Spiced latte blondies #IAmBaking #KitchenWitch

Katherine Soutar, contemporary English artist and illustrator, known especially for her interpretation of folk tales and folklore #womensart #FolkloreThursday

Thursday

Share your favourite black and white movie

You see this post a concert picture you took.

I just dialled in to an out of hours work meeting about the rising incidence of racial abuse and threats some of my colleagues are currently facing I felt humbled, appalled and ashamed. Also determined to be a better ally, which feels all I can do just now

Wednesday

A message to every Londoner, and anyone who talks our city down.

Textile artist Julie Collings, hand dyed silk velvet caps and needle felted wool stems #WomensArt #September

Really disappointed how rapture day has turned out Imagine how dramatic it would have been if the orange shitgibbon had been raptured mid sentence while lecturing the UN Nothing left behind but an orange greasy stain on the lectern, and a whiff of sulphur

"What music is to me - it's just another way of saying this is a big, beautiful universe we live in, that's been given to us, and here's an example of just how magnificent and encompassing it is." Happy Birthday John Coltrane September 23, 1926

statistic of the day

I’ve said it once, I’ll say it again. Ignore the haters, London is the 🐐

It's a good job my parents are dead, otherwise a Reform government would have them on the boat back to Dún Laoghaire Or maybe they will need to be dug up and sent back anyway? Comin' over 'ere, taking our graves...🙄

Georgia O'Keeffe, Blue Wave Maine, 1926 #WomensArt

The even more unbelievable crime fact (which I learned relatively recently) is that burglary has fallen by more than 90% since the 1990s. Did anyone notice? Nope. Does anyone believe it? Nope. But is is true? It is!

Tuesday

Years ago I was at a literary event and someone read from a short story in which the Rapture happens and everyone with a beard is taken. Doesn't matter what religion they are, or how they behave. Just... anyone sporting a beard. It was pretty hilarious. Wish I could find it again.

Not me wearing my t-shirt back to front to the gym, and only realising when someone pointed it out to me 😳

Reform's ‘plan’ to revoke the legal status of millions of UK residents is morally abhorrent & economic madness The public believe in fairness & mutual respect, not this cruel Trumpian policy that would leave us all poorer. We are not America - we must resist this dangerous turn in British politics.

We all have a thirst for wonder. It's a deeply human quality. Science and religion are both bound up with it. What I'm saying is, you don't have to make stories up, you don't have to exaggerate. There's wonder and awe enough in the real world. Nature's a lot better at inventing wonders than we are.

Because time spent looking at sunflowers is never time wasted

I don't have a garden to grow dahlias in any more, but that doesn't stop me admiring them 🙂🌺💙 @nationaltrust.org.uk

Septembering

Monday

Le Chat, Paris de Jour, (1945) Credit: Brassai

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‘Pact’ - #RSThomas (Uncollected Poems, @BloodaxeBooks) #DayOfPeace

It is Hookland. There is no ‘spooky season’. Spooky is the county’s default setting because it is the English gothic, the English strange. The weird is not a costume to be warn only once a year.

Getting my equinox on #Equinox

Acorning

Big sky

My cartoon for this week’s @newscientist.com

🕊️ It’s the International Day of Peace. The EU stands for a world where peace is protected, partnerships are genuine, and where the principles of the United Nations Charter are upheld. Today, tomorrow, always. #PeaceDay

I don’t want everyone from Twitter to come to Bluesky. Whilst we would have the initial thrill of “number go up”, we’d then be immersed in the toxic slop produced by the very people I came here to avoid.

'My Garden...' by Mariann Johansen-Ellis, contemporary artist and printmaker #WomensArt

I’m in Vienna right now. A city which went from being the intellectual and cultural capital of the world to a “provincial backwater” (to quote Brian Barry) in a couple of decades due to nationalism, anti-semitism and fascism which drove away the leading scholars and artists it didn’t murder.

#SundayPixRailway Subway decoration, Prague 6th July 2024 (can't remember the name of the station 😬)

#SundayPixRailway Bath, 17th May 2025

#SundayPixRailway Bodmin, 3rd March 2024

Sunday

I have rarely seen such unadulterated bollocks. I loved Twitter, it was so important for my job. Then a mad megalomaniac took it over and made it so no one would see my posts unless I paid him money - and even if I did that I would be submerged in nazi hate. But yeah this is our fault.

This makes me a proud meliorist, I guess 🙂💙

This mushroom stroganoff I've made is so good that I need to share it with you 😋

Sarah Ross-Thompson, fine art printmaker based on the West Coast of Scotland #ReframingWomenPrintmakers

I fucken knew it