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Ladybird Nature Corner.
Yellowhammer
Artist: Allen Seaby
A slightly impressionistic illustration of a yellowhammer perched on early flowering blackthorn. The picture has captured something of the lightness and movement of the small bird
December 27, 2025 at 8:12 AM
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“In the holly tree, which is rich with red berries, fieldfares, redwings, and mistle-thrushes are busy feeding”
Writer: EL Grant Watson
Artist: CF Tunnicliffe
(What to Look for in Winter, 1959)
The holly tree stands in front of a wall on a grey, snowy winter morning, with open countryside behind it
December 26, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar
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‘Skating by Moonlight’
Artist: Ronald Lampitt
Aerial view in a very limited, almost monochrome palette. We are looking down on a pond at midnight in bright moonlight. The figures and skaters on the pond are in silhouette as are the winter trees surrounding it.
December 24, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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A badge of honour?
lauballarin.bsky.social Laura Ballarín 🍒 @lauballarin.bsky.social · 3d
We condemn the scandalous US visa ban on former EU Commisioner Breton and digital activists. Protecting democracy isn’t censorship. ✋🏼

Disinformation isn’t free speech. Europe won’t take lessons from those undermining democracy and free speech.

Here in Europe we set our own laws. 🇪🇺✊🏼
December 24, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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Beautiful everyday Ladybird things.
‘Wellington boots’
(And another lovely bit of painting from artist Harry Wingfield)
A photo realistic illustration of a pair of shiny black wellington boots on a kitchen floor. The boots have clearly just come in from outside. Water glistens on the rubber of the uppers and the kitchen floor looks muddy.
December 24, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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Old Ladybird books updated.

‘Daddy learns to get involved'
(1964 and 1974)

Artist: Harry Wingfield
In the first picture, a man in a suit and tie smiles complacently as his wife wraps a Christmas present In the 1970s, the man is now wearing a jumper rather than a suit and when his wife wraps the Christmas present he holds a single pink ribbon
December 23, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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Cinderella’s second ball dress (1964)
Artist: Eric Winter
Cinderella stands in a blue silk and lace ball dress with stars in her hair. To her right is a footman in livery and to her left is the smiling fairy godmother
December 22, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar, window 22
Durham Cathedral
Artist: SRBadmin
A view through trees to the city of Durham in the distance under light snow. The trees frame the distant centre point, which is the cathedral
December 22, 2025 at 8:04 AM
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Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar, window 21

Artist: CF Tunnicliffe
(What to Look for in Winter, 1959)
This illustration was originally the front cover picture of the ladybird book. Two herons and clusters of other birds stand around a partially frozen lake under a yellow winter sky
December 21, 2025 at 8:36 AM
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The Ladybird Christmas tree.
Spindly, slightly wonky, over decorated with a random assortment of decorations - and always ready to shed an improbable quantity of needles

Artist: Harry Wingfield (1964)
A highly (and randomly) decorated real Christmas tree. The decorations include some small traditional toys, including a top, soft toy and a ball.
December 19, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar, window 17
‘Winter Pastoral’
Artist: SR Badmin
Finally detailed mixed media illustration of a country scene under the light snow. The scene looks down beyond a gate towards a lightly wooded Valley. In the mid ground herd of deer run past watched in the foreground by a cock pheasant
December 17, 2025 at 8:14 AM
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Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar, window 16
‘First Snow’
Artist: Rowland Hilder
Sparse, very painterly watercolour showing a wide flat landscape dotted with winter elms and ploughed fields dusted with snow
December 16, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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Guess I’ll be switching browsers again

H/t @clbergpowers.bsky.social
cyberciti.biz nixCraft @cyberciti.biz · 11d
Mozilla has a new CEO and he just announced that Firefox will evolve into a modern AI browser. This is a good example of how management doesn’t understand its own user base and why they go out of their way to install Firefox on Windows, Android, iOS and other devices blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/l...
A screenshot from the official Mozilla blog that reads: Firefox will grow from a browser into a broader ecosystem of trusted software. Firefox will remain our anchor. It will evolve into a modern AI browser and support a portfolio of new and trusted software additions.
December 16, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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This goes way beyond politics. This is pure evil.
ronfilipkowski.bsky.social Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 12d
This is both disgusting and expected.

The Scumbag-in-Chief
December 15, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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Dr Russell D. Moore is a theologian, pastor, and the editor in chief of Christianity Today.
December 15, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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“…USA is a place that people fear… don’t trust … it’s no longer a destination… it’s a place to be AVOIDED.”
December 14, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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Fron Haul
Slate worker's cottages, Fron Haul, Amgueddfa Cymru
December 14, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar, window 14
‘Ponies in the Snow’
Artist: CF Tunnicliffe
In a wooded lane filled with heavy snow, a group of sturdy ponies wait stoically by a gate. The snow-traced branches make an arch over their heads.
December 14, 2025 at 8:16 AM
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Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar
Window 13
‘Winter Lane’
Artist: SR Badmin
On a bright but sunny day, a snow-filled lane leads down towards a distant pond surrounded by rolling hills and winter trees
December 13, 2025 at 7:49 AM
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“The north wind doth blow”

Artist: Frank Hampson (1966)
A view down from high up in a wooden barn shows us a robin tucked up for warmth. The view down onto the snowy street reveals a stage coach struggling through the snow pushed by its would-be occupants towards a village
December 10, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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Mum's new dressing-table (1959) and mid-century design

The Party, 1960
Artist: Harry Wingfield
A small child admires her new party dress in the mirror of a chic late 50s dressing table
December 9, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar, window 10
Artist: Ronald Lampitt
A family of five goes for a walk high up on the snowy Downs. Dad is pulling a sledge and the family salute another family sliding down on a sledge, pursued by a dog
December 10, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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Donald Trump - bringing ‘flu to a town near you …..
britculpsapp.bsky.social ✨brit✨ @britculpsapp.bsky.social · 17d
hey minnesota — influenza A is running rampant right now & more people are necessitating hospitalization for it

if you haven’t had a flu shot yet, might be worth considering getting one to reduce the odds of it leading to needing a hospital bed
December 10, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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Parrog
Y Parrog
December 8, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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Person who actually deserves a trophy is the artist who made the FIFA peace prize trophy look like everyone in the entire world holding their head in their hands out of secondhand embarrassment
FIFA peace prize
December 5, 2025 at 7:38 PM