A newly emerged Artemisia Gentileschi for Denmark

Why all my shrubs are planted a good few feet in from the fence. 🙀🐄🐄🐄 #uist

It’s a grey day #uist - perfect for attending an online seminar on #EarlyMedieval period.

'Animating the Dead: An #Archaeology of Bronze Age Burial Practices in #Orkney' by Professors Jane Downes and Colin Richards follows decades of research and incorporates new excavation results and radiocarbon dates from sites across the county. Available to pre-order now. #BronzeAge #Prehistory

Lingeigh #13 A view of Lingeigh from Èirisgeigh.

This chart was on another #cat rescue site but it shows why we have to work so hard @uistcatrescue.bsky.social and why #TNR is so important for our cats. 😻🐈‍⬛🐈

where are my manners

Inuk artist Pitaloosie Saila, Loon at sunrise,1994 #WomensArt #Monday

I’ve spent the day on #cat related things. It’s nice to be able to relax this evening having made my way home. 😻🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛🐈 #uist 🐑🐑🐑🐏

#ShowMeYourKnits 🧶 take 2: Autumn Beech tam, inspired by the beech tree in my garden that, every year, puts on a dazzling display of colour. As the autumn progresses it has leaves in green, through gold, to rusty red, gradually fading with the year. www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...

TFW you start awake from a stress dream and are delighted to realise it wasn’t real and you’re at home. #uist

#roses in the polycrub. #uist 🌱

Rain incoming! #uist

Lazy #Caturday 😻🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛

The Roos Carr figures are dating to the Late Bronze Age or Early Iron Age. They were inadvertently unearthed by laborers during ditch maintenance at Roos Carr in 1836. Approximately two meters beneath the surface, the workers discovered a collection of well-preserved...🧵1/3 📷 me #archaeology 🏺

TIL this is the earliest known piece of knitted fabric. It's a sock that, regardless what some YouTube video says, it's far a simple tube. It's design is incredibly intricate, and seems to be shaped for the hill. This is obviously an example of advance […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Tá an ghaoth ag séideadh na níocháin ar an líne. #gaeilge

Pretty yellow #fungi by the washing line. #uist

20 lengths at the swimming pool 🏊‍♀️ and now a fantastic dry. #uist #washingline

#rainbow 🌈 #uist

A morning of rainbows and one of the pair of black #FosterKittens has emerged from hiding. #uist 😻🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛

Crossing the causeway on a breezy day at high tide. #uist

Kitten Smitten has a new best friend. #FosterKittens #uist 😻🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛

The ECHR doesn’t actually have much impact on deportations: -proportion of foreign national offenders who have successfully appealed against deportation from UK on human rights grounds: 0.73 % -how often the ECHR has ruled against UK in cases relating to immigration rules: 3 HT The Sensemaker

The latest 2 #FosterKittens are not speaking to me. 😻🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛

A bright and breezy day. A light rain last night has helped clean the windows. #uist

South Uist, 2020 #otd

Absolutely fascinating video from @gettymuseum.bsky.social about the newly discovered #Artemesia painting from Beirut. youtu.be/eah4Pw4Qd7w?...

Bonus points if you mention Powell and Pressburger’s I Know Where I’m Going, which ends with the heroine and hero literally *going* right into it — and living.

There’s no wind but windy skies. #uist

Artemisia Gentileschi, Allegory of Painting (La Pittura), 1638-39 (Royal Collection), detail showing signature: A.G.F. (Artemisia Gentileschi Fecit)

For sale! The Shell Guide to Somerset, illustrated by David Gentleman. A wonderful miscellany of the county – old gods of Bath & ghostly battles of Sedgemoor, the golden tower of Huish Episcopi & red cider apples on withy mats. Dm to buy or purchase from my Etsy shop: www.etsy.com/uk/listing/1...

Brilliant

The last of the gale is blowing over, leaving behind sunshine and salt-stained windows. #uist

Actuarial innit. If they don’t cover your disease shot, they’re more likely to have to cover your disease. #vaccineswork

#Kitten Smitten is being unbearably cute. 😻🐈‍⬛

The #Bear and I took a nap. 😻🐈‍⬛

River Ribble (sound up)

Rain clouds at South Ford #uist

Today is the 846th anniversary of the death of Hildegard of Bingen: saint, abbess, composer, writer, visionary, but best known of course for once seeing the Gruffalo appearing from the Bride of Christ’s, um...

Here’s a poem called ‘English Roundabouts’.

It was a very cold evening & the East wind was as thin as glass. Look, Wolf, look at the sky over the Downs, said Pine Marten, the clouds look so strange. They're called Lamenters, said Wolf, torn clouds, strife-tellers, come a long way they have to bring their warnings.

" ...vertical bifacial solar modules can harvest sunlight from both sides, making them efficient even in diffuse or reflected lighting conditions. Compared to traditional wooden fences, these solar fences are proving to be more cost-effective over time" via Science pulse

In no particular order, the top 3 where the UK leads the world. - The 3 pin plug - Motorway signage - Projecting hugely important images onto historic buildings

A return to rainy breezy weather. It makes yesterday all the more precious. #uist

Off to check cat traps but there’s a traffic jam #uist 🐄🐄🐄🐄🐄

GOOD NEWS! A new cancer vaccine has shown progress in triggering POWERFUL and LASTING immune responses in patients with pancreatic AND colorectal cancer. The vaccine, known as ELI-002 2P, targets mutant KRAS proteins AND had a huge impact on PREVENTING or DELAYING cancer recurrence in patients.

Unwind: touch the brine Take some bread: break some wine I can see the water line Red below the Lewis sun

Ar neamh! #gaeilge