huh so Google is kicking off the new year by pissing off knitters that’s fun

One of the first things a Farage government will do will be to make sure "the young are taught correctly about our history," and if that doesn't set off all manner of alarm bells then it should. (MAIL)

Insanity beyond all measure. This would destroy billions of dollars of research and decades of research people spent their entire careers on.

Sunrise, 1916 By Georgia O'Keeffe #WomensArt #NewYearsDay2026

There are now just 6 spaces left on my botanical illustration & mental health zoom workshop,10 Jan. I teach you: 🌿how to draw plants 🧠how creative activity improves mental health I trained as a molecular cell biologist & am also a professional illustrator: workshops.emmamitchell.uk/courses/bota...

Tiny posy from the garden in a cobalt blue Victorian jelly ink bottle, December 30th 2025

It positively glows, this early 1890s tea gown by Emile Pingat. The variegated black & yellow silk creates a kind of burnished hue, additional drama fashioned in full sleeves & high collar. It seems quite structured for a tea gown but it certainly makes a statement #NatGalleryAus #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

Two turtle doves and a partridge in a pear tree. But soon there may be no turtle doves left. Their numbers have declined by 99% since the 1960s. That’s why I’m backing the RSPB's calls for proper, sustained funding for nature-friendly farming.

Lawkes but this is the best & silliest pick-me-up we all need right now. Dear Lev, I have sniggered & snorted…

As with many other commenters I suspect this will be ignored, begging the question why go through the costly, time-wasting business at all?

A small reminder, especially if you struggle with low mood in the winter, that this is just 8 or 9 weeks away, fewer in some cases 👇🏼🌱🌱

Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

My mental health declined pretty badly last wk but some of you asked for more photos like the hunt-the-tiny-owl one I made & I wanted to try to make an advent calendar so:some lovely things that fell off trees & this time a tiny deer stag to find. Do let me know if you enjoy this & I'll make more 🦌

Happy Birthday to William Blake, who knows where the wild things are...

Jane Austen wrote about thankfulness in a prayer she composed: "Give us a thankful sense of the Blessings in which we live, of the many comforts of our lot; that we may not deserve to lose them by Discontent or Indifference." I'm so grateful for the community on this site. Happy Thanksgiving to you!

Next it will be naturalized citizens (my husband). Then American-born dual citizens (my kids). No, that's not legal. Neither is this.

My talk in Cambridge tomorrow is SOLD OUT! But there are still tickets available for our events in Winchester on 3rd/ 4th Dec - talk & tours - on the Morris family & 'Beauty of the Earth' www.arcwinchester.org.uk/event/beauty...

Did you ever racially abuse fellow pupils? It was years ago. Did you ever racially abuse fellow pupils? Not in a hurtful way. Did you ever racially abuse fellow pupils? Not with intent. Did you ever racially abuse fellow pupils? Not genuine abuse. 😮🫣😬😱 ~AA

Paying my respects to Jane Morris in Birmingham, on my way to give a talk for @preraphaelitesoc.bsky.social This unfinished portrait by D G Rossetti emphasises the beauty & queenliness of Jane's looks. It was intended to illustrate Dante's 'La Donna della Finestra'.

Are you coming to our lecture this Saturday, 1pm in Birmingham, with the wonderful @suzannefagence.bsky.social? To book and for more details see the events page on our website- www.pre-raphaelitesociety.org

We wrote this to help you imagine how quickly a city can change under Trump… Charlotte was once a place of slow, easy mornings, coffee cups clinking in cozy cafés, jazz drifting through open doors on Tryon Street, families stepping onto the light rail with strollers and soccer bags.

Looking for something to do on a drizzly day in #Hampshire? 'Beauty of the Earth: the Art of May, Jane and William Morris' is now open at the Arc, Winchester. Tickets & info here: www.arcwinchester.org.uk/event/beauty...

On this day in 1918 the parents of the poet Wilfred Owen were just listening to the church bells ringing to announce the Armistice when a telegram boy arrived with the message that their son had died.

The banners are up and the loans are starting to arrive for our exhibition 'Beauty of the Earth : the Art of May, Jane and William Morris' in Winchester. It opens on Sat 15th November. You can pre-book tickets for the exhibition and events here : www.arcwinchester.org.uk/event/beauty...

