Alice Woolley

@alicewoolley.bsky.social

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Journalist, now with my feet up. Ex-editor of Education Guardian. Also ex-Indie. Feminist. European. Labrador lover. Beetroot hater. Born in Chipping Norton. Surrey, West Oxon, Arizona.

Snapshots of Chipping Norton, 5 August, 2026
Image of a distant James Taylor on stage, with a much larger live picture projected behind him
Sloes, hawthorn berries and hazelnuts in the hedgerow
Snapshot of a swooping swift in Reigate
Five swooping swifts against a cloudy sky
Five swwifts in a cloudy sky over Reigate, Surrey, 4 July 2026
Hazelnuts in a hedgerow in Surrey, 28 June
Snapshot of the artist David Hockney with a trolley of rolled artworks, taken at St Pancras station in November 2017 by Alice Woolley
Sign saying: ‘Beware golfers’
A house with party political boards on display for both the LibDems and the Conservatives
Ceramic Easter egg cups from the 1960s, which would have come with chocolate eggs in
Black labrador
Bird box high on the wall of a house, in the shape of a row of cottages
Thick, frothy blossom on a blackthorn bush, in the golden hour in Suffolk
Four pictures of a bluetit looking inside a nest box
Punch and Judy by LS Lowry, one of the School Prints created for primary schools in the 1940s
Painting by Matisse, created specially for primary school children in the 1940s, one of the School Prints, now on show in Reigate
Clip from an email from FullFact.org discrediting Green Party claims about the Gorton & Denton byelection
Bluetit inside nest box
A sculpture of small stone bricks, overlooking marshes at Warnham Nature Reserve, Horsham
Silhouette of tree against dramatic pink snd purple sky/clouds
Reigate old town hall in the sunshine
Some bottles of homemade sloe gin
Poster advertising WORD poetry and spoken word open mic night at the Boileroom venue in Guildford on Monday 8 December
A shop displaying a small Christmas tree mounted on the exterior front wall above the shop window - a Chipping Norton tradition
Poster for new spoken word open mic night on 8 December at The Boileroom in Guildford