When you tell me to 'calm down' or 'smile more'...🔥😂

Border finished - on to the text!! Get the free pattern on ko-fi 😊🪡

For when you have limited patience and an unlimited to-do list This hoop is for everyone who has ever sat through a conversation that should have been a text, or a meeting that should have been an email...

Starting my version of this month's free pattern download, available on ko-fi 🪡😊

Some people buy sports cars I buy embroidery floss and make hoops about my existential dread Same crisis, different aesthetic. Find it in the Etsy shop

Are you operating at a solid 3/10 today? No, you don't need suggestions. Yes, you need more cake and less talking Available in the Etsy shop

It's Free Pattern Friday!🥳🎉 This month's pattern 'Stay Away From Me' is for anyone whose social battery has usually malfunctioned by 9am... A beginner friendly stitch using just a few colours from that thread stash you've got. Just right for an evening with a cuppa and absolutely no visitors...

✅ Touring Clacton ✅ Visiting local businesses ✅ Listening to constituents’ concerns ✅ Hi-vis vest Make your Vote Count! #VoteBinface #Clacton

Thank you all for listening! Today's episode will be repeated on Friday at 9pm, and is available on BBC Sounds. No big deal or anything, but next week is our Nero episode, with guests prof Llewelyn Morgan and CHRISTOPHER BIGGINS!! Be there or be poisoned...🏛️📻 🎧 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand...

When it's been a bit of a week... Available for those who take 'holding a grudge' to artisan levels at ThistleflatCrafts.com

Finally finished the backstitch!! 🎉🥳💃🏻😄 Pattern is available in the shop if you'd like to make it yourself - this one will probably take me another three weeks to back before it gets in there... 😅

Working together is beautiful. So is having someone else to point at when it all goes wrong.

When you've had enough and it's still only Monday morning... Check out the range at thistleflatcrafts.com

Me when I wake up: Right, I'm going to organise my shit today! I am determined. Nothing will stop me!!! And two hours later I'm still scrolling through social media having done absolutely fuck all organising...🤦🏻‍♀️😂

You've got things to do. People to ignore. Boundaries to enforce. 😉 Finished hoop. Ready to hang, Available now. 😊 thistleflatcrafts.etsy.com/listing/9217...

Them: Just let it go, it's not worth it Me: No.

Finished the cross stitching and trying to psych myself up for the backstitching. I hate the backstitching...😂

A WEEK TODAY! ⏰ Series 12 of Natalie Haynes Stands Up for the Classics! Ep 1 is The Science of Alexandria, with two brilliantly scholarly & brilliantly funny guests: professors Islam Issa & Adam Rutherford. BBC Radio 4, 9am, Thurs 30th July. Subscribe on BBC Sounds: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand...

Finally finished the text on this cross stitch... Something that applies to ALL the book lovers 🤣🙉

Current progress after several hours of stitching... 😊 #crossstitch

Starting a new cross stitch this week. This one is for the book lovers! 📚😍

What great timing! Fans of I, Claudius definitely want to tune in to the new series of Natalie Haynes Stands Up for the Classics, Thursdays at 9am from 30th July… 👀 #IfYouKnowYouKnow

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Don't touch the figs... I, Claudius is being repeated on BBC Four from Weds 29 July.

🔴 For the past year @lucasamin.bsky.social and I have been investigating Palantir in the UK What we found was a company with unrivalled political access, selling a product many data experts in the NHS don’t use, and don’t rate Please read and share democracyforsale.substack.com/p/its-just-a...

"It's just a waste of time": inside Palantir's £330m NHS failure

Our new investigation reveals the problems with Palantir’s NHS tech - and the unrivalled political access that fuelled the firm’s march into the British state

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For when patience is thin, tolerance is gone and being the bigger person sounds quite frankly exhausting... Get you decorative warning signs here! There's also a pattern if you'd like to make this yourself 😊

Spent some time this weekend making the FREE pattern (available for a limited time) on my ko-fi site 🥰 It was too warm to do anything larger 😂

Peak attractiveness is whispering 'for fuck’s sake' while trying to get a knot out of your thread for 20 minutes... Check out the Etsy shop for this and many other delusional pieces 🤣

We’re BACK! Tune your sets to BBC Radio 4 for 9am on Thursday 30th July. The BBC Sounds podcast will go up the same day. Series 12 Episode 1 is Alexandria: The Science, with guests Islam Issa and @adamrutherford.bsky.social! 🔬📚 #NatalieHaynesStandsUpfortheClassics

The face of a man trying to defend the idea that The Establishment somehow doesn’t include a privately educated multi-millionaire who was handed the family property business or the aristocratic family who gave him even more money.

Hand stitched honesty for the days when enthusiasm is simply not happening...😅

This was meant to be a productive, life affirming kind of day Instead I appear to have committed to… whatever this is 🤷🏻‍♀️😂