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Beautiful everyday Ladybird things.
‘Marbles’ (1959)
Artist: G Robinson
Range of different, old-fashioned marbles on a plain green background - in a range of different colours and each one distinctive
December 29, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Other work by the Ladybird artists
‘Gusty Twilight’
Artist: CF Tunnicliffe
A dramatic yet slightly stylised depiction of a barn owl in profile raising its wings to steady itself in a strong gust of wind as it perches on a bare winter tree
December 28, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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“Hedge-banks and ditches are russet with the browns and yellows of the dead bracken fronds. The distant trees show mistily in the winter air”

Writer: EL GrantWatson
Artist: CF Tunnicliffe
On a misty winter day a farmer is laying a hedge
December 28, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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Ladybird Nature Corner.
Yellowhammer
Artist: Allen Seaby
A slightly impressionistic illustration of a yellowhammer perched on early flowering blackthorn. The picture has captured something of the lightness and movement of the small bird
December 27, 2025 at 8:12 AM
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“In the holly tree, which is rich with red berries, fieldfares, redwings, and mistle-thrushes are busy feeding”
Writer: EL Grant Watson
Artist: CF Tunnicliffe
(What to Look for in Winter, 1959)
The holly tree stands in front of a wall on a grey, snowy winter morning, with open countryside behind it
December 26, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar
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‘Skating by Moonlight’
Artist: Ronald Lampitt
Aerial view in a very limited, almost monochrome palette. We are looking down on a pond at midnight in bright moonlight. The figures and skaters on the pond are in silhouette as are the winter trees surrounding it.
December 24, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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A badge of honour?
lauballarin.bsky.social Laura Ballarín 🍒 @lauballarin.bsky.social · 5d
We condemn the scandalous US visa ban on former EU Commisioner Breton and digital activists. Protecting democracy isn’t censorship. ✋🏼

Disinformation isn’t free speech. Europe won’t take lessons from those undermining democracy and free speech.

Here in Europe we set our own laws. 🇪🇺✊🏼
December 24, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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Beautiful everyday Ladybird things.
‘Wellington boots’
(And another lovely bit of painting from artist Harry Wingfield)
A photo realistic illustration of a pair of shiny black wellington boots on a kitchen floor. The boots have clearly just come in from outside. Water glistens on the rubber of the uppers and the kitchen floor looks muddy.
December 24, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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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 · 13d
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 · 14d
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