Matt, you've made and continue to make a huge difference to other people's lives. They in turn, will continue to hold you in regard and affection. Happy birthday! 🎂

Post a tree you photographed

Murderbot diaries; anything by KJ Charles; Kris Ripper's Scientific Method Universe series; anything else that takes my fancy. 😉😊

I hope the improvement continues, Matt.

Fiction - definitely a professional reader - most fiction deserves to be 'acted'.

Yes, as long as there's still plot there. Action. A reason to continue reading beyond admiring the worldbuilding.

It moves vey slowly but still grabs hold of your attention and keeps it. As you say, it makes you feel that you're there, living the life that Sparrow lives.

If you want to get a sense of the real Elizabethan London - what went on under the glitter and the finery - and expand your queer history, read @hessephillips.com Lightborne. It's dark, dangerous, and absolutely riveting. www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
#booksky 🌈📚

A small pale green shield bug on darker leaves.

#MacroMonday #photography

Made in Birmingham 7: Mary Chandler To be a player in our city’s symphony orchestra in the 1940s and early 1950s must’ve been quite something. A couple of years ago, this blog explored the music of Ruth Gipps, oboist, con…

For International women's day, here's a blogpost about 1 or even 2 female composers associated with the CBSO. Expand your musical horizons...
lobmusiclibrary.wordpress.com/2025/03/08/m...

Looking out through a long window at Drogo Castle. The interior is shadowed; the outside sunny and green,

#SIlentSunday #Photograph

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James MacMillan Cantos sagrados

Yum. Beef with broccoli, please... 😋😋😄

If you see this, quote with flowers from your gallery 🌱

Never land? Response to the prompt: Name an attraction or town close to home that you still haven't got around to visiting. I live in the English West Midlands, not that far from Birmingham. Whatever its other merits, an industrial city like Brum isn't somewhere you'd imagine the National Trust having a presence. Isn't the National Trust all about vast estates, huge houses, and the relics of an imperial past?

Never land?

Response to the prompt: Name an attraction or town close to home that you still haven't got around to visiting. I live in the English West Midlands, not that far from Birmingham. Whatever its other merits, an industrial city like Brum isn't somewhere you'd imagine the National Trust…

Very limited... 👀 Link gives price as standard subscriber £7.99. Maybe it's a price for non-subscribers. 😒 Oh well, it's still in my wishlist.

177 New Fiction and Nonfiction Reads for Black History Month February is Black History Month here in the U.S., and each year we like to join the celebration with big, bookish lists that will keep you reading lo...

Goodreads put up their book list for BHM (US) and the comments are already cleared and closed. 🤷‍♂️😠
www.goodreads.com/blog/show/28...
#booksky 📚💙

Isn't this gorgeous?

Those pleasant feelings of brain ache and achievement that come from working your way through one of @mattkendrick.bsky.social 's craft courses. 👍🖊

If you see this, post something pink. 🌱

sunbathing black bird with its feathers all fluffed out

A sunbathing black bird (bit of a messy photo)

Thanks for posting these videos - they often brighten my day. 😊

Revisiting old friends [It’s been a while, a long, long while, since I last produced anything for this blog. 2023 passed with me being out of writing ideas and drive; last year, things improved and I spent time enj…

Well... one of my #resolutions appears to be resurrecting my #blog, A Pencil Is Best. Here's the first post in quite a while:
apencilisbest.wordpress.com/2025/01/05/r...

I'm so looking forward to this. 😊

View through a small diamond-shaped window into the garden of A la Ronde, a circular house in Devon.

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekAforAngles #photography (Tags copied from @bigbeardedbookseller.com ) Part of the extraordinary A la Ronde house (NT) in Devon.

Elgar 'Owls', op. 53 no. 4

Really interesting list - several names I've not come across before. A new Natasha Pulley will always be a highlight.

Really striking. I'd happily buy either (or both).

Greg Tremblay @gtremblayvoice.bsky.social might want to join.