Helen B
@hellybellyb.bsky.social
Vintage loving, paintbrush wielding 👩🎨craftaholic🧵🪡
Newly diagnosed Coeliac on the hunt for survival tips 🌾
Newly diagnosed Coeliac on the hunt for survival tips 🌾
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Helen B
@hellybellyb.bsky.social
· Nov 17
Trying to find my 'people' over here so sharing some of my completed embroideries 🪡
#embroidery #craft
#embroidery #craft
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The atrocities of #Minneapolis are making me think of the Peterloo Massacre and Masque of Anarchy:
'Rise like Lions after slumber
In unvanquishable number,
Shake your chains to earth like dew
Which in sleep had fallen on you –
Ye are many – they are few.’
🦁💔🪧✊
'Rise like Lions after slumber
In unvanquishable number,
Shake your chains to earth like dew
Which in sleep had fallen on you –
Ye are many – they are few.’
🦁💔🪧✊
January 25, 2026 at 7:33 PM
The atrocities of #Minneapolis are making me think of the Peterloo Massacre and Masque of Anarchy:
'Rise like Lions after slumber
In unvanquishable number,
Shake your chains to earth like dew
Which in sleep had fallen on you –
Ye are many – they are few.’
🦁💔🪧✊
'Rise like Lions after slumber
In unvanquishable number,
Shake your chains to earth like dew
Which in sleep had fallen on you –
Ye are many – they are few.’
🦁💔🪧✊
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literally the same face #PotteryThrowdown
January 25, 2026 at 8:24 PM
literally the same face #PotteryThrowdown
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thanks for the massage... i think
January 25, 2026 at 5:11 PM
thanks for the massage... i think
Giving Traitors Ireland a go. Looking forward to a new batch of contestants. First impressions...I hadn't appreciated how much budget the UK version has. But...um the Irish one is not as 'slick'.
January 24, 2026 at 12:01 PM
Giving Traitors Ireland a go. Looking forward to a new batch of contestants. First impressions...I hadn't appreciated how much budget the UK version has. But...um the Irish one is not as 'slick'.
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today i read the phrase "detained a two year old"
January 24, 2026 at 3:05 AM
today i read the phrase "detained a two year old"
I was totally team Faithful but Claud made me well up!!
January 23, 2026 at 9:46 PM
I was totally team Faithful but Claud made me well up!!
Two of the absolute background Faithful have made it to the final. I have always wondered why the big personalities are so 'gung-ho'. It never does anyone any good...
#TraitorsUK #TheTraitors
#TraitorsUK #TheTraitors
January 23, 2026 at 9:33 PM
Two of the absolute background Faithful have made it to the final. I have always wondered why the big personalities are so 'gung-ho'. It never does anyone any good...
#TraitorsUK #TheTraitors
#TraitorsUK #TheTraitors
Is it weird I just remembered I actually don't like the final as much as regular episodes... Seeing people so close to the final being lied to and cheated out of money 🙈 #TheTraitors #TraitorsUK
January 23, 2026 at 9:00 PM
Is it weird I just remembered I actually don't like the final as much as regular episodes... Seeing people so close to the final being lied to and cheated out of money 🙈 #TheTraitors #TraitorsUK
Let's Gooooooooo #Traitors #TheTraitors
January 23, 2026 at 8:35 PM
Let's Gooooooooo #Traitors #TheTraitors
Found what feels like a magical spot in Bristol. Riverside view (from above), William Morris fabric. Candlelight. I want to live here!
#Bristol #Lounge #DateNight
#Bristol #Lounge #DateNight
January 23, 2026 at 6:21 PM
Found what feels like a magical spot in Bristol. Riverside view (from above), William Morris fabric. Candlelight. I want to live here!
#Bristol #Lounge #DateNight
#Bristol #Lounge #DateNight
Not religious. Love a church. Loved this graveyard tale.
A few days ago, I stood in the graveyard of an 1100 year old church, getting damper and damper in the drizzling rain.
A woman walked into the graveyard, waved, said hello, and, as we had previously arranged, handed me a paper bag full of human bones.
The life of a churchwarden is a strange one...
A woman walked into the graveyard, waved, said hello, and, as we had previously arranged, handed me a paper bag full of human bones.
The life of a churchwarden is a strange one...
January 23, 2026 at 3:20 PM
Not religious. Love a church. Loved this graveyard tale.
Absolutely mad we'd had no chance banishments for series upon series... They're like buses...🚍🚍🚍 #TraitorsUK #TheTraitors
January 22, 2026 at 9:01 PM
Absolutely mad we'd had no chance banishments for series upon series... They're like buses...🚍🚍🚍 #TraitorsUK #TheTraitors
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Here’s a short poem about the power of poetry to change the world.
January 18, 2026 at 9:47 AM
Here’s a short poem about the power of poetry to change the world.
