Better put the car in Park. We’re gonna be here for a while.

Small hand stitched meadow cottage in a 4" square brass frame, bonus photo for those who like to see the messy side.

Stock up on cards on www.louiseslater.com #birds

Good morning.

Sailing into the weekend with this new miniature. My favourite thing about these little paintings are the higgledy piggledy edges. This one is very peaceful... #folksy #art

First 20°C of the year ✅ Dates since 2013 of the first 20°C of the year. 2013: May 6th 2014: May 17th 2015: June 4th 2016: May 8th 2017: May 22nd 2018: April 18th 2019: April 19th 2020: April 10th 2021: May 29th 2022: May 14th 2023: May 13th 2024: May 10th 2025: April 11th 2026: April 7th

The oldest maximum temperature date record on record (based on @torrouk.bsky.social records) has been exceeded this afternoon provisionally, with 24.2°C at Mona on the Isle of Anglesey in Wales. The previous record was 23.6°C set at Oxford in 1859 - 167 YEARS AGO!

My latest painting currently on my desk. Acrylics on cradled wooden panel

If anyone is wondering, like I was… myshakespeare.com/hamlet/the-s...

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

Our temperature sensor for inside and outside the house, is currently saying that it is -8c in the garden at 9.45 pm, a bit nippy! Snow lying OL5 #uksnow @chadweather.bsky.social

Beautiful bright crisp day, spent taking down the decorations

The snow has arrived #uksnow OL5 6/10

Yuletide felicitations! The 1975 Christmas 'Radio TV Times' magazine is now available! 🎁 Explore 10 days of December 1975’s TV listings across both BBC and ITV. Open the PDF, click on a programme title and start streaming from various platforms. 🤶 visualmutterings.com/1975-christm...

And now for something completely different.. Carl Larsson 1853-1919 Swedish painter Girl On Skis Watercolor Private Collection

Entry for #duvetknowitschristmas from Antarctica: the Wasa station was established in 1989. And it looks like the very soft and high quality bed linen has been there since basically then. Here is my sleeping bunk. Tak Sverige!

Youngest is staying on his cousin's floor, a large number of usual occupants had to be vacated temporarily. #DuvetKnowItsChristmas @rhodri.biz

TBH I think a duvet would spoil the glorious austerity of this beautiful Christmas scene #DuvetKnowItsChristmas

We've banished my brother to the office. No curtains? No problem. Gaffer tape and black card has done the job. #DuvetKnowItsChristmas

#DuvetKnowItsChristmas 2025 The Peach Room of Doom awaits, with a bonus clothes dryer, his and hers towels, and after 24 years of marriage the Formica Stool of Chastity guarantees a hankypanky-free night Donate to @centrepointuk.bsky.social at www.gofundme.com/f/duvet-know... h/t to @rhodri.biz

This year we’ve been upgraded to “The Annexe of Estrangement”. Apart from a model shark on the bed and an excess of gym equipment, all is looking good. But what the hell is going on with the pumpkin summoning charm on the other side of the room? And who needs 5 freezers? #duvetknowitschristmas

Rather magnificently, my wife’s nephew Doug is quick off the blocks, superb effort, laundry dryer, bicycle #DuvetKnowItsChristmas

Entering my daughter’s sleeping arrangements for #DuvetKnowItsChristmas this year. We have family over and staying in her room, so she is on a single mattress under her brother’s bunk bed. She brought the vine lights with her, but the cork board will be handy if she does any festive crime-solving.

And so it begins. #DuvetKnowItsChristmas

Calloo callay, it's #DuvetKnowItsChristmas Day!

Wishing all my friends, family and followers a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year #ArtAdventCalendar

Happy winter solstice A winter cottage scene created and painted by me some years ago. #ArtAdventCalendar

Framed snowy cottage #ArtAdventCalendar

Another little winter cottage leaving my desk #ArtAdventCalendar

A small watercolour in a brass frame #ArtAdventCalendar

Another snow day❄️❄️❄️

Self-portrait wearing a scarf, by Zinaida Serebriakova. Today has been her day.

Painting little winter cottages, this one is now on its way to it's new home. #ArtAdventCalendar

What money can't buy is unique and worth the effort to preserve. #forestfriday #coloraday #bwfri #scape #nature #eastcoastkin #monochrome #classicmono

#ArtAdventCalendar Dec. 4 We don’t see them every winter, but in an irruption year, they come down from the Arctic and spend some winter time with us! This Common Redpoll paused a moment while foraging in the spruce trees. #Birds #photography #wildlife 🪶

A few felt decorations that I have made for our local Christmas tree festival #ArtAdventCalendar

And please #ArtAdventCalendar participants. There's really only 4 requirements. Post your own work No AI images Have fun AND PLEASE USE ALT TEXT on every post.

A little hand painted wooden cottage in the snow #ArtAdventCalendar

❄️ Risk of some hill-snow next Wednesday/Thursday. #uksnow

Small painting of a country cottage. Gouache and pen

‘Pick a card…’ www.greenspike-art.com

🔭 Jupiter in Ultraviolet from Hubble Image Credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble; Processing & License: Judy Schmidt star.ucl.ac.uk/~apod/apod/a...

A 4" stitchery of a wildflower meadow

Yesterday we visited Green Mountain Falls, CO to visit the kinetic sculpture Off the Beaten Path by Patrick Shearn. I wasn’t ready for just how dynamic it was even in the slightest breeze. Reminds me of a murmuration of starlings. Incredible artwork. It’ll only be up through October 19th.

A small painting of a coastal cottage #gouache #pen

The landscapes are so wonderful. And what peace they give. Observing landscapes is a charm. 💚🌱🌿☘️🩵

27th August, daily stitching marking the passage of time #intuitivedailystitching #textileart #embroidery #stitchjournal

Chinese artist Leng Jun,I have never seen anything like it. Extraordinary!!!