Whats a distaff?

Whats a distaff?

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7 Jan 2024Great Staple Tor, Dartmoor National Park
7 Jan 2025Moeraki Boulders, South Island, New Zealand
7 Jan 2026Old Rock Day

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28 Oct 2024Pumpkin field, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
12 Nov 2025Colosseum, Rome, Italy
20 Nov 2025World in Progress by artist Saype in Geneva, Switzerland
15 Apr 2026World Art Day
6 Nov 2023Lago Pehoé, Torres del Paine National Park, Chile
27 Jan 2024Saint Paul Winter Carnival
Just a couple of know-it-owls
10 Oct 2025Fiji Day
A view that’s out of this world
30 Nov 2023Leadenhall Market, London
18 Feb 2024World Whale Day
Waterfall capital of the world?
23 Nov 2025Fibonacci Day
Sep 6, 2023Rethymno, Crete, Greece
Out of this world
9 Jul 2025Independence Day of the Argentine Republic
Autumn on Windermere
18 Dec 2023Capitol Reef National Park, Utah, USA
A mountaintop cultural wonder
Walking a rocky rainbow
24 Feb 2025Giant cuttlefish, Whyalla, South Australia, Australia
We’ve identified these ‘flying objects’
28 Nov 2023Giving Tuesday
20 Nov 2024Mount Assiniboine Provincial Park, British Columbia, Canada
Nature at its colourful best
19 Jun 2024Cades Cove, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Tennessee, USA
10 Jun 2024The city of Osaka at night, Japan
30 Jun 2025Asteroid Day
Ludlow aglow