Amanda Skirrow

#theBeeAt3

Basic bee facts every day at 3pm.

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Observation suggests that when migrating #bumblebee queens arrive at large bodies of #water they often follow the shore line but are equally likely to fly across the water/sea to continue their journey!
#bees

This applies to young people too, if ANYTHING changes with your bowel health, ask your GP for this simple test 👇

Bowel cancer screening | Bowel Cancer UK Learn about the different screening programmes currently in use across the UK and what tests are available.

Colonoscopy is the gold standard for diagnosing bowel cancer, but a very helpful home test is also available — the FIT test is normally done as part of screening after age 50, but you can ask your GP for it if you have any changes in your bowel movements

www.bowelcanceruk.org.uk/about-bowel-...

“I’ve reviewed over 50 sticky toffee puddings” is an incredibly powerful way to begin a video

YouTube video by Martin Lewis Martin Lewis: How Inheritance Tax REALLY Works (and how marriage can save you £240,000)

How Inheritance Tax REALLY Works (& how marriage can save you £240,000)

Just a small clip from my ‘the benefits of marriage and how to max it’ @itvmlshow.bsky.social  this week, watch the full show on www.itv.com/watch/the-ma...

Home The Night Sky Show - An entertaining evening for those who look up and wonder. Space and the night sky have never been so much fun! Book Now!

People ask me why I don't put my shows on the internet and only do them live?

Well.

They cost a fortune to produce, so need a paying audience.

I don't want the content copied or used in AI slop. I hate AI

And I love performing in front of a large audience
Book a show here www.nightskyshow.co.uk

Sooz Kempner Imposter ★★★★★ West End Wilma ★★★★ The Scotsman ★★★★ Chortle ★★★★ Fest ★★★★ Broadway Baby ★★★★ Funny Women ★★★★ Broadway World ​ 3rd October Aberystwyth Comedy Festival TICKETS 9th October Oxford Old Fire Station TICKETS 15th October Hertford BEAM TICKETS 25th October Brighton Komedia TICKETS 4th November Pleasance London TICKETS 6th November Chelsmford Theatre TICKETS 7th November Cambridge Junction TICKETS 22nd November Cardiff Millennium Centre TICKETS 23rd November Bristol The Gaffe TICKETS 27th November Gravesend The Woodsville TICKETS 29th November Colchester Arts Centre TICKETS 5th December Newcastle Northern Stage TICKETS 6th December York Theatre@41 TICKETS 10th December Manchester Fairfield Social TICKETS

✨EXCITING ANNOUNCEMENT, GET YOUR DIARIES OUT✨ I'm going on tour for 2026! Sooz Kempner: Imposter is a show about finding your voice, destroying trolls, and Princess Diana.

All dates on sale by the end of the week @ soozkempner.co.uk/tour-2026

Trees and Birds.

They go together like
Ra-ma la-ma la-ma ka dinga-kading a dong…

This is a quiet #February morning here on #WorldBeeSanctuary.

Robin
Wren
Song Thrush
Magpie
Blackbird
Wood-Pigeon
Blackcap
…all at it full tilt here.

As it should be.

#birds #trees #nature
#worldbeesanctuary

Illustration of the Dutch Reach. You should reach across with your non-door-side hand to open a car door, because it forces you to look behind you.

Last night, I got properly "doored" for the first time. A car in the road to my right paused, and the rear left passenger threw open his door without looking, right into my path. I ended up on the floor, badly winded but ok.

If you don't know what the "Dutch reach" is, NOW is the time to learn.

Cup of tea, ten minutes to spare; you know what that means: #Storytime. Here's how it starts, as always:
There is a story the bees used to tell, which makes it hard to disbelieve...

A reminder of one of the loveliest pairs of siblings in the dictionary: ‘muscle’ and ‘mouse’. To the Roman imagination, the flexed biceps of a (typically naked) athlete resembled a rodent scuttling under the skin. ‘Musculus’, in Latin, means ‘little mouse’.

Postcards are banned in this country. We smuggled this one out.

