Ruth Vorstman

So this. Am eye-rolling and getting out the pointy sticks of frustration (dpn knitter by preference)

Amazing to me both that this is happening & news to me, and that it's so very close to home (my secondary education was in Burnley - between Queen street mill & Towneley!)

A colouring sheet on a table, with a cup of tea & sweet snacks in the background. The sheet shows a hare amongst flowers & a starry sky, with all large areas broken up by whimsical paisley-esque designs

The 6yo has us colouring extensively this holiday - I'm glad I found this book (aldi middle aisle), and simultaneously wishing for it to be slightly *more* something (though acknowledging it could easily tip into too strange for 6yo, or too valued to colour - yes, I have decades-old stickers)

So true - though more so now they're non-smoking

Cracking (thundering?) early modern spooky stories for the Halloween season.

My husband calls it 'standing by'

Yeah, we'll be staying home around childcare!

Not sure ours have enough music background to recognise a 'bass line' as such - I was more impressed by my bottom *a* - but this morning's +ve test rather wipes out the achievement. Now I'm left wondering what current protocols are...

Can barely sing the alto part to record as rehearsal track for the carol I'm trying to lead tomorrow (note: am *not* good, is work choir, wherein I'm one of 3 who read music); can sing 85% of the bass... #YouWinSomeYouLoseSome #SilverLinings

Indeed! There were some great quilts there, and this is not so much my style, but the accuracy & detail?! Oof!

Peak me: listening to the News Quiz in the car while scoffing coffee & marlborough bun, Guardian in the passenger seat, because I'm 5 minutes early to collect 6yo from drama club. There's a fantasy e-book in my pocket, & questions about the effect of flood risk on function of solar farms in my head.

Absolutely! Also believe that there are recycling facilities for sprues & paint pots in Warhammer shops, fwiw.

A large teal quilt with fine (5mm?) stripes of pink in increasing 3 sides of a rectangle. There's a visual effect of receding space

In this light, the teal seems almost emerald green. Vertical lines of quilting run down the image. Strips of 5mm bright pink is inlaid into the green cloth.

Had a fantastic (if brief) visit to Malvern Quilt Show, where this quilt, Bauhaus Betty, made me think of @kariebookish.bsky.social (and also be in awe of such straight straight lines). (Quilt credit: Whitner Kane)

I've hit: need to acquire clothes that work with the weather & current body. What *was* I wearing last year? (Was it milder than this?)

Ye olde archway and kissing-gate over a footpath. There is ivy

The rear of the abbey rose window. Brickwork & stone.

A number of sheep under a small apple (i think) trees.

A footpath waymarker - worcestershire c.c. and Three Choirs Way.

Followed a mystery footpath to Jacobs this morning for my #UnconfinedWalks (because the car was in the garage and I had time in an unfamiliar place)

Oh, see that is familiar...

I had a similar experience asking my child to help me hang laundry on airer - I had failed to tell him to spread the garment out. The things we 'assume' people are observing and absorbing...

Now I need to check which this is... b/c I should have read it but it's not ringing a bell?!?

A pipe emerges from a large dark puddle below the rubble & tar of road surfaces, surrounded by barriers

A modern bronze building beyond a gate & before a greying blue sky.

I'm combining last night's #UnconfinedWalks (late, dark, curiosity about the ongoing road closure after a fantastical evening) with today's (autumn colours, shifting skies, and a library visit)

So many thoughts! Thank you for doing this important work

A meadow / common has been mowed to leave a gingham-esque check pattern across the hillside

A green piece of common land with two hills looming beyond: they are shrouded in mist.

Misty hills and patchwork mowing for yesterday's #UnconfinedWalks - it won't be long before I'm doing this in the dark...

ditto, plus 4 or 5 friend's parents' numbers...

An autumn hedgerow alongside a town road: brambles, and leaves, and wild clematis(?) fluff.

A suburban road with large trees on either side: green & bronze & dark & gold

A car park through a metal fence. Low-slung classic cars (Morgans) are parked on the left

#UnconfinedWalk down to the rugby club for #NHSBloodDonation (autumnal colours & shiny cars

Making me consider watching (but spoilers & I'm never going to have time to 'catch up'!)

A church steeple - Victorian stone; with a remembrance cross in the foreground (and branches on the ground - there's an eco-church labyrinth in progress atm)

A canal tow-path stretches ahead on the left - to the right, autumn leaves & swans on the canal itself. Four bars (of the bridge) are imposed on the view horizontally)

Both solo-outing & family time in #UnconfinedWalks today:

Sending supportive thoughts. I saw shinyness but reality is so regularly not so shiny.

Simpler recycling and many buildings & *people* is causing me bin headaches.

These are so beautiful!

Oh no! I hope you feel better soon

A very round mature oak in a meadow - blue sky above, green grass and golden longer grasses below.

A bright gleam over the shoulder of the hills; trees and hedgerows in darkness by contrast.

Pretty excellent light for #UnconfinedWalks this afternoon. This is scenic route home to ensure we reach park before our house