I saw the #BayeuxTapestry last year and the thing I did before I saw it that really enriched the experience for me was buying Tanya Bentham’s book on Bayeux Stitch and learning how to do the stitches. It gave me a link and appreciation of the work and the people (women) making it.

My brother, always the optimist, says that it's a good job Wissa plays for Newcastle or it would be 2-0.

Try and catch a People's Emergency Briefing if you can. I went to one organised by @xrlewisham.bsky.social last night. A great way to meet local people interested in taking action on the climate and nature crisis. www.nebriefing.org/screening-map

Eileen's book about Rydal Mount is worth a read, and she's right about that headline.

I just sold this painting of Hilbre Island. The buyer had a very personal connection to the island which has made my heart sing, that a little piece of my work now will be in their home reminding them of something precious. It’s completely made my day. #painting #Wirral

Rural geometry - a dry stone wall harmonising with the fells - Working Landscape - 6x4 sample print of a half frame photograph made with my Pentax 17, Ilford FP4, developed with DDX and printed onto mulberry paper #believeinfilm

Grim thread.

My grandfather on the right enjoying a hydration break.

I started to learn (full circle) bell ringing about four months ago and today I rang more or less passably (I have a lot to learn) for a wedding at Grasmere. This is a turn of events that I would not have predicted on January 1st this year.

On 27 Feb my book comes out. It’s about how Liverpool’s recent history should change the way we think about modern Britain. On this thread every few days till then, I will tweet an extraordinary fact about Liverpool’s twentieth-century. Pre-order here: www.waterstones.com/book/liverpo...

Friday. 📷 Toni Frissell.

One for late June…

We will be developing this project into an exhibition for 2028 - documenting the impact of five decades of neoliberalism and the consequences for communities of deindustrialisation, deregulation, privatisation and the rise of wealth inequality. It won’t be pretty.

Can confirm this is very enjoyable.

Take a trip with @amyjanebeer.bsky.social to Horsey Island in today's @theguardian.com country diary. Make sure you're back before the tide turns though... #naturewriting #countrydiary

On the plus side our kitchen is semi-subterranean, so it's a lovely cool place to work.

First tick bite of the year.

I unexpectedly travelled First Class (at low speed) in an Edwardian carriage (built in 1903) today at the Kirkby Stephen preserved railway. I'm a big fan of museums like this. #trains #LeicaM10 #Jupiter8

Oh. My. Word. WE HAVE DONE IT! 🥳🎉 In 2020 we worked with Natural England to carry out a green hay transfer from Sandybeck Meadow SSSI & SAC onto the Loweswater meadows, with an ultimate target being to get Greater Butterfly Orchid established. Today, was the day I found the first one!!

There are still places left. Please share.

From 1 July anyone in the EU who buys a zine from me for £10 will now also have to pay a €3 import duty up front plus postage. Brexit has already wiped out 50% of my print sales and this is just rubbing salt in the wound. Well done Brexiters.

Capturing Spring - photograph of the leaves of a Japanese Maple tree taken on a Spring morning using my Nikon F2 and Ilford FP4 developed with DD-X and printed onto mulberry paper #believeinfilm

Weirdly I think these three photos captured the essence of these three parties in this by-election quite well.

This is a must read thread if you’re concerned about what AI (or the perception of AI) is able to do to intellectual labour & academic work

Look at these eyes in the soft evening light - deep pools of ink that just draw you in! I get more satisfaction from photographing brown hares than any other wildlife because it is such a challenge in upland Cumbria. See the alt text for the story of this encounter. Cumbria, UK #UKwildlife #mammals

Looking back into my Flickr stream (it’s good to be back there) I’m prompted to share this scan of a print I made on Dunwich Beach a few years ago. I had my Harman Titan 4x5 loaded with fomapan 100. I shall get out with this super pinhole camera a bit more once I’m up and running. #believeinfilm

Lough Carra, County Mayo, Ireland. This is the jetty at Kiltoon from which the ashes of writer George Moore were taken to Castle Island to be interred after his death in 1933. #BelieveInFilm @ilfordphoto.com

I've introduced some new mentoring packages, as of Spring 2026. Get in touch for more info: rebeccagoss.wordpress.com/tutoring/

Thousands attend 'showcase of rural life' #Cumbria #BBCNews

In the future we'll know who used AI in their university work in this period because they will have a 2:2 degree and brag about not getting caught.

Deadline Monday so tell me now or never!

This is great in many ways, but what I especially like about it is the tiny reflection in the puddle.

Exciting day! gritstonecoop.co.uk/product/ryda... @gritstonebooks.bsky.social

Water For Stock - Working Landscape - Lake District Observations 📷Nikon F2 50mm f1.4 🎞️Ilford Kentmere 400 - DDX #believeinfilm #filmphotography

On a train home from London and the weather is looking reassuringly colder and less pleasant with every stop. I have missed the grey sky and slightly too intrusive breeze very much.

In a very warm rented flat near Tower Bridge. We have a ceiling fan in the bedroom that is making the whump of the helicopter blades at the start of Apocalypse Now. We are a little upstream of where the story of Heart of Darkness is told on the deck of the Nellie, but still.

Removing sitka spruce and ring barking larch in temperate rainforest today. Great work from our vols in the scorchio conditions. @forestryengland.bsky.social @guyshrubsole.bsky.social @cumbriacvs.bsky.social

An interesting piece by @kirawelland.bsky.social about Wordsworth's writing hut at Rydal Mount on the @shedworking.bsky.social blog www.shedworking.co.uk/2026/05/word...

Fenland with some 600 impossible project instant film - Holgas, pinhole and instant photography are some of the ways I’ve best managed to record something of the sense of place. I think it’s the less than perfect rendering of the landscape. #believeinfilm #filmphotography

A new article about Ernest Hemingway and how he might just be allowed back into polite society. open.substack.com/pub/samj/p/a...

Mighty Head - half frame photograph printed onto mulberry paper. The photograph was made using my Olympus PenEE and Ilford FP4 Type 517 developed with DD-X #believeinfilm #printyourwork

The thread on one page: skywriter.blue/@georgemonbi...

This is a momentous day: our house, the bones of which date to the 1600s, has been connected to mains water for the first time and is no longer supplied by water from the fell. Next month we get fibre broadband, apparently. The 21st Century has arrived in a rush.

am compering this, my sequinned jacket currently at the cleaners

Wordsworth's writing hut, at Rydal Mount. On a sheet of 4x5 film that managed, more or less, to withstand an enormous act of incompetence on my part and turn out quite interesting after all. #BelieveinFilm

It's been a while since I read them so I need reminding, but is this in one of Paul's letters to the Corinthians?

A small selection of my latest signed prints are now available at the Mersey Art Zone gallery in the Floral Pavilion New Brighton. £45 each. Please help support the gallery if you can, but otherwise these prints can also be purchased from my website alexisbutterfieldart.com. #Liverpool #Wirral #art

A few lovely folk have reached out and asked about a print of my half frame photograph. Prints are available for £12 inc P&P (UK only) overseas is available but price will be altered to reflect cost of P&P😊 #believeinfilm #printyourwork

Springtime walk in the woods with the Bronica. 📷 Bronica SQAi, 80mm 🎞️ @ilfordphoto.com Kentmere 100 ⚗️ Bellini Euro HC 1+31. #believeinfilm

Capturing Spring - Lake District Observations Photograph printed onto mulberry paper taken with Leica MA using Ilford HP5 and developed with DD-X. #believeinfilm #printyourwork