I read this on a long train journey last weekend. If you like legal thrillers, this is a really good, twisty-turny read, currently at a bargain price. I really enjoyed getting inside the heads of the barristers, judge and defendants, in turn. #booksky

'Seeking the Disabled Christ' Panel Discussion I will be discussing my Disabled Christ images, disability, Deaf and Neurodivergent theology with the excellent Hannah Lewis Tim Rourke and David Harknett At Leicester Cathedral Monday 3rd August 2026 leicestercathedral.org/exhibition-s...

"It was like this when I got here. Honest, gov"

Gone home with the keys to the main entrance at work in their pocket.

Really pleased with how this labyrinth has turned out - and it seems a really fitting image for the room where I meet people for spiritual direction. Churches have been using labyrinths as a aid to prayer for centuries. The cat is very fond of it too. Presumably she's dreaming of being a Minotoar?

I googled a famous actor last night to see what nationality he was and the AI on the Google search page confidently told me that he has an identical twin sister. Really? You sure about that??

Using up scraps of yarn. It's reassuring to get to a stage where I can easily try it on and check that it's going to fit. Just the sleeves to knit, the collar to sew down properly and about a million ends to sew in. Progress photo mainly for @crikeys.bsky.social

Our garden got a bit overgrown last year and the ivy made a decent attempt at swallowing up the bird table. When I cleared it yesterday, I found out someone had rather been taking advantage of the situation! I suspect it was last spring, not this one, it doesn't look recently lived in. #TinyJoys

Does anyone have any recommendations for a cloud app? Something that would identify clouds and tell me about them, like Merlin does for birds? When I google for cloud apps, I mainly get online storage suggestions. Tagging @drlucyrogers.com because clouds are definitely things that are Up.

It's got to be Lynda Snell, surely #TheArchers

Work Christmas meal in a pub yesterday. Anyone want to vote on if it was late for last Christmas or early for the next one? 😂 It also happened to fall in Volunteer Appreciation Week, so I suspect we should just have gone with that!

This looks very cool - and of interest to some folks I know here. ✝️⚓

I'm backing at this gorgeous yarn shop, teaching mending again soon. Come and join me and learn how to repair your clothes with different types of darning. Durham, on the 6th June in the afternoon. www.wingandabear.com/products/men...

Algorithms sure do love to preach to the converted 😂 #craftsky

Ironing some big pieces of fabric for a sewing project.... That may not have been my best ever plan, on the hottest day of the year so far.

The swifts! The swifts are back! #TinyJoys

Art class should never stop being a thing. Like if right after our lunch breaks we all got to go down to the basement, throw on a smock and make collages out of old magazines while somebody's slightly witchy aunt tells us how great we're doing, I feel like we'd all be in a better place

Damn I found it Guess I have to do the things, after all 😭

I appear to have lost my to-do list. That means I no longer have to do any of the items on it, and I can just slack off, right? Right??

For that stage in life where you might need a camper van, or you might need a hearse and you just can't make your mind up.

A heron sculpture for @everyheron.bsky.social and anyone else who loves them. It lives in a fishpond at the Botanical Gardens in Durham (uk)

Next mending project. This one looks like a fun challenge. The yarn shop where I've been teaching mending sent it my way, when a customer came in with it saying "Please help!" The ladders are the most dramatic damage. There's also an armpit hole and a few other smaller issues

Next mending project. This one looks like a fun challenge. The yarn shop where I've been teaching mending sent it my way, when a customer came in with it saying "Please help!" The ladders are the most dramatic damage. There's also an armpit hole and a few other smaller issues

@persiflage.bsky.social Oh! Not just you. This popped up in my timeline too.

Oh God, it's the Vicar: advertising a series of straightforward conversations about Christianity... especially for those who are curious. Upper Weardale.

I’m real tired of “resiliency” work being code for “here’s how to endure more” instead of the godly and just work of reforming broken systems. I’m not doing that anymore. That not the God I serve.

The jumper has subsequently gotten even more mends on it. I’m in the middle of doing these stain glass windows

I changed my mind about the thread to use, and went with the one that's on the far left (the middle one). It was significantly finer and I ended up preferring it.

Visible mending will always be my favourite, but there's a lot of satisfaction in making a mend as discrete as possible, too. I've rummaging in my stash to see what might be a good colour match for this cashmere cardigan. What do you reckon?

I coulda been a wildlife photographer

Tiny jumper, just because I'm between bigger knitting projects and it looked fun. And sometimes it's helpful to have something to do with my hands.

I have researched and been measured and dithered and faffed, and then taken the plunge and ordered a dress! Many thanks for your helpful opinions, those who replied. Wish me luck!

Those who shop for clothes online, can you help me? If there's a size guide on a website, do the measurements given tend to refer to the measurement of the piece of clothing (so I need to be smaller than that to fit inside the item)? Or do they refer to the size of person that will fit inside?

The soundtrack to my walk home from church this evening. (The mist joy-giving app!) #TinyJoys

Anyone else have a cat who is obsessed with Palm Crosses? Norris has just successfully stolen a couple that were carefully stashed about 6 feet above her head height. (I have reclaimed them and hidden them better) I should not have let her watch me, as I put them there!

This dropped piece of string that looks like it's doing a little dance. Made me smile on my walk to work this morning #TinyJoys

This provoked such a deep "YES" response in me. Words to live and work by.

I'm currently leading a day retreat at a castle and our host just brought these daffodils in and placed them in a patch of sunshine. Breathtaking loveliness #TinyJoys

Rook! So big and black and fierce looking, right on my window sill! Look at that beak! The #tinyjoys hashtag doesn't seem quite right for something of this size. There are another 2 nearby, watching. They keep flying in and scuffling in an attempt to take possession of the bird table.

Awfully glad they clarified that. Now....how do I get the biro marks off the screen?

An impressive achievement today: I went to a website with a "click the squares with cars in to prove you're not a robot" thing on it. Passed it on the first attempt. Oh yeah!

I scorch ends of ribbon markers I make for Bibles and prayer books, to prevent them fraying. 6 ribbons, 30cm, machine sewn, button or bead for grip. I sell them for £2.50 each + 2nd class large letter postage (£1.55 at the moment). Money raised used to buy lg print BCPs and hymn books.

Diocese of Oxford (Church of England) is making their paid disability adviser redundant & not replacing them. 600+ churches. 2.5 million ppl. Pls consider signing this to express concern: 1) Letter - docs.google.com/.../1yfwBlRd.... 2) Form to add your signature - docs.google.com/.../1FAIpQLS....

Introducing a new cartoon project: Creativity Diagrams. Been a cartoonist for 20 years, trying (and quite often failing) to be creative. A series of cartoons on the topic in my newsletter every week. More about it: davewalker.com/creativity/ Newsletter: diagramclub.substack.com/p/072-introd...

Kirsty and Rex's next project..... #TheArchers

Low-level red kite this afternoon.

About printing and the history of print and a lot of ideas from my letterpress work overflowing in probably not terribly academic ways! (I don’t think you have to be any sort of an academic or historian to make sense of this!)

She wants to help with the spinning. But she may not. So she sits and yearns.

I am going round in circles. Can anyone remind me of the name of the illustrator/screen printer who does two tone illustrations of Bible verses? He is married with I think three or four children and has a beard. He does art exhibitions and talks on the content of his art.