Dolly was incarcerated in the Moor psychiatric hospital, Lancaster, after having an illegitimate child in her early teens (after being raped, obvs). She was never released & died 18 months after Ian Beesley took this extraordinary photo. Heartbreaking beyond belief.

The sun rising over Saltaire

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So enjoyed the huge numbers of David Hockney images at Salt Mill today. What an incredible career.

Have your degree results? Lookingfor a Masters in Human origins with lots of opportunities to sprecialise? Join our MSc Programme here at @uclarchaeology.bsky.social. Applications are open until mid August. DM or email me with any questions. 🦣💀🧬

Penelope: weaponised by men as the gold standard for wives since BCE. I hopped inside her marriage to Odysseus in a series of letters in my Women’s Prize shortlisted book, A Thousand Ships (2019). Here’s just the beginning… #TheOdyssey #AThousandShips #Penelope

Salts Diner in Salts Mill. David Hockney land

Squardle telling me arsing IS a word but they don't allow it cos it's rude 🍑. And they don't think parp is a word at all. 💨 Fools.

Wild About Inclusion Lead sought by Sussex Wildlife Trust - 2 year post sussexwt.livevacancies.co.uk?fbclid=IwdGR...

"Dear Patriarchy..." Part of the fantastic Hold onto this Earth, indigenous North American artists exhibition at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park

VR Candy. Rise. Yorkshire Sculpture Park

Memorial bench - Bradford style

Very nice day in Yorkshire - this was RHS Bridgewater. Later visited Hebden Bridge. Now in Saltaire where model village founder Titus Salt forbid drinking alcohol or putting your washing out. The twat.

The amazing healing powers of dogs. My dad, John, in the last few months of his life, with my friend's dog Digby.

This is good on grief & loss www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Brilliant that the Pells Pool sauna is not only cheap & beautiful - it's wheelchair accessible. They had it specially made to be so. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Mum's typically sensitive reaction to my ADHD diagnosis....

I do like Mbappe’s attitude

Ooh I love Evil Edna!

Excellent tip. I’ve just bought this one.

Was gazing up at Swifts, as you do, & someone said how sad they were none had nested in their box. Important to manage expectations here. Can take many years. They like what they know. But still worth putting them up!

Swift nesting sites are so easily lost, most folk don’t even know they have them nesting in a cranny. Quick reactions & a positive response here means that Swifts can still access, the nest entrance is being maintained & a nest box is being added for breeding space. @suffolkbirdgroup.bsky.social

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If Tesco plants were animals, you'd call the RSPCA.

The Full Moon this month is known as the Buck Moon, after the antlers that start to grow on male deers foreheads. Other names include Hay Moon or Thunder Moon.

Patina parade just now. Joyful!

Church Twitten #Twittens

Patina Moving On Parade in Lewes today! Celebrating primary age kids moving on to secondary. Always makes me cry. High Street will be closed around 12.30 ish

Useful chart from the RSPB comparing Swifts, Swallows & House Martins

There's a fascinating The Rest is Entertainment episode about the whole gay/straight Village People fight www.theguardian.com/music/2026/j...

Absolutely heartbreaking. The first boy I ever snogged was found dead I've just found out 😥💔

So it's now been confirmed that my household is indeed (as we suspected) ADHD squared. At least we now know why we break so many glasses! Appreciate it's more important than that, but it does explain quite a few things.

What a beautiful gift from my friend's allotment

Aw. Lovely stuff from @michaelhogan100.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Somebody just requested we remove a Rastanouse gif cos hate speech.

If you love wildlife - follow Barry. Fantastic posts

Genuinely a top tip!

Does anyone else watch the Parisian Agency on Netflix ? Cos I've got Questions

Painfully resonant for many I'm sure

Lying on my bed watching the cool AF, flying scimitars that are Swifts swooping over my house. If the Fonz were a bird, he'd be a Swift.

Catalyst Club, Strange Seas: Weird & Wonderful Delights of the Deep! Hear Director of Incredible Oceans Elissa Phillips & Director of Conservation Henri at the Ropetackle, Shoreham, Tues 7 July. Book here https://ropetacklecentre.co.uk/events/catalyst-club-special-strange-seas/ 📸 Paul Parsons

Oh. Em. LGBTea.

Made a kind of spanakopita but with much more filling of eggs & spinach. So more like a filo-enclosed quiche. Very tasty!

We have a wildlife sightings board at our (now urban) work. Something tells me people aren't taking June terribly seriously (the cat was my entry!)

Good Life on at 7pm, BBC 2. Let's watch together?

An episode of The Good Life will be shown on BBC Two this evening in tribute to Dame Penelope Keith.

Local chap - many of you will know him www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Will lay flowers outside Leadbetter & Good in Lewes. Loved that woman. RIP