Rambling Scribe
@ramblingscribe.bsky.social
I've been known to ramble and do a bit of scribing. Nature, science, gardening, transport, architecture, books, films, TV, and theatre are my interests. That I can think of at the moment, anyway...
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Other work by the Ladybird artists
‘Life on the Tide Line’
(Shell Guide, 1959)
Artist : John Leigh-Pemberton
‘Life on the Tide Line’
(Shell Guide, 1959)
Artist : John Leigh-Pemberton
January 13, 2026 at 8:11 AM
Other work by the Ladybird artists
‘Life on the Tide Line’
(Shell Guide, 1959)
Artist : John Leigh-Pemberton
‘Life on the Tide Line’
(Shell Guide, 1959)
Artist : John Leigh-Pemberton
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I call on my party and my government to remove themselves entirely from X and communicate with the public where they actually participate online and can be protected from such illegality.
January 8, 2026 at 12:31 PM
I call on my party and my government to remove themselves entirely from X and communicate with the public where they actually participate online and can be protected from such illegality.
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‘January’ (Shell Guide, Flowers of the Countryside, 1955)
Artists: Edith and Rowland Hilder
Artists: Edith and Rowland Hilder
January 1, 2026 at 8:23 AM
‘January’ (Shell Guide, Flowers of the Countryside, 1955)
Artists: Edith and Rowland Hilder
Artists: Edith and Rowland Hilder
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Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar, window 22
Durham Cathedral
Artist: SRBadmin
Durham Cathedral
Artist: SRBadmin
December 22, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar, window 22
Durham Cathedral
Artist: SRBadmin
Durham Cathedral
Artist: SRBadmin
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Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar, window 12
‘December’
Artist: Ronald Lampitt
‘December’
Artist: Ronald Lampitt
December 12, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar, window 12
‘December’
Artist: Ronald Lampitt
‘December’
Artist: Ronald Lampitt
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Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar, window 10
Artist: Ronald Lampitt
Artist: Ronald Lampitt
December 10, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar, window 10
Artist: Ronald Lampitt
Artist: Ronald Lampitt
So many lovely things in the replies!
🌲 THE BIG CHRISTMAS GIFT THREAD! 🌲
If you are a creator or small shop/business, reply to this post with:
- pics and a brief description of what you do (don't forget the alt text!)
- a link or details on how people can buy
I will boost you!
Everyone else: buy the cool things! Repost this post! ⛄
If you are a creator or small shop/business, reply to this post with:
- pics and a brief description of what you do (don't forget the alt text!)
- a link or details on how people can buy
I will boost you!
Everyone else: buy the cool things! Repost this post! ⛄
December 4, 2025 at 10:01 AM
So many lovely things in the replies!
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Buying #Christmas cards or presents?
Shop with small independents (like me) instead of the big high street names.
www.gailmyerscough.co.uk
Are you a small business? Reply with your link. Let's support each other this Christmas.
Shop with small independents (like me) instead of the big high street names.
www.gailmyerscough.co.uk
Are you a small business? Reply with your link. Let's support each other this Christmas.
November 21, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Buying #Christmas cards or presents?
Shop with small independents (like me) instead of the big high street names.
www.gailmyerscough.co.uk
Are you a small business? Reply with your link. Let's support each other this Christmas.
Shop with small independents (like me) instead of the big high street names.
www.gailmyerscough.co.uk
Are you a small business? Reply with your link. Let's support each other this Christmas.
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What the husband @mjowen174.bsky.social says is true.
It’s been a bit quiet in my shop lately.
If you’re looking for #Christmas cards and gifts please have a look at my website.
gailmyerscough.co.uk
A repost would be lovely too.
It’s been a bit quiet in my shop lately.
If you’re looking for #Christmas cards and gifts please have a look at my website.
gailmyerscough.co.uk
A repost would be lovely too.
November 12, 2025 at 9:52 AM
What the husband @mjowen174.bsky.social says is true.
It’s been a bit quiet in my shop lately.
If you’re looking for #Christmas cards and gifts please have a look at my website.
gailmyerscough.co.uk
A repost would be lovely too.
It’s been a bit quiet in my shop lately.
If you’re looking for #Christmas cards and gifts please have a look at my website.
gailmyerscough.co.uk
A repost would be lovely too.
