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Claire Cullingworth @ccullingworth.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

There we go. The Archers making me cry again. That's twice in a couple of weeks! #TheArchers

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Claire Cullingworth @ccullingworth.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Which of us hasn't made that mistake, at one time or another?? ✝️⚓ #CofEPeeps

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Mark Eames @markofclubs.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

That made me smile too - ET however, appears “naturally” on this☺️

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Nine Ten Publications @ninetenpub.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Happy release day to BE A FOOL! This book is made of joy. It's like a Gen-X nostalgic fever dream of all the best parts of childhood brought into adulthood—making bad art, riding bikes, modifying those bikes so they're truly outrageous, skate parks, making your own skate parks, camcorder movies...

Happy Book Release Day! Featuring the cover of Be a Fool, by the Zenga Bros. Now available in bookstores and online in Canada, the U.S., and beyond.

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Claire Cullingworth @ccullingworth.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Feeling decidedly twitchy about Alan helping Carol with her banking app, for a payment from her into his own account. He means so well, but that has scope to go horribly wrong 😬😬😬 #TheArchers

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Tony Dexter @timbleman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Reminded me about this...😂

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Antronics Ltd @antronicsltd.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

We once saw Gromit on a balcony in Bristol

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Claire Cullingworth @ccullingworth.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

This made me smile, attached to an ordinary cast iron drainpipe on a house in Durham. #TinyJoys

A cast iron drain pipe going down the side of a white-painted house. A crest of red feathers and a bright orange beak made from something solid have been attached around it. It looks remarkably like "Feathers McGraw", the evil criminal penguin from The Wrong Trousers.

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Claire Cullingworth @ccullingworth.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Transferring next years dates into my new (academic year) diary today. Happy New Year to all those of you who still work in School Years, even though it's years since they've been part of a school.

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Claire Cullingworth @ccullingworth.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I reckon there's a few churches who could do with these friendly little robot pals. ✝️⚓ #CofEPeeps

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Claire Cullingworth @ccullingworth.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

This morning - filling in complicated expenses form. (Partly complicated because it's a new organisation to be claiming from, so the guidelines need working out). Have been putting it off because I hate this type of admin - although I do like getting the money as the outcome.

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Claire Cullingworth @ccullingworth.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

This little chap has been hopping round me, the last couple of times I've been in the garden. I finally got a photo of him yesterday evening, while I was picking plums. He was so interested in what I was doing, I felt like I could put out a finger, and he would hop across and perch on it. #TinyJoys

A close up photo of a little round robin, (a juvenile, I think, with his red breast just starting to show), perched on a twig, against a background of many ivy leaves.

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Rosamundi @rosamundi.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

If you are a shortarse like me, and don't fancy climbing on a chair to poke at the smoke alarm button, use a knitting needle, you can usually pick them up for cheap in charity shops but even new they don't cost much.

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Claire Cullingworth @ccullingworth.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

A midwife, rather than a doctor, in my case. She asked me the dates of my last period, and other details, and consulted her chart and confidently told me that my due date was the 31st February. Then we both kind of sat looking at each other trying to work out why that didn't sound quite right.

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Claire Cullingworth @ccullingworth.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

30 years of being married to this amiable weirdo. We were so very young!

A wedding photo in a frame. The couple are ridiculously young and fresh faced, with no idea what the next 30 years will hold, or what on earth they are doing, bless em. He's wearing a blue/grey suit with a dark tie and flowers in his button hole. She (me) is wearing a deep red dress and has a bouquet. Deep green trees in the background.

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Claire Cullingworth @ccullingworth.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

An underwhelming photo - but I learned a new approach to fixing those annoying little holes you get in t-shirts, and it's almost invisible (hence how underwhelming the photo is!). It was over 1cm across and now it's gone. Very pleased with how it came out. Love a new technique! #TinyJoys

A close up of the fabric of a black t-shirt. There's an area of fabric about 2cm across, in the middle where the texture is slightly different, but other than that, there really isn't a lot to see!

