Emma Lewis

@petchary.bsky.social

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I write. I read. Environmental defender. Bird fanatic. Born in London. Oxford alumna. Lived in Kingston 38 years. Remigrated. My blog: petchary.wordpress.com. Also a member of the Global Voices community and on Substack. #StopDeepSeaMining #Arsenal

Three white hibiscus flowers with dark red centre.
A garden with a wooden fence to the right and blue sky with a few white clouds above.
A man with beard and long hair smiles genially. He is wearing a full white shirt, black leather waistcoat and has a fake gun hanging round his neck. On his left shoulder is a large white cockatoo. In the background are white Victorian house and a crowd of people, including a girl in a red ruffled dress.
A tall Art Deco style building silhouetted against a blue sky with mottled clouds and the sun singing directly above it.
Seagulls on a yellowish brown pebbly beach, walking around and flying.
A spiky teasel plant with a round, light purple flower.
A tall ash tree with several trunks illuminated in evening sun against a blue sky. In the foreground are green bushes.
A pink and blue evening sky with a seagull flying across it.
A flyer with the headline “Palantir out of East Sussex”
A flyer with the headline “Palantir out of East Sussex” advertising a public meeting in Hastings and a quote from a Hastings nurse Antonia with a photograph of her in a pink jacket.
A black bird with orange beak, the White-chinned Thrush, feeding its babies in the nest on a white shelf.
A man in a red hat stands on a beach looking toward several small dark herons. Several boats are moored nearby. There is a green mountainous landscape in the background.
Argentine football player Lionel Messi smiles as he is tossed in the air by team Mates. He’s wearing a white jersey with blue and black stripes and white shorts with black stripes. In the background is a blurry crowd all dressed in red.
A row of tall cream coloured houses behind a building with a grey slate roof with the sign “Welcome to Hastings” on the wall. In the background are ruins of a castle and trees on a cliff. The sky is blue with white clouds.
Spiky orange flowers alongside a flight of steps.
A tall man with a beard is smiling and waving while draped in a large blue flag. He is Voronzinha, the goalie in the Cape Verde football team at the World Cup. The word above him is “Obrigado” (“Thank you” in Portuguese).
A sunny day with blue sky and white clouds. A small fenced garden with a bright green lawn and flowerbeds, with tall trees behind.
A quiet sunny evening with blue sky and birds calling, including a dove. The camera pans around tall green trees.
An orange lily growing in a garden, on the edge of a stone patio.
A brilliant sunset sky - deep orange/pink with pale blue sky above. A large church with a route and a street light are silhouetted against it.
A green grassy slight slope with lush trees around it. An evening sky is ribbed with blue clouds
A white framed window looking out on Green foliage, with flower in a vase and greeting cards on the windowsill, above a radiator.
A brown cat with a beautiful marking of dark brown splotches and pale green eyes sits on a step and yowlsat the camera.
Tall white terraced houses with pink roses tumbling over a white wall in the foreground. In the background is a church spire.
A set of British Bird placemats with a picture of the British Natural History Museum on the wrapping as well as the DC picture logo for Dunelm (home goods store) and a price sticker (£14). Two birds are
A long stretch of beach and a calm blue sea on a fine sunny day. Iron railing on a promenade in the foreground
A tall cream-coloured Bictorian building on the corner of a street with a restaurant named “Bonjour” and a backdrop of a clear blue sky and calm bluish green sea with three or four pedestrians in the distance.
A London street with terraced houses, from a window on a sunny day with blue sky.
A bright orange sunset sky over a house with a green roof and a palm tree. In the foreground are flowering bushes and a spiky plant.
A bright red, spiky bromeliad flower, with pale pink inflorescence.
Early morning in Jamaica with a tall palm tree and other trees. Doves and other birds are calling.
A tree with slender, almost bare branches and pinkish white flowers. Against a pale blue sky.
A tall green tree on a sunny morning, branches hanging over a palm tree with rounded palm fronds.
