Karin Celestine is going to be exhibiting at the Great Northern Contemporary Craft Fair in Manchester, please pop along and see her there!

Old Fox climbed the familiar track winding through the gorse, Meadow Browns fluttering before him like sombre heralds, up to the top of Barrowdown. There in that light, that gold-milled early September light, he called for help, help from the tattery ghosts of thatch & field & acre.

@celestineandthehare.com shouldn’t it be ‘A weasel in my choklit safe’?

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@radicalhoneybee.bsky.social @mstattsyrup.bsky.social @jomary10.bsky.social @celestineandthehare.com here is what I was telling you earlier, Bee

Some pillow basalts from Seward, Alaska, last summer. (Resurrection Ophiolite) ⚒️

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.

Only ten days to go until the end of darkness in the northern hemisphere 🌌 After that, there’s no actual night time until the very end of August as we remain in a perpetual twilight. Never fully dark, suspended in the suns reach for a good few months ✨

Old Fox had been out since dawn with a stout willow basket gathering ingredients for his teas, tinctures & syrups, his wines, liniments & poultices. Elderflower, cow parsley, sweet woodruff, hawthorn, mallow, goose-grass & thundering great nettles full green of iron-spit-cure.

I do it 8-9pm but join us this evening whenever suits you and bring your small joys from your day

24 seconds of bluebell calm for you if you need it.

Do you know of any large old Elms in Ireland? We're looking for really big old elms which have survived elm disease, despite it spreading everywhere across the country. Please visit our dedicated website and let us know about any veteran elms out there! www.wych-hunt.ie

The restored Shrine of St Melangell, St Melangell’s Church, Pennant Melangell. Such a still place, such a Sacred place, such serenity. Such a blessing for this Druid to be able to visit and absorb that peace. #SmallBeautiesHour

The Yew Trees in the Churchyard at St Melangell’s Church are amazing, apparently they are at least 2000 years old and their presence suggests a pre-Christian origin for this Sacred place. Just look at them! #SmallBeautiesHour

The gentle serenity of St Melangell’s Church in Pennant Melangell. Such a peaceful place of sanctuary to visit, whether like me, you are a Druid, or if you are a Christian, or have no faith. #SmallBeautiesHour

The primroses are still flowering in abundance! Just look at all the flowers on this one plant! #SmallBeautiesHour

I grew these cultivated Bellis perennis from some free seeds last year - and the forget-me-nots grew themselves from seed, they self seed everywhere in the garden! #SmallBeautiesHour

Red Campion just about to burst into flower under the old apple tree! #SmallBeautiesHour I love Red Campion, one of my favourite wild flowers, it’s so pretty and self seeds all over my garden! We also love Forget-me-nots and they also self seed all over the garden

I’m very late to #SmallBeautiesHour but here are some hot cross buns, home made by OH yesterday. Delicious and all gone!

Had c.10 on me last week. Despite checks & safety (e.g. removing fieldwork clothes as soon as you get in, leaving them in dedicated area not in the living space, and thorough body checks) I still had one attached on my arm the next day at home - possibly hiding on shoes/car seat overnight.

This is really important for everyone to be aware when out & about in the British countryside. 15 years ago I rarely had ticks on me during fieldwork. Nowadays I have several every time I'm in the same woods. Ticks can & do cause life-changing health problems.

Look at these lovely fresh new willow leaves emerging! They just sing of Springtime to me! #SmallBeautiesHour

The Forget-me-nots are flowering! A real Spring flower, they self seed everywhere in our garden! #SmallBeautiesHour

Snakeshead Fritillaries are such fascinating flowers, I’ve quite a few coming up now in a corner of the wild area of the garden, they always make me think of art nouveau flowers #SmallBeautiesHour

The Lungwort / Pulmonaria is flowering in the garden at the moment . It always reminds me of my grandmother’s garden. I do like the delicacy of the flowers! #SmallBeautiesHour

So having draughty sash windows doesn’t usually trouble me (no, there’s nothing we can do about it) but last night I had to put masking tape over all the cracks because the wildfires and muirburn smoke have really affected my asthma. Cough cough cough all night. OH and young un unaffected.

