"Praying the Scriptures with Carmel" a new shared #LectioDivina group with a #Carmelite flavour using the day's Gospel reading online on two Wednesday evenings a month tailored to non-native English speakers @thicketpriorycarmel.org @carmelitespirit.bsky.social @carmelitequotes.blog pls share

A friend of mine recently started chemo. After she bemoaned the need to abstain from various foodstuffs she enjoys (especially soft cheese, but emphatically not kimchi) I wrote her this poem. She is very happy for me to post it. Words in ALT text. #Cancer #Chemo #Diet #Poem #Poetry #UKPoets

School's out, and the kids passing my house are singing the Queen of the Night's aria from the Magic Flute I dunno... the youth of today 🙄 #TinyJoys

Reposted as one of the very few posts that observe best practice... Text is the #SilentSunday tag and only the #SilentSunday tag 👏 Image has alt text for screenreaders 👏 Also, it's of an owl 🦉

A new window for the new Exeter College Law building by my amazing friend Amy Orange Juice www.facebook.com/share/p/19yJ... Plus one of the Testament sculptures, which used to be in #Exeter Cathedral's Chapter House, now in its new home #FensterFreitag #WindowFriday #StainedGlass #Sculpture

Happy #BuyNothingDay!! Funding life not consumerism

Happy National Tree Week!! Just for you, here are some beautiful autumn beeches #NationalTreeWeek #Exeter #UK

Maybe instead of Black Friday #Gaza #BuyNothingDay www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Happy World Kindness Day my lovelies #WorldKindnessDay #WKD25

Whoever wrote the plaque mis-spelled 'Pioneer in Computer Programming' #ALD25 @adalovelaceday.bsky.social

For the start of #COP30 one of my shortest poems #Chaos #Butterfly #Tornadoes #Weather #Climate #Poems #Poetry Thank you to Consilience for publishing

Not for the faint-hearted... Ottery Tar Barrels will be streamed live on iPlayer from 7-9pm this evening. #Devon #UK www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

For #TombTuesday here's the Cross Dermond Coffin Stone near Old Penallt Church, where the mourners rested to sing psalms, quench their thirst with ale and cider, and eat substantial meat pies. #WyeValley #Wales

Spent a beautiful afternoon with the lovely folk of Exeter Seed Bank sorting flocks of broad beans for next season's sowing. Aiming to create a strain that can thrive in the future #climate of #Exeter  #AdaptiveAgriculture

Hi #FungiFriends #FungiFriday Please could I enlist your help in confirming some fungi names. Seek and Obsidentify are useful and I’m confident of many, just not sure of a few. I’m sorry that photos (taken in Sep) aren’t always good and/or don’t show salient features. Thank you 1/10

My other favourite oak, reposted for #ThickTrunkThursday and #Oaktober

My favourite oak through the seasons Mucknell Abbey, a few years ago #Oaktober #Oak #Eiche #Trees #ThickTrunkTuesday #Worcestershire #UK

It's not to late to join in with #Oaktober... choose a tree and start a conversation #ThickTrunkTuesday #Trees #Oak #NoteToSelf climatebasecamp.org/oaktober/

I think it's about time I posted this #Poems #Poetry #PoetsOfBluesky #UKPoets #Triolet #WhiteHouse #EastWing #Ballroom #NativeLand #Climate It draws on native-land.ca, a living map of indigenous land, knowledge and stories

I made "Dress for overcast" 8 years ago, one of the many hacks of Taroko Gorge by @docmofo.bsky.social clarebryden.co.uk/coding/mozfr... #ALD25 #Random #Poetry #Javascript #Weather

Happy Ada Lovelace Day!! Here's a poem illustrating how far we've come in computing and its applications since her time clarebryden.co.uk/selling-my-s... Thanks @ampliconpress.bsky.social for publishing it in ionosphere #ALD25 @adalovelaceday.bsky.social #STEM #Technology #IT #Poetry #UKPoets

Cleddon Falls not quite living up to its billing! #WaterfallWednesday #WyeValley #Wales

Citizen science in #Cotehele orchard

...and as the nights draw in, a different interpretation of #Play for #NationalPoetryDay2025, published in the lovely Thimble Literary Magazine clarebryden.co.uk/uplift/

Something fun for #NationalPoetryDay2025 on its theme of #Play

Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary. - Reinhold Niebuhr, "Children of Light and Children of Darkness" #Quote #ForTheDay #ForTheYear

Amazing show by @kateraworth.bsky.social on Saturday evening @greenbeltfestival.bsky.social involving some incredible young people volunteering their talents, and #TeachingBrianEnoBeatboxing

