shrew, & the hope that life will return in the spring.
beedurban.substack.com/p/gathering-...
#CelticAdvent
Following a scattering of petals to Green Saint George, the Church of the Shepherd & the Shrew, & the hope that life will return in the spring.
beedurban.substack.com/p/gathering-...
#CelticAdvent
December 11, 2024 at 1:49 AM
For #CommonersAdvent, day 23 ~ Gathering Up the Sun: the Cotehele Christmas Flower Garland.
Following a scattering of petals to Green Saint George, the Church of the Shepherd & the Shrew, & the hope that life will return in the spring.
beedurban.substack.com/p/gathering-...
#CelticAdvent
Following a scattering of petals to Green Saint George, the Church of the Shepherd & the Shrew, & the hope that life will return in the spring.
beedurban.substack.com/p/gathering-...
#CelticAdvent
A tiny beeswax Advent candle to say that it's now #RemindCelestineAboutSmallBeautiesHourHour for @celestineandthehare.com & us all. #SmallBeautiesHour begins at 9pm, or whenever! Do join us to share warming #SmallBeauties in community to keep out the winter storm. All v. welcome #BecauseOfClem.
December 9, 2024 at 7:53 PM
A tiny beeswax Advent candle to say that it's now #RemindCelestineAboutSmallBeautiesHourHour for @celestineandthehare.com & us all. #SmallBeautiesHour begins at 9pm, or whenever! Do join us to share warming #SmallBeauties in community to keep out the winter storm. All v. welcome #BecauseOfClem.
December 7, 2024 at 11:23 AM
For #CommonersAdvent, day 20: St Barbara: Hope that Blossoms in the Dark
beedurban.substack.com/p/st-barbara...
She is "...the sun in the dark, invoked against fire and lightning, causing fruit trees to flower in the winter, protecting those who work underground..."
#CelticAdvent #Advent2024
beedurban.substack.com/p/st-barbara...
She is "...the sun in the dark, invoked against fire and lightning, causing fruit trees to flower in the winter, protecting those who work underground..."
#CelticAdvent #Advent2024
December 6, 2024 at 5:30 AM
For #CommonersAdvent, day 20: St Barbara: Hope that Blossoms in the Dark
beedurban.substack.com/p/st-barbara...
She is "...the sun in the dark, invoked against fire and lightning, causing fruit trees to flower in the winter, protecting those who work underground..."
#CelticAdvent #Advent2024
beedurban.substack.com/p/st-barbara...
She is "...the sun in the dark, invoked against fire and lightning, causing fruit trees to flower in the winter, protecting those who work underground..."
#CelticAdvent #Advent2024