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Rose Ruane
@regretteruane.bsky.social
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Artist, writer, sweetheart, battleaxe, she/her
Novels This Is Yesterday & Birding with Corsair Books
Rep: Becky Thomas at Lewinsohn Literary
Chair of The Adamson Collection Trust: work created in the art therapy studio at Netherne hospital during the C20th
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Oh that’s superb! And I also received a puffin by post today!
A colourful cardboard cut out of a puffin which is mean to be a bookmark A cardboard cut out of a puffin which is mean to be a bookmark from behind with black text on white which reads puffin school book club member
November 26, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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Can’t resist a shellcraft, especially one reverently behind glass like a holy relic.
By heavens, the little treats are holding the sky up like cheap valiant toothpicks buttressing an entire crumbling cathedral these days, coaxing me from one to another like a breadcrumb trail of gonks & tchotchkes
Two tiny ducks made from shells inside a little glass box on pink satin, the box is resting on a red and blue patterned carpet and in the background there is a collection of thatched cottage shaped teapots and dishes
November 25, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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The wonder of it!
Brightly coloured cartoon cover of a 1976 puffin post magazine where puffins dance and frolic emblazoned with the words look at me on green grass bordered with white daisies accompanied by some kind of blue alien and a yellow butterfly the title puffin post is hand lettered above in colourful patterned letters
November 25, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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UH OH
A packet of hedgehog flavour crisps from the 1989s with Philip Larkin badly photoshopped into the right hand corner
November 24, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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Uh oh
A packet of hedgehog flavour crisps from the 1980s
November 24, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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Actress Diane Holland in character as Yvonne- Stewart Hargreaves in Hi-de-Hi, she is a risk thin middle aged white woman with red hair piled up on in a coiffed beehive , wearing blue eyeshadow and red lipstick, she is dressed in a yellow blazer with blue piping and a white shirt and her expression is disapproving
November 24, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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Another divine Jill McDonald Puffin Post cover, full of her characteristic sense of capering, madcap motion and joyful atmosphere always edged with something a little darker & more surreal
The colourful cartoon cover of a 1976 puffin post magazine featuring cosily woolen wearing puffins gambolling on green grass under giant falling autumn leaves in pink orange gold and brown with the title Puffin Post in red letters outlined in black in the top right corner with a pale blue grey sky as the background
November 24, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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Slept dreaming of, woke up thinking about the extraordinary What Resembles the Grave but Isn’t by Anne Boyer
what resembles the grave but isn't Always falling into a hole, then saying "ok, this is not your grave, get out of this hole," getting out of the hole which is not the grave, falling into a hole again, saying "ok, this is also not your grave, get out of this hole," getting out of that hole, falling into another one; sometimes falling into a hole within a hole, or many holes within holes, getting out of them one after the other, then falling again, saying "this is not your grave, get out of the hole"; sometimes being pushed, saying "you can not push me into this hole, it is not my grave," and getting out defiantly, then falling into a hole again without any pushing; sometimes falling into a set of holes whose structures are predictable, ideological, and long dug, often falling into this set of structural and impersonal holes; sometimes falling into holes with other people, with other people, saying "this is not our mass grave, get out of this hole," all together getting out of the hole together, hands and legs and arms and human ladders of each other to get out of the hole that is not the mass grave but that will only be gotten out of together; sometimes the willful-falling into a hole which is not the grave because it is easier than not falling into a hole really, but then once in it, realizing it is not the grave, getting out of the hole eventually; sometimes falling into a hole and languishing there for days, weeks, months, years, because while not the grave very difficult, still, to climb out of and you know after this hole there's just another and another; sometimes surveying the landscape of holes and wishing for a high quality final hole; sometimes thinking of who has fallen into holes which are not graves but might be better if they were; sometimes too ardently contemplating the final hole while trying to avoid the provisional ones; sometimes dutifully falling and getting out, with perfect fortitude, saying "look at the skill and spirit with which I rise from…
November 24, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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Mrs Tiggywinkle holding an iron standing in front of an 80s tv with Philip Larkin forecasting lawnmowers all over Britain
November 23, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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Philip Larkin’s head badly stuck over Wincey Willis’s as points to a weather map covered in lawnmowers
November 23, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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Now it’s over to Wincey Willis for the forecast
A black and white photo of weather presenter Wincey Willis pointing to a map of Britain covered in Philip Larkin
November 23, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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Little four pound fun in the chazzers today, I am most curious about Rainbow Dome Musick, the cover seduced me as did the sticker a volunteer had applied to it, which read: this is clear vinyl!!! It just sounded so thrilled & pleased it was infectious
For vinyl records laid out on a red patterned rug which are Harvest Moon, Neil Young, 16 chart hits volume 13, the monkees and Steve Hillage, rainbow dome music
November 23, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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Tiny tyrant is unsympathetic to all arguments in favour of “getting up” and “doing things”
A small fluffy black cat with yellow eyes on a pink and white quilt on a colourful canopy bed draped in bright scarves. She looks really very pleased with herself
November 23, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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Grief created by Joan Wisdom, November 1967, in the art therapy studio at Netherne hospital, Surrey where she was compelled to live.
