Julia Brigdale

I’m loving hearing them in the hedgerows!

Well-deserved praise for @sarahdesigns.bsky.social ‘s beautiful cards

You are awesome 🥰 Well done!

Swift bricks to be installed on all new buildings in Scotland as MSPs back law Rest of UK has resisted calls to make builders install bricks that provide nesting for swifts and other endangered birds

Great news from Scotland: a LAW to ensure new buildings have swift bricks. (Contrary to Labour spin, there is no law and no guarantees that builders or planners will incorporate bricks in England.)
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The Walnut Harvest — Somewhere In-Between Or maybe like the nicotine discolouration I see on customers’ fingertips and nails as they hand over their notes and coins to me in exchange for the next box of cigarettes to continue the cycle. Their...

Inspired by @nicolawriting.bsky.social and her wonderful recent piece about being a shopgirl at Christmas (do go and find the link through her account), I looked out something I wrote a couple of years ago about working on a supermarket checkout. www.somewherein-between.co.uk/journal/blog...

Sometimes They Blow Trumpets — Somewhere In-Between The tractor-ridges in the broad track draw us along in their directional flow. The big open fields to either side, asleep in winter, not empty, but drowsy, await a spring reawakening. It is cold. Just...

Here’s something wintery I wrote a couple of years ago and put up on my website; how the landscape while bare of leaf and apparent life, reveals its ghosts. If you enjoy it, please ‘share’ 🙂 www.somewherein-between.co.uk/writing/some...

Love it, use it loads!

Goodness! Them too of course!

Backlisted has enriched my life profoundly, thank you, and a very happy birthday to you all, founders, contributors, hosts.

Undressing in front of a kids playground it seems 😳

Waterstones Romsey building their author events profile with this wonderful writer and all round beautiful person, Nicola Chester. And what a book to focus on, with a nod to the New Forest and a deeper gaze into farming on the Berkshire downs.

Wow!

This thread.. thank you, thank you @nmgarrard.bsky.social. If you like the sound of this, do please read, buy, borrow, listen, gift, review. These forgotten women & their ghosts will love you for it, as will I!

Brilliant! Congratulations!

What an extraordinary man #gaza #humankindness

Bl💚💚dy beautiful

now, I find, must only ever be 2-3 feet deep at most and perhaps from now on, seeing as I have witnessed its truth, it will be more willing to welcome me

A still summer-dry pond, which I have only ever understood to be black-water-deep-filled and oppressive

now, I find, must only ever be 2-3 feet deep at most and perhaps from now on, seeing as I have witnessed its truth, it will be more willing to welcome me

A still summer-dry pond, which I have only ever understood to be black-water-deep-filled and oppressive

Mollie Panter Downes’ novel One Fine Day is a masterwork 💚

The first of this year’s quince crop, just over the same again ripening still on the tree. The most ever from this fairly young tree and like everything else fruiting this season, it’s really gone for it.

Letter from the Portland War Front (humor about something deadly serious) My dearest wife, It is week two of the Siege of Portland, and still these barbarians will not yield to our troops. We have severed the cords of their latte machines but they are making cowboy coffee ...

My dearest wife,

It is week two of the Siege of Portland, and still these barbarians will not yield to our troops. We have severed the cords of their latte machines but they are making cowboy coffee in their camps, where loud ukulele songs of resistance even now drift in on the breeze.

Photo of page from Guardian Weekend magazine showing Patrick’s 13-year-old daughter Milly and the starting words of a long feature story about her battle with Lyme Disease which was missed by the NHS for years.

If you pick up the Guardian Weekend Magazine today, please read about my daughter Milly’s battle with Lyme disease. And if you’re feeling bold, drop your copy into your local GP. There are thousands of Millys out there. Most are currently not helped at all by the NHS or, worse, not believed.

As my daughter got sicker and sicker, our quest for answers dragged on. How did we all miss the bacteria taking over her body? I write about nature, but when Milly got sick with a mystery illness, it never occurred to me that a long-forgotten tick bite could be the cause

This is the story of my daughter Milly and Lyme Disease. There was no rash, no "summer flu", NHS blood tests negative. And she's been ill for a quarter of her life.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
Thank you @lymediseaseuk.bsky.social & @lymeresourcecentre.bsky.social for raising UK awareness.

Please spread the word – we urgently need more Lyme-literate doctors, the NHS must take this seriously, @ukhsa.bsky.social needs to log ALL cases. How many more Millys are there out there who believe they have long covid or other illnesses and they actually have undiagnosed Lyme?

I’m lucky to have a swanky new (2nd hand) car and the steering wheel heating came on automatically yesterday morning! No more need for my driving mittens 😁

I love this book!

This is a montage of 4 photos featuring a selection of greeting cards which are all reproduced from original linocuts and feature plants and birds. They are photographed lying on a wooden table and have sprigs of foliage and flowers around them to create a pretty, rustic look.

It's strange how sometimes your online shop can seem to have been rendered invisible! 😁 Here's a link if you need a few cards, or just fancy a browse to save some bits for later:
www.etsy.com/shop/SarahRo...

#shopindie #shopsmall #artist #UKGiftAM

Great! Me too then 😁