A Curlew walks on grassy ground, showing a yellow leg flag and orange ring on its leg. Wording below reads: Please report sightings of Curlew with yellow leg flags. Image credit reads: Rob Robinson.
1/ Spotted a yellow leg flag on a Curlew? Please share the sighting with us, as this could be one of our headstarted birds. 😀 Report via bit.ly/ReportACurlew #Ornithology #WorldCurlewDay
View from a desk at Gladstone's Library. Two floors of bookshelves and sweeping wood beams.
Finding it quite hard to readjust to normal life after a wonderful scholarship week living and writing in a library @gladlib.bsky.social
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Gorgeous!! X
A glass display cabinet holds a selection of paper peepshows with bellows stretched and the metal drum of a zoetrope. Bookshelves are visible through the cabinet.
Peepshows, paper theatres and zoetropes at the Bowes Museum (got to introduce my 19-year-old to some lovely old plastic View-Masters too!)
This looks fantastic, Livi! X
Lepus leaping.
From the Aratea, a 9th-century manuscript on astronomy featuring constellations comprised of words. More here: https://buff.ly/34uIsEa
Ok, with the new book properly underway, I guess I'm going to embrace 'narrative art' as a description for...[waves hand]. www.simongroth.com/marginalia/2...
Windblown charcoal drawing of wave marks in the sand and seaweed-smothered boulders. The beach and grey line of the sea stretch into the distance.
A wet and windy #MorecambeBaySketchClub at Half Moon Bay
View from train. Sun rising over the Leven estuary. Heysham nuclear power station in the distance. Chapel Island and the ripples of waves are closer.
First commute of 2026 (miraculously there are still trains to Barrow today despite them seemingly going nowhere else!) #MorecambeBay
A pastel drawing of rocks and seaweed on the muddy beach with the sea and the last of the light in the distance
An attempt at drawing the last of the light #Morecambe #Solstice
Haha, brilliant! X
That's fantastic news! (And don't mind the warring heritage professionals)
Rain pours and water streams from overflowing guttering onto a ragtag of performers in feathers and billowing plastic beneath the More Music sign.
A luminous puppet with sea like skirts leads the parade through the West End's streets.
Lanterns and windows glowing in the darkness
Lantern parade in the rain #Morecambe
Black line drawing on white stone paper showing ripples in the sandstone doorway above.
Sketching stone on stone paper at #MorecambeBaySketchClub today
Morecambe beach sand dimpled by the tide. The low winter sun reflected in the slick of saltwater.
Sand patterns
Skeins of blue fabric stretched across a flagged floor. A beam of sunlight pierces the glass roof in a derelict attic space.
In the attic at Salts Mill, Bradford
My new short story colllection The Building Inspector is now available from @nightjarpress.bsky.social on nightjarpress.weebly.com
Myriam reading from her book in Saul Hay gallery. A white woman with glasses and great earrings, casual clothes and white trainers.
Myriam smiles as publisher Nick Royle gestures to the contents page of the book. Nick is a white man with grey beard and thick black rimmed glasses.
The red brick gallery from the outside and Myriam can be seen signing copies of her book through the four-paned window.
It was an absolute joy to be at the launch of Myriam Frey's (@dustynewrose.bsky.social 's) first collection, 'The Building Inspector', published by the indomitable @nightjarpress.bsky.social
A podcast has just been released of my story 'Feather Girls' read by MyAnna Buring: wordtheatre.org/weekly/
haha, thank you. Can't wait to read and explore the Ephemeral City! 😊
Claire in hardhat getting rained on with plastic shrouding the shelves behind.
Glad to hear they're letting you WFH! This was me in one of the buildings I work in a fortnight ago 😂. When I retrained, I didn't realise saving old paper things was going to be so full of adventure!
Very much this (although I don't get sent home, I have to rescue things from the leaky/crumbling bits).
View from train window crossing the River Leven estuary in Morecambe Bay. Strata of sand, grey water, grey sky and a window full of raindrops.
October commute
Red brick promenade, railings, bright blue sea in the Walney channel and house in the distance on Walney island under a blue sky with small white scudding clouds.
Barrow looking beautiful on my dinnertime wander yesterday.
White and blue pack of 10 embassy regal (empty) and crumpled red coke can.
At my dayjob in an archive today, workmen started bringing me the retro rubbish they found in the loft, including a 1960s fag packet and a 1990s coke can. There was also a 1980s page 3 (not pictured 😂)
Sketchbook with charcoal swirls held just above a pool full of sand, stones, broken shells and seaweed
Gutweed-covered stones rise from a pool with grey sea and sky above.
Drawing the seaweed pools on Hest Bank Wharf at today's #MorecambeBaySketchClub
Hope the move goes well! I don't know what to do with myself today!!
Image of roadworks, no entry sign, the silver humps of the Sage Gateshead building, Newcastle in the distance, all under a stormy sky with rainbow.
Moved my eldest for university yesterday. He's still in the north but right across at the other side 😭
