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Painting by Doreen Fletcher, ‘Black and Yellow House’ 1979 Oil on canvas, Size not stated.

"I'm crying because out there he's gone. But he's not gone inside me." ~ Calvin And Hobbes, March 1987 #Grief

Washing line, Bolton, 1937, photo by Humphrey Spender.

'Otters' in ink by Jackie Morris, artist, author who lives and works in a small cottage by the sea in Wales #WomensArt #Monday

Today it’s #StormBoelo suggesting Sunday’s plan should be nothing more than #books, coffee, #BasqueCheesecake and the music choices of @cerysmatthews.bsky.social in the background Well, if you insist #SelfCareSunday

Wildlife photographer of the year 2026 winners – in pictures A selection of the winning images from this year’s competition across topics ranging from underwater to urban wildlife, and photojournalism to mammal behaviour. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Sarah Morgan, contemporary UK printmaker #WomensArt

By Haruka Kawakami

#StormAusten makes it the perfect weekend to settle in with a good #book #SaturdayVibes

Cheers all, shorter darker days ahead but brightness can always be found! Strength, hope and courage to all in need x

What mask?

Tuesday

Katharine Hepburn (1938), multiple Oscar winning US actress who also helped popularise trouser wearing for women #Womensart

Burnley, 1972, photo by Dragan Novakovic.

Girl with three toddlers, Manchester, 1963, photo by Shirley Baker.

Autumn in #Cambridge #SelfCareSunday

Cerys Matthews back on BBC Radio 6 Music with lots of talk about Amy Winehouse. What more can I say? @cerysmatthews.bsky.social

Christina Broom, Young suffragettes promoting the Women’s Exhibition in Knightsbridge, 1909. Broom was credited as "the UK's first female press photographer" #WomensArt

The hero dinner lady who died saving five children in the Aberfan disaster. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

On Question Time last night, I talked about the extractive economic model that has left Wales - and many other nations - impoverished *because they were so rich in resources*. You can see the problem simply by looking at the map: the infrastructure looks like a drainage system.

"I have no dream job. I do not dream of labour”. ~ Eartha Kitt #FridayFeeling

A good morning in the studio finishing these two 10cm square gesso panels of fat little wrens. The 23 C gold leaf is looking good. Now I just have to decide about lichen on the rock on the right or not, then they’ll be looking for new homes, so dm me for details if you’re interested

Margaret Thatcher getting cooked during her funeral. "Don't you think she did any good?" "Not a bit of good, not a bit. I'd put a stake through her heart and a garlic around her neck to make sure she never came back."

Gorbals, Glasgow, Scotland, 1948, photo by Bert Hardy, Picture Post photographer. Mary, a sixteen-year-old bakery worker, appears to see her future pouring away in futility and frustration (Getty Images).

Greenham Common, 1980s UK, 1st peace camp, women-only, active for 19 yrs protesting nuclear weapons. Embrace the Base event-30,000 women held hands around the US airbase fence housing Cruise Missiles, a 14-mile human chain #WomensArt

Is anyone even surprised by these racist and sexist Reform revelations? When you lay down the welcome mat for these wrong’uns …what do you expect?

Morning all. ‘Flower Lady’ Brighton 1959. Photograph by Colin O’Brien.

#StreetArt #Graffiti #Hackney

I'm much more interested in what she thinks about the kids that go to sleep hungry in the UK, the genocides that are happening in the world, how to rebuild the public services that the Tories decimated and a range of other subjects. But, then again, I'm the son of an asylum seeker...

I have never seen coverage of a live trial, one involving allegations of multiple sex attacks on multiple women, framed in a more distasteful way. It's not 'Fame under fire' it's a rape trial. And it involves actual women. And this from the *checks notes* BBC

Morning all. Photographer Nick Hedges for Shelter. Terrace of back-to-back houses, Leeds, West Yorkshire, 1970.

One for sorrow, two for joy, three for a girl & four for a boy,five for silver, six for gold, seven for a secret never to be told, eight for a wish, nine for a kiss, ten for a bird you must not miss, eleven for health, twelve for wealth, thirteen be ware it’s the devil himself Magpies I have painted

Morning all. Photograph from Lee Shulman’s Anonymous Project. www.anonymous-project.com/en/collection

Morning all. Photographer Shirley Baker, Salford 1960s.

We keep being told that Reform are in a position to win the next general election. But almost every single time the public get the chance to elect a Reform MP, they decided against it!

“That’s the sound of your shoulders dropping” #SelfCareSunday

“I cannot think of your smile without smiling too, and, of course, feeling tears fill my eyes.” ~ @edwardleepoetry.bsky.social #Grief

Liverpool, 1956, photo by Thurston Hopkins.

Finished and ready to go to its new home in the USA. There are no tariffs on original artworks but even so commissions from America have dropped off a cliff since the political climate changed. Fingers crossed things will get better soon

Cat and kitten door knocker, Clun, England

Yup no tariffs on original artworks so if you’re interested and living in the USA I’m in need of some work at the moment. Go on treat yourself to a commissioned piece with your own special creatures painted on real gold leaf. Art after all is one of life’s essentials

View from the kitchen window of a Maryhill tenement, Glasgow, 1970, photo by Nick Hedges.

Devastating to have learned about the death of FDNY fire marshal Andy DiFusco He died from an illness contracted as a 9/11 responder Pictured below, I shall never forget the humbling privilege of sitting quietly together as he described all he saw that day I became a better person for knowing him

Cat resting on a cross of Orthodox church in Perast, Montenegro.

Portrait in lilac. Glastonbury Tor after sunset.

Just their lives

Road safety and the Tufty Club. (I don’t recall there being an expiry date. I think that means I’m still a member of the Tufty club)