Ooh! 👂

I want to visit!

This is fantastic! I love the statue

I did! Lucky I made it!

One vote for renaming @durotrigesdig.bsky.social the Belly Buttons

I actually quite like this drawing!

Here’s a page from my sketchbook where I planned out the linocut. I love to see the grids and rules people create when making a sign by hand. Often they result in a bit of awkwardness.

Yes! Good recognising!

I also saw what is surely the best sign ever made:

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Oh god! It’s a beautiful plant out in the wild, but it’s not the most welcome garden guest!

Oh thank you for these pointers!

• white-hats
• white-bonnets

These folk names are important pieces of cultural heritage. They preserve little stories people have told and help us connect to nature.

I would love to know if any organisations out there are collecting these important bits of folklore.

• granny-jump-out-of-bed
• granny-pop-off-her-head
• lady-pop-out-of-bed
• granny-pops-out-of-her-nightshirt
• ms-polly-had-a-dolly-and-her-head-popped-off
• molly-had-a-dolly-and-her-head-popped-off
• granny-pop-off
• granny-poppit
• grandfather-poppit
• poppy-plant
• grandmother’s-nightshirt

My granny taught me that name. She showed me that if you squeeze the green bit beneath the white petals, the flower pops off. And she said the flower looks like an old-fashioned granny’s bonnet.

Here are some of the other names:

• grandmother, grandmother-pop-out-of-bed
• granny-get-out-of-bed