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randomhuman42.bsky.social
Sally A
@randomhuman42.bsky.social
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Geordie, Quaker, dog lover, carer, death of house plants. Firm believer that a cup of tea and cake (or possibly biscuits) will help whatever the problem is.
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Trying to get pictures of things I notice on dog walks, and the dog is helping! He did not eat any mushrooms.

#lurcherlove #urbannature #dogs #dogsofbsky
Some mushrooms with white and brown tops are growing amount dead leaves in the undergrowth. There is greenery in the background. A brown lurcher/greyhound with a white nose is sniffing one of several mushrooms. He is wearing. Black harness and black and white checked collar. The mushrooms have white and brown tops and are growing among dead leaves. There is greenery in the background.
September 30, 2025 at 5:29 PM
randomhuman42.bsky.social
He didn’t fit in the dog frame though 😂
#poochpassport @nationaltrust.org.uk #lurcherlove
A tan sighthound with a white muzzle is standing in the sunshine on grass, wearing a black harness. He’s behind a pink frame with blue paw prints on it, the National Trust logo and “Share your adventures. #poochpassport” written along the top. His back legs and tail are sticking out the far side of the frame. The shadows on the grass clearly indicate that someone is standing just out of shot holding his lead.
September 18, 2025 at 6:53 PM
randomhuman42.bsky.social
Lovely day exploring at @nationaltrust.org.uk Cragside. Me and the dog tried the Gun Walk while the others toured the house. We particularly liked the stable converted into dog friendly cafe seating, with room for him to stretch out.
#cragside #dogs #lurcherlove
A narrow footpath with trees on the left hand side and a rocky crag on the right side. A brown lurcher with a white muzzle is standing looking at the camera. He’s wearing a checked collar and black harness. He’s standing next to a table. A tan sighthound with a white muzzle is lying on a fleecy blanket on a wooden floor with stable fixtures behind him. He’s wearing a checked collar, a black harness and a “please give me the biscuit” expression. His red lead is hooked onto a ring which must have been intended for horses harnesses. A craggy outcrop on the left of a footpath through woods. The risks are forming a narrow archway which the path goes under. The sun is coming through the trees.
September 18, 2025 at 6:47 PM
randomhuman42.bsky.social
I’ve had a stressful few weeks, trying to be more aware when out and around to avoid overthinking. Spotting berries today. #urbannature
Lots of tiny orange berries with a background of greenery. Lots of little red berries on a background of greenery. Branches covered in red berries and green leaves. A stem with white berries with a background of greenery.
September 17, 2025 at 6:56 PM
randomhuman42.bsky.social
Spotted a hedgehog on tonight’s dog walk. Not a great picture as the dog spotted it too and had to be kept away!
#urbannature
July 1, 2025 at 9:58 PM
randomhuman42.bsky.social
Lovely day today at Beamish Museum with daughter and dog. Highlights were doggy ice cream and 3 day old piglets ❤️ Really glad to hear this evening that they’ve won Museum of the Year 🏆
#beamishmuseum #dogfriendly #lurcherlove #dogs #dogsofbluesky #dogsofbsky #museums
A brown lurcher with a white muzzle is relaxing in front of a real fire in a historic pub within Beamish Museum. He’s wearing a checked black and white collar, a black harness with a red lead. He’s looking keenly just off camera with his ears pricked up - almost as if someone was holding a treat just out of shot. A vegetable patch full of cabbages with a scarecrow in the middle. He’s wearing a light shirt, dark waistcoat and trousers and his head is made of a sack. His right sleeve has “KEN” written on it. Behind him are fields and trees. It’s cloudy. A brown lurcher with a white muzzle is concentrating fully on a doggy ice-cream, his tongue is licking the ice-cream. He’s wearing a black and white checked collar with a similar lurcher in Bowie make up pictured on it and a black harness. A stone pigsty. On straw are two tiny piglets, one orange and pink, one black and white. Their mother’s ear and snout are just visible above. The piglets are three days old.
June 26, 2025 at 9:22 PM
randomhuman42.bsky.social
View from a swing in the Alnwick Gardens cherry orchard. I’m told it’s even better when the blossom’s out, but it was beautiful and peaceful today.
#alnwickgarden #northumberland
June 24, 2025 at 10:50 PM
randomhuman42.bsky.social
Noticing bees at Alnwick Garden today. And I was able to buy some flowers the bees loved to grow at home 🌺
#alnwickgardens #northumberland #bloomscrolling
Tall pink flowers, with multiple flowers per stem, and greenery in the background. A white tailed bumble bee is visible in one of the flowers. Its wings are reflecting the sunshine. Pale pink flowers with white stamen. A small bee is on one of the flowers. Delphiniums blue - which I only recognised because of a half remembered poem from childhood. A white tailed bumble bee bumble bee is enjoying one of the blooms. The most popular with the bees in the whole of Alnwick Gardens. Salvia in a purple/blue. Multiple flowers with at least three white tailed bumble bees visible. And I only remembered the name because it’s an anagram of saliva!
June 24, 2025 at 10:42 PM
randomhuman42.bsky.social
Spotting insects while gardening today. Google informs me they are a ladybird pupa and a burnished brass moth.
#urbannature
Close up of a dark green leaf with a tiny orange and back creature which Google tells me is a ladybird pupa. Looking down on the dark green plastic edge of a compost bin, with dark green leaves visible in the bin (to the bottom of the shot) and out of focus sticks outside the compost bin. On the bin itself sits a yellow and brown moth, with a fuzzy orange head and long white antennae. Google tells me it’s a burnished brass moth.
June 23, 2025 at 11:35 PM
randomhuman42.bsky.social
Waste land, wild flowers.
#urbannature #bloomscrolling
A fenced off patch of land where a buildings been demolished. There’s a dry path of dry earth across the centre, where the odd abandoned brick and tile is visible. Either side of the path is a riot of greenery and wild flowers, red poppies (the only ones I recognise) and purples and yellows. It’s beautiful. Closer view of a patch of wild flowers growing where a pub has been demolished. Reds, blues, purples, yellows.
June 19, 2025 at 6:46 PM
randomhuman42.bsky.social
Noticing purple on this evenings dog walk.
#urbannature #bloomscrolling
A single purple flower, possibly related to a thistle but less spiky, is in the centre of the picture in clear focus. It’s surrounded by greenery with the odd hint of other purple flowers. Purple flowers, each with five heart-shaped petals veined with darker purple, with greenery behind.
June 17, 2025 at 10:30 PM
randomhuman42.bsky.social
Noticing the birds and the bees on this evenings riverside dog walk.
#urbannature
A single white duck with a black stripe and black head is feeding in a mud flat at the edge of a tidal river. His footprints show his meandering track behind him. White flowers and green leaves with a big fat fuzzy bumble bee leaping between two of the flowers. His wings are glistening in the sunshine. A large expanse of mud at the foreground of the picture, with many white seagull types scattered across the mud. The river, such of it is visible at low tide, is to the back of the shot with the bank reinforced with wood and stone and a colourful (for England!) housing estate behind.
June 11, 2025 at 8:53 PM
randomhuman42.bsky.social
And following spotting pink on today’s dog walk - the pooch displays his pink and brown baldy chest while hoping to sharing my lunch. (Spoiler: he did share my lunch!)
#dogs #lurcherlove #dogsofbsky #dogsofbluesky
June 6, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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Noticing pink on today’s dog walk (part 2)

