That is just a colour #sketch of Holmes doing some chemistry stuff. Despite the #comic later being digital, I make my sketches sometimes traditionally in #watercolours .
'The benefits of wallowing in uncomfortable places' - a thoughtful essay on mud.
https://stories.slowways.org/muddling-with-mother-on-composing-mud-and-memory/?s=09
Echoing this from my lines community post:
An inherited sewing machine. Probably about 50 years old now and still going strong. I’ve replaced the gears in it a few times. The bottom opens via a single screw which can be opened using a coin. Everything is easy to access.
The manual is wonderful and contains full maintenance information. It’s built to be repaired and renewed. A great advertisement for right to repair.
A very pleasant Easter weekend so far. We've been over at the allotment two afternoons where my partner had replaced the leaking pond liner on Thursday while I was still at work.
Among other things, we planted up a new purchase from the plant sales outlet of the county agricultural college - a Saskatoon / Juneberry tree. I've never heard of anyone growing these berries in the north of the England (and we might find why!) but it had a pretty blossom and we are willing to give it a shot.
'Suriname is in a constant balancing act in relation to sustainability. And it is aware of this'.
Another insightful entry from this excellent blog.
https://fossilfreearoundtheworld.org/country-of-contradictions-suriname/
I heard Adrienne Rich's poem "In Those Years" for the first time on an old podcast I was listening to either last week or the week before, yet it's still making a impression on me.
"the great dark birds of history screamed and plunged
into our personal weather".
Such a powerful piece.
https://www.best-poems.net/adrienne_rich/in_those_years.html
Today we went to Brockholes Nature Reserve on the outskirts of Preston. It's the crowning glory of our local wildlife trust, of which we are members, and somewhere we go once or twice a year. A former sand and gravel quarry, it has a floating visitor village, moody woods and backs on to the River Ribble.
We saw wigeon, goldeneye, shoveler, reed bunting, an egret and a great flock of curlew overhead. Significantly drier and warmer to be outside than we have experienced lately - ever so pleasant.
We witnessed a significant amount of running and standing water on the roads and fields today on our afternoon trip over to Cliffe Castle Museum at Keighley.
We go, periodically, for the temporary exhibitions. However it was the fun and rather fabulous 'evolution' tapestry from the permanent collection today that caught my eye .
34 metres in six years. I can't imagine the practicalities of working-on and storing this ongoing project.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-60403281
A hair salon that has the ruins of the basilica of Roman London through a glass door behind the end stylist's chair.
https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/02/10/the-ruin-at-the-hairdresser/
I confess to not being familiar with 60s/70s renegade nun and pop artist Sister Mary Corita Kent. I was reading that last year Los Angeles City Council granted landmark status to her former studio.
Her art department 'rules' are kind of neat.
https://www.creativelivesinprogress.com/article/corita-kent
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