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Holly Ennis @hollyennis.bsky.social · 16m

Yep - this works for me. Currently spectacularly craftenflunken having massively over-promised on Halloween costumes for my children, attempting stuff I have no hope in hell of pulling off & barely managing to thread up the sewing machine

a woman is laughing with her mouth open and wearing a purple vest with the words wailing awkwardly written on it .

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Holly Ennis @hollyennis.bsky.social · 51m

As part of our cook-along of Felicita Sala’s A Year in Fleurville, October was butternut cake which was like (not sure if this was intended) a cross between a carrot cake and a pumpkin pie. Icing sugar doing a lot of heavy lifting but tasted good.

Page from Sala’s book showing illustration of people harvesting pumpkins and then a recipe for butternut cake

Butternut cake in a tin fresh out of the oven

Cake tipped out on a plate with lots of cracks heavily dusted in icing sugar.

Holly Ennis @hollyennis.bsky.social · 6h

Drinking up the Autumn colours in Edinburgh’s botanic gardens

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Holly Ennis @hollyennis.bsky.social · 11h

I grew up in a town in Fife and they were called Aberdeen butteries!

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Holly Ennis @hollyennis.bsky.social · 21h

I think I’m going to need *at least* an episode explaining how Yi-Heon time travelled but, more specifically, how he negotiated the suit and haircut #bonappetityourmajesty

Holly Ennis @hollyennis.bsky.social · 22h

Looks like the makings of a perfect afternoon (great book, many very pretty horses)

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Holly Ennis @hollyennis.bsky.social · 22h

It’s also #portfolioday and some incredible artists showcasing their work on this # for the polar opposite of doomscrolling

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Holly Ennis @hollyennis.bsky.social · 23h

Acceptable in context of cake?

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Holly Ennis @hollyennis.bsky.social · 23h

I loved this - Cold Kitchen by Caroline Eden. A love letter to Eastern Europe, Central Asia, traveling and wanderlust - and also to feeling at home in Edinburgh. Organised by season and a meditation on marking the year through food and seasonal recipes

Cover of Cold Kitchen book by Caroline Eden

Holly Ennis @hollyennis.bsky.social · 23h

Happy Ada Lovelace day (courtesy of findingada.com)

Portrait of Ada Lovelace by Margaret Sarah Carpenter

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Magdalena Skipper @magdalenaskipper.bsky.social · 2d

Brilliant winner choice for the economics Nobel Prize. Congratulations to the winners!

A very timely choice to demonstrate the key contributions that innovation, technology and creativity make to the economies! Well-worth continued investment

🧪 #NobelPrize2025

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The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2025

The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2025 was awarded "for having explained innovation-driven economic growth" with one half to Joel Mokyr "for having identified ...

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Holly Ennis @hollyennis.bsky.social · 2d

I quite like days like this when Edinburgh is shrouded in mist and all the edges are blurred (and it matches my mood today)

Holly Ennis @hollyennis.bsky.social · 2d

Picked up ‘The Invisible Parade’ by Leigh Bardugo with beautiful illustrations by John Picacio - a story about coping with grief set around Day of the Dead

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Holly Ennis @hollyennis.bsky.social · 3d

Also need to mention the excellent Far From the Madding Crowd bookshop on Linlithgow’s High St - a real treasure trove and jam-packed with beautiful books

Holly Ennis @hollyennis.bsky.social · 3d

First trip to Linlithgow Palace - and would have loved to have seen the courtyard fountain flowing with wine

View from the top of Linlithgow Palace across the gardens

The courtyard fountain covered in animals and people

From info board saying that the fountain was sometimes filled with wine

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Holly Ennis @hollyennis.bsky.social · 3d

Loving Cynthia Erivo #strictly

a woman wearing a white feathered top is making a hand gesture

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Holly Ennis @hollyennis.bsky.social · 4d

I love this building - I visited for the first time around the time we were reading the Ada Goth series and the two are now inextricably linked

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Holly Ennis @hollyennis.bsky.social · 4d

A Smith and Gertrude wine flight and a book at the bar - I liked finding out that people reading books over a glass of wine were one of the target audiences when the founders set the bar up 10 years ago! Wine was delicious though book choice - Tender is the Flesh - continues to creep me out

Holly Ennis @hollyennis.bsky.social · 6d

New book (the very freshly published Mate by Ali Hazelwood) - and an evening off

Holly Ennis @hollyennis.bsky.social · 7d

I would love to wear this fabric

Kate Strasdin @katestrasdin.bsky.social · 7d

It took a highly sophisticated Jacquard weave to create the incredibly detailed oranges that form the fabric of of this early 1890s dress. You can almost smell the citrusy peel. There so many details to observe here, the pattern matching, the cuff trim, the drama! #V&A #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

A view of the back of an1890s dress showing the bodice with clusters of oranges woven into the fabric. It has black lace on the sleeves and a high collar

A detail of the front of the bodice of the orange patterned 1890s dress showing black lace at the neckline and the detailed fruit

Sleeve detail of the 1890s orange patterned dress which has a yellow silk trellis work trim with black lace

Full length view of the front of the 1890s dress patterned with oranges and trimmed with black lace

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Holly Ennis @hollyennis.bsky.social · 7d

Temperature has dropped & October door wreath is up 🍂 🎃

Wreath made of woollen bobbles in different autumnal colours

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Holly Ennis @hollyennis.bsky.social · 8d

How amazing are these Halloween candles?! From Watson’s Wick Works (@Watson’s wick works on insta) who are at Edinburgh Portobello’s Brighton Park market first Saturday of the month - & at the Pitt market on October 12th

Candles in the shape of a skull, a ghost and a pumpkin

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Holly Ennis @hollyennis.bsky.social · 8d

‘Cold Kitchen’ by Caroline Eden - and all I want to do is grab a backpack and my passport and be able to do this:

a man is walking through a grassy field with the words i 'm going on an adventure

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Holly Ennis @hollyennis.bsky.social · 9d

@historygamesnet.bsky.social guessing this might already be on your radar but just in case not & it’s of interest

99% Invisible @99pi.org · 9d

Come chat with @romanmars.bsky.social and Ben Brock Johnson about video games and our upcoming series Hidden Levels!

9:00am PT in the 99PI Discord 👉 discord.gg/99pi

Holly Ennis @hollyennis.bsky.social · 9d

The calm after the storm: some sky this morning over Edinburgh

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