Bridget B
@bugshaw.bsky.social
Science fiction, movies, robots, Cambridge-UK based, don't eat nearly as much chocolate as when I first wrote my profile but I do much more sewing.
Reading plan: 100 pages a day for 17 days to finish my older unread anthologies and hardbacks.
(Don't worry, I still have plenty of unread recent books, older trade paperbacks, standard paperbacks, and non-fiction)
(Started separating out new books from 2023 so they don't get lost in the stack)
(Don't worry, I still have plenty of unread recent books, older trade paperbacks, standard paperbacks, and non-fiction)
(Started separating out new books from 2023 so they don't get lost in the stack)
December 5, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Reading plan: 100 pages a day for 17 days to finish my older unread anthologies and hardbacks.
(Don't worry, I still have plenty of unread recent books, older trade paperbacks, standard paperbacks, and non-fiction)
(Started separating out new books from 2023 so they don't get lost in the stack)
(Don't worry, I still have plenty of unread recent books, older trade paperbacks, standard paperbacks, and non-fiction)
(Started separating out new books from 2023 so they don't get lost in the stack)
Also at the dental hygienist I got very self-conscious about my tongue. Am I doing it right? Should it be more attentive, or relaxed? What's the worst thing for your tongue to do? What has it been doing when I wasn't conscious of it? What is professional tongue behaviour at the dentist?
December 5, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Also at the dental hygienist I got very self-conscious about my tongue. Am I doing it right? Should it be more attentive, or relaxed? What's the worst thing for your tongue to do? What has it been doing when I wasn't conscious of it? What is professional tongue behaviour at the dentist?
Dental hygienist demonstrated how to use an electric toothbrush: hold still near the gum, slow sweep up the side of the tooth.
When you see people in films grab an electric toothbrush and saw it around, do you go Noooo!
Yes! we have a group! We get very worked up about Love Island! mimes flailing
When you see people in films grab an electric toothbrush and saw it around, do you go Noooo!
Yes! we have a group! We get very worked up about Love Island! mimes flailing
December 5, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Dental hygienist demonstrated how to use an electric toothbrush: hold still near the gum, slow sweep up the side of the tooth.
When you see people in films grab an electric toothbrush and saw it around, do you go Noooo!
Yes! we have a group! We get very worked up about Love Island! mimes flailing
When you see people in films grab an electric toothbrush and saw it around, do you go Noooo!
Yes! we have a group! We get very worked up about Love Island! mimes flailing
small thought: it's time to take your weekly blood pressure reading.
BIG THOUGHT: IT'S TIME TO PUT ON ANOTHER JUMPER.
BIG THOUGHT: IT'S TIME TO PUT ON ANOTHER JUMPER.
December 5, 2025 at 8:17 AM
small thought: it's time to take your weekly blood pressure reading.
BIG THOUGHT: IT'S TIME TO PUT ON ANOTHER JUMPER.
BIG THOUGHT: IT'S TIME TO PUT ON ANOTHER JUMPER.
HURRAH for the first morning since Monday, the leaky bathroom floor isn't wet. My draped paper towel conduit is taking the water to a bowl. (Couldn't put a bowl directly under the drip as they land on the curved part of the toilet outflow and roll off behind the loo)
I could do without this.
I could do without this.
December 4, 2025 at 7:54 AM
HURRAH for the first morning since Monday, the leaky bathroom floor isn't wet. My draped paper towel conduit is taking the water to a bowl. (Couldn't put a bowl directly under the drip as they land on the curved part of the toilet outflow and roll off behind the loo)
I could do without this.
I could do without this.
Let people get on with their lives challenge
December 3, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Let people get on with their lives challenge
Found the leak! The ceiling patch has slowly grown. The suspicious toilet floor was ok most of yesterday, but the kitchen paper I put down was soaked through this morning. Dried it up, couldn't see any leak, then dampness bloomed on the paper. It's the clean water into cistern joint. Isolated.
I noticed a damp patch on the bathroom ceiling 20 minutes ago, presumably there is a leak in the shower above (either one-off or slow, not emergency). My (seated quietly) heart rate has been 90-95 since. This is one of my Long Covid symptoms and will probably knacker me for the day. Grrr.
