Pippa Jones

I didn't love it, but there was certainly a lot of tension and great descriptions of the countryside (possibly the Fens)

I thought they were both brilliant - I learned so much. I've started reading Your Blue-eyed Boy just this morning. I'm making my way through all her novels.

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A green vase of everlasting sweet peas against a teal wall.

Some sweet peas for YOU 💗

Thanks for the likes, reposts but mostly your company x

Photo of a landscape with firest and dawn sky painted onto two leaves which are placed on a white surface

Katie Brooks, US artist known for creating intricate paintings on natural found materials, including leaves and feathers #WomensArt

A while ago a lovely German man appeared at our church. He came a few times to look around during our Saturday opening hours, before asking if the piano abandoned in the corner worked.

I told him it was horrendously out of tune, and the cathedral piano tuner had deemed it not worth sorting out.

A #WoodAnemone in a north Dorset woodland this week #wildflowerhour

There’s an Urdu name for a “Jack of all trades” that translates to “every talent Lord.” A Korean version is “eight direction beauty.” But my favourite name for someone who tries their hand at lots of different things is the Lithuanian Barbė devyndarbė. It means “Barbie nine jobs”

By the river this afternoon

Monochrome photograph of a group of white women sitting on outdoor steps next to a tall building while looking at a newspaper, the women wear long a-line 1950s style skirts and blouses, to the top left a man in a uniform stands in the distance observing the women

New York, 1954 by posthumously celebrated street documentary photographer Vivian Maier #WomensArt

Painted portrait with Black female subject, head and shoulders facing left with hair tied up and wearing a striped silky top, all against a green background

Frances Eaton (1835 – 1924) Jamaican-born Londoner and artists´model, muse for the Pre-Raphaelites. She appeared in numerous paintings including this portrait by Joanna Boyce, 1861 #womensart #BlackHistoryMonth

As described, painting of owl in flight across moon, clouds parted for full moon.

It begins with the quiet of an owl's wing, mist muffled, of river breath hushed upon frostfangs and cold, a climbing ivy. Ask April to lend a word or two, circles of light, stars to burn in the darkness, when the blush of Spring is in the distance, a ship sailed on bluster and waves of snowdrop and crocus. Masts of daffodils still on horizon, pursued by clans of swallows, the nightingale, the cuckoo - apostles returning - remembered in tendon and bone, all this is heart-pressed, all this is known.

A poem for February from me.

The Quiet of An Owl’s Wing, February

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🖼 Owl flying against a moonlit sky, Caspar David Friedrich, c.1836.
#OwlishMonday

Lakes landskein.

Birch trees, snow against an azure sky. Painting.

February Azure, Igor Grabar, 1904.

Monochrome photograph featuring a standing Black woman in an outdoor setting, upper half facing forwards and looking towards the viewer, dressed in a dark jacket, t-shirt and cap, in front of male passers by and a shop front with the text 'Serve Yourself' above its striped canopy

Female shipyard worker during WW2, Richmond, CA, US, 1943 by photographer Dorothea Lange #WomensArt

It’s our time! Hello Bluesky!

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This is just perfect for President Carter.

St Martin in the Fields church reflected in a puddle

Trafalgar Square

An arrangement of spring flowers in various old ink & poison bottles & a tiny old jam jar, including primulas, cowslip, forget me not, anemone blanda, cow parsley leaves, pulmonary, daisies & saxifrage.

Recently I missed a couple of weeks of posting my photos here due to really bad mental health but I hope to make up for that.
I design my photos using recent research into the shift in brain activity from fight/flight to rest &relaxation triggered by looking at plants/at something we find beautiful.

seagulls against a Thames sunset

winter on the river Thames

Brilliant. Thank you

Ooooh - I need non-fiction to be creative to keep me engaged, sounds intriguing

Great idea, thanks!

@biggreenbooks.bsky.social is kindly going to send me something else! I've not heard of Stasiland - would you recommend it?
I went to Berlin in the summer, which have me a sense of the geography in the novel, plus some cultural context

And it is also:
1³ + 2³ + 3³ + 4³ + 5³ + 6³ + 7³ + 8³ + 9³
(but I can't remember who told me)...

Fantastic fact!

2025 is the only square year I and nearly all of you will live in..45 squared! 2116 is the next one!

Print of a stylised landscape featuring an orange hill which rises to the right and has a group of eight bare trees in silhouette on top, to the left a golden sun peeps over the horizon under a swirling yellow-orange and grey- pink morning sky

Contemporary Northumberland artist and printmaker Rebecca Vincent #womensart #NewYear2025

Photo of a triangular shaped, three dimensional woven sculpture in rainbow colours, hanging in a misty forest with tall trees against a cold grey sky

French textile and environmental artist Edith Meusnier, Winter Eclats, 2008 #WomensArt