Perhaps a representative from the Church of England might like to accompany me on a tour of mediaeval ecclesiastical buildings in their ownership so that I can point out the thousands of images of actual demons which they seem to have forgotten... www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

We always thought this was just a sock...

I nearly have an arse:

England's churches contain one of our greatest national collections of art - extraordinary beauty, freely accessible near you! But these precious objects sometimes need repair. If you know an object in a church in need of some TLC, we have grants available! www.churchofengland.org/resources/ch...

Your periodic reminder that, of course, Joni Mitchell is God:

Incoming:

Tombeau de Philippe Pot (1428-1493), grand sénéchal de Bourgogne, puis conseiller de Louis XI, roi de France Musée du Louvre

And this nerve running through K ⚡ My Birra Lambic typeface in glorious use by Barry Thomas ⚒️ #letters #stone #fontinuse

FECK is in the shop: www.poorfrankraw.co.uk/shop/index.h... £125 UK delivered. I won't be repeating this style - bit of a mare to carve - though there may be more fecks in the fecking future.

Can't believe there are conversations about ending the BBC. This is like listening to a family calmly discussing whether to shoot it's dog, or burn down the house.

Carving Birra Lambic (www.commarts.com/project/3371...) is proving challenging. The thicks are very thick, the thins have teeny weeny triangular terminals and the curves are very tight. Looks good but I'm glad I picked a short swear 😬

Friday:

Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...

A commercial… for a font? Yes! For letterform design itself. Have a look — I’m lucky to have this one, created by Darden Studio for my Birra Lambic typeface — youtu.be/mQTsILs3SdU?... #font #typedesign #birra #fun #commission #veraevstafieva #uk #openforcommissions #original

Autumn is still rocking hereabouts:

Finished polishing the family silver (not a euphemism); boxed up all the polishing equipment; tomorrow I'll dismantle the polishing booth in the corner of the workshop. The collected dirt, grease, fluff and polishing compound of a decade of silver polishing is f.i.l.t.h.y.

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Secretly here — as I've got only a few followers so far :) Wrote it in preparation for a talk. Warning — it is slow, real time. #calligraphy #demo #intersections #home #brushlettering #veraevstafieva #unique #cmyk

Hello from 2009 — when I played with scripting a bit. found on my abandoned flickr #font #play

The wealth of the 10 richest Americans has soared by $700 billion since Trump was reelected. Meanwhile, millions of Americans are going hungry because Trump is illegally withholding contingency funds that would keep food stamps funded during his shutdown. Two Americas.

Incoming...

Gonna sound like a weird request, but does anyone know where I can get the audio fx of a large parrot yelling?

Monday:

Hey.

Well strangely I just sold that pair of round bottomed tumblers to a visiting Australian friend 😲 I did regild them since I was in that mode. Hallmarked Sheffield 2003 and 2004, sterling #silver.

You can practise on-on-on! or no-no-no! depending on whether optimist or pessimist you are 😀 But look for the purple shapes here! Why do I write with a brush and use translucent ink? — to watch this. Privately #cmyk #calligraphy #brush #letters #no #veraevstafieva #cambridge

One of the most used typefaces of mine is ALS Direct, designed in 2006 for way finding, focusing on Cyrillic — for that scale of signs like in shopping malls, airports and in the streets. I already left ArtLebedev Studio, when Direct was chosen to be the default way finding font in Moscow #font

Anyone on a LNER train today from Scotland to Newcastle - my mum took the wrong suitcase off the train. Her case is somewhere heading southbound. #Newcastle #LNER

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While I was regilding the chalice I gold plated a few of the EPNS spoons from the kitchen drawer :) I'm THAT fancy.

Is this the most beautiful thing @britishmuseum.bsky.social? Whenever I visit, it takes my breath away - pure magic. Gold oak wreath with a bee and two cicadas, 350-300 BC. Exact provenance unclear (unethical trading and collecting practices in the early 20thC). www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o...

It was just like the old days today, polishing silverware. I need to re-gild the inside of the chalice.

Turn off Gemini in Google! It's been turned on by default. Go to your Drive, click the gear icon, click settings, go to "manage apps" and uncheck that nasty "use by default" box. www.zdnet.com/article/how-...

Beyond the point that it’s the hobbits who save Gondor, not the other way around, Tolkien also points out that the “gentlefolk” of the Shire are not immune to being taken over by a populist who sways the venal to his side and cows the rest with thugs.

Tom's new wood (planted 30 years ago) looks lovely at this time of year: #autumn #fallfoliage #autumnfoliage #foliage

This has been my earworm for nearly 10 days now, so I'm so so sorry, but now I have to inflict it on you: www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHsp...

My favorite preservation technique in Duxbury is the re-carving of stones in the 1850s. Maybe someone worried that the older stones would not last, but ~250 years on, the originals are still completely fine and we have these weird doubles. @graveyardarch.bsky.social

Algernon Softness had a sister called... Wait, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Fanny Softness. Sophie Softness and husband Isaac had at least 12 children, some born in their native Russia, others in London: Anna, Abraham, Harry, Hyman, Fanny, Mary, Sarah, Michael, Mayer, Jacob, Algernon, Cecilia.

It has to go. I've got to offload a LOT of stuff: youtu.be/sLOnY6dT6J0 Single phase, the lathe is in very good running order. Comes with: 3 & 4-jaw chucks (with spare reverse jaws), tailstock chuck, centres & drills, face plates, spare thread cutting gears, parting tools, etc etc

My Myford ML7 is cleaned, refixed to the stand and ready for reassembling and photos. It is going to make someone very happy for another 1000 years.

No lettering, just typos. 'You Spelled It Wrong' goes meta in Mexico. Kindly shared by Breno. #lettering #mexico #humour #humor #fridayfunny

Just a thought: How about we stop shaming the poor for buying things that may not be essential, and start shaming the rich for making a profit off things that are essential?

Fucking Ada is sold. Going to a good home in Warwickshire.

As we crawl towards downsizing, I'm offloading underused equipment. Today I have mainly been stripping down and cleaning my 1954 Myford ML7. Gorgeous lathe but someone else will get more use out of ot than me.

My Birra Lambic typeface and calligraphy pages in Letter Exchange yearbook, a couple of years ago. I write with a flat brush — and actually the Birra Lambic design was based on some of my calligraphic sketches, a blend of Celtic and Italic #typedesign #calligraphy #original #font #veraevstafieva

Day 18 of 30 days of FUCK. I am crocheting a FUCK a day for 30 days and make a Throw of FUCKS. #Swearing #Crocheting #Crochet #TwinMade #Crafting

SalivaryGlandCancer.uk fundraiser time 😃 25% off everything in the shop, and I'll give a further 25% to SGCUK in your name. Starts now, ends Sunday noon. UK only, first come etc etc. www.poorfrankraw.co.uk/shop Please repost for max coverage. Thank you x