30 million dead, The Somme, painting created by Mary Bishop 1976 in the art therapy studio at Netherne hospital where she was compelled to live. Aged 4 when her father was killed in WWI, the reverberations of his death & her mother’s vast grief traumatised & distressed Mary for the rest of her life

It is early in the morning, and there are few people about in this 1919 work by William Nicholson of the Cenotaph in London. It is the original white-painted wood and plaster structure designed by Edward Lutyens, it stands out in stark relief against the Foreign Office.

as a side note, a lot of food banks in the U.K.- I dunno about the USA- won’t accept or give out formula (despite the govt publishing explicit guidance that legally they can do so). Every time I buy someone formula, I also give them info on where, locally, they can get ongoing support.

“Among the fallen beech leaves” Artist: CF Tunnicliffe (What to Look for in Autumn, 1960)

Berry palette, November. As ever zoom in to the details if anxiety's lurking - looking at botanical patterns helps us recover from stress 60% more quickly. Also the pink Rowan & spindle...I mean...Barbie berries🍒💅🩷

'A Wiltsire Landscape,' (1928) casts up an early morning mood - a magic realm. By the time of this work, William Nicholson had married Edie Stuart-Wortley and moved to the Old Manor House in the village of Sutton Veny in Wiltshire.

Swifts have declined 70% since 1994. They fly from Africa to breed here, only to find we've blocked their nest sites. A £35 swift brick nest box was proposed for all new buildings. The construction industry lobbied Labour to block it. Biodiversity sustains life. Labour sustains economic power.

Britain one of least ‘nature-connected’ nations in world – with Nepal the most

I don't see a lot of people talking about this, so I want to highlight something GOOD Billie Eilish stood in a room full of billionaires and said "you're billionaires... Why?" She donated 11.5 MILLION DOLLARS to food equity and climate orgs, which Stephen Colbert announced to said billionaires.

#Printmaker Gertrude Hermes, Bat and Spider, wood engraving, 1932 #womensart #Halloween 🎃 🕸 🦇

My Etsy shop's now open for just over 20 of my Victorian ink bottle mental health kits Kits incl booklet I've written on how this kind of project alters our brains to improve mental health,dried flower posy & a handprinted giftbox Dispatches in time for🌲I ship anywhere: www.etsy.com/shop/silverp...

We're just getting started. Time to lower bills. And tax billionaires. If you want to see the Green Party take on Reform - this is the moment. Join.greenparty.org.uk

Frederick Cayley Robinson's painting for the Middlesex Hospital in 1912 depicts young orphaned girls around a refectory table, a motif of Leonardo's Last Supper, to the left girls process down a staircase, a device borrowed from Sir Edward Burne-Jones' 'The Golden Stairs.'

If you live in a major city, you may have noticed more people wearing bandanas around their neck, as the accessory has made a small comeback. Typically made from cotton, the bandana — distinct from the ascot — has a long history in working class aesthetics, as it serves a practical function.

DHS just posted a Lord of the Rings meme as an appeal to join ICE

Farage's motion on leaving the European Convention on Human Rights failed: 154 votes to 96 All 4 @greenparty.org.uk MPs voted against it, because we believe international agreements on human rights are a good thing. But only 63 out of 401 Labour MPs did: votes.parliament.uk/votes/common...

Wow - those are quite phenomenal headlines given the details of the story. Ahh look, he’s just a ‘nerdy’ guy. No harm done. You need to scroll down to paragraph 13 of the Sky piece to find the full story! 🧵 1/9

Minority representation on TV causes outrage From the new Private Eye, in shops now.

I’m really starting to suspect that most of the tech bros haven’t actually read Tolkien, as they certainly don’t understand it. The gentle hobbits save the “hard men” of Gondor, largely through compassion and selflessness. Not the other way around. The Christian parable is barely hidden!

A lot of texture in the sky this morning. Photo taken at sunrise on Glastonbury Tor.

I just love the poster for our exhibition opening next month at The Arc, Winchester. One of William Morris’s most complex textile designs, 'Windrush' required 17 printing blocks. To see this, & many other Arts and Crafts treasures, tickets available here : www.arcwinchester.org.uk/event/beauty...

ICE followed the mother into a school and aggressively detained her along with her children. This is so heartbreaking 💔

Just as an aside: tell EVERYONE you know about this. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Autumn landscapes call for cycling with abandon through least lanes. Love this glorious ensemble. No it’s not Lycra, yes it is unusual, yes maybe a corset, no it isn’t what we would choose but I love its exuberance! I hope she spun down hills at top speed. Mid #1890s #FIDMMuseum #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