The spring equinox occurs Thu March 20th 9.01am-the centre of the sun passes to N of the Equator..1st day Astronomical Spring But, because the sun appears as a disc in the sky, the Equilux (March 17th)= date top of the sun passes N of Equator & days/nights are closest to 12hrs

@radicalhoneybee.bsky.social here is a Bluesky account that could become interesting for you @bbsbryology.bsky.social

We all know I'm a rubbish bryologist - but @bbsbryology.bsky.social does a lot of great work, and for we higher plant enthusiasts, it's worth remembering that mosses and liverworts provide a hospitable micro-environment for rare plants such as fen orchid.

@radicalhoneybee.bsky.social @mstattsyrup.bsky.social @jeanietrefaldwyn.bsky.social @jomary10.bsky.social

@radicalhoneybee.bsky.social gulls!

When I was an undergrad, I knew a medical student who used to eat margarine with a spoon out of the tub like ice cream. I still shudder at the thought. He’s a consultant now.

@radicalhoneybee.bsky.social @mstattsyrup.bsky.social Moss!

Newly published research by Bangor University shows that sewage-associated viruses can persist for days in certain weather conditions, raising health risks for people exposed to untreated outfall

This Small Beauty made me really excited! A few years ago my late best friend’s mum sent me some tiny hellebore seedlings from her own plants and these are the first flowers they have produced. A contrast to my mature Hellebore which has less evident markings on white sepals. #SmallBeautiesHour

The first of the Snakeshead fritillaries has popped up in the wilder area of the garden. They seem earlier than usual this year! I love the way the flower buds nod gracefully on the elegant stem. #SmallBeautiesHour

And here is a lovely sight , yellow trumpets calling a fanfare of welcome to Spring days! #SmallBeautiesHour

The first Forget-me-nots are appearing in the garden! So exciting! Soon, there’ll be a sea of blue flowers in some of the parts of the garden where they have self seeded enthusiastically but these first tiny flowers feel so special! #SmallBeautiesHour

Just look at these crocuses! I love the way they open right up in the Spring sunshine and brighten up the grass like little purple jewels. #SmallBesutiesHour

Hooray! I made it to #SmallBeautiesHour ! Our primroses in the garden all bloom at different times but the earliest of all are those underneath the Alder tree, amongst the bugle. I just find them such a hopeful sign of Spring! Most of the primroses won’t be out for weeks yet!

@jeanietrefaldwyn.bsky.social you are here!!!! Hooray!!! Now, if only we can get that @mstattsyrup.bsky.social and that @radicalhoneybee.bsky.social not to mention @jomary10.bsky.social here then we are all the Geese together!

Another beautiful morning with blue sky and bright sun. Although the evenings are cool, it definitely feels like Spring is on the way now.

Shropshire has been known by many names including Pengwern (Head of the Alder grove/marsh), with its frontier once referred to as "Bron Wrgan". It was here that king Arthur slaughtered various giants to help free the imprisoned brothers of Gwenhwyfar. #Shropshireday #folkloresky #pagansky #witch

'It’s going to be a distinctive, new kind of fossil,” says the geologist Prof Jan Zalasiewicz, a leading proponent of the Anthropocene as a new geological epoch that reflects the impact of modern humanity on the planet, who with Gabbott has written a book on technofossils, Discarded.' 2/2

Photos from today’s walk: Early Carboniferous ripple-marked sandstones intruded by a later Carboniferous dolerite sill.

A golden end to the day here in Glastonbury today with lots of people watching sunset from the Tor.

🧶 From my notebook, the recipe pattern for little crochet birdies should any folk so fancy it! 🐦