She/her. Queer, Autistic, Cumbrian. Passionate, chaotic & opinionated. Cats, 6Music, photography & mental illness. 📷 IG: RJLeighPhotography 📷
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A lazy flat-lay for @great_run 🙌
I've just surpassed £1000 on my fundraiser for @BrainTumourOrg.
I'm so grateful for all the donations and support 💜
There's still time to donate: ajbellgreatnorthrun2024.enth…
@runningpunks
ALT A selfie of Rachel, a white woman with chin length pink hair, lying on her bed. She has a running shirt laid over her top, with the race number 28972 pinned onto it.
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In the past, DWP software has wrongly flagged more than 200,000 people for suspected fraud.
Giving them more powers to monitor our bank accounts will further erode our civil liberties. We co-wrote to @leicesterliz to stop these policy proposals.
theguardian.com/world/2024/o…
I love being able to tell exactly what kind of cold it is there, just by the colour of skies and fells. It also makes me very homesick.
You cannot undo a Cumbrian childhood.
A bit chilly out there now.
#skiddaw #Keswick #lakedistrict #cumbria #braithwaite #lakes #photography #mountainbikes @LDRwaves @ReuvenRichard
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Our annual reminder.
#Craneflies, a 🧵
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Craneflies, a 🧵
We are approaching the time of year where the media publish scare stories about the annual emergence of certain species of #cranefly (aka #DaddyLonglegs).
This happens every year (the cranefly emergence & the anti-bug stories).
🧵 1/8 #ShareDontScare
ALT Cranefly (Tipula vittata) © Paul Brock
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Any local illustrators available to make a board look nice? Thanks to a burglar last night we have a wooden window that could be a great opportunity for a local Bradford artist #StreetArt #Banksy #artist #Bradford We are open and still full of lovely books!
How long til my neighbour starts talking to me about "unnatural clouds" and videos he's seen on Facebook 😫🫠
Noticed a rather odd look to the sky today?
Wildfire smoke originating from North America, has turned the sky white and hazy in some areas, rather than blue.
This may give a more vibrant sunset tonight and give an orange tinge to the almost full moon 🌕
ALT Satellite view of the UK taken on Sunday 18th August 2024. It shows a mixture of cloud and clear skies across the UK with smoke evident, especially in the south.
ALT A photo taken on Sunday 18th August 2024 in Exeter, Devon. It shows a pale blue/white sky with a cloud in front of a hazy looking sunshine.
Three weeks til the Great North Run! My race shirt is here, my race number is here, and I've done some running over the past few months...
Now, all I need to do is hit £1500 on my fundraising for The Brain Tumour Charity 💜 Please give if you can💜
@BrainTumourOrg @runningpunks
ALT A selfie of Rachel, a white woman with chin length pink hair, holding a Great North Run race number.
Donation page here: ajbellgreatnorthrun2024.enth…
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#RewildingWin: beaver kits spotted swimming in the River Stour, Canterbury 🦫
These are believed to be the first beavers born in a wild urban setting in England for centuries.
Could there be better news to start the week?
Read the full story:
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c6p2…
ALT Credits: Klaus Brauner / iStock
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Flying insects have declined by more than 75% in three decades. Please help in gardens and green spaces by:
🐝 Not over-tidying
🐝 Letting some grass grow
🐝 Welcoming wildflowers like dandelions
🐝 Saying no to weedkillers
🐝 More: bit.ly/2FCEJYz
Just as everyone is moving to different platforms, I have been banned from posting/commenting/liking on there.
Fuck knows why, my photography account is the most well-behaved I am on the internet.
Can we just appreciate the *beautiful* timing of this, merely hours after I send in my Wildlife Garden award submission to @YorksWildlife 😂🫠
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For this week's #wildflowerhour #ByTHeSea, I give you Yarrow Broomrape, Orobanche purpurea growing by the sea in NW Cumbria.
This delightful, very rare species is a parasite, with the host being Yarrow (also in the photo). Records map shows just how rare it is nationally!
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Alex loves his donkey scratching post. Come and see our donkey and pony residents. We are open everyday 10am to 3pm in the Summer holidays free to visit. Plenty of parking. Leeds LS16 5PH.
#hopepastures #Leeds #donkeysanctuary #donkeyrescue #horsesanctuary
