Annual reminder to water your Christmas tree poems …

We’ve had Black Friday & Cyber Monday, today is #SmallBusinessSaturday. Maybe if you have Christmas shopping to do or just fancy a treat for yourself maybe consider buying from a small business … makes a real difference to real people 😊 www.wild-indigo.com

Just for any glass snowflake hunters. I have just put my last 2 glass snowflakes on my website and I’m not sure I’ll get chance to make anymore now before Christmas. Thank you for all the ones bought 😊 wild-indigo.com #glassart #snowflake #handcraftedinUK #christmas #gift

Get fit, have fun and feel great! Join our hedge planting #volunteer days. 💪🌿 Tuesday 9 Dec at Eden Yard Farm, a family run mixed farm near Penrith and Cumbria’s first producer of cold-pressed extra virgin rapeseed oil, for which they recently won a British #Farming Award. https://loom.ly/AsGIkqo#volunteer

A tiny bit of shameless self-promotion because the gifting season is creeping up on us. If you’re after something delicious, handcrafted, and ethical, my chocolate boxes, bars, and treats make really lovely gifts. Treat yourself, treat someone else, or both, I won’t judge! Reshares appreciated! 🍫✨

Finally getting some more of my art glass jewellery on my website … this one is the first of my ‘Deep Water’ Series and is complete with a very twinkly sterling silver diamond cut ball chain 😊 www.wild-indigo.com

One star, two stars, Pickles is a star ⭐ Pickles is heading into the final stage of his training after passing his Puppy 3 Star! This is where Pickles will start his soundwork and learn to alert his future deaf partner to important, and potentially life-saving, sounds 🐕‍🦺

Don’t forget to repost, please loves. Sharing my art means a wider audience for illustration work.

📢 NION Women Statement on trans women and girls being excluded from Girlguiding and the Women's Institute. We are deeply saddened that both Girlguiding and @womensinstitute.bsky.social have been placed under pressure that has resulted in trans women and girls being excluded from their organisations

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 3. #FlowerReport: From last Tuesday, in Gilroy, California.

To be worn with or without the Bubble Pendant these delicate stud earrings really catch your eye with aqua blue bubbles. They are 10mm and have surgical steel posts and butterfly backs to minimise the allergy issues some people have with earrings. www.wild-indigo.com #glassart #jewellery #gift

As I refuse to submit to the tech gremlins I have a few more items added to my website. The ‘Bubble Pendants’ are back 😊, these are my most popular style & now hang on a diamond cut sterling silver ball chain for added sparkle. If you have any question please message me. 😊 www.wild-indigo.com

@graciewilde.bsky.social: #Blue, the robot, cried as, on television, the East Wing fell. "I met Ike there," said the construct from 1952, his boxy metal fingers gently holding the woman Eve's strong hand. She said, who was his wife once, "I watched Jackie on TV give us all a tour of those rooms."

If you're in church this Christmas season, you can send me pictures of the church & I will try to tell you what is interesting about its architecture! If you do it while you're in the church, I may even be able to do it in real time. This is my church service* to you! (*See what I did there...)

One from #FrenshamLittlePond yesterday afternoon for #Sharemondays2025 #ICM

Now available from my website. There is only one like this, can’t be repeated the same due to the design processes involved in its creation. www.wild-indigo.com #glass #handcrafted #gift #ocean #uniquegiftideas

A new mural has appeared in Ternopil, dedicated to children killed in Russia’s attack. The artwork, showing a child shielding her toys from a Russian missile, was created by artist Andriy Yermolenko. He described it as “a cry for help to the global community.”

