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Live in Edinburgh, like dressmaking, knitting, active travel, Eurovision and coffee. Scottish Government researcher working on children and families. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇩🇪 🇱🇺 I still write an occasional personal blog like it's 2005: www.applefranca.com

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Shell @risu.bsky.social · 4h

All this screen free parenting and screen free schools conveniently omits to discuss how schools insist on ten apps, take fingerprints to pay for food and share children’s data with third parties via edtech or the government. We just focus on phones. And that will come back to haunt these people.

Franca @applefranca.bsky.social · 16h

I like 4 best

Franca @applefranca.bsky.social · 1d

It's quite snug 🙂🎃

Franca @applefranca.bsky.social · 1d

This years pumpkins

Two carved pumpkins, one in the shape of a cat, and one in the shape of a house with a smaller pumpkin inside it

Franca @applefranca.bsky.social · 1d

Maybe it's just my friend group, there's little buzz about it and I don't see the contestants doing so well on instagram

It's my least favourite of these shows, I get so annoyed at their incompetence. Maybe knowing more about the craft is actually worse

Franca @applefranca.bsky.social · 1d

I actually would be surprised if it does well. Sewing bee seems to have run its course (I didn't watch it at all this year) and the audience of knitters is smaller than that

I do feel bad for the judges though, who are serious knitters

Franca @applefranca.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, I can't imagine it either. They had a one off jumper competition on kirstie alsopps Christmas show, which I mainly remember for the actual worst jumper winning, and then it turned out the winner was a family friend

Franca @applefranca.bsky.social · 1d

There is a well established format of 'presenter who doesn't know anything about it but is funny' which works very well on pottery throw down and reasonably well on sewing bee, but it isn't that either. He's not a presenter and from what I've seen on celebrity traitors definitely not funny

Franca @applefranca.bsky.social · 1d

100% agree but I've just looked it up and I don't think he's a judge at least. I mean, can you imagine, what would he even say?

Franca @applefranca.bsky.social · 1d

Ok fake news, he's not a judge! He's the 'host'. Still pisses me off though.

My husband was telling me about an England women rugby player who crochets around the games. I bet no one is giving her books and shows and products/ she wouldn't accept it

Franca @applefranca.bsky.social · 1d

He is THE HEAD JUDGE? Ok, thats
a step too far, I am defo not watching it then. I can just about accept him as the not involved in the judging presenter, although in that case I would still have preferred someone experienced in either presenting or being funny

This is now an anti Tom Daley account

Franca @applefranca.bsky.social · 1d

He is THE HEAD JUDGE? Ok, thats
a step too far, I am defo not watching it then. I can just about accept him as the not involved in the judging presenter, although in that case I would still have preferred someone experienced in either presenting or being funny

This is now an anti Tom Daley account

Franca @applefranca.bsky.social · 1d

Another Adam and Joe catchphrase, my husband just did it 'oh, my nipples'

Amazing how these are all still around for us

Franca @applefranca.bsky.social · 2d

Ha, I'm not the only one feeling iffy about Tom Daley and knitting

Franca @applefranca.bsky.social · 2d

Bikeface

Franca @applefranca.bsky.social · 2d

Looked it up now, it's not about a baby. The thing that's screaming is the world. Tells you something about my state of mind that I immediately thought screaming baby even though my kids are 10 and 12. That sleep deprivation was something

Franca @applefranca.bsky.social · 3d

I only listened to a snippet of this but it seems to be about losing your mind cos your baby is up at 3am. If that's actually the case I am a fan!

That Eurovision Site @thateurosite.bsky.social · 3d

🇨🇭 Zoë Më has released her third single after performing in Eurovision 2025. The song is placed within an album with both “Million de Mois” and "Durch die Nacht" placed alongside "Clair De Lune". #ESC2025 #Eurovision2025

🇨🇭 Zoë Më releases new single “Clair De Lune”

Switzerland's Zoë Më has released her third single since performing in Eurovision 2025. About "Clair De Lune" The song was released on the 24th October and was written alongside Benji Alasu (The Code, Survivor), who also produced the track. The song has a more dramatic edge to it, however keeps the same Zoë style that was seen within "Voyage", along with being sung in French.

thateurovisionsite.com

Franca @applefranca.bsky.social · 3d

It arrived from the library. One chapter in - strange, but promising.

Franca @applefranca.bsky.social · 3d

I don't really know what that is. Would it change anything?

Franca @applefranca.bsky.social · 3d

I can actually live with that. I've never called it St James quarter anyway, cos it's not a blinking quarter, it's a shopping centre

The St James Quarter will be rebranded as
a 'Westfield' centre, after French retail firm Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield acquired a significant stake in the site. - Brian Donnelly,
The Herald.

From the Edinburgh Minute

Franca @applefranca.bsky.social · 4d

But 38.1k is the median salary, which is presumably where they got ghat from. So half the population by definition are out

Franca @applefranca.bsky.social · 4d

Actually, that thing I found was *disposable* household income, which I'm not completely sure what that is and it's not immediately obvious from the publication and I'm about to go to bed so won't look it up.

Franca @applefranca.bsky.social · 4d

It's higher than median *household* income, so most of the population don't earn that. It's fully made

Franca @applefranca.bsky.social · 4d

I am quite ambivalent about this knitting show, because why are we giving another man that is barely competent a platform when there are thousands of women experts at the craft. Either get a proper presenter, or a proper knitter!

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Balu Puppy @balupuppy.bsky.social · 4d

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 4d

Molly Egan, US artist and illustrator known for colourful drawings and #upcycling by creating artworks in old books #WomensArt

Four images showing open books with painted pages with bright patterns and stylised motifs, such as leaves, circles and flowers