Reminds me of the time some of my colleagues were trying to access a server that had been set up by someone who'd moved on. I suggested trying "password".....it worked. 🤣
November 4, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Reminds me of the time some of my colleagues were trying to access a server that had been set up by someone who'd moved on. I suggested trying "password".....it worked. 🤣
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“An Autumn gale is stripping off the leaves and sweeping them along in the slanting squall of rain”
Artist: CF Tunnicliffe
Writer: EL Grant Watson
(What to Look for in Autumn, 1960)
Artist: CF Tunnicliffe
Writer: EL Grant Watson
(What to Look for in Autumn, 1960)
October 26, 2025 at 7:46 AM
“An Autumn gale is stripping off the leaves and sweeping them along in the slanting squall of rain”
Artist: CF Tunnicliffe
Writer: EL Grant Watson
(What to Look for in Autumn, 1960)
Artist: CF Tunnicliffe
Writer: EL Grant Watson
(What to Look for in Autumn, 1960)
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Other work by the Ladybird artists.
Shell Guide: Flowers of the Countryside. ‘October’
Artists: Edith Hilder
Rowland Hilder
Shell Guide: Flowers of the Countryside. ‘October’
Artists: Edith Hilder
Rowland Hilder
October 24, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Other work by the Ladybird artists.
Shell Guide: Flowers of the Countryside. ‘October’
Artists: Edith Hilder
Rowland Hilder
Shell Guide: Flowers of the Countryside. ‘October’
Artists: Edith Hilder
Rowland Hilder
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Ladybird Book Nature Corner.
Stonechat and Firecrest
Artist: John Leigh-Pemberton
Stonechat and Firecrest
Artist: John Leigh-Pemberton
October 17, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Ladybird Book Nature Corner.
Stonechat and Firecrest
Artist: John Leigh-Pemberton
Stonechat and Firecrest
Artist: John Leigh-Pemberton
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There's a new timepiece in town.
Rail Clock is a masterclass in meaningful simplicity.
Read all about it👇
transportdesigned.com/theres-a-new...
Rail Clock is a masterclass in meaningful simplicity.
Read all about it👇
transportdesigned.com/theres-a-new...
October 16, 2025 at 8:16 PM
There's a new timepiece in town.
Rail Clock is a masterclass in meaningful simplicity.
Read all about it👇
transportdesigned.com/theres-a-new...
Rail Clock is a masterclass in meaningful simplicity.
Read all about it👇
transportdesigned.com/theres-a-new...
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Autumnal collection, including little owl feather, seedheads & various lovely things that fell off trees.
Zoom in to the details if you’re feeling stressed-the patterns in nature have been shown to help our brains relax🪶:
Zoom in to the details if you’re feeling stressed-the patterns in nature have been shown to help our brains relax🪶:
October 15, 2025 at 6:44 AM
Autumnal collection, including little owl feather, seedheads & various lovely things that fell off trees.
Zoom in to the details if you’re feeling stressed-the patterns in nature have been shown to help our brains relax🪶:
Zoom in to the details if you’re feeling stressed-the patterns in nature have been shown to help our brains relax🪶:
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I’m Gail, a one woman business, based in Manchester.
I create prints, homewares & cards inspired by midcentury design, music and architecture.
Have a look gailmyerscough.co.uk
I create prints, homewares & cards inspired by midcentury design, music and architecture.
Have a look gailmyerscough.co.uk
October 12, 2025 at 8:45 AM
I’m Gail, a one woman business, based in Manchester.
I create prints, homewares & cards inspired by midcentury design, music and architecture.
Have a look gailmyerscough.co.uk
I create prints, homewares & cards inspired by midcentury design, music and architecture.
Have a look gailmyerscough.co.uk
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The founding of the National Trust, as covered by Look and Learn magazine, illustrated by Ronald Lampitt in the 1960s
September 23, 2025 at 6:56 AM
The founding of the National Trust, as covered by Look and Learn magazine, illustrated by Ronald Lampitt in the 1960s
I can't imagine the British Embassy staff in Washington are particularly upset at Mandy's departure....
September 11, 2025 at 5:37 PM
I can't imagine the British Embassy staff in Washington are particularly upset at Mandy's departure....
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Beautiful everyday Ladybird things, 1976.
A new LP
(And another nice bit of photo realism from artist Gerald Witcomb)
A new LP
(And another nice bit of photo realism from artist Gerald Witcomb)
August 19, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Beautiful everyday Ladybird things, 1976.
