Kirsty Clarke

Two of the finished pieces from my pottery course. From zero experience to this in 6 weeks. Very happy with them 😀
#pottery #learningnewskills #craftastherapy

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

Final week of my pottery course - glazing. All 6 pots made it through the bisque firing 😀
#pottery #learningnewskills #craftastherapy

Who could ever have imagined when I played a fictional rebel who joined the Resistance to oppose a criminal Authoritarian & wannabe King, it would be happening in real-life?

#TwentyfiveFortyseven

Israel’s Illegal Interception of the Gaza Aid Flotilla Is an Affront to Human Decency | Novara Media Israel’s detention of hundreds of peaceful activists - including my constituent, Novara Media’s Kieran Andrieu - is both a violation of their human rights and a further act of cruelty against the peop...

Israel’s illegal interception of the Gaza Aid Flotilla is an affront to human decency.

My piece for @novaramedia.com.

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#NowPlaying
Because nothing else will do.
#Cardiacs #TimSmith

Trimming week on my pottery course done. These are the 6 pots going into the kiln. Fingers crossed at least one of them makes it out OK!
#Pottery #learningnewskills #craftastherapy

The Brits have such a way with words. You know. Those things with letter that help you define and say stuff about things.

New crochet project on the go.
#crochet #spiral #craftastherapy

This week's pots from my pottery course - ten, including one bowl made from double the clay weight. Next week we're on to trimming.
#pottery #learningnewskills #craftastherapy

Cardiacs new album, out today. Few better ways to celebrate than this:

YouTube video by abcglobus CARDIACS - VOLOB - 2025 SINGLE

Visualiser herewith for Cardiacs new single, out today. Sublime vox from Rose Ellen Kemp ♥️

O Flower Moon!
Your petals floated to the
Earth oh too soon
But the memory of
Your silvery moon
Like a flame to moth
Spoken true

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It's here!!!
#Cardiacs

Managed to make 8 pots in my pottery class this week, slightly less wonky than last week!

Now I'm back from my holiday my shop is open again with some new stock added, including this lovely blanket.
(All USA shipping quoted now includes tariffs as I am sending by delivered duty paid post)
#crochet #grannysquares #babyblanket #etsy

wharfedalewoolworks.etsy.com/listing/4366...

Just spent another fantastic week in La Tranche-sur-Mer, Vendée. Our favourite holiday spot 🙂

An advert for a forthcoming album by Cardiacs

Well, would you look at that.

YouTube video by abcglobus CARDIACS - WOODENEYE - 2025 SINGLE

Lordy! A new Cardiacs single and it’s hot as fire on toast.

So, long time no post. I've been off work with autistic burnout and limiting social media use. I started watercolour painting as a form of therapy about 5 months ago. This was one of the first painting I was happy with.
#autisticburnout #artastherapy

Cardiacs: A BIG BOOK AND A BAND AND THE WHOLE WORLD WINDOW back cover of Melodic Virtue book

Cardiacs EP that comes with the book CARDIACS: A BIG BOOK AND A BAND AND THE WHOLE WORLD WINDOW

'The book also comes with a single. “It’s got ‘Faster Than Snakes With a Ball and a Chain’, and a really early recording of ‘Dead Mice’. It’s kind of first and last. It spans the aeons. Someone had to.”'

Jim Smith of #Cardiacs on their new #MelodicVirtue Big Book

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Thank you 🙂

No, not yet. This is the one of the first like this that I've listed.

Handspun Spiral Art Yarn, Wool, Silk and Linen Blend Rainbow Yarn, Thick and Thin Spiral Yarn for Knitting, Weaving or Textile Arts - Etsy This Yarn item is sold by WharfedaleWoolworks. Ships from United Kingdom. Listed on Feb 23, 2025

Another way I cheer myself up when the weather is not great is by spinning up bright and colourful art yarn, like this rainbow gradient spiral 😀
#handspun #artyarn #etsy #knitting #weaving #rainbow
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Fed up with winter now, but signs of spring are here. The first small clump of frog spawn has appeared in the pond overnight and I got some lovely colourful pansies and primroses at the garden centre 🙂
#spring #frogspawn #gardening #primroses #pansies

The government has announced it will pay for more weapons and bombs by cutting support for the world's poorest people.

A deplorable decision that will only create a more unstable and unequal world.

What is the government doing to bring about peace?

Handspun Art Yarn, Wool, Silk and Linen Rainbow Yarn With Organza Ribbon Loops, Corespun, Heavily Textured Unique Yarn for Textile Arts - Etsy Canada This Yarn item is sold by WharfedaleWoolworks. Dispatched from United Kingdom. Listed on 22 Feb, 2025

Been spinning new yarns to replace yarn I've sold. This is a corespun wool, silk & linen blend rainbow gradient with organza ribbon loops, wrapped with silk yarn. Time-consuming, but highly enjoyable to do 😀
#handspun #artyarn #weavingyarn #knittingyarn
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"It's almost impossible to believe he exists.
It's as if you took everything that was bad about America, scraped it off the floor, put it in an old hot dog skin & taught it to make noises with its mouth"

#PRESIDEMENTIA

And I am an ally. If you are too, let the world know.

We must build a global movement to resist the US and Israel’s ethnic cleansing of Gaza.

Tell Donald Trump: #HandsOffGaza. Join us: thecorbynproject.com/action 🇵🇸

Just watched the UN Special Rapporteur on Occupied Palestinian Territories give a news conference in Copenhagen on @aljazeera.com
So many valid points so well made.
#Palestine #genocide #ethniccleansing #occupiedterritories