The blackberries are incredibly sweet

The glorious colours of vetch

A Grayling showing how good its camouflage is.

3 swifts just flew over Nine Barrow Down close enough for me to hear the wind in their feathers ❤️

Climbing

#OTD: Margaret Wintringham was born. She served as 🇬🇧 first female Liberal MP. Born in the West Riding of Yorkshire, near Keighley, Margaret campaigned for an equal franchise & equal pay. She was president of Louth Women's Liberal Association & Vice President of the Electrical Association for Women.

@charlotte-l-s-holm.bsky.social Welcome to bluesky. I strongly advise you to goo look at the profile of @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social, Not only is he a really good egg - he has the means to fill your feed with interesting poets. Just subscribe to a few of his starter packs.

Join for me for a spiritual and historical exploration of Quakers & the Afterlife in October. 😇😈👻☸️

Woodbrooke@woodbrooke.bsky.social · 2d ago

What happens after we die? Do we have a soul? And where does it go? In this session we explore what the Quaker Way has to say about death and the Great Beyond, and how our understanding of the Afterlife has changed over time. For more information visit https://ow.ly/c5Ye50ZuAHQ

3rd announcement - looking forward to seeing your LAND-themed poems 💥

Stephen Paul Wren@moleculesunlimited.bsky.social · 3mo ago

2nd announcement of the 12th online Molecules Unlimited meeting - see below. Eighteen and a bit weeks to get your poems in &/or your registrations. Please join the party and share/re-post! Thanks.

Massively grateful to @iantattum.bsky.social @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social @fionaperrywrites.bsky.social for their kind endorsements of my new book PINE/NEEDLES. Out soon from @parlyareepress.bsky.social Please support this amazing press (preorders open now) xx

Survivors

1/6 And in this, they've fallen into a trap. They've looked over at an unattractive collection of Alt Right opponents (conspiracy theorists, unreasoning ideologues, & post-truth demogogues) & thought: "We mustn't be like that!" And as people do, they engaged in overcorrection.

Jonathan Calder@lordbonkers.bsky.social · 4d ago

Lewis Goodall's observation that the left now instinctively supports established authority, rather than its critics, is correct.

Jeanne Gibson, one of the last surviving Rosie the Riveters, died on July 29, 2026. She was 100 Years old. Born in Minneapolis in 1926, she was only 18 when she moved to Seattle to weld U.S. Navy destroyers at Todd Pacific Shipyards. Rest in peace, Jeanne

Getting ready to read some poems at the Swanage Carnival 😊

Paul Klee😊

A lovely morning with @iantattum.bsky.social in Holmes for Gardens, a local garden centre and RHS affiliate. Ian was looking for colour, and butterflies and brought his own to match.

Unexpected connection to Prespa in a garden today @julianhoffman.bsky.social

Visited a beautiful place today

Delighted to find you on here @netweather.tv

David Atkinson shared Michael Longley’s tremendous poem The Butchers (👇). I felt impelled to record it #poemsaloud #TheOdyssey #poetrycommunity #triggerwarning #graphicviolence @davidatkinsonpoet.bsky.social

David Atkinson@davidatkinsonpoet.bsky.social · last wk.

More #Odyssey Homer’s version of 'killing of the suitors' represents Odysseus's need for justice & the restoration of order Longley's poem differs, shifting focus from heroic avengers to blood thirsty killers The poem is an allegory for atrocities of the Shankill Butchers #poetry #poemoftheday

Dr. Fauci: "Get vaccinated." Republicans: "No." Dr. Fauci: "Wear masks." Republicans: "No." Dr. Fauci: "Socially distance." Republicans: "No." (A million-plus Americans die from COVID.) Republicans: "Prosecute Fauci!"

Purbeck butterflies and moth

My older brother died on Sunday after a short illness, and I am comforted by the care he received. It is a challenging time emotionally for his children, my younger brother, myself, and especially my mum. Lots of things to reflect upon.

Tonight

Tracking Space Debris from Jodrell Bank! The Lovell Telescope has helped demonstrate a world-first radar technique for tracking satellites and space debris in real time. www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/j...

Jodrell Bank demonstrates live radar observations of satellites and space debris

Radio astronomers and radar experts have teamed up to demonstrate how powerful radio telescopes, including the 76-m Lovell Telescope and e-MERLIN antennas operated by the University of Manchester at J...

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Remember: Peter Weller, Robocop himself, has a UCLA PhD in art history en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_W...

Peter Weller - Wikipedia

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Thanks to Paul for sharing some of my poems today. Appropriately I begin this day very close to where William Cowper lived when in Weston Underwood

Paul Brookes@thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social · last wk.

Welcome To The Starbeck Orion Summer Feast Fifty Days Of Poetry And Artwork. Day Twenty-Eight featuring the work of @iantattum.bsky.social the880.substack.com/p/welcome-to...

Okay. Of the 10 copies of Mapless I have coming, 7 have been paid for, 8 firmly spoken for, and possibly a 9th (to Switzerland though so it's a little complicated!) Anyway, one, possibly 2 remaining. Anyone want the honor of snagging the very last one (of this batch)!? Woo hoo!