Dr Sally Le Page

I don't think that dude's gonna make it

a woman in a long dress is standing in a field with mountains in the background . ALT: a woman in a long dress is standing in a field with mountains in the background .

Sunshine! Great tits! Brimstones! Bumblebees!

As the quote goes:

Keeping honeybees to "save the bees" is like keeping chickens to "save the birds".

I did! But then lost nearly all of the detail because I used the wrong primer and added too much paint to cover it 😢

I have herps again! 😍

First newts of the year - one smooth, one palmate (a rarity in Cambridgeshire)

Thanks! Maybe 2h to sculpt and 3h to paint.

Painted mini of gnome on a snow leopard

It's so small!

Adding milliput to the 3d printed model

Painted my first ever D&D mini - my gnome ranger Merris and her snow leopard companion Jasper.

Had a lot of fun using milliput to sculpt the generic panther shape into a snow leopard before figuring out the idiosyncracies of speedpaint.

Inventor of the light bulb: "I've just had a great idea!"

Bystander: "What the HELL is that thing above your head!??!

Here's my mum talking about how she made one of her pieces, including some rather cool techniques like burning and dissolving fabric:

(video by Forge Mill Needle Museum)

Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin

On hold I'm sorry I can't be there for you right now I am under unexpected demand I am working hard to reduce wait times Your friendship is very important to me I do not have the capacity to be there All of my hours are busy with other people I'm investing in new things I want to do Your friendship is very important to me Please be patient while I put you on hold I have zero tolerance for hearing you're hurt This line is no longer open Your friendship is very important to me -SLP

On hold (a poem)

On hold I'm sorry I can't be there for you right now I am under unexpected demand I am working hard to reduce wait times Your friendship is very important to me I do not have the capacity to be there All of my hours are busy with other people I'm investing in new things I want to do Your friendship is very important to me Please be patient while I put you on hold I have zero tolerance for hearing you're hurt This line is no longer open Your friendship is very important to me -SLP

On hold (a poem)

If you're a victim of repeated flooding, you need to start looking at land use upstream.

One of these sponges up vast amounts of water, releasing it slowly, the other does not. One reduces flooding, the other *increases* it.

Without addressing this core driver, it'll just keep on getting worse.

Frogs and toads. Ponds become a writhing ball of amorous amphibians.

Textile Whispers exhibit flyer, 1st Feb to 8th March, with my mum's embroidered birch trees

Embroidered/textile art of bridge on a lake and hidden geese

Embroidered/textile art of cliff flowers and a beach. I think this one has a hidden crab

Embroidered/textile summer flowers work in progress. I can't remember if the hidden animal had been added at this point yet.

🪡🧵If you like embroidery and textile art:

Very proud that my mum's work is being exhibited at the Forge Mill Needle Museum in Redditch. Every scene has a tiny animal hidden somewhere, especially for me!

Textile Whispers exhibit flyer, 1st Feb to 8th March, with my mum's embroidered birch trees

Embroidered/textile art of bridge on a lake and hidden geese

Embroidered/textile art of cliff flowers and a beach. I think this one has a hidden crab

Embroidered/textile summer flowers work in progress. I can't remember if the hidden animal had been added at this point yet.

🪡🧵If you like embroidery and textile art:

Very proud that my mum's work is being exhibited at the Forge Mill Needle Museum in Redditch. Every scene has a tiny animal hidden somewhere, especially for me!

If you guessed "at home calmly sat at my sewing machine having a peaceful time working on my cuddly toy craft project" then well done you.

Because apparently my body can't differentiate between sitting still with my feet on the floor and jogging 🙃

For two hours??? Hell no.

I now want a softness ranking of all the big cats

Here's a fun* question for y'all.

Guess what 2h activity caused this elevated heart rate today.

*not so fun for me

ME, CALLING MY FRIEND ON THE PHONE: Happy New Year!
MY FRIEND: It’s not even ten pm.
ME: Sorry, I suffer from premature congratulation.

I've been in some sort of pain for a third of the days this year.

I've presented through migraines, acted through dizziness and written through fatigue.

This has been a year of grieving who I would be without chronic illness.

As I spend the last day of the year with yet another debilitating migraine, it's safe to say that (with the shining exception of being in Twelfth Night) 2025 has been utter turdshite.

My word for 2026 is simply: endure

Yes.

After meeting my 6mo niece for the first time, I'm delighted we have so much in common:

- Need a 2h nap after 2h socialising
- Love of bright jumpers
- Can't regulate our body temperature
- Drink a lot of milk
- Fascinated by sparkly things
- Standing is challenging
- Must touch fluffy animals

Have they published a full chart? I'd love to know what it takes to be just within the top 1% (I imagine I'm well *well* over)

The sun sits golden in the sky, just above a hill of trees. A field of green tufts of grass is in the foreground with a blue sky and artistically arranged clouds.

Happy Solstice! More light is much needed

#SkySky 🌿

My delusion is being angry that there's going to be a Tango to Past The Point of No Return from Phantom on Strictly this week...

...because it was what I was going to do *when* I am on Strictly.

Yes, I have a "when I'm on Strictly" playlist.

Over a pint in Oxford, we may have stumbled upon the holy grail of agriculture | George Monbiot I knew that a revolution in our understanding of soil could change the world. Then came a eureka moment – and the birth of the Earth Rover Program, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

1. Some good news at last. This week’s column is about the amazing thing a couple of us stumbled into three years ago, which we’ve now developed into a global research programme. It doesn’t change everything, of course, but it could help change quite a lot. + 🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

“Maybe we’re onto something.”

“How can we tell? We’ve only done this 187,623 times with the same success every single time. Could be a fluke.”