Oh, It's Delightful To Have Ambitions

Primary school teacher who basically wants to be Anne Shirley. 🌿 Also mentally living on a 19th century farm in Canada ✨ Kate, 30, Germany (she/her)

[miss-shirley]

April Days of Productivity

Saw @learnelle's challenge post just in time so let's do this, I just moved houses, have one and a half weeks of Easter holidays left and a whole bunch of things to get done!

Moving/home tasks

notify important places of my move and cancel unnecessary brochures and letters

finish unpacking clothes/bedroom

unpack school/study stuff

get some bathroom cabinets

unpack bathroom stuff

find a nice sofa

move other sofa to the study

pick balcony furniture

pick bookshelves for the living room

pick rugs and curtains

hang pictures (get the right nails first)

find the right place for all remaining items or give them away/toss them

pick plants for the balcony and the flat and learn how to not kill them 🙊

General goals

go on a hike to explore my new surroundings

get back into reading (aiming to read two books this month - 1/2)

aim to go on a daily 20 minute walk no matter what (6/30)

start incorporating strength workouts twice a week

prep as much school stuff in advance as possible on the last holiday weekend so I can relax during the weeks after (especially my birthday week and the last week of April)

It's quite an ambitious list but I'm fairly sure I'll at least get a good chunk of it done and especially unpacking and decorating my flat will be hugely satisfying and very easily visible progress so I'm excited!

Happy April to everyone ☺️🌿🌼

[thewonderlustly]

Fluffy Peach Pancakes for a Soft Summer Breakfast

[meeems-world]

[shamebats]

"it's just stress" oh thank god, it's just the silent killer that slowly kills you, perfectly harmless, no need to worry

[delicateviolets]

[anotetofollowso]

Call the Midwife headcanons:

Shelagh has a dirty dirty mouth in the bedroom

Sister Evangelina was a closet lesbian. Sister Frances too

Sister Julienne is definitely not a virgin

At some point soon Trixie will run into dentist Christopher and they will reignite their relationship as soon as she leaves Matthew

Sister Monica Joan is buried next to Sister Evangelina so that she can annoy her with Keats even in death

Shelagh has never eaten another pink wafer after Teddy's birth

Teddy is neurodivergent

Jane and Rev Applebee Thornton became swingers

Patsy and Delia started breeding working cocker spaniels in their later years

Val goes to med school and takes over Hope Clinic from Dr Myra

Dr Turner tracks down the MG after he sold it years ago and buys it back because of all the memories

Angela follows in her dad and brother's footsteps and becomes a doctor. May becomes an accountant. Teddy becomes the lead designer of The Gherkin.

Patrick has a vasectomy that fails and Shelagh gets pregnant while going through menopause, and this one sticks

Patrick finally retires and Tim takes his place as GP. Angela joins him years later but as an OBGYN.

[scrtdawn]

Charles Robinson's illustrations in 1914 for The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett.

[april]

ⓘ Tip You can skip part of the day by taking a nap.

[iwantadamusername]

⚠︎ Tip

Nap lengths are always randomised.

[mollybeenoel]

[chic-a-gigot]

La Mode illustrée, no. 14, 7 avril 1901, Paris. Robe, collet et chapeau pour jeune femme. Modèle de Mme Angenault, rue de Provence, 67. Dos du collet pour jeune femme. Ville de Paris / Bibliothèque Forney

La jupe très évasée, de cette robe en voile gris clair, est cerclée de rouleautés en taffetas bleu turquoise, disposés en pointes devant et dans le dos. Cette garniture est répétée sur le corsage, le col droit et les manches; celles-ci sont bordées d'un large entre-deux en dentelle à travers lequel on passe un ruban de velours bleu turquoise; les manches sont terminées par des bouillonnés en mousseline de soie blanche. Le corsage en voile figurant un boléro s'ouvre sur une chemisette en dentelle; les contours du boléro sont ornés d'entre-deux et de ruban de velours; la fermeture est masquée devant par un chou à longs pans en mousseline de soie blanche plissée. La taille est entourée d'une ceinture en velours turquoise, fermée devant sous une boucle d'acier.