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Claire Cullingworth @ccullingworth.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

One for next time you're preaching on the Trinity?? 😂 ✝️⚓

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Claire Cullingworth @ccullingworth.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

My kids once lost it completely with the giggles at a very solemn moment in a Maundy Thursday church service because of this same naming coincidence. Obviously I, a serious ordained person leading the service also got a bad fit of the giggles, when I realised what had set them off. ✝️⚓ #CofEPeeps

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Claire Cullingworth @ccullingworth.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Can anyone remind me what the beavers at the Ambridge rewilding project are called? My search skills are failing me. One is Justin, but what is the other one called? #TheArchers

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WobblyGoose/Dr Rachel @wobblygoose.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

The Seeking the Disabled Christ Exhibition is all set up in Leicester Cathedral ready for tomorrow. Do visit during the cathedral opening hours until 5th August for free.

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Exhibition: Seeking the Disabled Christ

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Claire Cullingworth @ccullingworth.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

I read this on a long train journey last weekend. If you like legal thrillers, this is a really good, twisty-turny read, currently at a bargain price. I really enjoyed getting inside the heads of the barristers, judge and defendants, in turn. #booksky

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WobblyGoose/Dr Rachel @wobblygoose.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

'Seeking the Disabled Christ' Panel Discussion I will be discussing my Disabled Christ images, disability, Deaf and Neurodivergent theology with the excellent Hannah Lewis Tim Rourke and David Harknett At Leicester Cathedral Monday 3rd August 2026 leicestercathedral.org/exhibition-s...

A dark blue lino print image of Jesus from the waist up. He is signing 'I love you' in American Sign Language and carries a heart shaped pebble in his free hand

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Claire Cullingworth @ccullingworth.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

"It was like this when I got here. Honest, gov"

A tabby and white cat is lying on a carpet. There's a tangle of thick red t-shirt yarn on the floor, which she is sprawled on top of. She is glaring, defiantly at the photographer.

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Claire Cullingworth @ccullingworth.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Gone home with the keys to the main entrance at work in their pocket.

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Claire Cullingworth @ccullingworth.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Really pleased with how this labyrinth has turned out - and it seems a really fitting image for the room where I meet people for spiritual direction. Churches have been using labyrinths as a aid to prayer for centuries. The cat is very fond of it too. Presumably she's dreaming of being a Minotoar?

A quilted fabric wall hanging, on a wall. It's a plain blue-green fabric background with a labyrinth path cut into it. Where the top fabric is cut away, you can see that there's a second layer behind it, made of brightly coloured patchwork.

The same labyrinth, half folded and lying on the floor. A tabby and white cat is curled up asleep in the centre of it, dreaming mythological dreams.

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Claire Cullingworth @ccullingworth.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

I googled a famous actor last night to see what nationality he was and the AI on the Google search page confidently told me that he has an identical twin sister. Really? You sure about that??

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Claire Cullingworth @ccullingworth.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Using up scraps of yarn. It's reassuring to get to a stage where I can easily try it on and check that it's going to fit. Just the sleeves to knit, the collar to sew down properly and about a million ends to sew in. Progress photo mainly for @crikeys.bsky.social

My torso! Wearing a half knitted jumper, in marled greens and blues, giving a striped effect. As yet, it has no sleeves, and there are loose ends of wool dangling from it.

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Claire Cullingworth @ccullingworth.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Our garden got a bit overgrown last year and the ivy made a decent attempt at swallowing up the bird table. When I cleared it yesterday, I found out someone had rather been taking advantage of the situation! I suspect it was last spring, not this one, it doesn't look recently lived in. #TinyJoys

A close up of a wooden bird table with a little roof over it, surrounded by ivy. On the table is a bird nest, beautifully woven together out of very fine twigs.

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Claire Cullingworth @ccullingworth.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Does anyone have any recommendations for a cloud app? Something that would identify clouds and tell me about them, like Merlin does for birds? When I google for cloud apps, I mainly get online storage suggestions. Tagging @drlucyrogers.com because clouds are definitely things that are Up.

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Claire Cullingworth @ccullingworth.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Work Christmas meal in a pub yesterday. Anyone want to vote on if it was late for last Christmas or early for the next one? 😂 It also happened to fall in Volunteer Appreciation Week, so I suspect we should just have gone with that!

