Small joys: lovely daffodils from our neighbour ☺️ (and yes, they are displayed in skull pint mugs - I don't have small vases!)

On the bus home from work, listening to The Marionettes and making a lacy crochet scarf. The life of a middle-aged goth 😆

It's Eurovision Day! 😄💜🏳️‍🌈🥳

I've started a separate Bluesky account for posting random facts and interesting objects from the museum stores! Find me at bsky.app/profile/muse...

Booooosh!

Bah! First day of my birthday celebrations and I've got a cold! 😷 Gonna power through; prosecco is a good antiviral, isn't it?!

It's so good!

Did an 80s murder mystery this weekend. It was a lot of fun!

Well that's amazing! 😄💀

That is so awesome! 😄

Ooh, that's a good idea!

Since I'm learning to crochet, I've been going through the rite of passage that is making granny squares. So, other people who can crochet and have presumably also done this, what do I do with them once they're made?!

Researching the 'Bevin Boys' (young men conscripted to the coal mines in WWII, rather than to the front lines), thanks to a fab donation of documents from a very lovely gentleman whose father was one! ehive.com/objects?quer...

Been poking around in the museum stores, finding brilliant things to tell everyone about! www.mansfield.gov.uk/museum/homep...

Had 'High Chai' at Bombay Delicatessen this afternoon, with @krohde.bsky.social Oh my goodness it's so good! 😄💜

Today my legs ache 😏

Today is the first time I've walked both to and from the bus to work (since I broke my ankle in November). Tired, but not too badly. Feels like I'm starting to get back to normal 😄

Yesterday was Candlemas, the traditional end of Yule, so we took the Christmas decorations down and made sure we scoffed all the leftover Christmas stuff.🎄
Today I saw the physiotherapist and am feeling quite positive about my broken ankle recovery.🥳
(These things are not related!)

Before Christmas I painted a pot. Today I have made it into work, and collected said pot. So chuffed with how much my nutcracker man looks like Roy Wood 😁

This is brilliant! :)

Hehehe 😁 (💜 George Takei)

Mansfield Museum collections go online – Mansfield District Council Mansfield Museum collections have moved online to make them accessible anywhere in the world.

These are two of the main things I've been working on for the last few months: historic object records starting to be made accessible to the public, and me waffling on about cool stuff in our collection! 😄 www.mansfield.gov.uk/news/article...

The best blackberries come from brambles growing on graves. My sister and I have started calling them corpseberries #NotaGoth

Went to a lovely meeting of the Notts Heritage Forum at St Barnabas Catholic cathedral yesterday. Caught up with some colleagues and had a tour with the conservators who are doing 'wall archaeology' revealing the layers of previous interior design, looking for Pugin's original decorative scheme.

Cometh the day, cometh the vampire! Thank you for following me on my sock countdown and Happy Hallowe'en from me and Count Sockula 😄🧛🏻

Ooh indeed!

H-1 and today's socks are the spooky castle. Why do all spooky castles look like Castle Duckula?! 😄🧛🏻‍♀️🦆

Argh!

Boo!!! 😄 Silly socks for H-2 👻

It's only 3 days to Hallowe'en! Breaking out the big guns of spooky socks for H-3: pumpkin cat! 😄🎃🐈‍⬛