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Lydia Wakelam

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The People’s Porridge Princess (PPP)

A bizarre treat to spend a long weekend in Carrbridge at The @goldenspurtle World Porridge Making Championships, supporting @p_o_r_r_i_d_g_e in her love of porridge. Surprisingly emo(a)tional business 🥣

Always stir clockwise or you’ll let the devil in! taken in Carrbridge by @lydwak

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6 days ago

The eclipse watched with neighbours from the hill behind our house. A porridge box, tiny accidental crescent in the horse lens flare, + yesterday’s world famous ikea colander by @lydwak

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2 months ago

Happy 1 to SMP !
The year of the tortoise. What a lovely thing to be a part of 🐢

@somethingmoreproductive by @lydwak

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2 years ago

Some B-roll from yesterday’s post: a campsite wildflower walk with @danryan_nature on last summer’s writing retreat

🌷 taken in Pentewan Beach by @lydwak

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2 years ago

Exactly a year ago, I handed in my MSc dissertation (thank you Hazel for reminding me/embarrassed that I’m still telling people I’ve “just finished a master’s” when they ask what I’ve been up to). I’ve been meaning to say something about it for ages but now I’ve got around to saying it, all the words have left my head. Hopefully not the knowledge though.

1 The bark of an old olive tree / one of my favourite corners of @edenprojectcornwall
2 First day on campus
3-4 Front page/diss. excerpt, sticky dot data points
5 Big Hat
6 Eden biomes
7 A dam at the Cornwall Beaver Project @woodlandvalleyfarm_events
8 The Holme Fen post (measuring peat shrinkage/marking the lowest point below sea level in the UK)
9 Little crispy tins in the Cornish sea with @lady.haze after the summer writing retreat

A truly special time + I’m blessed to have Mastered Science (AMA) by @lydwak

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2 years ago

Lupins + beachscapes in New Brighton, NZ, 12.23 —— Our first evening park-up in the van. taken in New Brighton, New Zealand by @lydwak

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3 years ago

Fisherman on Mevagissey Harbour taken in Mevagissey, Cornwall by @lydwak

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3 years ago

A brief break from photos to share a small visual identity I worked on in early 2023 for @partypolice__’s open mic night, Grasp.

An absolute dream to work with a. Dan b. Natural forms + archival imagery, and c. My first proper sanctuary/stomping ground in Manchester: @deafinstitute taken in The Deaf Institute by @lydwak

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3 years ago

Swim(ish) 06 — we got up extra early to get to this one, it was our most treacherous climb down (+ even worse back up), but we battled the rain and arrived at: this. Absolutely gorgeous but slightly terrifying. We can be responsible, sometimes, when we have to be, so we did a quick dunk but no swimming. Then a soggy struggle back up through the fields to the car before work/uni. Still one of my favourite places we visited though. by @lydwak

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3 years ago

Swim 05 — no dramatic stories this time. Nice little swim, nice little stroll on the harbour wall with a flask of coffee. Nice little bowl of cheerios and strawberries when we got home. by @lydwak

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3 years ago

Swim 04 — this one I am posting quickly and with much pain. Picture the scene, it's Valentine's day, and I'm Andy's dull second wife. What better place for a deeply romantic swim than the estate that provided the inspiration for Dauphne Du Maurier's 1938 gothic novel Rebecca?

We parked up at the top of the climb down to the cove, with the sunrise not quite upon us but the promise of it peering from over the cliff's edge. We stumbled down the path, the coastal views unfolding with every step, until we found ourselves at the mouth of the very cove where Rebecca unremarkably possibly went missing in very normal unsuspicious circumstances. I reached for my camera to capture the beauty of the moment, which is when I realised... I'd left the battery charging in the kitchen.

Anyway, here are some very underwhelming iPhone photos of the morning that I am too sad to do a nice edit on so please be nice to me.

I bet his sexy first wife would've remembered her battery. by @lydwak

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3 years ago

Swim 03 — finally editing after a brief three month hiatus for uni / work / forgetting I started a project purposes.

This cove is very sweet, it has litter pickers + buckets for visitors to borrow. Nice to take a dip and do our bit. by @lydwak

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