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PhD. Novelist (Hild, Spear, Menewood). All things Early Medieval. Here: Cats, crips, queers. Books, beauty, beers. MS ♿️🧪📚 nicolagriffith.com and linktr.ee/nicolagriffith Banner ID: B&W image—pint of Guinness flanked by 2 books flanked by 2 tabby cat
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Not wrong :)
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Thanks for that. You just inspired a blog post :)
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It means Doctor of the Church, a rare honour accorded by the Catholic Church to very few: Bede is the only British person ever so named
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Yes
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Thanks
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Thanks Nicola! For anybody interested here is their pet finder.
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Exactly
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I’m getting obsessed with circles
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To me it just looks like a bag of beach balls covered in fur 😄
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Yep. I think it’s meant to reflect the whole ‘when the lion lies down with the lamb,’ end of days stuff. Apt.
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Our still-missed cat Bella would absolutely *growl* and mantle over garbanzo beans. Hers! She also thought broccoli was the shit.
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Yes! I love her stuff. Sadly most of these illustrations won't work for me, though—they're later, and based on colour rather than design.
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😊
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Bloody Scotland I’ve heard of!
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Old Rheged? That sounds wonderful!
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Me too. But public health was not one of his interests 😐
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Here is another little book, this one from the union movement. It is updated for today's laws, which criminalize many effective tactics. Breaking machinery is illegal, but "slowdown" and "working to rule" are also useful. seattleiww.org/2025/01/31/h...
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🙃
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Apparently The Sun (?!) says it's about 8" www.thesun.co.uk/money/234108...
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Thanks!
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So smaller than, say, the one from Sutton Hoo. Thanks.
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Maybe not...
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I’m committed to stuff here in early June
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What time of year is that?