Jen Ratcliffe 🍊📙⛵

If you're into butterflies and blue skies - you may find me here bsky.app/profile/jenrat… #NatureWriting

Feeling insecure about the state of our environment - wanting to reconnect to nature, particularly water - the source of all life? Why not come to book club #bookclub #naturewriting #environment open.substack.com/pub/jenratclif…

A substack about canals, boats and beginning a new life aboard - Mooring Into Autumn, read aloud by me (so be nice) #Boats #Boaters #BoatBlog #BoatsThatTweet open.substack.com/pub/jenratclif…

Farage quote he wants to arrest and deport 'foreigners' for illegal activity, Farage quote Graham Lineham can't be arrested as he is a 'foreigner'... sudden urge to read some Orwell?...

Plastic tiddlywinks just as they press and squeek together, a tournament, hundreds flung at once... or an ash tree full of jackdaws before they cyclone into the field recently emptied of cows - cawing aloud - 'ours, ours, ours'...? Hard to tell sometimes. #30DaysWild

#DailyNature Sprig of defiance, Reclaims grey roads back to green, Invites me to tea. #Haiku #NaturePoetry #UrbanNature #Micropoetry #30DaysWild #NatureWriting

I now understand why my dad used to wake up at 4AM and just sit at the kitchen table for an hour

@Matt_Pinner Butch, Rex, Buster ...

Is there one ?

Day of the great yawn White to yellow light comes dawn Auburns patiently wait #DailyNature Happy solstice! 🌳☀️🌿 Also, a word for today: 🌇*Simmerdim*🌆 The light that lingers after sunset during the midsummer season #NaturePoetry #Haiku #micropoetry #30DaysWild

@jflWrites Suncream in the UK or just SPF or 'factor 'insert number'

Do you call it sunblock, sunscreen, or something else? Bonus points if you tell me where you're from. I want to see if there are regional differences.

@sabinelittle 💜 roxo / 🩷 rosa 🤍 branco 💚 verde

Back to colours today: purple/pink, white and green :) Name the colours, and/or what you found! #30dayswild #30dayswildmultilingual

Happy #SummerSolstice ☀️🌅 It’s the longest day of the year! Perfect for enjoying early sunrises, late sunsets and spending time outdoors surrounded by nature 💛 👉 wildlifetrusts.org/blog/sarah-ker…

Same white butterfly as yesterday, loop de loops by ear. Too agile to ID, perhaps an unfolding-swan or dog-rose-caught-in-a-swell ? Grass paths squeak rustily. Song thrush punctuates jackdaw jittering. Humans, birds, bugs; hide from heat in hedges. #DailyNature #30DaysWild

It's going to have to be bang-a-bonk, as I'm currently sat reading on the bean hair I've pulled from out of the boat in it's shade

They're clearly no longer goslings but their dishevelled and timid social gathering makes their age distinctively not yet adults either. Not a girl - not yet a woman: Britney Spears 😉 3/3 🧵 #ALTTextIsPoetry bsky.app/profile/jenrat…

Their ebony tufty heads are patched like Orca's with white chins, breast and fluffy downy bottoms. Back feathers make subtle angular and bowing shapes in mousey brown curvatures, with beads of aqua jewels skiing down them. 2/3 🧵 #ALTTextIsPoetry

Not a gosling, Not yet a goose 🎵 What do we call teen goslings? Gossips? 🪿 Honk -honk See Thread below for ALT Text 💚 #DailyNature #PutNatureInAPopSong 😂 #30DaysWild #Canals #Birds #ALTTextIsPoetry

English Tiger 🐅 Lined in coal and mustard, tiger of pollen, professor of buzzy mellow, danced as it flew - sung in a thrum napped in some petals before it was done. #DailyNature #Poetry #Bee

Amber in the sky grew voicelessly loud, startling its forgetful audience into chatters, mutters and flight. Each morning we expect you, but each slumber we become like tree roots - engrossed in internal lands without the need of stars.... #NatureWriting bsky.app/profile/jenrat…

@StephenMoss_TV Happy Birthday Stephen 🥳🎈🎂 Hope they spoiled you!

Special reunion of my children for my 65th birthday today, plus one little extra! Retake of a photo taken a few years ago…