What a slog of an ultimately super productive week. Already heading into the year-end rush of work, getting dibs on the really interesting stuff, thinking that the lay-down I wished for last Christmas will have to wait til this festive season instead.

Not being funny but maybe Jan had a point.

Woooooo perimenopause rage is high today.

Off to the theatre tonight so I won't be watching the game. Jan is very likely quietly relieved (remember the match days on which I was exiled to the kitchen?), wherever he is. Anyway. No time for blubbing. Up the Reds. #LFC

Memo to self, and anyone else who needs reminding: Caffeine and nicotine are not valid food groups. Eat something. Hydrate.

Sarko en taule?

One thing to take away from this is why it’s important we don’t conflate Hungarians with their current government, and why we shouldn’t abandon them.

Watching episodes of Matlock and Kathy Bates is an absolute queen.

IKEA. On a Saturday. New bedding, a cushion cover and, primarily and most essentially, freezer bags almost exclusively for yarn storage 😆🤣

Insomnia? Knit another, very different version of last night's swatch. #knitting #knitsky#ShowMeYourKnits

Seems pointless when your President is a Russian mole.

Another night, another swatch. #knitting #knitsky #ShowMeYourKnits

Crushing, stultifying sadness today. It's been coming.

Did I go to a wine tasting this evening, get slightly squiffy and talk a lot of shit?

Brilliant piece by Tony #LFC

Fifteen years since FSG acquired the club... #LFC

'Hector' linocut by UK contemporary artist and #printmaker Vanessa Lubach #ReframingWomenPrintmakers

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Final photo for today: Sunday swatching (from stash, would you believe) #knitting #knitsky #ShowMeYourKnits

Ready for steaming and steeking before I join the shoulders! #knitting #knitsky #ShowMeYourKnits

Banana bread in the oven!

Awake at 6h55. Fed the cat, administered her insulin, had a cuppa in bed, went to the shops for essentials (which, inexplicably, included a cabbage). Now on my second coffee. I really need that lay-down.

TGIF had started early. Snapped as I made my way back to the subway after a long afternoon shoot. #Myphotographiclife | #photography #tgif 2025-10-10

Reader, I bought the mugs. All six of them.

A read about Klopp

Abolish ICE beanie finished. Suggested yarn for this beanie is fingering or sport weight; free pattern link below. I used some stash Camper 100% Highlands wool from Kelbourne Woolens. Will work up a version in cotton as well. #AbolishICE #knitting #knitsky 🧶 LINK: www.elawarart.org/fiber/projec...

Macron is quite superb on the international stage and absolutely, tragically abysmal domestically. My money is on him running to be President of the Commission after Ursula von der Leyen.

Now to go for a mooch in town with a friend and maybe even make a couple of purchases (i.e. the set of handmade mugs I've been obsessing about for weeks).

I do love a Satur-yay mani.

Artwork by Martha Rich, contemporary US painter and illustrator based in Philadelphia #womensart #Caturday

When teetering on the brink of a yarn accident, alwats check your stash first. Look at this perfect pairing. And I have an idea for the contrast colour... #knitting #knitsky #ShowMeYourKnits

Long have I suspected that Miss Lola has been trolling the automatic litter tray and, sure enough, I've just witnessed her doing it 🤣🤣🤣

Quilt art inspired by vintage photographs of African American people, by contemporary US artist Bisa Butler #WomensArt US #BlackHistoryMonth

"I just decided, when someone says you can't do something. DO MORE OF IT." -Faith Ringgold (1930-2024) #WomensArt #FridayFeeling

The orange shitgibbon (Jan's phrase) will be spontaneously combusting in 3... 2... 1

It's 9 October and fuck me, the Lebkuchen have already hit the shelves.

Ain't no double denim like Soviet-era double denim.

Has Kemi not said "quiet Batpeople" yet?

Mood: Oracular.

Milk, honey, or Lemon?' by #printmaker Catherine C.E.Walker #WomensArt

Shima Tamami (1937-1999), an influential Japanese printmaker who joined a Women's Print Association in her country, mid 20th century, at a time when women in the arts struggled to receive the same resources and promotion as their male equivalents #ReframingWomensPrintmakers

"Greenland needs the European Union, and the European Union needs Greenland." 🇬🇱🤝🇪🇺 Greenland's Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen spoke at the European Parliament today, emphasising the potential of broader and stronger cooperation with the EU. Read more: link.europa.eu/wwffTf

Come find me and 7 photos from #myphotographiclife on Substack if you fancy open.substack.com/pub/jonbusca...

I've been thinking and talking about Jan a lot today. So, in a spare moment this afternoon, I entered his old Twitter handle into Google. Imagine my surprise. And tears. Quite a few tears. (In spite of my loathing for AI.)

California will be the first state to secede from the United States.

Jesus fucking christ. What a day to open Bluesky and see the state of things. I'm going back to my cave.

Monday began with me deciding I'm not Superwoman and can't do everything. So I cancelled a two-day training course I signed up for months ago... and launched into a big, months-long project that I'm apparently leading.

Train swatch update: washed and ready for blocking. Thrilled is the word that springs to mind. #knitting #knitsky #ShowMeYourKnits

It's good to be home in my apartment, with my cat, and my own bed, and decent coffee. I didn't have a single drinkable cup of coffee in London, OMFG.

"Bliss' etching by contemporary printmaker Faith Chevannes #ReframingWomenPrintmakers