Stiles are very much my thing, but the eejit is very much not, so I shall (sadly) be abstaining from voting this year 😞.
It won't pay my bills either, but isn't life richer for this kind of detail? 😊
Spent the morning in tears, on and off. Did some painting, felt better. A short story.
Yes. A good book should have the power to move, whether that's thought or tears or laughter. I think I had a lot of tears waiting to be triggered by the ideas in this one
I've loved all your books, but the end of this one struck particularly. I hope I try to make my own small difference to the world 🙏
Just finished reading @herdyshepherd.bsky.social "The Place of Tides". A beautiful book, but now sat watching the rain streaming down the window as tears stream down my face asking myself if I'm making any kind of positive difference to the world, however small.
Cousin Ann's ashes laid to rest beside her mother (my great aunt), my grandparents, my father and my uncle ♥️
Why yes, you idiot moggy, I do have a friend with a very long ladder, and fortunately he also has infinite patience to wrestle with you 25ft off the ground to get you home safely
Hello down there! I seem to be a little bit stuck. Any chance you have a ladder long enough to come and get me? Of course I'll co-operate, and not try and escape along a branch not strong enough for my weight, or cling fiercely to the tree with every fibre of my being when you try and pick me up.
Just 5 spaces left on my small museums for mental health w'shop this Sat,on how collecting & arranging small objects improves mental health.
Incl BRILLIANT research showing that playing TETRIS makes us more resilient to stress
👇Earlybird price expires tmrw👇
workshops.emmamitchell.uk/courses/smal...
For the record, scrapping indefinite leave to remain and deporting people is wrong *not* because it hasn't been costed properly, or the "figures are wrong" but because it's a disgraceful, immoral, inhumane, idiotic thing to do. And appeals to racist shitgibbons.
The boy's in Yr9 now, so time for teachers to knuckle down and make sure the kids really hate English literature. 13 year old boys are definitely interested in Jane Eyre and An Inspector Calls. Or Ann In Spectacles as we now call it. Husband does love a pun.
I would 100% sign up for this if it weren't for the fact that I'll be celebrating bestest friend's 50th by consuming enough port and cheese to put us in a cheese-coma. But I do intend to make a mini museum of wondrous engineering bits n bobs. Which isn't quite the same, but inspired by you
My new small museums for mental health w'shop is on Sat 4 Oct
Recent compelling research shows that collecting & arranging collections neatly alleviates anxiety & lifts mood.
Includes:
🌿2 hr zoom-we'll make & photograph small museums
🗝️30% off my Etsy shop:
workshops.emmamitchell.uk/courses/smal...
"And while it's reeling from that, we'd follow up with a whist drive, a car boot sale, some street theatre and possibly even some benefit concerts. Ok? Now, if that's not enough, I'm sorry, it's time for the T-shirts"
All the wanging on about how the liberal left are the violent ones reminds me of Rimmer in Red Dwarf, mocking liberals, "The time for talking is over. Call it extreme if you like, but I propose we hit it hard and hit it fast with a major - and I mean major - leaflet campaign"
Less ink, trying a new technique.
Need to go back. The boy's only climbed Bowfell once, which is not enough.
An attempt (not entirely satisfactory) at #Haweswater from the Old Corpse Road.
The Drunken Duck has always been a fine pub, and I started sampling their wares early. Me and my mother, 1977
Amazing what I can do if I ignore housework, laundry, DIY and other assorted life admin 😂
Reasonably happy with my use of my bank holiday Monday. Would rather be there in person than drawing it from the Fens, but you can't have everything!
I didn't quite get the same angle in April and August, but I still rather like the contrast of blossom then sloes and the treeless branches in Spring being lush green in Summer
Sadly I am not here. It was much nicer than work
Fabulous dual-direction corner stile on Walla Crag @lakesstiles.bsky.social
Badger!
Is there a better place to be?
For reasons lost in the mists of time, my boy & I have a "thing" about spoons that requires one of us to say, "Ho traveller! It is dangerous to go alone! Here, take this abnormally large spoon to aid you on your journey."
Shells and skeletons from the beach at Hartlepool - Saddle Oyster shell, common cuttlefish, Rayed Artemis, Shore Crab, Common Whelk and Humpback Scallop. Watercolour painting.
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#art
#nature