Eighty years since #VJDay, two moving ceremonies in #Exeter today… First, the minute’s silence at #ExeterCathedral Green War Memorial at midday, then the commemoration event in Northernhay Gardens this afternoon. Your poem was brilliant @clarebryden.bsky.social. #WeWillRememberThem #VJDay80

“And there will be no release for captives released      to stumble their way back           to an indeterminate existence...” #NeverAgain #NoMoreWar #Peace #Justice clarebryden.co.uk/vj-day-2025/ #Poem #Poetry for #VJ80 #VJDay #VJDay80 #VPDay #WW2 #FEPOW

Interesting angle - "the poem offers itself as a powerful document of what happens to communities, to social groups – to sociability itself – when watching, informing and being informed on become the norms of human interaction." #Poetry #Poem #Keats www.aber.ac.uk/en/news/arch...

Letter of the day (in the Times)

My small offering, for Jyoti and the other peaceful protestors arrested under #Article13 of the #TACT2000, and for environmental campaigners willing to risk the same. Respect. This what it is coming to. #Poetry #Poem Numbers (522/532) and individuals taken from www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

It's never too late to start — Quotes brought to mind by one of the threads in this morning's sermon — with @mrjohnharvey.bsky.social at @exetercathedral.bsky.social #Poetry #Poetry #MaryOliver #Life

“Where the bells of Urakami tolled      a thousand penitents making their confession           will be cindered again and again and again until—“ #NeverAgain #NoMoreNagasakis #Lakenheath #MAD #Disarmament #Peace #Poem #Poetry for #VJ80 #VJDay #VJDay80 #VPDay #WW2

Just sitting on a rock* eating my lunch, and had some visitors * Hookney Tor with a grand view of Grimspound that you'll just have to imagine #Dartmoor

Amazing beardy lichen on an oak near Coombe Down #LichenSubscribe #Trees #Dartmoor

“...hear the hundreds of thousands of shadows      prophesying           an unpeopled future.” #NeverAgain #NoMoreHiroshimas #Lakenheath #MAD #Disarmament #Peace #Poem #Poetry for #VJ80 #VJDay #VJDay80 #VPDay www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eTf...

Reminder that I made a feed for #GB25, more related hashtags, and now also the @greenbeltfestival.bsky.social profile (please RT this to your followers, thx) Find it at bit.ly/BlueskyGB25

So it's back to the #dentist tomorrow 😬 Still, at least I got a #poem out of the whole malarkey. Content warning for the squeamish! www.nature.com/articles/s41... #Poetry #Teeth

Target achieved with a little time to spare! 😂 The #Declinometer was a recommendation. It's dual-purpose: 1. each #rejection becomes a step to achieving the target 2. more submissions means I need to write more that I'd be happy to see out there #Poetry #Writing #Tips #UKPoets

This is the earlier of my two poems published in Conversations this year. Many thanks to editors Fr Bernard and Fr Tom. #Poetry #Faith #LectioDivina

Many thanks to Conversations, a Dominican Publications journal (on the bird site @dominican_pub), for publishing a couple of my poems in the last two issues. Here's the latest one. #Poetry #Faith

Tis the season once again - luscious, plump, vitamin C packed, sweet, juicy, “honey of summer” blackberries #TinyJoys #Summer #PYO #Hedgerows #Mundraub clarebryden.co.uk/blackberryin...

Longplayer - "a catalyst for creative engagement with long-term thinking" - has 975 years left to go, and it has been 975 years since the foundation of @exetercathedral.bsky.social Cathedral. www.exeter-cathedral.org.uk/whats-on/eve... #Music #Sound #Longterm

First sweetcorn I've ever grown #TinyJoys

Evening light on the lovely Otter Estuary, Budleigh Salterton #Devon

In praise of farmers who make life easier for all by clearly marking the rights of way across their land, so I don't have to wander around searching and unintentionally trampling or trespassing #TinyJoys #Walking #Devon #Cornwall

The porch ceiling and font of Malborough church #Devon for #StoneworkSunday

"Uplift" is newly out in Thimble Literary Magazine - acknowledging something of the darkness at the lightest time of year* might remind of the possibility of finding light at the darkest time www.thimblelitmag.com/2025/04/18/u... #Poetry #UKPoets

Gave myself and my #garden an early birthday present. Ripple Effect says, "By twinning a garden, you contribute to our work with farmers in rural Africa. Your donation will fund three years of sustainable agriculture training for at least one family." rippleeffect.org/get-involved...