The Unhurried Reader 📚🦊🇺🇦
@theunhurriedreader.bsky.social
Careful reader, thoughtful writer, nature-lover, garden-potterer, history-dabbler. Readily distracted by birds. 🐦⬛
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@the_unhurried_reader on Instagram (yes, I know that's confusing).
#InvisibleIllnessVisibleLives
It looks as though #Cloudflare are having problems again. I've found numerous websites inaccessible, all with the same error message.
December 5, 2025 at 8:59 AM
It looks as though #Cloudflare are having problems again. I've found numerous websites inaccessible, all with the same error message.
I've gobbled up the first few chapters of #GhostsOfTheFarm by @nicolawriting.bsky.social, and I'm loving it.
#BookSky #RuralWriting #NatureWriting #LifeWriting #Memoir #FarmingWomen #WW2 #Countryside
#BookSky #RuralWriting #NatureWriting #LifeWriting #Memoir #FarmingWomen #WW2 #Countryside
December 3, 2025 at 1:15 PM
I've gobbled up the first few chapters of #GhostsOfTheFarm by @nicolawriting.bsky.social, and I'm loving it.
#BookSky #RuralWriting #NatureWriting #LifeWriting #Memoir #FarmingWomen #WW2 #Countryside
#BookSky #RuralWriting #NatureWriting #LifeWriting #Memoir #FarmingWomen #WW2 #Countryside
Currently reading: Weights and Measures by Jane Fraser @janefraserwriter.bsky.social. It's described as 'an unhurried historical novel that ends as surprisingly for the characters as the reader,' and with that and my penchant for the #HomeFront #WW2, how could I not?
November 25, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Currently reading: Weights and Measures by Jane Fraser @janefraserwriter.bsky.social. It's described as 'an unhurried historical novel that ends as surprisingly for the characters as the reader,' and with that and my penchant for the #HomeFront #WW2, how could I not?
#ChristmasPudding #Stir-upSunday Doing things the Isabella Beeton way ...
November 23, 2025 at 8:15 AM
#ChristmasPudding #Stir-upSunday Doing things the Isabella Beeton way ...
Despite the pouring November rain, a Happy Birthday dance for dear @annelouiseavery.bsky.social. Many many happy returns. xxx
November 23, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Despite the pouring November rain, a Happy Birthday dance for dear @annelouiseavery.bsky.social. Many many happy returns. xxx
Note to self: the clocks go back tonight.
October 25, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Note to self: the clocks go back tonight.
I encountered Katherine Blower's Walter only recently, but I am a huge fan already. Her images of the friendly ghost she created manage to be simultaneously bleak and comforting.
October 17, 2025 at 7:00 AM
I encountered Katherine Blower's Walter only recently, but I am a huge fan already. Her images of the friendly ghost she created manage to be simultaneously bleak and comforting.
I am pleased. These things have a habit of trailing on and on into the weekend, which makes everything 10x more difficult.
October 9, 2025 at 4:07 PM
I am pleased. These things have a habit of trailing on and on into the weekend, which makes everything 10x more difficult.
The British Newspaper Archive has added Jackie to its catalogue.
That is all.
That is all.
October 9, 2025 at 9:59 AM
The British Newspaper Archive has added Jackie to its catalogue.
That is all.
That is all.
Beast, the new novel by Lulu Allison, and the classic London War Notes by Mollie Panter-Downes.
October 5, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Beast, the new novel by Lulu Allison, and the classic London War Notes by Mollie Panter-Downes.
Good morning @nicolawriting.bsky.social
Re the perceptively gloomy thoughts by Betjeman on wartime bellringing that you shared a while ago, I’m reading London War Notes at the moment and this is from November 1942, when church bells were rung to celebrate the Eighth Army’s success in North Africa.
Re the perceptively gloomy thoughts by Betjeman on wartime bellringing that you shared a while ago, I’m reading London War Notes at the moment and this is from November 1942, when church bells were rung to celebrate the Eighth Army’s success in North Africa.
October 5, 2025 at 5:15 AM
Good morning @nicolawriting.bsky.social
Re the perceptively gloomy thoughts by Betjeman on wartime bellringing that you shared a while ago, I’m reading London War Notes at the moment and this is from November 1942, when church bells were rung to celebrate the Eighth Army’s success in North Africa.
Re the perceptively gloomy thoughts by Betjeman on wartime bellringing that you shared a while ago, I’m reading London War Notes at the moment and this is from November 1942, when church bells were rung to celebrate the Eighth Army’s success in North Africa.
Always glad of an opportunity to use this ...
October 4, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Always glad of an opportunity to use this ...
This is one of my favourite poetic openings, from 'The Star-splitter' by Robert Frost. I think of it often at this time of year. x
October 4, 2025 at 6:44 AM
This is one of my favourite poetic openings, from 'The Star-splitter' by Robert Frost. I think of it often at this time of year. x
I think I was dimly aware that bears practice delayed implantation. I'm familiar with it, though, because the European badger, Meles meles (my favourite mammal), does as well, with cubs also being born in January or February.
📷 Maciej Jaroszewski via People's Trust for Endangered Species
📷 Maciej Jaroszewski via People's Trust for Endangered Species
October 2, 2025 at 1:21 PM
I think I was dimly aware that bears practice delayed implantation. I'm familiar with it, though, because the European badger, Meles meles (my favourite mammal), does as well, with cubs also being born in January or February.
📷 Maciej Jaroszewski via People's Trust for Endangered Species
📷 Maciej Jaroszewski via People's Trust for Endangered Species
75 years young.
October 2, 2025 at 8:47 AM
75 years young.
The octagonal bell tower of St Mary's at Pembridge in Herefordshire is another stunning mediæval example (and the only one I've actually visited). There's an absolute cat's cradle of vast timbers inside. Sadly, the churchyard has been cleared of headstones, which is something I never like to see.
October 1, 2025 at 7:01 AM
The octagonal bell tower of St Mary's at Pembridge in Herefordshire is another stunning mediæval example (and the only one I've actually visited). There's an absolute cat's cradle of vast timbers inside. Sadly, the churchyard has been cleared of headstones, which is something I never like to see.
The earliest mention I've found of 'cross-stitch kits' at my stalwart British Newspaper Archive is this, in the Birmingham Weekly Mercury, Boxing Day, 1954. Apparently there was a resurgence in the 60s.
I haven't done any cross-stitch since I was at primary school, a 'little' more recently!
I haven't done any cross-stitch since I was at primary school, a 'little' more recently!
September 29, 2025 at 10:30 AM
The earliest mention I've found of 'cross-stitch kits' at my stalwart British Newspaper Archive is this, in the Birmingham Weekly Mercury, Boxing Day, 1954. Apparently there was a resurgence in the 60s.
I haven't done any cross-stitch since I was at primary school, a 'little' more recently!
I haven't done any cross-stitch since I was at primary school, a 'little' more recently!
An albatross. Or perhaps a fulmar. Yes, definitely a fulmar, I think.
September 29, 2025 at 9:03 AM
An albatross. Or perhaps a fulmar. Yes, definitely a fulmar, I think.
September 28, 2025 at 8:15 AM
