Liz Wood
@worsted.bsky.social
Tired, archive-themed, occasionally falling over a cat.
Useful archival cataloguing term found
November 25, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Useful archival cataloguing term found
Relaxed cat, knackered cardigan
November 24, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Relaxed cat, knackered cardigan
The reason why I now know (1) what filter keys are and (2) how to turn them off so that I can use the keyboard again.
November 15, 2025 at 1:43 PM
The reason why I now know (1) what filter keys are and (2) how to turn them off so that I can use the keyboard again.
Having my DIY skills assessed after reattaching the wardrobe door
November 8, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Having my DIY skills assessed after reattaching the wardrobe door
We also have cat-burglar tools for the display cases, but it looks as though they may be the same cases...
November 5, 2025 at 11:46 AM
We also have cat-burglar tools for the display cases, but it looks as though they may be the same cases...
Busy woman, Miss Todd.
October 31, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Busy woman, Miss Todd.
Honourable mention goes to Faint Not Batchelor, father and son duo
October 4, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Honourable mention goes to Faint Not Batchelor, father and son duo
Name of the week goes to:
October 4, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Name of the week goes to:
#MondayMotivation from today's freshly catalogued archives
September 22, 2025 at 3:55 PM
#MondayMotivation from today's freshly catalogued archives
Statement of health policy, 1957.
Literally the only document in the archive file with a cigarette burn.
Literally the only document in the archive file with a cigarette burn.
September 4, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Statement of health policy, 1957.
Literally the only document in the archive file with a cigarette burn.
Literally the only document in the archive file with a cigarette burn.
Mr Kipling himself was an advertising gimmick:
"The cakes needed a man's name, it was decided. Professional bakers, like chefs, are men, and a man's name would have more authority with women. ... It was a woman, however, who came up with Mr Kipling." (She remained resolutely unnamed in the article)
"The cakes needed a man's name, it was decided. Professional bakers, like chefs, are men, and a man's name would have more authority with women. ... It was a woman, however, who came up with Mr Kipling." (She remained resolutely unnamed in the article)
September 1, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Mr Kipling himself was an advertising gimmick:
"The cakes needed a man's name, it was decided. Professional bakers, like chefs, are men, and a man's name would have more authority with women. ... It was a woman, however, who came up with Mr Kipling." (She remained resolutely unnamed in the article)
"The cakes needed a man's name, it was decided. Professional bakers, like chefs, are men, and a man's name would have more authority with women. ... It was a woman, however, who came up with Mr Kipling." (She remained resolutely unnamed in the article)
Other publicity stunts involved hanging cake from the ceiling and suspending pointy signs over aisles of relentlessly orange packaging...
September 1, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Other publicity stunts involved hanging cake from the ceiling and suspending pointy signs over aisles of relentlessly orange packaging...
In today's unexpected NUM find, a magazine featuring the launch of Mr Kipling in 1967 through "Shock Troops" "in the Van of the Cake Revolution" (or six blokes in branded suits brandishing platters of cake) ...
September 1, 2025 at 5:42 PM
In today's unexpected NUM find, a magazine featuring the launch of Mr Kipling in 1967 through "Shock Troops" "in the Van of the Cake Revolution" (or six blokes in branded suits brandishing platters of cake) ...
A very hidden cat to hopefully help
September 1, 2025 at 5:14 PM
A very hidden cat to hopefully help
Got the scruffy cat cardigan out from the wardrobe for the first time in months...
August 31, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Got the scruffy cat cardigan out from the wardrobe for the first time in months...
Not a family thing, but reminds me a lot of a 1925 autograph album I worked with a few years ago - even down to the now rusting pin. Mix of heartfelt, sentiment and solid innuendo (mostly in verse) from Bermondsey's Princess Club girls to Eileen Younghusband.
wdc.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/coll...
wdc.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/coll...
August 29, 2025 at 7:04 AM
Not a family thing, but reminds me a lot of a 1925 autograph album I worked with a few years ago - even down to the now rusting pin. Mix of heartfelt, sentiment and solid innuendo (mostly in verse) from Bermondsey's Princess Club girls to Eileen Younghusband.
wdc.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/coll...
wdc.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/coll...
Week off ✔️
Bakery ✔️
Bread pudding the size and weight of a house brick ✔️
Bakery ✔️
Bread pudding the size and weight of a house brick ✔️
August 18, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Week off ✔️
Bakery ✔️
Bread pudding the size and weight of a house brick ✔️
Bakery ✔️
Bread pudding the size and weight of a house brick ✔️
Got distracted whilst looking for early 20th century sound effects.
Can we use this for a 1926 British soundscape? No.
Do I want to shoehorn it in regardless? Clearly, yes.
www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...
Can we use this for a 1926 British soundscape? No.
Do I want to shoehorn it in regardless? Clearly, yes.
www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...
August 13, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Got distracted whilst looking for early 20th century sound effects.
Can we use this for a 1926 British soundscape? No.
Do I want to shoehorn it in regardless? Clearly, yes.
www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...
Can we use this for a 1926 British soundscape? No.
Do I want to shoehorn it in regardless? Clearly, yes.
www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...
Cryptic folk horror road sign season is here again...
August 3, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Cryptic folk horror road sign season is here again...
Have spent part of today listening to a small but enthusiastic group of children singing 'Happy Ice Cream to Me' to the tune of 'Happy Birthday to You' and this will now be stuck in my head for the rest of the weekend, if not forever.
August 2, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Have spent part of today listening to a small but enthusiastic group of children singing 'Happy Ice Cream to Me' to the tune of 'Happy Birthday to You' and this will now be stuck in my head for the rest of the weekend, if not forever.
Fortunately, in the event of difficulties with our computer generated facsimile of electronic mail, we can get tech support by Telexing the Computer Operators
July 28, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Fortunately, in the event of difficulties with our computer generated facsimile of electronic mail, we can get tech support by Telexing the Computer Operators
Tagging @mininghistory.bsky.social for this one in case not previously encountered: front page of The Miner, 1969, highlighting two members of NUM head office staff, originally from Biafra and Kenya, on conference duty in Blackpool. Cataloguing spot from earlier today.
July 25, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Tagging @mininghistory.bsky.social for this one in case not previously encountered: front page of The Miner, 1969, highlighting two members of NUM head office staff, originally from Biafra and Kenya, on conference duty in Blackpool. Cataloguing spot from earlier today.
She would have Views on that sort of thing
July 24, 2025 at 7:58 PM
She would have Views on that sort of thing
Cat is going through a Francis Bacon phase
July 22, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Cat is going through a Francis Bacon phase