A hobby begins ‘Learning to Crochet’, 1975 Artist: Eric Winter

The Ford Anglia ice-cream van ‘Happy Holidays’ 1964 Artist: Harry Wingfield

Buttercup, Meadow Cranesbill, White Dead Nettle ‘Wild Flowers’ (1957) Artists: EdithHilder Rowland Hilder

Ladybird book in the spotlight. The Story of Ships, 1961 Artist: Robert Ayton

I've just seen several pictures of me with my grandson in a swimming pool. I look happy, and fat. Very, very fat. Post menopausal weight gain is an absolute beast

I'm sitting here thinking about going back into work on Wednesday and I don't think I can. It just feels too far away from me now . The idea of not doing it has got away from me, and I can't put it back in it's box anymore

Fellas, is standing gay?

OK. I'm in tears, in a taxi after saying good bye to my son and family. I fly home tomorrow and will doubtless cry again with relief at seeing my love when we land Life is just a vale of tears isn't it?

The cuckoo Artist: CF Tunnicliffe (What to look for in Spring, 1961)

Finally home after a perilous quest 🎨 Sarah Graham

This is the mad crazy England I love. Celebrating David Attenborough’s 100th birthday by knitting a top for the postbox. It’s a sunny day & an iconic London bus is driving past in the background. It isn’t a flag & it isn’t a faux patriotic march shouting about immigrants… This…this is England ⬇️££

Skater Girls of Ethiopia #WomensArt 🛹 (Photo S. Tanna)

Some good news we all could use !!!

This 1952 memo from the Pentagon UFO files is superb There is no point preparing for aliens ‘because no one of consequence is going to take this rubbish seriously unless it happens. At that point, our policy will be determined in the traditional manner of grand panic.’ 🤣 www.war.gov/medialink/uf...

To bring a smile to your face, here’s an ancient Egyptian dog figurine, a very good boy for some 3,400 years! 🐾🐕❤️ This lovely leaping dog opens and closes its mouth as if barking by using a lever below its chest. The Met 📷 by me #Archaeology

My mum died 6 years ago. I miss her, and I'm proud of the life I've lived since then Grief is such a full state. Love, loss, sadness, and gratitude I like to mark her here, when the May blooms she is with me again 🤍🤍🤍

My mother and I are like the ocean and the mountains, yet we hear each other without saying a word | Christine Kearney

I don't know who needs to hear this, but yes, you do deserve a bookshelf with a rolling ladder.

‘Wild Flowers of Spring and Early Summer’ Artist: Maurice de Sausmarez (for Odhams)

Hats, lovely hats, impractical hats

How about this as some headlines: *Reform went backwards on last year *Results in line with their falling poll score *They underperformed their polls in Scotland *If this had been a General, they wouldn't have won a majority even when the govt is phenomenally unpopular Bit of a different story?

From the 'Shared Sky' exhibition, 'Jupiter and Ten Moons' by Indigenous Australian artist Barbara Merritt #WomensArt

The delicious beauty of weathered sandstone. Lindisfarne Priory.

“Sure, I’m a creature—and I can accept that … but lately it seems I’ve been turning into a miserable creature.”

“You know what I’m sayin’? … Me, for example. I couldn’t work in some stuffy little office. … The outdoors just calls to me.”

“For crying out loud, Jonah! Three days late, covered with slime, and smelling like fish! … And what story have I got to swallow this time?”

My council has flipped from Tory to Lib Dem. The Greens gained seats and are now the third place party in the council. Ahead of Reform. My town was in the news last summer because anti-migrant thugs were being cunts outside a hotel. There are fuck-arse polyester flags EVERYWHERE. They lost today.

More perspective 👇

More perspective my loves

Ah! Beautiful 😍

May you thrive. May you flourish. May you shine 🌤️ Image: www.instagram.com/artofbrillia...

Other work of the Ladybird artists. Village in Spring (1949) Artist: Ronald Lampitt

Perspective my loves 👇

Let it go. Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today

‘Horse chestnut’ Trees (1963) Artist: SR Badmin

Hello all, here's a reminder that there's beauty every where

You know the rules 🙂

Swift, House Martin, Swallow Artist: John Leigh-Pemberton (Garden Birds, 1967)

Ladybird book in the spotlight. The Stars and their Legends (1973) Artist: Robert Ayton

"Murmuration over Lanhydrock Park", 2020 by Annie Ovenden, English painter #WomensArt

I think i might move on from work. Do I become less relevant if I stop working in the corporate world? I guess that's the point though. It all seems like bullshit at this point un my life

Just eating baked prawns with melted cheese crisps, washed down with a pint grigio in bed. How about you?

DAWKINS: You idiots believe in God? ALSO DAWKINS: The Computer is alive. And it’s also my girlfriend

On this day 6th May 1954 Sir Roger Bannister became the first man in the world to break the four-minute mile Artist: Frank Humphris

Surround yourself with the kind of people who find the Oxford comma to be illuminative, beautiful, and necessary.

Looking at the colour pink has been shown to induce relaxation & looking at something we find beautiful triggers dopamine release in our brains, so this is for you & your brain in case you’re anxious or sad today. The pinks of May pt1, incl Rose Pink Perpetué inspired by Victorian botanical plates🌿:

Bluebell, Ground Ivy, Red Campion ‘Wild Flowers’(1957) Artists: Edith Hilder, Rowland Hilder

Always love to be reminded of this. A lot of it was hand-stitched too. Really amazing, precise work. Women’s work is so often minimised and forgotten.

Beautiful everyday Ladybird things. The best seat on the bus (1964) Artist: Harry Wingfield