Jen Ratcliffe 🍊📙⛵(on BlueSky)

Writer ✍️ Boat Dweller 🚣 MA N&TW @BathSpaUni 🎓 Shortlist Working Class Nature Writing Prize '24 💚 Finalist Porthleven Prize '23 🗞Words: Telegraph & TheLead

[Jen Ratcliffe 🍊📙⛵(on BlueSky) @compass_keen]

If you're into butterflies and blue skies - you may find me here

https://t.co/KPs5xdDUnn

#NatureWriting

[Jen Ratcliffe 🍊📙⛵(on BlueSky) @compass_keen]

Hello, is thing on?
I'm mostly n BlueSky now but in case there is anyone out there looking for a new podcast on writing, water and nature - here is the first episode of the Water Book Club

https://t.co/kCR81unYGA

#environment #water #podcast #nature #amyjanebeer #naturewriting

[Jen Ratcliffe 🍊📙⛵(on BlueSky) @compass_keen]

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

https://t.co/f4kuc0iPwp

[Jen Ratcliffe 🍊📙⛵(on BlueSky) @compass_keen]

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

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[Jen Ratcliffe 🍊📙⛵(on BlueSky) @compass_keen]

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?...

[Jen Ratcliffe 🍊📙⛵(on BlueSky) @compass_keen]

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

[Jen Ratcliffe 🍊📙⛵(on BlueSky) @compass_keen]

#DailyNature

Sprig of defiance,
Reclaims grey roads back to green,
Invites me to tea.

#Haiku #NaturePoetry #UrbanNature #Micropoetry
#30DaysWild #NatureWriting

[Thrilla the Gorilla @ThrillaRilla369]

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

[Jen Ratcliffe 🍊📙⛵(on BlueSky) @compass_keen]

@Matt_Pinner Butch, Rex, Buster ...

[Jen Ratcliffe 🍊📙⛵(on BlueSky) @compass_keen]

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

[Jen Ratcliffe 🍊📙⛵(on BlueSky) @compass_keen]

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

[Jen Ratcliffe 🍊📙⛵(on BlueSky) @compass_keen]

@sabinelittle 💜 roxo / 🩷 rosa
🤍 branco
💚 verde

[The Wildlife Trusts @WildlifeTrusts]

Happy #SummerSolstice ☀️🌅

It’s the longest day of the year! Perfect for enjoying early sunrises, late sunsets and spending time outdoors surrounded by nature 💛

👉 https://t.co/VaCY0NOVDn

[Jen Ratcliffe 🍊📙⛵(on BlueSky) @compass_keen]

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

[Jen Ratcliffe 🍊📙⛵(on BlueSky) @compass_keen]

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

[Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder]

Words for the Weekend 🥳

Pick your winner ⭐️

A B
C D

[Jen Ratcliffe 🍊📙⛵(on BlueSky) @compass_keen]

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

https://t.co/7n4rOnnCtF

[Jen Ratcliffe 🍊📙⛵(on BlueSky) @compass_keen]

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

[Jen Ratcliffe 🍊📙⛵(on BlueSky) @compass_keen]

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

[Jen Ratcliffe 🍊📙⛵(on BlueSky) @compass_keen]

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

[Jen Ratcliffe 🍊📙⛵(on BlueSky) @compass_keen]

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

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