#thatlondon day four: @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social (very lovely! 😻) and, on their recommendation, @hornimanmuseum.bsky.social 📚🏛️

#thatlondon day three: bookshops and boogie 📚 🪩

“You have much to learn, young Paduan.”

#thatlondon day two: Tate Modern and Nigerian Modernism

I’ll email you the location of the heart I dedicated to Dad ♥️ 🖊️

air pump air this is your country dont let the big men take it away from you., a shack in the background

Dorothea Lange, Gas Station, Kern Couny, California, 1938

#thatlondon day one: The @covidmemorialwall.bsky.social ♥️

Wahey! It's Buddo, the OG Neolithic whalebone figurine from Orkney!

Buddo says you're nearly home & dry.

A rather lovely day out yesterday… 🏛️🎚️🕯️🍻

a projector with a light coming out of it and the words `` i looked at the trap , ray '' written above it . ALT: a projector with a light coming out of it and the words `` i looked at the trap , ray '' written above it .

me every time I tell myself I'm not going to do a doomscroll, only to end up doing a doomscroll

The Garden of Earthly Delights (detail), by Hieronymus Bosch, 1480-1505, 📸 by @alexbrandon

Yellow flowers in a vase on a window sill

The perfect painting for today – 'Easter Monday' by Winifred Nicholson 🌼

This artwork explores one of Winifred’s favourite themes. She loved painting views from windows, especially as the light and seasons changed.

© Trustees of Winifred Nicholson. 📷 Tullie Carlisle

Oh I misread your first post. Ozzy Osborne had to have a rabies vaccine after biting the head off of a bat 💉 I thought Alice had chickens? 🐓 might’ve risked Campylobacter, which is nasty but not as lethal as rabies. 🦇

He had to have a rabies vaccine afterwards, he said it was like getting injected with marbles into his bum 🦇

It’s Beau’s birthday today, he’s six!

What a woman! 😍 and the “this is a national emergency!” Is truly the cherry on top 💋

My eldest son made a castle for a school project and it looks like Buddo 😮 #fortbuddo

Orkney banana bonanza after Tesco store orders 38,000 by mistake An ordering glitch has left Tesco in Kirkwall giving away boxes of the fruit for free to schools and community groups.

Books on baking banana bread available now 🍌

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Wahey! It's Buddo, the OG Neolithic whalebone figurine from Orkney!

Buddo says you're nearly home & dry.

Intimate moments of salvation: Annunciation scenes through the ages | Art UK Dante Gabriel Rossetti's The Girlhood of Mary Virgin (1848–1849) shows Mary's mother, Saint Anne, teaching her daughter embroidery. The picture is full of symbols, including those which will reappear in scenes of the Annunciation, when Mary is told she will conceive the Son of God.

Today is the Feast of the Annunciation, when Mary is told she will conceive the Son of God.

Discover Annunciation scenes through the ages 👉 artuk.org/discover/stories/intimat...

🧑‍🎨 Zanobi Strozzi (1412–1468) 📷 The National Gallery

19 March 1943 | Polish woman Anna Smoleńska (b. 28 Feb 1920) - student of history of arts, creator of „Kotwica - Fighting Poland” (Anchor - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kotwica emblem - perished in #Auschwitz. She was imprisoned in the camp on 27 November 1942 (camp no. 26008).

It’s a good job he’s cute 🥰

a man in a bathtub with the words welcome to the party pal on the bottom ALT: a man in a bathtub with the words welcome to the party pal on the bottom

Watching owners of doodle dogs talk about their "undesirable behaviours" on BBC news as a bonkers whippet owner. 🐾

I’m biased but I think it’s a great place to work! And you get to sit opposite Buddo!

8 panel comic P1: We are looking down at a tiny lil jumping spider, as it is dwarfed by the bare foot of a human standing out of frame P2: a low shot of the foot's owner, as he looks down with a look that says 'I know what must be done' P3: in silhouette --eyes blank-- the man rears hiis right hand back P4: a closeup of his hand as it careens downward P5: Back to the lil spider, looking up in fear as the shadow of the approaching hand looms ominously. P6: a side view of the hand as it screeches to a halt over the cowering spider P7: the hand remains in place, as the spider looks up in confusion P8: a closeup of the spider, as the hand gently pets them on the head.

THESE ISLES: Owain Glyndŵr (c.1359-c.1416), Welsh nobleman and soldier, led a 15-year revolt in the early 15th century, the most serious attempt to end English rule in Wales, making him celebrated as a national hero. 1/8

Apologies for the horrible AI illustration but, as Robin says, this is utterly fascinating.

Loved this film screening at the picky tonight… 🍿 www.theartistwhodisappeared.co.uk

Lewy Buddies UK - Here for each other We are Lewy Buddies UK, a community-led organisation created to support anyone in the UK affected by Lewy body dementia.

If you or someone you know has been affected by Lewy Body Dementia please check out Lewy Buddies UK, a peer support charity offering ‘Meaningful support for anyone in the UK affected by Lewy body dementia.’ www.lewybuddiesuk.org

Printed recipe. Text reads ‘For melancholy. Rub the body all over with nettles’

Questionable 1700s treatment for melancholy... rubbing yourself all over with nettles