Lily Crowther
@lilcrowther
Historian, curator, museum trustee, Yiddishe mama. Museums, craft, design, architecture, making, teaching with objects.
Little old man is 17 and not in the mood to get up for anyone, not even International Cat Day.
Just back from an amazing fortnight interrailing around Scandinavia. Now busy plotting how to chuck it all in and go live on a skerry in the Baltic.
Same situation here with cherries. Most of these now pitted and in the freezer, just in time before the figs start to ripen.
At least somebody’s enjoying the heat. He chooses the hottest room in the house to nap on his favourite fleece.
Could it be a later imagining of an early C19 scene? We have a painting in our collection in Leamington by a late C19/early C20 painter who specialised in Regency scenes of resorts for the tourist market. We used this one for an exhibition poster recently.
Whoever ordered this from the stacks has won today’s game of library one-upmanship.
Woodpecker outside the kitchen window today. This bright weather is good for the soul.
The soft animal of his body loves what it loves (it loves blankets)
A description of a machine that manufactures lies, from Gianni Rodari’s ‘Telephone Tales’ (1962).
Likelihood of getting any work done this afternoon: severely limited.
View from my garden door in the West Midlands right now. Yep, grapes grow here. (These ones are muscats.)
Cat maintaining his precarious position on child. He seldom leaves her lap regardless how bony, uneven or wriggly a surface she may present.
The fruit trees this year are like a Samuel Palmer painting. This from a stroll across the common - the whole place carpeted and scented with fermenting plums.
First fig of the year from our garden - almost exactly a month earlier than last year. They like the sunshine!
Does anyone here speak Japanese and understand knitting patterns? I’ve figured out the rest, but I can’t work out what the bracketed lists of numbers marked in yellow are for. I guess they must indicate increases and decreases but how?! Really grateful for any suggestions or shares. Thanks!