Caroline Sampson
@sampscaroline.bsky.social
Chair of Trustees: Archives West Midlands. Coventry City supporter. Interested in the natural world, astronomy, butterflies and moths. Trying to work out what I can do about climate emergency.
Evening. #JacobinDay #ConfinedCocktails serendipitous mash-up. Redcurrant gin with #Lionesses currently 7-0 up. Coventry City are STILL hugely and magnificently top of the league and I've heroically avoided eating the Christmas twiglets. Winning at life! #PUSB. Update 8-0
November 29, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Evening. #JacobinDay #ConfinedCocktails serendipitous mash-up. Redcurrant gin with #Lionesses currently 7-0 up. Coventry City are STILL hugely and magnificently top of the league and I've heroically avoided eating the Christmas twiglets. Winning at life! #PUSB. Update 8-0
Gorgeous low sun meant wonderful views on the 'Middlemarch' loop #UnconfinedWalks. Even got Will Ladislaw's gleams on the grass which I enjoyed as much as he did. Light perfect to see the date -1604 - on this beautiful stone cottage. It's got very muddy!
November 28, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Gorgeous low sun meant wonderful views on the 'Middlemarch' loop #UnconfinedWalks. Even got Will Ladislaw's gleams on the grass which I enjoyed as much as he did. Light perfect to see the date -1604 - on this beautiful stone cottage. It's got very muddy!
Grey day #UnconfinedWalks are doubly virtuous.
November 27, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Grey day #UnconfinedWalks are doubly virtuous.
A day late but I'm quaffing a huge redcurrant gin while watching Downton Abbey for #ConfinedCocktails
November 23, 2025 at 5:51 PM
A day late but I'm quaffing a huge redcurrant gin while watching Downton Abbey for #ConfinedCocktails
#UnconfinedWalks to collect my glasses. Ice and frost.
November 21, 2025 at 1:59 PM
#UnconfinedWalks to collect my glasses. Ice and frost.
No prizes for guessing that today's #UnconfinedWalks was in chilly, beautiful Stratford.
November 20, 2025 at 5:27 PM
No prizes for guessing that today's #UnconfinedWalks was in chilly, beautiful Stratford.
#UnconfinedWalks happened. This was the best bit, in a canal boat window.
November 17, 2025 at 3:48 PM
#UnconfinedWalks happened. This was the best bit, in a canal boat window.
#UnconfinedWalks to check out the flooding. Yep. Avon IS flooded as per. My route was impassable so had to do a longer detour. Virtuous, if not particularly pleasant.
November 15, 2025 at 3:12 PM
#UnconfinedWalks to check out the flooding. Yep. Avon IS flooded as per. My route was impassable so had to do a longer detour. Virtuous, if not particularly pleasant.
#UnconfinedWalks with company round the quarry and back along the canal. Home in time to hear the Last Post next door at St. Botolph's.
November 9, 2025 at 11:20 AM
#UnconfinedWalks with company round the quarry and back along the canal. Home in time to hear the Last Post next door at St. Botolph's.
I'm early to #ConfinedCocktails with a Chardonnay as I sit here glory-scrolling in stunned and delighted disbelief.
November 8, 2025 at 6:34 PM
I'm early to #ConfinedCocktails with a Chardonnay as I sit here glory-scrolling in stunned and delighted disbelief.
#UnconfinedWalks to the retail park via the canal.
November 8, 2025 at 1:32 PM
#UnconfinedWalks to the retail park via the canal.
I'm a bit giddy today. Terrible night's sleep so running on fumes. Massive match with a win, The Enemy, #WLADITT #PUSB, WE ARE TOP OF THE LEAGUE! And I've just collected my Advent Book Calendar from www.treehousebookshop.co.uk/shop/details...! + done Kenilworth #UnconfinedWalks and had a hot choc!
November 5, 2025 at 3:49 PM
I'm a bit giddy today. Terrible night's sleep so running on fumes. Massive match with a win, The Enemy, #WLADITT #PUSB, WE ARE TOP OF THE LEAGUE! And I've just collected my Advent Book Calendar from www.treehousebookshop.co.uk/shop/details...! + done Kenilworth #UnconfinedWalks and had a hot choc!
Exciting #UnconfinedWalks news ( well it is if you've been mostly confined to barracks by an energy sapping cold). The new automated postbox is up and running, complete with solar panel.
