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Joanna Foster
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Head of fabtic, working with children, young people and practitioners. Author of 'Children and Teenagers Who Set Fires'. Proud to be Valleys Welsh in England.
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#Grief
Quote by C.S. Lewis that says “no one ever told me that grief felt so like fear”.
December 8, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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It’s my usual #SelfCareSunday post where yet again I can’t give #gratitude and thanks enough to @cerysmatthews.bsky.social for the joyous soundtrack she provides

It’s a real and rare talent that can bring out and connect the soul in everything: music, history, photography, nature, food and people
A DAB radio displaying BBC Radio 6 Music that is playing (Sittin’ On) The Dock of the Bay by Otis Redding.
December 7, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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The UK’s only #BasqueCountry deli is in #Cambridgeshire

Following proudly in the footsteps of his shopkeeper father, deli owner Imanol works tirelessly to bring the very best #artisan foods from his homeland to here

Today the shop celebrates its 2nd anniversary in #StNeots

#MigrationIsBeautiful
Invitation to celebrate the 2nd anniversary of Zooteek deli with complimentary savoury and sweet treats and a 10% discount on all purchases. The deli is based at 12 Cross Keys Mews, St Neots, Cambridgeshire.
December 6, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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If you see this quote with your model of masculinity
My father pictured holding a rainbow umbrella in front of a street mural of George Harrison sat playing a sitar.
December 6, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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Grabbing a quiet #selfcare moment to myself away from the throng of the #StNeots #Christmas lights switch-on to enjoy a luxury hot #chocolate from Zooteek deli

Lovely to see so many people out and about supporting their local independent shops

#ShopLocal

#ShopIndie

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Thick hot chocolate being poured from a cauldron into a green Zooteek deli cup. In the background is the Zooteek deli window decorated with fairy lights and Zooteek gift bags of green and white. The front door of Zooteek deli decorated with a Christmas wreath.
November 30, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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Giving thanks to those who really put food on our tables
Two photographs, one featuring a white family praying whilst seated at a dining table full of food and saying “Thanks, Jesus, for this food”. The second photograph depicts a brown skinned crop picker in South America replying “De nada”.
November 28, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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Imagine this replicated in the north of Ireland, the whole of Wales, throughout Scotland and across England

#ShopLocal

#ShopIndie

#PeoplePower

Thanks to @philipoconnor.bsky.social for raising up small, independent businesses across Ireland and beyond
A banner by @tipp_town that reads, “If every adult in Ireland chose just one Christmas gift from a local small business instead of Amazon, that single switch would shift around €200 million into the hands of Irish makers, artists, and independent sellers this Christmas. (And yep... that's roughly €200 million not landing in Jeff Bezos' wallet).
November 27, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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When the weight of the world on fire feels too heavy, I’m #grateful for #YogaWithAdriene to lighten the load

Especially ahead of bedtime

#SelfCare
Adriene is sat cross legged on a yoga mat in front of a large window. Her dog Benji is lying on the floor asleep under the window.
November 25, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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Soumik Datta, his sarod and the Southbank Centre

Enough said

#SelfCareSunday
Soumik Datta with his sarod pictured against the iconic yellow steps at the Southbank Centre.
November 23, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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Today my old primary #school celebrates its 150th anniversary

Unable to join in person due to work, I dug out memories from a school #Eisteddfod in 1982 to share at the event

That’s me in the top photograph, third row, fourth from the right

#Grateful to have had the happiest of days at #Caradog
Newspaper article from June 1982 of Eisteddfod winners at Caradog Primary School. Ist prize certificate awarded to Joanna Foster for recitation. Ist prize certificate awarded to Joanna Foster for creative writing. Invitation to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Caradog Primary School.
November 21, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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A nurturing, inspiring evening as four #Welsh artists discuss their work on show in #Yorkshire

So many ideas to take into my direct work with #children and #teenagers who set fires, especially on how to connect families across generations

Great things happen when God’s Country meets God’s County
Flyer for the exhibition entitled (Un)known Lands featuring an image of the Miners Arms pub that Richard Burton drank in with his father.
November 19, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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Batch cooking ready for the wintry temperatures of the coming week

