Mhairi Alexander
@mhairialexander.bsky.social
Retired social worker, grandparent, member of Gurt Lush Choir and Humanists UK. Barely adequate keyboard and ukulele player. Bristol, UK
I love these little birds. Their nickname - 'clowns of the sea' - doesn't do justice to their efforts to feed their young despite attacks from larger birds, such as skuas.
RSPB@rspb.bsky.social · 4w agoYou look like you need a Puffin. Have a Puffin. 📷️ Sue Wood
I've signed and sent a letter - from authors, broadcasters, journalists, artists, scholars and performers - to express our deep concern at @exeter.ac.uk’s troubling plans to make mass redundancies within the Humanities Dept @uniofexeterhass.bsky.social. I would love it if you read and shared widely.
I saw this painting for the first time several years ago, and still remember how absolutely stunning it is.
Dr Anna Clark@drannaclark.bsky.social · last mo.Portrait of Whistlejacket: acclaimed 18th Century thoroughbred racehorse, owned by the 2nd Marquess of Rockingham & mentioned in Goldsmith’s She Stoops to Conquer; powerful life-size painting c. 1762 by George Stubbs, preeminent English equine artist, born in 1724; died #OTD 1806. National Gallery
Dedicated to all who had a perfectionist parent.
THE FAR SIDE DAILY@bot.cowtools.org · 2mo agoMichelangelo’s father
Make sure you read it all the way through.
Brian Bilston@brianbilston.bsky.social · 2mo agoToday is World Refugee Day. Here’s a poem called ‘Refugees’.
Lovely - extremely atmospheric.
Richard Morris@ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 2mo ago'Misty Morning, River Thurne, Norfolk,' (c1960) is a striking example of Edward Seago's mastery of watercolour, a work in which you can sense the magic of being on the river just after the break of dawn - a sense of timelessness.
If you visit the Rebellion! exhibition make sure you leave a comment in the visitor book. It really helps with shaping the touring exhibition going forward.
Happy to say that due to popular demand the Outsiders exhibition on homelessness and substandard housing at Hillhead Library in Glasgow has been extended by a month to 26 July.
