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BettyStovesEyes @bettystoveseyes.bsky.social · 9h

Still fuming decades later at Hugh Grant getting on a bus outside the Ritz which is clearly going the WRONG WAY for Notting Hill

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BettyStovesEyes @bettystoveseyes.bsky.social · 9h

Last summer our balcony overlooked another, affording extensive visual/aural exposure to a couple having a lie-down one afternoon. Well he was, she was working quite hard

Wish we'd played something apt afterwards (Yakety Sax? Beethoven 9?). We had a loud convo about patio furniture instead #british

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BettyStovesEyes @bettystoveseyes.bsky.social · 12h

My mother was convinced her collection of souvenir "silver" teaspoons was priceless and told everyone this endlessly

She was right, in that the price anyone wanted to pay for them was 0

I filtered out the hallmarked ones and had great pleasure in chucking the rest into the metals skip at the tip

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BettyStovesEyes @bettystoveseyes.bsky.social · 12h

If this is a factor, Liege station is a stunning bit of architecture. Mr StovesEyes took a photo of the roof that has hung on our hall wall for 20 years so I feel like a local.

Plus one for Maastricht too... Great place

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BettyStovesEyes @bettystoveseyes.bsky.social · 14h

Good morning to you!

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BettyStovesEyes @bettystoveseyes.bsky.social · 15h

Adding to the religion/education/intestinal crossover content:

The party atmosphere of my last, post-exam A level statistics class was greatly enhanced by our teacher Mr S telling us about how his wife's internal bleeding had been cured by Jesus.

Not sure if any bottles had been involved

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BettyStovesEyes @bettystoveseyes.bsky.social · 1d

Just caught up on last week's

The only ones I have a major chance with are the Funny Operas but I've just amazed myself by identifying a bit of Grieg

I love it all: Joseph Cooper's terrible hair, the awkward guest stars, memories of my dad's utter hatred of Robin Ray (for smugness), all of it!

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BettyStovesEyes @bettystoveseyes.bsky.social · 1d

I'm post-Ring Cycle, and full of cold, believe me directiveness is absoLUTEly all I am in a state to respond to today, so I am beyond grateful to be directed to this xxx

BettyStovesEyes @bettystoveseyes.bsky.social · 1d

Your wish, my command! ❤️

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BettyStovesEyes @bettystoveseyes.bsky.social · 1d

I've just caught up... Wow, some nice stuff there.

Was a big sale last month, we lurked but didn't buy much as prices seemed crazy. He's probably part of the reason why! Think we need to re-evaluate our budget. I'm just glad we are after different stuff (unless his other 90% at home is "ours" 😮)

BettyStovesEyes @bettystoveseyes.bsky.social · 1d

The utterly lovely owner/ front man of our fabulous local restaurant is from the MidWest and every convo sounds like he's calling in his herd from across the prairie

HELLO! CAN I GET YOU A DRINK? I SEE YOU'RE NOT WITH THE SAME PERSON AS LAST TIME, DID YOU DUMP HER OR DID SHE DUMP YOU? HAHAHAHA!!!

BettyStovesEyes @bettystoveseyes.bsky.social · 1d

Agree with all that. I do buy new v occasionally just to add new blood to the circulating stock and support authors I love. But looking at the last 10 years of reading, about 70% of it is library

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BettyStovesEyes @bettystoveseyes.bsky.social · 1d

I still have security ones too. It's the "every crappy paperback is equally precious" view I find, shall we say, challenging?

I started a list in 2016 as I reckoned then that I had time to read maybe 2000 more in the years I had left. I'm probably going to exceed that but it does focus the mind!

BettyStovesEyes @bettystoveseyes.bsky.social · 1d

Sorry, just realised credit for being Avant Garde also goes to @stevenperkins.bsky.social

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BettyStovesEyes @bettystoveseyes.bsky.social · 1d

I do recommend memorising a full credit card number + expiry + CVV

(Your own, naturally)

I can't imagine how many hours of faffing about it's saved me not to have to scramble about looking for it when online or on the phone

Was devastated when I got a new one and had to try to forget the old one

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BettyStovesEyes @bettystoveseyes.bsky.social · 1d

"oh, I could never get rid of a book/ I've got X books in my house"... Arseholes. It's a lump of inky paper, not your personality. You've only got time to read another Y (<X) before you die. Pass them on. Share the benefit of what's inside

(Exceptions: reference, definite re-reads)

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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BettyStovesEyes @bettystoveseyes.bsky.social · 1d

Congratulations to you for being ahead of the pack on this one, so us cool kids could look at that thread yesterday and think "meh, done that already"...

☎️

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BettyStovesEyes @bettystoveseyes.bsky.social · 2d

Should have been worth a single espresso, minimum

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BettyStovesEyes @bettystoveseyes.bsky.social · 2d

Oooh, Poole, my antennae twitching

What was the stuff on the telly? I'm dangerously partial to the Freeform 1950s patterns especially. Couple of recent acquisitions below!

(Will be home tonight to catch up but as you were there, so to speak...)

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BettyStovesEyes @bettystoveseyes.bsky.social · 3d

Waiter in dull restaurant, to one of Mr S's colleagues, on work trip: "how would you like your steak cooked, sir?"

Colleague: "Grilled"

#constructivedismissal

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BettyStovesEyes @bettystoveseyes.bsky.social · 3d

Cocktail stick!

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BettyStovesEyes @bettystoveseyes.bsky.social · 4d

I craved one of these (from a shop! branded! in a box!) but predictably had to settle for a wooden Sylko cotton reel with four tacks knocked in by dad

The resulting product used to hang around in coils like a sullen woollen worm until someone (often me) threw it in the bin

A proper, shop-bought Knitting Nancy made by Spear's Games in the 1970s

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BettyStovesEyes @bettystoveseyes.bsky.social · 4d

THANK YOU! had forgotten

Series record ✔️✔️

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BettyStovesEyes @bettystoveseyes.bsky.social · 4d

I was a 16y/o English girl version of those guys

On that trip I also saw ball lightning bouncing off the wall of a Leningrad tower block, don't *think* the CDM was a factor

Anyway, as a first trip abroad, not bad going

Still wear my Party Congress badge bought for 2 roubles on the street

Badge from the 1981 26th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, now worn by middle aged UK woman as general "up yours" to polite society

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BettyStovesEyes @bettystoveseyes.bsky.social · 4d

Well, quite. Would love to go back, not least because that was a school trip and now I'm older and possibly less stupid but I am resigned to it not happening

(It was my first and last brush with creme de menthe which was incredibly cheap for some reason. USSR production target overshot, maybe)

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