Tim Lawrie

Photo of a white pillow with the head and shoulders of a sleeping woman sewn into the fabric

Iranian artist Maryam Ashkanian embroiders images of sleeping people onto handmade pillows for her ongoing series, 'Sleep' #WomensArt

But Roger, we have walls at home

A closed office window. Apart from a sliver on the right, the whole view is just of a brick wall

"You have to work in the office, it's good for your mental health and wellbeing"

“That’s one gone!”, says a dad to me as he drops his son at nursery. “One more to go!” he says, pointing at his daughter sitting in the car. “Just need to get rid of the wife, and I’m sorted!“ he laughs, expecting me to laugh too, but to his surprise I smash him about the head with a ceremonial mace

A huge chonk of a fluffy cat sitting on a table near an open fire. The cat is cream and grey and appears to be shaped like a barrel in a fur coat. They are scowling fiercely with their moustache and bewhiskered ears apparently flowing back into the cold wind. There's a definite vibe that this villainous cat twirls their moustache as they evict orphans into the aforementioned blizzard and think Scrooge was an easy-going lightweight. They are magnificent.

I found a 19th century Cat Villain!

Painted design with a mass of green leaves and twisting vines as well as pink and white blossoms, all on a white background

'Honeysuckle’ design, 1883 by May Morris, influential textile artist and designer of the Arts and Crafts movement #WomensArt

Book cover for Pet Cemetery featuring an angry cat’s face hissing as a silhouette of a man stares off. Text and title read: I just FED YOU Stop yelling at me...

I’m sure they didn’t mean to eliminate the woman in this image.

Um. There’s a woman presenting this too.

Monochrome photograph featuring two white woman workers,upper half, while welding, both wearing goggles and with scarfs covering their hair

Female workers in US steel mills, WW2 (c.1942) were a subject for photographer Margaret Bourke-White. They were known as 'Rosies' based on the 'Rosie the Riveter' icon, which represented women who worked in factories and shipyards when men were absent in war #WomrnsArt

Installation with eighteen flying black birds created with yarn, suspended in the air while attached to a ball of black yarn on the floor, all against a white background

Artist Maya Gelfman, "Black Birds" installation, created with yarn #WomensArt

Print featuring a view over a colourful furrowed field landscape to a flat horizon on which a single windblown tree grows under a sunset pinky blue sky

The work of contemporary Northumberland artist and printmaker Rebecca Vincent #ReframingWomenPrintmakers

Unexpected rabbit hole today is discovering that "Phwoar!" was first recorded by the dictionary in 1976, and 1972's Carry On Matron may be its first film appearance.

I thought I'd found an earlier 60s TV use, but it seems "Phwoar!" is firmly a 70s phenomenon.

Print featuring a sun rise over a river in dawn light with the silhouette of a church tower to the left bank

Louise Stebbing, contemporary Norfolk based (UK) printmaker working mostly in lino printing & etching #WomensArt

"Oh, I struggle with two volumes..." No, you don't. You can't control yourself and you don't see an issue with upsetting little girls with your voice and size. Therefore, you are dangerous and I won't hesitate to take action against you

If you somehow think it's acceptable to shout / bellow at girls / women, then I will have a word. You are on a very wrong path and I will call you out publicly

What five events defined your childhood?

- I lost my brother
- We lost our hospice
- I was introduced to Pink Floyd
- I realised music
- the Doctor Who 40th anniversary documentary

Not about me, it's about shining the light on these most heinous of crimes and making people more aware of them. We can't change anything, but maybe the next person caught in the trap will...

Stylised illustration of busy highways over a river full of ships with buildings in the distance

Artwork by contemporary artist Angela Smyth #Saturday

Oh, you know that we've been there. Empathy is alien to them

"Over!" groaned Scruffey. His couplings tightened. He was stretched between Oliver and the trucks. "I don't like this!" "Go it!" yelled Duck. "Well done, Boy, WELL DONE!" "OW! OW!" wailed Scruffey, but no-one bothered about him. "OW! 00000W! I'm coming apaaaaaart!" There came a rending, splitting crash. Oliver shot forward suddenly. Scruffey's front end bumped behind his bunker, while Scruffey's load spread itself over the track.

Thomas The Tank Engine is spicier than I remember

In other news, the Webb telescope has sighted the universe's smallest violin

OTD 56 years ago, King Crimson released their debut, In The Court Of The Crimson King.

I've said it before: anyone who runs down the job that teachers do, even for such nakedly political reasons rather than from any real place of conviction, (a) should try surviving even a fucking WEEK of it themselves and (b) should then go to the bottom of a well.

Photo of a vertical driftwood sculpture inlaid with rainbow coloured stained glass, the sculpture is sited on a wet looking shoreline by the sea under a sky with silver clouds and pale blue light

Louise V Durham, stained glass and driftwood sculpture, Shoreham by Sea, UK #WomensArt

The "(ha!)" is because I still can't quite believe we can talk about a new Cardiacs album. Much like the new Rush tour (ha!)

By goodness, the new Cardiacs album (ha!) is mighty

A Richard Scarry illustration of a skeleton-bone dragster being driven by a little mouse

Richard Scarry: Fury Road

Outspoken socialist, Sylvester McCoy.

Print featuring three stylised black birds with long necks and beaks, grouped together on the right, against a brown background

Shima Tamami (1937-1999), an influential Japanese printmaker who joined a Women's Print Association in her country, mid 20th century, at a time when women in the arts struggled to receive the same resources and promotion as their male equivalents #ReframingWomensPrintmakers