Mandy Patrish

@mandypatrish

British European. Interested in science, history (natural and man-made), music etc etc. Wish the world wasn't in such a mess, appreciate the people who are trying to make it better. Will block anti-science nonsense, aggression and spam.

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Mandy Patrish@mandypatrish· Jul 12

'We few, we happy few, we band of brothers' Henry V #ShakespeareSunday

Members of the England mens football team celebrate a victory

Mandy Patrish@mandypatrish· Jun 28

A little scented leaf pelargonium called Orange Fizz. Pretty flowers and the leaves really do smell of fizzy orange.

A plant with soft crinkly green leaves and pinky mauve flowers with a darker central splash.

Mandy Patrish@mandypatrish· Jun 23

The heatwave joy of a café with aircon and Ella Fitzgerald playing. Cool 😎

A mug of coffee (latte) on a wooden table, with a white carnation in a small glass vase.

Mandy Patrish@mandypatrish· Jun 21

Spotty!

Mandy Patrish@mandypatrish· Jun 14

Juvenile gannet at @rspbbemptoncliffs.bsky.social demonstrating my inability to take good photos. But what a lovely way to spend #SuperSeabirdSunday

Mandy Patrish@mandypatrish· Jun 7

'How shall I be revenged on him? For revenged I will be, as sure as his guts are made of puddings' Th Merry Wives of Windsor A1S4 #ShakespeareSunday

Two ladies standing behind a bar, looking fierce and formidable. Barbara Windsor and Pam St Clement, playing Peggy Mitchell and Pat Butcher in Eastenders.

Mandy Patrish@mandypatrish· May 19

Lichfield is my local cathedral. Minster Pool - the medieval fishpond just below the cathedral - is still there, and beautiful. Not sure how many eels though.

Minster Pool in Lichfield, Staffordshire. The expanse of water reflects the blue sky, the surrounding trees, and the three spires of Lichfield Cathedral.

Mandy Patrish@mandypatrish· Apr 18

Will be at the RST later to see Alfred Enoch aa Henry V. It lives!

A photo of an actor's face. The text reads RSC UNTIL 25 APRIL
HENRY V
BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Mandy Patrish@mandypatrish· Apr 14

Had fun at the Harbourside Festival in Bristol last year, looking forward to seeing you at the Bristol Beacon next month #TLJGig #TheLongestJohns

Four musicians on stage in front of a blue backdrop. Andy, Anto, Robbie and JD of The Longest Johns at the Bristol Harbourside festival in 2025. (Florin on drums is there, just hidden behind JD)

Mandy Patrish@mandypatrish· Apr 5

Loads of blackthorn

Bushes full of small white flowers behind a grey wooden fence.

Mandy Patrish@mandypatrish· Mar 29

Loads of blackthorn blossom out at the moment. Should be a good year for sloes ( and sloe gin 🍷)

Mandy Patrish@mandypatrish· Mar 28

Missing this place already. Love #Bamburgh Castle and #Northumberland.

A beach backed by dunes and marram grass, with a castle standing high behind the dunes. The sky is pale and silvery with soft white and purple/grey clouds. The whole scene is hazily reflected in the foreground of wet sand.

Mandy Patrish@mandypatrish· Mar 8

'To unpathed waters, undreamed shores' The Winter's Tale A4S4 #ShakespeareSunday theme: New & Blue

A seascape at sunset. The sea is calm with just a few ripples, and reflects the sky and patches of cloud in grey and peach and purple tones, with a purple/grey horizon in the far distance. Overhead the sky is a clear evening blue.

Mandy Patrish@mandypatrish· Feb 20

Hoatzin. Also known as the stinkbird.

A largish brown and cream bird, with pale markings on the wings, bright blue skin around a vivid red eye, a thick beak and a spiky crest of feathers on it's head.

Mandy Patrish@mandypatrish· Jan 4

Witch hazel 'Jelena'.

Mandy Patrish@mandypatrish· Dec 25

Merry Christmas to you and your family Rob.

This year's Christmas tree in the house where I grew up, which now belongs to my brother and his wife. Scene of many happy family Christmases.

Mandy Patrish@mandypatrish· Dec 14

"These roguing thieves serve the great pirate Valdes" #Pericles #ShakespeareSunday @homefreeguys.bsky.social #SkullandBones

Five fearsome pirates on the deck of a sailing ship. The one on the right is holding a guitar. Actually they are not fearsome pirates, they are the five members of Home Free in a still from the video for their original song Skull and Bones.

