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New garden gate under construction. We have a hedgehog hole, Midge spy holes and an addition to the new gate………Ailsa spy holes 🤣🤣

The punishment fits the crime. lol

Have you decided who to vote for yet in our #bucketandspade awards? Here are the 10 nominees. You can find more information and the voting form at seasideheritage.org.uk/bucket-spade...

My rhubarb has been rampant this year! It’s only had one bucket of water chucked on it weeks ago! I don’t have needy plants in the garden……they take their chances with my hit and miss care! Stewed rhubarb incoming! Any recipe suggestions welcome 🤗

The Eye exposed Covid profiteering back in 2021, long before this week’s inquiry findings that nearly £10bn of PPE was written off as wasted, and that a “VIP lane” fast-tracked the politically connected. 🧵1/2

As we approach the end of the school year I send the staff and students at Sedgefield Hardwick best wishes for a fabulous summer holiday 😎 There’s a but…….I am not going to miss the rude, entitled parents that drop off by car! Six weeks carmageddon free 🎉😄

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I took this photo on Tuesday in Hexham. The elderly chap behind me very kindly told me I was taking a photo of the old grammar school. I was of course capturing the fingerpost with bonus traffic cone hat for #FingerpostFriday #Hexham #Northumberland

If like me you're longing for the sea this photo's for you:small precious things I found on a walk on Old Hunstanton beach 2 yrs ago (+an aquamarine bc it looks like a Cornish rockpool). Let your brain swim about in the beachy colours & tell me your fave exhibit in this tiny museum if you fancy it🪸:

Friday #FallFriday #FashionFriday #FaustianFriday #FeatheredFriday #FerrousFriday #FictionFriday #FindsFriday #FingerpostFriday #FishFriday #FlowersOnFriday #FolkWitchFriday #FolkyFriday #FollowFriday or #FF #FontsOnFriday #FootpathFriday #FootwearFriday #ForestFriday #FossilFriday

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Thankyou so much for your support of my posts here on Bluesky. I had a full breakdown last yr & *really* struggle with executive function due to autism & ADHD but you seem to enjoy my posts which gives me a lift & is helping me recover tbh. Really hope they help on your tricky mental health days 🌿

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I’ve just been looking through photos of Midge. I’ve got so many of her with a resting Foxtrot Oscar face that I think I’ll use them for our non themed #TerrierTuesday pics 🤣🤭

Who’s going to watch the footie? I’m not, I’m going over the park to do Pilates. I wish them well but football ruined so many precious family weekends that I just can’t get into it 🤷🏻‍♀️ I’ll be happy for them if they win but that’s as far as my enthusiasm goes.

This walk from Mevagissey in #Cornwall is a lovely mixture of dramatic coastal scenery, picturesque fishing villages and wooded countryside. It is an easy walk with no significant gradients. See www.happyhiker.co.uk/MyWalks/Corn...

Millions of family carers put loved ones first every day. They deserve far better support and recognition. @eddavey.libdems.org.uk

My first time seeing a living groatie buckie! #Shetland

The Covid-19 inquiry into PPE has found that almost 2/3 (£10 billion) were wasted but there is NO evidence of cronyism or corruption? You’ve GOT to be kidding me! Is it down to the government using disappearing WhatsApp messages and/or the inquiry not digging deep enough? Embroideries from the time

The grumpy face of a terrier when Mam has put her duvet on the line to air and left only the dirty cover to lie on. Oh Midge! If only you could talk…….that face says Foxtrot Oscar 😆🤭 (this dog loves her bed) #TerrierTuesday

Wasted? Profiteering more like. Arrogant, entitled W⚓️s The OB network filling grubby pockets as per

The Crunch of the shingle.

We met the Wallsend family at the National Glass Centre yesterday. I’m so sad that it’s due to close at the end of month. Actually I’m fuming 😡 Sunderland Uni should be ashamed of their actions. They are going to demolish the NGC and sell the land. All that history and skill lost to dirty money.

