A carpet of bluebells lit by dappled sunlight in dense woodland under a green canopy

A close-up of purple bell-shaped bluebells with a blurry green and blue background

A sloping bank of bluebells with greenery and red and white blooms in the background

Carpeting woodland floors, shady borders and hedgerows, bluebell season is upon us 💙

They serve as an early spring nectar source for polinators and provide habitat in woodlands and hedgerows. Please remember to stick to paths when admiring them so we can protect these magical blooms for all.

End Bird Netting: A New Campaign to Expose an Ignored Wildlife Crisis Walk through almost any town or city in Britain and you’ll see it if you know where to look; green plastic mesh stretched over hedges, trees wrapped like packages, buildings draped in almost invisible...

End Bird Netting: A New Campaign to Expose a Ignored Wildlife Crisis

open.substack.com/pub/protectt...

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The Riddle of Trefflepugga Path - Part 8 Sylphas, Dreggs and The Cove of Choices.

Part 8 of The Riddle of Trefflepugga Path - tead or listen on Substack. open.substack.com/pub/philjacq... #witchysky #reads

Monday Musings - Breathe A Winchett Dale way of breathing...

Monday Musings - Breathe open.substack.com/pub/philjacq... #witchsky #mondaymotivation

Will you stand up for nature?

Nature isn't a nice-to-have. It isn't a blocker to progress. It's essential to our survival. And without nature, there is no future

Nature = Future

via @nationaltrust.org.uk

view.email.nationaltrust.org.uk?vawpToken=MC...

The Riddle of Trefflepugga Path - Part 6 Laffrohn, Spuddles and Ursula Brifthaven Stoltz.

Laffrohn, Spuddles and Ursula Brifthaven Stoltz
open.substack.com/pub/philjacq... #witchsky #reads

Monday Musings - Balance A Winchett Dale way of keeping things balanced...

As Ostara approaches, here's a Winchett Dale way of keeping things balanced... open.substack.com/pub/philjacq... #mondaymotivation #witchsky

A rook returns with a twig to its untidy nest high up in a tree. Other rooks mob an intruder nearby.

“Rooks are gathered in their rookeries, rebuilding the nests of last season”
Artists: CF Tunnicliffe
Writer: EL Grant Watson
(What to Look for in Winter, 1959)

The Riddle of Trefflepugga Path - Part 4 GOOLE, DRUTTS AND TREFFLEPUGGA PATH.

Goole, Drutts and Trefflepugga Path...
philjacquilovesey.substack.com/p/the-riddle... #reads #matlockthehare

Most kindly thanks, good Proff :)

World Book Day badge with ceramic Matlock the Hare, posed in front of the Matlock the Hare trilogy books.

It's @worldbookdayuk.bsky.social tomorrow!
Here's another of my favourites, the saztaculous "Matlock the Hare" trilogy by @matlockhare.bsky.social. Well worth joining them for a majickal adventure.
I'm looking forward to a busy, bookish day...

The Riddle of Trefflepugga Path - Part 3 Vrooshers, Driftolubbs and the High Plateau.

The Riddle of Trefflepugga Path - Part Three... open.substack.com/pub/philjacq... #fiction #reads

The Riddle of Trefflepugga Path - Part 2 Wand Wood, Krates and Mirrits

The Riddle of Trefflepugga Path - Part 2. In which Matlock discovers a certain ‘something’ is on its way to Winchett Dale…
open.substack.com/pub/philjacq... #reads #fiction

Monday Musings - Believe A Winchett Dale way of looking at learning to really 'see'.

A Winchett Dale way of learning to really see…
open.substack.com/pub/philjacq... #mondaymotivation #witchsky

The Matlock the Hare trilogy is here! You’ll chickle, eyesplash and (may even) dudge your whammets…

Begins today, our serialisation of perhaps the most majickal, epic and clottabussed adventure ever to befall a majickal-hare…
open.substack.com/pub/philjacq... #reads

Good morning , and thank you to @paulgray74 for today's #FoxOfTheDay . Beautiful light !

Now live on Kickstarter!!!! 🏰✨

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Monday Musings - Hearth A Winchett Dale way of fueling your passion...

How to keep your passions burning. open.substack.com/pub/philjacq... #mondaymotivation #witchsky

Monday Musings - Journey A Winchett Dale way of looking at moonlight...

A Winchett Dale way of looking at moonlight…
open.substack.com/pub/philjacq... #mondaymotivation #witchsky

The promise of the humble snowdrop So full of hope, so easily missed.

So full of hope, so easily missed... open.substack.com/pub/philjacq... #imbolc #snowdrops

Monday Musings - Lunaria Of fascination, uses for books and the origins of brottleleaf brew...

Of fascination, uses for books and the origins of brottleleaf brew... open.substack.com/pub/philjacq... #witchsky #mondaymotivation

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Monday Musings - Gardener A Winchett Dale way of finding nature's song within you...

Finding your own song… #mondaymotivation #witchsky open.substack.com/pub/philjacq...

So......very......true.....

Which witch are you? Choose from amongst the four 'tzorkly' covens from the League of Lid-Curving Witchery

Which witch are you? Four very different covens - you decide! open.substack.com/pub/philjacq... #witchsky

Monday Musings - Shelter A Winchett Dale way of looking at growing positivity in the aftermath of life's storms

A Winchett Dale way of growing positively after life’s storms…
open.substack.com/pub/philjacq... #mondaymotivation #witchsky

A Fireside Conversation Musings on the meaning of time by a majickal-hare, and timebound slave to it...

I went to talk to a majickal-hare about time. Here’s what he said…
open.substack.com/pub/philjacq...

Thank you so much ☺️🐇✨

A very frosty morn’up in Winchett Dale….
#winterwonderland #illustration