Caroline Lamont Smith

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Autumnal embroidery: hawthorn berries, heather & new cow parsley leaf 🌿✂️🧵🪡

You're so Venn. You probably think this diagram is about you

I'm blessed to have a nearly-15 year old who loves the fells as much as I do, and who is as happy on top of Nethermost Pike in cloud this year as he was in sunshine 4 years ago

Comment in project meeting today, "we need to do X or we'll take a bath on this contract". Later, Colleague A asks Colleague B what this meant. Colleague B explains what "taking a cold bath means". Confusion reigns.

It won't pay my bills either, but isn't life richer for this kind of detail? 😊

Spent the morning in tears, on and off. Did some painting, felt better. A short story.

Just finished reading @herdyshepherd.bsky.social "The Place of Tides". A beautiful book, but now sat watching the rain streaming down the window as tears stream down my face asking myself if I'm making any kind of positive difference to the world, however small.

Cousin Ann's ashes laid to rest beside her mother (my great aunt), my grandparents, my father and my uncle ♥️

Just 5 spaces left on my small museums for mental health w'shop this Sat,on how collecting & arranging small objects improves mental health. Incl BRILLIANT research showing that playing TETRIS makes us more resilient to stress 👇Earlybird price expires tmrw👇 workshops.emmamitchell.uk/courses/smal...

For the record, scrapping indefinite leave to remain and deporting people is wrong *not* because it hasn't been costed properly, or the "figures are wrong" but because it's a disgraceful, immoral, inhumane, idiotic thing to do. And appeals to racist shitgibbons.

The boy's in Yr9 now, so time for teachers to knuckle down and make sure the kids really hate English literature. 13 year old boys are definitely interested in Jane Eyre and An Inspector Calls. Or Ann In Spectacles as we now call it. Husband does love a pun.

My new small museums for mental health w'shop is on Sat 4 Oct Recent compelling research shows that collecting & arranging collections neatly alleviates anxiety & lifts mood. Includes: 🌿2 hr zoom-we'll make & photograph small museums 🗝️30% off my Etsy shop: workshops.emmamitchell.uk/courses/smal...

Less ink, trying a new technique.

Need to go back. The boy's only climbed Bowfell once, which is not enough.

An attempt (not entirely satisfactory) at #Haweswater from the Old Corpse Road.

The Drunken Duck has always been a fine pub, and I started sampling their wares early. Me and my mother, 1977

Amazing what I can do if I ignore housework, laundry, DIY and other assorted life admin 😂

Reasonably happy with my use of my bank holiday Monday. Would rather be there in person than drawing it from the Fens, but you can't have everything!

I didn't quite get the same angle in April and August, but I still rather like the contrast of blossom then sloes and the treeless branches in Spring being lush green in Summer

Sadly I am not here. It was much nicer than work

Fabulous dual-direction corner stile on Walla Crag @lakesstiles.bsky.social

Badger!

Is there a better place to be?

Shells and skeletons from the beach at Hartlepool - Saddle Oyster shell, common cuttlefish, Rayed Artemis, Shore Crab, Common Whelk and Humpback Scallop. Watercolour painting. 🐡 #art #nature

BIG NEWS: For the first time in six years, Britain's rarest breeding bird has successfully nested in the UK! A pair of Montagu's Harriers have raised four healthy chicks, all of which have taken their first flights.

Cockwombles made me do it. Donated to RNLI. Keep up the life-saving everyone.

A new strand of stiles @lakesstiles.bsky.social

The dark line is a Badger path. The lawn was wildflower meadow and so little light reached the ground. Now it has been cut the dead, yellow grass is revealed. But where the Badgers cross they trample the long grass letting light down to the ground. Worth looking out for in recently cut fields.

I'm not saying we horde things at work but one of my colleagues got a power supply out of a drawer (and used it) that had a label on it saying "Made in West Germany". OK, yes, I am saying we horde things.

Cricket is far too stressful. That is all.

Did a thing. Still tired www.hihub.info/features/one...

This. Lots and lots of this

Histon Hornets 5-a-side football tournament... 215 teams, 593 matches, 13 pitches, 30 referees, 1500+ players, 1.5 days. And me at the helm leading an extraordinary gang of volunteers doing it all for the love of the game. Might be a bit tired now

Emma's posts are properly lovely brain-soothers. I've got a couple of her botanical image prints framed for everyday brain-soothing loveliness. Pause and gaze and forget the outside world (or inside monologue) for a while.

I so want to do this, but also am so time-poor at the moment that I know I would just pile stress on my poor burnt-out little brain by giving myself another "should". So maybe this can be my summer holiday thing.

Monday. You again. 📷 Justin Sneddon

Going on an installation visit to a US nuclear research facility in July wasn't very appealing anyway. It just got a lot less so.

An excellent thread on male bumblebees! So much I didn't know 😀

My (new, young) colleague just introduced me to the customer that we're providing instrument training to, "this is Caroline and she knows everything, so be nice to her". And I'm really not sure about the implications of that statement!