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Rachel Withey
@rachellwithey.bsky.social
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Interested in nature, active travel, better streets, rewilding, reading, politics, history and much more.
Happiest outside.
Live in Brum.
With work hat on interested in research strategy and delivery, particularly within the social sciences.
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Flags have been gone from my bit of Brum for a few weeks now. Pleased to see that the stickers remain.
#Birmingham #Brum #HopeNotHate
Photograph of a sticker that says “Ignore the flags you are loved and welcome here”
June 26, 2026 at 3:12 PM
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Via Greenpeace
As schools shut and people struggle to do the everyday things - sleep, travel, move around - this is what we should all be focusing on.
Screenshot of a Greenpeace Instagram post that says “this is the coldest summer of the rest of your life”
June 24, 2026 at 6:50 AM
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Made me laugh over on Instagram courtesy of Uk Transport Department
Text on top of a picture of a bus reads: Stop using anti transport language Instead of “you’ve thrown me under the bus” try saying “buses are wonderful at building communities and you’ve behaved poorly in comparison”
April 23, 2026 at 9:28 PM
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Find out more about energy efficient travel and safer streets from
@betterstreetsforbirmingham.org
Image saying “Change lane to escape the global energy crisis.” Includes weekly running costs for a car - £108, bus pass - £20 and walking or cycling - free
March 21, 2026 at 10:34 AM
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Not sure who our local graffiti artist is but I’m loving their work. #Birmingham #Brum #Harborne
Graffiti red writing on fence saying “Migrants Welcome” followed by a heart
September 30, 2025 at 6:49 AM
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This Friday Brummies.
Please come
#Birmingham #Brum #BetterStreets
Flyer for road safety emergency event in Birmingham this Friday, 1 August. Describes gathering on Friday outside council house, Victoria Square at 5.00/5.30 to meet to reflect on road safety emergency in Birmingham followed by Circle the City ride at 6.00.
July 28, 2025 at 6:25 AM
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Birmingham folks - Critical Mass comes to Harborne on Sunday 1 June. Come and enjoy riding in a big group. All welcome. Please share #Birmingham #Brum #Harborne #Cycling #CriticalMass
Poster for critical mass ride with logo of bike and fist combined and details of the ride. Sunday 1 June, 15:00 meet outside WH Smith on the High Street. Harborne.
May 23, 2025 at 7:22 AM
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Our self seeded hawthorn tree is flowering this year for the first time. From what I’ve read it should just get more and more flowery as it get older. What a joy.
Hawthorn tree with flowers on upper branches Close up of Hawthorn flowers.
May 4, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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7. And now heading home via the v busy Derwent Valley Railway train to Derby
Sign for Derwent Valley Railway with picture of train, mill, river and cable car
May 3, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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6. Lovely day walking
View of fields and hills.
May 3, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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5. And arrived in Cromford 20 mins ago
Sign post to Cromford Mill, High Peak trail and other destinations
May 3, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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3. Short 10 min walk from Derby train station to city centre. Bit of a wait in Derby but wandered around shops, bought a sandwich and then waited in Derby’s v nice bus station
Bus station. Long corridor. Shops on one side, a few seats on the other
May 3, 2025 at 8:35 AM
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2. Now on a very busy train to Derby
Train table with pastry, book (Common Ground by Rob Cowen) and cup of coffee
May 3, 2025 at 7:29 AM
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1. Bus to New Street Station
View of top of bus shelter taken from the top deck of the bus
May 3, 2025 at 7:03 AM
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This gorgeous blackbird has been singing all afternoon in the garden #BirdWatching #Brum
Blackbird with open beak in a tree
April 22, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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The swallows are back in Frankley. Also skylarks.
Happy days. #Brum #Brumish
Bird list from Merlin bird app Swallow, wren, robin, dunnock, goldfinch, song thrush Bird list from Merlin bird app sparrow, skylark, swallow, goldfinch
April 22, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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Up and about before the canal ducks wake up
Ducks sleeping by the side of the canal 2 Narrow boats and canal in the background, towpaths and grass area with daffodils in the foreground. Early morning sunlight
April 12, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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Every spring I’m so grateful we bought a house with a magnolia tree in the garden. It really is magnificent. #spring #magnolia #Brum
Magnolia tree covered in pink blossom Close up of pink magnolia blossom
April 4, 2025 at 7:33 AM
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Dawn(ish) chorus in West Birmingham #Brum #Birmingham
Screenshot from Merlin bird app listing Robin Chaffinch Blackbird Great tit Wren Dunnock Great spotted woodpecker
March 21, 2025 at 7:31 AM
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Come and say hello and chat about any ideas you have for improving Birmingham’s streets
March 15, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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All good
Shopping bag with bread including a cinnamon and cardamon bun
March 8, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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Everyone should turn their disused swimming pools into art galleries. This place in Roubaix was amazing. (Thimblemill Pool, Smethwick take note.)
Art deco swimming pool with sunshine stained glass window. Has a small pool of water through the centre, a wooden walkway over the rest of the pool area and sculptures around the outside where the changing rooms would have been.
February 21, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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Out experiencing -6 degrees in Harborne this morning. Back at home now with coffee
#Brum
Bus lights and outline of street and other cars in dark misty photo Misty photo of sun, tree and buildings across frosty field Frosty magnolia bud
January 11, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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Lovely day in London today

#London #Photography #Millbank #BlackAndWhitePhotography
Black and white photography. Silhouette of man in front of a gate at the edge of the river Thames. Ray of Sun shining through the gate.
January 9, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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Enjoying the snow, not sure it will be here much longer. Excellent snowman building by someone #Brum
Snowy path in graveyard with trees either side Snowy view in park, big snow man in foreground, then pond, then people and trees in background
January 5, 2025 at 9:11 AM