I love how smug sheep look with even the smallest achievement. Ladies and gentlemen, I present: Sheep standing on a box Sheep sitting on a very small hill

Think I've found a new obsession... www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCaw...

Animal Farm

Nothing at all strange to report from deepest Bavaria.

1981, Leeds. Were you at any of these @collettwriter.bsky.social ?

From photographer Gerd Ludwig’s 1978 series ‘Joseph Beuys: Journey to the Lower Rhine.’ www.gerdludwig.com/stories/jose...

Hanna Schygulla, Lili Marleen Helmut Newton, 1981.

Last two nights I've watched 'Billy Idol Should Be Dead' (Sky) and 'Power: the Downfall of Huw Edwards' (C5). If I had to sum them both up in one word, it would be 'unedifying'. A good old-fashioned word. I think I might go for a sweet, cheery film tonight to get some kind of balance back....

Apparently my local pool has a ruling against wearing mermaid tails. Obviously, I OBSERVED this being enacted and was not the cause...

Book 11 / 2026 Children - Marketa Luskacova This was a present from the lovely people @bluecoatpress.bsky.social (long story) and very appreciated it was too. Luskacova has a genius for photographing children - with all their curiosity, resilience and pathos.

A couple of books from my birthday last month I keep returning to. So much pleasure to be had from a special book - such wonderful artefacts. And the cover does count! The first is a US edition of Wuthering Heights from 1943, with Charlotte's original introduction and engravings by Fritz Eichenberg.

Has anyone been watching 'The Last One Laughing' (Amazon Prime), now in its second season - the game show where comedians are not allowed to laugh? I didn't expect to find it as funny as I did. Guaranteed to cheer you up if you need it! Here's an excerpt from S2... www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9_L...

Watched a couple of interesting films recently. First, Gus Van Sant's 'Dead Man's Wire', based on a true story. The feel is v Sidney Lumet (who directed Dog Day Afternoon) crossed with Spike Lee's Do The Right Thing). Well-paced, taut and tense - v good watch. www.youtube.com/watch?v=tklp...

Friday tune If you like your Irish folk with a dash of Dylan and a punch of Pogues (and if you can stop yourself humming The Green Fields of France), you're going to LOVE these guys! Gorgeous. Madra Salach - Murphy Can Never Go Home www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPLn...

@urbankisses.bsky.social @leabysea.bsky.social <--- your portrait is *especially* nice @collettwriter.bsky.social r.bsky.social @radicalembroiderer.bsky.social @paulaflucas.bsky.social some of these have been shared earlier this month slim pickings

A month in four photos February (catching up) @leabysea.bsky.social @collettwriter.bsky.social @urbankisses.bsky.social @tusenoch.bsky.social @paulaflucas.bsky.social

The Copenhagen edit March 26 #fourphotosonemonth #paintersanddecorators @collettwriter.bsky.social @leabysea.bsky.social @tusenoch.bsky.social @paulaflucas.bsky.social

A month in four photos. March 2026 #FourPhotosOneMonth #paintersanddecorators 1.Last push emptying Mums. 2.William Scott at Martyn’s work. 3.Visit to family by the sea. 4.Learning curve photos.

A month in four photos. March 2026 #FourPhotosOneMonth

A month in four photos. March 2026 #FourPhotosOneMonth 1) Self-portrait at Blackfriars Station 2) Sawston Moon 3) In The Gutter, Pentonville 4) The Joy of Wall Furniture, Trastevere

March 2026 #fourphotosonemonth #paintersanddecorators So exciting to see all the photos on these hashtags now! @urbankisses.bsky.social @leabysea.bsky.social @radicalembroiderer.bsky.social @tusenoch.bsky.social

Saw two places / installations / buildings I’ve wanted to see for years and years today - and both were absolutely magical. The first - Antony Gormley’s ‘Another Place’ on Crosby Beach…

God, I love being back in the North. It’s the people and it’s the attitude, like all of us are in the same grim, ridiculous and occasionally fantastic game. So many laughs in 24 hours - what a change from miserable, moaning London cabbies, ranting their Reform rubbish.

Lovely that my piece for @thefortyfive.bsky.social was included in this review of recent cultural highlights by @johnearls.bsky.social. And keeping such good company, from the stupendously good movie The Secret Agent to The Nightingales & the delightful @mccookerybook.bsky.social. Thank you John!

Wednesday tune OK, so it's not Friday, but I have my track of the week already The xx - Islands Heard this on the radio the other day after not hearing it for ages and just thought how BLOODY MAGNIFICENT it is! www.youtube.com/watch?v=PElh...

