Rebecca Tickell

@rebeccatickell.bsky.social

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"It's all grist to the mill." Education for the win. Questioner. Educational researcher and consultant. Alum of HMC, University of Oxford. Also tooting (rarely) on Mastodon rebeccatickell@qoto.org

The Lotus Temple and brick pathway in New Delhi 🪷
Text reads: Me: I’m afraid of the Backstreet Boys Therapist: Tell me why Me: the image - a blurred and fuzzy hamster full of nervous energy (arrgghhh!)
David is Hockney (1962) B&W illustration from Grimm’s Fairy Tales: A black cat leaping (The Boy Who Left Home to Learn Fear)
Sandstone Buddha head wrapped inside holy Bodhi tree roots at the ancient site of Ayutthaya #Growth #BlueSkyArtShow
A view of the River Clyde from the Sky Bar in the Radisson Red Hotel, Glasgow.
Sand dunes, beach, sea, and sky at Bridlington South. Sunny day, light clouds.
A view of St Peter’s church (which sits in the ruins of Howden Minster), trees and the green (with a couple of picnickers) in the foreground. Blue cloudless sky, 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 flag flying on the church tower in the 🌞
Typical bacterial growth curve: lag, log, stationary, and death phases labelled.
The Golden Fleece pub York, sandwiched between a Greggs and a very wonky timber building
A view of the River Severn and Ironbridge Gorge through the Iron Bridge railings - the sign says: “erected in 1779”
Bridlington South Beach looking towards Fraisethorpe. An empty sandy beach, sea to the left, clouds hanging in a blue sky.
Orange blossom and green glossy leaves on an orange 🍊 tree on a street in Seville
Hartley Hare from Pipkins gets my vote (Image from: https://www.nostrings.org.uk/blog/hartley-hare)
A scarlet elf cup on a decaying log next to some stinging nettles
The keystone depicting the Lamb of God from Abbot William’s shrine at Rievaulx Abbey, #NorthYorkshire
Lovely Yorkshire rhubarb - beautiful and delicious!
Book cover: What Is It Like to Be a Bat? By Thomas Nagel
The spiral staircase at Russell Square tube station in London. It’s roughly 175 steps (I didn’t count them), which is the equivalent of 15 stories up. Take the lift!
The ‘viking’ door in St Helen’s church, Stillingfleet, Yorkshire
January Wolf Moon and Jupiter (tiny dot with a iPhone camera) - v. bright, and easy to spot with the naked eye but a pair of bins makes things more interesting.
Video of the Wolf Moon 03.01.26
The Tate Library at Harris Manchester College, Oxford.
Cover image: Heroes And Ogres a Hardback Book (1980) by Simon Goodenough
Bridlington - An electric blue winter sky with clouds, reflected by the standing water on the beach; the town and cliffs can be seen in the distance.
A Christmas card featuring a brown tabby cat with attitude in a Santa hat. The caption reads: I’m the reason the mouse isn’t stirring.
Episode selection screen for The Box of Delights, a 1984 BBC adaptation of John Masefield’s children’s novel. A Christmas staple for 🇬🇧s of a certain age.
A working cast iron stove (with roaring coal-fire, kettle and irons) topped off with a busy mantle piece (inc. a pair of Staffordshire porcelain dogs) in a typical miner’s cottage in the 1900s at Beamish open-air museum.
The Batmobile 🦇
A beautiful ginkgo tree, resplendent in its full yellow-gold crown, in #Boston Public Gardens. Statue in silhouette in the foreground (can’t remember who). All against a gorgeous blue sky.
Bridlington South Beach looking towards the town. Blue sky and clouds.
Album cover and record on turntable - UFO+ by Beatriz Ferreyra. Treated myself to some new vinyl last weekend courtesy of Jumbo records in Leeds - some real bargains to be had.
Sand, sea and sky, Titchwell beach, North Norfolk, England.
A tree, a speaker, and a space; to listen*, to relax and to be. *Jem Finer’s Longplayer at Yorkshire Sculpture Park.
Pigeon feeding station in Mumbai. Pigeons are assembling ready for the bags of grain to be spilt open; many more pigeons are on their way in.
Big fish eats four little fishes.
A wine bottle label: Cat’s Pee on a Gooseberry Bush
A blue vitreous disc #shiny casting its reflection on the floor at Denver Art Museum. Unfortunately, I didn’t note the name of the artist when I took this photo.
A night time view of the Eiffel Tower from a side street.
Crowland Abbey - West front of the ruined nave (13th C) next to the church and bell tower.
Byland Abbey - West front and ruined rose window.
Warming stripes for England from 1884 - 2019
Street graffiti in Pisa - Revenge: the leaning tower bashing a camera (tourist).
A family group of elephants (three feature in this shot, matriarch leading) making their way across a stretch of scrubland in South Africa.
A photograph of a book cover: On the Calculation of Volume II by Solvej Balle.
Car on C-Street at Meow Wolf in Denver
A book* on a bench in a park**. *On The Calculation of Volume **Denver Botanical Gardens
A city view - electric scooters and skyscrapers on a sidewalk in downtown Denver.
The South doorway at St Edith’s Church, Bishop Wilton.
A picture of a mug of coffee on a table in the sunshine. The text on the mug is from the Ladybird Peter and Jane book series, it reads “Peter writes. Peter likes to write.”
Pink roses in the foreground, Burton Agnes Hall in the background 🎶 in an English Country Garden 🎶 #SummerDaze
Screen shot of what a kid in England would have been watching in primary school in the early 80s, on the wheel-out telly: ‘Zig Zag (BBC Schools) follows shortly’ on BBC2, Bayeux tapestry is the background image.
St Michael's and All Angels, Garton on the Wolds, #EastRiding of #Yorkshire, on a sunny day; view of the West door from the lychgate.
Bempton cliffs, blue sky, and a calm North Sea. Zoom in and you’ll be able to see some seabirds.
The weeping column (aka Peacock Eye or Hen’s Eye column) in the Basilica Cistern* Istanbul. It's believed to be a tribute to the numerous slaves who died during the construction of the cistern. * Built in the 6th century during the reign of Emperor Justinian I.
Looking down the barrel of a gun. In this case, a rusty cannon (situated at Fort St Elmo, Valletta, Malta 🇲🇹), under an ominous sky.
A ginger cat contemplating life and mice, on a bench in front of The Blue Mosque in Istanbul.
Oystercatchers on the shoreline at Saltburn.
A sea view, sunshine, and plenty of seabirds at Bempton Cliffs.
Two men in a boat fishing on a lough in Northumberland. Wind turbines in the distance, tree and reeds in the foreground.