Katharine Tree

Hus-tree just PICKED HIM UP.

🎶Well I'm accustomed to a smooth ride
Or maybe I'm a dog who's lost its bite
I don't expect to be treated like a fool no more
I don't expect to sleep through the night🎶

A stark, simple scene dominated by luminous pearly yellow sky over a Kent Lane. Oast houses stand in near silhouette and the countryside is dotted with Elm trees and some early fruit trees in blossom.

Other work by the Ladybird artists.
Spring Landscape
Artist Rowland Hilder

ding ding ding

A black and white cat eating

Big news: she is a he.

Take a walk on the wild side.

‘I took two bites and had to spit it out’: candy makers are phasing out real cocoa in chocolate Due to the volatile cocoa market, companies like Hershey are using replacement ingredients such as sugar, oil, milk and nuts

We can't have nice things. Or even mediocre ones.

A man with his face whited out holds a bag of cat treats while a black and white cat watches him intently.

Got her. Hus-tree and I both have hand-fed her and given her ear scritchies just now. Her teeny little meows just kill us.

My hand holding two multi-color pens, one steel blue, one burnt orange, with wooden grips that have "karimoku" burned into them.

My new Mitsubishi babies. Four ink colors + pencil. Llllllick.

Or maybe not. We aren't clipping images anymore?

An assortment of boxes for different kinds of pencils from the Mitsu-Bishi Pencil Company. They have strong, colorful Midcentury design, each distinct from the other but harmonious together. I want them.

Mitsubishi Pencil's packaging design is out of the world. Open picture to see more, it's long and narrow.

*skreme*

The saddest tiny mews, chat. Like a kitten. I got 3 feet away.

The AI lost the plot, clearly. All British TV is actually one show.

Stick with it. You're in for such a treat.

Silk shirt matches her eyes. All metal matches in tone. Panthere de Cartier watch (or a dead ringer). Fingernails impeccably manicured but not painted. Freckles because she spends a lot of time outside. This is what it looks like.

‘Charismatic and extremely confident’: how to recognise – and handle – a psychopath Psychologist Leanne ten Brinke has spent decades studying toxic personality traits. What are the red flags to look out for among workmates, politicians and potential partners?

Happy (or not?) to report I have lower than average levels of psychopathy, but--article worth looking at for the picture of the psychologist, who has presents with extraordinary taste. ...

www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

(unhinged giggle)

You're going to have a *lot* more.

I put out more food and got a mew instead of a hiss.

Black and white kitty isn't happy

Hus-tree put out a toy instead of more food and boy was she grumpy.

A black and white cat with a bad attitude eating out of a metal bowl

She was waiting by the food bowl, and when I approached with food the little bitch HISSED at me. Get your priorities straight, chica.

She'll approach within 4-5 feet of me if food is present, though.

My photo shows a famous wall painting from Pompeii known as the Sappho fresco. It shows the head and upper body of a young woman framed inside a painted circular border. She faces forward. Her eyes are large and dark, gazing to one side with a calm and thoughtful expression, as if pausing mid-thought. Her skin is pale, and her hair is dark brown and tightly curled, forming small ringlets around her face. A thin golden hairnet holds her curls in place. She wears small gold hoop earrings, and a brown cloak over a green garment. In her right hand she holds a thin dark metal stylus (writing tool) up against her lips, as if thinking about what to write. In her left hand she holds a small rectangular wooden wax writing tablet. The fresco is now on display at the Muso Archeologico Nazionale in Naples

The ‘Sappho’ fresco from Pompeii.

A beautiful Roman portrait of a young woman for #InternationalWomensDay

She holds a writing tablet, and raises a writing stylus to her lips in thoughtful contemplation. 55-70 AD.

Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples 📷 by me

#Archaeology

We’re teaching experimental archaeology and archaeological excavation skills this next two weeks at @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social

Popped into our early medieval roundhouse

Makes you think of the thinginess of things, but especially the overwhelming woodiness of the past

This is a brick pebble that's been softened by rolling around in the sea awhile. You might also find yellow or red ochre, softer muddy pieces of shale, marls, & chalks you could do this with - depends where you are.

Somebody's dog came to say hi at the end 😂

We left the pebbles on the beach...

We were reassigned to 8b in the recent revision, and they're selling them in nurseries now.

Coin used as Leeds bus fare was 2,000‑year‑old currency The coin was handed down to Peter Edwards from his grandfather in the 1950s.

This is the sort of thing a cashless society robs us of, the opportunity to try to get away with paying the bus fare in Carthaginian currency www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Monday!

#medievalsky

@blmedieval.bsky.social @britishlibrary.bsky.social Stowe 17, f. 185r

Two rabbits capture a man from the margins of the Smithfield Decretals.

A rabbit decapitates a man with a sword.

A rabbit fires arrows at a hound with a longbow, from the margins of the Smithfield Decretals.

Murderous bunny rabbits from the margins of the Smithfield Decretals 🐇🐇🐇

c. 1300-1340, Royal MS 10 E IV

Presenting the Seven Liberal Arts: Astronomy, Music, Arithmetic, Geometry, Rhetoric, Logic and Grammar

BL Royal MS 6 E IX; Convenevole da Prato, Carmina regia; 14th century; Italy (Tuscany); f.29r
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