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This morning’s sunshine has reminded me of the word ‘philocaly’: a love of beauty, even in the smallest things.

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Locking eyes with a silent hunter of the skies! 🦉 📸 abucci_photo_tours #Owl #Photography #Nature #Birds

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Snowy Owl 📸 abucci_photo_tours #Owls #Nature #Birds

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Word of the day is ‘ram-stam’ (18th century): impetuous, headstrong, or reckless.

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Fox Romance in Shiroishi, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan This image 📸 🦊 was captured by photographer, Sebastian Nicolas of Hamburg, Germany

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TikTok took it down, so let’s share the shit out of this reading list. #HolocaustRemembranceDay #NeverAgainIsNow #BookSky #StateMediaCensorship

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8hrs, and 448 miles later and I’m back home in Englandshire. I’ll be honest, I’m wishing I was still in Gods Country. Here’s a shot from a couple of years ago at Laggan in the stunningly beautiful Scottish Highlands. This is our home galaxy over a frozen loch.

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Happily my favourite wee fox has survived the storm and looks in good shape. #Edinburgh #fox #wildlife

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Both only want money.

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Owl momma with her baby owl 🥹

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Word of the day is ‘matutolypea’: extreme grumpiness in the morning. From the Latin ‘Matuta’, Roman goddess of the dawn, and the Greek ‘lype’, ‘grief’. Put them together and you get ‘morning grief’.

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“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” Diary of Anne Frank January 13, 1943

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A beautiful male Short-eared Owl. 📸 wmckenziephotography #wild #owl #bird

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Word of day is ‘unasinous’ (17th century): united in stupidity. A riff on ‘unanimous’: which comes from the Latin for ‘one mind’. ‘Unasinous’ means ‘one ass’.

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Word of the day (of course) is ‘scurryfunging’, from US dialect: the frantic attempt to tidy the house just before guests arrive.

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Word of the day is ‘bellycheer’ (16th century): feasting, gluttony, and ‘the gratification of the belly’.

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Exactly

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Happiness.. 😀

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Two words for certain types of people, should you need them: microlipet: one who gets all worked up over nothing. struthonian: the person who buries their head in the sand and says ‘Problem? What problem?’.

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Etymology of the day is ‘jargon’, from the Old French ‘jargoun’, meaning the ‘chattering of birds’.

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Word of the day is a favourite, from old Scots. To ‘tartle’ is to hesitate while introducing someone because you have completely forgotten their name.

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Word of the day is ‘suspiring’, from the 16th century: a deep sigh. (Covers exhaustion, relief, sadness, collapses onto the sofa, or whatever fits the bill).

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Word of the day is ‘sequaciousness’ (16th century): the slavish and reckless following of another person in matters of thought or opinion.

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Snow owl ❄️🤍🦉

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Word of the day is ‘librocubicularist’: one who loves nothing better than reading in bed. (Not easy to say, but I’m glad to know it exists).

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30th April 1945 was a good day.

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This is both sad and infuriating. www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Etymology of the day: to be ‘blowing a hoolie’ (or ‘hooley’) was probably inspired by the Orkney word ‘hoolan’, a howling gale, with a touch of the ‘hooley’ that is a very noisy party thrown in.

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Brisk walk with #sophiefromromania and the prof on a very windy and surprisingly warm morning

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10 minutes late into Liege for a 7 minute ‘connection’. Saw the IC leave 4 platforms away. Should have realised this was really a 67 minute connection! Never mind, had a chance to nose around Calatrava’s Liège Guillemins. Draughty!

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Morning lovely #sophiefromromania Yes, there will be a walk soon once the prof has had her cup of tea

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Word of the day is ‘quiddler’ (19th century): one who pays great attention to trivial matters as a way of avoiding the important ones.

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Now this is a great idea. Free water refill points on Avanti West Coast pendolino & evero trains. 42,000 plastic bottles saved in 3 months? newsdesk.avantiwestcoast.co.uk/news/free-wa...

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Jupiter and it’s moon Europa

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