Irish coins of different sizes, showing a horse, salmon, bull, hare, hound, hen, pig and woodcock
In 1926, as a member of the Irish Senate, W.B. Yeats enthusiastically took charge of the committee designing new coinage for the Irish Free State. Yeats decided the different denominations should be symbolised by different animals (was he consciously thinking of this as the “tails” side?) 1/2
A luminous pause on Hadrian’s Wall - the southward view near Sycamore Gap, taken last month after walking the line. It speaks of scale, for me - the building being absorbed by the light.
Applications are now open for the Living Alongside Bats in Churches Grant www.bats.org.uk/our-work/bui... Deadline 27 April 2026
Postdoctoral Research Fellow @unisouthampton.bsky.social - Bat Ecosystem Services jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
Mother
A little nudge and reminder… it’s Mother’s Day next weekend, if you want to get your mum something arty, there’s still time 💚 #shopsmall
www.charlottestrawbridge.co.uk/products
Mums go FREE this Mother’s Day! ✨🌱🤰🏻
Visit us on Sunday 15th March for a special day in the spring sunshine: www.butserancientfarm.co.uk/whats-on/cal...
Have-a-go archery, crafting with cards & candles, make bracelets, meet our rare breed animals & enjoy the beautiful South Downs countryside!
🦇 The Woodland Symposium will return on 25 March and will be held in person at the WWF Living Planet Centre in Woking as well as online via Zoom.
If you work with trees, are a landowner or an ecologist, here are four reasons why you should come along!
More info: www.bats.org.uk/our-work/con...
A little bit of extra light for a Wednesday morning: St. Mary's Abbey in York.
Did u know? I don't like talking/ featuring in my wildlife gardening posts,but I've just found out about the copyright issues of using the music option available on Instagram(my other platform),so my new posts are going to have to feature my dulcet tones & not Bruce Springsteen's... aplogies🌿🌱🇬🇧🌱🌍🪲
It might feel so unlikely but you really can just put a bucket in the ground and a frog will lay spawn in it. My neighbour is thrilled, we put this in for her a couple of years ago. @rspb.bsky.social @froglife.bsky.social @arc-trust.bsky.social 📸 hers
Amazing footwear too!
An old monochrome picture postcard showing a London street scene with three story brick and stone building. In large letters on the building is Borough Polytechnic Institute Opened 1892
Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of Borough Polytechnic, which later became London South Bank University
Opened in 1892, as the sign says!
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Mossy oak
Mossy oak
A cartoon image of a brown long-eared bat with some headphones. The text reads 'Volunteer Bat care Helpline'.
🦇 We are looking for volunteers for the Volunteer Bat Care Helpline, in which volunteers will answer calls from members of the public who have found grounded, injured or lost bats.
More information and how to apply here: www.bats.org.uk/support-bats...
Cornish friends. I’m heading to Cornwall end of next week and need to be on Bodmin Moor (Brown Willy) for *reasons*
Anyone been up since the recent deluges - how are the walk conditions from Rough Tor Car Park?
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Thank you 🙏🏼 so much.
Moss covered trees on a hill side, Dartmoor, Devon
In the green wood #Dartmoor #Devon
Meme. Medieval drawing of a monk, leaning on a staff and holding a book. He has a thin tonsure, and a thin face, and thin fingers. His is holding the book open with his left hand, but in a very awkward way by his side. His fingers looks splayed like a spider on ice skates, and he appears to be holding his place in the book with a kind of death grip. By contrast, the hand holding onto his staff looks relaxed; it curls easily around the wood, and the monk appears to be leaning into it a bit. Either his desperation hasn't traveled to his right hand yet, or his chill hasn't made it to his left. His robe is a lovely salmon color, but he's not thinking about salmon right now. He looks concerned, as if he has suddenly been given quite a lot of eels. He's been looking in copy of The Rule (aka. "Big Ben's Guide to Monking Around") for answers, but the saint didn't write about eels. He just ate them. Meme text reads: "The didn't cover this in seminary"
It's 1200, and you're the Abbot of Ramsey (congrats!). At Lent your tenants come calling with their annual rents of preserved eels.
- 60,000 from Welles
- 4,000 from Chatteris
- 125 from Little Bedford
- 5260 from Wisbeck
etc.
So what do you do with all of these eels? 1/4
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my local park is full of hundreds of snow sculptures and someone has been adding museum labels
An old colour picture postcard showing a grand concrete building set in a 1960s streetscene. A red bus is on the road, a well dressed couple walk on the pavement. The sky is such a beautiful blue, and the old Owens College building in the distance is very grubby.
Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of the Students Union at @manchester.ac.uk
And here's a bonus jigsaw of the card, just because the sky is such a beautiful blue!!
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An old colour picture postcard showing a Georgian grand house with ivy and trees, set in open parkland. Printed at the top left of the card is "St Mark's College, Chelsea"
Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of St Mark's College, Chelsea, which merged with St John's College and in the 1950's moved to Plymouth, where it is now @marjonuni.bsky.social
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very important video please watch
Chocolate Easter bunnies and eggs of various flavours and colours.
My Easter collection is now available on my shop! 🐰
All the eggs, bunnies, and mini eggs are ready to go. They’re delicious and just waiting for someone to eat them… I also have a few plant-based options this year!
Feel free to order now or reshare if you know someone who’d love them! Thanks!
So very sorry. Thinking of you.
This small medieval church is all that remains of a village that was wiped out by the plague in the 14th century.
Swizzels in New Mills on a winters morning
There’s currently 15% off this print and many more in my shop.
Prints start from just £16 each (before discount). Use SAVE15 code at checkout & explore the full collection here:
www.andrewbrooksartist.com/shop
Saw one today! Glorious photo.
This coming week I'm driving out of the jaws of winter, travelling the length of Britain in pursuit of spring. Here's the first of two special edition digests with the trials and tribulations of the first week of my camper van camino: www.digest.andymarsh...
Aerial view of Dunkeld Cathedral taken from the east facing west. Snow intermittantly hugs the ground around the cathedral whilst the dark muscular river flows past to the west.
In Pursuit of Spring - Day Four: "Dunkeld Cathedral sits beside the River Tay in one of the most bucolic locations I have come across - even on a stark winter’s day." 👉 www.digest.andymarsh...
