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She/her. Photographer, Translator, lover of history, magic, tarot and the uncanny. Knitting, crochet and sewing. A healthy Rightmove obsession. 🇩🇪 in 🇬🇧. In my 50ies and loving it.
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I had a school reunion in my dream. Glad I attended it there, it means I won’t have to go to the real one.

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The cat of my elderly neighbours is notoriously shy. Normally when I go over he instantly runs away. Slowly (after 14 years) he’s thawing and will now be in the room while I am there for coffee and a chat. He even allowed pets yesterday.

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Where are my fellow Kdrama watchers. I love this show. Undercover High School. Some great actors in this one. It’s fun and tense and very moorish

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For years, here in the UK there was no credible alternative to audiobooks apart from Audible. That has really changed and now there’s several. My favourite is XigXag a UK provider based in Cornwall and London.

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Proud of Zelenskyy for holding his own!!!

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Today, we remember back to 2022, when Bearwood celebrated the Queen's Platinum Jubilee in its own unique special wayđź‘‘

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The best possible result in the #Germany #elections *under the circumstances* (global far-right wave) is: 1. The right-wing populist Conservatives in need of not just 1 but 2 coalition partners. (available: Greens, SocDem, Socialists) 2. The far-right AfD no higher than ~20%.

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Listened to Radio 4 programme about why we like and have dogs. Seriously love the randomness of British radio programmes.

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Also a funny situation this week when someone confused an idiom and so the translation was incorrect (now fixed) but so funny. "sich einen Wolf laufen" = literal, "to walk yourself a wolf" means "chafing", mostly between your legs, due to fabric rubbing while walking.

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Modal particles in German are the hardest thing for language learners to grasp and often tricky to deal with when it comes to subtitles. A lot of times they're the first thing to be cut to maintain reading speed. I'm such a geek that I have read 6 linguistics papers on the topic last year.

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Wenn ihr nicht wisst, wen ihr wählen sollt, dann wählt - verdammt noch mal - das kleinste Übel.

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Some days the anxiety is just close to winning. Today is one of those days.

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So many ideas floating around my mind, so many things I want to do.

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Researching quilt history by watching a documentary series from 2011. It’s so shocking how different this kind of US portrayed in the series feels to the US portrayed now.

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#Germany Hundreds of thousands came out in Germany today against far-right extremism. More than 250k in Munich alone. 35k in Bremen. 4k in Mainz. 24k in Hanover, 12k in Konstanz, 14k in Wuppertal ... and it goes on. Nationwide. www.tagesschau.de/inland/gesel...

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I have mixed feelings over Marvel movies but I lurve their logo and Michael Giacchino's music. Made a lecture register code homage/pastiche/rip-of. The important thing was that I could update and render the code in under an hour. Eevee to the rescue

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exactly this. going to start an inclusive birding club this Spring despite it all. But will need a month to nap between outings.

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Still buzzing from the workshop yesterday. Yes because of the permission to paint but also because it affirmed something I have long believed: we thrive in a culture where we are told we can just try it out without an expectation of results.

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Donald Trump’s proposal for Gaza is bizarre and dangerous. The UK cannot remain silent.

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Ah yes, I did leave my comfort zone today and went to an art class Like so many people I have lots of narratives around what I can and, especially, what i can’t do. Water colour is out of my depth but two of my words for this year are “reimagine” and “nourish” and so I went along.

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SN 1993J Image, Hubble, NASA/STscS Galaxy M81 Constellation Ursa Major Discovered 1993 my amateur astronomer Francisco Garcia Diaz using a 10" Newtonian Telescope Distance 11 million light years SN 1993J was a binary system until one of the stars drew enough mass off the other it exploded.

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some important thoughts on dreams

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