Next month I'm crafting every day for Alzheimer's Research UK! Almost one million people are living with dementia. I'm crafting every single day to help fund life-saving research for a cure! Here's my link: raise.ing/po9pzngg180zy If you are able to sponsor me, every pound makes a huge difference! 🧡

Janet Goodall is fundraising on behalf of Alzheimer's Research UK

This November, I'm knitting every day for Alzheimer's Research UK. This is for the one million people living with dementia in the UK to help raise funds for vital dementia research. 🧡 Family members...

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I have, today, attained the ripe old age of 69. As my beloved FinL would point out, that means I’ve started my 70th time of this round the year lark. And y’know what? Right glad I am to be doing it. Be good to each other-we’re all we’ve got.

Dear squirrel, Look we go through this every year. YOU know you're perfectly safe, hanging upside down in the yew tree, across from my first floor office, and then dropping nonchalantly down to another branch. But *I* don't know that and I worry. Just... take care, ok?

Kermit's Anxious Moment

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Helpful tip. If you are filling a water bottle, at your desk, from another vessel, and you are relying on hearing when the bottle is mostly full, it's best not to wear headphones while doing that. Don't ask how I know. How's your Monday?

Wet Cat Taking a Bath

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#ShowMeYourKnits.... Yet another TGV...

Somehow, half of October is gone. Not entirely sure how that happened. But November will soon be upon us and although I'm not going to spam you a lot about this (I hope), I'm raising money for research into Alzheimer's disease in November. aruk.sync.giving/fr/cr-83108m...

Janet Goodall is fundraising on behalf of Alzheimer's Research UK

This November, I'm knitting every day for Alzheimer's Research UK. This is for the one million people living with dementia in the UK to help raise funds for vital dementia research. 🧡 Family members...

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This. Yes. I often tell audiences -I want you to be that person. Be the one people say, 'Oh, you can't tell that joke around them'. No, you can't. 'Oh, they won't go for that'. True. .

TKarney@pecunium.bsky.social · 3w ago

This is a brutally honest read. It’s not funny, and it’s not satire. And it needs to be said, which is a tragedy . www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/an-...

I'm considering something for a fundraiser... So a poll. Do you still use physical bookmarks? 1️⃣ Yes, all the time, love them. 2️⃣ Yes, if there's something around. 3️⃣ Actual paper books? With bookmarks? What? No. 4️⃣ Something else entirely I will put in a comment. 📊 Show results

I just saw a film of package after package of colourful wool in a warehouse and I may need to go for a restorative lie down...

Maymayentrata Knitting a Giant Blanket

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I am neither a political scientist nor a therapist but I could be forgiven for thinking that perhaps what the world needs right now is for more people to just enjoy watching baby flamingos.

Massimo (mirror)@rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 4w ago

Flamingos are not pink. They are born with grey feathers, which gradually turn pink in the wild because of a dye called canthaxanthin obtained from their diet of brine shrimp and blue-green algae. This is a baby flamingo. Original post

Dear everyone, Yes, students now are different than students ten years ago. I would worry - a lot - if they were not. They have different skills, different forms of knowledge, different new words. Finding all that out is one of the joys of continuing to teach.

It has been.... a week. I have decided that tonight may, indeed, be a Thor, Ragnarok sort of night. Yes.

Chris Hemsworth Thor

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#ShowMeYourKits. #WIPWednesday …. Simple pi in Hobbii universal

New research just dropped (not mine) www.stroke.org.uk/get-involved...

I've just been on BBC Wales, talking about 'screen time' - for about three minutes. Main message I want to get across? * Engage with your child - discuss what they're seeing * Every family, every child is different * Most parents are doing the best they can!

I'm in a group that was doing a marathon of hats for September - and herewith, the 26th hat I've knit this month. Not bad, considering I was doing other stuff all last week! #ShowMeYourKnits

If you follow me, you know I knit. A lot. I am putting that to good use in November, to raise money for Alzheimer's research. You can follow my progress, here... and this will, obviously, be repeated nearer the time. raise.ing/po9pzngg180zy

Janet Goodall is fundraising on behalf of Alzheimer's Research UK

This November, I'm knitting, sewing, or crocheting every day for Alzheimer's Research UK. This is for the one million people living with dementia in the UK to help raise funds for vital dementia resea...

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#ShowMeYourKnits that I'm most proud of? Probably this - first, because it was requested by the bride's mother, and second for how it turned out...

After a very great deal of walking, I've just sat in a chair and put my feet up on a footstool, which I have not done in years. Suffice to say I will be attaining one for the homestead....

Comfy Kitten Cuddling a Teddy Bear

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Dear Adobe, When opening a PhD thesis that I'm attempting to examine, I am well aware that it's a long document. And no, under no circumstances do I want you to summarise it for me. GO AWAY.

Pleased to see this published - more work from our ESRC project journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

The playful entanglements of very young children’s intergenerational video calls across cultures and languages: More-than-human perspectives - Rosie Flewitt, Sandra El Gemayel, Lorna Arnott, Julia Gil...

The United Kingdom is home to a culturally and linguistically diverse population of young children living in families where digital technologies offer unprecede...

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I'll spare you the photos (as they're mostly the same sort of thing) but I'm up to hat # 22 out of 26 for the month...

Cute Cartoon Character Knitting Yarn

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#ShowMeYourKnits... yellow? Not a lot but I love this - got the wool when working in Australia... And I think I bought this wool for something completely different but me being me, it ended up being a TGV....

Hat #19 - also FOFriday #ShowMeYourKnits

#18... I think I may make to the required 26...

Hat #17

This is horrific. This should not be the case. I would confidently expect statements from government officials about this. My MP is @torstenbell.bsky.social....?

The Guardian@theguardian.com · last mo.

Lifeboat station in Portsmouth forced to temporarily shut after far-right action

A couple of notes about all the knitting... * I knit with a lot of cheap yarn. Mainly because it's what I have around but also because it's easy care - almost all of my knitting goes to people who probably aren't going to have time/space to 'hand wash, dry flat'...