Geert VdBossche

Enthousiastic reader, always & everywhere. Eager to revalue craftsmanship & share the delights of fabrics.

[Geert VdBossche @GeertVdBossche]

Double lovely rendering of my College! @SidneySussex

[A Cambridge Diary @acambridgediary]

Paint A Cambridge Diary No. 193
Pam Hinton has no formal training and began painting in her retirement from teaching biology. She has just sent me this watercolour, pen and ink painting of my photograph taken at Sidney Sussex College.
#paintacambridgediary
@SidneySussex

[Princeton Geniza Lab @GenizaLab]

Next time you're the designated note taker for a Zoom meeting, a handy phrase from an 11th-century Jewish court clerk in Old Cairo:

"Then they said a lot of things that would take too long to explain" (وجرت بينهم خطوب يطول شرحها)

[Geert VdBossche @GeertVdBossche]

@acambridgediary I love your Cambridge photos, both the 'realistic' ones and those in Hopper's spirit! You wouldn't have a photo of the Black House, now I fear abolished but up to a few years ago on the banks of the Cam opposite Fen Ditton in Chesterton, would you? #Cambridge

[Calvin and Hobbes Fan Account @Calvinn_Hobbes]

😊🧭🔭 #CalvinandHobbes

[Kaoutar ☕️ @KaoutarOulichki]

Agnes, de mama van @studio_caro is nog steeds vermist. Het is niet zeker of ze nog in Temse is. Het is dus belangrijk dat we dit zo veel mogelijk delen in België.
Heb je haar gezien? Contacteer dan zeker de Caro of de politie op het nummer 0800 30 300. 🙏🏽

[Read More Women @WomenRead]

“This is a black foggy Christmas week; and the human race is distracted and unlovable.”

Virginia Woolf, December 1931 #ReadMoreWomen

[Geert VdBossche @GeertVdBossche]

Jaloezie is zelden een opbouwende eigenschap. 'Het alternatief is om angst te temperen met hoop en om zorg, vertrouwen en sociale bescherming te herstellen.' @ReynebeauM @destandaard

[Marc Reynebeau @ReynebeauM]

Politici die armen en werklozen profiteurs noemen en de laagste sociale klassen tegen elkaar opjutten: het getuigt van een vreselijk mensbeeld maar ook van een pijnlijk politiek falen. Joachim Coens staat daarin niet alleen. https://t.co/WHJp2C37Ir via @destandaard

[Geert VdBossche @GeertVdBossche]

"Fiscale paradijzen ondermijnen het geloof in politiek en democratie." Alsof het al lang geen tijd is om dat op te krikken https://t.co/WFGboCiImn @ReynebeauM

[Geert VdBossche @GeertVdBossche]

My college @SidneySussex, wonderful!

[A Cambridge Diary @acambridgediary]

A portrait picture of Cambridge every day since 2010. (No 4210) Sunday 26th September 2021.
@SidneySussex

[#WOMENSART @womensart1]

Elina Chauvet, Zapatos Rojos, 2013, installation of empty red women's shoes to protest all the missing and murdered women and girls due to male violence #WomensArt

[Shane Parrish @shaneparrish]

Attention isn't free. It's the most valuable thing you spend.

[VRT @VRT]

Tip voor leerkrachten: Het Archief voor Onderwijs van @meemoo_be. Het educatief webplatform biedt een schat aan video- en audiomateriaal om leerstof tot leven te brengen. Met talrijke fragmenten van de VRT en andere instellingen. https://t.co/H8GtqLOerA (foto © meemoo)

[Geert VdBossche @GeertVdBossche]

Have you ever wondered why early swimwear was striped? Read it here: https://t.co/gy9SQHJwil #LivingFabrics #fashionhistory

[Historygirl @janeyellene]

Swimwear model from Life Magazine 1915

[Geert VdBossche @GeertVdBossche]

Wie zijn eigenlijk de "subsidieslurpers" in ons land? https://t.co/3njfgK6iTW @ReynebeauM

[Geert VdBossche @GeertVdBossche]

Historians rule the world 😁

[Lisa Demets @demets_lisa]

💪🏽 @demorgen

[Bernard Quaritch Ltd @Quaritch]

Twitter, beware.

[Geert VdBossche @GeertVdBossche]

Pockets are fascinating for many reasons. I like the proposition of danger #WomensArt For more background ànd suggestions for your own sewing, see https://t.co/TcOMWYmxDQ #LivingFabrics #creativity #fashion

[#WOMENSART @womensart1]

The poem 'Dangerous Coats' by contemporary Irish writer Sharon Owens #WomensArt Home Office surveillance photograph of suffragette Olive Beamish, 1914

[Geert VdBossche @GeertVdBossche]

The power of (even humble) creativity in terms of mental health is very much underestimated. #LivingFabrics regularly testifies of its impact. See for instance https://t.co/57p9kpWiAU or more generally https://t.co/orbkDjtcIs #resilience

[Crafts Council UK @CraftsCouncilUK]

While the pandemic has wreaked havoc on mental health around the world, it has also cultivated the supportive power of the arts. Artist Mah Rana @ItsNiceToMake tells us why creativity should be integral to social care https://t.co/i2YgcCRwka

[Geert VdBossche @GeertVdBossche]

@acambridgediary @matt_alters My college. Oh, where are the days ... 😍

[Geert VdBossche @GeertVdBossche]

Wat de waarde (nog steeds) is van Latijn en Grieks. (En neen, het is niet hun praktische nut op de arbeidsmarkt. Want is die laatste niet voortdurend in bewonderenswaardige disruptie?)
https://t.co/5s41Yl949g