A new LP
(And another nice bit of photo realism from artist Gerald Witcomb)
A new LP
(And another nice bit of photo realism from artist Gerald Witcomb)
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Tens of thousands of cornflowers in a field in Wicken. Research shows that the sight of them will help you recover from sources of stress more quickly & boost dopamine release in your brain, lifting your mood…in case you need it just now:
August 4, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Tens of thousands of cornflowers in a field in Wicken. Research shows that the sight of them will help you recover from sources of stress more quickly & boost dopamine release in your brain, lifting your mood…in case you need it just now:
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“On the moorlands crystal clear streams run between boulders. Small waterfalls and rapids empty into pools”
Writer: EL Grant Watson
Artist: CF Tunnicliffe
(What to Look for in Summer, 1960)
Writer: EL Grant Watson
Artist: CF Tunnicliffe
(What to Look for in Summer, 1960)
August 3, 2025 at 7:37 AM
“On the moorlands crystal clear streams run between boulders. Small waterfalls and rapids empty into pools”
Writer: EL Grant Watson
Artist: CF Tunnicliffe
(What to Look for in Summer, 1960)
Writer: EL Grant Watson
Artist: CF Tunnicliffe
(What to Look for in Summer, 1960)
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Say hello to my brand new T-shirt collection.
Find them here gailmyerscough.co.uk/t-shirts
Which design would you like to see next?
Find them here gailmyerscough.co.uk/t-shirts
Which design would you like to see next?
July 25, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Say hello to my brand new T-shirt collection.
Find them here gailmyerscough.co.uk/t-shirts
Which design would you like to see next?
Find them here gailmyerscough.co.uk/t-shirts
Which design would you like to see next?
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“On the sands at low tide there are many interesting things to be found. They are not often so close together as in this picture, so some child must have collected these”
Artist: CF Tunnicliffe
Writer: EL Grant Watson
(What to Look for in Summer, 1960)
Artist: CF Tunnicliffe
Writer: EL Grant Watson
(What to Look for in Summer, 1960)
July 20, 2025 at 7:34 AM
“On the sands at low tide there are many interesting things to be found. They are not often so close together as in this picture, so some child must have collected these”
Artist: CF Tunnicliffe
Writer: EL Grant Watson
(What to Look for in Summer, 1960)
Artist: CF Tunnicliffe
Writer: EL Grant Watson
(What to Look for in Summer, 1960)
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british fan chat
![cartoon for the guardian by Stephen Collins - script as follows:
[Scene is a darkened LOFT. Amongst the boxes and junk are FOUR KNACKERED OLD FANS - three tower fans and one circular, with cracked grey plastic and buttons missing. One fan, TOWER FAN 1, is a bit taller than the others, and is addressing them]
1
TOWER FAN 1:
Right lads, get ready.
2
TOWER FAN 1:
This is our time.
3
TOWER FAN 1:
The time when we remember who we are, and why we’re here.
4
TOWER FAN 1:
We are the four crap fans in a British person’s loft,
and we are here to make absolutely no difference whatsoever.
5
TOWER FAN 1:
I know what you’re
thinking, lads:
6
TOWER FAN 1:
Surely this will be the year they finally replace us?
7
TOWER FAN 1:
Our plastic’s gone all brown... I haven’t oscillated since 2018...
8
TOWER FAN 1:
Dave here sounds like a spitfire and blows like a sad cat’s sigh…
TOWER FAN 2:
Cheers mate
9
TOWER FAN 1:
But no. These people are British, and every year, they forget the sun exists.
By the time they remember,
new fans will cost *four million pounds* on Amazon.
10
TOWER FAN 1:
So we’ll be back down there... shovelling thick air across the moaning faces of a species that cannot comprehend the concept of air conditioning, or even just closing the curtains when it’s hot out...
11
TOWER FAN 1:
...while they incessantly bang on about normally hot countries which this country is now temporarily a bit hotter than.
12
[The loft hatch opens and a person comes up the ladder]
PERSON:
APPARENTLY IT’S HOTTER THAN GREECE, LISA](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreidbpfu2ioghspjcg4xitzv655jzjwp5lgxk5hi3ag7sechgh222ze@jpeg)
May 14, 2025 at 12:20 PM
british fan chat