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Have you met baby Kaikai?
This 6-month-old little girl is a rascal!
Without her mom around anymore, they, along with the older elephant orphans, will help raise her until she’s ready to return to the wild and live as she should once again.
In about 8 years.
Thank you @sheldricktrust.bsky.social!
This 6-month-old little girl is a rascal!
Without her mom around anymore, they, along with the older elephant orphans, will help raise her until she’s ready to return to the wild and live as she should once again.
In about 8 years.
Thank you @sheldricktrust.bsky.social!
December 4, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Have you met baby Kaikai?
This 6-month-old little girl is a rascal!
Without her mom around anymore, they, along with the older elephant orphans, will help raise her until she’s ready to return to the wild and live as she should once again.
In about 8 years.
Thank you @sheldricktrust.bsky.social!
This 6-month-old little girl is a rascal!
Without her mom around anymore, they, along with the older elephant orphans, will help raise her until she’s ready to return to the wild and live as she should once again.
In about 8 years.
Thank you @sheldricktrust.bsky.social!
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Day 3 of my #AdventCalendar
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December 3, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Day 3 of my #AdventCalendar
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‘A Christmas Carol’ by Charles Dickens, published December 1843 1/2
🎻 Printed silk satin dress, trimmed with velvet ribbon, in fashionable tartan pattern, ca 1845. Hand-sewn, maker unknown. V&A
#Advent
🎻 Printed silk satin dress, trimmed with velvet ribbon, in fashionable tartan pattern, ca 1845. Hand-sewn, maker unknown. V&A
#Advent
December 3, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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Day 3 of my Edwardian #AdventCalendar is this delicate c. 1909 evening dress in pale lilac-grey silk and silk chiffon trimmed with bands of embroidered lace that was made by Pickett, London, and worn by English socialite Miss Heather Firbank. V&A collection. #fashionhistory
December 3, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Day 3 of my Edwardian #AdventCalendar is this delicate c. 1909 evening dress in pale lilac-grey silk and silk chiffon trimmed with bands of embroidered lace that was made by Pickett, London, and worn by English socialite Miss Heather Firbank. V&A collection. #fashionhistory
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December 3, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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December 2, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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Advent Sunday & London was bitterly cold and wreathed in a damp fog which smelt of underground rivers and coal smoke. The Dragon of Kensington Church Street, however, was exceedingly well wrapped up in a Sèvres blue muffler and matching mittens.
November 30, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Advent Sunday & London was bitterly cold and wreathed in a damp fog which smelt of underground rivers and coal smoke. The Dragon of Kensington Church Street, however, was exceedingly well wrapped up in a Sèvres blue muffler and matching mittens.
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#AshmoleanAdvent Day 1: Snow at Kinryūzan Temple
Our Ashmolean Advent Calendar is here! Check back each day until Christmas for a new seasonal treat from our collections.
The first festive treat from the collection is Utagawa Kuniyoshi’s View of Snow on Benten Hill at Kinryūzan Temple in Asakusa.
Our Ashmolean Advent Calendar is here! Check back each day until Christmas for a new seasonal treat from our collections.
The first festive treat from the collection is Utagawa Kuniyoshi’s View of Snow on Benten Hill at Kinryūzan Temple in Asakusa.
December 1, 2025 at 10:01 AM
#AshmoleanAdvent Day 1: Snow at Kinryūzan Temple
Our Ashmolean Advent Calendar is here! Check back each day until Christmas for a new seasonal treat from our collections.
The first festive treat from the collection is Utagawa Kuniyoshi’s View of Snow on Benten Hill at Kinryūzan Temple in Asakusa.
Our Ashmolean Advent Calendar is here! Check back each day until Christmas for a new seasonal treat from our collections.
The first festive treat from the collection is Utagawa Kuniyoshi’s View of Snow on Benten Hill at Kinryūzan Temple in Asakusa.
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Katja Lang, contemporary German artist who focuses on stillness and spaces #WomensArt #December
December 1, 2025 at 6:38 AM
Katja Lang, contemporary German artist who focuses on stillness and spaces #WomensArt #December
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A Merry December to all.
