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.
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
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!!
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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
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
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
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
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
Enjoy the (playback) original,
tinyurl.com/j7z7xysp
November 8, 2025 at 4:11 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
Enjoy the (playback) original,
tinyurl.com/j7z7xysp
Another @leemadgwick.bsky.social find from fellow enthusiast Des.
Happy Friday to you both.
Happy Friday to you both.
Painting by Lee Madgwick ‘The Recluse’s Den’
Oil and acrylic on canvas. Size 80 x 80cm.
Oil and acrylic on canvas. Size 80 x 80cm.
November 7, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Another @leemadgwick.bsky.social find from fellow enthusiast Des.
Happy Friday to you both.
Happy Friday to you both.
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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
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
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
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
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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
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.
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The wonderful Jane Goodall.
November 6, 2025 at 8:37 AM
The wonderful Jane Goodall.
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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
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/
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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
💻 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
🎪 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
💻 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
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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
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
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.
archive.org/details/prim...
Thank you, NT, for allowing a wider audience to access this compelling play.
November 4, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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.
archive.org/details/prim...
Thank you, NT, for allowing a wider audience to access this compelling play.
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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
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
#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
Asked, “you don’t see the USA actually going this route? “. She says, “wanna bet?”
#usapoli #cdnpoli #Democracy
Anna Magnani with son Luca Magnani at an award ceremony.
13 Sep. 1953
13 Sep. 1953
November 2, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Anna Magnani with son Luca Magnani at an award ceremony.
13 Sep. 1953
13 Sep. 1953
Horst P. Horst
Hands, Hands, Hands
New York, 1941
Hands, Hands, Hands
New York, 1941
November 2, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Horst P. Horst
Hands, Hands, Hands
New York, 1941
Hands, Hands, Hands
New York, 1941
Paolo Di Paolo
Piazza Navona, Rome
1960
Piazza Navona, Rome
1960
November 2, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Paolo Di Paolo
Piazza Navona, Rome
1960
Piazza Navona, Rome
1960
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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
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...
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Farage: epic grifter
October 27, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Farage: epic grifter
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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
US: bit.ly/47NsiW7
UK: bit.ly/4eN4Udr
#EndAnimalTesting #UnreliableUnethicalUnneccesary #AnimalDefendersInternational
October 26, 2025 at 11:55 AM
🐱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
US: bit.ly/47NsiW7
UK: bit.ly/4eN4Udr
#EndAnimalTesting #UnreliableUnethicalUnneccesary #AnimalDefendersInternational
Painting by Lee Madgwick ‘Urban Beauty’
Oil/acrylic on canvas.
Dimensions 60 x 60 cm.
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.
Oil/acrylic on canvas.
Dimensions 60 x 60 cm.
October 23, 2025 at 4:43 AM
Painting by Lee Madgwick ‘Urban Beauty’
Oil/acrylic on canvas.
Dimensions 60 x 60 cm.
Oil/acrylic on canvas.
Dimensions 60 x 60 cm.
Reposted by Barbara Carrara
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...
You can read it here: www.literatureireland.com/books/new-wr...
October 14, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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...
You can read it here: www.literatureireland.com/books/new-wr...
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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
Colm Tóibín’s message to Ukraine, in conversation with Bohdan Kolomiychuk at Lviv BookForum 2025.
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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
Dr. Jane Goodall discusses who she'd send away from Earth on Elon Musk's spaceship.
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