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Katharine Schopflin @schopflin.bsky.social · 28m

Do not understand this at all - in the interrail groups, yes Seat61, yes search the chats but sometimes people just want to connect.

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Katharine Schopflin @schopflin.bsky.social · 3h

Think I might have offended someone after service today, saying I would normally be in bed. Look, I would be singing choral music all day every day, but I have to manage four days a week in work, with a chronic illness

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Katharine Schopflin @schopflin.bsky.social · 13h

What, you mean the 'Saved by the bell hooks' insta account isn't enough on its own?

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Katharine Schopflin @schopflin.bsky.social · 14h

When I blocked people who were bullying me I had to let them know as we had a mutual caring responsibility. However they didn't quite understand and kept asking a mutual why I didn't reply to their messages.

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Vaughan Williams Foundation @vwfndn.bsky.social · 14h

Born on this day in 1872: Ralph Vaughan Williams - one of Britain's greatest composers. From The Lark Ascending to his majestic symphonies, his music continues to inspire and uplift.

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Katharine Schopflin @schopflin.bsky.social · 1d

I've never seen this or given it a serious listen. It's really very good.

BBC Radio 3 Now Playing Bot (Unofficial) @bbcradio3bot.bsky.social · 1d

BBC Radio 3
Opera on 3: Tchaikovsky's The Queen of Spades

Now Playing
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
The Queen Of Spades, Part 1

Katharine Schopflin @schopflin.bsky.social · 1d

So many things to make with leftovers.

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Katharine Schopflin @schopflin.bsky.social · 1d

Was just discussing how Hungary claims Trieste thanks to Mr Illy.

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Katharine Schopflin @schopflin.bsky.social · 1d

Mmmmm! I'm doing veg bag cauliflower cheese and regretting my life choices.

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Katharine Schopflin @schopflin.bsky.social · 1d

Having a couple of 'allo darlin's aged 53 is fine by me. The first one slightly marred by being followed by 'what's wrong with your eye?'. (I have a subconjuctival haemorrhage)

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Katharine Schopflin @schopflin.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you, I did!

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Katharine Schopflin @schopflin.bsky.social · 2d

I think I might finally have grown up. I only got one birthday card with an alcohol theme. Lots of cats, obvs.

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Katharine Schopflin @schopflin.bsky.social · 3d

They melt down into nothing but savouriness

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Picture This Scotland @74frankfurt.bsky.social · 3d

Roddy Frame- Smash Hits Collection 85

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Katharine Schopflin @schopflin.bsky.social · 3d

To be fair there's a bunch of places in North Norfolk this applies to as well.

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Katharine Schopflin @schopflin.bsky.social · 3d

Compared with most of the trains running on nightjet routes, Eurostar's older trains are in fine fettle (but your point still stands)

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Katharine Schopflin @schopflin.bsky.social · 3d

Not sleeping well this week and had nearly all the recurring dreams: job insecurity in old workplace, behind on essays in my inexplicable 3rd MA (back at Glasgow), local buses trying to get to (a version of) Diss Station, my mother alive and .. a newish one, Mr S is his old self.

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Katharine Schopflin @schopflin.bsky.social · 4d

It is a universally acknowledged fact that if a mysterious parcel arrives the day before your birthday, you save it for tomorrow. (If it's ice cream, and it's from you, please let me know).

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Katharine Schopflin @schopflin.bsky.social · 4d

This has reached the point that if I make just the right amount I feel guilty that I didn't overcook.

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Katharine Schopflin @schopflin.bsky.social · 4d

Today's Choral evensong readings are like a Guardian Feast dream. First lesson: Elisha fills up the widow's vessels with olive oil. Second lesson: wedding at Canaa.

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Katharine Schopflin @schopflin.bsky.social · 4d

Ooh not heard of it! Sounds interesting.

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Katharine Schopflin @schopflin.bsky.social · 4d

Reading about Sutton House in 'A journey through ruins' neglected by the NT, it seems, because it was in Hackney and wasn't an aristocratic residence. Hard to imagine given Tudor heritage mania, but 'The Mirror and the Light' was a long way in the future, as were Tonkotsu and Paper Dress Vintage.

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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.bsky.social · 4d

A transphobic pressure group is trying to ban trans women from Hampstead women’s pond – it's time to fight back

https://goodlawproject.org/petition/keep-hampstead-womens-pond-inclusive

Keep Hampstead women’s pond inclusive

A transphobic pressure group is trying to ban trans women from Hampstead women’s pond – we’re fighting back

goodlawproject.org

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Katharine Schopflin @schopflin.bsky.social · 5d

Well that was the @jimmerthatisall.bsky.social original context ...

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Katharine Schopflin @schopflin.bsky.social · 5d

Weirdly, Poe's last days (and their possible cause) has come up twice in the last week. At a talk last Thursday, and on Paul Sinha's Perfect Pub Quiz last night. I don't think the date was relevant to either.

Jimmer Cork-Bottle @jimmerthatisall.bsky.social · Oct 7

This day in history. 1849. Edgar Allan Poe died in distress in hospital, crying out "Tear up the planks!" and "What is the frequency, Kenneth?".

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