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Cath Beard
@seabeard.bsky.social
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What perfect album came out the year you turned 16?

Well it was 1996 so stiff competition. So I’m going with this
Picture shows the album cover to Super Furry Animals Fuzzy Logic
November 17, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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It’s alright bab
A neon green sign reading ‘Alright Bab!’ Stands above several wooden planters with flowers and shrubs. Around these are bricked steps and metal handrails. In the background are high rise office blocks in varying states of lighting
October 10, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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Went for a walk today. Spotted these, among many other types of mushroom. Thrilled!
A large and a small fly agaric mushroom stand among mulched brown pine needles and fallen leaves. The largest stands tall with a wide red umbrella, covered in small white spots. The smaller is more compact with a hood of red with white spots.
October 5, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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I am obsessed with Caron Ellis and with the Moon. Then this existed.
A soviet dentist green wall in the background shows the edges of a piece of art work and some photos. In the foreground is a hand holding a large square shaped wall calendar. In black stylised writing is ‘2026 MOON CALENDAR CARSON ELLIS’. There is a large woodblock print underneath of a transparent blue moon superimposed over a deep red bird
September 17, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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Saw this excellent stick today. I didn’t disturb it as the fungus blooming like cherry blossom looked so perfect. A truly fantastic stick.
Against a backdrop of fallen autumn leaves on a forest floor lies a stick with a central branch bit and two arms shooting out in a v shape. The stick is brown and quite old, on the stick several fungus have bloomed like cherry blossom. They are in an irregular round floral shape, palest beige with light brown markings.
September 13, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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Somehow, I have a seventeen year old.
A birthday banner with black letters on black ribbon is strung between two bookshelves across a chimney breast, which is accidentally painted in a pale ‘soviet dentist’ green because it was lockdown and we had to buy paint without seeing it in person first. The banner reads ‘LOOK AT YOU TURNING 17 & SHIT’
September 5, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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A few photos from our European/Scandinavian road trip
A red rubbish bin in Hamburg features a sticker of the Russian flag and the words ‘fuck Putin!’ The harbour at Nyhavn, Copenhagen. Several houses in different shades of red, blue, terracotta, cream and yellow sit against a blue sky. Infront crowds mill past awnings and parasols, while on the water boats sit Photo of the back end of a Tesla. A bumper sticker reads ‘I bought this before Elon went crazy’ The window do Science Fiction Bokhandeln book shop in Malmö. The shops name and an outline of a planet with rings is written on the glass in yellow. Behind is a book display.
August 23, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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Worked in Harborne today. This is ‘Mr Crowley’ the Bull. RIP Ozzy.
Birmingham has commissioned ‘Bulls in the City’ a trial of decorated Birmingham Bulls based on the sculpture that stands outside the bullring. This picture shows ‘Mr Crowley’, decorated on the theme of Ozzy Osborne. It is a relatively small bull sculpture sitting on a plinth. The bull is deep grey with pink and purple flames on its legs and hooves. On its side is a cameo brooch style portrait of Ozzy Osborne in a purple jacket on a pink background. He has long dark hair, round sunglasses, and is holding a cane. He has a happy expression on his face. Around the base of the bull are laid bunches of flowers from locals paying tribute to Ozzy.
July 24, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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A black and white cat toy with long arms and legs sits on a mantelpiece. She is well loved. There is patterned wallpaper and a gold mirror behind here and a fireplace underneath.
July 12, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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Enjoy this video of little fishes in the river Severn today.
July 11, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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It’s 10pm. It’s hot. I am mostly angry about iatrogenic harm today.
Bunting and fairy lights adorn a metal railing in the forefront of the picture. Just infront of this is a wooden table with a tomato plant and lit candle on top. To the side is a planter with yellow flowers. Int he background is a large bush, an outhouse and a washing line. The sky is darkening.
July 10, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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I’m ‘leaving’ my team tomorrow (more of a sideways and up a bit than a full goodbye) and tomorrow is my leaving lunch. I have made a lot of baklava.
