man in the woods

He’s looking quite well!

I was walking past after hours and for just a second I thought the staff were having a sleepover

A rather handsome dummy with brown beard and long hair sitting in bed with a mug of tea, a book, and a computer monotor

A very aspirational display in the window of a local charity shop

Just like I’ll live with this accidental ink spot.

But it does mean the decorative borders on those pages have been swallowed into the makeshift binding. I will live with this…

Luckily, I’ve been drawing decorative borders on some of the pages, so the stitching doesn’t interfere with the recipes…

I’ve carefully removed some of those destabilised pages and stitched them to more stable page…

Recipe book update:

When I first started this book, I foolishly cut out a few pages where I’d made some mistakes. This, predictably, destabilised the binding for some of the other pages…

A magical place 🌞✨

YouTube video by Forest Archaic Collective How do you build a massive Hillfort anyway?

If you’ve always wanted to get into Iron Age hillforts, the first half of this video by @forestcollectiv.bsky.social is a really great, accessible introduction to what they are, and the varying forms the take: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qldg...

Coincidentally, I then discovered that the word “miniature” originally referred to drawings made in a red pigment in medieval manuscripts. It’s only because those drawings happened also to be small that “miniature” came to mean a small drawing.

Here’s my print, which is a miniature in both senses.

When I got back to the studio, I turned it into a miniature linocut, which I printed in red ink

I made this drawing of the cosy little fields from up on Glastonbury Tor on my Friday Walk recently

Rosemary and sage hanging up in the window, which is clad in a homemade net curtain and a homemade regular curtain

The curtain (with an oakleaf pattern)

The herbs

Monday: drying herbs and homemade curtains

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Wow! It makes me think of Tudor-era blackwork embroidery

YouTube video by Forest Archaic Collective How do you build a massive Hillfort anyway?

If you’ve always wanted to get into Iron Age hillforts, the first half of this video by @forestcollectiv.bsky.social is a really great, accessible introduction to what they are, and the varying forms the take: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qldg...

I love the beautiful mottled reds in these mosaïcs from Rockboune Roman Villa in Wiltshire. They make me think of fallen leaves in the golden autumn sunlight. 🍂🍁✨

#MosaicMonday

I love that!

Wow! These sound great!

I was thinking about trying to make some rosemary salt. I’ve heard it’s good and easy

It always feels good to share, doesn’t it! Especially if you’ve put the effort into growing something

I finally bought myself an old walking stick! youtube.com/shorts/51TvO...

My hand holding a decent bunch of rosemary and sage

Tesco had no rosemary yesterday.

On my way home I saw a huge rosemary bush in a garden, so I asked if I might have a single sprig.

The owner me gave me more rosemary than I’ll get through in a year, and lots of sage!

He told me to help myself any time.

Should we all have communal herb gardens?

Oh that’s brilliant! Thanks so much for sharing!

❗️ Perfect pub alert ❗️

This is a really interesting thread about the use of blue pigment by palaeolithic people

I love this era of comedy West Country merch

Makes me wonder what that bird had for dinner last night! 🔥

It’s so strange to see such a hard manmade shape sitting in what now feels like quite a soft and natural and almost-empty landscape