Shrew promised to show you inside their journal of joys and memories! Here you go! The images are all in The Gift Gatherers book. Shrew & friends will be in the next needle felted collection 28th March to celebrate the publication of the new book 24th March. I have copies here you can nab early 🌼

Giving the effect of a street strewn with white petals ~- grape vines create this sun-dappled shade in the Calle Ciegos at the Bodega Gonzalez Byass winery, in Jerez, Spain

'Spring at the Window' by Tetyana Yablonska (1917-2006), Ukrainian painter #WomensArt

The magnolias were out whilst I was driving yesterday. An early fanfare of Spring ♥️

Stop! Spring! 🌸 Carry on.

I'm doing a dry flower wreathmaking workshop today. It's an early birthday present from my ES and HLW. She's coming along too. And my love gets to dog sit. I love these family interactions. Easy, unpressured, and fun ❤️

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Other work by the Ladybird artists ‘Spring Landscape’ Artist: Ronald Lampitt

Just 5,000,000 seconds* till the swifts get back *give or take

"The Birdie Twat"

Greetings from Kyiv. I came to the railway station to visit an exhibition — and instead saw this: a concert by the State Emergency Service of Ukraine. Wow. I want you to hear this.

IMPORTANT: Are you 'trapped' in UAE because if you fly back to the UK you'll be liable for tax?

Shrews are known for carrying a notebook with them to record all the small joys and memories from their days. Shrew said they’d let you have a peek inside theirs tomorrow.

@somemelodiousplot.bsky.social is it you I remember talking about Paula Rega?

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So Philip Glass just joined TikTok. He only has like 4 posts and they’re simply him in what I assume is his living room playing the piano. First comment on one I saw was “your piano is too close to the fireplace, you’ll dry it out” and if that’s not the internet in a nutshell I don’t know what is.

Came into the kitchen to hear my love chatting on phone with YD (who is so capable and creative, yet I worry). Just love that they have such a good relationship. I never take it for granted 💋❤️💋

Thanks to @vennart666.bsky.social for introducing me to the unique moves of Luigi Primo, the pizza throwing wrestler

That Friday feeling Artist: Martin Aitchison (1964)

This looks like it could have been painted yesterday!

Good news!

I recognise this impulse!

Sorry I know the world is in a terrible fix but I've been laughing at this for ten minutes now

Admiring this skilful mosaic of a jellyfish in a sparkling sunlit sea, from Great Houses of Havana, by Hermes Mallea (Monacelli Press) www.greathousesofhavana.com/purchase.html

[Exit Murderer.]

Breezy Day (1975) Artist: Gerald Witcomb

The emergence of Hattie the Indefatigable:

some shit is about to go down

Happy St Piran's Day, one and all!

i made a starter back of beautiful and unique manuscripts you can browse online! (with links) for anyone that wants a good way to spend an afternoon :) open.substack.com/pub/weirdmed...

Childhood reading leaves scars. When I was lounging on the sofa, watching Scooby-Doo, I always had the uneasy feeling that my school holidays should look like this instead #WorldBookDay Artist: AN Buchanan

I was 26 when World Book Day started in Britain so I’m trying to think who I would have gone to school as in the 1970s. I’ve decided on Gef the talking mongoose from the Usborne World of the Unknown: Ghosts

The mastery of artist Harry Wingfield. ‘Biscuits ’ (Yes, it is a painting - from First Picture Book, 1970)

I can't stop thinking about the dedication on the first page of the book I just started reading.

This is quite excellent. :D

I humbly Beseech you, sir, to spare me, till I may Be by my friends in Spain advis’d, whose counsel I will implore.

Pips lost her mother to lions in September 2025. A few days old. Giraffes are skittish and not inclined to trust people quickly. Pips was all of that. Then she decided Keeper Peter was probably safe. Now he has to leave his coat behind when he runs errands. www.sheldrickwildlifetrust.o...

March Hares, Celia Hart.

Churchill has retrospectively been turned into a cartoon like superhero who could do no wrong and who we all owe a debt of gratitude forever. The gold standard of leadership. A man of supreme wit and gifted with statesmanship unrivalled by any other It's far more complicated and interesting 1/3

Caution - cute content... First Hazel dormouse found at Nymans, West Sussex. 📷 Kate Gould

By the river ‘In the Country’, 1954 Artist: Septimus Scott

And another splendid March Book of Hours page. from the famous Tres Riches Heures du Duc de Berry created in the early 14th century. March events such as ploughing with oxen and pruning the vines with the Chateau de Lusignan in the background.

Ladybird Nature Corner. Wheatear Artist:Roland Green (Third book of British Birds, 1956)

*bursts in, sweating, out of breath* “Drop everything, fish doorbell’s back” visdeurbel.nl/en/

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Witches of Scotland tartan 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scotland’s newest weave is more than just a pattern – it’s a long-overdue apology. The tartan commemorates the thousands of Scots, mostly women, persecuted under the Witchcraft Act between 1563 and 1736. Pic: Scottish Register of Tartans

Ladybird things I really, really wanted. To make my own igloo Artist: BH Robinson (Homes, 1975)

I'm planning a trip to see my youngest, the grand toddler, and my daughter in law,plus all the lovely family out in Vietnam. I'm excited and really loving the fact that I know where to go and what to do now. It will be my 6th visit and Ms. DwaD's 2nd. He'll come for a week and I'll stay on and work

This is Gus, Duke, and Owen. Owen is blind, but that does not stop him from enjoying some quality TV time with his friends. 12/10 for all (IG: crittersbykate)