viviennetuffnell.bsky.social
Writer, poet, explorer, mystic, weary cynic and somehow, sometimes still hopeful.
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and will be dry before it rains later today. They're billowing and snapping like sails.
Tomorrow the landing curtains get the same treatment. His study ones are done, in the airing cupboard, ready to fold and put ready to move. Only our bedroom ones will remain, until we go.
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I hope that one is found. There needs to be many.
I also don't personally believe that recovery is possible for all, certainly not without justice as well.
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-I have managed to do in the two and a half hours since the fam left but I worry that with them away (only overnight, thankfully, and back tomorrow pm) I may overdo things badly and be found on the sofa unable to move!
Joking. The cat will ensure I get up to feed and fuss her.
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-a much-needed break while the moth-prevent stuff dries before I can put the table back, put the fresh oilcloth back on, put the chairs back round and hoover again for anything missed.
Bear in mind the room also has flat-packed packing boxes, and a couple ready to tape up.
I am pleased with what-
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-too, and a spray round with anti-moth spray. This also reminded me I hadn't changed the oilcloth on the table from the red one with stars for the festive period to a spring one with daisies. This means the outgoing cloth needs a careful wipe down and dry before putting away.
I am now taking-
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-there for the sake of safety) so they can be washed and ready to pack. That all created a lot of extra mess of dust, fallen leaves, bits of grot, which then needed hoovering up. So then I remembered it's time to turn the table so the carpet underneath (a beautiful Persian rug) can be hoovered-
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-and it's been a while since they had hair cuts and tidy-ups. I also needed to clean the sill and the window, take down the suncatcher to put in a drawer so it won't get lost, take down the acro-bats who cling to the curtain rail, take down the hanging glass candle holders (I use e-candles-
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so am I. I use proper incense on charcoal and it's entirely safe when used correctly and sensibly. Having the copper bowl that contains the censer on my lap while I fiddled was NEITHER!!
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curiously, a recent-ish Bishop of Bath and Wells used to have dishes of jelly babies dotted around the place during events. Not the current holder as far as I know. Not his style, judging from spending a week with him in Taize.
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thank you. I sort of saw it happen a few seconds before it did. Might be why I managed to react appropriately.
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No one deserves this. But to do this to these selfless people...
It is also devastating talking to anxious, soon-to-graduate students about their futures.
So here's to supporting each other as we continue finding ways to do the work the world so desperately needs.
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and somewhere like Alderley Edge holds much more history and resonance than a little copse on the edge of old grazing land (it belonged to friends). It must have blown socks off.
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gosh, that must have been fab. Aeons ago, my other half did a mixed wedding alongside Glennie Kindred (bride was Christian, groom pagan but both able to see the other's faith sanely and work together)in an open air setting, in a woodland dell. It was utterly magical.
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absolutely! I didn't read that as a kid; heard a Radio 4 production when I was a student (along with then fiance now hubby) and we got the books later. The books have grown up alongside me now. The most recent ones, mystical or what? Not kids' books ever, really.