🌱 Look forward to spring by booking one of our gorgeous Dawn Chorus Walks: • Sat 7 March, 6am • Sat 28 March, 5:30am • Sat 4 April, 6:15am 🦉 We'll go deep into the Reserve to hear warblers and lapwing, barn owls and bitterns. 🎟️ Book at kingfishers-bridge-nature-reserve.sumupstore.com/product/dawn...

Monokubo (Japanese, 1994–2022) "Giant Cat in the Snow Forest", 2018. Illustration. Japanese Artist and Illustrator Monokubo imagined a World where Larger-Than-Life Animals roam the Land and live among us. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

Jean Phillippe Charbonnier, Girl and Cat, Roubaix, France, 1958

“Why am I so sad today?” I ask myself after staring at my little handheld sadness machine and clicking all the sad little things that will definitely make me sad

The Uncivilised Cat, 1930, painting by Agnes Miller Parker, Scottish artist.

I have cleaned-up this fascinating autochrome of James Thin (famous for his chain of bookshops), who was born 202 years ago (in Edinburgh on 23rd March 1824), making him (so far as is currently known) the earliest-born person ever to have been photographed in colour. He is seen here in the garden...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqng... this all day long - ff to the cafe interview if bikery isn't your thing. SCH you're amazing x (and MS not so bad either)

Italian voice actor Carlo Bononi was the voice of all of the characters on Pingu. A trained clown by trade, he used a theater technique called grammelot, which consists of "speaking" in a mix of babbled gibberish noises. He improvised all the voices live and unscripted.

substack.com/@craigbaxter... Henry V part V (on stage directions)

🧑‍🍳We’ve been rigorously taste-testing our new banana and chocolate muffins today. Can confirm they are DELICIOUS 😋 ✨And miraculously, there are still plenty left for you! 🫵 🕙🕟 We’re open 10-4:30 Sat-Sun this winter. See you soon! 🔜

Bod bless Brian and REG youtu.be/lpr-zf8zK-Q?... This is lovely. And a great Bookiee impression.

🙋🙋‍♀️ Hands up if you had as much fun as we did today, on our first-ever Resolution 5km Mud Run! 👟🐃🌳 🦸‍♀️🌟🦸‍♂️ HUGE thanks to all our super-hero event volunteers, @thekingfishercafe.bsky.social and Reserve staff, and to all our energetic participants. Let's do it again some time! #resolution5k

🏅➡️ 🎪🚾 👟 We're ready for our first-ever Resolution 5km Mud Run on Sunday! Are you? 🌬️Storm Goretti will have been and gone, and @thekingfishercafe.bsky.social will keep us warm with hot drinks, soups, paninis and cake ☕🍲🍰 🎟️ Still a few places left: www.kingfishersbridge.org/resolution-m... Join us!

⚠️ Just ONE WEEK before our first-ever Resolution 5km Mud Run — and only 25 places left! 👟 So if you want motivation to keep walking, jogging, or running in nature this January, grab a ticket at www.kingfishersbridge.org/resolution-m... and we'll see you on Sunday! ☕ The Café will be open too 👍

Remarkable medieval panel in the Courtauld Gallery depicting the bathing of the infant Van Morrison

3️⃣ Support your year-round outdoor habit with household membership of Supporters of Kingfishers Bridge. For just £45/year it offers: 🚗 free onsite parking 🎟️ 10% cafe & events discount & priority booking 📰 regular email newsletters 🏞️ intimate access to nature www.kingfishersbridge.org/become-a-sup...

At The Veterinarian Waiting, 1919, painting by Leo Whelan (1892-1956), Irish painter.

🥇Our first-ever Resolution 5km Mud Run is filling up fast and is likely to sell out! 🙋If you'd like to help out on 11 January please DM us or email [email protected] before 2 January if possible. 👟Or grab a place to take part for just £15: www.kingfishersbridge.org/resolution-m...

👟 Still looking for the perfect gift for an outdoorsy loved one? Or want to treat yourself to a New Year boost? Grab a ticket to the Resolution 5km Mud Run on 11 Jan for just £12 at www.kingfishersbridge.org/resolution-m... Full price from Boxing Day £15 Walk, jog, run - the choice is yours 😎🚶‍♂️🏃‍♀️🏞️

Didn't know how much I needed these mighty vibes, the Don is for life not just for xmas www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Vibes

🔔 Just over a week left to get your Early Bird discount — prices go up on 26 December and tickets are selling fast! 🚶🐴🐃 🏃‍♂️So walk, trot, canter or gallop to www.kingfishersbridge.org/resolution-m... now and book your place on our inaugural Resolution 5km Mud Run on 11 January 👟

Soooooo much this www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Spacemog with laser eyes set to "festive"

I'm starting to 'have hope'... ach.

It's beginning to look a lot like Wetlands 💦 😎 The past few rainy weeks have helped to fill our water meadows – but it's set to be SUNNY this weekend! 🥾 So take a break from the pre-Christmas hullabaloo and unwind here with a walk, a cuppa & a mince pice from @thekingfishercafe.bsky.social

Lovely tribute to The Lady Killers but what's striking is how much better almost everything looks today. www.bfi.org.uk/features/70-...

Mid Wales Rothko

@mickeyundertone.bsky.social that was a fantastic gig!! and super extra bonus points for Mars bars

🏃The Resolution Mud Run will be the very first running event held on our Reserve—so come and help us make history! It's the perfect way to welcome the New Year and keep your health and wellbeing resolutions going, whatever the weather. kingfishers-bridge-nature-reserve.sumupstore.com/product/reso...

For any Undertones fans fancying a top top night out tonight secure.ticketmaster.co.uk/rs/3E006247A...

Although our cafe’s only open at weekends — and Boxing Day and New Year’s Day — at the moment, the Reserve itself is still open 7 days a week, dawn to dusk. You are always very welcome!

Yes yes, and at the top surely California Man www.theguardian.com/music/2025/d...

Living in hope

Ready!

Gutted

TO AUSTERLITZ! (because it’s the 220th anniversary)

New Sons of Southern Ulster album is out today!!!! open.spotify.com/track/1c3ZzC...

This www.theguardian.com/books/pictur...

Are you kidding? I would LOVE to see the Strava data from your latest run!!!

FROM NANCY’S SCRAPBOOK CATURDAY

Any other MBRSTATLSWMB listeners going to see @mickeyundertone.bsky.social and his musical chums in London on 6 Dec? We could exchange a knowing nod at least...

Do read this and then sign up! As tQ say themselves "...we're not doing a Black Friday subscriber sale today as it's weary nonsense and we can't afford to..." So much fantastic writing about music thequietus.com/opinion-and-...

We love the view from our new East Hide! 🌳🐃🦆🐴🌞 If you haven't tried it for yourself yet, pop over this weekend and stay for some lunch or* a cake at @thekingfishercafe.bsky.social — open 10-4.30 on Saturday and Sunday 🫖🍲🍰☕ *and

THIS IS GREAT

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