December 3, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Found the leak! The ceiling patch has slowly grown. The suspicious toilet floor was ok most of yesterday, but the kitchen paper I put down was soaked through this morning. Dried it up, couldn't see any leak, then dampness bloomed on the paper. It's the clean water into cistern joint. Isolated.
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Tickets: wegottickets.com/listencambridge
December 2, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Tickets: wegottickets.com/listencambridge
I have eaten the Batman that was in the icebox etc etc delicious so jingly much smells
December 1, 2025 at 10:17 PM
I have eaten the Batman that was in the icebox etc etc delicious so jingly much smells
Reposting just in case any of my friends are interested in Incredibly Niche Stickers and would like to follow to avidly await announcements.
(I think they're great, I love the niche, but have no use for stickers)
(I think they're great, I love the niche, but have no use for stickers)
Perfect timing as Shopify goes down just as I'm ready to make my first Incredibly Niche Sticker set available for sale. Here it is anyway. It's Python Vs The Establishment.
December 1, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Reposting just in case any of my friends are interested in Incredibly Niche Stickers and would like to follow to avidly await announcements.
(I think they're great, I love the niche, but have no use for stickers)
(I think they're great, I love the niche, but have no use for stickers)
I noticed a damp patch on the bathroom ceiling 20 minutes ago, presumably there is a leak in the shower above (either one-off or slow, not emergency). My (seated quietly) heart rate has been 90-95 since. This is one of my Long Covid symptoms and will probably knacker me for the day. Grrr.
December 1, 2025 at 3:14 PM
I noticed a damp patch on the bathroom ceiling 20 minutes ago, presumably there is a leak in the shower above (either one-off or slow, not emergency). My (seated quietly) heart rate has been 90-95 since. This is one of my Long Covid symptoms and will probably knacker me for the day. Grrr.
November books:
Books in: 7 (4 physical, 3 ebooks)
Books read: 6 (6 physical)
Books unread: 438 (328 physical, 110 ebooks)
Last month Books unread: 435 (330 physical, 105 ebooks)
Books in: 7 (4 physical, 3 ebooks)
Books read: 6 (6 physical)
Books unread: 438 (328 physical, 110 ebooks)
Last month Books unread: 435 (330 physical, 105 ebooks)
December 1, 2025 at 11:54 AM
November books:
Books in: 7 (4 physical, 3 ebooks)
Books read: 6 (6 physical)
Books unread: 438 (328 physical, 110 ebooks)
Last month Books unread: 435 (330 physical, 105 ebooks)
Books in: 7 (4 physical, 3 ebooks)
Books read: 6 (6 physical)
Books unread: 438 (328 physical, 110 ebooks)
Last month Books unread: 435 (330 physical, 105 ebooks)
It's the time of year when I have to sweep the hall before changing my duvet cover (no space to flap a duvet around in my small bedroom, and the hall gets full of leaves).
December 1, 2025 at 11:53 AM
It's the time of year when I have to sweep the hall before changing my duvet cover (no space to flap a duvet around in my small bedroom, and the hall gets full of leaves).
I now want three days spare between now and Tuesday! I've watched all the ThurFriSat films, there's another five today but I'll just see their accompanying shorts and catch up with the features in the week - get on with some other things this afternoon!
Enjoying Sohome Horror Film Festival. Also wishing I had another two days spare between now and Tuesday...
November 30, 2025 at 1:48 PM
I now want three days spare between now and Tuesday! I've watched all the ThurFriSat films, there's another five today but I'll just see their accompanying shorts and catch up with the features in the week - get on with some other things this afternoon!
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Please share: I am delighted to release the programme for the July 11 2026, Symposium on the work of Frances Hardinge, at Kings College, London. We can't manage virtual attendance but we do offer cheap conference proceedings. Tickets at Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-one-day-...
A One Day Symposium on Frances Hardinge
Politics, Ethics and the Material World: the Interrogative Fiction of Frances Hardinge.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
November 29, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Please share: I am delighted to release the programme for the July 11 2026, Symposium on the work of Frances Hardinge, at Kings College, London. We can't manage virtual attendance but we do offer cheap conference proceedings. Tickets at Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-one-day-...
Enjoying Sohome Horror Film Festival. Also wishing I had another two days spare between now and Tuesday...
November 28, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Enjoying Sohome Horror Film Festival. Also wishing I had another two days spare between now and Tuesday...