Listening to BBC Tees….Amy is talking about the tragedy at Seaton @12bbytheseaside.bsky.social has aired a very relevant point. Parking is charged all year round yet lifeguards only patrol the school holidays. At least put extra watch on when the weather is good. People before profits please.

All together now! ... "But Nige did take five million quid, and Nige would take five million more!" 💥💥💥 #RefUKkers

In times of crises, many require just two things: entertainment and easy answers. Adolf Hitler provided both in 1920s Germany by offering entertaining speeches in beer halls where he blamed scapegoats for everything that was wrong. Trump won power with the same recipe – and Farage is trying the same

NEWS: C20 Society and campaign group Save the National Glass Centre have submitted a joint listing application for the Sunderland venue, ahead of its closure on July 31st and threatened demolition. Crucially the building passed the 30 years threshold in Feb 2026. ➡️ c20society.org.uk/news/listing...

Currently in Tenerife. Husband & son surfing. I'm off for a walk along the coast. Let's see how many NE voices I find and how many conversations I can engineer as a result ...as you know I am shameless. 🤣.I will report back.

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Sockburn has neither socks nor a burn. It's a burgh. Socca's fortified place. Recorded as Soccabyrig 780. It's in a meander of the Tees - they make good defensive positions. Look at Durham ! It has a worm...not as famous as Lambton's. 😉. Said to have inspired the Jabberwocky!

Linlithgow was apparently the birthplace of Scotty from Star Trek. Linlithgow palace underwent restoration including the massive fireplaces lined with Delft tiles. One tile is of the Starship Enterprise. #StarTrek #DelftTiles

As moths get the Royal Mail stamp of approval, we celebrate the ten special species they’ve chosen to spotlight.🦋✨ Read more 👉 durhamwt.com/blog/moths-mail

Absolutely, definitely, not “the Establishment”…

Puffins on Inner Farne today.

Keep calm and carry on eating ice cream! 600ml double cream Tin condensed milk 400-600g fruit of choice I stewed some goosegogs with a bit of sugar and sloshed some elderflower cordial in. Beat cream and condensed milk to soft peaks, swirl the fruit in and freeze. #Homemade #IceCream

Have also framed some prints that I bought at the weekend. This one is called “Sand Dune Crow” @12bbytheseaside.bsky.social

It’s too hot to do anything outside 🥵 so I’ve made gooseberry and elderflower ice cream…….if it ever sets cos I keep checking…….with a spoon in my hand 😋

You do realise that tomorrow is World Cucumber Day? And that if you go into certain hotels in Keswick, you get a free gin and tonic in exchange for a cucumber? This is the best thing in the news this week. www.reallakedistrict.co.uk/blog.aspx#la...

Missed this one but how fantastic 🤗

The strangest thing happened today. We went to the uninhabited island of Lunga, west of Mull, to look at the puffins nesting there. I was just taking photos when I felt a thump as something landed quite heavily in my head. It was a puffin! It stayed for about a minute before flying off.

I think we need to bring back Public Information Films. The stupid behaviour of people is outstanding! The warm weather brings them out in droves to litter, destroy and be ignorant. They don’t see their behaviour as the problem! Bring back Joe and Petunia!

Sedgefield Swifts 😎 the sound of summer in our garden. I feel so lucky that they nest round here!

If you are a library user in Co Durham it’s on Borrowbox (great CFF review on the next page)

Some things beginning with Sea…( though actually they were about 1km inland). It was lovely to see the Harbour Seal pups, but sobering to remember that not one pup born on Teesmouth last year survived - the prospect isn’t much better for these, unless something changes. #wildlife #wildflowers 🐡

Guinevere's Dialect. Plodge. OED. Chiefly Scottish & Northern English. 1st recorded 1787. To walk through water,often splashily. Also through clarts.