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Barbara Carrara
@2barsand1a.bsky.social
EN&FR-2-IT freelance translator. Also, transcription, adaptation, proofreading and copy-editing (Italian only).
Art, heritage, history, architecture, fine&fashion jewellery, product and interior design.
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COMING SOON! - this Sat 15 Nov, 11am- 3pm, the Trust will be holding a special Winter book sale at its Edinburgh base at 77 Brunswick Street, off Leith Walk. A huge range of WBG books and catalogues (all with a one-day only 20% discount), postcards, posters, cards & prints - will all be available!!
November 11, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Unreliable. Unethical. Unnecessary. Say NO to animal experiments.🐒

Write to your MP (UK) or Congressperson (US) and tell them you want to see replacement of animal use with advanced, non-animal methods.
US: bit.ly/47NsiW7
UK: bit.ly/4eN4Udr

#EndAnimalTesting
November 9, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Watched #Highest2Lowest. Spike and Denzel still going strong. The closing credits track, titled 'Prisencolin (Americano Joint)' is the EN version of a 1972 mock-EN hit by Italian artist #AdrianoCelentano called 'Prisencolinensinainciusol'.
Enjoy the (playback) original,
tinyurl.com/j7z7xysp
November 8, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Another @leemadgwick.bsky.social find from fellow enthusiast Des.
Happy Friday to you both.
Painting by Lee Madgwick ‘The Recluse’s Den’
Oil and acrylic on canvas. Size 80 x 80cm.
November 7, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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Our latest research confirms that reading is a wellbeing tool.

Readers are significantly more likely to feel connected, happy and relaxed. Make time for reading, in any form, and give your wellbeing a boost.

Explore our full adult reading report 👉️ bit.ly/46ItklZ

#RedefineReading
November 6, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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Came to see the site of a proposed solar farm in the Scottish Borders. What I’m showing you is only about half the site.
November 6, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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The wonderful Jane Goodall.
November 6, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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Tristram Shandy's birthday! - born, as the book says, #onthisday into ‘this scurvy and disasterous world of ours’ "the fifth day of November 1718" #OTD #TristramShandy www.laurencesternetrust.org.uk/sterne/tristram-shandy/
Tristram Shandy - The Laurence Sterne Trust
www.laurencesternetrust.org.uk
November 5, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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🎪 Organize a protest: www.stopcircussuffering.com/get-involved...

💻 Contact venues: www.stopcircussuffering.com/news/keep-wi...

🗣️ Urge your reps to support the Traveling Exotic Animal and Public Safety Protection Act (TEAPSPA) to ban wild animal acts nationwide. bit.ly/SupportTEAPSPA
www.stopcircussuffering.com
November 5, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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NO FUN FOR ANIMALS 🎪 Camels & zebras at Loomis Circus show clear distress—resisting, trying to escape, yet forced under threat of violence. Circuses confine, abuse & deny animals’ needs. This isn’t entertainment, it’s cruelty. #SupportTEAPSPA #CircusBan
November 5, 2025 at 12:03 AM
If you missed the @nationaltheatre.org.uk production of #SuzieMiller 's play #PrimaFacie and the solo performance of the incomparable #JodieComer, you can stream it here,

archive.org/details/prim...

Thank you, NT, for allowing a wider audience to access this compelling play.
November 4, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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#MargaretAtwood, #Canadian author of #TheHandmaid’sTale, interviewed in the 90’s about #USA government “actually” becoming a #totalitarian country.

Asked, “you don’t see the USA actually going this route? “. She says, “wanna bet?”

#usapoli #cdnpoli #Democracy
September 29, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Start your day with the energetic taiko drum 'heartbeats' of Kodō (鼓童)

tinyurl.com/y89rhjva
Kodo - "O-Daiko" - HD (japanese drummers - Taiko - tambours géants Japon)
YouTube video by AgoraVoxFrance
www.youtube.com
November 3, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Anna Magnani with son Luca Magnani at an award ceremony.
13 Sep. 1953
November 2, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Horst P. Horst
Hands, Hands, Hands
New York, 1941
November 2, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Paolo Di Paolo
Piazza Navona, Rome
1960
November 2, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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Bookbanks is a wonderful new charity giving books to people at food banks. A simple, brilliant idea that everyone in the book world should get behind: open.substack.com/pub/samj/p/b...
Bookbanks
A good deed in a weary world
open.substack.com
October 29, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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Farage: epic grifter
October 27, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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🐱Write to your MP (UK) or Congressperson (US) and tell them you want to see urgent replacement of animal use with advanced, non-animal methods. Instagram: (Link in Bio)
US: bit.ly/47NsiW7
UK: bit.ly/4eN4Udr

#EndAnimalTesting #UnreliableUnethicalUnneccesary #AnimalDefendersInternational
October 26, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Painting by Lee Madgwick ‘Urban Beauty’
Oil/acrylic on canvas.
Dimensions 60 x 60 cm.
October 23, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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Painting by Lee Madgwick ‘Urban Beauty’
Oil/acrylic on canvas.
Dimensions 60 x 60 cm.
October 23, 2025 at 4:43 AM
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We are happy to share our New Writing from Ireland 2025 catalogue, which showcases a selection of the finest Irish writing published each year.

You can read it here: www.literatureireland.com/books/new-wr...
October 14, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
October 6, 2025 at 7:24 AM
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Colm Tóibín’s message to Ukraine, in conversation with Bohdan Kolomiychuk at Lviv BookForum 2025.
October 5, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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Dr. Jane Goodall discusses who she'd send away from Earth on Elon Musk's spaceship.

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October 5, 2025 at 8:53 PM