whitehart.bsky.social
Middle-aged queer lefty feminist (intersectional). Reader, walker, swimmer, knitter, sewer, geek. #ActuallyAutistic. They/she.
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Morning Womble! I've just finished @kjcharleswriter.com's Subtle Blood (the last in her Will Darling series) and haven't decided what to read next.
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[OLIVER CROMWELL]
How does a nepo baby son of a lord and a
Yorkshireman dropped in the middle of a civil
war that's not civil, crown fighting town, brother fighting brother
Grow up to be a hero and a scholar
[THOMAS FAIRFAX]
Sir Thomas Fairfax
My name is Sir Thomas Fairfax...
(Sorry not sorry)
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Good morning, Womble! I'm reading Interstellar Megachef by Lavanya Lakshminarayan which is an absolute delight so far.
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Antonia Forest's books about the Marlow family are the same - they take place from autumn term in year 1 to Christmas in year 3 but the social milieu changes from late 1940s to mid-80s over the course of the series.
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Volcanoes and meteors. (And later, nuclear war, but it was volcanoes and meteors when I was 5 or so, and nuclear war not until my teens.)
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YKINMKATOK, as we used to say back in the day.
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Oh, I always wanted a Spirograph!
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Morning Womble! I'm reading I Crossed the Minch by Louis McNeice - a 1937 account of a visit to the Western Isles which is a delightfully eclectic mix of travelogue, poetry and imagination.
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Piranesi?
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Congratulations!
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I very much doubt that I was the only viewer who did.
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Morning Womble! I'm reading The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by VE Schwab, as I'm going to see her giving a talk at the end of this month.
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I noticed that. I have a Bad Feeling that Someone Else will turn out to have been the Real One all along and we return to a certain TARDIS dynamic which annoyed the hell out of me 19 years ago...
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I'd have been dancing.
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Happy birthday!
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And, as I do after every book in the series, I'm now revisiting the original novelette 'The Lady Astronaut of Mars' to see what's changed in the light of new information.
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Yes.
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Morning Womble! I am reading @maryrobinettekowal.com's latest Lady Astronaut novel, The Martian Contingency, which is as delightful as all the others.
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They are the best! Last weekend I drove four hours each way and stayed two nights in a Premier Inn to go to RSPB Bempton Cliffs for a few hours and see maybe a dozen quite distant puffins and it was SO WORTH IT.
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There are definitely plans for all the space we're vacating, and people waiting to pounce on it as soon as we're out.
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I look forward to the University's legal team being all over them like a rash if their publicity is giving the slightest suggestion that they are affiliated when they're not.
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Congratulations!
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One does not simply walk into Blackwell's. (Three books sounds like getting off very lightly indeed.)
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Also, this picture of a gannet in flight has a bonus photobombing puffin in the background. #birds
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I had never previously been interested in college jobs, but possibly I should reconsider that position given the potential for cat interactions...
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Oh, amazing! I don't know them but that is brilliant!
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I was somewhat encouraged by listening to a "senior leaders' EDI briefing" today where all the questions seemed to be from people wanting to make sure we could keep supporting trans students and staff whatever crap the EHRC end up producing.
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But then, having dealt with more public crises than I'd really like in a professional context, I'm not really surprised to get boilerplate wording written by a comms bod.
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I had a very similar response from my MP (Calum Miller) though he did start by acknowledging my specific concerns about supporting trans students and staff, and end by affirming his support for Bicester Pride. (I didn't even know Bicester had Pride!)
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Bridge to Terabithia. (40-odd years later, my brother is still annoyed that I then spoilered him for the ending, but I didn't want him to have the same horrible shock it gave me. It was the first book I read where things weren't ok in the end.)
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Morning Womble! I'm reading @zenaldehyde.bsky.social's fun romcom The Friend Zone Experiment.
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Oh no! I hope he'll be ok.