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Classicist studying Homer at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. Latin Tutor. Runner 🏃‍♀️
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super successful week! so proud of my team #lmh

Announcing the results of Women's div VI St. Hilda's II bumped Trinity II St. Anne's II bumped Oriel III Queen's II bumped Mansfield II (overbump) St. Catherine's II bumped St. Antony's II L.M.H. II bumped Univ III

Announcing the results of Women's Div VI: Mansfield II bumped Trinity II St Hilda's II over-bumped St Catherine's II Queen's II bumped St Antony's II Wolfson IV bumped University III L.M.H. II bumped St Peter's III You have 10 minutes to appeal these results

promising start to summer viiis 😎

sudden and shocking awareness of my exercise face 💔

natural history museum. drank match. ate cookie. saw my favourite dinosaur. i love dinosaurs.

Etymology of the day: ‘book’ comes from an ancient root shared by ‘beech’, a wood that people used for engraving inscriptions. ‘Paper’ comes from ‘papyrus’, and ‘volume’ is from the Latin for a ‘roll’ of parchment. Happy World Book Day.

did my second run post op this morning! woke up in time to catch this sky 🥰

I have mastered the art of man-emailing and ready to gaslight gatekeep girl boss 🙏

lego astronaut!!

tricked my brain into working really fast by playing the mario kart sound track

my latest fixation is a desperate urge to learn the kithara

the lego botanicals collection expands…

myringoplasty done and I now have the government mandated number of ear holes 🫡

successfully learning to crochet! though I don’t know how to make it a square so now I have a 3 meter long chain

found a really nice pub near my house and will now be dragging everyone i know to a pub quiz 🩷

my motivation to work hard is now the le creuset heart collection

20 minute intervals today below 0° 💀 nice low key run but rip my trainers!

4km run around the Meadows today to get back into it after a few weeks off and met a very handsome goose

Don’t know how my alcohol tolerance got this low but I do know that I make a very good aperol spritz

had the best time butting together this Lego bonsai tree set that I got for christmas. Look at the froggy flower buds 🥹

my parents’ house is great, not least because of the hidden armchair where I am currently reading, drinking cocktails, and hiding from guests

splat

moments after being called out by a small child

great quote from the museum today when a woman, standing in front of a body surrounded by grave goods, said ‘mad how he just died with all those pots’

latest oxfam find! currently working on my latin loeb collection. for science.