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Beautiful Spitchwick #Dartmoor #Devon

Lovely rocking photos of my lovely rocking husband ♥️ as @thejunebrides.bsky.social supporting the epic #belleandsebastian in Dublin last weekend. #thejunebrides

Packed lunch for my indie pop husband on his way to @thejunebrides.bsky.social rehearsals for the Dublin leg of the #belleandsebastian tour. #indiepopfuel

Happy #internationalwomensday to our incredible team of women past and present busy building the community they want to see. We're incredibly proud and grateful for all you do. #Devon #Buckfastleigh #Bovey #Bridgetown #Ashburton

The #ruraleconomy is more public sector, education, health, real estate, distribution, transport, accommodation, food, manufacturing, construction, wholesale, retail, motor repair, & professional, scientific, technical services than it is agriculture, forestry and fishing.

Incredible #aurora #Buckfastleigh #Dartmoor #Devon

Happy new year to me! I have my office room back.

The road at #Torcross is officially closed and the sea is roaring even at low tide. Definitely avoid as the tide is rising. The size of the rocks it has shifted is terrifying.

Happy #nationalrobinday to all those who celebrate.

A grey #Dartmoor day.

With that there Phil @thejunebrides.bsky.social when we were both young and gorgeous! Why does no one tell young people?

Grey seals at #Brixham Harbour today.

Teeny tiny fungi day.

Stupidly good in the south #Devon woods today. #fungi

The only reasonable thing to do with freshly foraged porcini of this quality. #salt-n-pepa #letstalkaboutceps

Kruger's work on 'social covenant' is liked by centrists. Akin to #BigSociety and #communitypower - masking corporate power and hollowing out of welfare state - it sees to shift burden of public services onto communities, especially poor, under the guise of empowerment. www.bbc.com/news/article...

The realities of rural transport means that young adults can't access training or work. And this isn't in the middle of #Dartmoor, it's alongside the busy A38 between Exeter and Plymouth. #rural #inequalities #PlymouthMarjon #Bicton #Exetercollege #Stagecoach #Devon #DevonCountyCouncil

Beefsteak and Chicken of the Woods #fungi out today on the same tree.

Showing off, but for a non famous couple we've sure had a lot of Guardian articles! @thejunebrides.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/music/2006/j... www.theguardian.com/society/2019... www.theguardian.com/environment/...

In contrast to yesterday’s sad post about Ramsgate’s lost lido, here’s a great feature just out in the RICS journal, Modus, celebrating the great British lido revival - ww3.rics.org/uk/en/modus/...

A BARGAIN BANK HOLIDAY £3.50 gets you Sensitive – The Film. Indiepop Wrecking Crew plays house band to singers from The Sea Urchins, Talulah Gosh, Soup Dragons, Altered Images, Weather Prophets, June Brides, Waltones & Jetstream Pony – playing 100% #indiepop smashes. www.sensitivealbum.com/the-film

Trendy 'economic system change' frameworks and ideas may be admired in elite intellectual and policy circles - but they are high theory, low practice. Instead we must root change in everyday lives and take real action- #communitywealthbuilding www.democracycollaborative.org/blogs/beyond...

@mia-gray.bsky.social. thanks for the shared follow. Delighted to find an economic geography professor! I've a very much amateur interest in rural deprivation, economy and impact of austerity.

Sound up for this marvelous donkey engine at #NewLanark mill. #industrialrevoution #Scottishheritage

Loads of fun as every at @glasgoespop.bsky.social. thank you Kenji and Tita and all the lovely people. With Phil @thejunebrides.bsky.social

Eels. Paignton.

The #ruraleconomy is more public sector, education, health, real estate, distribution, transport, accommodation, food, manufacturing, construction, wholesale, retail, motor repair, & professional, scientific, technical services than it is agriculture, forestry and fishing.

Trump’s budget is one big “beautiful” regressive policy, with Americans who voted for Trump being adversely affected the most explains @michaelmarmot.bsky.social in @bmj.com www.bmj.com/content/389/...

Great to watch male Scarlet Tiger moths home in on a resting female at Berry Head quarry today. At least I think that's what they are! @johnwalterswildife.bsky.social

"Swimming pools are not a luxury – they are a necessity for the health and wellbeing of the nation" 💙 outdoorswimmer.com/news/swimmin...

I'm running #Buckfastleigh #Bats guided talks to support our historic heated outdoor pool. It's spectacular & you're guaranteed to see lots of them head out to forage. Then a fun warm swim at the pool. Always a sell out grab your tickets early & I'll see you there! #Dartmoor #Devon #lido

Looking forward to catching up with this new film about Dartmoor farmers using nature-based techniques to combat flooding ... www.gov.uk/government/n...

Gentrification destroys rural communities too creating social, health & economic consequences. Gentrification is not development, it is displacement. @betterplacesdevon.bsky.social @totalplace.bsky.social @municipaldreams.bsky.social @lccmunicipal.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Me and Phil @thejunebrides.bsky.social love this little bird. #Abercastle

A very beautiful iridescent green beetle today at #Skomer pontoon. Chunky and about 2cm long.

A very friendly robin at #Abercastle

A hundred or so sand martins nesting at #Abermawr beach today.

A long, hot, and hilly ride to #strumblehead lighthouse with Phil @thejunebrides.bsky.social

A 3 inch long hairy caterpillar on the Pembrokeshire coast path. What the flip emerges from that!

Who might know this spider please? @johnwalterswildife.bsky.social @devonshirenature.bsky.social

My mum Noah Barrett talking about her personal experience of the German occupation of #Jersey and #liberationday #vedaycelebrations on.soundcloud.com/jV7jocqWGHeU...

My much missed mum celebrating the liberation of #Jersey #channelislands on this day 80 years ago. #vedaycelebrations

Bats of Buckfastleigh: @danzep.bsky.social introduces a chiropteran extract from his latest book ‘Overnight: Journeys, Conversations and Stories After Dark’ (@canongate.co.uk) — a celebration of all things nocturnal 🦇 www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/04/bats... Photo courtesy Pam Barrett/Phil Wilson

A little excerpt from @danzep.bsky.social book "Overnight" featuring the #Buckfastleigh bats with me and Phil @thejunebrides.bsky.social

A few years ago Phil Wilson @thejunebrides.bsky.social & I took author @danzep.bsky.social to see the Greater Horseshoe Bat emergence in #Buckfastleigh for his book Overnight. It's a moving & fascinating book - catch the review here then get a copy! www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...

Early purple #orchid #Buckfastleigh south #Devon. @wildflowerhour.bsky.social

My project @betterplacesdevon.bsky.social produced a series of free wildlife guides by the very wonderful @johnwalterswildife.bsky.social to help our local community during the covid lockdowns. Here's his gorgeous spring flower guide. @wildflowerhour.bsky.social

Opps, forgot to post @wildflowerhour.bsky.social yesterday! Here's some from south Devon. #wildflowerhour