Talking Down   After having listened to Richard for twenty-five minutes, Stifling her yawns as he Enlightened Her on the origins Of the term ‘mansplaining’, Lisa was finally able to get a word in Edgeways. Brian Bilston

Here’s a poem called ‘Talking Down’.

I have a confession to make. Like an idiot I have left my brief case with you.

You have won a 'T-shirt' in local Newquay post office competition.

So far I've had food poisoning from chips out of cafe and have had a tennis ball smashed into my face.

Michael wished to ride with me to Birmingham today. This was not permitted.

3.05pm…around here at least!
I’ll take that.
Yes.
That’ll do pig, that’ll do…
What was I going to tell you?
Oh yes…
Bumblebee is grooming.
Not twerking.
Not scratching an itch.
Or itching a scratch.
Not in trouble.
Just grooming.
Taking a moment to tidy herself up.
You see #bees take moments too.

#theBeeAt3

Basic bee facts every day at 3pm.

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Bird migration observation sites in Europe have documented #bumblebee queen ‘mass-migration events’ (usually in Springtime) indicating that bumblebees are able to migrate over larger distances than previously thought.
#bees
#nature
#science

a black cat on a purple background

couple of hours left on this cat painting if you're interested www.ebay.co.uk/itm/19807649...

Forget to say Bill may drop my watch through the letter box. He's mending it. Also I've left my cagoule (red one) on the hook in the kitchen (use it if you want).

YouTube video by musicintheround Chris Addison's Incomplete Guide to Chamber Music trailer 2026

This Saturday! Wiltshire Music Centre! Me and m’pals with a night of fabulous music for newbies and lifers alike! Come and see!

youtu.be/BJPcEy2V-oM?...

We are looking at an oil painting depicting a lively winter scene in a Dutch town. In the foreground figures skate on the frozen river and a finely caparisoned horse draws a sleigh full of children. A church with a spire can be made out to the left of centre, and a windmill can just be made out in the distance.

The Winter Olympics but in this c1695 Dutch Snowscene by Jan Griffier the Elder...

A hand wearing a white glove holds a long thin piece of corroded metal. The remains of a piece of leather is wrapped around the shaft.

It might not look like much, but researchers visiting the collections at MAA have recently identified this 5,300-year-old piece of metal as the earliest known metal drill from Egypt. Amazingly it still has a piece of the leather bowstring (used to rotate the drill) wrapped around the shaft!

Today I am taking out Mum & Dad.

Hope to get my dad to take me to Clapham Junction one day.

Marion has broken her leg in 2 places.

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OPUS SECTILE FLOOR, C. 300 CE. VITTORIANO This marvellous floor in opus sectile was discovered in 1903, "somewhat damaged by fire", during clearance work in piazza Venezia for the main staircase of the monument to the first king of united Italy, Vittorio Emanuele II. Its large central emblema has a design of scales in the four marbles called the "Neronian quadrichromy": serpentino, porphyry, giallo antico, and pavonazzetto, with the usual pairing of serpentino with giallo antico and of porphyry with pavonazzetto. However, the wide band of floor around the central panel is particularly complex, with four horns in serpentino spinning outward from circles of porphyry and serpentino, separated by larger circles in pavonazzetto containing undulating cross-like shapes in giallo antico. The closest comparison is to the floor of the Senate not far away. But this design is unique. We know nothing of the building from which this was extracted, apparently without any archaeological notes or drawings, but the initial report does mention an adjacent room with a similar floor whose location and fate are unknown.

#MosaicMonday takes us deep into the #Vittoriano in #Rome to discover a rarely-seen and spectacular late antique #opussectile floor from an unknown building in the southern part of piazza #Venezia. #AncientBluesky 🏺

The view out the back of the library. The streetlights are on. The sky is light grey with a glimmer of the sunset just visible on the horizon

Okay things are getting serious this week. It's Monday night and it's 5pm so it's time for EPISODE 5 of 'How light is it in #Orkney at 5pm this week?'

BRACE YOURSELF.

We started the year in darkness, but already it's THIS LIGHT! 💡