Laura-Elseplace

@laura-elseplace.bsky.social

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I bake and knit and sew and grow edible things and live quietly and am happily married and will believe in egalitarian freedom til my last breath.

Photograph taken from water-level showing rippling water reflecting blue skies and green trees.
Photo of black shawl newly-made and all scrunched up.
Photo of orange tent under blue sky.
A photograph showing a view of trees and grey skies, blurred in the distance in contrast to the sharply-focused raindrops on the window.
Photo of lots of liquorice.
Photo of bike in front of dramatic early-morning skies.
Photo of blue skies above green plants around a trickling brook with little sparrows hopping around it.
A photograph of 24 little jam tarts on a wire cooling rack.
Screenshot from Guardian newsfeed quoting a Labour MP saying "Catherine West is no longer trying to appoint herself as PM; she's trying to appoint herself as Graham Brady" :)
Screenshot with photo of vile repulsive Farage, and wording saying that ReformUK-Ltd have a lower vote share than last year, down from 41% to 33%.
Photography of a green leafy hedge against a blue sky with a mass of cream-coloured may flowers tumbling down in sunlight.
Photograph showing knitting in silhouette, on a windowsill with green-leaved trees beyond and blue sky across the top half of the photo.
Screenshot of FT article showing typos.
Photograph showing intense blue flowers through green leaves.
A photograph of a big slab of chocolate caramel shortcake, cut into two huge pieces as a start to cutting it into smaller pieces. The dark chocolate has a pretty swirling zigzag pattern in white chocolate .
A photograph showing a left hand holding some knitting; the knitting is cream wool and is on multiple wooden double-pointed needles.
Photograph showing lots of green-leaved small plants, with white-flowered wild strawberries and blue-flowered rosemary.
A photograph showing mixed green-leaved plants and some dead branches, with little white flowers and even littler blue flowers.
Photo showing a huge bunch of daffodils in a jug on a windowsill with clear blue skies beyond.
Photograph showing Sir Keir Starmer outside No.10 Downing Street, in suit and hat with cigar, a la Churchill. Text reads, in white on black background: "Don't think of the UK as unwilling to join your war, think of it as having bone spurs," Starmer tells Trump. Below that, the logo of NewsThump.
Photograph showing homemade coconut-ice, with lots of crumbly bits fallen off onto the plate.
Photograph showing a middle-aged stout woman turned 3/4 away from camera: she is wearing a Melt the I.C.E. protest hat, knitted in bright red yarn with a pointy top flopped over into a tassel, as worn today by knitters & friends of knitters all over the US & the world, protesting against 'King Trump'
Photo of tiny vivid-blue speedwell flower, less than half the size of my fingernail beside it
Photo of man playing synth with old film playing on screen behind him
Photograph of tiny cowslip flowers being held in a hand wearing a knitted fingerless mitt. The background is varied greenery; the mitt is knitted in blue, red, yellow and green on a pale grey background, and the cowslip flowers are bright sunny yellow with tiny splashes in the centre of a rich warm dark orange.
Photo showing dozens of little homemade sausage rolls cooling on a wire rack over a colourful striped glass worktop.
Photograph of red lacy crochet against a blue background.
Photograph showing knitting needles with an inch of red knitting, resting on top of an old-fashioned girls' story named Meriel's Choice.
Photograph of woman, from behind, wearing dark blue sweater and a bright red knitted cap hanging down at the back with a tassel.
Photo showing long piece of knitting in cobalt blue, a fat plait of many cables intertwining.
A photo of knitting needles with a few inches of red Melt the ICE hat already knitted <3
A photograph of knitting needles with about two inches of knitting in a cosy warm red yarn.
Screenshot of Guardian newspaper's life news feed, reading: "It appears that Rutte will have 15 minutes at the very end of the session to respond to roughly 34298734 questions that could each make a great PhD dissertation. Hope he’s making good notes."
Photo showing the beginning of a sock, on knitting needles.
Screenshot with para of ReformUK-Ltd claiming they'll communicate via GBNews and Daily Mail, followed by a para mentioning the Daily Mail's open support for Hitler and a para mentioning how much Farage is paid by GBNews...!
Photograph showing a narrow flowerbed at the base of a cottage wall, with snow on the ground but wallflowers and Christmas Roses (hellebores) flowering regardless!
A photograph of a holly bush with snow on every leaf and twig, with the pale-yellow winter newly-risen sun pouring through backlighting it across a background of snowy ground and blue skies.
Photo showing very old petrol pumps at the museum, brightly-painted in yellow, red and green, colours glowing in the sunshine against the snow
Photo of bookmark being crocheted
Photo of an old wooden five-bar gate with snowy fields and hills beyond under a clear blue sky
Photo of a small reservoir in the hills
Photo showing multicoloured palm side of a fingerless mitt
Photo showing Fair Isle knitting partly done, with a coloured knitting chart drawn in the background
Photograph of a beautiful large book about cooling towers
Photo of a dark quarry just before winter sunrise, dark water reflecting grey skies
A photograph of a little conifer tree in a pot, just nine inches high, decorated with tiny lights and tinsel as a Xmas tree :)
Photo of jigsaw box, Winter Landscape 1601, Bruegel
Photograph of knitting: cream wool on colourful double-pointed needles. There is only about an inch of the fingerless mitts knitted.
A photograph of a very large pyrex dish filled to the brim with homemade mincemeat
A photograph showing a paperback book propped up, with a small can of Coke and two mini-Peperami. The book is an old green-and-cream Penguin Crime paperback, battered and with the spine coming loose; it is Ngaio Marsh's "Surfeit of Lampreys", the 1955 reprint (first published in 1941).
Photograph showing a partly-knitted sock, with the last inches of the foot and toe yet to be worked. It is cream with vivid green patterning.
A photograph showing a background of patchwork quilt in colours of warm reds, creams and greens, and in the foreground a partially-knitted sock, in cream with bright vivid green patterning.
Photo of two musicians on stage with acoustic guitars
Design drawn in pencil for C17th glove-cuffs
A photograph showing a bright red homemade string bag, open on a colourful stripey worktop, and filled with a variety of apple varieties: yellow and red and green, small and large. (Photo doesn't show it, but they are also delicious- we tasted each tree's crop before including it!)
A photograph showing moving water with rippling reflections in the foreground and sunlit autumnal trees in the background; right in the middle, not much more than a pale dot, is a grey heron.
Photograph showing the outside of a small theatre building with magenta lighting and a dark canal alongside.
Cover of 1968 British govt book by Road Research Laboratory
A photograph showing a sunlit-cloud and blue patches of sky; against one patch of bright white cloud is the black silhouette of a buzzard soaring high.
A photograph of green-leafed plants in a hedgerow; my hand, wearing a fingerless mitt knitted in cream wool with narrow stripes of blue, pink and green, is holding a twining bending stem which has multiple hops all along it; the hops are bright green with lots of little flat layers.