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Nigella Lawson @nigella.bsky.social · 9d

Delicately cheesy, very creamy, and with a bit of golden crunch on top: #RecipeOfTheDay is Gnocchi Gratin! And do grate over cheddar (or similar) if you want to boost the cheesy goo factor. www.nigella.com/recipes/gnoc...

Gnocchi Gratin

I make this gratin, for preference, with the so-called freshly made kind of gnocchi that can be found in the chill cabinet of the supermarket. They come (or do near me) in packets of 400g but, if you ...

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Dr. Elle, Her Celestial Majesty ✨👑🌌 @abstractica.bsky.social · Jun 24

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The new moon rises on Wednesday 25th June [tomorrow].

Set your intentions against a backdrop of summer light, whispering your desires to the soul of the rose.

— Maude Frome

img: John William Waterhouse
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Beth Levin @betheena.bsky.social · 16m

(43) Maureen Forrester: Vergnügte Ruh (Cantata BWV 170) by Bach - YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpIP...

Maureen Forrester: Vergnügte Ruh (Cantata BWV 170) by Bach

YouTube video by Muzikazaile

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Burgi Zenhaeusern @burgi.bsky.social · 5d

An October haiku from way back for #smallPoemSunday, published by UCity Review (also way back).
The weather is as clear today as when I wrote this.

October Sun

Glitter and sharpness
sever sky from crowns today.
No dulling the edge.

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Beth Levin @betheena.bsky.social · 26m

(43) Russell Oberlin_Recital - YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=VK97...

Russell Oberlin_Recital

YouTube video by Antonio Prieto Pérez

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Jon Bilous @jon.framer.art · 5h

AIDA Café Konditorei, Vienna

Prints: https://jon.framer.art/s/image/86438?source=bluesky

AIDA Café Konditorei vintage neon signs at night, Vienna, Austria

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Coates is Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · Aug 23

But if you don’t think any of the above is sufficiently culturally significant, to round things off this morning, here’s some unquestionable life advice from the diary of novelist Dawn Powell, 69 years ago today

Excerpt from The Assassin’s Cloak, An Anthology of the World's Greatest Diarists: 1956, A motto: Do it tomorrow; you've made enough mistakes today. Dawn Powell

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Henri Matisse @henrimatisse.bsky.social · 7h

Young Girl with Long Hair (recto); Girl Reading (verso), 1914
https://botfrens.com/collections/48/contents/1208531

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The English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social · 2d

Be like Bert

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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · Aug 5

William Nicholson, endpaper design for the first edition of 'The Velveteen Rabbit' (1922)

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Beth Levin @betheena.bsky.social · 40m

Mirror Two Part Invention (2025) for Two Pianos Nicolas Kingman by Nicolas Kingman soundcloud.com/nicolas-king...

Mirror Two Part Invention (2025) for Two Pianos Nicolas Kingman

I am a British composer who specialises in music for theatre and have written several operas and musicals and a ballet. Alongside this runs an interest in writing music for the concert hall and works

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Tomoki semantics @flowers-and-birds.bsky.social · 7h

Live Life

#Flowers #flowerphotography #nature #NaturePhotography

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Beth Levin @betheena.bsky.social · 42m

Halit Başar

Anton Bruckner died on this day in 1896.
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Beth Levin @betheena.bsky.social · 44m

"On this beautiful path, I walk in peace. With each step, the wind blows. With each step, a flower blooms.” -Thích Nhất Hạnh
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[image: Koukei Kojima]

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Beth Levin @betheena.bsky.social · 47m

Saturday, 1914 by André Derain (1880-1954)
biblioklept

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Beth Levin @betheena.bsky.social · 1h

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Thomas Pynchon Saw Where America Was Headed. What Does He See Now?

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Beth Levin @betheena.bsky.social · 13h

Happy Birthday to Verdi!

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🎬 ScreenMedia 🎞 @screenmedia.bsky.social · 2d

Alastair Sim stars with Joyce Grenfell, George Cole, and Hermione Baddeley in the classic 🇬🇧British comedy film "THE BELLES OF ST TRINIAN'S" (1954) dir. Frank Launder

🎬 British Lion Films

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smitten kitchen @smittenkitchen.bsky.social · 19h

This week's Weekly Yap, my not-strictly-cooking newsletter, is, in fact, full of cooking — ideas for vegetarian Thanksgiving mains, what to serve with soup, my forever favorite kitchen towels, two excellent meals out, and a few things I made for dinner.

smittenkitchen.substack.com/p/the-weekly...

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Beth Levin @betheena.bsky.social · 14h

The Nobel Prize
The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the 2025 #NobelPeacePrize to Maria Corina Machado for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy.

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Beth Levin @betheena.bsky.social · 14h

near home...

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Anthony Princiotti @tonyprinciotti.bsky.social · 1d

"You may have the universe if I may have Italy."

- Giuseppe Verdi

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Beth Levin @betheena.bsky.social · 14h

from Falstaff:
La selva dorme e sperde
incenso ed ombre; e par
nell’aer denso un verde
asilo in fondo al mar.
[The forest sleeps and scatters incense and shadow. And it seems, in this breathless air, a green refuge at the bottom of the sea.]
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Klimt, 1901

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Beth Levin @betheena.bsky.social · 14h

shozo ozaki

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Beth Levin @betheena.bsky.social · 14h

(42) Renata Tebaldi "Final Scene" La forza del destino - YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWID...

Renata Tebaldi "Final Scene" La forza del destino

YouTube video by Onegin65

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