November 3, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Exciting #UnconfinedWalks news ( well it is if you've been mostly confined to barracks by an energy sapping cold). The new automated postbox is up and running, complete with solar panel.
Hi all. Late posting again as I've been Out Out for #ConfinedCocktails in Ross-on-Wye. Gin with rosemary and grapefruit tonic, and a gorgeous slushy mocktail with strawberries and mint. Oh and btw, we are still TOP OF THE LEAGUE!
October 25, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Hi all. Late posting again as I've been Out Out for #ConfinedCocktails in Ross-on-Wye. Gin with rosemary and grapefruit tonic, and a gorgeous slushy mocktail with strawberries and mint. Oh and btw, we are still TOP OF THE LEAGUE!
#UnconfinedWalks in Coventry, visiting the site of the former CCFC stadium, Highfield Road, and the lovely Coventry Music Museum where we were honoured to be the 50000th visitor! #PUSB
October 19, 2025 at 2:26 PM
#UnconfinedWalks in Coventry, visiting the site of the former CCFC stadium, Highfield Road, and the lovely Coventry Music Museum where we were honoured to be the 50000th visitor! #PUSB
Shared #UnconfinedWalks with 30000 other people 😁😁😁
October 18, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Shared #UnconfinedWalks with 30000 other people 😁😁😁
Hi all. Sorry I'm late. Exciting goings-on so I'm only just home from the match. Pre-match #ConfinedCocktails cider in the pub and I'm now swigging sauvignon and grinning like an idiot at the league table.
October 18, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Hi all. Sorry I'm late. Exciting goings-on so I'm only just home from the match. Pre-match #ConfinedCocktails cider in the pub and I'm now swigging sauvignon and grinning like an idiot at the league table.
#UnconfinedWalks at Bradgate Park, Leics. Went looking for colour and found it. Bonus peacocks!
October 17, 2025 at 2:42 PM
#UnconfinedWalks at Bradgate Park, Leics. Went looking for colour and found it. Bonus peacocks!
Grumpy today and it's grey and dismal so #UnconfinedWalks along the cycle route because it's good for autumn colour. The textures and rich colour have brightened me up a bit.
October 14, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Grumpy today and it's grey and dismal so #UnconfinedWalks along the cycle route because it's good for autumn colour. The textures and rich colour have brightened me up a bit.
#UnconfinedWalks was the 6.5k canal loop which is lovely at this time of the year.
October 11, 2025 at 2:39 PM
#UnconfinedWalks was the 6.5k canal loop which is lovely at this time of the year.
#UnconfinedWalks left me in no doubt that this is one of the most spectacular #MastYear s I've ever seen. To the retail park and back along the canal.
October 7, 2025 at 11:22 AM
#UnconfinedWalks left me in no doubt that this is one of the most spectacular #MastYear s I've ever seen. To the retail park and back along the canal.
#UnconfinedWalks was bathed in low golden sunshine at Brandon Nature Reserve. There were swarms of ladybirds; we were covered in them. Also saw a guy wandering the paths in bare feet for reasons best known to himself. There was also a hornet nest in the pine cone art installation!
October 6, 2025 at 3:27 PM
#UnconfinedWalks was bathed in low golden sunshine at Brandon Nature Reserve. There were swarms of ladybirds; we were covered in them. Also saw a guy wandering the paths in bare feet for reasons best known to himself. There was also a hornet nest in the pine cone art installation!
Gorgeous #UnconfinedWalks this morning with M who, having better spatial awareness than me, bolted together the best bits of 2 walks. Breezy and sunny, with lots of canal soup thanks to storm Amy.
October 5, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Gorgeous #UnconfinedWalks this morning with M who, having better spatial awareness than me, bolted together the best bits of 2 walks. Breezy and sunny, with lots of canal soup thanks to storm Amy.
Hi there. A day of off-the-scale excitement here cos We are Top of the League, the only side still unbeaten in the EFL and scoring an unbelievable amount of goals. Golden, glorious times. Whole family in uproar. #UnconfinedCocktails is Inch's cider. #PUSB
October 4, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Hi there. A day of off-the-scale excitement here cos We are Top of the League, the only side still unbeaten in the EFL and scoring an unbelievable amount of goals. Golden, glorious times. Whole family in uproar. #UnconfinedCocktails is Inch's cider. #PUSB