'Blue Crocus' Art Deco (1920-30s) teapot designed by British ceramics pioneer Clarice Cliff #WomensArt

📢 Melbourne has recorded its biggest decline in water levels since the millennium drought, with the city advised there is now a chance of restrictions in 2026.

17 degrees C in summer as the Antarctic dragon jetstream returns to the East coast of #Australia. Nearly the same pattern as last time the temps dropped. www.netweather.tv/charts-and-d...

While many people entering their 80s are struggling with physical or mental limitations, Joan Jeffery still manages to do all the heavy lifting of caring for a horse.

Christmas news has started. Woman's shock as goose smashes through front door. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The vivid red and gold silk stitching brings a very festive feel. But this family heirloom cushion cover from Crete started off its life in a different form around 300 years ago. It was originally an upcycled dress which was handmade for a special occasion, most likely a wedding. 🦌 EA2004.6

#AshmoleanAdvent Day 17: Embroidered cushion cover Today’s Advent treat is this brightly-coloured cushion cover or wall hanging, bustling with dense embroidery. In the intricate scene of intertwined flowers, figures and creatures, you can spot stags and various birds.

Happy birthday to Jane Austen, and to this very on-brand Economist chart www.economist.com/christmas-sp...

Gígja Einarsdóttir, photographer who was born and raised around Icelandic horses #WomensArt #December8th #ArtAdvent 🎄

Octopus Teapot by Japanese ceramic artist Keiko Masumoto #Womensart

Canberra plummets to -0.3°C, its first sub-zero summer temperature on record

Rhodanthe Athens design jug c 1934 by UK ceramics designer Clarice Cliff #WomensArt

Stay safe #Canberra

Excellent coverage via Darwin ABC radio. As Fina passed a woman called in to report that her 24 chooks were in the toilet for safety and everytime she needed to go it was a scramble to enter without escapees.😂

Amateur 'ham' Radio operators are 'ready to go' and all the NT cyclone shelters have a ham station on standby as well. When the grid goes down and ya mobile phone ain't work and there is no internet? When All Else Fails. Ham Radio Works. Dominic Schmidt, VK8DSZ in Darwin, is ready to go.

Carol Long, contemporary US ceramicist who draws influences from plant and animal life and also art nouveau #womensart

Can confirm 🥶

This cold front, and tonight's late-season frost under the dry air behind it, are the latest effects of ongoing negative AAO/SAM on south east Australia.

Weather guide 😆 Credit: Canberra Page

livedplacespublishing.com/book/isbn/97... Excited to announce our new publication reflecting many years of collaboration with @lesleychenoweth.bsky.social and colleagues and #rural #communities across #Australia and #Canada

Fall of the Leaf, 1934 By printmaker Sybil Andrews (Canadian (born England) Color linocut on Japanese paper #ReframingWomenPrintmakers

Locals 'upset' with decay of mothballed theatre decide to buy it - ABC News

”In Xanadu, did Kubla Khan, A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea…” Kubla Khan, composed 1797 (first pub. 1816) by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English Romantic poet, born #OTD 1772. Portrait by Allston 1814 NPG London

🖼️ Jessica Roux

The greatest bird in the universe has finally won Australia's bird of the year. ALL HAIL THE TAWNY FROGMOUTH! www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I will cut adrift—I will sit on pavements and drink coffee—I will dream; I will take my mind out of its iron cage and let it swim—this fine October. - Virginia Woolf #Womensart

The work of Diana Catchpole, contemporary UK based illustrator and printmaker #ReframingWomenPrintmakers

And here is Emmeline looking over the centre of modern Manchester my 📷

#Music #LoTR

I 🥰 The Luminaries

JS Sargent was obsessed with depicting Virginie Gautreau ~ here’s his ‘Portrait of Madame X’, as exhibited in 1884, with (gasp!) a suggestively slipped shoulder strap. The hysterical outrage over this affront to decency led Sargent to add a more decorous strap (at R)

Today is Quintidi the 5th of Vendémiaire in the year 234. Vendémiaire is the month of vintage. Today we celebrate horses.#JacobinDay More information on horses

I have made petition to Australian #Parliament seeking #Referendum to add Preamble to #Constitution setting out our national values. Need your support. Please click below, read preamble & sign. www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/.... Need at least 1000 signatures covering all States. Thanks for your help.

I agree Philip .. we are losing our horse paddocks at an alarming rate .. no replacements planned … what then… The Bush Capital no more?

Sunrise / moonrise all in the one shot here in #canberra this morning. Bodes well for a happy Friday!

It's that time again! #birdoftheyear poll 🥳 Nominations for the top 50 shortlist are open now. Make sure your favourite bird makes it to this year's poll! Voting starts 6 October www.theguardian.com/environment/...

#vintage #guitars in # Canberra

Another stupendous Southern Ocean low (939 hPa) between Australia and Antarctica. Spring is conducive because of the heightened contrast between polar and midlatitude air masses - and higher sun elevation makes for great (visible) satellite imagery!

300 years after Velázquez painted Las Meninas (“Maids of Honour”), Picasso, a long term admirer of the work, created his own version (1957). He would ultimately produce over 50 versions of the same painting

Get out of the way Kung-fu Panda, it's time for Bojutsu Capybara.

Spirit animal 🥰

Also a sign of #Spring here in the Bush Capital

This Danish ad made the best use of Vikings and comedy to share an important safety message. www.thepoke.com/2025/09/01/d...

A rabbit baking bread. Lansdowne MS451, c.1400.

Daytime temperatures were within 1°C of normal across most of Australia during winter 2025 as a whole, while nighttime temperatures were more varied.