#SelfCareSunday
A red, stoneware casserole dish on a wooden chopping block with the lid to one side. Inside is a casserole of potatoes, carrots, swede, red lentils, pearl barley, red onions and bay leaves.
November 16, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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Publisher Cheryl Robson stood in the Bankside Gallery surrounded by women printmakers. Cheryl holds a copy of P L Henderson’s book ‘Reframing Women Printmakers’. In the backdrop are hung, framed prints featuring women.
November 15, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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Back in #Liverpool for the closing weekend of the #Firehawks exhibition at Open Eye Gallery

The powerful images from photographer Stephen King capture the trauma that can sit behind child #firesetting behaviour

How #fire draws attention to pain and harm too big and frightening for words to explain
Poster for the Firehawks exhibition with an image of dolls burning on a mattress. The Firehawks exhibition featuring a Yung sand tray. A quote on a wall saying, “Among all phenomena, it is really the only one to which there be so definitely attributed the opposing values of good and evil. It shines in Paradise. It burns in Hell. It is gentleness and torture. It is cookery and it is apocalypse. It is a pleasure for the good child sitting prudently by the hearth; yet it punished any disobedience when the child wishes to play too close to its flames. It is well-being and it is respect. It is a tutelary and a terrible divinity, both good and bad. It can contradict itself; thus it is one of the principles of universal explanation.” By Gaston Bachelard from ‘The Psychoanalysis of Fire’. Image of a black Labrador holding a burnt stick in its mouth in a forest of blackened trees burnt by wildfire.
November 13, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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I’ll never not give a quiet squeak of pride whenever I see my #book for sale

To be in the #bookshop of the Open Eye Gallery, #Liverpool alongside women photographers, men of the coal faces and modern @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social classics is a privilege beyond words

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A copy of the book ‘Children and Teenagers who Set Fires’ featured alongside the book ‘Women Photographers’. A copy of the book ‘Children and Teenagers who Set Fires’ featured alongside modern Penguin classics. A copy of the book ‘Children and Teenagers who Set Fires’ featured alongside the book ‘Coal Faces’.
November 12, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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Can’t argue with that
Bamboo socks with a sheep pattern.
November 11, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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#LestWeForget
Cartoon by Rebecca Hendin in The Guardian depicting King Charles at the Cenotaph decorated with red poppies. Charles is saying “It is crucial we remember” and his brother Andrew in the background replies with “only certain things”.
November 11, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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#SelfCareSunday
Writing on a bright, multi-coloured background that says, “STOP FEARING WHAT COULD GO WRONG AND START WELCOMING WHAT COULD GO RIGHT.”
November 9, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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#LestWeForget
Cartoon of Trump asking a WWII veteran “What did you do during the war?”. The veteran replies, “Fought against people like you”.
November 9, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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Just when you thought catching a London bus couldn’t get any cooler…

Thanks @wutangforchildren.bsky.social for sharing and providing today’s #FridayFeeling
Poster on the Nutfield Close bus station in North London that features a photograph of Elon Musk and the words, “Imagine having a trillion dollars and still being the world’s biggest loser”. The number 279 bus to Waltham Cross is in the background.
November 7, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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And plagiarism…
Graffiti on a wall that says, THINGS I HATE ... • VANDALISM • LISTS • IRONY
November 6, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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"In this moment of political darkness, New York will be the light,"

~ @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social

There can be only one brooch of choice this morning

Nice job #NewYorkCity

#Mamdani

#Hope
A brooch of a green apple with a gold heart inside it worn on a grey shawl of a woman with blonde hair.
November 5, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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I thought you might appreciate this, bought in a charity shop with newspaper cut-out already added

It hangs on our wall because my husband and I met at a screening of Oliver! the musical at the Royal Festival Hall in 2012, where we were sat next to each other

The rest, as they say, is #history…
November 2, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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Such a telling response at a gig last night when my husband and I were asked by a musician about commonalities between the #Welsh and #Basque languages.

Before either of us could answer an English woman replied,

“They’re both awkward”

Is “ffwcio bant” awkward enough for your sense of entitlement?
November 2, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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“Said the mountain to the man I've heard it all before

Your words are fine and noble but they're really nothing more”

Powerful night of music and reflection from the guitar and pen of musician Steve Pledger
Palestinian flag on a mic stand with two classical guitars and an amp in the background.
November 1, 2025 at 10:54 PM