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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 · 7d
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 · 9d
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 ❄️ war on brit-mas ❄️ @britculpsapp.bsky.social · 13d
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
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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
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The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow
December 6, 2025 at 4:29 AM
mcbacchus.bsky.social
These guys are absolutely nuts. If I voted for any of them I’d now be realising that my vote says more about me than them. The US is gone ……
adamjschwarz.bsky.social Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 21d
RFK Jr: "Two weeks ago we ended, under your leadership, a twenty year war on women".

Three out of five men in this shot have been accused of sexual misconduct, harassment or abusive behaviour towards women. A fourth signed into law a near-total abortion ban in his state as governor.
December 3, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar, window 3
‘Baubles,’ 1964

Artist: Frank Hampson
A close-up of part of a Christmas tree with some traditional glass baubles and decorations, the sort produced by Woolworths in the 1960s and 70s and kept forever in shoeboxes in the loft
December 3, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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Beautiful everyday Ladybird things
‘Party shoes’ (1954)
Artist: H Woolley
A pair of patent leather, vibrant, ruby red Mary-Jane shoes for a three-year-old child are set against a duck-egg blue background
December 2, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar, window 1
‘The village’
Artist: SR Badmin
A village scene featuring lots of activity around a frozen pond with children skating, walking and playing
December 1, 2025 at 8:25 AM