Morning Skyfolk. Was rudely awakened by a heart rate of 115bpm and that apparently is the trend for my day. Stay well.

This story was in an anthology I read for uni, and my introduction to Ray Bradbury. It's wonderful, has stayed with me for so many years and we'll worth a few minutes of your time.

Helen Kennedy@helenkennedy.com · yesterday

Read it here if you haven't yet. Today is the very best day of all days to read it for the first time. short-stories.co/@raybradbury...

Oh my giddy aunt, this has cheered me up no end!

The Lancashire Hotpots@lancashirehotpots.bsky.social · 2d ago

You're not having a good time at a festival until you're singing the song from the Pepto Bismol advert are you

Morning Skyfolk. Head therapy this morning. I’ve been mopping up everyone else’s tears this past couple of weeks. Perhaps I need space for mine.

I love Amelia's work, and she does the best rude birthday cards.

Amelia Clark - Lover of Flagons@gingertotty.bsky.social · 2d ago

Back to scanning artwork. Some originals will be on sale, some prints, and I’m starting to curate so I can put together the much vaunted exhibition I keep threatening… These will be in the 2026 Clarkive sale. Prices in alt if you want to reserve (DM me)! #art #bsnm #artforsale #originalart #artist

Looks painful

Home for the morning

New Folios, a haunted postcard because she looks buccaneering, and poetry 📚

I saw the Body Wotlds exhibition in Newcastle with my niece a number of years ago. Some of it felt sensational. But one of the first bodies exhibited was a skeleton with Ankylosing Spondylitis which my OH has. To see how this autoimmune disorder distorts.. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Gunther von Hagens obituary

German anatomist who devised a system of ‘plastination’ to preserve cadavers that were exhibited all over the world

theguardian.com

I’m muntered.

Coastal tour

I’m ambulatory this morning which is a vast improvement on yesterday. So I’m shambling to the opticians. I still have shaking hands though. Whoop! Gonna second hand book store as a treat….

Being bedbound, I'm wanting, twitching, burning to buy all the books and the tees and the totes from the @blpublishing.bsky.social weird and odd collections because they're beautifully curated and produced and I WANT THEM ALL, PRECIOUS!

Gollum We Needs It

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A late good morning Skyfolk. I'm crocked with autonomic nervous system dysfunction today. Superhero compression tights and legs in the air deployed. Oh boy!

Funny Cat in a Playful Pose

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Meanwhile, in ASBOland, housing company's response to my formal complaint is a triumph of bold assertion over reality. Did they really think I wouldn't keep receipts?

Day 3 Death Cleansing: order is emerging from chaos. Four storage bags down to two. Still too much. 20 dresses bagged up for charity, plus random other stuff. I’m finding the stuff that fits and I love, but which feels ‘too good to wear’. Like this Hobbs skirt. I should just wear it, shouldn’t I?

Day 2 of death cleansing: omg where do I start? Do I really need 5 black satin slip skirts that make me hippo?

so here's small white dog.

If I ever share anything that turns out to be AI generated, call me out because AI is horrendous. And it will be posted by accident. Those I do mostly post my own photos of a small white dog, far too many clothes, books and my stupid face.

Back to Swedish Death Cleansing. Doing a proper clothes audit bc I keep trying to boost my serotonin in charity shops. I have far too many clothes. Coats and bags today. 24 bags and 22 coats of all kinds. Trying to put some in charity bags shouldn’t be this hard… Dresses tomorrow. Eek!

Therapist: switch your phone off to give yourself a break Gp mental health nurse: switch your phone off to give yourself a break Today: unwell so switch off phone The universe: calls P's phone instead to yell at me about crap they won't take responsibility for. I might have said bollocks.

I’m rather poorly today. But I’ve been sticking my poems in my extremely scruffy creative journal and seeing them makes me happy. I drafted Ripple at Poetry Surgery.

This got kinda bad. I ended up on my arse in the yard watering the plants. Freaked P out a bit when my ankle turned rubber band and snapped. I had to sit for a bit bc I wasn't sure my joints would actually hold me up if I moved. No damage though, and thankfully I didn't faceplant a pot!

Jane@gingercrone.bsky.social · 2w ago

Morning Skyfolk. I'm a puddle of hypermobile spaghetti ligaments this morning. Oh well.

Dress me in scarlet, ribbons and bows so everyone knows I'm hiding a face that hasn't the grace to go free. Scarlet - All About Eve

Secret Drug Addict@scrtdrugaddict.bsky.social · 2w ago

I’m in the library and forgot it’s school holidays and it’s a screeching pit of noise 😳

Morning Skyfolk. I'm a puddle of hypermobile spaghetti ligaments this morning. Oh well.

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Good Morning all……. This weeks chosen album is In my Tribe by 10,000 Maniacs as selected by @gingercrone.bsky.social Enjoy ……🩵🩷

Morning Skyfolk. The view speaks for itself.

Yikes!

Wow! Our balcony for 18 hours!