Advent tea break & one of my old favourite trees from Corbridge a reminder of the Suffragette Spirit

Clarity
Constancy
Solidarity
Creativity in endeavour

#InJosephinesFootsteps

Each year the Tree festival in the Church where Josephine Grey married George Butler
A yearly reminder to stand in the light
A yearly commitment of #16Days though some live this 365 days a year
#InJosephinesFootsteps

A Christmas wish for release
Shine

Love in perpetual possibility
Live in perpetual possibility

Ami in una possibilità perpetua
Vivi in una possibilità perpetua

#InJosephinesfootsteps (Josephine Butler, nee Grey)
#NelSegretoDellaPoesia

Howick Hall
Northumberland
The Grey Family Residence

‘The passage we didn’t take
The door we didn’t open’

Was preparation

#InJosephinesFootsteps

The “shrieking maenad of Dilston “
Josephine Butler (Nee Grey)

Lady Grey Equinox tea

The long corridor
Light beckons
The long corridor
of endless closing doors
barred gates
Somewhere near
an open window
waits

Howick Hall
Grey Family residence
Northumberland

#DiPorteEPortoni #conUnaStoria
#InJosephinesFootsteps
#ForEveryChild

#InJosephinesFootsteps
Dilston Wood Corbridge
Northumberland September 2025

"Joy I ever found
my eye
held a flowering tree"

Joseph Payne Brennan

Girls just want to be in our history textbooks Women are still largely missing from the history we teach in classrooms. If we want a fairer future, we must stop erasing half the past

Resonates with a recent chat
@forumbooks.bsky.social
about Corbridge heritage celebrations & the "absent presence" of the mark of local honorary "Lady Grey" Josephine Butler

#InJosephinesFootsteps #conUnaStoria #HERstory that took her to France,Belgium & Italy

observer.co.uk/news/columni...

Great interview on the book about Josephine Butler by Sarah Williams
Those following me #InJosephinesFootsteps will remember our Feminist walk with ⁦@maggieoneill9
⁩ with my poem to Josephine
Enjoy ⁦@natweetalie
⁩

youtu.be/yL314PGEkiU?...

Dilston Wood Corbridge

Reminded so much yesterday of Way-making
As an attitude
Nursing awful pain
We can walk through
Walk off
And in the walking discover truths
About ourselves & others
Now that’s the cherry on the top of my 🍰

Dilston Wood August End 2025
#InJosephinesFootsteps

#languagematters #csa #vawg #csa #domesticviolence | Clare Lavery Over the past few years I have used my morning and afternoon tea breaks to raise awareness for all aspects of violence against women and children. Sometimes my break has taken me on a reflective walk ...

Waking Out
Walking through
Walking together

#InJosephinesFootsteps
#DomesticAbuse
#ViolenceagainstWomenandChildren #CSA #Survivors #Trauma #Healing #Walking #Growth #ArtsBasedPractice #Creativity #Education

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‘Why must the gate be narrow?
Because you cannot pass beyond it burdened.
To come in among these trees you must leave behind the six days' world’
Wendell Berry

Gate Howick Hall Gardens (Grey Family Home) Abolitionists

Dilston Wood (Josephine Butler(Grey) Campaigner)
#InJosephinesFootsteps

Entrance to Dilston Wood Corbridge
"Nice she may have been; complacent she was not"
Josephine Butler campaigned in Parliament for Women's right to safety, education & property #EconomicAbuse

#InJosephinesFootsteps
Look back on the distance travelled
Appreciate each rocky path & unploughed field

"Nice she may have been; complacent she was not"

Josephine Butler campaigned for Women's right to safety, education & property
The Domestic Abuse Bill (Safe Leave) 20/06 #EconomicAbuse #InJosephinesFootsteps
@seacharity.bsky.social @nicolajanesharp.bsky.social
From Alpine Woods to Dilston Wood

This Friday, the Domestic Abuse (Safe Leave) Bill returns for second reading in Parliament.

This is very close to my heart on many levels
For many reasons
I have been affected by all these issues
And so have my children who didn't deserve it
#EconomicAbuse #InJosephinesFootsteps

If tempted to follow
If tempted to imitate
If tempted to repeat
Desist
Your path is not theirs
Yours is inside you
Your experience is unique
Navigate by your heart

#InJosephinesFootsteps
Josephine’s Wood
Dilston (Corbridge)
Northumberland