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(2/2🧵)...the pattern is called Lonely Mountain, it's #Middleearth licensed, made by Scottish company Oscha slings
The intricate design is woven in UK - 100% OCC cotton on an ecru warp, with dark green & black wefts to make the design. #Textiles #decor #literature

(2/2🧵) ⬆️...but I feel the resonance of memory & emotion in the objects.
Hopefully in our new larger house, we can fit my Gran's piano & manual Singer sewing machine.
And hey, if an undersea internet cable goes/ Carrington event hits, I'm all set for entertainment 😁
#home #craft #history #family

(2/2🧵)...⬆️that is only a rendering of Fangorn into the Common Speech...
Treebeard is Fangorn, the guardian of the forest; he is the oldest of the Ents, oldest living thing that still walks beneath the Sun upon this Middle-earth
🖋️📜JRR #Tolkien #Lordoftherings #ceramics

Sorry alt text - a blue, purple, red and orange gradient colour with the mountain design in white and blue.
It uses OCC cotton, Cashwool (superfine merino) & hemp, all ethically sourced.

(4/4)...Many are dealing with challenges the majority aren't. Some of us *need* more support & don't get it.
But an able person with a consistently selfish attitude?
Your actions, inactions & attitude tell on you🤷
Compassion, active learning & patience go a long way
#disability #humanity #society

(3/4🧵) ⬆️...N.B. If a disabled person can't put their shopping cart back occasionally, needs to buy pre-cut fruit/veg, has a bad day & is snappy with chronic pain: I absolutely get it.
#disability sucks (although it's NOT an excuse to be consistently abusive to those in your life) ⬇️

(2/3🧵) ⬆️...Ignore someone having a medical emergency/in distress for no good reason, but would expect aid themselves
Lecturing on others on bootstraps
Consistently picking "Easy" over "Right"
The "Not my problem, whatever" attitude...
And yet they are ALWAYS the most defensive⬇️
#humanity #psychology

I try to but I honestly sometimes forget and sometimes you can't go back and edit it 🫣
I think you should be able to add it later if you forget

(4/4🧵)⬆️ "...as a bear he ranges far and wide.... I once saw him sitting all alone on the top of the Carrock at night watching the moon sinking towards the Misty Mountains, I heard him growl in the tongue of bears: ‘The day will come when they will perish & I shall go back!’
📜🖋️JRR #Tolkien The Hobbit

(3/4🧵) ⬆️...and before the goblins came into the hills out of the North... “At any rate he is under no enchantment but his own. He lives in an oak-wood and has a great wooden house;...At any rate he is under no enchantment but his own.
He lives in an oak-wood and has a great wooden house...⬇️