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Bet the secretary didn't get paid or royalties.

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I am holding a little wreath of winter-retted hemp fiber in my hand. In the background are dessicated stalks of some of last year's fiber hemp crop, and bright blue sky.

I just updated my web store to reflect the textile flax seed, dyeplant seed, fiber, and other stuff I presently have available.

Please take a look if you have a need for seed; I may not be able to get any more for this season (i.e., when it's gone, it's gone).

#flax #lin #linen #spring

How interesting!

Oh dear. The last Christmas my mother spent at home, before her dementia was bad, I was cooking dinner. She was determined to check how things were getting on in the oven, but every ten minutes she'd forget she'd done it, and have to look again. I had to guard the oven all morning!

A thread of spindle whorls...

They are a thing, though Manran normally doesn't use them.

Mànran - Òran Na Cloiche | Hoolie in the Hydro 2023 YouTube video by ManranTV

And the song about the heist is brilliant! ]
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Yes, there really should have been far more of a fuss when it was carted back down to London. I'm very inclined to think the real one didn't leave

Of course, it's now back in Scotland (Perth) though still technically the property of the Crown, and was taken back to London for Chuckles' coronation.

Oh dear, I think he might well have got ideas now...

@jackwallington.com know any places that could take 40-200 bare root fruit trees someone's rescuing from chipper in Kent end March .. please let me know if you do.. he thinks the agreement in my Oxford has fallen through

So sorry to hear this, but at least you're recovering. Now His Highness can return the favour and look after you!

Well, this is interesting!

Dive into Wool Creature Lab's World of Vibrant Felted Nudibranchs How artist Arina Bovenich's job at a remote biology research station transformed into a unique craft practice.

Look at these fab felted nudibranchs! www.thisiscolossal.com/2026/03/wool...

Sadly it's very much the same here in the UK. Either end of the supposed Left and Right wing are (un)surprisingly similar, with the possible exception of the Greens who are being shat on by both sides

I know the feeling...

AI shills: it can help you visualise ideas.
Me, with Aphantasia: I can't visualise for shit and I come up with ideas and draw them just fine thanks, only now I have to navigate piles of slop every time I need to find reference pics. 😑

Boggle!

Pakora (autocarrot)

Paneer panoramic.

Did it work?

There are very good reasons to think that the original Stone was not retrieved after its theft, and the British state replaced it with a facsimile to save face.

There is a very good argument that it already has been replaced with a damn good copy.

Goodness, that dress and those diamonds are so lovely against her beautiful skin!

Retrospectives!

Retrospectives are good.

It's a lovely thing but goodness, how it's dated! It's an unwearable shape these days unless a hairdresser could do something very unusual with it.

Of course it is

Absolutely this.

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I have washing out on the line!