New Year, New Job? We're looking for a Finance & Operations Controller to provide direction and management of all our finance and central resources functions. Find out more right here: https://loom.ly/Q4PiUCc #jobs #recruitment #finance #workforus

Tomorrow I shall be uploading some new jewellery to my website. Some will be glass art in miniature and some beautiful gems including a beautiful blue topaz & sterling silver pine cone set, so keep those peepers peeled 😊 www.wild-indigo.com #glass #artist #jewellery #gift #christmas

Lovely late afternoon #FrenshamLittlePond #FrenshamCommon

So here's a thing. I help run my local food bank, and we're doing this: 12 Days of Christmas Giving. It's the busiest time of year for us and we have to build up our stocks right through December. I know you're not in N4, but all food banks are in the same boat, so if you can help please do! 🙏🎄

It's impossible to resit the snooze when you're this cosy 💤 Patsy is a pro at finding the warm spots to snuggle into and soon she'll be heading off on her big adventure, starting the early stages of her training to become a life-changing hearing dog. Good luck little one 🐾🥰

We hope you can make it on Tuesday. #braithawaite #Christmasgifts #keswick #lakedistrict #cumbria #cafe

Every year we make a free-to-download-and-print-off-yourself colouring-in Advent Calendar. This year’s heavily features Bigfoots. Please share! Download it for free here… www.worldofmoose.com/pages/2025-b...

So, happy 50th anniversary to Melody Maker’s review of Bohemian Rhapsody: “Queen, with a suitably baroque vocal orchestration, contrive to approximate the demented fury of the Balham Amateur Operatic Society performing The Pirates of Penzance”

Morning mad world Derwentwater looking like on of those ink blots you see in movies 🎥 that determine your mental health I darent ask what you see 😳🤣🤣

Gotta respect the Beeb's dedication to proving Bregman's point about the cowardice of the media. But probably the best response is for any guest on a BBC programme who agrees that Trump is "the most openly corrupt president in American history" should say that, live on air.

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

Not been out much this week, so here's a repost from Friday at #FrenshamLittlePond for #Sharemondays2025

A few from a beautiful morning today at #FrenshamLittlePond

Cricket people with a propensity for sleep deprivation and the bitter taste of disappointment, please make yourselves known. We can get through this together.

Somebody just reminded me of this. Best correction ever:

Reflections in the rain #sharemondays2025 #fsprintmonday #selfridgesbirmingham #bullring #stmartinschurch

Autumn in the woods 🍂 #Sharemondays2025 #BourneWoods

The biggest volunteer perk? The company of an adorable dog! Richard shares "We started by doing holiday cover & were asked if we could have a dog for longer. We loved it!" "It’s fantastic to see the dog developing life-changing skills." Find out more: https://ow.ly/cVHQ50X1qQh

I’m giving an online talk on Thursday evening at 8pm (UK time) about Birds & Flight. It’s free to RSPB members but anyone can join for a donation. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/talk-by-le...

It’s already started - the BBC allows Newsmax boss to opine about bias, suggest some of the Jan 6 mob were merely innocent tourists visiting Congress, without pushback

Gorgeous autumn colours in Surrey this week #Sharemondays2025

This year's SheClicks charity print sale is now online riverandcoast.co.uk/she-clicks supporting womenforwomen.org.uk who help women survivors of war

Please be aware we’re closed an extra day this week and will be closing early today (Monday) for a little product testing back open from 10.30 on Thursday 🧦🥾

Moist people aren't offended by the occasional typo .

A few more frames from the Red Squirrels in Cumbria.

Green bees are made of these Canon R5 and Sigma 150mm macro SS1/3200 F7.1 ISO3200

"On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?'... I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." Charles Babbage, inventor of the mechanical computer, 1864

From #FrenshamLittlePond yesterday evening #ICM #Sharemondays2025

Brief glimpses of autumn sunshine this afternoon at Yewtree Tarn, Coniston.

Autumn colours #FrenshamCommon #FrenshamLittlePond this afternoon 🍂

Pause everything you're doing and say a big hello to Kasper 🐶 Kasper has just started the early stages of his training to be a hearing dog! This stage of his training will be filled with playing, exploring his surroundings, and having as much fun as possible 🐾🥰

We've extended our opening hours for bonfire night! #braithwaite #keswick #cumbria #lakedistrict #cumberland #cafe #bonfirenight #fireworks