The petition United Kingdom to join the Creative Europe programme from 2027 is important to me! ✍️ Please also sign: openpetition.org/uk/ukjoince

Hello Bluepals, we are open.

Hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome has been my life’s journey of discovery, resilience and above all, acceptance | Gemma Gould

Happy Thursday everyone. Potentilla Mai Tai. (Avens)

But others less conventionally-minded hold that the bishop’s purple of its dying hours invests it with a second beauty. In the case of the Moss, we must agree. #gardening

🧵1/ Health is increasingly being discussed in the security arena. COVID‑19 showed that weak health systems can destabilise economies, governments, and societies. Yet global health is slipping down the security agenda. We @friendseurope.bsky.social set out the issues @bmj.com

*NEW BLOG POST* Elizabeth and Marilyn by Julie Owen Moylan lotuswritingtherapy.com/2026/05/04/e... #ElizabethandMarilyn @penguinbooksuk.bsky.social #julieowenmoylan #booksky #marilynmonroe #royalfamily

I’ve always believed “old people” are at least 20 years older than me. But as I’m 74 this year that conceit is wearing a bit thin 😂

Happy Bank Holiday! Here’s a tongue-in-cheek #parody song about #nigelfarage accepting a massive gift from a #crypto billionaire and then hiding from a #BBC interview - to the iconic tune #500miles of the legendary Proclaimers … We’re calling it: “Five Million Quid” 💰🤑💰🤑💰🎶 youtu.be/z5A0qpWUrfg?...

Back in Topping & Company Booksellers signing next batch of books 📚- nice to hear they’re going quickly 😃

Transport for All is a Disabled Person's Organisation or DPO. That means we are led by and for disabled people. We understand the barriers disabled people face to transport, because we experience them. Find out more about us: https://www.transportforall.org.uk/

For decades it’s been well understood that learning by doing is essential. If you are not doing the thing—writing the essay, solving the math problem, reading the book—you aren’t learning. Public education should not be all about learning to use a company’s products.

To thank lovely members for their kind support of THLAS, we want to pay it forward and offer the chance to win one of three free memberships for #PennyBlackDay. Just comment #ThreeCheersForRowland with an emoji of your choice below. Winners picked on 6th May! 🥰🎩✍️✉️📜📣👏🖋️📮🎉

‘Suddenly’ 62 🪦👇🏼

Apparently it’s Star Wars day, but I haven’t seen the films, so I trust this board makes sense. - Michael

With his boots full of sand the nomad wanders down an undefined trail known only to himself. Everywhere is his kingdom. Stars shimmer like scattered gems as he breathes the sea’s salt air. I watch him fade into a small speck. @sonnetsmith.bsky.social‬ #writers #Nomad #WildWalkPrompt

Join our brilliant free live online events, each featuring two of your favourite authors, sharing their brilliant characters & empathy inspiration! Primary event Thursday 4 June, 1.30-2pm with Louie Stowell & Jeffrey Boakye. For ages 7-11, Key Stage 2/P5-7. In collaboration with Read for Good

And this morning the Shed is an antique vase, featuring a design of sheds marching into battle…

Our woodland is full of dense, tangled thickets of brambles These have been trained to funnel animal traffic through the trees to protect the bluebells Though the years we have sprinkled bluebell seeds along these paths, & that work is now paying off 🫠

‘Hawthorn’ Trees, 1963. Artist: SR Badmin May Day Bank Holiday Monday

Most people measure their kids' heights from year to year with a chart on the wall. We use Timelords. #DoctorWho

Advice I will never ever, not in a million years, be following.

UK Biobank has my data, but I’m not worried. I know the benefits are too great to consider pulling out www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Gertrude Jekyll (1843 – 1932) was a British horticulturist, garden designer, craftswoman, photographer, writer and artist. She created over 400 gardens in the United Kingdom, Europe and the United States, and wrote over 1000 articles for gardening magazines. #CelebratingWomen

On May 7th I & the artist Jackie Morris publish The Book of Birds, our love-letter to birds & our re-imagining of the humble, wonderful field guide/bird book form. Jackie’s painted more than 300 new pieces of art for the book; a jaw-dropping body of work. First set of events detailed below. Come!

The first bluebells, by Liza Adamczewski (aka the Accidental Ecologist), artist who creates work inspired by and celebrating local wildlife #WomensArt

More Writing Less Rot? open.substack.com/pub/jeanette... If you think that Andrew Tate should not be able to use Substack to monetise his hatred of women maybe try contacting: Farrah Storr: [email protected] CEO Chris Best: [email protected].

Did I ever mention that we are the fastest-growing city-region in the UK? 😂 Tremendous piece by Simon Kelner in the @theipaper.com. 👏🏻

Brilliant day meeting folk and snaffling indie #poetry at Free Verse 2026. Thank you @poetrysociety.org !

My New Dawn Roses at sunrise

#Sunrise just before 7am along the promenade and across the sea in #Barcelona (I'm here for Conversation Design Institute's Beyond Boundaries Global Festival this week) 🦜🏄‍♂️🌴

Anyway the new physio is insistent that if you don't feel better after a session, then you're having the wrong physio. So this is my PSA to you: if you're paying money or investing time to feel better you should... feel better. Who knew

I started with the new physio five months ago and the level of pain I now experience is about a third of what it was I have never in my adult life experienced a reduction in pain. Which begs the question of what all the other people I've seen over the years have been doing

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Irish artist, Katie Holten created a Tree Alphabet #womensart

I enjoyed my first walk/wheel through a bluebell wood today in Kent. Blooming bluebells, blue skies and good company with #WildWithWheels #Bluebells #Kent

AI at the surgery - great until it's not open.substack.com/pub/rorycell...

A wonderful clip I have seen being shared recently. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGJH...

In the orchard Artist: CF Tunnicliffe (The Farm, 1958)

#ColorADay #BlueTue #TidesOut #Photography #EastCoastKin #PhotographersofBlueSky

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Puffin Studio, a new picture book list “created to champion standout creative voices with strong international appeal”, was launched at the Bologna Children’s Book Fair yesterday 👇

Sad to hear of the death of Moya Brennan, the voice of Clannad. RIP. youtu.be/4zHTcxVjX0I?...

#Kyoto #spring rhythm The tower rises blooming Sakura as a red umbrella punctuates the pink-petaled ground A moment of cultural and seasonal harmony #japan #sakura #cherryblossom #travel #architecture #japanesegarden #photography #storytelling #culture 𝗝𝗼𝗶𝗻 𝘂𝘀 𝗧𝗵𝘂𝗿𝘀𝗱𝗮𝘆𝘀 #𝗵𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗢𝗳𝗕𝗹𝘂𝗲𝗦𝗸𝘆 & 𝘀𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗲

Just another Sunday in April open.substack.com/pub/jeanette...

Good Morning Bluesky The walled garden at Castle Howard #SundayPixCalm

I’ve given Bert the day off! I’m here until 4pm - Sally