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Jane Wickenden / Jane Stemp

@janevsw.bsky.social

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Retired rare books librarian, formerly Institute of Naval Medicine civvy, thwarted medievalist, enthusiast of history, cooking, words and singing, writer, occasional poet, permanently on wheels; married to retired PO (Comms) RNR, signal engineer, bass.

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Jane Wickenden / Jane Stemp @janevsw.bsky.social · Nov 17

Thought I hadn't screenshot these before Brian Sibley left the other place. But <phew> I had. Time to blow my own trumpet for once.

Brian Sibley: "Just read Waterbound, @JaneVSW's excellent futuristic novel championing the demand for difficult and dangerous questions to be asked and calling for its characters (and reader) to have the courage to challenge unacceptable prejudices. Terrific, memorable story for teens & up." Above a cover image of Waterbound / Jane Stemp, strapline "Secrets hidden where the river runs," picture showing a folded red lily floating on dark water.

Brian Sibley: "An exceptional book written for teen readers but able to reach and touch any adult reader with imagination and even a grain of social conscience. A believable futuristic novel, strongly plotted, with contemporary, nuanced characters and a defiant challenge to human prejudices."

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Jane Wickenden / Jane Stemp @janevsw.bsky.social · 22h

Eek. Well, take care, and I hope things continue to improve.

Jane Wickenden / Jane Stemp @janevsw.bsky.social · 23h

It's funny the different reactions to stuff. I was on max co-codamol 4x daily when I had a leg ulcer, and it deadened the pain, but that was all.

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Jane Wickenden / Jane Stemp @janevsw.bsky.social · 1d

My first thought was "Charles Keeping!" too!

Jane Wickenden / Jane Stemp @janevsw.bsky.social · 1d

Further on flapjacks as oat bars, I found this recipe for "Scotch Seas"(?) in a booklet called Round the World Cookbook, ed. K Morrow &c. Reading, Pa.: Culinary Arts Press, 1936.

1 cup brown sugar, ½ cup butter or other shortening, melted, 2 cups rolled oats, 1 tsp baking powder, ½ tsp salt. Add sugar to melted butter & stir until sugar dissolved. Add remaining ingredients & mix well. Pour into a well-greased shallow pan & bake in moderate oven (350°F) for 30 minutes. When cool cut into squares.

Jane Wickenden / Jane Stemp @janevsw.bsky.social · 1d

^^What he said!

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Prof. Liz Oakley-Brown @earlymodlancs.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you @naomialderman.bsky.social for writing this 👇

"In praise of “rip-off” degrees" | The Observer share.google/aoaUSb8msQ2F...

In praise of “rip-off” degrees | The Observer

Kemi Badenoch’s attack on the arts and humanities isn’t just culturally short-sighted, it’s economically illiterate

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Jane Wickenden / Jane Stemp @janevsw.bsky.social · 2d

After one of my mum's attempts failed, they became known as "cement cakes" in our family.

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Jane Wickenden / Jane Stemp @janevsw.bsky.social · 2d

I recommend The Girls of St Bride's for an unusually nuanced (especially at that date) portrayal of a wheelchair-using character at the school, Winifred.

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Jane Wickenden / Jane Stemp @janevsw.bsky.social · 3d

Aligning with whatsit double-barrelled – you know, the haunted Victorian pencil?

Jane Wickenden / Jane Stemp @janevsw.bsky.social · 3d

I eat custard when I'm feeling like that...

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Jane Wickenden / Jane Stemp @janevsw.bsky.social · 3d

I think I've heard – though I'm not sure I believe it – that they were hinged, so one learnt the art of hitching them up gracefully into the small of one's back as one sat down. The perils of being sufficiently high in the social scale to follow fashion .... !

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Jane Wickenden / Jane Stemp @janevsw.bsky.social · 3d

Lovely! I used to commute home along Stokes Bay and the sunsets were often wonderful.

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Jane Wickenden / Jane Stemp @janevsw.bsky.social · 4d

And would I care??

Jane Wickenden / Jane Stemp @janevsw.bsky.social · 5d

Thinking of you Matt

Jane Wickenden / Jane Stemp @janevsw.bsky.social · 5d

😁

Jane Wickenden / Jane Stemp @janevsw.bsky.social · 5d

Thank you 😊

Jane Wickenden / Jane Stemp @janevsw.bsky.social · 5d

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Jane Wickenden / Jane Stemp @janevsw.bsky.social · 5d

That's ... unprintable. So sorry xx

Jane Wickenden / Jane Stemp @janevsw.bsky.social · 5d

Update: much to my disgruntlement, we the (unpaid) authors would have to *pay* the journal publishers what my co-author describes as a "not-trivial amount" for open access.
😡
I'll wait to see what transpires by way of author copies ...

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Jane Wickenden / Jane Stemp @janevsw.bsky.social · 5d

Sincerely hoping they will let co-author and me keep it open access! Otherwise it's samizdat here we come ...

Jane Wickenden / Jane Stemp @janevsw.bsky.social · 6d

Publication pending – co-author & I heave a sigh of relief.
#NavalHistory
"Congratulations on the acceptance of your paper 'Hospital Ships of the Royal Navy in World War One: From Pre-war Planning to the Aftermath of Jutland'."
In the International Journal of Military History – some time soon.

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Jane Wickenden / Jane Stemp @janevsw.bsky.social · 6d

You and me with the needles.

Jane Wickenden / Jane Stemp @janevsw.bsky.social · 6d

Worse. And for longer.

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 6d

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have developed a new mRNA vaccine that has been shown to suppress abnormal blood vessel growth in the retina, offering hope to MILLIONS of patients with age-related vision loss. The vaccine triggered strong antibody responses that REDUCED retinal damage by UP TO 85%.

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National Library of Scotland @natlibscot.bsky.social · 6d

We have improved our links with the Allmaps project, so that any of our maps can be freely, collaboratively georeferenced and then brought back into our Georeferenced Maps viewer 🗺️

Learn more > maps.nls.uk/view/help/

#Georeference #MapMonday #Maps

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