Becky Mynett

In the last 20 minutes, I have evicted a beetle and two ladybirds (or maybe one ladybird, twice) from my (upstairs) bedroom. They fly higher than I thought.

Definitely not! I have a few paper copies dating from way back when (they may be slightly different), I think. Will see if I can find a spare one I could send you tomorrow.

Ice cream is health food (it really is, look it up) so have ice cream and feel happy.

On this day, the Internet finally stopped screaming at people whenever they tried to connect to it.

And none of us listened to that warning...

First Class! 👏👏👏👏

This is quite beautiful. All hail Dmitry Lamonov

A booklet for a Metalwork Embroidery kit by Becky Hogg. The photo on the front shows a heron stitched mainly in silver on a white fabric background in a small embroidery hoop. The heron has dark blue and teal accents and it is standing next to three bulrushes.

Merci ! Voici le photo du livret:

A metal thread embroidery (Goldwork but not gold) of a heron in progress on a teal fabric. The felt and soft string padding can be seen and the beak and legs are complete. The head and neck are being couched using silver thread sewn down with white thread with blue and teal making a pattern on the neck. There is a RSN Stitchbank magnetic needle keeper to the top left.

Moi, je suis en train de broder un héron (à partir d’un kit de Becky Hogg).

OK, I’m going to repost this one more time this weekend for the Sunday Evening crowd. (You could consider it the Evensong collection!) #CofEPeeps

Just checked, only 16 in that expo (out of 30+). Still felt like a lot, though!

And lots of Rouen Cathedral west front. Can’t remember how many but there was an exhibition of them all (including those in private collections) at the Musée Beaux Arts when I lived in Rouen. There were a lot.

What a shame they’re closing. I have several pairs of old reading glasses lying around that I’d love to send them!

The Inclusive Synod Election Campaign We're fundraising with Inclusive Church to support the election of inclusive people to the General Synod of the Church of England in the 2026 elections. This will help the Church to be more diverse a...

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"PhD-level experts in your back pocket" is a completely nonsensical description of AI but a pretty good description of social media if you follow the right people

This was something we said again and again in interviews and talks about the Ladybird books.

When you give a child something made carefully and skilfully, they feel it. A treat. “For me?”

We all remember that feeling.

When you give a child something half-arsed, you tell them they don’t matter.

Gravestone inscribed: Alistair Stephen Fabian Mitchell. 13-6-1957, 10-2-2019. Barrister of the Middle Temple. My brain, socialist. My heart, anarchist. My eyes, pacifist. My blood, revolutionary. Around the edge, the legend: The only man in British legal history to be convicted of biting a policeman with someone else’s teeth.

A tombstone in Bridgnorth, Shropshire, photographed by Andy Darby.

Note the border inscription.

Titre d'un article : ChatGPT-5: «C'est comme parler à un expert de niveau doctorat»

Un like = une phrase réaliste dite par CHAT GPT 5 s'il s'exprimait vraiment comme quelqu'un avec un doctorat.

My son loved watching fish at that age. We used to go to the local tropical fish pet shop to look at fish for free (they also had a cheap café).

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I feel like having a hot, unscholarly take today:

Emma Woodhouse, Harriet, and Miss Bates all have ADHD

World map with red outline that shows it’s actually the shape of a cat playing with a ball that happens to be Australia.

Happy #InternationalCatDay.

Make it a purrrfect day and weekend ahead too! 🐾

Suddenly, I understand why Tr*mp wants to cover the internal doors in the White House with bling…

Eightile: unscramble the 8-letter word in time to win! Eightile is a daily word game where you unscramble progressively longer words. Find the eight letter word in time to win!

I solved today's Eightile in 59 seconds!
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🟧🟥🟪🟨🟦
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Anyone good at reading tablature (lute, I expect)?

The sunset from a plane window - a lighter blue segment on top of a darker blue segment split by a layer of dark to light orange

I saw a Mark Rothko in the sky

All three! And possibly also Le Chat (not that I have many of those).

ME linked to your genetics – early study indicates Scientists said the findings offer the first robust evidence that genes contribute to a person’s chance of developing the disease.

ME linked to your genetics – early study indicates
www.channel4.com/news/me-link...

studio photo of Bertha Benz. She is a white woman with dark hair.

#OnThisDay, 5 Aug 1888, Bertha Benz drove from Mannheim to Pforzheim: the first journey of 100+km in a car by *anyone*.


#WomenInSTEM #EuropeanHistory #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory 🗃️

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This edition may be of some interest to Evensong Aficionados and Tom Lehrer Fans!

My Anglo-Saxon weregild would be 1260 shillings (≈$163,800)! I was shot with an arrow by a foreigner while in service to the king.