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Vivian H
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Non-binary single parent. Chronically exhausted. Never known to underthink anything. Approximately Anglican, Benedictine fanperson.
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Frodo wakes. ‘Where am I?’

‘In the House of Elrond. It is ten o’clock in the morning. The morning of October the twenty-fourth, if you want to know.’

‘Gandalf!’

‘Yes, I am here. And you are lucky to be here, too, after all the absurd things you have done since you left home.’
Kit Whitfield's Austen takes are always worth the read.
Another AUSTEN TAKE, babies! This time: why 'Mary Crawford is more fun than Fanny Price' isn't a good take.

Because Mary isn't a rebel. She's a status-quo enforcer.

How do we balance disagreeing with Austen's sexual morals without missing her point? 1/
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There is no need for this

1st:
No Christmas Carol Film can surpass the Muppets Christmas Carol

2nd: dont support an abuser
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Cnut. He's forgotten about Cnut, who went on pilgrimage to Rome in 1027. Oh, and Edward I, who spent 2 months at the court of Gregory X in 1273. Otherwise, all over the detail, as per.
That's not the spirit that built America! (All too sadly true)
I reject them, because they always collapse extremely messily. And even though untangling hopeless tangles of yarn is one of my skills and an exercise in meditation and forgetting oneself, it's massively easier when there isn't quite a chunk of knitting attached to one end.
Cafe in Woodbridge here. Goodness only knows what you can see on laptop screens in tea shops in Hereford.
Clothes steamer and heated airer have been revolutionary here.
I remember seeing that, and trying to turn myself inside out with embarrassment for my nationality.
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In the 17th century the British famously removed the need for the royal hat budget with a single stroke, FFS!
Coffee only gets into your lungs (up your nose, into your keyboard etc)when you read a stupid statement like that while drinking it. Also, the white mug I drink strong black coffee in every day is, well, white. Because it gets washed up.
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Check out my pattern bundle here (or buy them individually):
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#Embroidery #WheelOfTheYear
And then you get to the writers/directors. "So I told him that as he gets stabbed in the back he should make a noise like urrghhh, and he said actually, when people are stabbed in the back they don't do that. So then I looked up his war record. And shut up" (to paraphrase Peter Jackson there)
He's one of my favourite things about the cast commentaries on the LOTR DVDs. Hobbits: and then we fell out of a boat! Legolas: I look so deep here [dim, elf, you look *dim*]. John Rhys Davies: yacht, Julie Christie, fine wines. Lee: As Tolkein told me in a letter in 1968...
More quilting books need to say "lay this block out and check for swastikas *before* you sew any seams", I have found.
Not sure if it was a stoat or a weasel? Remember, a weasel is weasily recognised, because a stoat is stoatily different.
See stoat, say stoat, stoated
having lived on an upland farmstead and seen one or two things, I have to reluctantly get behind this, but then we keep a cat so any logic is out of the window
Me at 2.30pm: You know what would be nice on a grey autumn Sunday afternoon? A second cup of coffee. What's the worst that could happen?
Me at 2.30am the next morning: Oh. That. That's what could happen. Apparently we don't do sleeping any more.
It is in fact the 75th birthday today of Prince Charles Napoleon, possibly (it's disputed, naturally) current head of the House. Which is quite the coincidence.
And it's a happy 75th birthday to Prince Charles Napoleon head (disputedly) of the Bonaparte house! Hope he likes his presents, sorry it was a bit of a rush getting them...
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I bet there are still skirmishes and they just go unreported by the mainstream media that wants to spin a narrative of inter-county harmony
The border between Cantwara rīce (Kingdom of the Kentish) & Sūþseaxna rīce (South Saxons) is still the border between the counties of Kent & Sussex

A 1,400 year old ditch created to stop conflict, by marking the border to avoid confusion, is our southern woodland boundary
But he'd trust Nighy on science? Who does he actually think Bill Nighy is?
Has anyone checked where the various French Pretenders to the Throne are right now?
heist at the louvre in paris this morning, 3 dudes with a ladder and small chainsaws apparently stole what was left of the french crown jewels and disappeared on a scooter. painful to see someone else live your dream