@catsofyore.bsky.social I am endlessly charmed by the fact that in the 1920s and 30s my family was taking almost as many photos of their cats as I do now with a smartphone

I had a fantastic Day Out at @butserancientfarm.co.uk on Saturday, learned to make a copper shadow puppet! I love doing random arty workshops, learning new things and having a go with no expectation that I'll be competent, it is very freeing just to have fun with something.

The exceedingly handsome Paddy is off home today

Day Out. Et by a kraken, fought a dragon.

Point Pleasant WV: a town wrapped in folklore & smiles. But beneath the welcome mats & festival flyers, something ancient is stirring... And it’s already watching Dr Troughton. TO THE FLAME, our feature length audio drama is out NOW on Patreon, available early & in an exclusive one act cut!

As the UEFA Women's Euro gets underway, read about the woman who started it all off, the mysterious Nettie Honeyball, founder of the British Ladies Football Club in 1895. www.scottishsporthistory.com/sports-histo...

I saw this Very Décolletée Shepherdess this morning in the Russell Cotes Museum and she reminded me irresistibly of @madameclorinda.bsky.social

noses

I am reluctantly home from Iceland, where I frolicked in geothermal blue mineral water, became queen by sitting on a replica of the old thrones of the chiefs, watched whales, and visited Mars or possibly Hverir, among many other excitements

Sparkle Motion was less invested in Dr Who than I was

I love going to the yard and finding a new baby

Jenny (mum) and Lilja ready to go home tomorrow

Scissor Sisters, perfect antidote to a funeral earlier in the day

Four Dark is Rising Signs down, two to go

Suncat tumcat.

This is so real lmaoooo "She booked a solo trip to Iceland while you were composing your <<good morning>> text" 😂😂

Lovely Nellie done

I apologise in advance to Sparkle Motion for the weekend's impending weather

Fire from the candle ring, water from the thaw. Halfway through my new set of Signs and I'm pausing to go back to horses for a bit.

Nice post-work wander

I need this today

About 30 hours to hand-grind, sand and polish one side of the bronze pendant I made with @experimentalkearns.bsky.social at @butserancientfarm.co.uk ! I used my dremel heads but did it by hand 1) for Bronze Age authenticity and 2) I have no clamp to hold it in and didn't want to grind my fingers.

Adolescence. Will these dangerous teenage boys all end up in cells? The new Private Eye is out now

Comet, using the copper I smelted with my own fair hands under the expert instruction of @experimentalkearns.bsky.social at @butserancientfarm.co.uk. An absolute bugger to take photos of but I am very pleased with it. The bronze pendant is almost done too.

I did an ancient metalworking workshop at @butserancientfarm.co.uk and it was amazing. We crushed malachite and smelted it into copper (mine is going to become a comet) then we made bronze! I made a pendant that is in the slow smoothing and polishing by hand stage.

Stone out of song: I am redoing my Dark is Rising signs, they were the first things i ever did in wire and beads, and now I am a lot better at it, so I'm taking the old ones apart and redoing them in between pony commissions. Stone done last week.

Winchester Cathedral Luxmuralis art installation

Luna was very sure that Uncle Dexter needed a face wash today

My first Icelandic horse sculptures

Dexter very happy with his first naked day of the year

🔊 The @ihr.bsky.social Digital History seminar *is back in London* on Tuesday 11 March at 17:30 UK-time welcoming @julialilinoe.bsky.social to discuss "Syon Abbey and Women’s Reading and Community as a Model for Bibliographic Network Analysis". Do join us! ihrdighist.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2024/09/tues...

I went on a wood engraving course yesterday

Menopause brain fog: finding the gnocchi in the utensil drawer when you put yesterday's washing up away in the morning.

I went to How To Be A Whale at Winchester Cathedral last night, which was spectacular under these sculptures

I bloody love a winter light trail, something about these sparkly forests just feeds the soul

What nonsense

I am watching a sea documentary (because the Jenni Hermoso one I was watching gave me too much rage) and Barack Obama who is narrating just said this manta ray has a TWENTY-SIX FOOT wingspan and that is a scale I was unprepared for.

Important news

I've had these tattoos for a year today and the Elder Gods of the Pazyryk have not yet manifested. I remain patient.

Oh, to be an upside down cat in a floofy bed by a radiator

As a historian, the scale and sinister brutality of the Holocaust terrifies me. And as a descendent of people who were sent to Auschwitz, hearing this testimony always brings me to tears This is my own family story, which I’m ashamed to say I only learned in 2017 www.gregjenner.com/my-family-an...

'Announced on Holocaust Memorial Day, the Wiener Holocaust Library’s new online platform includes more than 150,000 items collected over nine decades. Users can view letters, pamphlets and photographs that record the rise of fascism in Britain and Europe.' Link: www.whlcollections.org/index/

I'd been wondering how I was going to do her extremely floofy mane but I think mission is on the way to being accomplished.

I've built a machine that can be Confidently Wrong. It can also make pictures that all look a bit the same, as well as make a video of you kissing any celebrity or person you know. In payment, I'd like to boil the world's oceans dry, & steal all literature. For some reason, my head is not on a spike

If anyone wants a break from watching the US go to hell in an orange handbasket, here's a live stream. www.youtube.com/live/mrylcCA...

BEANS

Sexy Jesus and a beautiful stained glass window in Christchurch Priory