calathea @calathea.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Love those grungy sepia tones! (and the colour names are fun!) 010
calathea @calathea.bsky.social · 09/10/2026I hate that the whole "exercise endorphins" thing is real! 😠 010
calathea @calathea.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Me, at 4am, waking up from a dream: What a great dream, what a wild, unique plotline, I should write that down. Me, at 8am, reading scribbly note: "There was a prince". Wow, so *unique*. (In my defense I had my flu/covid shots yesterday and I am, as usual, running a fever as a result.) 050
calathea @calathea.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Put together a cream tea for my parents who are feeling better but not great (they brought Covid home from their holidays) and kept 2 scones for myself 😁 they are honey cinnamon 060
calathea @calathea.bsky.social · 06/10/2026This is indeed a TERRIBLE feeling, and I hate it for you. 010
calathea @calathea.bsky.social · 02/10/202610 pinned my laptop browser, usually 1-15 extra open tabs (currently: 4) I am doing something with, but I close them as I go. 2 pinned on my studio desktop. None pinned on my phone or ipad but there's probably 1-5 random tabs open because I looked something up or clicked through. 000
calathea @calathea.bsky.social · 01/10/2026My dad's already recovered enough to walk the dog, thankfully, although not as energetically as he usually does. My mum is a couple of days behind him, so hoping she starts to feel better by the weekend. 110
calathea @calathea.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I did notice my chemist locally was offering private jabs for £80. It's steep, but if I weren't getting NHS one again this year, I'd probably pay for it. Mostly though that's because my brother & his family are over for Xmas and they've caught it every. single. time they've visited since it started. 000
calathea @calathea.bsky.social · 01/10/2026My dad is recovering quickly, my mum is a few days behind but says it's basically behaving like a really bad cold so far. Her problem is more that she's not sleeping because of a cough. Have to assume the (MANY) vax we've all had are helping keep it tamped down for them to nothing more serious. 100
calathea @calathea.bsky.social · 01/10/2026And my mum had a positive test too :( This was their first international trip since Covid started, so they are super unimpressed. 340
calathea @calathea.bsky.social · 30/09/2026UK NICE say that any of three current vaccines are equally effective this year, so we're getting a random selection of either Pfizer Cominarty, Spikevax or BIMERVAX, if that helps. 000
calathea @calathea.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Thankfully, I haven't seen them since they got back so I have not been exposed. But my dad is miserable, and my mum is stressed. 011
calathea @calathea.bsky.social · 29/09/2026After all these years, Covid has finally come for us (well, my dad, anyway -- he caught it while away on a trip. We're waiting to see if my mum manages to avoid it or not.) 240
calathea @calathea.bsky.social · 25/09/2026:D I am so excited to start sharing the stuff I am working on at the moment, because I'm finally starting to get into full illustrations. I'm having so much fun right now. 010
calathea @calathea.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I mean, my painting of the original guy is on the top left. 100
calathea @calathea.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Variations on a theme of monster. (This is a painting drill - the original wooden monster figurine is on the top left. I think the others kind of look like the materials I was aiming for except the middle bottom guy is meant to be ice and I don’t think I quite got it.) 160
calathea @calathea.bsky.social · 15/09/2026But why endless fireworks on a random Tuesday in September? I'd understand if it was still Rosh Hashanah (many Jewish people live in my neighbourhood) but I thought that was already over for the year? 020
calathea @calathea.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Actually I have a really good idea for once. Normally I draw a blank but I definitely know what I would have run with if I had to sew for this challenge. 000
calathea @calathea.bsky.social · 15/09/2026As usual, spending the last show of Sewing Bee deciding what I would make for @zebrapig.bsky.social if I were in the final. 210
calathea @calathea.bsky.social · 12/09/2026In fairness, that's not really a word that is widely used in British slang. I am sure younger generations know/use it, but my older-than-me endocrinologist, probably not. 030
calathea @calathea.bsky.social · 11/09/2026One of my doctors sends letter that say "will Fup within a week" and while this is reasonable and better than your colleagues f/u, I still feel like the extra half a second spent typing "follow up" would be better. 121
calathea @calathea.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Today, we are asking the eternal questions: is the neighbour on the other side of my party wall allowing her children to tap dance on it (answer: very possibly); and, how soon do their schools go back (answer: Sept 3). 050
calathea @calathea.bsky.social · 31/08/2026I got 6, but with the asterisk that I have to my knowledge only seen the content of 2 of them. (However, I am also not in the US, don't use tiktok or insta and my algorithm is 100% tuned to art plus a series of increasingly niche interests, so I don't know why any of them *would* cross my path.) 000
calathea @calathea.bsky.social · 27/08/2026I am only surprised he didn't try to rename it after himself. 000
calathea @calathea.bsky.social · 26/08/2026I am so pained by how good the most irritating people are. I need the less irritating good people to kick it up a notch! 100
calathea @calathea.bsky.social · 20/08/2026I can only assume they think it may only be for maybe a single year if Charles has a new diagnosis. The other thing I saw was people speculating on whether Trump's threats to H's green card were more serious than we know. Even then, a baffling choice given everything they've said about living here. 010
calathea @calathea.bsky.social · 20/08/2026I am already tired of The Discourse that will now happen every time one of them breathes in public. 110
calathea @calathea.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Sounds about right! Is it a large project? Mine was just a hat, so it didn't take long at all. 100
calathea @calathea.bsky.social · 15/08/2026The one time I knit with mohair I just sneezed continuously through the whole project, and had to lint roll constantly. Loved the hat I made though, so was overall a (sneezy) win. 🤧 100
calathea @calathea.bsky.social · 13/08/2026He is so sad. He just sits and stares at you like: Walk? 🥺 Walk? 🥺 every two minutes. It's a hard life being a Bear, forced to stay home and not burn his little feet on the pavement. 010
calathea @calathea.bsky.social · 13/08/2026I am lurking at my parents' house in their air conditioning because my own house is basically an oven. Also, Bear is SO GRUMPY because he does not understand air conditioning and thinks because it is cool inside it must be cool enough to take a walk and no. Not it is not, Bear. 110
calathea @calathea.bsky.social · 13/08/2026YES. I don't want to be a hater but I find them both annoying in different ways, and yet they are both legitimately good at sewing. On the other hand, I am so relieved that the extremely mediocre men have all departed. 100
calathea @calathea.bsky.social · 06/08/2026In a fit of "I'm 50, I should have a skincare routine" I bought some supposedly hypoallergenic, ultra sensitive skin products and after 3 days I feel like someone set my skin on fire. I'm not even using anything with active ingredients. 💀 😢 140
calathea @calathea.bsky.social · 02/08/2026Someone in my neighbourhood has given a small child a tin whistle. I feel like this contravenes the Geneva Convention somehow. 060
calathea @calathea.bsky.social · 30/07/2026I have just remembered I have to go vote today! (for Andy Burnham's replacement) 040
calathea @calathea.bsky.social · 28/07/2026I have sooooo many things to say about Sewing Bee!! @zebrapig.bsky.social 100
calathea @calathea.bsky.social · 23/07/2026I would agree that there are no normal uncles, except that my dad is an uncle, and he seems aggressively normal to me. I find it hard to believe my cousins are rolling their eyes over him being the weird uncle. (Except maybe they are, and I am just inured to him.) 100
calathea @calathea.bsky.social · 14/07/2026I didn't by any means dislike the winning garment, but it wasn't my favourite! But the right person went home in my opinion. 100
calathea @calathea.bsky.social · 14/07/2026The fisherman top outfit was one of the most boring things I've ever seen on Sewing Bee. 100
