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We don’t have to always be fixing ourselves or on a never-ending goal list. We don’t have to keep attempting perfection or validation from anything/anyone. You can live and enjoy and know you are enough right now.

They attack us with missiles in the morning. We go to the bookstores in the afternoon. Yes, I visited one of my favourite bookstores in Kyiv (they serve coffee, right).

January off to a good start 😁 📚

People laughed when I took up knitting and produced 16 mufflers, three pairs of wristwarmers, seven pairs of bedsocks and nine pairs of fingerless gloves over the summer months. THEY'RE NOT LAUGHING NOW.

Today I’ve been wearing this green cardigan my grandmother knitted. As a child, when she was still around, I didn’t appreciate it. Now I’m a knitter I wish she was still here to share the joy of making things with. Thanks Grandma Nancy, for keeping me warm today.

Art and books help me a lot. Today, I visited a cozy bookstore. The oldest one in Kyiv. It was opened in 1944 after Kyiv was liberated from German occupation.

My auntie crocheted me a Feathers McGraw and I love him. He’s perfect and has come all the way from Hull 🥰

I've just finished this terrific book by Dr Sara Lodge - fascinating on the women, often from poor backgrounds, who worked alongside police or for private agencies in the nineteenth century and illuminating on the birth of a cultural phenomenon: the female detective.

🌟 lighting up an exciting weekend alnwickstoryfest runs Feb 28 - Mar 2 Alnwick Playhouse The Alnwick Garden Mary Manley With a stellar lineup inc Adele Parks sumit paul-choudhury Oliver Burkeman Dr Jake Morris-Campbell Chris Mullin Mari Hannah Lucy Adlington Piers Torday 🎟️ alnwickplayhouse.co.uk/live-performan…+

Here’s some photos of Barry when he tried to sunbathe in the downstairs window ( to cheer everyone up) #bemorebarry

#DYK Seamstresses at Auschwitz evaded gas chambers by creating clothing for elite Nazi women. On our podcast, historian Lucy Adlington discusses the prisoners who used their 🪡 skills to stay alive. In honor of #HolocaustRemembranceDay (1/27), tune in: youtu.be/ueR2GWXjGms

The first Black woman footballer/soccer player in the UK was Emma Clark (back row 2nd from left) who made her debut for the British Ladies' Football Club in 1895. #WomensArt ⚽️

Avui es commemoren els 80 anys de l'alliberament del camp de concentració d'Auschwitz-Birkenau per part de l'Exèrcit Roig. #Avuirecomanem "Les modistes d’Auschwitz" 🧵de Lucy Adlington [Lucy Adlington], una novel·la que narra la història real de vint-i-tres dones que es van

Lucy Adlington a new french review of Le ruban rouge on Babelio : "Cette semaine, la lecture du Ruban Rouge est de circonstances. On y suit Ella, adolescente raflée et jetée derrière les barbelés de Birchwood (Auschwitz) pour la seule faute d'être jui… ift.tt/NPrcuMe

behind every writer is an arbitrary deadline they set for themselves that they stress over meeting every. single. day.

We’re all angry and worried and maybe some don’t feel like creating or no longer feel like it matters, but keep writing, painting, dancing, making music, making art. Not doing the things that bring you joy—not making art—doesn’t help. Do what you love harder than ever.

From the textile traditions of East Indonesia to suffragette embroidery in Holloway Prison, READING THE THREAD takes us through textile history to explore cloth as record and communication. Find out more 🧵 bit.ly/4gjbYyW

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Today’s 2nd year class focuses on the role of the skirt and includes a Dutch liberation skirt. When Dutch resistance member Mies Boissevain-van Lennep, was imprisoned by the Germans, her friends managed to smuggle a scarf of fabric scraps to her 1/2