Kaye Smith 🦔🌳

Scientist, wife & mum I like wildlife, walking, reading, history, science, arts, meeting people...

[Kaye Smith 🦔🌳 @smithskaye]

Heard #nightingales for the first time yesterday, on a beautiful, beautiful early morning walk at RSPB Highnam woods @Natures_Voice

[Helen Day @LBFlyawayhome]

“Under the oak tree, whose leaves are now fully expanded, cows are resting in the shade”

Artist: CF Tunnicliffe
Writer: EL Grant Watson
(What to Look for in Summer, 1960)

[Larry the Cat @Number10cat]

Anthony Head was an Ambassador for Battersea Dogs and Cats home for more than two decades. Thanks for everything Tony x

[Kaye Smith 🦔🌳 @smithskaye]

@mamarebelle Yes, the BBC needs to be on top of this. G-d forbid but if NF becomes PM the BBC will be a thing of the past.

[Kaye Smith 🦔🌳 @smithskaye]

@ElliottBlackwe3 I’m very sorry for your loss. Your care will have made a difference in your Dad’s life. I’m happy you got to share his last moments and tell him what you needed to say and he needed to hear. Be gentle with yourself and take your time to grieve

[Helen Day @LBFlyawayhome]

‘The Farm’ (1958)
Artist: CF Tunnicliffe

[Kaye Smith 🦔🌳 @smithskaye]

@RobKenyonReform Church buildings only change use after they are no longer used as churches. The best way to preserve our Christian heritage is for more people to attend and support our local churches.

[Kaye Smith 🦔🌳 @smithskaye]

@fugitiveink It sounds as if it has a most appropriate name. Lovely!

[Kaye Smith 🦔🌳 @smithskaye]

@GretelleMaitre In 1939 he was probably talking about men taking their ties off!

[Gordon D Comstock @GordonDComstock]

This should apply to everyone.

[Susie Dent @susie_dent]

Word of the Day is ‘swullocking’: swelteringly, stiflingly hot.

From 19th-century East Anglian dialect.

[ArchaeoHistories @histories_arch]

Claude Mellan's Face of Christ, also known as The Sudarium of Saint Veronica (1649), is one of the most technically extraordinary works in art history...

The entire portrait is rendered using a single, continuous spiralling line that begins at the tip of Christ's nose and expands outward to the edges of the cloth.

Mellan achieved the illusion of depth, shadow, and facial features without any cross-hatching or traditional shading. Instead, he precisely varied the thickness and pressure of the burin (his engraving tool) as he rotated the copper plate, creating "swelling" lines that darken the image where needed.

The spiralling line is estimated to be approximately 150m (about 500ft) long if it were stretched out.

[Kaye Smith 🦔🌳 @smithskaye]

@pilotaparda Yes, please. Here’s a photo our beloved, sadly departed Bella in return

[Kaye Smith 🦔🌳 @smithskaye]

@katephillips29 That looks amazing. Yes, please!

[Kaye Smith 🦔🌳 @smithskaye]

@HWarlow I was the same: Famous Five and the “Adventure” series. I also loved Mallory Towers.

[Helen Day @LBFlyawayhome]

‘Evening light’
The Farm, 1958
Artist: CF Tunnicliffe

[Today in History @TodayinHistory]

May 9, 1386: The Treaty of Windsor between Portugal and England was ratified.

It is the oldest active alliance in the world.

[Kaye Smith 🦔🌳 @smithskaye]

@LBFlyawayhome Trees please!

[Kaye Smith 🦔🌳 @smithskaye]

@PhysInHistory Leonardo may have said that but he didn’t draw a hummingbird!

[Helen Day @LBFlyawayhome]

An observation test for your inner 8-year-old.
Can you spot the 6 creatures hidden in the picture?

From Treasure magazine, 1965
Official answers coming soon

(Even if you don’t reply, could you please ‘like’ or share this one?)

[mary beard @wmarybeard]

Yes, do listen in full. A lot of it engages with my recent book which (at the risk of vulgar self-advertisement) I think lays out the arguments even more clearly (it's called Talking Classics). Let me know what you think,