Dru
@drumarland.bsky.social
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Canal dweller, wildlife drawer, pronoun user (she/her)
A lump of elm glowing like a coal, in the stove. It’s supposed to be not very good for burning, but the wood of this long-dead tree is excellent and hot
16 days ago
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Freezing dawn. Redwings in the hawthorns
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18 days ago
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Stop it, you lot
24 days ago
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Opened the hatch for a bit of stargazing. Orion’s well up in the sky now. Blooming cold wind though. Retired to bed to warm up
24 days ago
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A useful miracle for Christmas; St Werburgh miraculously restores a goose to body and life after a servant ate it, earning the grateful thanks of the flock
24 days ago
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A misty dawn at Diggers
about 1 month ago
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keeping warm in the boat
about 1 month ago
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Thumbing through the British Trades Alphabet for 1969. Did you get this at school too?
about 1 month ago
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Accidentally overfilled the handwarmer yesterday- it’s still hot after 12 hours or so, which is nice on a chilly morning
about 1 month ago
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Full moon over Avoncliff, viewed from the aqueduct over the Avon
about 1 month ago
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Parched peas for a winter’s day
about 2 months ago
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A chilly dawn with the last sliver of the moon
2 months ago
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Pulled this big lump of tree out with these chaps’ help
2 months ago
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What a lot of rain! River level's rising...
2 months ago
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Just downloaded a video-making app, so here’s my first effort with it…
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2 months ago
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Clear night now, and I can see Orion from the comfort of my bed. Time to put the kettle on though
2 months ago
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*blows the dust off her Bluesky account…* hello again!
2 months ago
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“This IS the Kennet and Avon?” “Yeah, there’s the river Avon but that’s through Bath, nowhere near us” Walkers passing on the towpath, 100 yards from the Avon (but a different Avon!)
7 months ago
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The place where there used to be an angel’s feather, but now there’s just a hungry spider
7 months ago
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A brace of Sekidens. Ideal for plinking each other with duck pellets, and the ducks appreciate it too
7 months ago
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My map of the Bristol Avon
7 months ago
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Yet another bicycle to add to my collection. This is an Elswick Hopper
7 months ago
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it was a bit worrying this morning, tuning in for the Shipping Forecast to find that it wasn't there. It turned up later. Seems they've jiggered the schedule around
10 months ago
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It's busy here - frogs croaking (and ahem-ing) away, and barn owl ghosting around the field
10 months ago
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fixed fourth puncture in a fortnight today. Glad to have moved the boat past Hawthorn Alley…
10 months ago
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The first cowslips! On the upper wharf at Bradford on Avon
11 months ago
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On the egg of the guillemot, for #SuperSeabirdSunday
11 months ago
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reposted by
Dru
David Steel
11 months ago
Welcome to Super Seabird Sunday where we ask you to share photos, videos and artwork of seabirds to brighten up timelines. Here is my contribution, a ‘bridled’ Guillemot on the Isle of May
#SuperSeabirdSunday
#Seabirds
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A lively dawn, promising stormy weather
11 months ago
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This morning’s dawn. Blackbirds singing
11 months ago
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Updates my phone software and had to choose a new ringtone. Several calls almost missed because I thought “that’s a noisy duck outside…” #DuckRingtone
12 months ago
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A quick morning picture, based on this old chap at Woolhampton lock
12 months ago
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@wessex-wyvern.bsky.social
12 months ago
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The head came off my maul when I was hammering mooring pins in. Fixing it back…
12 months ago
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Crane Day on Bradford wharf; the boats that’ve been on hard standing over the winter we’re being lifted back into the water today
12 months ago
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A picture for Candlemas, Imbolc and/or St Brigid, depending on how you roll with the seasons
12 months ago
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In Burwalls Cave
12 months ago
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The first celandine
about 1 year ago
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I’ve added Corsham to my Wiltshire map!
about 1 year ago
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Defrosting the brakes and gears on my bike, using a bucket of hot ash and an old overcoat
about 1 year ago
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Cycling around Bath; was close-passed by a van announcing it was the Bath Blind Company…
about 1 year ago
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A fine cock at the Hunters Arrow smallholding by the canal
about 1 year ago
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A buzzard attacking a red kite over the boat. Red kites are occasional passers-through of this bit of West Wilts, as opposed to further east where they’re as common as sparrows except that sparrows aren’t common
about 1 year ago
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Lots of interesting vegetables floating past the boat today, as boaters discard the excesses of the season
about 1 year ago
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Listening to Sailing By as a prelude to the Shipping Forecast. Quite like old times
about 1 year ago
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We went fishing for Emma’s bike, brushed off her boat roof by a tree
about 1 year ago
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And this little badger
about 1 year ago
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Dropped in on Bristol Museum. Some old friends
about 1 year ago
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A blackbird
about 1 year ago
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My map of the Kennet and Avon canal. Good morning! Still dark, but at least we’re past St Lucie’s Day
about 1 year ago
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