Katie Fuller

So many questions.

The frogs' night-time pool party continues in the rain. You can see their eyes looking like pairs of headlights.

Frog in garden pond peeking out from between pond plants

I think I missed the main frog event this year. But there are still up to 20 active in the pond overnight. This one didn’t mind posing for a photo in the sun today.

kill the imposter syndrome in you head because not only is there someone out there doing it worse than you, they're also using chat gpt to do it

Anyways.

Chilly and grey here and I’ve barely seen any frogs!

We haven't had any sun all day, so it may as well be

Red telephone box and red postbox in isolated spot by the roadside in North York Moors

Sheep grazing at the edge of moorland in the North York Moors, with blocks of woodland and forestry on the other side of the valley

Looking down from Filey Brigg onto the wet beach on a sunny day

A long weekend in t’north (North Yorkshire specifically).

I think it could be a good thing (if the right people are paying attention!)

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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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! 🙂