Trish
@unknownquantities.bsky.social
Reader/wonderer/wanderer/advocate.
Loves books, Dickinson, Woolf, German expressionist cinema.
Certain slants of light.
Dislikes mushrooms.
Curious agnostic. Curious, generally.
Views/photos own.
Loves books, Dickinson, Woolf, German expressionist cinema.
Certain slants of light.
Dislikes mushrooms.
Curious agnostic. Curious, generally.
Views/photos own.
We'd never seen the film 2012 because we heard - accurately - that it was terrible. But it's perfect Christmas viewing. The first hour is silly fun because none of the writers understood physics (not even in a small way) but for the other 1 hour and 38 minutes you can multi task with ease.
December 27, 2025 at 4:44 PM
We'd never seen the film 2012 because we heard - accurately - that it was terrible. But it's perfect Christmas viewing. The first hour is silly fun because none of the writers understood physics (not even in a small way) but for the other 1 hour and 38 minutes you can multi task with ease.
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M.R. James on holiday
We were having a rest, and I was lying down, when I felt something in my left ear. I picked it out and suddenly I felt a stinging. I'd disturbed a bee that had crawled into my ear. On the beach, I found a ring.
December 27, 2025 at 9:03 AM
M.R. James on holiday
Bag of just about anything "sealed for freshness": "tear here!"
Me: *tears it and roughly 1/4 inch of plastic comes off, leaving bag sealed.*
Bag of just about anything "sealed for freshness": "Lol. Everyone falls for that. You'll need a scissors."
Me: *tears it and roughly 1/4 inch of plastic comes off, leaving bag sealed.*
Bag of just about anything "sealed for freshness": "Lol. Everyone falls for that. You'll need a scissors."
December 27, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Bag of just about anything "sealed for freshness": "tear here!"
Me: *tears it and roughly 1/4 inch of plastic comes off, leaving bag sealed.*
Bag of just about anything "sealed for freshness": "Lol. Everyone falls for that. You'll need a scissors."
Me: *tears it and roughly 1/4 inch of plastic comes off, leaving bag sealed.*
Bag of just about anything "sealed for freshness": "Lol. Everyone falls for that. You'll need a scissors."
Mark Gatiss' Ghost Stories at Christmas (based on E.F Benson's The Room in the Tower this year) was very good.
Joanna Lumley nailed that one repeated sentence & she really went all out for the big finish. Great cast as always, including the divine Nancy Carroll who I always wish was in more things.
Joanna Lumley nailed that one repeated sentence & she really went all out for the big finish. Great cast as always, including the divine Nancy Carroll who I always wish was in more things.
December 25, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Mark Gatiss' Ghost Stories at Christmas (based on E.F Benson's The Room in the Tower this year) was very good.
Joanna Lumley nailed that one repeated sentence & she really went all out for the big finish. Great cast as always, including the divine Nancy Carroll who I always wish was in more things.
Joanna Lumley nailed that one repeated sentence & she really went all out for the big finish. Great cast as always, including the divine Nancy Carroll who I always wish was in more things.
Merry Christmas/Good Yule!
May you all enjoy peace and plenty.
May you all enjoy peace and plenty.
December 25, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Merry Christmas/Good Yule!
May you all enjoy peace and plenty.
May you all enjoy peace and plenty.
Not a Christmas song - but always feels it to me.
Still the best title for an album of covers, imo.
(Two Nice Girls' 1990 cover of Sonic Youth's 1987 song)
youtu.be/BGP_nnDXZx4?...
Still the best title for an album of covers, imo.
(Two Nice Girls' 1990 cover of Sonic Youth's 1987 song)
youtu.be/BGP_nnDXZx4?...
Cotton Crown
YouTube video by Two Nice Girls - Topic
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December 24, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Not a Christmas song - but always feels it to me.
Still the best title for an album of covers, imo.
(Two Nice Girls' 1990 cover of Sonic Youth's 1987 song)
youtu.be/BGP_nnDXZx4?...
Still the best title for an album of covers, imo.
(Two Nice Girls' 1990 cover of Sonic Youth's 1987 song)
youtu.be/BGP_nnDXZx4?...
Oh my godddddd - the last case decision came in!
Last day of work for this year!
I thought an emanation of some arcane power - for the first time in 9 years on the job- was about to bring about not just getting all my calls and emails cleared, but also all my cases closed.
There is 1 case awaiting decision.
Ow, me neurodivergence. It be leppin
I thought an emanation of some arcane power - for the first time in 9 years on the job- was about to bring about not just getting all my calls and emails cleared, but also all my cases closed.
There is 1 case awaiting decision.
Ow, me neurodivergence. It be leppin
December 23, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Oh my godddddd - the last case decision came in!
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And now, to really Christmas things up, it’s time for a nap.
December 23, 2025 at 2:27 PM
And now, to really Christmas things up, it’s time for a nap.
You won't be hearing this creepy little ear - worm on Christmas FM, that's for darn tootin'.
youtu.be/l9s2--XAqd8?...
youtu.be/l9s2--XAqd8?...
Let All That Are to Mirth Inclined
YouTube video by Loreena McKennitt - Topic
youtu.be
December 23, 2025 at 1:36 PM
You won't be hearing this creepy little ear - worm on Christmas FM, that's for darn tootin'.
youtu.be/l9s2--XAqd8?...
youtu.be/l9s2--XAqd8?...
Seasonally appropriate reading
December 21, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Seasonally appropriate reading
Happy Solstice all, all hail to the days.
When white-bearded frost hath threatened his worst,
And fallen from branch and brier...
Together to go to plough and to sow,
To get us both food and array;
And thus with content the time we have spent
To drive the cold winter away
youtu.be/jWXuxjzpx6M?...
