I had a stunning gift delivered to my college but no name?!?! Please tell me who this is from!!

Cosmos, cornflowers and poppies

#WildFlowerHour on the playing fields near my house is this lovely wildflower patch

Great things happen when you read with your baby.

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Row of bikes

This Sunday, don’t miss this summer’s last opportunity to enjoy free and unlimited 60-minute Santander Cycles rides thanks to TfL’s Cycle Sundays.

Make the most of this final weekend and explore the best of London by bike.

tfl.gov.uk/modes/cyclin...

Pictorial textile artwork featuring a blue bowl on s pink surface fllled with coloured cereal hoops, some of which surround the bowl

'Froot loops' by Danielle Clough, embroidery artist from South Africa #WomensArt

Ordinary people outside hotels raging at ordinary people inside them: that’s the tragedy of this refugee controversy | Rowan Williams Anyone who has met refugees sees the ordinariness of their hopes and dreams. If we reject their humanity, how can we be proud of ourselves, asks former archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams

Excellent from Rowan Williams

“Anyone who has met refugees sees the ordinariness of their hopes and dreams. If we reject their humanity, how can we be proud of ourselves?

No-one in their right mind thinks accommodating asylum seekers in hotels is a good idea.”

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

circular motifs from satin stitch in hand-dyed lilac and yellow silk thread with colonial knots between

30th August, daily stitching marking the passage of time
#intuitivedailystitching #textileart #embroidery #stitchjournal

Take a break from doomscrolling and look at my stretching hare icon. She’s going to be available in my exhibition here in Pembrokeshire from September 11th-14th if you want to take a closer look

A medieval manuscript prayer book with a floral border, an illumination of a funeral, and a decorated initial.

Close-up of a decorated initial.

Detail of a decorated border: a monkey in a monk's habit sitting on a gold chair, reading from a letter held by a black stork-like bird in its beak.

A medieval prayer book with an illumination, decorated border, and a large metal clasp with an embossing.

Some pics from a visit to 'Pride and Solace: medieval books of hours and their readers' in Bruges. Crappy photos due to inconvenient lighting and reflective glass.

England flag painted on roundabout turned into noughts and crosses game.

At last, some proper British vandalism.

(source - www.facebook.com/share/p/1MeV...)

Timeline cleanse.
A handsome prince taking a relaxing bath

In a walled suburban garden (that looks like something produced for a Britain’s floral garden set) two people sit in deck chairs in the full sun, reading

Other work by the Ladybird artists
‘August’ (Whitbread calendar, 1958)
Artist: Ronald Lampitt

In progress cross stitch of a green house, the plants are all completed and the outline of the green house itself is coming into shape

oops forgot to share updates for a while
Hothouse Heaven by CrossStitcher

Spag Bol with vegetables made into a smiley face.

Friend’s 8 yo is in hospital in Malaysia. This is how lunch comes. Different smiley face every time. Why aren’t we doing this?

There are billions of everyday miracles that happen all around one. I see them in the nature that surrounds me. It held me close right through the pandemic. It walked beside me. Keeping me emotionally safe as we navigated a strange new world. #art #Painting #EcologicalArt #Pandemic #Miracles #Safety

Flyer for stop Trump protest 17 September

Ed Davey taking a strong moral stance that he won’t banquet with Trump - the man who is able to end the starvation & massacres of Gazans - when he visits in September.

Trump receiving honours is honouring a genocide. We cannot let it go by without protest #r4today

We can't allow ourselves to become numb to mass shootings. What happened today in Minneapolis is heartbreaking, and Michelle and I are praying for the parents who have lost a child or will be sitting at their hospital bedside after yet another act of unspeakable, unnecessary violence.

What will your baby remember about infancy?

I was so touched by the caption that mckynlee.mckell used to accompany this video shared to IG: “These little moments that they won’t remember, but I’ll never forget.”

And it’s true… at least in part. 🧵

Tree trunk thick with lichen

Lichen! Wow!

Crane bows its head on the centre panel of this triptych it’s crossed legs on the right hand panel

Oh Beauty I Am Undone.
Painted on 23 carat gold leaf laid on vintage Italian poplar wood panels.

After a very relaxing bank holiday weekend its time to get back to work on this painting of a Marsh Tit. These rare little bird s nest every year in a hollow in a tree behind our cottage. Seeing them visit the sunflower seed dispenser is always a relief. Knowing they have survived another year.

Take a break from the #doom and #gloom and cleanse your timeline with my #painting of #Goldfinches on the #Pembrokeshire coast

Language learning takes place across multiple dimensions at once.

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If you have an emergency phone you don't want someone to find out about, please be aware that this is happening soon.

I think, more than ever, these words from Mr. Rogers hold as true as the day he spoke them.

Why are the press even reporting on the nonsense emanating from a racist fringe party that can't even keep a handful of MPs and councillors on board? I'd like to know about what the Greens and Lib Dems are proposing as policies please.

Cyanotype of a Red Kite feather

Cyanotype of Wild Carrot with added bubbles, salt and paprika

Cyanotype of Stone Parsley with bubbles and turmeric

Cyanotype of Wild Carrot with added bubbles and bicarbonate of soda

Playing with cyanotypes again...

A Red Kite feather gathered from underneath a local oak tree. Wild Carrot and Stone-parsley collected from Swaddywell reserve.

Plus soap bubbles and sprinkles of paprika, turmeric, salt and bicarbonate of soda...

#experimental #photography

Sneezeweed in a burnt orange colour sheme

Helenium autumnale. Can't remember what variety it is, I've had it a few years but it's never performed as well as it has this year before 🌱📷

#GardensHour #SixWeeksOfColour #Orange #Bloomscrolling #Flowers

Creating a variety of shapes using steamed buns: #AGoodPlace

Source: www.reddit.com/r/oddlysatis...

Good morning!

At my allotment yesterday.

#robin #birdsong