Anna in Ordinary Time
@superteadrinker.bsky.social
Librarian. Archivist. Student. Tea drinker. Cat servant. Anglican't. Irritable and irritating.
Pinned
Name: Christopher "Kit" Marlowe
Age: 4 1/2
Likes: Chicken Iams, food off human plates, bath plugs, headphones
Dislikes: Wet fud, the door buzzer, expensive specially selected toys
Talents: Escaping from locked carry cases
Age: 4 1/2
Likes: Chicken Iams, food off human plates, bath plugs, headphones
Dislikes: Wet fud, the door buzzer, expensive specially selected toys
Talents: Escaping from locked carry cases
I tried to spray decongestant up my nose while lying down, and if I never post again please assume I died of nasal decongestant overdose.
January 20, 2026 at 11:18 PM
I tried to spray decongestant up my nose while lying down, and if I never post again please assume I died of nasal decongestant overdose.
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Drawn last week, when I wasn’t doing that well. For anyone who is struggling a bit, for whatever reason. It’s OK to have days when we just get by.
January 20, 2026 at 8:32 PM
Drawn last week, when I wasn’t doing that well. For anyone who is struggling a bit, for whatever reason. It’s OK to have days when we just get by.
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"The powerful have their power. But we have something too — the capacity to stop pretending, to name reality, to build our strength at home, and to act together. That is Canada’s path. We choose it openly and confidently."
Read the whole speech here. paulwells.substack.com/p/the-carney...
Read the whole speech here. paulwells.substack.com/p/the-carney...
The Carney doctrine
Open comment thread on the PM's Davos speech
paulwells.substack.com
January 20, 2026 at 4:37 PM
"The powerful have their power. But we have something too — the capacity to stop pretending, to name reality, to build our strength at home, and to act together. That is Canada’s path. We choose it openly and confidently."
Read the whole speech here. paulwells.substack.com/p/the-carney...
Read the whole speech here. paulwells.substack.com/p/the-carney...
Printer in residence required:
www.london.ac.uk/about/servic...
www.london.ac.uk/about/servic...
Senate House Library Launches Printer in Residence Scheme
Find out more and how to apply for our Printer in Residence Scheme. It will run alongside the exhibition, The English Print Revolution: Caxton and Beyond.
www.london.ac.uk
January 20, 2026 at 10:51 AM
Printer in residence required:
www.london.ac.uk/about/servic...
www.london.ac.uk/about/servic...
Things not important enough to be permitted printed leaflets: the library, or indeed, the wider organisation, providing information on visiting hours and contact details
Things important enough to be permitted printed leaflets: corporate branding guidelines for staff to keep on their persons
Things important enough to be permitted printed leaflets: corporate branding guidelines for staff to keep on their persons
January 20, 2026 at 10:44 AM
Things not important enough to be permitted printed leaflets: the library, or indeed, the wider organisation, providing information on visiting hours and contact details
Things important enough to be permitted printed leaflets: corporate branding guidelines for staff to keep on their persons
Things important enough to be permitted printed leaflets: corporate branding guidelines for staff to keep on their persons
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Facebook memories reminded me this morning of the penguin that moulted to become French
January 20, 2026 at 7:57 AM
Facebook memories reminded me this morning of the penguin that moulted to become French
Tyrrel & Green (John Lewis) restaurant in Southampton. It had silver teapots and waitress service, and it was where I first tasted Earl Grey tea.
Sunday night timeline cleanse
please tell me about your favorite lost restaurant (closed for at least 5 years, like I really want you to go back into the vault), why you loved it and what you ate there
please tell me about your favorite lost restaurant (closed for at least 5 years, like I really want you to go back into the vault), why you loved it and what you ate there
January 19, 2026 at 11:09 AM
Tyrrel & Green (John Lewis) restaurant in Southampton. It had silver teapots and waitress service, and it was where I first tasted Earl Grey tea.
The excessive amount of sleeping I've been doing with this cold has caught up with me and I'm very awake and very bored.
Stay tuned for further exciting updates.
Stay tuned for further exciting updates.
January 18, 2026 at 11:00 PM
The excessive amount of sleeping I've been doing with this cold has caught up with me and I'm very awake and very bored.
Stay tuned for further exciting updates.
Stay tuned for further exciting updates.
0 days since I accidentally left the front door open all night again.
January 17, 2026 at 2:47 PM
0 days since I accidentally left the front door open all night again.
Do I have a terrible headache because I'm ill or do I have a terrible headache because I've barely moved all day and had no fresh air?
January 15, 2026 at 9:58 PM
Do I have a terrible headache because I'm ill or do I have a terrible headache because I've barely moved all day and had no fresh air?
