this will almost certainly be quicker than taking the central line

REQUEST FOR BLUESKY HELP i have put a couple of courgettes in the fridge and am very nervous that, when i get off work at half 6, i am going to forget to transfer them into my rucksack.

you'd think that would be the first thing they'd get the hang of

baby eel at the Thames Tidefest

5.15 - 7pm is a baffling time to hold a pub quiz

very pleased that David Jones' *In Parenthesis* includes a bit part for a carpenter called Nat West

Loki, pursued by the frost giantess Thiazi disguised as an eagle (and carrying the goddess Idun disguised as a walnut), approaches Asgard (mislabelled Midgard in picture) where the gods are building a bonfire

Emily's illustration of Marie de France's lai of Guigemar - Guigemar, hunting in the forest, finds a talking deer, completely white with golden antlers, and shoots an arrow which deflects from the deer's hoof to lodge itself in Guigemar's thigh

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1. A story. Please read. Reposts hugely appreciated on this. You'll see why in a bit. I was born in Pakistan and lived there until I was 4. My parents worked there as doctors. While we were there we were very close to a couple called Christine and Mike Miles.

Isabel's first figurative drawing, a self-portrait

does anyone have any suggestions for "unnovercal"? A misprint presumably, but for what?

keen on this Easter poem from William Dunbar, especially the Devil as "the auld kene tegir with his teith on char" (on char = ajar)

isabel's picture of her sister (apparently in the form of some kind of flame goblin)

lovely bloke just came in with a copy of a Sunday Times music supplement from 2003, to show us this interview with Anthony Kiedis of Red Hot Chili Peppers fame. it was just after they'd released 'By the Way' - I really do think that we might have been the shop Kiedis is talking about. astonishing

Emily's drawing of the parliament of fowls, presided over by the elephant hummingbird

Goose in tree, St James Park @lrbbookshop.bsky.social #scavengerhunt

joint picture by Emily and Isabel. a rainbow dinosaur approaches a rainbow tree furiously

ye gods what a sunset

weighing out 30g of spaghetti for Isabel's tea and got it in one

a happy valentine's day from mildmay fane

Emily's drawing of the "donkey dog", a dog-donkey hybrid

Excellent piece by the excellent Luke Roberts. From Tom: "As he writes in ‘Logbook’: ‘a form can be used only once’."

I think this is one of my very favourites among Emily's pictures (it's an individual panel, going to be part of a school project). distinct edward lear energy in that facial expression

very keen on isabel's picture of a man-eating leopard

1960s dream date with Paul McCartney featuring eight hours of driving on the motorway

request for information: does anyone know the name of the school in Acton where Dorothy L. Sayers was teaching in 1921?

illuminations at Kew as impressive as ever. happy new year and all the best to everyone

impressive of Boethius to work out that St Trinian will become famous throughout the UK, and perhaps unsurprising given the circumstances that he doesn't guess the correct reason

taken my rabelais to visit where rabelais visited montpellier

duplo nativity play 2024

ye gods this dylan thomas poem had completely passed me by before. but it is insanely good

extremely good interview, & *powsels & thrums* is wonderful

emily's illustrations to orlando furioso, continued. canto 33 - astolfo on the hippogriff attacks a band of harpies, who are intent on shitting on the food of the blind king Prester John

isabel's christmas elf has been upgraded and is now bipedal (I actually recognise the expressions on all four of us)

WILD DIDION & THING BABITZ

happy first advent

overjoyed that isabel is also a fan of the preservation hall jazz band playing "tiger rag"

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Emily's illustrations to orlando furioso continued. Ferraú, who has been trying to retrieve a helmet from the stream with a long branch, is shocked when a ghost rises from the water, with the helmet in its hands - and is even more shocked when he recognises the ghost as Argalia

Emily's illustration for *orlando furioso*, canto 20: Marfisa riding with the wicked Gabrina, who (thanks to Marfisa's jousting skills) has won a ritzy outfit from Pinabello

rereading lord of the rings for the first time in a while and this caught my eye. just a coincidence i assumed. but then

illustration from emily's new book, *the 300 little pigs and the big bad wolf*. the pig king and queen present the wolf with a cauldron containing cake, toast and apple sauce, having assured him that this is the only way to cook a little pig. but will the wolf be taken in

an astonishingly generous offer, for today and tomorrow only

very keen on VR technology but this is going a bit far if you ask me

gorgeous white stag in richmond park

ham and eggs