Jill Holliday
@jillholl.bsky.social
Semi-retired software bod, trying to spend more time with my camera and outside, up a fell if possible. Photography, wildlife, pottery, gardening. Love and teach skiing, particularly adaptive.
VERY EXCITING NEWS. "Wayfarers", the new book by @levparikian.bsky.social is out next April. And Lev has lindy agreed to SIGN and PERSONALLY DEDICATE copies pre-ordered from us. Worldwide postage available. Get your orders in now! HERE. www.biggreenbookshop.com/signed-copie...
Lev Parikian@levparikian.bsky.social · last wk.This thing seems to be out in the open now, so even though publication’s eight months away, let’s drum up some early interest, shall we? Wayfarers is out next April. Here’s the cover.
They still haven't solved the hallucination problem, then
FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · last wk.Anthropic is expected to tell investors it sees over $30 trillion in potential revenue - WSJ.
Good morning Bluesky ☀️ This is one of the last coal powered sheep. The vast majority of UK sheep are now all electric ⚡️
Someone lost his wedding ring on Saturday, probably between the top of Great Calva and down to the river Caldew. If anyone finds a gold wedding ring with an inscription in side Please let us know and we can put you in touch with them.
For @mirandakeeling.com On the train yesterday, as it rocked. Lad: Turbulence! Mum: It's a train, not a plane Lad: Well it's pretty much a land plane
It looks like another ai wildlife “photo” is doing the rounds. Sigh. So here’s a thread about trying to avoid ai slop
Get To Know Nature@gettoknownature.bsky.social · last mo.There’s way too much slop, fake animals and misinformation around, including the example Franz is highlighting below. So here’s a thread about spotting the fake stuff and reducing this crap on your timeline. (1/?)
The most substantial, huge, enormous, immense, vast, massive, colossal, gigantic, giant, mammoth, whopping, ginormous, humungous, scary, alarming, daunting, formidable, intimidating, terrifying, fearsome and petrifying of all the dinosaurs was the thesaurus.
Maybe he just got lost. Often the way when you’re going somewhere for the first time.
In the library Marlene showed me our Yorkshire pudding throwing in the Yorkshire Post!
You might like this @mirandakeeling.com Family at the athletics discussing what they were excited to see. Boy and girl probably around 12 and 10. Boy: Pole vault. They run up with a long pole and try to jump over a really high thing. Girl (in a quiet, world-weary voice): I know what a pole vault is.
Finally a toilet for people who just want a quiet place to pet their duck.
Join me for a blether over a glass of wine tomorrow evening at the RIAS, Rutland Sq. Edinburgh, and to see a couple of pieces I have in the exhibition from the Scottish Society of Architect Artists. Free entry, all welcome. 6.30pm. #photography #landscapephotography #photographers
Carlisle Cathedral is hosting the Carlisle and Cumbria Artists 57th annual exhibition in the Fratry Hall this summer with over 280 original paintings by 49 local artists on display. The exhibition includes local landscapes, still life and abstract work. https://ow.ly/No3f50Zt2N9
New wave rolled onto my website ‘Crest’. I love making these waves, not quite like messing about in the water but it will do for now 😊.
I’m announcing a Temporary Use Ban on money for all Thames Water executives.
Thames Water announces Temporary Use Ban following record hot weather and exceptionally high demand
Hosepipe ban announced for Thames Water customers in its water supply area following exceptionally dry weather and sustained high water demand.
thameswater.co.uk
crossing the bay.....beautiful channels on the north side of #MorecambeBay ....looking out from Bardsea
It been a while but I have a new ‘Oaks in Green’ glass art panel done, available in my online shop. A choice of either a turned oak base or a Cumbrian slate base, both bases beautifully made by UK craftsmen. Visit www.wild-indigo.com to find out more. #trees #glassart #art #nature #artiststwork
If you're in London, why not come to St Martin in the Fields for some poems and exquisite choral music on Monday night? It's free and everything...
I’ve been hearing good things about Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey. People are saying it’s a richly subtle work, with myriad strata of meaning and levels of nuance. They’re saying, in fact, that it has – oh no, oh gosh, oh god I’m so sorry – Menelaus.
In the garden yesterday: gatekeeper, mint moth and acro-bee-tics 🦋🐝
Ridge in Fog - Te Mata Peak, Hawke's Bay, NZ. The fog was thick enough that morning to swallow the valley entirely, but the ridge held its shape above it, catching the first warm light before anything below had a chance to. #photography #landscape #nz
First time these finished waves have seen water 😊. Just a wash to remove fingerprints etc before moving onto the stands 👍 #Art #glass #handcrafted #ocean #beachlife
Kiln open and yesterday’s waves are all part of today’s firing. Now for the stands, slate or oak? 😊 #handcrafted #glassart #oceanlife