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Wish they would ask me to do a cats Top Twenty! Though did once compile a list of Cats With Hidden Agendas.
Purr evil: cats with hidden agendas – ranked!
As Goose the Cat has stolen the show in Captain Marvel, we pick 10 fiendish felines from past films
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Wish they would ask me to do a cats Top Twenty! Though did once compile a list of Cats With Hidden Agendas.
I did not know owls made this noise.
“Meep meep” over the bench the teenagers usual gather at to smoke.
November 26, 2025 at 7:35 PM
I did not know owls made this noise.
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This Thursday the 27th November we kick off our online edition of the festival, Sohome Horror Fest with a masterful night of extraterrorestrial goodness.
Opening the festival is the UK Premiere of Michael Middelkoop’s hilarious alien banger STRAIGHT OUTTA SPACE, preceded by the intense ESCAPE.
Opening the festival is the UK Premiere of Michael Middelkoop’s hilarious alien banger STRAIGHT OUTTA SPACE, preceded by the intense ESCAPE.
November 25, 2025 at 8:59 PM
This Thursday the 27th November we kick off our online edition of the festival, Sohome Horror Fest with a masterful night of extraterrorestrial goodness.
Opening the festival is the UK Premiere of Michael Middelkoop’s hilarious alien banger STRAIGHT OUTTA SPACE, preceded by the intense ESCAPE.
Opening the festival is the UK Premiere of Michael Middelkoop’s hilarious alien banger STRAIGHT OUTTA SPACE, preceded by the intense ESCAPE.
Catching up on the bowtie block from last week's quilt class. Pleased with getting my points lined up for the first two. The 3D version (where you can get a finger under each of the four edges of the "knot") is much more fiddly and will take another 2-3 attempts before I properly get the knack.
November 25, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Catching up on the bowtie block from last week's quilt class. Pleased with getting my points lined up for the first two. The 3D version (where you can get a finger under each of the four edges of the "knot") is much more fiddly and will take another 2-3 attempts before I properly get the knack.
Made it to Quilt Class but just to watch the fiddly block trimming, used too much energy this morning preparing for it. I should rest this afternoon/evening while going OMG OMG I have so much to do before Tuesday.
I was pleased to have finished that Saturday task so quickly but go slow subsequently.
I was pleased to have finished that Saturday task so quickly but go slow subsequently.
November 25, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Made it to Quilt Class but just to watch the fiddly block trimming, used too much energy this morning preparing for it. I should rest this afternoon/evening while going OMG OMG I have so much to do before Tuesday.
I was pleased to have finished that Saturday task so quickly but go slow subsequently.
I was pleased to have finished that Saturday task so quickly but go slow subsequently.
Looking through my periodic health checks to see which ones come up next year. Bowel? Breast? Cervix? Eye? They're in 2-year, 3-year, 5-year repeat cycles.
November 24, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Looking through my periodic health checks to see which ones come up next year. Bowel? Breast? Cervix? Eye? They're in 2-year, 3-year, 5-year repeat cycles.
A day of odd tastes and smells. Didn't swallow my pill in one go, tastes revolting as soon as it starts to dissolve. Cleaned the window and my hands smell of fluid. Lodger laundry liquid smell is filling the house like I can taste it. Trying to override it with artificial flavour in my coffee.
November 24, 2025 at 10:06 AM
A day of odd tastes and smells. Didn't swallow my pill in one go, tastes revolting as soon as it starts to dissolve. Cleaned the window and my hands smell of fluid. Lodger laundry liquid smell is filling the house like I can taste it. Trying to override it with artificial flavour in my coffee.
The thing I thought would take a day and a half (to be done by Tuesday) is stalled by not enough information (or not enough confidence to plough ahead regardless). I'll try to make actual progress on a less urgent thing, do more research, and bump the bigger thing to Tuesday week. Always juggling.
November 23, 2025 at 1:40 PM
The thing I thought would take a day and a half (to be done by Tuesday) is stalled by not enough information (or not enough confidence to plough ahead regardless). I'll try to make actual progress on a less urgent thing, do more research, and bump the bigger thing to Tuesday week. Always juggling.
Glad I got the fresh pack of teabags from the garage before the rain started tipping down so hard.
November 23, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Glad I got the fresh pack of teabags from the garage before the rain started tipping down so hard.