Because my chums here are nice and ask me how I am … Day 2.

Whatever the day may bring, I have a migraine and I just don't have the strength.

Illuminated - Harrier Angels - BBC Sounds Robert Macfarlane on C16th carvings of angels based on the wings of hen and marsh harriers

The harrier angels of St Wendreda's church in March, Cambridgeshire, with @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social

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You're welcome! x

I saw her!

Good night.

A colourful collage with a young brown haired woman with a bouffant and another smaller blonde woman drawn over in Andy Warhol screening style, with advertising slogans and a can of Libby’s creamed rice, these are against old floral wallpaper, surrounded by drawings of a starscape, leopard print and shapes that look like internal organs

Chore of Enchantment
Collage made from Wills Cigarettes & PG Tips collector’s cards, 1960s wallpaper, Vogue & Parade & Women’s Realm magazines, watercolour, acrylic marker & felt tip

Claire’s drawings are amazing. The more deeply you look into her woodscapes, the more detail you see. #CreativeBizCreativeBuzz🐝 #OriginalArt #GicleePrints #Woodlamds #Nature #Landscape

Oh, I wish!

Over a thousand common swifts have been spotted flying across France today at key migration points … they’re flying home to us! Let’s hope their homes are waiting for them. Who has swifts sharing their homes?

If you fancy ordering one from me I’d be so very grateful not to have to pack them up when we move house! Or ask your local bookshop. Have a tissue handy too. www.celestineandthehare.com/the-gift-gat...

Plant of the Week – April 20th 2026 – Periwinkle (Vinca minor and V. major) Periwinkles are medicinal plants

This week's Botany in Scotland blog post by John Grace.

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Has anyone heard from the lovely @carlabela1.bsky.social in the last few days? There’s been radio silence for eight days which is really not like Carla? Have Whatsapped her but message not got through.

Thank you. I do think the woods were at peak bluebell. x

Maisie has persuaded me down to the The County Arms, largely on the promise that I'll hear gossip about Marsh Apes and the latest 'The Man Next Door Is A Werewolf' graffiti. The fact that serve a good pint of Lazarus isn't exactly a disincentive. – Extract from #MattAdams' diary

Everything Will Swallow You, with an owl bookmark.

Everything Will Swallow You, with a Green Man bookmark.

Everything Will Swallow You, with a chicken bookmark.

THREAD. Today I'm giving away 3 signed hardbacks of my latest book, each with fab linoprint bookmarks, made by my mum Jo.

Repost & reply to enter.

You might like it if you like:
Folkloric creatures
Old records
Intricate psychedelic stories
The idea of circular time

All shares much-appreciated.

It’s lovely!

All available with free international delivery from @blackwells.bsky.social btw: blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...

Thanks 💙

Quite ❤️

$100 TO GO APRIL BILLS RN URGENT!

Disabled member of disabled family. Chronically ill. Flare & unable to sell blood this month + Redbubble mucked up their fees so they're $100 short. 10 ppl $10 each - any combo ppl x $ = $100 - wraps it up.

Pls RS/QS. Pls do what you can. #HelpFolksLive2026

Bluebells in a Kent wood.

It’s an unassailable rule that wherever you stand in a bluebell wood, the bluebells are always better just a bit further on. #SundayInTheWoodWithMe

My pith has deserted me.

#WarCrimes #25thAmendment

I was going to reply, but I don't know what to say.

'Does Magna Carta mean nothing to you? Did she die in vain?'

— Anthony Aloysius St. John Hancock

Yep.

$550 TO GO FOOD & BILLS RN + BIWEEKLY RENT DUE FRI - ALL URGENT!

Disabled. In SSDI appeals. Applied for early retirement. Either way no income until mid-June at the earliest, poss mid-July. 55 ppl $10 each keeps them safe.

Pls RS/QS. Pls do what you can. #HelpFolksLive2026

'I hoarded noxious sweets, eating them on a pile of pillows when all the other girls were on the hockey field.' — M. F. K. Fisher

My kinda gal!