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A bit of fun stitching a portrait of Stella Gibbon's Amos Starkadder, preacher of the Church of the Quivering Brethren, for my Cold Comfort Farm sampler. "Whatever shall we do, O Lord, When Gabriel blows o’er sea and river, Fen and desert, mount and ford? The earth may burn, but we will quiver"

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Freddie Mercury didn't go into the studio and nail the vocals for "The Show Must Go On" in one take while dying of AIDS for you to despair and give up now. Take the time you need, but then get up and get back out there. The show must go on.

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It always feels a little magical when tracking states your parcel has been manifested. 🪄

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It's really only after you've written the thing that you've learned the best way it could be written. This is the frustration of writing and also why AI is heinous.

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That's why it should always be STEAM!

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Youth subcultures used flamboyant fashion and jazz to reject Nazi conformity. Read more here ⤵️

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What I earn from writing or selling my jewellery often goes toward lucerne beards for my boys.

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I do love a slightly ragged butterfly - this is a female Orchard Swallowtail and her wings need a little mending, but she's beautiful.

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In Flora Thompson's 'Still Glides the Stream,' a young country girl embarks on being a school teacher and I do love this bit where she's encouraged to take the little pupils off for nature study. I wonder what the other name for Goat's-beard was?

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Ok, who can get their hands on the original essay of Wanda Gag’s “These Modern Women: A Hotbed of Feminists” published in The Nation in 1927 for me?? Now desperate to read it

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I'm tired of being enraged today. Here's a baby goat in a wig. (Sh. It counts )

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The country singer started the “Imagination Library” nearly 30 years ago to encourage early literacy. www.thedailybeast.com/dolly-parton...

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Just spent ten minutes chasing a blue triangle butterfly and this seems like a good place to post the photo!

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Found my favourite needle last night after a year of searching! It was tucked in some brown thread. The little things...

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A day in which you hear kookaburras laughing outside your window can't be all bad.

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In case you were ever wondering how Tolkien felt about Hitler, he called him a “vulgar and ignorant little cad” and a “ruddy little ignoramus.” (Letters 81 and 45)

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Full thing can be read here: tomcox.substack.com/p/your-billi...

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The relief when you have a tight word count and you're way over... only to discover you had accidentally included 3 paragraphs twice.

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My fascination with pobblebonks down at our dam and Victorian illustrations of musical frogs came together when I made this pendant.

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"My first memory is sitting on my great-grandmother's knee - and old brown nut-cracker face, a black cap with ribbons and lace hanging over the ears, a shawl and black silk apron, red-mittened hands, long reins flopping above the clip-clop of horse's hooves." - Laura Knight

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look at this badass picture. they rose to the occasion. we can.

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Just listed these over at www.etsy.com/au/shop/cynt... I was a bit unsure about them, but I think these little brown quails have a cute 30s look about them.

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Morning!

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AI is just a poor imitation of what humans can do.

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I've been in the Vogue online database exploring 1920s pyjamas. I love the sartorial commentary: "The pyjamas under this filmy chiffon coat make the wearer look like a slim mediaeval page." Nov 15, 1925.

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As someone who hates math… I also laugh that knitting involves math

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THIS. It’s gross.

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My blackwork cow apparently looks like a blackwork sheep...

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Just made me chuckle - Christine de Pizan is just as relevant today: "Just like someone who has a long and wide robe cut from a very large piece of cloth when the material costs him nothing and when no one opposes him, they exploit the rights of others." (The Book of the City of Ladies)

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The grass is as high as Beauregarde’s eye 🌾

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