Sunday

Let’s hope it makes it over the Brindabellas this time 🤞☔️

I’m so in for The Mandalorian and Grogu. It just looks…fun. Sometimes that’s all I want. I’m excited for a new pulp adventure set in a galaxy far, far away. #starwars #filmsky youtu.be/IHWlvwu8t1w?si

frid-hengest, m.n: of uncertain meaning but ‘hengest’ is ‘horse’: one idea is ‘horse-horse’ (tautological); (less likely) ‘beautiful-horse’, ‘peace-horse’ or ‘war-horse’. (FRID-HENG-gest / ˈfrɪd-ˌhɛŋ-gɛst) Image: Bestiary; England, 1220-1240; @theul.bsky.social Kk.4.25, f. 59r. #OldEnglish #WOTD

Clarice Cliff (1899-1972), regarded as one of the most influential ceramics artists of the 20th Century #WomensArt

““One of the big pictures here is increased variability — the increase in differences between the good years and the bad years in agriculture," Professor Howden said. ” Excerpt From “Parched start to 2026 for southern Australia as east coast lows dry up”

Spirit animal 💕

Susie Cooper OBE ( 1902-1995), prolific English ceramic designer whose designs gained international acclaim #Womensart

Wrap of #Heatwave Maximums for 30 Jan 2026. SA 50.0 °C Port Augusta 2:43pm NSW 48.1 °C Smithville 3:32pm Qld 47.3 °C Ballera 1:59pm Vic 45.6 °C Mildura 6:01pm ACT 40.4 °C Tuggeranong 4:12 pm Tomorrow conditions will start to retract then ease on Sunday

A couple of stations in outback SA joined the rounded (but not quite) 50 °C club for the current heatwave over central/southern Australia on Thursday.

Wrap of todays #Heatwave NSW: 49.2 °C Borrona Downs 3:32pm ( Near White Cliffs ) Qld: 48.5 °C Thargomindah 2:45pm SA: 48.3 °C Marree Airport 5:17pm (50°C forecast for tomorrow!) Vic: 46.0 °C Yarrawonga 2:48pm ACT: 43.5 °C Tuggeranong 3:49 pm *Some of these are all time or Jan records

“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.” ― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own #WomensArt Portrait by her sister Vanessa Bell

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Stop killing Dingoes c.org/NRZg7kG9Cw

English writer Virginia Woolf was born #OnThisDay in 1882. For Christmas 1933, society hostess Ottoline Morrell gifted her friend Woolf an embroidered black silk shawl, now believed to be the only surviving piece of Woolf's clothing. Monks House collection. #readmorewomen #fashionhistory

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“No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent...And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.” John Donne, English metaphysical poet, Dean of St Paul’s London; born #OTD 1572. Portrait after Isaac Oliver, National Portrait Gallery London

“I’m a remarkable woman..always was, though none of you seemed to think so.”May Morris, English artist embroiderer, designer, feminist and socialist, dismayed by the lack of support for women artists founded the Women’s Guild of Arts, 1907 #womensart

'Hare head Study' in bronze by Nichola Theakston, one of the UK's foremost contemporary sculptors working within the animal genre #womensart

Canberra closed out 2025 with three months that saw roughly half their average rainfall, while only 8.6mm has fallen to date in January 2026 (monthly average 56.8mm).

Memories. Article from January 2020 when Canberra's air quality was "the worst in the world". And six years later, smell of smoke in Canberra from bushfires in Victoria is here. That's how it started in 2020. Fingers crossed it doesn't progress. #bushfires www.sbs.com.au/news/article...

The departing sun underscores the smoke tainted clouds from fires in the South Thankfully tomorrow brings some relief from the scorching heat and belligerent winds #MyHome Canberra #CBR Australia

Gemma Correll, British cartoonist who currently lives and works in California #WomensArt #Backtowork

capybara at the psychologist

Canberra’s outlook for next week looking a bit toasty.

A Room (in the Second Post-Impressionist) | Roger Fry

'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.😂

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