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wikipedia turns 25 today! the last unenshittified major website! backbone of online info! triumph of humanity! powered by urge of unpaid randos to correct each other! somehow mostly reliable! "good thing wikipedia works in practice, because it sure doesn't work in theory" - old wiki adage
January 15, 2026 at 1:47 PM
wikipedia turns 25 today! the last unenshittified major website! backbone of online info! triumph of humanity! powered by urge of unpaid randos to correct each other! somehow mostly reliable! "good thing wikipedia works in practice, because it sure doesn't work in theory" - old wiki adage
Could someone get me a glass of water
January 15, 2026 at 12:53 PM
Could someone get me a glass of water
Lulled into a false sense of security by symptoms abating for 36 hours.
My throat this morning
My throat this morning
January 15, 2026 at 8:01 AM
Lulled into a false sense of security by symptoms abating for 36 hours.
My throat this morning
My throat this morning
Wondered why the litter tray was so horrifically pungent this morning but then I found chocolatey cup cake cases had been removed from the bin and thoroughly licked and nibbled.
January 14, 2026 at 9:23 AM
Wondered why the litter tray was so horrifically pungent this morning but then I found chocolatey cup cake cases had been removed from the bin and thoroughly licked and nibbled.
Aujour d'hui, c'est le jour du chat!
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Today is Quintidi the 25th of Nivôse in the year 234.
Nivôse is the month of snow.
Today we celebrate cats.#JacobinDay
More information on cats
Nivôse is the month of snow.
Today we celebrate cats.#JacobinDay
More information on cats
January 13, 2026 at 11:44 PM
Aujour d'hui, c'est le jour du chat!
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Keep a band the same by not changing anything. I'll start.
S Club 7
S Club 7
January 13, 2026 at 10:02 PM
Keep a band the same by not changing anything. I'll start.
S Club 7
S Club 7
I (MA LIS, PgDip Arch) am the living embodiment of this unity. Indeed, as a veritable Trinity I am also a qualified secretary. Bow down and worship 🙌
The Rare Books Room and Manuscripts Room have united; proof that ecumenism works, and that real, visible, institutional unity is possible even between librarians and archivists 📚
There is now a combined Special Collections Reading Room for manuscripts and archives at the UL.
Learn more about the changes: https://loom.ly/hXnGx8w
Learn more about the changes: https://loom.ly/hXnGx8w
January 13, 2026 at 10:00 PM
I (MA LIS, PgDip Arch) am the living embodiment of this unity. Indeed, as a veritable Trinity I am also a qualified secretary. Bow down and worship 🙌
Made some melting-middle chocolate cupcakes by accident. I won't lie to you:
a) They taste amazing
b) I don't think the pale yellow top I was wearing will ever recover from the middles melting
a) They taste amazing
b) I don't think the pale yellow top I was wearing will ever recover from the middles melting
a little girl with chocolate on her face is holding a can of nutella and eating it .
ALT: a little girl with chocolate on her face is holding a can of nutella and eating it .
media.tenor.com
January 13, 2026 at 9:35 PM
Made some melting-middle chocolate cupcakes by accident. I won't lie to you:
a) They taste amazing
b) I don't think the pale yellow top I was wearing will ever recover from the middles melting
a) They taste amazing
b) I don't think the pale yellow top I was wearing will ever recover from the middles melting
Just as well I'm being supervised since I don't know what day of the week it is
January 13, 2026 at 3:16 PM
Just as well I'm being supervised since I don't know what day of the week it is
Being supervised on #KittyLoafMonday
January 13, 2026 at 2:03 PM
Being supervised on #KittyLoafMonday
The rivers I get to choose between are the Peck (mostly underground, then joins London sewerage system before joining the Thames), or the Lavant (only flows in winter, and sometimes not even then). I might just pretend it's Old Father Thames.
a picture of clouds in a blue sky with a red line
ALT: a picture of clouds in a blue sky with a red line
media.tenor.com
January 13, 2026 at 8:29 AM
The rivers I get to choose between are the Peck (mostly underground, then joins London sewerage system before joining the Thames), or the Lavant (only flows in winter, and sometimes not even then). I might just pretend it's Old Father Thames.
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I’ve moved to an area where the local church bell ringing practice coincides with bin night. It’s a lovely accompaniment to rolling the wheelie bins out, *and* a brilliant reminder if you forget. An ecclesiastical When Is Bins alert for the community.
Maybe churches should be doing more of that.
Maybe churches should be doing more of that.
January 12, 2026 at 9:25 PM
I’ve moved to an area where the local church bell ringing practice coincides with bin night. It’s a lovely accompaniment to rolling the wheelie bins out, *and* a brilliant reminder if you forget. An ecclesiastical When Is Bins alert for the community.
Maybe churches should be doing more of that.
Maybe churches should be doing more of that.
Then someone spoke to me in the locker room in the BL (he directed me to an empty locker which actually worked) and I forgot to get my phone out of my pocket in my haste to depart.
January 12, 2026 at 3:01 PM
Then someone spoke to me in the locker room in the BL (he directed me to an empty locker which actually worked) and I forgot to get my phone out of my pocket in my haste to depart.
Wearing foundation but no mascara, so I can rub my eyes, as a treat.
January 12, 2026 at 2:41 PM
Wearing foundation but no mascara, so I can rub my eyes, as a treat.