Joanna Foster

"Building by building, Gaza is being erased."

A blue and white striped paper bag for Dilieto sandwich bar with full contents and a receipt for £4.35

Treated myself to breakfast and lunch in the city

Diliento sandwich bar on Fleet Street is the rare find of a still independent cafe

Open since 1911, it offers change from a fiver for two rounds of toast with peanut butter and a cream cheese and cucumber sandwich on brown

Plus true Italian charm

Description of five-day, CPD-accredited training course.

Description of five-day, CPD-accredited training course.

‘Training Provider of the Year’ award for Joanna Foster of fabtic.

Feedback form for training that scored the highest marks possible across all categories valued and free text comments describing the trainer Joanna as fab, compassionate and thoughtful.

#MondayMotivation from announcing my latest foundation #training for staff and managers working with #children and #teenagers who set #fires

Delivered #online October 2025

More details of dates, timings and costs at info@fabtic.co.uk

#Firesetting

#FireSafety

#CPD

#TraumaInformed

#Safeguarding

Quote by Dylan Thomas stencilled on a wall that says, “When one burns one's bridges, what a very nice fire it makes.”

#SelfCareSunday

The sun over the ocean in South Africa.

“Joseph's face was black as night

The pale yellow moon shone in his eyes

His path was marked

By the stars in the Southern Hemisphere

And he walked his days

Under African skies”

~ Paul Simon (1986)

#SaturdayVibes

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Let them eat cake.

Des! I can’t tell you the sheer joy that photo has brought! I used to love wearing my wellies as a kid. My mother used to joke I’d wear them to bed if I could.

Thank you for always bringing such delight to the world with your daily posts. I hope you can feel as nourished by people’s replies.

Morning all.

Photograph from Lee Shulman’s Anonymous Project

www.anonymous-project.com/en/about/

#OtD 29 Jul 1962 fascist Oswald Mosley tried to march with the Union Movement in Manchester, UK. However, he was attacked by anti-fascists and had to be rescued by police. A Mosley speech later was drowned out by a crowd of anti-fascists. More info: www.patreon.com/posts/e37b-6...

You are my sunshine (2015) by Kenyan born artist Wangechi Mutu #womensart

Illustration featuring a young Black girl gleefully jumping in raindrops

Contemporary Brazilian Illustrator and artist Anna Cunha #WomensArt

This is your LAST CHANCE TO SAVE BRICK LANE! Sign the petition demanding HOMES not OFFICES on the Truman Brewery site before the council make their decision on Thursday 31st July: bit.ly/bricklanepetition

Cartoon by Charles M Schulz showing the Peanuts gang reading - Snoopy, Charlie Brown, Linus, Lucy and Woodstock all with books - Woodstock weighed down by War And Peace!

Why read books? Because there's a book for EVERYONE out there. And once you find the right book - reading will change your life forever! #literacy

(Art: Charles M Schulz)

A black and white photo of a woman at a fairground stand in Coney Island in the 1970s, who has been captured by photographer Hazel Hankin leaning against a counter above which is a sign that says “no leaning. A ferris wheel is lit up in the background. The image was shared on BlueSky by @desdelboy.bsky.social

"Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise people”

#MondayMotivation

Pale yellow post-it note stuck to a wall that reads in joined-up writing “act out of what you hope will be, rather than out of fear of what may be”.

#SelfCareSunday

Love moments like this. Public Enemy meets Mavis Staples ❤️

Morning all.

Photograph by John Bulmer, from the book ‘THE NORTH’ published by Bluecoat Press.

Photo of a very young white girl sitting on a chair in front of floral wallpaper with legs up facing forwards, she wears a pink patterned dress, has blonde hair and is smiling

Icelandic photographer Sigga Ella, series of portraits of people with Down's Syndrome called-

'First and foremost I am' #womensart

Morning all.

Photograph by Chris Steele Perkins, Middlesbrough, Back alley 1976.

Our conversation over the last couple of days suggests a complete moral breakdown, at a national scale. Instead of sympathising with far-right protests, politicians should be fucking challenging them.

inews.co.uk/opinion/star...

Cloth model aids for midwifery

Angélique-Marguerite du Coudray was a famous 18th century French midwife who designed various teaching aids to train midwives about anatomy and obstetrics. Her work saved many lives in the age #WomensArt

A mother in a tent in Gaza clasping her starving child, who appears close to death.

“Just outside Gaza, tons of food, clean water, medical supplies, shelter items & fuel sit untouched with humanitarian organisations blocked from accessing or delivering them," write 109 aid agencies today.

Israel is committing Palestinian genocide and it is monstrous.

Credit: Anatolu/Getty Images

Embroidery and painting featuring a sitting lioness facing forwards

"Lioness" by Sophie Standing, UK textile artist known for her intricate embroidery work
#WomensArt

On Monday the UK and 27 other countries signed a sharply critical letter condemning the Israeli military’s killing of hundreds of Palestinians seeking food in recent weeks and calling for an immediate end to the conflict.

What words remain for a government that goes to court to insist it be allowed to continue selling weapons to a state committing genocide, then sends a letter of complaint when those weapons are used?

Print featuring the head and shoulders of a Black woman with short hair head tilted upwards with eyes closed against a gold patterned background

'Sunshine'
by Delita Martin,
contemporary US artist #WomensArt #July

Environment secretary ‘furious’ about England and Wales water bills Steve Reed says he is unable to rule out further above-inflation rises and any decision would be up to regulators

It's performative. If Steve Reed were really "furious" about water bills, he wouldn't have ruled out renationalisation, or forbidden the Independent Water Commission to recommend it. He enables the filthiest, most parasitic capital to defeat the public interest.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Ticket for the play ‘Gogh Angel’ written by Tina Firthlock and performed by the Red Ladder Theatre Company at Leeds Conservatoire on 18 July 2025 at 12.45pm.

#MondayMotivation from the pen and paintbrush of #community artist, writer and good friend Tina Firthlock

#Art

#Creativity

youtube.com/@tina.commun...

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