#urbannature #bloomscrolling
Close up of a tree branch and in amongst the leaves are what might be seed pods or the start of fruit - tiny green ovals each looking like it’s wearing a pink halo. The photographer has no idea what kind of tree it is and thinks it’s beautiful despite their ignorance. Mostly greenery with a few pink flowers with much brighter pink veins patterning the petals. The photographer has no idea what kind of flowers they are. Close up of bark on the trunk of a tree fills most of the photo, although a fence and leaves are visible to the right of the tree. The bark is in plates, with many cracks, and some of the patches look pink. Circular flowers with yellow and green centres and loads of thin pink petals all around.
June 6, 2025 at 2:53 PM
randomhuman42.bsky.social
Noticing pink on today’s dog walk (part 1)

#urbannature #bloomscrolling
Loads of tiny light pink flowers and light pink with bright pink edges scattered across the photo. There are hints of reddish leaves behind them and a path on the right. Mostly greenery with one flower in the middle of the picture. It has long, spindly blue petals with fronds at the end. The middle is bright pink with some black spikes. Just to the left of it is a light pink spindly feature which is a dead one of the flower. The photographer doesn’t know the type of flower. Wild rose shrubbery extending into the distance with pink flowers with yellow centres dotted throughout. Two stems covered in hundreds of bright pink flowers, viewed from above.
June 6, 2025 at 2:53 PM
randomhuman42.bsky.social
Finished this last night. I usually keep my thoughts on books to myself but this one needs sharing.

