Cuter than a cute thing

Lovely! When are you reopening the Etsy shop? (I am minded to commission a quilt with a couple of your stained glass panels featured, if the material they’re printed on is suitable?)

Apparently it’s
International Haiku Day.
I shall ignore it.

Reposted - pass it on!

Loved Seuss as a child, particilarly the Horton the Elephant stories, and ‘Are You My Mother?’ which I was certain I had hallucinated when I half-remembered it as an adult - I couldn’t think where such an odd story had come from, and no one else knew what I was on about!

@realfollowers.bsky.social you can count my followers one one hand, I bet!

A little-known piece of space history

The mind boggles - no wonder women prefer the bear

Is Solomon’s Seal a woodland plant, then? I always assumed that the little patch at the edge of my local woodland (West Lothian, Scotland) was a garden escapee as people sometimes dump their garden rubbish from nearby houses there.

Here’s a report on the study showing that by the time women are older, in any given cohort, their rate of baby-production has almost caught up: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/u...

And another study (sorry, can’t remember the source, seen recently on Bluesky tho) shows that because 35-45 yr olds are having more babies, the rates more or less catch up eventually as a particular cohort ages

Can relate - trying to come up with a poem for Beltane celebrations, and so far all I’ve managed is a slightly-forced acrostic (which will do, in a pinch, but I hope to do better).

Some cartoon sheep sit on chairs in a circle, looking gloomy. The caption says ‘Gambollers Anonymous’

Adorable!

I await the results with interest! How are your lambs doing?

Glad to see you back at work on the stained glass!

I think it was… I remember a discussion anyway! These are lovely, but can you go any darker? I always imagined that scene was taking place at twilight, so a more ’inky’ saturated blue in the sky.

So clever

Thing I learned very recently about this - if you click on the year, or the month, sometimes it gives you a pop up list and you can go directly to the year or month you need. So why not just tell us that??!!

AI slop 😡

This is genius!

Bagpuss mice in Easter hats sit under a tree decorated with eggs, surrounded by other fluffy friends

The Bagpuss mice and friends wish you a happy Easter

I like the chicken by itself, a more pleasing shape overall, imho

Looks like a place @tansyleemoir.bsky.social would enjoy?

Looking forward to this!

I was outside in a similar shower recently, and it really hurts!

Google Has a Secret Reference Desk. Here's How to Use It. 40 Google features to find exactly what you need, the alternative search engines that do things Google won't, and the reference desk framework underneath all of it.

I know this has circulated with alacrity recently, so you may have already seen it, but if you haven't... WOW BOY HOWDY it's the most useful thing.

Thank you cardcatalogforlife.substack.com -- this is a very very very helpful public service:

cardcatalogforlife.substack.com/p/google-has...

Can we get to 4000 followers before our birthday on Sunday?

Can you help us to help fill ears with quiet rather than noise.

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Where in Scotland can I see this? There don’t seem to be any showings listed?

Any clues yet about the Scotland situation?

Ask me anything about the history of Bovril bottles, I now know more than any sane person needs to! 🤣🤣