First pass…decorations and outdoor lights tomorrow…

Peace is always beautiful,

#postcardadventcalendar 2. Contestants in the August Posing Competition: "Health & Strength on the Sands", Port Dinorwic, August 28, 1934.

Elements merge in the night .... ships make tacks in the dreams .... the sailor sails .... the exile returns home,

Something old, something new: lauremeloy.bandcamp.com/album/virgin...

Give yourself a break from the nonsense.

New added bonus tracks: lauremeloy.bandcamp.com/album/alma-d...

DM us here or email us [email protected] if you’d like to know more about volunteering for a place on our committee. We’re all about connecting local community resources and organisations - we’d love you to be a part of it! Let us know of your interest by 30th December.

New short story on my Substack: open.substack.com/pub/laure164t2

The UN’s 16 days of activism to end violence against women and girls is 25 November to 10 December this year. Locally, Soroptimists Canterbury will be leading a silent march on Saturday 29 November. Meet at The Buttermarket, Canterbury at 10:45 am. #soroptimistinternational #16daysofactivism

On 20th November, vote Kim Slater – Equality Party. For egalitarian, people-first politics. For decisions made for communities, not parties. For collaboration, fairness, and policies that benefit us all. Find out more - https://equalityparty.org.uk/ #VoteKimSlater #EqualityParty #Nov20Election

"In my view, the greater harm to adolescents is not subjection to uncomfortable art but failure to help them understand that the world is, and has always been, big, complicated, and unpredictable"

Wise words on tolerance from Karl Popper – a former patron of ours – for #InternationalDayofTolerance

The law of the past cannot be eluded,

Thanks for another fine episode. Your link to BBC Media Action didn't work, this one does - www.bbc.co.uk/mediaaction.

Alex's proposal for the BBC to abandon the adrenaline rush of 24 hour news is spot on.

🔪 NEW: Dial S for Starmer ☎️ 💥 How NOT to supress a rebellion 📺 Defending the BBC from Trump 🥀 Woke Poppies 🧱 Lego Therapy 💨 Bloopers With @pimlicat.bsky.social, @sturdyalex.bsky.social & @mrkennycampbell.bsky.social. 🍊 open.spotify.com/episode/2RFO... 🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/q...

There weep and leave it

Randomly woke at 5 am and saw my Aurora Watch app had a notification for me:

A long 🧵 but it's given me a boost this morning.

Have you pleasure from looking at the sky? Have you pleasure from poems?

You can support this project for as little as £1.50 - check it out, and my other releases too. ALMA/DOLL has some new bookings/festival invites in 2026 & every little helps!

NEW! Bonus track for ALMA/DOLL and updates on Act 1 & 3 lauremeloy.bandcamp.com/album/alma-d...

Why, You grave but reckless senators

"We sell to the affluent business traveller and his vacationing wife in a billion, billion different futures. This is the most radical, dynamic and thrusting business venture in the entire multidimensional infinity of space/time/probability ever."

Thank you @feministgreens.bsky.social for supporting @nionwomen.bsky.social! Women — if you haven’t yet signed our NION open letter, go here: notinourname.org.uk Everyone — if you haven’t yet joined the Green Party, go here 😆 join.greenparty.org.uk

Equity granted Spotlight Appeal Read the full story: www.equity.org.uk/news/2025/eq...

Sports Connect Thrive425 Project is about to start. It is a free 12 week programme supporting females aged 24+ who are unemployed through a hollistic approach with various sporting activities within the Thanet area. @thisgirlcanuk.bsky.social @thanetcouncil.bsky.social

celebrating the beaver supermoon - a golden beaver with a furry muff. You're welcome

Arthur put his hands over his eyes, hung his head and shook it slowly from side to side in sadness and horror at the craziness of things.

Götterdämmerung review – an accomplished performance from The London Opera Company at Smith Square Hall | A semi-staged but completely committed presentation of the final opera in Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen

Coming up on Tuesday 11 November at St John the Baptist Church Hall, Margate: the Less Alone More Alive! Workshop. Brought to you by network member Changing Minds Kent and the Culture Health and Wellbeing Alliance.

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

Leaves are not more shed from the trees or trees from the earth than they are shed out of you.

This is good trouble. GOD BLESS THIS CHURCH!

Right - here we go… One of our lovely fucking members had set up a PEG account here. Go follow, and be entertained, and know things like when we are making an exhibition of ourselves…

What, wouldst thou have me go and beg my food?

Couldn’t resist: Sally Mann book purchase inspired by The Great Women Artists Podcast, Ashes & Stones retrieved from my wish list on Bookshop

Having a horrible time here in Torquay.

The sun and stars that float in the open air .... the appleshaped earth and we upon it .... surely the drift of them is something grand;

I’m adding Alma Mahler-Werfe to my list of guests I’d have at one of those imaginary dinner parties, because I’m dying to know what she had going on that made men go fully crazy. Like, Kokoschka did *what* (read the sign in full)

Alma Mahler https://www.wikiart.org/en/oskar-kokoschka/not_detected_235830

The case of Alma Mahler-Werfel “dramatizes how opportunity, environment, and other contingencies shape artistic careers.” Alex Ross reassesses the life and work of the most legendary widow of the 20th century.

In de nieuwe opera over Alma Mahler is ze eindelijk eens niet de vrouw-van

As always, you don't need streaming services at all. Use Bandcamp and know that your strength is as the strength of ten