🖼️ Décembre, Eugène Grasset, 1896.
🖼️ Décembre, Eugène Grasset, 1896.
December 1, 2025 at 6:33 AM
A Merry December to all.
🖼️ Décembre, Eugène Grasset, 1896.
🖼️ Décembre, Eugène Grasset, 1896.
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GlitterLab, a company in southern Poland, specializes in creating unique Christmas decorations. Known as the "magicians of glass," they craft custom ornaments for clients like Swarovski and Harrods.
The Polish 'magicians of glass' who create Christmas baubles for clients worldwide
GlitterLab, a company in southern Poland, specializes in creating unique Christmas decorations. Known as the "magicians of glass," they craft custom ornaments for clients like Swarovski and Harrods.
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December 1, 2025 at 3:00 AM
GlitterLab, a company in southern Poland, specializes in creating unique Christmas decorations. Known as the "magicians of glass," they craft custom ornaments for clients like Swarovski and Harrods.
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Crowds turned out yesterday despite the rain for the annual Abingdon Christmas Extravaganza which brought together entertainment, a parade, a market, and the Christmas lights switch-on. The town was further entertained by music, dancing and donkeys.
More details and pictures on abingdonblog.co.uk
More details and pictures on abingdonblog.co.uk
November 30, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Crowds turned out yesterday despite the rain for the annual Abingdon Christmas Extravaganza which brought together entertainment, a parade, a market, and the Christmas lights switch-on. The town was further entertained by music, dancing and donkeys.
More details and pictures on abingdonblog.co.uk
More details and pictures on abingdonblog.co.uk
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November 30, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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here, Tom, take all the money that I have.
November 29, 2025 at 7:21 PM
here, Tom, take all the money that I have.
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BREAKING: British playwright Tom Stoppard, who won an Academy Award for the screenplay for “Shakespeare In Love," dies at 88.
Playwright Tom Stoppard who won Academy Award for screenplay for “Shakespeare In Love" has died
British playwright Tom Stoppard, who won an Academy Award for the screenplay for 1998’s “Shakespeare In Love” has died. He was 88.
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November 29, 2025 at 5:55 PM
BREAKING: British playwright Tom Stoppard, who won an Academy Award for the screenplay for “Shakespeare In Love," dies at 88.
Christmas has arrived in Abingdon, went out to support my friend’s choir (she’s hidden at the back) and browse the market. Very much feeling the spirit of the season now. ☺️🎄🎶
November 29, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Christmas has arrived in Abingdon, went out to support my friend’s choir (she’s hidden at the back) and browse the market. Very much feeling the spirit of the season now. ☺️🎄🎶
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I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
I see some book piracy discourse, and, to make a positive argument in favor of buying books, your marginal ability to influence what books get published and support the careers of writers you like is massive compared to most other forms of media.
November 25, 2025 at 11:07 PM
I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
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Girl on a space hopper, 1971,
Byker series, Newwcastle, UK, by Finnish photographer Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen #womensart #FridayFeeling
Byker series, Newwcastle, UK, by Finnish photographer Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen #womensart #FridayFeeling
November 28, 2025 at 7:06 AM
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Wow. BBC journalists are now not even allowed to report the censored line from my Reith Lecture, that Trump is “the most openly corrupt president in American history.”
You can hear how carefully they’re forced to tiptoe around it. So chilling...
You can hear how carefully they’re forced to tiptoe around it. So chilling...
November 27, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Wow. BBC journalists are now not even allowed to report the censored line from my Reith Lecture, that Trump is “the most openly corrupt president in American history.”
You can hear how carefully they’re forced to tiptoe around it. So chilling...
You can hear how carefully they’re forced to tiptoe around it. So chilling...
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Foxy fun on our Arctic cam!
November 25, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Foxy fun on our Arctic cam!
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BBC censors a lecture removing author’s remarks on Trump that refer to him a the most openly corrupt American president.
November 25, 2025 at 1:23 PM
BBC censors a lecture removing author’s remarks on Trump that refer to him a the most openly corrupt American president.