Jacqueline (Bee) Durban
@radicalhoneybee.bsky.social
#SmallBeauties, wild hope, & the quiet magic of a nice cup of tea. Writer. Wobbly Wayfarer. Possible hedgerow heretic. Hedgevicar of the #LittleChurchOfLoveOfTheWorld.
Yesterday's mini-beasts to say that, tonight from 9-10pm, is our #SmallBeautiesHour, preceded by #RemindCelestineAboutSmallBeautiesHourHour for @celestineandthehare.com! Do join us to celebrate the #SmallBeauties and perfect blisses of these early summer days. All very welcome #BecauseOfClem.
It was Rogation-tide, when the land was blessed and the ancient bounds of the parish were beaten, every gospel oak and half-forgotten brook and fielden edge remembered and passed down the generations.
Apple blossom to say that it's now #RemindCelestineAboutSmallBeautiesHourHour for @celestineandthehare.com & us all. #SmallBeautiesHour begins at 9pm. Join us sharing #SmallBeauties from your days #BecauseOfClem. I'm back to other work today but I will look forward to seeing the posts later.
#smallbeautieshour I was to Kraków last week. A wonder of a small door; glass catalogue at the wonderful stained glass museum; a baked cheesecake at the wonderful Manggha Museum cafe - we went back for lunch after seeing the exhibitions. Dobranoc ~ nos da #becauseofClem #threadofgold
Turn to the poets and artists.
the first fiesta of Primroses - a woodland bouquet for those sick at heart, or detained, or unjustly arrested, bombarded, driven into exile 🌿 #SmallBeautiesHour #FlowersOnFriday #bloomscrolling #gardening #FlowerReport
A cleansing moment and early entry for #SmallBeautiesHour, a blackbird singing his heart out.
Evening BlueSky peeps. For #SmallBeauties this week a lovely butterfly stopped by, forsythia in full bloom, almost time for tulips and yet more lovely mini daffs 🌱💛 #SmallBeautiesHour #BecauseofClem #threadofgold
I can’t work out whether the brick pillar is supporting the twisted trunk, or the twisted trunk is holding up the pillar. Either way, it’s a fine sight. #BecauseOfClem #ThreadOfGold💛 #SmallBeautiesHour
Lots of things for #SmallBeautiesHour this week: ladybird, violet, rhubarb, seedlings and catching up with family
for #smallbeautieshour really, honestly, there are a number of sand martins in this image. Mallard hide Teifi Marshes @wtsww.bsky.social Such a delight to see the first ones, this was Saturday, two weeks before my excitement was a kingfisher at the ...kingfisher hide #becauseofClem #threadofgold
#smallbeautieshour #becauseofClem #threadofgold spending time with hares, mice, and the wildest of Geese at Spring Restival. With thanks to @radicalhoneybee.bsky.social art by Jackie Morris, Georgia Warne, Jill Barklem
Spring is so full of small beauties that it’s one great enveloping beauty—but here for #SmallBeautiesHour, a few tiny highlights from this morning: the first trillium in the woods, wild (chaparral) currant, & a moth or butterfly mirroring the white milkmaids by the trail.
Kate’s Moore's experience getting treatment for her osteoarthritis involved refusing to be fobbed off and being persistent with her GP. It’s a lesson more of us could learn. @northeastbylines.co.uk @oscarwoofs.bsky.social
Hip osteoarthritis and the NHS: an instructive painful journey
Osteoarthritis and the pain and stiffness it brings is unpleasant. NHS frontline services need to improve to help us manage the condition
eastangliabylines.co.uk
Hooray for being here for #smallbeautieshour for the next 3 weeks! I have missed it! Here then are some March #SmallBeauties: loving the presence of the everyday angel pigeons on warming days, the promise of clouds of yew pollen, the beauty of lacy hydrangea skeletons, violets.
We had a great (wet) day with the BBS Irish Bryophyte Group on Saturday. The morning in Ravensdale Forest where Jubula hutchinsiae is abundant in the gorge and afternoon at Long Woman's Grave, with Braunia imberbis on nearly every gabro boulder and occasional cushions of Glyphomitrium daviesii.
Crocheted carrot lavender bags! This makes me happy! @radicalhoneybee.bsky.social @jeanietrefaldwyn.bsky.social
Jollytoadstool@jollytoadstool.bsky.social · last yr.🧶 Done but for a finishing frond trim, a crop of botanically homedyed wool crochet spring carrots & the notebook page of the pattern recipe should it so bring delight - these folksy little lavender filled veggies are meant as easter gifts for green fingered allotment friends...
I didn't know this. And chimpu-chimpu! 🥰🥰 @radicalhoneybee.bsky.social @mstattsyrup.bsky.social @anniearyfridd.bsky.social @jeanietrefaldwyn.bsky.social
Justsmudge@justsmudge.bsky.social · last yr.🌿☕Good day ☕🌿 Fuchsias were common to the Incas of Peru & Bolivia, it was cultivated for edible berries way before Europeans arrived It's still found growing on their ancient terraces Artistic depictions are seen on Inca pottery & painted wooden bowls One Quechua name for it is chimpu-chimpu 💕🌿
The return of the baby nettles to say that it's now #RemindCelestineAboutSmallBeautiesHourHour for @celestineandthehare.com & us all. #SmallBeautiesHour begins at 9pm! Do join us sharing #SmallBeauties & tiny joys as little anchors in all that's good in this wobbly world. All very welcome!
