Kat 🧀
@brainjumble.bsky.social
Language, castles, countryside, music, sci-fi, painting/sketches (off and on – work in progress). Dual national (UK/FR). Translator (DE/FR->EN) and proofreader (EN).
Originally from Nottinghamshire; now in Essonne via Oxford, Durham, Hamburg and Geneva.
Originally from Nottinghamshire; now in Essonne via Oxford, Durham, Hamburg and Geneva.
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Yay it's Chandeleur! Pancakes this evening!
February 2, 2026 at 3:10 PM
Yay it's Chandeleur! Pancakes this evening!
The kids had a piano recital in a nearby village yesterday, giving us a chance to have a little explore there.
Love the old signs from before the département of Essonne was established in 1968!
Love the old signs from before the département of Essonne was established in 1968!
February 1, 2026 at 9:08 AM
The kids had a piano recital in a nearby village yesterday, giving us a chance to have a little explore there.
Love the old signs from before the département of Essonne was established in 1968!
Love the old signs from before the département of Essonne was established in 1968!
January 31, 2026 at 11:00 AM
A cheesecake has occurred using the massive blackberries from the garden.
January 30, 2026 at 9:55 AM
A cheesecake has occurred using the massive blackberries from the garden.
Daughter has decided she and her brother have a family anthem.
It begins:
"Allons enfants de la Katheriiiiiiine ..." 😆🇫🇷
It begins:
"Allons enfants de la Katheriiiiiiine ..." 😆🇫🇷
January 30, 2026 at 7:02 AM
Daughter has decided she and her brother have a family anthem.
It begins:
"Allons enfants de la Katheriiiiiiine ..." 😆🇫🇷
It begins:
"Allons enfants de la Katheriiiiiiine ..." 😆🇫🇷
Had a weird dream last night that I don't fully remember. What I do remember is waking, angrily telling husband I KNOW WHAT YOU'RE UP TO WITH THE LEMON MERINGUE PIE, YOU KNOW, and storming off to the toilet.
January 29, 2026 at 7:27 AM
Had a weird dream last night that I don't fully remember. What I do remember is waking, angrily telling husband I KNOW WHAT YOU'RE UP TO WITH THE LEMON MERINGUE PIE, YOU KNOW, and storming off to the toilet.
Had what looked for all the world like a migraine aura earlier but without the headache. I've had this once before with a headache that lasted all day and once with no headache. Very odd flashing lines of weird colour that eventually melted away. Now I'm just feeling tired and run down 😴
January 28, 2026 at 3:41 PM
Had what looked for all the world like a migraine aura earlier but without the headache. I've had this once before with a headache that lasted all day and once with no headache. Very odd flashing lines of weird colour that eventually melted away. Now I'm just feeling tired and run down 😴
Love it when the snowdrops appear
January 26, 2026 at 3:59 PM
Love it when the snowdrops appear
I took a photo of the pretty ice formations on the windscreen this morning but the tree in front of the car looks like a well-endowed lady posing like Jessica Rabbit with her head just out of the shot ...
January 26, 2026 at 3:56 PM
I took a photo of the pretty ice formations on the windscreen this morning but the tree in front of the car looks like a well-endowed lady posing like Jessica Rabbit with her head just out of the shot ...
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A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.
January 25, 2026 at 12:28 PM
A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.
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A man told me yesterday that it was important to "take emotion out of the equation“ when analysing the situation in the US, at which point I told him very calmly that "a woman who disagrees with you is not necessarily emotional".
Ladies, it was a breakthrough.
I should have done this years ago.
Ladies, it was a breakthrough.
I should have done this years ago.
January 24, 2026 at 10:46 AM
A man told me yesterday that it was important to "take emotion out of the equation“ when analysing the situation in the US, at which point I told him very calmly that "a woman who disagrees with you is not necessarily emotional".
Ladies, it was a breakthrough.
I should have done this years ago.
Ladies, it was a breakthrough.
I should have done this years ago.
9yo announced she's thinking of writing her autobiography 😂
Having been roped in to co-author her "journal intime", I think it may just end up being a list of what she had for dinner.
