Caroline Breyley

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Green Alkanet flowers

Selfheal flowers

Green Alkanet and Selfheal flowers #WildflowerHour

Pineapple Weed looking as fresh aa a Daisy today for #wildflowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social

I was surprised to see Feverfew flowering in Abbeyleix earlier this week, it’s a plant I rarely see. #wildflowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social

There is a time to dance 💃🕺 Joyful event in #Glasgow celebrating multiple European dance traditions from groups here in #Scotland And the crowd are joining in the steps! Well done to the organisers @glasgowforeurope.bsky.social and supporters 👏👏👏

A light blue flower with many petals, on which the water droplets seemed to glisten.

Ingoldisthorpe, #Norfolk

The water droplets 💦 , seemed to really glisten on (what I believe is) Chicory.

#WildflowerHour

Toadflax…

Not the prettiest of names but a very sweet pink wildflower in great abundance today 💞

#wildflowers #botany
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Water forget me not flowering this week in County Durham #WildflowerHour

More small scabious. This time on the Wouldham to Detling Escarpment SSSI, Kent, on 30th October #wildflowerhour

Blue flowers of Viper's Bugloss in a former limestone quarry

A final flourish of blue brightening a gloomy November afternoon, from a late-flowering Viper's-bugloss plant growing in a former limestone quarry at Old Sulehay NR

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Late-flowering plant of False Oxlip, the hybrid between primroses & cowslips, in Woodbury Park Cemetery #wildflowerhour

Amongst shrubs planted around a new development next to #BuryStEdmunds #Suffolk railway station this is Narrow-leaved Ragwort, Senecio inaequidens. #WildflowerHour

A bush with many flowers comprised of a maroon centre and spider web-like white fluffy petals

Here’s Clematis vitalba (Old Man's Beard, Traveller's-joy), looking like ephemeral underwater sea creatures in the dusk

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Musk Mallow, Malva moschata, a pink flower splashed with raindrops and with green leaves in the background

Common Ragwort, Jacobaea vulgaris, a cluster of small yellow flowers, with green and brown leaves in the background

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Musk Mallow, Malva moschata, with raindrops and Common Ragwort, Jacobaea vulgaris, seen this week in Cambridge
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Seedheads of a very large Eryngium

To remember Halloween: Seed heads of (probably) Miss Wilmott's Ghost (Eryngium giganteum) naturalised near Ramore Head, Portrush
#thewinterten for #WildFlowerHour
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A poster advertising antler craft open days.

A selection of pre-cut antler for you to choose one to craft.

An example created by one of the experts.

Spent the afternoon learning #antler craft. I highly recommend it - it’s so satisfying. #uist

Enlarging the hole through the slice of antler using a circular file.

The antler after filing, sanding and polishing.

The finished piece of antler with the natural mottling. The wooden beads have been stained using beeswax and ochre.

So I chose a piece of #antler and spent the afternoon filing, sanding and polishing. I decided to leave the natural patterning rather than engrave decoration. I’ve made it into a #bracelet with 2 wooden beads stained with ochre.

The view from the Grimsay boat museum where the antler workshop was held. The sun shines through a cloudy sky between a building and a fir tree.

After the workshop, looking across the wet road towards the late afternoon sun glowing from amongst silver clouds.

Home and looking west down my driveway to the golden setting sun.

Between fierce squalls, the skies have been glorious. #uist

Guess who's back?! 👀

We're thrilled to announce that season 2 of our #WordsOfTheWild podcast is back! Ed and Rachel are back with six new episodes, with more stories from across Scotland.

The first episode will be out soon but in you can catch up on season 1 on our website now. 👇
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The Ultimate Guide to Adaptive Teaching - Webinar with Sue Cowley Sue Cowley shares ideas about adaptive teaching and offers a range of practical strategies for creating an inclusive classroom

I'm running a webinar on adaptive teaching next Wednesday. Lots of practical advice about inclusive approaches to teaching. Pay what you can to attend. Very grateful for shares. Thank you! #EduSky
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You do not need to register or apply…these payments are made automatically!

Find out more ⤵️

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Welcome to the Gentle Pen A kind corner for hesitant writers

Do you remember 100 Word Challenge? This is one for adults!
I'm so excited to share my newest Substack publication! It is a safe space for those who really want to write but are hesitant to start.
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Whitehaven is so underrated - anyone interested in Georgian architecture, maritime, social and industrial history (and lots of other things) would have field day here!
I grew up around there and am sure it shaped my love of, and fascination with, the past 😀

Afternoon from Gracemount community walled garden, run by Transition Edinburgh South

Live in or near Peebles? What are you doing on 27th November? Why not come and listen to the great Alex Gill talk about his perpective on our Scotland, and our future...

tickets are free, prior registration requested

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I was there 3 weeks ago. They had an outfit on show to advertise the pop up shop coming but I was only in Edinburgh for the day on my way home to Shetland. Lovely venue for it!

‘People thought I was a communist doing this as a non-profit’: is Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales the last decent tech baron? In an online landscape characterised by doom and division, the people’s encyclopedia stands out – a huge collective endeavour giving everyone free access to the sum of human knowledge. But with Elon M...

This is, if nothing else, a reminder that Wikipedia is possibly the greatest website on the internet.
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Lucky you! I saw the samples and the advert when I went to the Doocot to see the IKEA exhibition; would love to have been able to see the pop up shop.

From ‘PumpkinSoup’ by Helen Cooper.

Well it’s #NationalPumpkinDay so here’s something from my book ‘Pumpkin Soup’. #booksky #book.sky #art

Loved the Andy Goldsworthy exhibition.. kids were very curious.. days left.. If in Edinburgh, go… if not, come?!