Offering a Medieval emotional support dragon for whoever needs it✨

Been sorting out my sewing basket. Some of these cottons are over 80 years old...I found my Mum's khaki thread, and the green she used for sewing parachute silk.

Robert Frost "After Apple Picking". I cannot rub the strangeness from my eyes I got from looking through a pane of glass I skimmed this morning from the drinking trough. Magnified apples appear and disappear, stem end and blossom end and every fleck of russet showing clear......

Have you been to see the garland this year? Hanging in the Great Hall at Cotehele until Sunday 5 January, this amazing display is not to be missed! National Trust Images / Steve Haywood

Happy Christmas from all the wrens who live on our farm

Sempé Village

Italian mobile library.

The best part of mouse armour is how each one has a custom design in the ears! #jeffdeboer #mousearmour #gothicjewellery #gothicartwork #gothicsteampunk #gothicfantasyart #gothicstyle #gothicfashion #metalarts #littlemetalfoxes #auarts #natgeo #glenbowmuseum

Word of the day is the Japanese ’seijaku’: a calm and tranquillity even in the midst of chaos. Often found in nature’s smallest things. Photo by Xuan Hoa Le

The hotel door goes "bong" and I am in a Jaques Tati film. Yesterday's rain has cleaned up after the seagulls. An early swimmer and a fishing boat have both been added to the grey sea with a 4B pencil. #WorldEarlyStrollDay

📢Calling musicians & sound artists for new ethnographic sounds project! 'A Century of Sounds' collaboration Cities and Memory (@citiesandmemory.bsky.social) & Pitt Rivers Museum shares 100 archived sounds. Could you create a composition based on one of these sounds? Get involved: citiesandmemory.com/century-sounds

Today is #RoaldDahlDay, celebrating the life & works of the beloved author & his stories. Here at St Luke's we love our books so much that we even have our own bookshop filled with them. Pop down to our Plymstock Bookshop to see what we have in store. stlukes-hospice.org.uk/shops/

Kingfisher paid no mind to the storm this morning.

Children Setting up the Framework of a Storehouse, by Utagawa Kuniyoshi, ca. 1842

There was a period of several decades in the mid 15th century when the Flemish bookmakers produced books with the vellum dyed black, which could only be inscribed with gold or silver ink. This one is called "The Black Hours", from the Morgan Library in New York.

Celebrate the art of story-telling this half-term by paying a visit to our Plymstock Bookshop. Bring the little ones in to choose a book to keep them entertained this week. Open 7 days a week, from 9am to 4.30pm & Sunday’s from 10am to 4pm. stlukes-hospice.org.uk/shops/

If you would like to hear what fluently spoken Latin sounded like with the same Classical pronunciation the ancient Romans used check this video of mine. I speak Latin for 5 minutes non stop with no jump cuts. One single camera take. Also answer me this. How much could you

Song Thrush with a gobstopper! 😮😁😍🐦

16th century Venetian lawyer/bibliophile Odorico Pillone shelved his books spine-inward and commissioned Cesare Vecellio (Titian’s nephew) to paint their fore-edges with colourful images suggesting their subject matter. Here’s how they looked on the shelf news.yale.edu/2019/03/14/pai…

One of the Robin images I took yesterday.