Dr Jill Whitelock

Close-up photograph of white blossom against a blurred background.

West Cambridge blossom. 📷 #photography

Excellent, I guess you had a sunny day as well! ☀️

Excellent, so nice to see them again!

😀 Thanks, Kristine! It was such a lovely day yesterday.

That sounds nice, fingers crossed.

Peacock butterfly resting on a stone path next to grass.

First butterflies of the year for me, in West Cambridge today. Peacocks, Brimstones and a Small tortoiseshell. 📷 #photography

Detail of untrimmed pages with very uneven appearance

Stil life of untrimmed pages with proof corrections of the Polyglot bible

#rarebooks #earlymodern #bookhistory 📚📜💙

A grey squirrel on grass, glimpsed through railings.

A cheeky squirrel at The Fitzwilliam Museum yesterday.

Vintage illustration of a young blond child sitting up in bed, tucked under a pink patterned duvet, reading a large book titled “Bed-Time Book.” The child looks down intently at the open pages, with a dark headboard behind them and a soft, warm-toned bedroom setting.

Happy #WorldBookDay! 📚

What books did you love as a child?

This #NationalYearofReading, pass that magic on and encourage a child you know to #GoAllIn with a book.

Image of a child reading is a book illustration by Jessie Willcox Smith, (1908.12.11).

A host of golden daffodils.

Daffodils looking spectacular at @cubotanicgarden.bsky.social yesterday. 📷 #photography

A small fly on a vivid lime green plant.

Fly on Euphorbia at @cubotanicgarden.bsky.social. #WildWebsWednesday

A red and black Ladybird on a hairy green leaf.

One of many Seven-spot ladybirds out and about on the Green alkanet round the side of @theul.bsky.social yesterday. #WildWebsWednesday

You’re right!

Hand-coloured illustration of a Lizard orchid.

Indignant looking Lizard orchid flowers from volume one of Sowerby’s ‘Botany’ (1790). CCC.47.54 @theulspeccoll.bsky.social @theul.bsky.social

White blossom with a pink centre, against a blurred pale gold green background.

Blossom at St Botolph’s, Cambridge. 📷 #photography

Thank you! 😊

A pale blue Iris with dark blue and yellow markings.

Iris ‘Katharine Hodgkin’. #BlueSkyMonday 📷 #photography

Love this!

Sometimes I too feel ‘misbound but perfect’, Francis Jenkinson. Written in a copy of Gaspar Ens’s book on Dutch discoveries in the New World (Cologne, 1612). @theulspeccoll.bsky.social N*.5.51(G).

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Tall yellow flowers against a blurred green and yellow background.

A nice big patch of Coltsfoot on the West Cambridge Site. #WildflowerHour

A bright blue flower in grass, against a blurred green background.

A pretty Common field speedwell, West Cambridge. #WildflowerHour

White blossom on a branch, against a blurred grey sky.

Cherry plum, West Cambridge. #WildflowerHour

Fabulous!!

A yellow Dandelion flower growing out of a white painted wall.

A Dandelion flourishing as a wall plant in King Street, Cambridge. #WallPlants #UrbanPlants #WildflowerHour

Montage showing Daisy, Red dead nettle, Common field speedwell, Coltsfoot, Shepherd’s purse, Sweet violet var. dumetorum, Petty spurge, Primroses, Green alkanet, Red dead nettle again and Common whitlowgrass.

A last #TheWinter10 for #WildflowerHour. Daisy, Red dead nettle, Common field speedwell, Coltsfoot, Shepherd’s purse, Sweet violet var. dumetorum, Petty spurge, Primroses, Green alkanet, Red dead nettle again and my first Common whitlowgrass of the year.

A clock face with Roman numerals on a white background, with the words ‘Paddington Station, London NW15’.

Clock, Fordham. #Round #BlueSkyArtShow 📷 #photography

Excellent!

Thank you so much, that’s really kind! 😊

Close-up side view of newly opened mauve crocuses.

Lawn crocuses last weekend. 📷 #photography