Katie Fuller

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Bob, une corneille noire, pose fièrement sur la rambarde d’une grille. En arrière-plan, la roseraie du Jardin des Plantes.

« C’est moi, votre corneille favorite »

Ba-doom tish! 🥁

A crop top, Kev? That’s quite daring, but you do you!

Macro photo of a brown stink bug in face view on a leaf, guarding a tightly-clustered bunch of eggs that are shaped and colored exactly like a full tray of dark beer with foam on top.

Finally, the bug is back with a round of the Guinness.

Big clumps of frogspawn and lots of male frogs clambering over each other in garden pond with green plants

About 20 frogs in the garden pond this morning, and the first spawn of the year (last year, the first was around 4 March). Sad that I can’t be at home today to watch them. But here’s a photo from last year.

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It is making me think I should draw some more digital birds!

Thanks for sharing @lowcarbonkev.bsky.social (I'd almost forgotten about that dunnock!) and I was really hoping you'd bought one of @haggytea.bsky.social's cormorants – a match made in heaven!

Jeff Tweedy and the Twilight Override band onstage lit in pink and purple

Feeling the love for Jeff Tweedy and the remarkable Twilight Override band at Islington Assembly Hall this evening ❤️❤️❤️

A cut lino block inked up with black ink. The lino block has been carved to leave the profile image of a Barn Owl in relief. The post shows the progress I have made in making this artwork so far.

Made a little step forward on the linocut of a Barn Owl I'm working on. First block carved ✔️. I made the drawing for this print from a real life Barn Owl at a wildlife drawing session in Margate last year.

Looking forward to seeing more of this!

Thank you! Printmaking can be a lot of work and I often wonder why I’m doing something so time-consuming!

Linocut print in progress, showing a wren and snowdrops. Green and brown layers for leaves and bird printed so far.

Lino block for wren and snowdrop print, with gold ink rolled on ready for printing

Linocut print in progress, showing a wren and snowdrops. Green and brown layers for leaves and bird printed so far.

Linocut print in progress, showing a wren and snowdrops. Green and brown layers for leaves and bird printed so far.

I’m trying to make a new #linocut print every month in 2026. (OK, it’s true that I’m on the first one and it’s already mid-February, but nevermind.) Here’s my progress this weekend. I’m using one piece of lino to print all the colours, one after the other. This is called the ‘reduction’ method.

Silhouetted figure looking through binoculars standing under bare tree and across green fields

A rare sunny morning - the river Cam reflecting the blue sky above

Mossy green micro ‘landscape’ on top of bridge over the river

Managed to fit in the final Winter Bird Survey visit to one of our squares this morning (since it wasn’t raining). More skylarks this time but still not a lot going on, to be honest. The path along the riverbank was very muddy - not my favourite…

Garden pond edged with vegetation and with reflection of ash tree branches above

🎉 You can’t see them here, but the first frogs of the year have entered the pond! Based on previous years, we probably won’t see any spawn until the first week of March. 🐸

And me too! Do they have much poetry on Radio 1 these days…?

Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin

Well done, Tinas past and present! 👏

Thanks to everyone who’s made the show possible, and to @steamjam.bsky.social who picked up my frame, put my print in it and delivered it to the venue while I was at work! 🥰

Gallery wall full of framed artworks including my own Curlew linocut print

Framed screen print of orca and fish bait ball by Dario Fisher

Large, circular, brightly coloured crocheted artwork

Blue painted mannikin wearing shades and holding keytar-style instrument

👀 There it is! My curlew #linocut print is on the wall at the @camcreatives.bsky.social Art Show at the Grand Arcade in #Cambridge from 9-18 February. Loads of amazing, diverse art on show from local artists, so why not pop in to have a look? The exhibition is upstairs, near the library and cinema.

I suppose, if you can’t easily keep water from your ‘old’ pond, at least now is a good time to be collecting rainwater for it!

A black background with a white square mount laid on it. In the mount is a cream wallpaper with a brown, burgundy and dark pink floral painterly pattern with a hand embroidered female chaffinch bird in profile facing to the left.

"In The Garden - Female Chaffinch"
Hand embroidery thread painting artwork, set in a white mount.
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#UKGiftHour #UKGiftAM #birds #embroidery

It might be that that record is only viewable if you’re a member of the church or accessing it via one of their centres.

It’s always nice to have a little research challenge! 🙂

Spanish flu - Wikipedia

FamilySearch has an image of his "death notice" - I can't see the full image but you can make out from the preview that he was an "accountant on ranch" and that he died from influenza. So probably a victim of the 'Spanish flu' epidemic: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish...

You're welcome. So it is the man on the 1911 census then. He was baptised on 23 Oct 1891 at St Andrew's church in Streatham.

There was a Charles T West born around 1892, a "rancher", who sailed from London to Cape Town in 1914, though he said he was planning to live in South Africa.

On the 1911 Census I found a Charles Theodore West who was a theological student, born c1892 in Streatham, Surrey. He lived with his parents, Charles James West (a doctor) and Mary Morrison West, in Hampstead Norris, Berkshire.

You'd want more evidence to confirm that was the same man, though.

The England & Wales National Probate Calendar shows that he died on 26 Feb 1919 at Mazunga Hospital. But his will was proved in England in 1944 - he left £4006 4s 10d and the executor was Charles James West, “retired colonel H.M. army.”

The peel and reveal moment on my latest Tetrapak Print. I'll put up a nice still image of the print soon, but it's always fun to witness the magic moment the first print comes off the plate, and you get the euphoria of loving it or the dismay of not loving it. Luckily, this one gave me the euphoria.

Update: peregrine cards have sold out! But I have got a sale on all my other cards this month: katiefullerart.etsy.com

A blackbird sings clear
Above the solar panels
Grey skies and drizzle
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