Relly Annett-Baker

I work just round the corner and every day I’m there its hard to see so many people there, stabs me in the heart each time, but I realise most of them are tourists from abroad and probably have no idea of the whole deal.

I am saving TR-49 for the weekend but the temptation is huuuuge

Struggling to write an email to colleagues to say my attendance at a work event is somewhat dependent on real time geopolitics.

In a fit of madness, I created a personal blog/newsletter again last night. It’s been a while.

I shall attempt to finish setup at the weekend and then maybe I’ll have just enough left in the tank to write something.

“you say dee-it-tee, I say day-it-tee, let’s call the whole thing off!”

I have a secret for this. I record it and make people watch it at the same time. Like, I’ll get three friends on Zoom and set up the laptop in eye line (even though I’m filming on a different camera) and use their reactions to bounce off of. After a couple of those I can do extra takes on my own.

I wish I’d had this when I was an undergrad. I handed my first essay in and got roundly bollocked for using the (simplified) citations I’d used at school, because apparently it should have been obvious to use _thing i had never heard of_ . I nearly quit getting a degree week one.

halfway through my first book of the year, Dan Jones’ Plantagenets

honestly, I’d forgotten how much I enjoy a good narrative history

Me, sowing in December: Let’s circle back in the new year!
Me, reaping in January: Well, fuck.

Came on here to wish everyone a happy new year but I’m already too late

A handmade stitched Dalek fob in red vinyl with black and silver stitching.

The horrors persist but so does the embroidery

Live by these fucking words in 2026. Be SPICY and lend a hand.

I did!

We got 2026 before we got GTA6

I have done my first baking of the season (thank the little baby jesus that my kids no longer have school fairs or the like) - cranberry mince pies with cinnamon sugar crust.

Now I must gird myself to make a bundt cake.

A black and white block print showing a hare covered in stars

The long nights are over, the Light begins its journey home

Shirt stitched with ‘Blood and Mayonnaise’ party member names and then the list of locations and dates in the campaign, stitched in red and white on a blue-grey shirt.

I’m still right at the beginning of learning embroidery and digitising but to test out what I’ve learned I made a band tour shirt for my DnD bard Juniper and her party based on our last campaign.

Very unoptimized but I’m framing it anyway

I continue my adventures in machine embroidery. I’ve followed instructions and tried out some adorable patterns, and graduated from felt to teatowels, and I’m now dabbling in tshirts and sweatshirts.

It is time to learn digitising (which is the bit I’ve been really looking forward to).

this is _brilliant_ though
know that i actually clapped my hands with glee and nearly dropped my phone

Christmas tree lights:
- on
- twinkling
- blinking
- flashing
- SANDSTORM BY DARUDE
- off

A new Mega Man? In this economy?

embroidered cartoon cat on his back wearing sick sunglasses with the caption ‘that sounds like a problem for tomorrow me’

i embroidered this tea towel for my team program manager and she’s gonna cry, possibly from happiness, probably from knowing this is how i operate every day and i am her cat to herd ✌️

that does seem suboptimal

have you considered … staying in bed?

5 different box of mince pies

apparently we’re subbing in for Good Housekeeping this year

(i’m told the Sainsburys Taste The Difference ones are in the current top spot)

woooooof, maybe that should be frontloaded info for the experience 😆

Are there knives and forks …?

Pantone color swatch of ‘cloud dancer’. It’s a dirty white.

The real recession indicator is Pantone’s 2026 color of the year choice.

‘Corporate hallway white’

fine fine i’ll go to the stationery closet

depends how hard my kids bully me over the holidays