Two sets of pics from my Pareidolia series (defined as 'the human tendency to perceive meaningful images, particularly faces, in random or ambiguous objects like clouds, rocks, or household items') are now on display at the Praxis Gallery, Minneapolis in the gallery's 'DIPTYCH' exhibition. (Whoop!)

Lola Won. Moby Zero.

Exquisite new scarf for the collection by the divine Celia Birtwell #knotandtriangle crew! @urbankisses.bsky.social @tusenoch.bsky.social @leabysea.bsky.social @radicalembroiderer.bsky.social

Beatriz Gonzalez at the Barbican is SUCH a great show - a whole lifetime's work from this Colombian innovator, whose subjects included state & criminal violence, media, politics & 'the West', featuring artworks on all kinds of domestic surfaces. Fascinating & highly recommended!

My underground? Velvet (I am very much regretting this at the same time as writing it)

Leonard Freed, 1965 nmaahc.si.edu/object/nmaah...

Love seeing the garden come to life again, full of hope and colour. Here's some of my huge cluster of botanical close-up images. Never tire of their beauty!

I have a book of Russian photographs, ‘Quiet Resistance’ images from the early 20th century which may be of interest to you both Acquired at an exhibition at Somerset House some years back …

Don’t know if this cover is on your radar? New to me @scotspostpunk.bsky.social @punkandnewwave.bsky.social music.youtube.com/watch?v=hSym...

Made a beautiful focaccia garden for the spring equinox. We’re doing a lil feast and a fire pit. Needing some rebirth up in here!!

Book 8 / 2026 Bettye Kronstad – Perfect Day This 2016 memoir by Lou Reed's 1st wife is one for the true fans. Bettye Kronstad is a clever, independently-minded woman who has written elegantly of a period of joy & madness as she becomes entwined with an ex-Velvet about to become Lou-Reed-solo-star.

I love @sleafordmods.bsky.social - the busking Vladimir and Estragon of punk rock. Part of you thinks they're just two nutters at the bus stop - but part of you knows you're witnessing genius. #thistimelastweek #sleafordmods #brixtonacademy

We've been discussing our individual film entrance tunes at Casa Collett. One vote for the William Tell Overture; one for Mahler's 5th, one for Indiana Jones and one for Darth Vader's intro theme (sorry, that was me). Anyway, fun family game for all!

Terrific piece by @collettwriter.bsky.social for @thefortyfive.bsky.social about the women in punk who influenced her most. Loved the story of John Lydon signing a Caroline Coon print. thefortyfive.com/opinion/the-...

"Looking up to other people wasn’t really the done thing in punk..." Exactly. 1981 Me and a mate saw Sioux & Paul Cook walking towards us on Ken High St. on our way to Ken Mkt. We studiously ignored them. It was the punkily correct thing to do....😆 Another great piece.

Supercool women’s music site @thefortyfive.bsky.social asked me to write about the women in punk who influenced me the most - and I did! Enjoy, comment, share! CC x thefortyfive.com/opinion/the-...

My sons are just back from a wedding in Lima, Peru (amazing cuisine, short people, terrifying taxis). You’d think they’d have at least managed a photo of the bride and groom, but no - just one of the dessert table. Quite some dessert table, mind…

This film is AMAZING - pure pleasure. The true art of film making with rebellious humanism at its core.

Peace, love, bread, roses and solidarity to all (and hoping we are all able to weather and outlive this moment in a world run by ecocidal, genocidal, war-mongering, extinction capitalist imperialist psychos). We are many and they are few - even if right now they have all the guns.

The fabulous Jack Davison, one of my favourite photographers, shooting The Rock, whilst inspired by Shelley's Ozymandias - vimeo.com/1122667529

Friday tune Lip Service - Elvis Costello Been listening relentlessly to one of my top 5 EVAH albums again this week - This Year's Model. Have to say that, just like with Weller, I'm a massive fan of the angry phase... www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3ww...

Train window abstract (Caroline Collett)

So weird to be living in a green and purple political world after a lifetime of red and blue.

A month in four photos - February 2026 A new strand, which you're all very welcome to join. Hashtags #fourphotosonemonth #paintersanddecorators Images - vintage seaside charity boxes / Camden alley / random Nike box / shiny tropical leaf

It's on BBC iPlayer. It won the Best Documentary BAFTA last night. There are many moments this could equally be an abandoned town in rust belt America - and the poignancy of boys going off to war will forever be beyond questions of nationhood. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...