Liverpool fans boo the national anthem for a reason Booing the national anthem was not only about protesting the spectacle of royalty and patriotism – it was also about justice for the Hillsborough 97 @penhemingway.bsky.social @northwestbylines.co.uk

Jonathan Gullis just defected to Reform. Awkward.

2014: “I admire Putin as an operator” 2010-14: Appeared on Russia today 17 times 2017: Knighted by a 7 year old girl on RT 2022: blames EU for Russian invasion 2024: “We provoked this war … of course it’s his fault – he’s used what we’ve done as an excuse” Is this not dodgy?

Found on eBay, sold by someone flipping random tat. The only extant miniature spinning wheel by Hardys of York, 1824 - 1843, now fully restored. Knew it was good when I saw it but didn't realise it was so important to wheel history. Restoration write-up in 'The Spinning Wheel Sleuth', October, 2025.

Liverpool parade incident: from dreamland to disaster northwestbylines.co.uk/news/liverpo...

"There has been spittle-flecked hysteria from the right wing press every day this week. The terror is now theirs. Even with such a modest EU deal, they know they have lost."

Watch my nerdery hit critical mass and disappear over the event horizon. open.substack.com/pub/penelope...

More nerdery: open.substack.com/pub/penelope...

11 years on, I revisit Mr Antis and his Contrivance. Taking a look at a US born inventor, musician and Man For All Seasons, who lived in Leeds. His "contrivance" was an add-on widget that turbo-charged ordinary spinning wheels. penelopehemingway.substack.com/p/mr-antis-a...

This week our little table-top spinning wheel - a very rare wheel found randomly on eBay - went to the restorers'. open.substack.com/pub/penelope...

Quirky Wheel on eBay open.substack.com/pub/penelope...

There's bees on the blackthorn (sloe)! And a beautiful blue sky, earlier this afternoon. It's been a long winter. Spring, soon.

Colour and Light, York Minster, last night. Dragons on the Minster!

If you’d like to apply for this job at our ‘ultra-progressive institution’ please visit the National Trust Jobs website. NB our member retention has remained higher than average throughout the cost of living crisis and visits & donations have increased. www.gbnews.com/news/nationa...

Every constituency in Britain favours trade with EU over US, new poll suggests The poll saw just 21 per cent of people say the US should be the UK’s priority over the EU www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Check out today's Substack. I am not a Jane Austen fan. So was pleased to stumble on the contemporaneous diaries of a no bullshit Regency mill owner who was too busy making money in the wool industry, to sit around eating cucumber sandwiches. He's no Mr Darcy... open.substack.com/pub/penelope...

this new Tesla speedometer looks awful

The value of escapism. penelopehemingway.substack.com

Egg prices are up 37% and rising. It’s day 4.

Trump has deployed active military to help round up migrants and put them into detention camps. The military forced us out of our homes at gunpoint in 1942 because we were considered possibly disloyal Americans. They sent us to internment camps for four years. History is repeating. Pay attention.

Thou shalt accept that DEI didn't hold your career back -- you're just mid, bro.

Even more relevant now…

We all need some escapism from this future dystopia we find ourselves living in, so how about some 18th and 19th century escapees? Check out my new Substack and subscribe if you can. It's free! open.substack.com/pub/penelope...

“No Mr Elon Musk, we do not want you to buy Liverpool Football Club. Not now, not ever. From a lifelong LFC fan”

Elon Musk is amplifying far-right figures, spreading harmful disinformation, and meddling in UK politics. Let’s stop billionaire interference—join me and sign this @hopenothate.org.uk petition today: secure.hopenothate.org.uk/page/163807/...

With Nigel Farage once more gracing our TV screens on BBC Question Time, it's time to revisit this excellent article by Dr Russ Jackson which has had over 230k reads! At least this time Farage is an elected MP and party leader. Not so his previous 35+ times 😡 @docrussjackson.bsky.social

Yesterday, tried my hand at wildlife photography. In the new M & S food shop which just opened in Selby. It didn't see me, right? Tell me it didn't see me.

Here's summat I wrote about George Mallory, a while back. 'Was A Suffragist Ally First To Summit Everest?' Also published a piece about the knitted items found on George, for 'The Knitter' 204 (back copies still available). My research is ongoing. : northwestbylines.co.uk/lifestyle/hi...

How the Andromeda galaxy would look from Earth if it were brighter

I do love a good Blue Sky.

Indeed. When they rounded up the Japanese Americans, myself and my family included, for internment during WWII out of fear over Japanese spies and saboteurs, two thirds of us were U.S. citizens. Don’t think it won’t happen again when they come for the “undocumented.”

The Heart Nebula

Appalling. Remote controlled drones being used to hover over, look at, and then cynically shoot children ranks amongst the sickest cowardice ever. Best not highlight who is doing it though, hey BBC?

‘Hunted’ and 'scared': North East refugees speak out on devastating legacy of far-right riots

cartoon of the day

Here's one I wrote from the run-up to the 2024 GE: "...At his rallies, Farage stands, handwringing, in his idea of casual wear – looking like Larry Grayson in an ill-fitting double-breasted blazer and slacks. He wants to 'Shut that door' – to immigrants..." yorkshirebylines.co.uk/politics/osw...

With the huge influx of followers, it's worth sharing our "Byliners" starter pack again ~ showcasing a bunch of our authors. If you write for us and aren't on the list, give us a shout! Please share 🙏 go.bsky.app/LSrc9iS

Hello everyone. I am now on this platform for social media. Do please repost this message so that more people can find me!

Politics, today. Slavery: on Reparations and Revisionism. FB's algorithm is kicking off any references to this article. Must be offending the bots? yorkshirebylines.co.uk/politics/sla...

Our next (virtual) talk. Contact London Guild WSD if interested…

Last night’s aurora borealis. Pics taken looking East around midnight then shot of Orion around 3 AM… Ar one point could see blood red sky with naked eye. #Northernlights #aurora

Not much, but a start on my new Substack thing. Enjoy and subscribe if you want more of this nonsense! penelopehemingway.substack.com/p/a-yorkshir...

The Milky Way last night, before the season ends.

Huge old willow down the lane. 4 years ago - and yesterday. Finally brought down in the storm last week. This tree now in the middle of nowhere but used to be opposite a row of long-demolished cottages where my favourite ancestor lived from 1830s to 1870s. Tree might have been there before him...

Dark Sky site near Thirsk, watching the Perseids last night...

This (now tangled) skein of Poppleton's guernsey yarn was probably put up in the 1950s or 60s. Had to wind it into a ball manually, from my old Sunflower swift, because it was so tangled. Managed to save it all. Casting on a gansey today. I have 900g in skeins - so hopefully, enough. #knitting

This fossil (?) would once have been hidden from view under the layer of masoned stone, at Byland Abbey, North Yorkshire. I like thinking about the intrigue of something that would prove Darwin's theory of the origins of species, unseen inside the layers of wall, last seen by a lay brother builder.

So I laid on the grass and stared at the sky for a bit, today. We used to do this for hours when we were kids. Although not in the garden but in the corner of the monks' graveyard at Byland Abbey. Everyone does it. Right?

My recent piece comparing Farage to Oswald Mosley seems more relevant than ever. He was always stirring up shit, too. yorkshirebylines.co.uk/politics/osw...