Mhairi Alexander
@mhairialexander.bsky.social
Retired social worker, grandparent, member of Gurt Lush Choir and Humanists UK.
Barely adequate keyboard and ukulele player.
Bristol, UK
Barely adequate keyboard and ukulele player.
Bristol, UK
This reminds me of a time several years ago when our son, daughter and friends went to see Gunther von Hagens' 'Plastination' exhibition, and we went to Highgate Cemetery. They thought our choice was weird, and we thought theirs was.
November 14, 2025 at 10:10 AM
This reminds me of a time several years ago when our son, daughter and friends went to see Gunther von Hagens' 'Plastination' exhibition, and we went to Highgate Cemetery. They thought our choice was weird, and we thought theirs was.
If you like following art on here, this one is well worth a follow.
Just realised the account has reached 10k followers! Thank you to everyone who supports the account and the artists featured! You help to bring some much needed colour to the world ♥️
November 14, 2025 at 9:52 AM
If you like following art on here, this one is well worth a follow.
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Here's "Trump'll Nail Ya" - a song about the #BBC legal crisis (set to the tune of the shanty "Drunken Sailor") which created a big internal debate about what's a gremlin and what's a mogwai. 🎶⚓️
... fingers crossed for an apology but not a daft and unnecessary settlement ...
youtu.be/VeIF4leMaes
... fingers crossed for an apology but not a daft and unnecessary settlement ...
youtu.be/VeIF4leMaes
"Trump'll Nail Ya" - Marsh Family parody adaptation of sea shanty "Drunken Sailor" about BBC crisis
YouTube video by Marsh Family
youtu.be
November 13, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Here's "Trump'll Nail Ya" - a song about the #BBC legal crisis (set to the tune of the shanty "Drunken Sailor") which created a big internal debate about what's a gremlin and what's a mogwai. 🎶⚓️
... fingers crossed for an apology but not a daft and unnecessary settlement ...
youtu.be/VeIF4leMaes
... fingers crossed for an apology but not a daft and unnecessary settlement ...
youtu.be/VeIF4leMaes
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The new version of John Bulmer’s book The North looks fantastic but will only happen if it hits its target on Kickstarter. This is a book which needs to be published, please support it if you can www.kickstarter.com/projects/fru...
November 13, 2025 at 8:31 AM
The new version of John Bulmer’s book The North looks fantastic but will only happen if it hits its target on Kickstarter. This is a book which needs to be published, please support it if you can www.kickstarter.com/projects/fru...
This is gorgeous.
'Bredon Water,' (1871) lies near Great Yarmouth in Norfolk, it's a rare landscape for Frederick Sandys, a key member of the Pre Raphaelite circle. We can sense Sandys grappling with technical and conceptual issues of authenticity versus finish and originality versus convention.
November 12, 2025 at 10:35 AM
This is gorgeous.
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Love being reminded to do this every year. It's a win/win all round
November 11, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Love being reminded to do this every year. It's a win/win all round
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Today’s #AutumnArrivalSpotlight is the Smew!
A rare and late winter visitor, these small, striking birds are a treat to spot on UK lakes.
Males sport a 'panda-like' black-and-white plumage, while females show off a chestnut cap.
Keep an eye out for these stylish divers! 😍
A rare and late winter visitor, these small, striking birds are a treat to spot on UK lakes.
Males sport a 'panda-like' black-and-white plumage, while females show off a chestnut cap.
Keep an eye out for these stylish divers! 😍
November 11, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Today’s #AutumnArrivalSpotlight is the Smew!
A rare and late winter visitor, these small, striking birds are a treat to spot on UK lakes.
Males sport a 'panda-like' black-and-white plumage, while females show off a chestnut cap.
Keep an eye out for these stylish divers! 😍
A rare and late winter visitor, these small, striking birds are a treat to spot on UK lakes.
Males sport a 'panda-like' black-and-white plumage, while females show off a chestnut cap.
Keep an eye out for these stylish divers! 😍
Lovely colours.
November 10, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Lovely colours.
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We will remember everyone.
Everyone who fought, who lived, who died, and every conscientious objector, too.
We will remember their sacrifice.
We will remember their belief in freedom, and the common humanity that unites us.
Everyone who fought, who lived, who died, and every conscientious objector, too.
We will remember their sacrifice.
We will remember their belief in freedom, and the common humanity that unites us.
November 9, 2025 at 8:00 AM
We will remember everyone.
Everyone who fought, who lived, who died, and every conscientious objector, too.
We will remember their sacrifice.
We will remember their belief in freedom, and the common humanity that unites us.
Everyone who fought, who lived, who died, and every conscientious objector, too.
We will remember their sacrifice.
We will remember their belief in freedom, and the common humanity that unites us.
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'The Line of the Plough.' (1919) John Arnesby Brown's painting was the first picture he made in the spring following the end of WW1. It suggests the start of the cycle of life and new beginnings after the shattered landscapes he witnessed in France and Belgium during the war.
November 9, 2025 at 8:05 AM
'The Line of the Plough.' (1919) John Arnesby Brown's painting was the first picture he made in the spring following the end of WW1. It suggests the start of the cycle of life and new beginnings after the shattered landscapes he witnessed in France and Belgium during the war.
We'll never know if it was just a one-night stand, or the start of a beautiful relationship!
Went to the disco on Sunday and copped off with Kevin.
November 8, 2025 at 11:32 AM
We'll never know if it was just a one-night stand, or the start of a beautiful relationship!
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If you’d like even more people to see these lovingly hand-curated postcards and their messages, remember: likes are lovely but re-posting costs nothing and spreads the thing like a benign virus. Or something.
Cheers, T.
Cheers, T.