A small hummingbird sits on a tiny perch in a mango tree, in front of an evening sky. In the background, the call of the Jamaican Woodpecker can be heard.
A large, spiky, pink bromeliad flower with a thick cluster of petals in the centre.
A deep purple/pink orchid with three flowers and two buds on a palm tree trunk.
A Canada Goose stands by the waterside preening his breast feathers. His black neck is curved downwards and you can see one of his grey webbed feet and the extent of his back with light brown feathers tipped with white.
A book cover of 1984 with a large eye in black and white, circles in red. A man stands on a black platform with “1984” in large white letters. He is facing a red cityscape. Above the eye is the name outlined in black: George Orwell.
A window frame with trickles of rainwater and condensation. Through the window is greenery.
A wall of artificial greenery and purple flowers with a board indicating “The University Singers” in red lettering. In smaller writing are their contact details and the notice is dotted with the University of the West Indies logo, which includes a Pelican.
A small cafe looking through the window at a rainy street. Two coffee cups on a wooden table. A woman going out of the door.
A fire at a long low building, with a large tree standing in front of it.
A small round, segmented green fruit hanging from a branch.
A hummingbird flitter around a tree, then perches on a slender branch, against the evening sky.
A brown dog with floppy ears and a white mizzle sta ds on a green garden, on the alert.
A thick grey cloud of dust drifts across a pale morning sky. There are wires running across the sky and a palm tree fronds on one side. There is a grey roof in the lower left corner.
A group of pink and white flowers against an evening sky. The spiky leaves belong to another plant growing in the same large pot.
A pale blue evening sky with a bright pink cloud over some tall palm trees and a pale green rooftop with a cream coloured metal awning below. A bush with scattered white flowers stands to the left as well as some palm tree fronds.
The white cover of a book by Arundhati Roy (lettering in red) entitled “Mother Mary Comes to Me” (lettering black, above a black and white photo of a young Indian woman with short curly hair, thick black eyebrows and wearing long dangling earrings. She is looking up thoughtfully, her head turned to one side. She is holding a thin cigarette to her lips.
A round white plate on a table with eight cupcakes. There are five with Arsenal logo on the top.
A delicate purple flower called “Mexican Bell” in bright sunshine with green leaves in the background.
A night sky covered with mottled dark grey clouds with a moon partially hidden above dark trees.
A tall palm tree with two fronds hanging down stands against a pale yellow dawn sky and a long, low cloud with layers of grey and pink. In the foreground are dark straggling bushes.
An older man stands at a short distance from a crowd , gazing upwards with a serious expression. He is a fan of Arsenal Football Club. He is holding a large red and white flag in his left hand inscribed “Arsenal Champions” with a number of players depicted celebrating. The man is wearing a red hat and red and white Arsenal jersey, with camouflage shorts to his knees and white sneakers and socks.
A photo of a tall palm tree on a sunny day with a few clouds in a blue sky. It stands in front of a church building with an orange painted wall in front.
A man stands in a space in the crowd holding a large red and white flag showing Arsenal Champions. He is wearing a red hat, red and white Emirates jersey, camouflage shorts and white sneakers and is gazing towards the left.
A group of Arsenal fans hold up a can with red smoke pouring out. The two in the foreground have their backs to the camera. One is wearing a white jersey with a large number 28 on the back, with his arm on the shoulder of a person with dreads wearing a brown hat, red jersey with white sleeves.
At a celebration near the Emirates Stadium in London of Arsenal FC’s Premier Leauge win, a man stands above the crowd with no shirt on and shouting. He is careful a can with red smoke pouring out of it. It is sunset. In the background two or three men are hanging on lamp posts. The picture is lit up with an orange glow.
A group of people - the new Hastings Borough Council - stand in an empty room smiling. There are four men and three women.
A white fence with two palm trees and a leafless tree behind and a pale blue evening sky with a few clouds.