A tray of very neatly scored square cashew and pistachio baklava A tray of cashew and pistachio rolled baklava dusted with ground nuts
July 8, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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There are worse drinks to have when it’s 10pm and 28 degrees. For fans of cherry things this is very very nice. For fellow tee totallers, this would make a nice ‘posh pop’.
A hand holds a can of Dalston’s cherry sparkling water in an attempt at artfulness. The can is deep pink, with a large D design. In the background is a weak sunset, a tomato plant, a coal shed, and a chair.
June 30, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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My daughter made this placard at the Chainmaker’s Festival. Nice to be around a bunch of lefties tbh.
Against the background a field with stalls and people milling about, a large yellow cardboard raised fist placard is decorated with different feminist slogans, designed by my 12 year old daughter.
June 28, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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Went to the actual birthplace of the Industrial Revolution yesterday, to see Abraham Darby’s furnace. A weird kind of pilgrimage. Changed the world.
Photo of the front side of a brick furnace. Several struts across the front read ‘Abraham Darby 1777’ ‘B.E 1638 E.B’ There is a small doorway opening underneath. Photo looking down into a large old circular hole, which is the remains of Abraham Darby’s furnace. It is brick built. Old bricks and cement line the edges of the photograph. View across the top of the furnace from above. Looking outwards toward the gardens, fountain, and factory buildings through the glass windows of a protective structure. A semicircular brick furnace hole is int he foreground.
May 31, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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“Wait slow down I need to take a picture of this for a man on the internet”
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A roadside verge with trees behind is the background. In the foreground a sign read ‘MADELEY TELFORD’
May 30, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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Dystopic ‘real field’ and Truman Show sky at local shopping centre. Why not just… go outside?
A field of newly laid turf in neat lines sits below hoarding of fake blue sky with clouds. The upper level of a shopping mall is above this. A camera crew with a tripod films a man sitting on a pink rug wearing shorts, shirt and hat, reading a paper. Other people stand around. A yellow A board reads ‘Play’.
May 23, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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If you need cheering up- I had a slight cake fail but I think the wonkiness makes it tbh. For my youngest who turns 12 tomorrow.
A very homemade ‘Jellycat cat cake’ real cake sits on top of a silver foil lined board. Two chocolate legs stick out from two tiers of vanilla sponge sandwiched with buttercream. On top is buttercream and multicoloured sprinkles. In black icing on the bottom tier, two eyes and a smile are picked out in black icing. An attempt was made.
May 12, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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Manics at Wolves Civic Hall last night. A setlist which would have made the teenage me there every week in the 90s very happy (and the 44 year old me happy too). Great company as ever from @sarahmorse.bsky.social
A stage at Wolverhampton civic hall. The lights are down on the crowd and the manic street preachers stand in the stage (three guitarists, drums, keyboard). Red pixelated lights are on the backdrop. Red confetti is on the floor. The lead singer holds a guitar and sings into a microphone.
April 26, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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Happy Easter! We had breakfast of champions.
A mug of tea sits to the left of a large partially unwrapped Cadbury chocolate Easter egg. Both sit on a wooden outdoor table with Bluesky and a garden in the background.
April 20, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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Here at Union Chapel, and for the first time all four of us… waiting for Colin Meloy
Photo of a balcony in a church and a rose stained window lit by sunset behind it Photo of the inside of a church. The pews are filled with people. At the pulpit is a microphone. In the background sunlight streams through a rose stained window
April 1, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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Happy Mother’s Day- and in the Black Country we fully embrace Mom
A white envelope with hand drawn purple and yellows flower to the right, branches of a willow tree drawn to the left and ‘Mom’ in pink pen in the centre
March 30, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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My Sunday view- Stratford in the sunshine, while my daughter painted the river.
Landscape view of some grass, a paved pathway, open water of a river, several jetty’s and beyond the far bank where people walk past houses and a large stone memorial to Shakespeare
March 10, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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Back on it after a five year hiatus. Lovely to be back in the room.
Photo shows a large blue facade with ‘RCPSYCH Royal College of Psychiatrists’ written in white. Set in to the picture is another photo of an agenda heading with the date and ‘Royal Foundation Centre for Early Childhood Roundtable on integrated models of mental health care’
February 13, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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February 4, 2025 at 4:33 PM