Le collet en drap gris est orné d'applications cerclées de points de fantaisie en soie blanche. Le haut col à revers est exécuté en velours bleu turquoise et bordé d'une bande de drap; on double le collet avec du taffetas bleu turquoise. Voir le croquis représentant le dos du collet.

Chapeau en paille grise brodée de paillettes bleu turquoise et garni de deux plumes d'autruche.

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The very flared skirt of this light gray voile dress is encircled by rolled trim in turquoise blue taffeta, arranged in points at the front and back. This trim is repeated on the bodice, the standing collar, and the sleeves; the latter are edged with a wide lace insertion through which a turquoise blue velvet ribbon is threaded; the sleeves are finished with gathered puffs of white silk muslin. The voile bodice, styled to resemble a bolero, opens over a lace chemisette; the edges of the bolero are adorned with lace insertions and velvet ribbon; the front closure is concealed by a rosette with long streamers, made of pleated white silk muslin. The waist is encircled by a turquoise velvet belt, fastened at the front beneath a steel buckle.

The gray cloth collar piece is adorned with appliqués outlined in decorative stitching of white silk. The high standing collar with lapels is executed in turquoise blue velvet and edged with a band of cloth; the collar piece is lined with turquoise blue taffeta. See the sketch depicting the back of the collar piece.

Hat of gray straw embroidered with turquoise blue sequins and trimmed with two ostrich plumes.

[anaart-stuff]

Kindred spirits 🍂

[cheaphalloweencostume]

“everyone is mad at me and they just won’t tell me” —> “no one has said anything about being mad at me and i haven’t done anything to warrant being mad at so if someone is silently fuming about me and not saying anything that’s their problem and actually quite weird of them and i can effortlessly move on with my life”

[cheaphalloweencostume]

this took SUCH a huge deal of unlearning because, like so many of you, i came out of a home where being quietly in trouble WAS the default state, and i DID grow up not just with the assumption but borderline religious conviction that Everyone Is Mad At Me, I Am Bad, I Must Exist In A Constant State of Attempting to Pacify The Natural Rage I Inspire In Everyone. and no it actually turns out that my family are the freaks . and yours are too

[cheaphalloweencostume]

“this isn’t true because i DEFINITELY silently fume at people in the hopes they’ll figure out what they did and apologize” that’s not good. you shouldn’t do that

“this isn’t true because the ex-friendship that traumatized me ended explosively after they were mad at me and never told me why” that’s not good. they shouldn’t be doing that

“i don’t think this is true because my current friend group is constantly icing me out until i figure out what ive done to upset them and properly apologized without being told” hey thats not good. they should not be doing that

if the peacefulness of your relationship with someone (familial, romantic, friendly, anything) can be destroyed by effective communication/asking them for effective communication, you have got to get out of there. if you can’t get out of there, you’ve got to throw away any ideas about what that person thinks of you because they have their own shit to figure out before they can accurately read anyone else

[dame-nostalgique]

The sweetest April afternoon 🌼☕

22 IV 2026

[fawnpalmer]

quarterly reminder that if i reblog something ai-generated it is 110% and always an accident and for the love of god please tell me so i can delete it from my blog

[sovietpostcards]

Nikita Charushin. Illustrations for Vladimir Bragin's "Amazing Pantries" (1968)

[dragon-in-a-fez]

the thing about being "good with kids" is all it takes is literally just not trying to control and mould them with every interaction. it's just being a normal person and engaging with them through normal interactions like having conversations and playing games. it's just being genuine and friendly and not perceiving them as lumps of wet clay you are there to shape. "oh you're so good with kids" thanks it's because I think they are people

[zahraa17]