Joanne Rewcastle

Woohoo! Great news

So very sorry to hear this. I only knew Vicky through social media - but her love of design, public service and the North just shone through and was was extraordinarily warm, open and passionate. A very sad and significant loss for Vicky’s family, friends and the design community

Trees lit up in red, green and silver lights against a dark sky

A bridge lit up in red and white stripes, reflected in a lake with silver and blue trees

A large red tree reflected in a smooth lake

Large red tree in lights next to a lake with green and silver lit trees reflected in it

I needed the beautiful and soothing Glow at RHS Harlow Carr tonight. The images are stunning enough but the piped music created a wonderful auditory experience too. Aaaand relax …

Wrist wearing a friendship bracelet with the letters GDC on it

It’s happening …

Friendship bracelet in shades of blue with the letters GDC on it. Which stands for General Dental Council, who had a stand at an industry event yesterday

We have a new branch of the hugometer @pubstr.at … a friendship bracelet was dropped off at the stand yesterday. That’s a first…!

Full coverage … nice

Pair of feet in blue and pink trainers, standing in golden beech leaves

Pair of feet in blue and pink trainers, standing in oak leaves with a jagged edge

Pair of feet in blue and pink trainers, standing in sycamore leaves

Pair of feet in blue and pink trainers, standing next to tiny red maple leaves

Favourite leaves to walk through this lunchtime?

I think beech leaves (crispy, nice colour and shape), but oak leaves are a pleasant shape. Sycamore have best range of colours tho. Red maple are appealing but a bit spidery. So beech it is. Glad we’ve cleared that up. Important stuff

New Zealand airport causes stir with sign capping goodbye cuddles to 3 minutes Dunedin airport boss says the move is designed to keep traffic flowing in drop-off zones and enable ‘others to have hugs’

We now have an additional KPI to consider
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Ros Atkins sitting at a table, signing his book, with me looking and listening

Book by Ros Atkins / the art of explanation. Orange cover with white text

A bit of Friday fan-girling, listening to Ros Atkins and buying a second copy of his excellent book. Inspiring stuff!

Northern lights over the rooftops. Pink and green streaks in the sky

Finally!

View over water with the sun setting behind a city skyline of buildings. There’s a union jack flag hanging limply from a pole. The sun a setting casting golden shadows across the clouds and water

Docklands looking particularly lovely earlier this evening. It’s the evening before a busy national trade show where I’m ’on the stand’ and I appreciated the calm

And building a Digital Academy in Leeds was an inspired move, encouraging digital capability to be built outside, you know, that London. Quite ground-breaking at the time, if memory serves.

And a fun place to do comms stuff too …

The huggometer KPI is real!

Excellent news!
Now, keep getting better and the steps will lead you to getting well

I’m having a weird run of earring drama …
Today: lost earring on the stairs at work while yanking off my lanyard

Last week: found someone’s earring on the stairs at work

Two weeks ago: stone fell out of my earring and down the plug hole while in a hotel for work

My ears are basically not safe 🙉

Ruined abbey building with huge stone window frame and bright blue sky. Shadows from right to left

I needed an afternoon of fresh air, sunshine and distant horizons yesterday and Fountains Abbey did not disappoint

Cup of tea in LNER packaging, on a train table with a blurred window in the background

Walking through the train to get a cuppa and I couldn’t *not* see someone’s laptop screen where, in size 80 font, she was typing ‘We must chase Comms about this’

I scuttled through the carriage to avoid a hot (tea) pursuit…

Chocolate and pear loaf with large crack down the top - delicious!

Reader, I outsourced the cacao

Two large glass Kilner jars filled with peeled pears in poaching liquor

I have a small pear tree in my urban garden and this year I poached those pears - delicious!

Gosh yes!

Bar of Cadbury dairy milk chocolate called Winter Wonderland, with an image of Christmas trees in the wrapper

Packet of Cadbury Puds that look like mini round chocolate puds, with a holly leaf design on the wrapper

We see you @sainsburys.bsky.social … going all ‘winter’ and ‘puds’ but showing the classic Christmas tree design and holly leaves on the wrappers. In August. But it did make me want a white chocolate Christmas tree …

Homegrown too, in a tiny urban garden. And frozen each year until there’s enough to make a few jars. No honey tho - apols to the bears

Jar of loganberry jam and jar of redcurrant jelly, with two cards saying Ripley Show, second prize

Recognition for both jam AND jelly at a local country show today … and now we get to enjoy the spoils!

Blue sky

Caught your fingers in the marmalade jar? Tsk tsk

Hope it’s not too painful

Beautiful!

Blue sky, footpath going into the distance, flanked by cherry blossom trees

Blue sky, footpath going into the distance, flanked by cherry blossom trees

It’s cherry blossom day in Harrogate!!! 🌸🌸🌸

😂

A sleuth of bears ride a giant swan! Can it be true @marxculture.bsky.social ?

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Reading your posts removes any tedium from the day - thanks for sharing this one. I’m sorry to hear you’re not on tip top form right now but bear with it - and we’ll stick with you, sir