Look at this commute, it’s all sunshiny now when it was torrential rain this morning and I ended up with soggy socks.

🚨We are hiring🚨 We are recruiting for 2x Archivist posts: Archivist (Access and Engagement) - fixed-term until March 2028. Project Archivist (Setting the Record Straight) - fixed-term, 12 months. To find out more about the roles and apply take a look at our website⬇️. #archives #jobs

National Peony Day apparently, so here is mine. It’s gone all shy and is hiding behind the Japanese Anemone

One week to go - applications close on 25/05/2026. #archives #archivist

Someone said it is National Peony Day and we don't need any other reason to share these beauties. Please, enjoy. 📷MIke Selby, Annapurna Mellor, Stephen Robson, Chris Davies

*massive achievement klaxon* I have finally finished #knitting the intarsia giraffe blanket square I’ve been procrastinating about since October. This completes the 5 intarsia squares and 10 cable squares for the blanket. Still need to sew them all together and crochet an edging though!

Chocolate cookies I didn’t know I was making today. I thought it was pastry at the back of the one remaining freezer drawer I hadn’t inventoried, rather than cookie dough. Still, it’s a nice surprise.

A lurch from death cafes and coffee to swimming lesson #knitting. Not much progress since last week as I’ve been knitting something else that is far too complicated to bring to a swimming pool.

York has a Dead Good Festival on this week. Dropped in for a look whilst getting my library coffee/returning a giant pile of children’s books. Years ago I went to a death cafe with a friend who was terminally ill, where similar conversations were being held. www.yorksdeadgoodfestival.co.uk

Lathyrus latifolius

PCOS will now be known as PMOS (polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome), and for Alice Klein, who has the condition, it's been a long time coming

Flowers on the way to @railwaymuseum.bsky.social this morning

We're looking for a @sciencemuseum.org.uk Collection #archivist based at our @sipwiltshire.bsky.social at #Wroughton near #Swindon. Permanent, part time (0.8 FTE) role. #archives

We’ve borrowed the Guide badge book so the madness can start all over again. Wonder if Girl Guiding have seen my Bluesky badge sewing rants, as there’s a new badge for the people who sew on badges! www.girlguidingshop.co.uk/product/8312

I’m not sure who was the most startled: me or the rat in the compost bin when I took the lid off

Knitter? This is a great article about the utter rubbish that happens when AI and knitting interact. From Kate Davies. katedaviesdesigns.com/2026/04/29/k...

Swimming lesson almost without knitting as I came very close to forgetting it. I had remembered child, swimsuit, towel, goggles and shampoo though, which are a higher priority in this situation.

We're looking for volunteers for Search Engine, our #archive and #library @railwaymuseum.bsky.social in #York ce0111li.webitrent.com/ce0111li_web...

After 5.5 days of no internet at home, it’s back!

Exciting day in Birmingham with lots of archivists. Also saw a library. And there is internet in Birmingham.

Day 5 of no internet. But I’m on a train so I have internet. Yay. Early morning Minster just because

A satisfying afternoon gardening in the sun. I’m particularly pleased with this border, a mixture of plants already here when we moved in, biennials grown from seed last year, cuttings we brought up with us from Staines and bulbs. A few annuals are waiting to join them soon.

SHEEP at the Museum of Farming. Slightly discombobulated by the cowboy re-enactment in the Roman fort though

No internet day 4. #TeaUp and some reading of the extremely heavy gardening book the Handsome Hunk of Husband carried home from the library for me on Saturday

Made some flapjack and established which neighbours are also without internet.

We have an *extremely* important announcement to make. From Wednesday, we will be launching our puffin live cam, coming to you from the Farne Islands. So you can watch puffins all day long. In celebration, please enjoy this clip of puffins being really busy for 39 seconds straight.

I may not have internet but I do have kohlrabi! Yes, well…

Day 3 of no internet and it’s pouring with rain. We have come to Tesco after church to use the WiFi and ride the travelator.

The peony has flowered!

Living dangerously at the swimming lesson when my ball of wool fell off the bench and nearly rolled into the pool.

Trip to my favourite cafe for the free WiFi and free coffee. Free coffee because I have previously bought nine.

Day 2 of no internet and we are watching CBBC according to the programme guide. I have only said “In my day…” three times so far today.

Not the day I’d planned, which was meant to be WFH but the internet vanished. Some speedy walking across York to a desk at work solved that problem, and walking back considerably more slowly just now I spotted this cranesbill flowering.

Time for some #archive cake to go with my coffee. Stephenson’s ginger loaf, from a recipe in @railwaymuseum.bsky.social archives

Very very very tiny basil seedlings beginning to emerge

This week’s veg box: cauliflower, chickpea and coconut curry

Want to have a peony race @bogarty.bsky.social?

Essential equipment packed for work tomorrow. This is what happens when I delegate biscuit choice to Offspring.

"Murder by a hand unknown" is giving me real Agatha Christie vibes. This coroner's inquisition predates Christie by a good century, though. [TNA KB 13/8]

Hmm attempting to find child amongst the approx million Scouts and Guides and million tourists outside the Minster for St George’s Day parade.

Blossom in front of @yorkminster.bsky.social Library.

Potting on tomato seedlings. Potting on seedlings is very satisfying.

Strawberry flowers I can’t eat the resulting fruit but growing for the rest of the household.

Swimming lesson knitting time. Everyone is getting very grumpy about middle of Saturday swimming.

Last year we finally got language information in the catalogue for everything in the @rcpmuseum.bsky.social library (hurrah!), and I've done some stats and stuff on how the breakdown changes over time. #libraryhistory #GLAMS 📚

Watching Crookhaven with Offspring and getting very distracted by the library.

My daily updates from six years ago. I’d managed to erase the Spam memories from my brain. Day 38. Today involved 29 tins of Spam, a lemon drizzle cake, an enquiry about opium production in the 19th century, a Play/Doh tea party and a large spreadsheet. Oh and Ocado waking us up at 6.20am.

Arrived home from work to find the Aquilegia has flowered

Blossom

On #NationalTeaDay this is the first tea voucher issued to county council staff after their move from Derby to Matlock on 31 March 1958 - as far as we know we don't have a picture of either the colleague delivering the tea or the tea trolley...