When white-bearded frost hath threatened his worst,
And fallen from branch and brier...
Together to go to plough and to sow,
To get us both food and array;
And thus with content the time we have spent
To drive the cold winter away
youtu.be/jWXuxjzpx6M?...
Loreena McKennitt - In Praise of Christmas
YouTube video by Spiral566
youtu.be
December 21, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Happy Solstice all, all hail to the days.
When white-bearded frost hath threatened his worst,
And fallen from branch and brier...
Together to go to plough and to sow,
To get us both food and array;
And thus with content the time we have spent
To drive the cold winter away
youtu.be/jWXuxjzpx6M?...
When white-bearded frost hath threatened his worst,
And fallen from branch and brier...
Together to go to plough and to sow,
To get us both food and array;
And thus with content the time we have spent
To drive the cold winter away
youtu.be/jWXuxjzpx6M?...
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Pamela Jo Bondi, doing her part to help an administration that calls itself, with a seemingly straight face, "The Most Transparent in American History."
December 21, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Pamela Jo Bondi, doing her part to help an administration that calls itself, with a seemingly straight face, "The Most Transparent in American History."
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Rare footage of St Paul’s Cathedral testing its giant flamethrower
December 21, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Rare footage of St Paul’s Cathedral testing its giant flamethrower
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Thanks as always to the lottery winners who entered Newgrange this morning to be eaten by the earth and so guarantee that the sun will rise again tomorrow. Your sacrifice is our safety, friends.
December 21, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Thanks as always to the lottery winners who entered Newgrange this morning to be eaten by the earth and so guarantee that the sun will rise again tomorrow. Your sacrifice is our safety, friends.
So...lots of information in the Epstein files, then.
In my line of work we make lots of FOI file requests and occasionally we'll get one like this. We call them barcodes or, sometimes - when asked about the contents - we just make a disconsolate little beep noise.
In my line of work we make lots of FOI file requests and occasionally we'll get one like this. We call them barcodes or, sometimes - when asked about the contents - we just make a disconsolate little beep noise.
December 20, 2025 at 1:15 PM
So...lots of information in the Epstein files, then.
In my line of work we make lots of FOI file requests and occasionally we'll get one like this. We call them barcodes or, sometimes - when asked about the contents - we just make a disconsolate little beep noise.
In my line of work we make lots of FOI file requests and occasionally we'll get one like this. We call them barcodes or, sometimes - when asked about the contents - we just make a disconsolate little beep noise.
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shout out the guardian photo editor one time
December 20, 2025 at 10:44 AM
shout out the guardian photo editor one time
Xmas is very much ghost story season here at Chez Lez and we're really enjoying Simon Stanhope's Bitesized Audio channel of Victorian & Edwardian mystery, ghost & detective tales. Lots of the usual suspects: E. Nesbit, E. Gaskell, Blackwood, MR James but lots of others too.
youtu.be/klDzl0OdPOw?...
youtu.be/klDzl0OdPOw?...
Six Classic Ghost Stories | A Bitesized Audio Compilation
YouTube video by Bitesized Audio Classics
youtu.be
December 20, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Xmas is very much ghost story season here at Chez Lez and we're really enjoying Simon Stanhope's Bitesized Audio channel of Victorian & Edwardian mystery, ghost & detective tales. Lots of the usual suspects: E. Nesbit, E. Gaskell, Blackwood, MR James but lots of others too.
youtu.be/klDzl0OdPOw?...
youtu.be/klDzl0OdPOw?...
I've just seen the Rennies Christmas ad. Apparently it cures you of the effects of having arsehole family members. And here was I thinking it was just for heartburn.
a man in a suit and tie with the words still there it is above him
ALT: a man in a suit and tie with the words still there it is above him
media.tenor.com
December 18, 2025 at 11:48 PM
I've just seen the Rennies Christmas ad. Apparently it cures you of the effects of having arsehole family members. And here was I thinking it was just for heartburn.
Once again the starlings have dislodged one of the feedballs.
This began a spontaneous Corvidae v. Sturnidae five-a-side
This began a spontaneous Corvidae v. Sturnidae five-a-side
December 16, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Once again the starlings have dislodged one of the feedballs.
This began a spontaneous Corvidae v. Sturnidae five-a-side
This began a spontaneous Corvidae v. Sturnidae five-a-side
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They used to "laugh and call him names." Now they're all dead
December 14, 2025 at 1:55 PM
They used to "laugh and call him names." Now they're all dead
Whenever I hear a song sung by London Grammar's Hannah Reid
I always think it's Judy Tzuke.
youtu.be/bpJRPH_4d-c?...
I always think it's Judy Tzuke.
youtu.be/bpJRPH_4d-c?...
Truth Is a Beautiful Thing
YouTube video by London Grammar - Topic
youtu.be
December 14, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Whenever I hear a song sung by London Grammar's Hannah Reid
I always think it's Judy Tzuke.
youtu.be/bpJRPH_4d-c?...
I always think it's Judy Tzuke.
youtu.be/bpJRPH_4d-c?...
Christmas tree is almost there. We have the VIPs on first obviously.
December 14, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Christmas tree is almost there. We have the VIPs on first obviously.
Horrible news today. I need a reminder that humans can work together without one voice being loudest.
youtu.be/DLT8i3zfCZY?...
youtu.be/DLT8i3zfCZY?...
Háskólakórinn - Heyr Himna Smiður
YouTube video by Margrét Wendt
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December 14, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Horrible news today. I need a reminder that humans can work together without one voice being loudest.
youtu.be/DLT8i3zfCZY?...
youtu.be/DLT8i3zfCZY?...