My beloved clothing brand 'Joanie' has gone under. I've seen the loss of 'Collectif' and 'Lindy Bop' but this one is by far the worst. They make up a huge portion of my wardrobe. So sad they didn't make it 😭 #Joanie #JoanieGal
January 21, 2026 at 4:01 PM
My beloved clothing brand 'Joanie' has gone under. I've seen the loss of 'Collectif' and 'Lindy Bop' but this one is by far the worst. They make up a huge portion of my wardrobe. So sad they didn't make it 😭 #Joanie #JoanieGal
Obsessively in party planning mode. I've never thrown a party for these (moderate) numbers before. Want everyone to have a good time. What's the best party you've been to...and what made it the best? 🎉 #party #partyplanning
January 21, 2026 at 8:49 AM
Obsessively in party planning mode. I've never thrown a party for these (moderate) numbers before. Want everyone to have a good time. What's the best party you've been to...and what made it the best? 🎉 #party #partyplanning
Just saw a comment about "keeping men out of bathrooms". Remembered that nearly every public bathroom I've been in has a sign up saying 'Male & Female attendants on duty'. So... policing people's genitals isn't going to change access to bathrooms. It's all pointless misdirection. Punching down. Ugh.
January 20, 2026 at 9:23 PM
Just saw a comment about "keeping men out of bathrooms". Remembered that nearly every public bathroom I've been in has a sign up saying 'Male & Female attendants on duty'. So... policing people's genitals isn't going to change access to bathrooms. It's all pointless misdirection. Punching down. Ugh.
Every episode of the podcast by @misterabk.bsky.social & @eleanormorton.bsky.social about Children's books taps into something in my soul I forgot existed. This time...The Borrowers! Lucky enough to get a compilation of all Mary Norton Borrower books for Christmas. This podcast felt like the intro!
January 19, 2026 at 5:52 PM
Every episode of the podcast by @misterabk.bsky.social & @eleanormorton.bsky.social about Children's books taps into something in my soul I forgot existed. This time...The Borrowers! Lucky enough to get a compilation of all Mary Norton Borrower books for Christmas. This podcast felt like the intro!
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I contain mountainous volumes of unfathomable existential anxiety & also whimsy
January 19, 2026 at 12:11 PM
I contain mountainous volumes of unfathomable existential anxiety & also whimsy
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THREAD. A Deconstruction Of Ladybird's Well-Loved Tales Books, 1964-74.
You will find the analysis of these beloved books in the alt text below.
1. The Gingerbread Boy.
You will find the analysis of these beloved books in the alt text below.
1. The Gingerbread Boy.
November 21, 2025 at 8:49 AM
THREAD. A Deconstruction Of Ladybird's Well-Loved Tales Books, 1964-74.
You will find the analysis of these beloved books in the alt text below.
1. The Gingerbread Boy.
You will find the analysis of these beloved books in the alt text below.
1. The Gingerbread Boy.
Hey America 👋
Watching from over the pond. You guys are a tiny pre-teen of a country. Without immigration you would be trapped on this Island in the rain, or Ireland...or Holland.
Signed. A Brit.
(I know BlueSky knows this. I'm just struggling with the wider cognitive dissonance)
Watching from over the pond. You guys are a tiny pre-teen of a country. Without immigration you would be trapped on this Island in the rain, or Ireland...or Holland.
Signed. A Brit.
(I know BlueSky knows this. I'm just struggling with the wider cognitive dissonance)
January 17, 2026 at 3:10 AM
Hey America 👋
Watching from over the pond. You guys are a tiny pre-teen of a country. Without immigration you would be trapped on this Island in the rain, or Ireland...or Holland.
Signed. A Brit.
(I know BlueSky knows this. I'm just struggling with the wider cognitive dissonance)
Watching from over the pond. You guys are a tiny pre-teen of a country. Without immigration you would be trapped on this Island in the rain, or Ireland...or Holland.
Signed. A Brit.
(I know BlueSky knows this. I'm just struggling with the wider cognitive dissonance)
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Jessie on Uncloaked is being AMAZING.
January 16, 2026 at 9:13 PM
Jessie on Uncloaked is being AMAZING.
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STOP.
We have a major news story in our house. It's been building up for a few days and this afternoon came the denouement.
It's the story of a banana.
We have a major news story in our house. It's been building up for a few days and this afternoon came the denouement.
It's the story of a banana.
January 16, 2026 at 9:47 PM
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Um. Where can I get this cardigan?! 🍒#TheTraitors #Traitors #TraitorsUK
January 16, 2026 at 9:16 PM
Um. Where can I get this cardigan?! 🍒#TheTraitors #Traitors #TraitorsUK
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Heard a lad earlier talking about ‘Belgian whistles’
“A basic website costs 10k or 25k upwards if you want all the Belgian whistles”
BELGIAN WHISTLES
“A basic website costs 10k or 25k upwards if you want all the Belgian whistles”
BELGIAN WHISTLES
January 15, 2026 at 4:33 PM
Heard a lad earlier talking about ‘Belgian whistles’
“A basic website costs 10k or 25k upwards if you want all the Belgian whistles”
BELGIAN WHISTLES
“A basic website costs 10k or 25k upwards if you want all the Belgian whistles”
BELGIAN WHISTLES
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An extremely tiny spring posy from last year including a speckly violet, speedwell & deep purple gold-edged primula, in a minuscule blue ink sample bottle
January 15, 2026 at 12:29 PM
An extremely tiny spring posy from last year including a speckly violet, speedwell & deep purple gold-edged primula, in a minuscule blue ink sample bottle