Lily Crowther
@lilcrowther.bsky.social
Historian, curator, DPhil student, museum trustee, Yiddishe mama.
Museums, craft, design, architecture, making, teaching with objects.
Museums, craft, design, architecture, making, teaching with objects.
A description of a machine that manufactures lies, from Gianni Rodari’s ‘Telephone Tales’ (1962).
November 8, 2025 at 11:43 PM
A description of a machine that manufactures lies, from Gianni Rodari’s ‘Telephone Tales’ (1962).
My carrot is shocked by your carrot.
October 5, 2025 at 9:53 AM
My carrot is shocked by your carrot.
Likelihood of getting any work done this afternoon: severely limited.
September 25, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Likelihood of getting any work done this afternoon: severely limited.
View from my garden door in the West Midlands right now. Yep, grapes grow here. (These ones are muscats.)
September 14, 2025 at 12:21 PM
View from my garden door in the West Midlands right now. Yep, grapes grow here. (These ones are muscats.)
Some wonderful work at this year’s British Ceramics Biennial.
September 6, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Some wonderful work at this year’s British Ceramics Biennial.
Cat maintaining his precarious position on child. He seldom leaves her lap regardless how bony, uneven or wriggly a surface she may present.
August 9, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Cat maintaining his precarious position on child. He seldom leaves her lap regardless how bony, uneven or wriggly a surface she may present.
The fruit trees this year are like a Samuel Palmer painting. This from a stroll across the common - the whole place carpeted and scented with fermenting plums.
August 7, 2025 at 2:28 PM
The fruit trees this year are like a Samuel Palmer painting. This from a stroll across the common - the whole place carpeted and scented with fermenting plums.
First fig of the year from our garden - almost exactly a month earlier than last year. They like the sunshine!
July 19, 2025 at 3:04 PM
First fig of the year from our garden - almost exactly a month earlier than last year. They like the sunshine!
Does anyone here speak Japanese and understand knitting patterns? I’ve figured out the rest, but I can’t work out what the bracketed lists of numbers marked in yellow are for. I guess they must indicate increases and decreases but how?! Really grateful for any suggestions or shares. Thanks!
July 16, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Does anyone here speak Japanese and understand knitting patterns? I’ve figured out the rest, but I can’t work out what the bracketed lists of numbers marked in yellow are for. I guess they must indicate increases and decreases but how?! Really grateful for any suggestions or shares. Thanks!
That intro got me thinking again about the Lucifer of Liège and his even hotter replacement. This is what peak male etc etc
June 27, 2025 at 6:47 AM
That intro got me thinking again about the Lucifer of Liège and his even hotter replacement. This is what peak male etc etc
Hi @blindboyboatclub.bsky.social I enjoyed the yogurt podcast and thought you might appreciate this early 20th century ad for Bulgarian Health Milk and proto-fro-yo from the baths in Leamington Spa.
June 20, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Hi @blindboyboatclub.bsky.social I enjoyed the yogurt podcast and thought you might appreciate this early 20th century ad for Bulgarian Health Milk and proto-fro-yo from the baths in Leamington Spa.
The Bishop’s Avenue in London. Sandbanks in Dorset is pretty good too.
June 18, 2025 at 7:31 PM
The Bishop’s Avenue in London. Sandbanks in Dorset is pretty good too.
Agreed. Here are some nice coastal clouds.
June 8, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Agreed. Here are some nice coastal clouds.
First hatchlings of the year.
June 5, 2025 at 8:43 AM
First hatchlings of the year.
The Vourdalak. You are describing The Vourdalak so precisely that I can only assume you have already seen it.
May 25, 2025 at 6:28 AM
The Vourdalak. You are describing The Vourdalak so precisely that I can only assume you have already seen it.
Picked up this glorious beast for free from the very expensive florist in town - apparently it wasn’t worth their while to pick off the scale insects. It’s a good four feet across! Will take up most of the bathroom, but it’s welcome to it.
May 18, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Picked up this glorious beast for free from the very expensive florist in town - apparently it wasn’t worth their while to pick off the scale insects. It’s a good four feet across! Will take up most of the bathroom, but it’s welcome to it.
Happy birthday to the best little old man, 16 today.
May 6, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Happy birthday to the best little old man, 16 today.
A bouquet of wild orchids from my fortnight in France.
April 24, 2025 at 4:09 PM
A bouquet of wild orchids from my fortnight in France.
A noble addition to the storied history of insane bank buildings. These ones are Frank Furness’ National Bank of the Republic in Philadelphia and Louis Sullivan’s National Farmers’ Bank in Owatonna, Minnesota.
April 5, 2025 at 1:08 PM
A noble addition to the storied history of insane bank buildings. These ones are Frank Furness’ National Bank of the Republic in Philadelphia and Louis Sullivan’s National Farmers’ Bank in Owatonna, Minnesota.
I wish I could convey to you how wonderful the park smells this morning. So many hyacinths!
March 29, 2025 at 11:49 AM
I wish I could convey to you how wonderful the park smells this morning. So many hyacinths!
I think this is my great-grandfather, Yehoshia (aka Simon) Silver. He had a few jobs - tailor’s presser, fishmonger, fruiterer - but his real interests were his Talmud and leftist politics.
March 28, 2025 at 6:11 PM
I think this is my great-grandfather, Yehoshia (aka Simon) Silver. He had a few jobs - tailor’s presser, fishmonger, fruiterer - but his real interests were his Talmud and leftist politics.