Her surviving works express distress & critique the psychiatric system which held power over her & the dehumanisation she experienced within it
Drawing of a human head in wax resist charcoal and paint, the head is greyish pink, bald with black and orange eye and an ambiguous expression floating amongst blue and purple lines the word grief is written abov, below the date 17367 and the initials JW
November 22, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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Not saying he wasn’t fierce at it like a barn door in a gale until his lad was raw every waking hour of the 70s but I’m pretty sure that’s a can of Tango he’s drinking
A 1970s can of fizzy orange drink tango
November 21, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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Forgive the rotten photos - these are from the museum of childhood from about a decade ago. Please do share the photo if you find it!!!
A paper bag owl costume in a glass case Packaging for a 1960s child’s toy called play sack
November 21, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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This gorgeous little book of slides from the Design Council collection has arrived & single handedly saved my sanity
A book with a white cover and a photo of a slide of a traffic island titled projecting British design stuck onto it in red lettering A white book page with a photo of a slide children in animal costumes
November 21, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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The sculptural works from the Adamson Collection are stored there including many of these Gwyneth Rowlands painted flints until we find permanent homes & there are a couple of incredible paintings on show there by William Kurelek who lived at Netherne voluntarily as well as in Bethlem & The Maudsley
Colourfully painted stones on white tissue paper by a radiator under a window
November 21, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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Back on my battleaxes, staying quick & loose, letting them spill out.
They’re drawn from the imagination, trying to tap into a formidable spirit but the elders of my own childhood keep inflecting them.
The intention is for them to feel redoubtable yet something sadder, lonelier keeps inflecting them
A loose colourful drawing of the head and shoulders of an elderly white woman with grey hair smoking and talking, she is wearing blue eyeshadow and red lipstick and her expression is as if she is in the middle of remembering something A loose colourful drawing of the head and shoulders of an elderly white woman with blue eyeshadow, wearing big earrings and a grilled collar, she looks as though she is talking A loose dark drawing of the head and shoulders of an elderly white woman with a headscarf, cat eye glasses and a brown fur coat, she has a purse lipped disapproving expression
November 20, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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Bought this lovely and extremely bargainous John R Keay gouache, a mid 1970s design for a National Savings poster, labelled in pencil as a rough draft even though it seems really well finished
A 1970s realist gouache illustration of a white man in green plaid shirt, blue jeans and white hard hat climbing a wooden ladder while holding a grey plastic pipe on a construction site under a blue sky with a maroon van, building supplies and city skyline behind him
November 19, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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Customer review of a Buddo letting from the stromness museum shop website which reads: buddo is perfect. buddo is so perfect! i got him as a gift for my gf, and she absolutely loves him! he feels good and solid and strong. a good friend. thank you
November 19, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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Edward Woodward being readied for a roasting in the wicker man
November 19, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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Puffin Post perfection
A colourful cartoon illustration of a puffin dressed as a fortune teller gazing into to crystal ball full of smaller puffins in the glowing white interior against a blue background, the title puffin post is hand lettered in white text in the top left
November 19, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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A very short film about Charles Palmer’s concrete teddy bear garden in Bradford-on-Avon, demolished in the 1970s.
There is a sadness to these places being lost but I like to think the love hours spent on making, the person’s pleasure in their creation is never lost
www.britishpathe.com/asset/36291/
An array of white ready bear sculptures in a stone walled garden which is a still from a grainy film White hands painting a concrete sculpture of a teddy bear
November 18, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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Wonderful footage at about 6:44 in this film of Sidney Dowdeswell’s sadly long ago demolished visionary art environment, an extraordinary shell & concrete artwork which the retired engineer built singlehandedly in his own back garden in Hindlip, Worcestershire
player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/wa...
A garden filled with sculpted arches and figures covered in shells, it is a still from a grainy colour film A garden filled with sculpted arches and figures covered in shells, it is a still from a grainy colour film
November 18, 2025 at 6:35 PM