Now I’m committed! Newcastle Blue Star 💙🖤🤍🖤🤍⚽️🤩
Helen-Ann Hartley
@helenannhartley.bsky.social
Bishop of Newcastle. Runner. Broadcaster. Member UK House of Lords. Fan of Belted Galloways 🖤🤍🖤🤍 Personal views 🏴🌈🎶
I was on the telly again on Sunday, BBC1 Songs of Praise, talking about mountains! www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
I wonder if Delta Goodrem has ever performed to a bunch of traffic cones before? 🫶🤩🏴 #commonwealthgames Closing Ceremony 🙌🏽
St Oswald’s story not only reaches into Northumbria, it is also part of Mercia’s story (Oswestry). It was so good to be joined by the Bishop of Lichfield on our walk yesterday. A merry band of pilgrims (and four-legged companions) journeyed from Hexham Abbey to Heavenfield 🙏🚶♀️🐕✝️🎶
Fabulous day on our annual diocesan St Oswald’s pilgrimage from Hexham Abbey to Heavenfield. A glimpse of the distant Cheviot too 🫶👀🗻
Great to be at the Newcastle Foodbank volunteers garden party this afternoon held in Benwell. Also incorporating the NUFC fans foodbank 🖤🤍🖤🤍🙏🫶🎶🍰🎉
Garden Party thank you for diocesan and Cathedral staff. Lovely afternoon and deeply grateful for all that they do 🙌🎉💐🫶🍰🫖🤩☕️
Evening at the footy - Newcastle Blue Star FC vs Kendal town ⚽️💙🙌🫶
Love this - Kitten Kong RIP Bill Oddie 🫶😢 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jr6C...
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Outstanding community event! 🙌🏻 I reckon we need more of this! 🤩
Martin Elcoate@melcoate.bsky.social · last wk.Nello’s Longest Table - every other year the Topsham community sit down at the same time to eat & drink. Held in memory of Nello Ghezzo, c 450 tables are placed end to end through the streets of Topsham. Everyone brings their own food & drink. Our tables did well for food. I’m officially stuffed.
To Holy Island this evening, preaching at their St Aidan’s festival evensong. A thin place. Good to be joined by the Vicar of Trinity Wall St & the Dean of Cape Town 🎶🎉
Some highlights from Saturday’s celebration service in Newcastle for 150 years of the Mothers Union, and then at our diocesan and Cathedral stand at Pride Newcastle 🙏🌈🫶🎉
Superb BBC Prom at the Glasshouse in Gateshead. BBC Singers on fantastic form with their conductor Sofi Jeannin and the amazing Jess Gillam on 🎷🎶🫶🙌🏾
Pyrotechnic Tunnocks tea cake at the Commonwealth Games opening ceremony 😎🏴😭🤩🫶
Turns out you can watch the opening ceremony of the Commonwealth Games on BBC Alba www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/live... King & Queen stepping out of the Tardis at 20:04
The Past and other Places@pastandotherplaces.bsky.social · 2w agoSuspect the lack of endless BBC trailers means we're all less aware. TNT Sports has the main broadcast rights. Evening highlights on Channel 5 and BBC Alba (the Gaelic channel). #CommonwealthGames #sport www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...
Launchpad youth ministry celebration today at Bishop’s House! Great to hear stories about what has been learnt in so many different ministry contexts!
Great to meet with members of the Ndi-Igbo North East England community this evening, some of whom worship in Newcastle Cathedral. Together with the Dean we shared in conversation.
A wonderful evening at St Francis, Heaton in Newcastle, with Eucharist and supper welcoming pilgrims on the Spirit of Francis pilgrimage walking from Alnmouth to London 🙏🚶♂️✝️
Quite the scenes at St James’ Park. Amazing. RIP King Kev 🙏🖤🤍🖤🤍⚽️🫶
Are people taking their Half Bank Holiday am or pm on Friday? ⚽️ #Bronze
Joyful service of Confirmation and celebrating 150 years of St Mary’s in the Willington team in Newcastle this morning! 🎉🙌🎶🎂🫶🤩
A one minute version of the Rector's sermon today, on the seventh Sunday after Trinity, based on Mathew 13.24-30, 36-43. #CofEBirmingham #StMarysHandsworth #ChurchOfEngland #SeventhSundayAfterTrinity #Sermon #SermonSummary
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.
Hunt for the Wilderpeople is the just the best film! RIP Sam Neill 🙏 in gratitude and for all your whanau today.
At the turning of the millennium there were 769 satellites in space, 2026 there are 14,500 satellites. I spent 7mins photographing the Milky Way rising above Poatiri Mt Charles Hoopers Inlet, on Muaupoko (Otago Peninsula) this evening. Ōtepoti Dunedin, NZ #Photography
