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Dr Helen Forte
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I'm a classicist, an illustrator & cartoonist, a grandmother and a feminist (in any order)
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That appalling bloody man!
November 22, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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August 31, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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Minima understands the assignment!
Minima the Latin mouse as Medea in her chariot drawn by flying snakes. She's wearing a snake armband and holding a green glass globe and a potion jar. One of the snakes is helpfully carrying her cauldron.
June 19, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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#stpatricksday #minimuslatin
Sanctus Patricius serpentes ex Hibernia agit... serpentes eum maxime vexant! (St Patrick drives the snakes out of Ireland... the snakes are annoying him a lot!)
Drawing of St Patrick driving a donkey cart with three snakes in. The snakes are saying "nonne iam advenimus?" (Are we there yet?); "necesse est mihi mingere" (I need a wee); "nauseo" (I feel sick) and St Patrick is thinking "miserere mei" (Have pity on me).
March 17, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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Here's a birthday squid! 🦑🎂
January 16, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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The paper "stained-glass" Christmas will be going up in my window in the morning. Somehow it's survived 20+ years since I cut it!
"Stained glass" window made of black card and coloured tracing paper. The image shows a fireplace with candles and two mice on the mantelpiece. A goose, a frog and a cat are tucked up in baskets in front of the fire. Each animal has a foot-shaped stocking hanging from the mantelpiece.
December 20, 2024 at 8:48 PM
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Advent calendar for our Suffolk village church, including church bees.
Photo collage showing a painted image of a Suffolk village church, in a frame. It's an advent calendar, with little doors cut in it. Close-ups of two open windows, with the vicar and the church bees.
December 4, 2024 at 10:23 PM
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Almost time to start cutting snowflakes again...
Photo of a freehand cut paper snowflake in the shape of six mice, on a blue card background
November 21, 2024 at 9:31 PM
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Any of these?
Cartoon showing replacement Tory Prime Minister candidates; a bollard, a sheep in a blue ribbon and fifteen squirrels and a balloon in a scarecrow outfit with a blue rosette
October 23, 2023 at 9:55 AM