From 10! I was brought up on playing Moon rockets.

How to be on the Moon is a book I keep in my bedside book pile, because it is a joy and cheering and the illustrations make me do actual laughs

Save the date!
🌸 Our Spring Fayre is back – and this year it's all about folk! 🎭
Free entry.
Family fun. Live music. Longsword and Morris dancing. Maypole. Kiddy Ceilidh. Willow Art. Children’s Scratch Orchestra (bring instruments if you like!). Face painting. And our galleries too.

Fuzzy pal

What was in a Stone Age sewing kit? 🧐

Find out on our next workshop with award-winning heritage educator and experimental archaeologist Sally Pointer!

🔥 Saturday 25 April
🪨 10am - 3.30pm
🍃 £90 per ticket

Last spaces available here: www.butserancientfarm.co.uk/whats-on/cal...

I do that too. Good for going to sleep while listening, but I get confused as to where I'm up to

Sounds interesting. Review please

I shall be going to bed as soon as dinner is decently digested. Possibly earlier

I like it when they are safely locked in for the night

Tea time? Mine are usually near the garden in the evening

Mine are really keen on going out in the evening now. They do come when I call though

There are bluetits in the garden and I think I can hear a baby. Or is it too early?

It's #BatAppreciationDay. One of medieval misericords woodcarvings in Dunblane Cathedral, some of oldest medieval woodcarvings in Scotland, features a bat. Here's video letting you hear about Dunblane Cathedral's misericord stalls
▶️ youtu.be/X9evP88GcCs

We can't make this relevant to Amberley Museum but a cut-out model of an Etruscan tomb from 1837 is too good not to pass on!

#FindsFriday
Brooches and chain, pair of silver trumpet style brooches with connecting silver chain, Roman, AD100-200.

Possibly found in a stone quarry in 1835, Chorley, Lancashire.

On loan from the British Museum. On display at the a treasure exhibition, Liverpool.

📷 My own.

Weeding and getting pounced on

We will never know

It's a mystery. 🤔

It seems ridiculous that women used to be called by their husband's name! Perhaps she was Daisy?

I always wondered if Dick was her late husband or if her name was some female version of Richard.

An image of The Briggait, Glasgow. Credit: Andrew Lee. The text reads: AHF50 Glasgow Exhibition. Celebrating 50 Years of the Architectural Heritage Fund. 1st May - 16th May. The Briggait.

Catch the AHF 50th Anniversary Exhibition at the Briggait in Glasgow for its second stop of the tour.

#AHF50 #ArchitecturalHeritage #SustainableDevelopment #Scotland #UKHeritage

A large crocodile is having its teeth brushed by a little girl.

A happy frog prince wearing a crown is perched on a lily pad.

A Canada Goose hangs in the air suspended by an umbrella.

A little mouse in a yellow mac is sheltering under a toadstool from the rain. He's reading a book.

Hey #PortfolioDay I'm an illustrator who loves drawing cute critters and colourful characters. I'd love to do more animal-based non-fiction.

www.vickigausden.co.uk

#kidlitart #illustrationart

Busy day. Started cleaning and forgot I was going to make ragu. Then orders to pack. Fried stuff for tea/dinner.

Critically endangered crafts Crafts classified as 'critically endangered' are those at serious risk of no longer being practised. They m include crafts with a shrinking base of craftspeople, crafts with limited training opportunities, crafts wit financial viability, or crafts where there is no mechanism to pass on the skills and knowledge. Arrowsmithing Basketwork furniture making Bell founding Besom broom making MORE ENDANGERED Bow making (musical) Bowed-felt hat making Chain making Clay pipe making Clog making Coiled straw basket making Coppersmithing (objects) Copper wheel engraving Currach making Cut crystal glass making NEW Devon stave basket making Diamond cutting Encaustic tile making Engine turned engraving Fabric pleating Fair Isle chair making Fan making Figurehead carving NEW Flower making (trade and manufacturing) NEW Flute making (concert) Fore-edge painting Frame knitting Glass eye making Glove making MORE ENDANGERED Hat block making Hat plaiting Horse collar making Horsehair weaving Linen beetling NEW Linen damask weaving Maille making Matte painting (filmmaking) NEW Metal thread making Millwrighting Northern Isles basket making Orrery making Paper making (trade and manufacturing) Parchment and vellum making Piano making Pietra dura NEW Plane making Plume making Pointe shoe making Pottery (trade and manufacturing) Quilting (frame NEW | Rake making MORE ENDANGERED Rattan furniture making NEW Saw making Scientific and optical instrument making Scissor making Sieve and riddle making Silk ribbon weaving Silver spinning Spade making Spinning wheel making Straw hat making Sussex trug making Swill basket making Tanning (oak bark) Thatching (Irish vernacular) NEW Thatching (Scottish vernacular) Thatching (Welsh vernacular) NEW + Tinsmithing Wainwrighting Watch face enamelling Watch making Whip making Wooden fishing net making 84.7

new bucket list unlocked for my adhd craft friends:

Did anyone else see this message in the clouds this morning? #LookUpAtTheSkyDay

New stair carpet. I wonder how I’m going to get the cats to wipe their feet when they come in?

I think you have neutralised it

Ha! It'll have drowned

Never trust washing labels