November 8, 2025 at 8:50 AM
If you’d like even more people to see these lovingly hand-curated postcards and their messages, remember: likes are lovely but re-posting costs nothing and spreads the thing like a benign virus. Or something.
Cheers, T.
Cheers, T.
I was just thinking how nice it was not to hear any fireworks tonight.
Then guess what - some really loud ones have just started.
Then guess what - some really loud ones have just started.
November 7, 2025 at 7:01 PM
I was just thinking how nice it was not to hear any fireworks tonight.
Then guess what - some really loud ones have just started.
Then guess what - some really loud ones have just started.
My daughter has just sent me these photos. Ralph, who couldn't fight his way out of a paper bag, is literally defending a paper bag against the very territorially aggressive Marmalade.
November 7, 2025 at 10:10 AM
My daughter has just sent me these photos. Ralph, who couldn't fight his way out of a paper bag, is literally defending a paper bag against the very territorially aggressive Marmalade.
I love these sorts of paintings, with all the detailed little figures on the ice and snow.
It's a cold winter's day but everybody has warm loaves of holiday bread! By my friends Jan Brueghel & Joos de Momper, 1612. Today is Joos's day.
November 6, 2025 at 4:41 PM
I love these sorts of paintings, with all the detailed little figures on the ice and snow.
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Happy Birthday to the European Convention on Human Rights, which has helped to protect #OurRightsAndFreedoms for 75 years.
Here are more than 200 examples, from across the continent👇
🔗 www.coe.int/ECHR
There are thousands more.
#ECHR #ECHR75 @coe.int @echr.coe.int
Here are more than 200 examples, from across the continent👇
🔗 www.coe.int/ECHR
There are thousands more.
#ECHR #ECHR75 @coe.int @echr.coe.int
November 4, 2025 at 6:38 AM
Happy Birthday to the European Convention on Human Rights, which has helped to protect #OurRightsAndFreedoms for 75 years.
Here are more than 200 examples, from across the continent👇
🔗 www.coe.int/ECHR
There are thousands more.
#ECHR #ECHR75 @coe.int @echr.coe.int
Here are more than 200 examples, from across the continent👇
🔗 www.coe.int/ECHR
There are thousands more.
#ECHR #ECHR75 @coe.int @echr.coe.int
If you've not heard of Sander, it's well worth looking up some of his photos - also historically interesting.
Widower, 1914 by August Sander.
“I hate nothing more than sugary photographs with tricks, poses and effects. So allow me to be honest and tell the truth about our age and its people...”
August Sander
“I hate nothing more than sugary photographs with tricks, poses and effects. So allow me to be honest and tell the truth about our age and its people...”
August Sander
October 28, 2025 at 11:05 AM
If you've not heard of Sander, it's well worth looking up some of his photos - also historically interesting.
You don't have to be religious to appreciate the beauty of this carving, and the amount of work that must have gone into it.
Back in the 12th century, French sculptor Gislebertus carved this angel as (s)he appears to the three Magi as they dream, waking one with the delicate touch of a finger, and pointing her other forefinger toward the Bethlehem star (Cathedral of St Lazare, Autun)
October 28, 2025 at 7:32 AM
You don't have to be religious to appreciate the beauty of this carving, and the amount of work that must have gone into it.
I love the moonlight on the water in this picture.
'Moonlit River.' (c1917) More than any other artist, it was Whistler with his atmospheric paintings of the Thames, that had a profound influence on George Hyde Pownall - he specialized in moonlight scenes of this sort, usually with a full moon fairly central in the composition.
October 27, 2025 at 7:24 AM
I love the moonlight on the water in this picture.
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In case there is interest you can now see something about my Nighthawks series here. It will be my next exhibition after ‘Rebellion!’ and I may do a book.
marcdavenant.com/nighthawks/
marcdavenant.com/nighthawks/
Nighthawks
Nighthawks is a photography project which captures elements of isolation, melancholy and disconnection which can pervade busy towns and cities at night. In crowded places people often appear oblivi…
marcdavenant.com
October 26, 2025 at 9:08 AM
In case there is interest you can now see something about my Nighthawks series here. It will be my next exhibition after ‘Rebellion!’ and I may do a book.
marcdavenant.com/nighthawks/
marcdavenant.com/nighthawks/
Cat sitting while family away. Marmalade is far from impressed.
October 25, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Cat sitting while family away. Marmalade is far from impressed.
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October 24, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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Delighted to say that we now have five bookings for my Rebellion! exhibition exploring protest as an essential part of our cultural identity. It will be shown in Newcastle, Birkenhead, Lichfield, Ynyshir and Hereford. Bookings are now open from January 2028 onwards.
October 23, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Delighted to say that we now have five bookings for my Rebellion! exhibition exploring protest as an essential part of our cultural identity. It will be shown in Newcastle, Birkenhead, Lichfield, Ynyshir and Hereford. Bookings are now open from January 2028 onwards.
Love this!
Like his friend Francis Cadell, John Maclauchlan Milne saw the landscape of Iona in terms of pure colour. His paintings of the island (this is c1937) use a palette of bright greens, pinks, blues and mauve with touches of yellow, to capture the light.
October 23, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Love this!
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If you or anyone you know has been given an anti social behaviour order for sleeping rough please hold on to that paper and get in touch with us. [email protected] or drop by MoH or SK hub.
We are trying to challenge criminalisation of homelessness, which happens far too much.
We are trying to challenge criminalisation of homelessness, which happens far too much.
October 21, 2025 at 6:34 AM
If you or anyone you know has been given an anti social behaviour order for sleeping rough please hold on to that paper and get in touch with us. [email protected] or drop by MoH or SK hub.
We are trying to challenge criminalisation of homelessness, which happens far too much.
We are trying to challenge criminalisation of homelessness, which happens far too much.