A Jane Eyre inspired thing… pencil drawing of a Highland path transmogrified into odd Victorian lass #bookillustration

Duloe stone circle in the buttercups. #stonecircle #cornwall

after work doodle in mainly 003 micron and 03 for outline

Join Dan Webber and our Derby Dracula team online FREE next Weds 13th for half an hour as our next lunchtime bite looks at the Derby Dracula project one year on! Sign up for your free ticket! www.ticketsource.com/draculalunch...

Why would we want to learn from our pasts, or ponder the power of the written and spoken word, or explore the deep questions of humanity? According to the University of Hertfordshire, we wouldn't. They've just cut all of our undergrad Humanities programmes

Went to the British Museum with @tamsinwilson.bsky.social to check out the Sutton Hoo helmet, and ran into these very Pratchettian chess pieces found in Scotland.

Having a conversation with @hiyaaya.bsky.social about em dash and en dash - and I think I've lost my mind slightly. I'm so glad I just draw things and don't have to think about this often.

It’s Wednesday: do the midweek hump shuffle.

Jenny Holzer, Survival Series, 1983

Reading about Demeter - 'she of the grain' is a banging description and I need to work on my bio.

Post your warning sign

Channelling Schalcken with this little candlelight study in pencil crayon

May Day in the merry green wood

Terry Pratchett has become a portal into a whole world of reading. His books brought me back my joy of reading. I'm going to create a thread of all the books I read following Pratchett. I have learned a lot from his books. I write a blog about it. 📚💙🪐📚 #booksky #Discworld ko-fi.com/ayavandenbus...

For I am of the England where every hill is hollow or full of gold and sleeping knights. Where long-buried bones still sing stories. Where tunnels below are as numerous as lanes above. An England of constant unearthings from the ghost soil of place. – #CLNolan

Today's poster change

Update on timing for the parade this Saturday, now 5.30pm from Canonbury Station. Tickets for the event at Mildmay Club afterwards- www.tickettailor.com/events/offbe...

Today!!! :)

I collect pictures of gate latches. The endless minute variations and human ingenuity appeal to me greatly, and the countless hands that have moved them. This one is between Near and Far Sawrey, Lake District and has a lovely combination of textures between the iron, wooden gate, and stone gatepost.

The power of Crufts compels you

Nothing better than the great dancing hedge, jack in the green

Happy May! Deptford Jack in the Green.

Blimey, Whitby's a bit of alright.

And Countryfile have a page dedicated to the origins of the tradition www.countryfile.com/culture/anci...

Happy May! Deptford Jack in the Green.

Happy Beltane and International Workers’ Day! This is Walter Crane’s “A Garland For May Day”, first published in 1895. In The Green Issue, it illustrates @verityholloway.bsky.social’s piece on the roots of the folk tradition of Jack-in-the-Green, entangled in the plight of Victorian chimney sweeps.

Tomorrow!

A piece of history - my grandmother (aged 3) in the May Day parade in Bootle in 1912.

Algorithmic content has a reasonable guess at my interests. But even when it seems to be offering me stuff I might be interested in, I hesitate to click. Because it’s like a vampire asking to be let in. It wants to know that I want to know. And to sell that. It’s so obvious what it wants.

They danced the Morris in the madness of No-Man’s Land on May Day 1916 and this if nothing else, should tell you that they will dance the Morris in the villages of England till the final apocalypse itself. – #CLNolan #MorrisDancing #MayDay

Mayday! Mayday! Here is 'May Day' by Thomas Lord Busby, 1820. In this performance the May Queen is really an elaborate Jack in The Green (or Jill In The Green). I can see the 'dairy maid' is holding a spoon - any idea what the men are holding? #MayDay #folklore

High Shutt tree, near Cheadle. Tradition says that people heard strange sounds and firmly believed that a walk round the stem nine times would lead to their hearing the sound of bells sumumoning them to prepare for their departure from this to the next world

Same in the UK. Exactly how Brexit happened. They are not afraid enough of the right AT ALL. It's the only reason Reform have any relevancy. Self harm over equality always for these people

Update on timing for the parade this Saturday, now 5.30pm from Canonbury Station. Tickets for the event at Mildmay Club afterwards- www.tickettailor.com/events/offbe...

Enjoying this greatly about the beginning of television. If you'd have suggested to me that Alexandra Palace was chosen because people in the area were more likely to have owned a TV, I wouldn't have believed you. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Lately I'm always testing the lovely local library staff with new and interesting demands of their photo copying machine. I don't think they have people printing zines in there often.

Lovely to see Linett Kamala in the Guardian today with her Jamaican Maypole. It was great to work with her performing Jonkonnu at Notting Hill Carnival last year.

Will you be Maypole Dancing this May bank holiday? @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/music/2026/a...

I was today years old when I learned that you can use NASA satellites to find your name in land features on the planet

Do you realise what today’s date is? Happy The Devil Rides Out day!

Test #sketch of composer Igor Stravinsky. An attempt at the rough, garish commercial art style of the late 1960s. Arnaldo Putzo used a similar style/technique for his Look-In covers and film posters. [Still trying to learn new (old?) things, despite AI making us all redundant]. #illustration

My new acceptable micro procrastination is colorfle. Surely as an artist I need to check every day that I'm good at colour mixing... Colorfle 1464 2/6 🟨🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩 Average color accuracy was 95.2%! (Yes, the American spelling of colour really irks me.)

The remains of the 13th century west front of St. Andrews Cathedral in Fife. 📸 My own. #WallsOnWednesday #StAndrews #Fife

I've just unlocked a new procrastination option. When I think about all the things I need to do today, my mind tells me I've not yet metal detected the entire lawn. Imagine what could be under there?!

Clearly, the damned spot

I think I'm getting more DMs, and I do apologise to whoever that is but I can't read them.

Increasingly, you find yourself thinking ‘What would Sir Terry do or say?’ I even got Granny Weatherwax into the PhD. Happy birthday Terry Pratchett and thank you for the hope

What a trio!