Having been roped in to co-author her "journal intime", I think it may just end up being a list of what she had for dinner.
January 23, 2026 at 6:20 AM
9yo announced she's thinking of writing her autobiography 😂
Having been roped in to co-author her "journal intime", I think it may just end up being a list of what she had for dinner.
Having been roped in to co-author her "journal intime", I think it may just end up being a list of what she had for dinner.
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I just woke up from a nap and somehow while I was asleep, everyone on the bus has figured out we are not going to the right place
January 20, 2026 at 1:57 AM
I just woke up from a nap and somehow while I was asleep, everyone on the bus has figured out we are not going to the right place
There are more than 8 BILLION people on this planet. And 1 arsehole and his cronies think they can hold us all to ransom.
It's weird he's getting away with it. I was always told bullies get their comeuppance.
Feeling really bloody disgruntled that what goes around has not in fact yet come around.
It's weird he's getting away with it. I was always told bullies get their comeuppance.
Feeling really bloody disgruntled that what goes around has not in fact yet come around.
January 20, 2026 at 4:59 PM
There are more than 8 BILLION people on this planet. And 1 arsehole and his cronies think they can hold us all to ransom.
It's weird he's getting away with it. I was always told bullies get their comeuppance.
Feeling really bloody disgruntled that what goes around has not in fact yet come around.
It's weird he's getting away with it. I was always told bullies get their comeuppance.
Feeling really bloody disgruntled that what goes around has not in fact yet come around.
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I learned all I know about art from Tony Hart.
And I learned all I know about architecture from Tony Harchitecture
And I learned all I know about architecture from Tony Harchitecture
January 19, 2026 at 4:06 PM
I learned all I know about art from Tony Hart.
And I learned all I know about architecture from Tony Harchitecture
And I learned all I know about architecture from Tony Harchitecture
9yo helped her dad make pudding tonight (a chocolate sponge). It was so good I went back for seconds even though I'm not really a pudding person. She was so delighted that she was jumping around the room shouting "YAY YOU LOVE IT YAY!" 🥰🥰🥰
January 18, 2026 at 9:27 PM
9yo helped her dad make pudding tonight (a chocolate sponge). It was so good I went back for seconds even though I'm not really a pudding person. She was so delighted that she was jumping around the room shouting "YAY YOU LOVE IT YAY!" 🥰🥰🥰
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The early bird catches the misty tree
January 18, 2026 at 7:29 AM
The early bird catches the misty tree
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Had an intriguing editorial discussion recently: how did people in the past talk about 'minutes' when they didn't have watches or standardised times? How does that affect your thinking?
Come down an Elizabethan/Jacobean rabbit hole with me.
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Come down an Elizabethan/Jacobean rabbit hole with me.
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January 17, 2026 at 10:34 AM
Had an intriguing editorial discussion recently: how did people in the past talk about 'minutes' when they didn't have watches or standardised times? How does that affect your thinking?
Come down an Elizabethan/Jacobean rabbit hole with me.
1/
Come down an Elizabethan/Jacobean rabbit hole with me.
1/
January 16, 2026 at 2:47 PM
Wonder if the Tangerine Toddler will resign if I give him my Blue Peter Badges 🤔
January 16, 2026 at 12:03 PM
Wonder if the Tangerine Toddler will resign if I give him my Blue Peter Badges 🤔
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Given the number of recent literary adaptions (Frankenstein, Wuthering Heights, Hamnet) I wonder if any cinemas have thought to have a little book stand at the box office. Lots of people will leave a film wanting to read the original, would be easy money surely
Thought I would work in the Picturehouse cafe this morning. Had not counted on arriving shortly before a baby-friendly screening of Hamnet
January 14, 2026 at 1:31 PM
Given the number of recent literary adaptions (Frankenstein, Wuthering Heights, Hamnet) I wonder if any cinemas have thought to have a little book stand at the box office. Lots of people will leave a film wanting to read the original, would be easy money surely
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Common Sense, published 250 years ago today.
January 10, 2026 at 9:09 PM
Common Sense, published 250 years ago today.