Suzanne Fagence Cooper

Over 100 works of art being put up for auction by (cash strapped) Reform-run Kent County Council.

Kent Greens: "While the total financial value of the art is only around £35k, the historic and social value of the art, most of which depicts Kent, is far higher."

Photo of a doorway created with twigs in a lush green forest

“Passage”, 2007 by German installation artist Cornelia Konrads #womensart #Spring

Drawing with blue and yellow watercolour of daffodils and tulip - for printed cotton

#Daffodils for St #David's Day - original design by J H Dearle, for #Morris & Co., 1891.
The drawing is now in the William Morris Gallery, Walthamstow

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Black and white print featuring a blackbird sitting in a next amongst branches of a tree in blossom

Printmaker Clare Leighton, 'Blackbird on Nest, Lithograph of Wood Engraving, 1935 #womensart

Reform is refusing to suspend one of its councillors for calling for a Labour MP to be shot, saying it's a "mistake that we can all make from time to time.”

Yeah, she’s kind of a big deal. 🦦

We’ve got an otter overachiever on our hands. 🌟 Selka’s survived a shark bite, contributed to scientific studies, and raised orphaned pups as a surrogate mother.

I'm sorry to hear you've been ill. Unfortunately the show couldn't travel as we had important loans from Kelmscott, and they need to be back in place when the Manor opens next month. But it was a delight to bring the textiles and designs and beautiful books all together for a short while.

Thank you - It's wonderful to see my writing alongside these other great studies bringing women into focus. And the Gwen John show in Cardiff is a revelation too.

At Home with Jane and William Morris: Suzanne Fagence Cooper (1862) | Travels Through Time In this episode we meet an extraordinary couple, whose life-long partnership and dual creativity changed the face of Britain’s Arts and Crafts movement. They are Jane and William Morris.

My third favourite art biography of the last few years is How We Might Live: At Home with Jane and William Morris, by @suzannefagence.bsky.social. Like the other two books above, How We Might Live is full of fresh insights about these artists and their time. www.tttpodcast.com/season-5/at-...

Danish PM on Facebook this morning:

“I am happy to live in a country where there is free and equal access to healthcare for everyone. Where insurance and wealth do not determine whether you receive proper treatment. The same approach exists in Greenland. Happy Sunday to you all”

Morning 💙💙

Labour advert: Heroin, crack, cocaine, spice Green Party says yes.

The latest nonsense Facebook advert Labour are pushing in the Gorton and Denton by-election. Just one more reason why I could never vote Labour.

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This is totally deranged. Greenlanders are reporting that they have absolutely no idea what the hell Trump is talking about.

Poems for Lent (1st Sunday)

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Labour lost three council seats last night. 1 each to the Greens, Lib dems and Plaid. Reform were 2nd or 3rd in each.
The Greens also won and beat Reform in another local election.
So when they say vote Labour to stop Reform, they couldn't be more wrong. Vote almost anyone but Labour to beat Reform.

La. regulators approve Entergy power plants for Meta’s AI data center Louisiana Public Service Commissioners voted four to one to approve Entergy’s three new gas plants to power Meta’s largest-ever data center.

Louisiana has to build three new natural gas power plants to accommodate the "AI" data center that Meta just crammed through because said center will use *Three Times* as much electricity (and, thus, attendant resources) as the *Entire City Of New Orleans*, every year.

Y'all this isn't sustainable.

And if you’re wondering “Why is there a blob in the back?” Well, that’s where the first woman president was supposed to go. More than a century later, it remains unsculpted.

Wow, indeed. 💔

douglas adams was our most accurate futurist

🚨 We have heard that the County Archaeologist for Hampshire is being made redundant, with no plans to replace him. 🚨
If you live in Hampshire please write to your MP and Councillors.
If you live elsewhere treasure and support your County Archaeologists, and stand by to protect them. 🏺

Every photo from Minneapolis looks like this. Cops decked out with guns and full tac gear facing off against people in bathrobes, parkas, and sweatpants armed only with whistles and cell phones.

Yet every verified MAGA chode on X dutifully calls it a riot or violent insurrection.

Worth watching this in full. The statement is more powerful than this quote alone. Here is is from USA Today, with alt text.

Also! Rich Ruohonen is a personal injury lawyer and the oldest athlete to ever represent the United States in a Winter Games at 54 years old.

Happy Birthday to John Ruskin,b #otd 1819.
@ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social kindly lent us his study of a wild strawberry for our 'Beauty of the Earth'
A writer, artist & visionary, Ruskin influenced many radical thinkers of 19th & 20th C. Read more in my book:
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It was never a big factor in choosing not to be a parent, but the persistent precarity of my finances, both when supporting a layabout husband and as a single person, mean at least one less child grew up in poverty. Reform is an ass.

Two important things:
1) after tomorrow the sun will not set before 5pm again in the UK…until October
2) if you’re struggling just now *please* be kind to yourself

Men an tol. One holed stone with two upright stones

Photograph of Mên-an-Tol, formation of standing stones, in Cornwall by John Piper

happening this morning in Minneapolis -- ICE agents drawing guns on observers. I reiterate again that it is only a matter of time before DHS kills more innocent people in Minnesota. Congress needs to shut this shit down right now.