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Claire Cullingworth @ccullingworth.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

This looks very cool - and of interest to some folks I know here. ✝️⚓

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Claire Cullingworth @ccullingworth.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

I'm backing at this gorgeous yarn shop, teaching mending again soon. Come and join me and learn how to repair your clothes with different types of darning. Durham, on the 6th June in the afternoon. www.wingandabear.com/products/men...

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Mending for Beginners 1: Darning Techniques (June 6)

Saturday June 6, 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM. Mending your clothes is good for the planet and good for your wallet! Visible mending can be a great way to use your creativity and make your clothes unique too. Ac...

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Claire Cullingworth @ccullingworth.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Algorithms sure do love to preach to the converted 😂 #craftsky

A screenshot of part of a FB page. A video clip is ready to go. There's a pile of tiny, assorted red and white pieces of fabric, with the words "Do not EVER throw out fabric scraps!" appearing over the top of them.

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Claire Cullingworth @ccullingworth.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Ironing some big pieces of fabric for a sewing project.... That may not have been my best ever plan, on the hottest day of the year so far.

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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Art class should never stop being a thing. Like if right after our lunch breaks we all got to go down to the basement, throw on a smock and make collages out of old magazines while somebody's slightly witchy aunt tells us how great we're doing, I feel like we'd all be in a better place

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Claire Cullingworth @ccullingworth.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Damn I found it Guess I have to do the things, after all 😭

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Claire Cullingworth @ccullingworth.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

I appear to have lost my to-do list. That means I no longer have to do any of the items on it, and I can just slack off, right? Right??

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Claire Cullingworth @ccullingworth.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

For that stage in life where you might need a camper van, or you might need a hearse and you just can't make your mind up.

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Claire Cullingworth @ccullingworth.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

A heron sculpture for @everyheron.bsky.social and anyone else who loves them. It lives in a fishpond at the Botanical Gardens in Durham (uk)

A sculpture of a heron, made out what looks like rusty scrap metal. It's standing on a rock, on the edge of a large fishpond

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Claire Cullingworth @ccullingworth.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Next mending project. This one looks like a fun challenge. The yarn shop where I've been teaching mending sent it my way, when a customer came in with it saying "Please help!" The ladders are the most dramatic damage. There's also an armpit hole and a few other smaller issues

A jumper knitted with speckled cream wool. Down the front are two long and wide ladders, where a stitch has broken and its started to unravel.

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Claire Cullingworth @ccullingworth.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

@persiflage.bsky.social Oh! Not just you. This popped up in my timeline too.

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Graeme 🦋 @fatherhilarious.blog · 11/04/2026

Oh God, it's the Vicar: advertising a series of straightforward conversations about Christianity... especially for those who are curious. Upper Weardale.

Flyer on table with text:
"Oh God, it's the Vicar!"
Curious about Christianity? Want straight answers?
One of these stand-alone events may be for you.

Graeme is the new Vicar of Upper Weardale. Not only a priest in the Church of England: he has also worked for many years in IT, Analytical Chemistry, and Prenatal Genetic Screening. He's a keen cyclist, enjoys film photography and juggling.

This invitation is for everyone who's curious about Christianity

20th April, Cowshill Village Hall
22td April, Eastgate Village Hall
26th May, Stanhope Church Hall
27th May, Frosterley Village Hall
1st June, St John's Chapel, Barrington Hall
7pm to 8:30pm
No charge to attend - hall bookings paid for by your local church.

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Rev Laura Everett @reveverett.com · 09/04/2026

I’m real tired of “resiliency” work being code for “here’s how to endure more” instead of the godly and just work of reforming broken systems. I’m not doing that anymore. That not the God I serve.

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Julie Mapes @justjuliejam.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

The jumper has subsequently gotten even more mends on it. I’m in the middle of doing these stain glass windows

Ridiculously extravagant Swiss darning half completed spanning the length of a forearm. It’s a huge gothic church stain glass window design.

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Claire Cullingworth @ccullingworth.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

I changed my mind about the thread to use, and went with the one that's on the far left (the middle one). It was significantly finer and I ended up preferring it.

A finely knit fuchsia pink cashmere cardigan is pinned onto a block of foam, through a sheet of paper. A needle and thread are ready, to start darning the small hole in the middle of it, where the ribbing meets the main body of the knit.

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