I laughed, I cried, I felt seen. So much of it could have been written about me. Wonderful. I’ve already been recommending it to other people.

Thank you @robinince.bsky.social

#normallyweird
The book “Normally Weird & Weirdly Normal. My Adventures in Neurodiversity” by Robin Ince is sitting on the left hand page of an open notebook. The right hand page of the notebook has my review of the book hand written in dark blue ink: “Normally Weird & Weirdly Normal. My Adventures in Neurodiversity Robin Ince I laughed, I cried, I felt seen. So much of it could have been written about me. Wonderful. I’ve already been recommending it to people.” I’ve spelt recommending with two cs.
June 5, 2025 at 7:32 AM
randomhuman42.bsky.social
An exciting walk for Ziggy this morning - he met his double, saw a rabbit and got hissed at by a swan. He was a very good boy throughout.
#lurcherlove #dogs #dogsofbsky #dogsofbluesky #urbannature
Two very similar looking brown lurchers with white muzzles and paws are meeting over a water bowl. The dog on the right has darker bald patches on his legs and stomach and the dog on the left has white fur there. Both have dark harnesses on and are wearing collars with tags. They’re wagging their tails. They’re standing in a paved area and various sets of legs and feet with trainers are in the background because the water bowl is outside the cafe nearest parkrun. A picture of a path in a park with a path leading away and to the left. Theres grass and greenery on both sides of the path and a fence in the distance. There’s a lamppost about halfway up the picture to the right of the path. In the right front corner is a brown lurcher with a black harness and red lead staring intently at something brown on the other side of the lamppost. The brown spot he’s staring at is a rabbit. The rabbit left before we got further up the path. Two swans, six cygnets and a pair of ducks are swimming on a pond. The male swan is in the foreground ready to defend his family. Mother swan has four fluffy grey cygnets beside her. Two are slightly braver and heading for the edge of the pond. The ducks are in the background. The stones around the edge of the pond are visible to the left of the picture and have bright green grass growing between them.
May 31, 2025 at 10:46 AM
randomhuman42.bsky.social
Noticing the flowers this morning
#urbannature #bloomscrolling
A close up of several white flowers, each with five petals and yellow centres. A small bee is sitting on one flower. More flowers, green leaves and yellow buds are in the background. Amidst a lot of greenery there is a brilliant patch of red. Mostly buds but a few flowers have opened. They face downwards and the yellow centres are just peeking out. A couple of stems covered in pastel pink buds and star shaped flowers with tiny trumpets in the centre. More beds in pink and red are dotted through the greenery in the background of the picture. A path is visible to the right of the plants.
May 31, 2025 at 10:25 AM
randomhuman42.bsky.social
Noticing yellow on tonight’s dog walk. 1/2
#urbannature
May 27, 2025 at 9:15 PM
randomhuman42.bsky.social
Noticing yellow on tonight’s dog walk. 1/2
#urbannature
May 27, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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#urbannature
May 21, 2025 at 8:33 PM
randomhuman42.bsky.social
Appreciating the variety of self-seeded plants alongside the river on tonight’s dog walk.
#urbannature
May 21, 2025 at 8:33 PM
randomhuman42.bsky.social
Today’s dog walk and I spotted a deer, which I hardly ever see so close to home. This was not as rural as it looks - very close to the motorway and a housing estate. Luckily the dog didn’t notice it, so I was able to watch it for a while.
#urbannature
A field of long grasses, with a small woody area of trees round the edge. In the middle of all this green is the deer, brown with a white tail, which has turned from the trees it was nibbling to look at the camera. It was suspicious of the dog with the photographer.
May 19, 2025 at 5:16 PM
randomhuman42.bsky.social
Noticing fir trees on today’s dog walk - these looked like tiny roses
#urbannature #bloomscrolling #evergreen
May 18, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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Today’s dog walk may or may not have diverted to a beer garden 😎
#lurcherlove #dogs #dogsofbluesky #dogsofbsky
May 16, 2025 at 5:32 PM