Mandy Patrish@mandypatrish· Nov 9

The Alnwick Garden, swings in the cherry orchard.

An orchard of trees, some still with yellow and gold leaves, and more leaves scattered over the ground. Between the trees are frames supporting several bench swings.

Mandy Patrish@mandypatrish· Nov 3

Hydrangea, roses and rudbeckia I'd expect to last, but clematis? Also geranium 'Rozanne', nasturtiums, Japanese anemones, fuchsia, Mexican fleabane, pinks and the violas I planted in March which have been flowering ever since!

Yellow daisies with a black eye (rudbeckia) and blue flowers with a pale centre (geranium Rozanne)

Pale yellow nasturtium flowers against a mass of bright green foliage

A grey flower pot containing a fuchsia plant. Bright pink flowers with white centres are hanging down

Mandy Patrish@mandypatrish· Nov 2

Mexican orange blossom flowering in November - madness!

A greeen shrub growing next to a red brick wall, covered in small white flowers.

Smallish white flowers with yellow centres dotted all over a shrub with shiny green leaves.

Mandy Patrish@mandypatrish· Nov 2

Petruchio: I say it is the moon Katherine: I know it is the moon P: Nay, then you lie; it is the blessed sun K: Then, God be blessed, it is the blessed sun; But sun it is not, when you say it is not The Taming of the Shrew #ShakespeareSunday #TruthandLies

A dark haired man in a pink striped shirt is talking to a blonde woman in a pink and white dress. Raul Julia as Petruchio and Meryl Streep as Katherine

Mandy Patrish@mandypatrish· Oct 26

'All hail, Macbeth! Hail to thee, Thane of Glamis!' #ShakespeareSunday Carving of the three witches on the Macbeth trail in the grounds of Glamis Castle

Wooden carving of three witches hunched over a cauldron

Mandy Patrish@mandypatrish· Oct 22

This jade plant is a family heirloom. My father brought home a piece from a plant in the offices where he worked. He stuck it in a pot, and when I left home, I took a piece with me. Much like Dr Who it's been through a few regenerations from cuttings, but it's at least 50 years old.

Mandy Patrish@mandypatrish· Oct 12

Rudbeckia lighting up a corner of my garden. They positively glow in the autumn sun.

Golden yellow daisies with a black centre to each flower

Mandy Patrish@mandypatrish· Sep 14

'Now, good digestion wait on appetite, And health on both!' #ShakespeareSunday #Macbeth (Hope you're feeling better) (Photo credit @theadamchance.bsky.social)

A man wearing glasses, a cap and a red check shirt is holding a plate of food. Adam Chance (musician and member of Home Free) sitting in the window of a pizza shop holding a special 'biscuits and gravy' pizza.

Mandy Patrish@mandypatrish· Sep 1

Definitely made it to Northumberland ( credit to @northumb-astro.bsky.social )

Pink and green aurora from Cresswell, Northumberland

Mandy Patrish@mandypatrish· Aug 28

Gun control? When?

England is a cup of tea.
France a wheel of ripened brie.
Greece, a short squat olive tree.
America is a gun.

Brazil is football on the sand.
Argentina, Maradona's hand.
Germany, and oompah band.
America is a gun.

Holland is a wooden shoe.
Hungary, a goulash stew.
Australia, a kangaroo.
America is a gun.

Japan is a thermal spring,
Scotland is a Highland fling.
Oh, better to be anything
than America as a gun.

Brian Bilston

Mandy Patrish@mandypatrish· Jul 27

'Summer's lease hath all too short a date' Sonnet 18 #ShakespeareSunday #Summerholidays

People in silhouette looking across the bow rail of a boat. The ripples of the wake trail away towards the sun setting on the horizon, just at the point where a dark band of coastline ends. The blue sky is criss-crossed by gold and purple clouds.

Mandy Patrish@mandypatrish· Jul 21

It was a great show - and fun to meet fellow Home Fries

Andy, Robbie and JD on stage at the Bristol Harbourside Festival

Mandy Patrish@mandypatrish· Jun 22

"Look not on his picture, but his book" Ben Jonson for #ShakespeareSunday, Theme Books and Libraries