Crimdon, Co Durham #WildflowerHour #ByTheSea Fennel showing a bright pop of yellow and smelling gorgeous in the heat of the sun.
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The #TerrierTuesday Theme for 4th of August is #Helper In honour of Assistance Dog Day on that date how does your #Terrier help you? 🤔 Show us your terrific #Terriers doing something 'helpful' 😄 Find our Feed here: 👇 bsky.app/profile/did:... #DogsOfBlueSky #Photography #BTposse #Fun #Pets #Cute
Garden all of a flutter today for my butterfly count. Mostly peacock and red admiral. More painted ladies than I’ve ever seen and a bonus hummingbird hawk moth was doing the rounds.
A volunteer at the BiLs assisted living place organised a do yesterday. Durham Constabulary Band provided the entertainment, a fish and chip trailer arrived and an ice cream van. Refreshments, raffle and stalls too. What an amazing lady she is. Volunteers don’t get the recognition they deserve.
I booked accommodation for Norman Bowler many years ago. He was dashing off to the local theatre so I sorted it all in his absence. He rang later to see if I had been able to book. Such a charming, polite gentleman. Wishing him a very happy birthday 🎂😊
🇬🇧📺 Classic British TV 📺🇬🇧@classicbritishtv.bsky.social · 5d agoNorman Bowler is 94 today, Happy Birthday Norman 🎁🎂
Norman Bowler is 94 today, Happy Birthday Norman 🎁🎂
New month, new butterflies and moths to look out for in your gardens and local green spaces! 🦋🌻 See how many you can spot in the Big Butterfly Count, running until 9 August 👉 https://butrfli.es/3SVFepj
“It is estimated that 210 bags have been made by home machinists since Sunday.” The first nurdlers realised mesh bags would help, dozens of local people sourced fabric & sewed bags to distribute, and the bags will eventually go to Nurdle UK to be reused. What a community! 🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌
Meet the Monkseaton mum helping with nurdle clean up from her own home
Lou Shackleton is sourcing and distributing scaffolding mesh to help people make bags to pick up nurdles in North East beach cleans
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My better late than never contribution to #FingerpostFriday showing the way on the C2C Tynemouth dodging the rain on Sunday. Turned out to be an advantage because we ended up in the Volunteer Life Brigade Watch House Museum. Loved it!
The two 'freebies' for August. First walker heading west and the first heading east, I meet, will get a hand-painted Acorn. Out on Monday 03/08/26 completing August's monitoring report walk of Portgate to Heavenfield section of Hadrian's Wall Path National Trail. #hadrianswall #followtheacorn
Based on a photograph I took of the National Glass Centre in Sunderland, today's sad closure of this cultural jewel, here re-imagined in the style of Edvard Munch's 'The Scream'. #savethenationalglasscentre #sunderland #culture #glassmaking
Guinevere's Dialect. Bubbling. Crying. The "g" is optional. OED. Scottish & Nthn English. First recorded 1727. We didn't cry. We bubbled. 'Stop ya bubblin' 'Stop ya bubbling or aa'l give ya somethin to bubble about'!
SEATON SNOOKS TEA ROOM OUT AND ABOUT CARD. A REALLY GOOD DRYING DAY.
The BiLs blue badge has expired but his need is still there. We took him shopping yesterday and had to trawl for a space so he could transfer into his wheelchair. Why is everything a challenge for him/us?
Ailsa@clartyfeet.bsky.social · last wk.We are stuck in that unique situation where the council have refused to renew my BiLs Blue Badge…..again. We applied to renew in good time, it got automatically refused. He still needs it and he will get it issued but let’s just make his life a bit more difficult because he’s disabled. Sigh
Guidance sought please ! I would say lathered as larthered. However,as it's not a word I use I cannot be 100% sure !!!
Sarah Dalrymple@sarahdalgulls.bsky.social · last wk.do we say Lathered with a hard A ? I thought hard but I feel it's like how we say Master like "Marster"?
We are stuck in that unique situation where the council have refused to renew my BiLs Blue Badge…..again. We applied to renew in good time, it got automatically refused. He still needs it and he will get it issued but let’s just make his life a bit more difficult because he’s disabled. Sigh
Midge has a knack for letting us know her feelings. Usually when she’s not best pleased! For #TerrierTuesday we have yet another #FoxtrotOscarFace The kitchen was particularly cold so I put a hot water bottle in her bed. Do you think she was pleased with my well intentioned gesture 🤭
Bill Oddie has died aged 85. We'll certainly be thinking of this quote today. #Humanist #Nature #Birdwatching #Humanists #HumanistsUK #BillOddie
Humanists UK@humanists.uk · last wk.Springwatch icon, humanist, and probably the UK's best-loved birdwatcher, Bill Oddie, has died aged 85. Very sad. Thank you for a lifetime of helping us understand nature.
Springwatch icon, humanist, and probably the UK's best-loved birdwatcher, Bill Oddie, has died aged 85. Very sad. Thank you for a lifetime of helping us understand nature.
#TerrierTuesday Themes are the 1st Tuesday in every month since 19/11/25 So its over to you this week (28th July). Show us photos of your #Terriers antics, old and new, past or present 🐕 Find our Feed here 👇 bsky.app/profile/did:... #DogsOfBlueSky #Photography #Fun #Dogs #Pets #Terrier #BTposse
I was OBSESSED with the Goodies when I was little-begged my parents to watch it before bed.In my thirties I became obsessed with Springwatch (& longed to be on it). Bill Oddie co-created both brilliant things. RIP, may all the great bustards & shrikes do a dance outside your bird hide in the sky 🪶
Bill Oddie OBE (7 July 1941 – 25 July 2026) R.I.P
Another legend from our childhood has left us. But there was so much more to Bill Oddie than childrens tv. He did so many other Fabulous things, and his nature shows have changed the way we look at the world around us. RIP Sir. Thank you for the magic.
Today in Isles of Scilly we saw Sir Harold Wilson and Bill Oddie of the Goodies.
Next week is your last chance to visit the National Glass Centre in Sunderland. Shuts 31 July 2026. Uni selling the plot to turn a profit. Haven’t maintained the building well and claim it’s uneconomic to repair. My thoughts? Where money is involved underhand deals sit side by side. Profit wins.
Little Midge doing what she loves to do! She loves a paddle 🥰 We walked from Crimdon to Blackhall Rocks this morning. We don’t get sand under our feet as often as Midge and I would like! Must remedy that!
Dear Durham County Council, how are the parking charges working out at Crimdon? A warm school holiday Saturday, 11.30am. 5/6 parked cars. One driving in and driving back out again. 3 tables taken in the cafe. Litter and dog poo everywhere. Paths overgrown. That’s how it’s going. Well done DCC 😐
Always this. "Protect our women and children from those people" is pure projection. The beast is the man in the mirror. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Most people arrested during Henry Nowak protests had been reported for domestic abuse
Exclusive: Hampshire police data reveals 22 of 37 detained had been accused or convicted of intimate partner violence
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