Mary Earnshaw

I don't think anyone has thought this war through. If Dubai collapses, our countries are going to be flooded by influencers, tax dodgers, and fucking idiots.

Colourful embroidery on a white background featuring a busy design of bird, plant and animal motifs

The embroidery produced by Otomi (Hñähñu) women of Mexico is known as Tenango Embroidery. Created with an "Otomi Stitch", the colourful designs of animals, plants & rural life represent the stories & beliefs of the people who produce this specific form of embroidered expression #Womensart

The world is being run by emotionally damaged white men.

There was an article on him in a Bristol newspaper many, many years ago if I remember correctly...

Poems for Lent (Day 21)

• Mary Oliver •

Good luck!

Mind. Boggles.

I'm delighted to say that Ruth will be reading at our April 29 poetry evening at Mecycle cafe/bar/bike-workshop in Ainsdale Southport. Tickets (free) will be available from 1pm on Thursday 26th March from www.ticketsource.co.uk/poets-corner...

Watch out for sprouting oaks.

Over to you, @ofcom.bsky.social

Sigh. Another day. But that's a good thing, right????

That's very unadventurous of you. I mean, you're rather restricting yourself. Pear for example. Very nice fruit with miserable anagram.

Wow!

I suppose we can't assume Vimto has travelled far and wide.

And here.

BREAKING: Women in Tehran are excitedly tearing off the hijab as their streets catch fire, oil rains from the sky, and their lungs burn with every breath. At last we've been liberated, they cry.

It's made me think about MASH too, how clever it was to use humour without downplaying the horror.

Such a powerful song - I've no idea how it came about that I know all the words. Joe, of Country Joe and the Fish, will be passing through those pearly gates he sang about in this recording from Woodstock. 'Whoopee, we're all gonna die.' indeed.
RIP Joe.

Joe, RIP.

A new week begins. May it bring small kindnesses, unexpected sunshine, and copious amounts of tea. 🌷🫖

Had a walk along the prom & met some hells angels.

Life has a way of reminding us who truly holds the world together. These past months I’ve been carried more than I can say by the kindness of my mother and female friends who have walked beside me when it mattered most. Strong women rarely ask for recognition, but they deserve it all the same. 💜

Time to make Turnberry Golf Club a huge windfarm.

I thought for a minute these were from Albuquerque.

Mayor Mamdani and a child play with Legos while looking very serious and concentrated. The child is impossibly adorable and wearing tiny blue glasses.

No interruptions, please. We’re building universal child care.

May send my dad out as a research assistant again after his success with recording the return of BH to Abbot Hall, Kendal. I pushed my mum round there before she died, in a very hard to manage wheelchair, the plinth empty as if forecasting loss. Lovely to see it full of life again.

Or just a community champion for that matter

What might another future have been, for Alice? These pictures and the ones shared by @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social are so powerfully tragically moving.

The Rock’n’Roll Doctor is IN

A monochrome ‘spot the mistake’ scene featuring a postman cycling along a lane besides a half timbered thatched cottage

An observation test for your inner 8-year-old.
Can you spot 12 deliberate mistakes?

From Treasure magazine, 1965
Official answers coming soon

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