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JacquiWine @jacquiwine.bsky.social · 18m

Ha! She had a decent sized trolley on the go - not just a quick dash for a pint of milk. :-)

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JacquiWine @jacquiwine.bsky.social · 26m

Haha! :-)

JacquiWine @jacquiwine.bsky.social · 43m

Just seen a woman in Tesco, doing her shopping while wearing a dressing gown, pyjamas and slippers. #OBAA #FilmSky

A film still from One Battle After Another showing Pat/Bob (Leo) using a payphone - he’s wearing a red & black plaid bathrobe over a grey T-shirt, a black beanie hat and black shades.

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JacquiWine @jacquiwine.bsky.social · 2h

I know. So cutting!

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Rachel Malik @rachelmalik.bsky.social · 3h

Ouch

JacquiWine @jacquiwine.bsky.social · 4h

"He almost loved her, and would have married her had she been slightly but essentially different. He thought that she probably felt the same about him. Each was too loyal to admit that something else was desired, something less sedate." #BookSky 💙📚

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A Private View by Anita Brookner

I’ve been making my way through Anita Brookner’s exquisitely written novels slowly but steadily over the past eight years. As a long-term reading project, I’m finding it fascinating to see how Broo…

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JacquiWine @jacquiwine.bsky.social · 4h

"He almost loved her, and would have married her had she been slightly but essentially different. He thought that she probably felt the same about him. Each was too loyal to admit that something else was desired, something less sedate." #BookSky 💙📚

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A Private View by Anita Brookner

I’ve been making my way through Anita Brookner’s exquisitely written novels slowly but steadily over the past eight years. As a long-term reading project, I’m finding it fascinating to see how Broo…

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Michael J @michaeljongen.bsky.social · 12h

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‘Painted in 1968, Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy is like a storyboard for an interiors magazine or a sober, even bourgeois, portrait of a marriage, one that could almost have come from the studio of a Gainsborough or Joshua Reynolds’

That’s me in the £45m Hockney! The man in the masterpiece relives sitting for David back in the heady LA party days

It was a landmark moment in queer art, painted when homosexuality was illegal in California. As this famous painting of Christopher Isherwood and Don Backardy goes under the hammer, the surviving sitt...

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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 15h

The choice of books in Felix Vallotton’s 'The Bookcase,' (1915) play nicely into the picture's palette: the shelves are filled with the yellow spines of the Bibliothèque Charpentier collection, in a nod to the (then) supposed female preference for thrilling novels.

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grantrintoul.bsky.social @grantrintoul.bsky.social · 16h

A forgotten writer from France, the startlingly original Helene Bessette, translated by Kate Briggs and published by @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social
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Lili is Crying

Helene Bessette is a French writer, supported by Raymond Queneau and admired by, among others, Marguerite Duras (“Living literature, for me, in France today— it’s Hélène Bessette”), who nevertheles…

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JacquiWine @jacquiwine.bsky.social · 14h

Ah, interesting. Let me know what you think on a second viewing.

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JacquiWine @jacquiwine.bsky.social · 14h

Lovely! 💛

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JacquiWine @jacquiwine.bsky.social · 16h

Oh, that’s on my list. I must get around to it soon!

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JacquiWine @jacquiwine.bsky.social · 16h

Have either of you seen Playground, directed by Laura Wandel, filmed from the child’s eye view level? If not, I can highly recommend.

Kiarostami’s Where is the Friend’s House? also springs to mind.

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JacquiWine @jacquiwine.bsky.social · 17h

That’s a good point. Her style changed pretty radically over her career, which probably accounts for the sense that some pieces will resonate more strongly than others.

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Chris @staggerlee42.bsky.social · 19h

Loads of great friends (who I have then physically met). Ideas for films and books and holidays. Great recipes. Great whisky recommendations. Plenty of laughs and comic posts. There’s bad stuff too but, when it’s like this, it can be really fun and enlightening.

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 1d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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JacquiWine @jacquiwine.bsky.social · 18h

Has anyone else been to the Ithell Colquhoun at Tate Britain? I found it a bit of a mixed bag, but here are some of my favourites pieces.

Ithell Colquhoun (Self-portrait)
Undated
Ink and wash on paper
These self-portraits were begun using decalcomania, a surrealist technique Colquoun used extensively from the late 1930s. The process involves applying ink or paint to a surface, then pressing another surface against it, creating mirror images. Colquhoun worked up one sheet, delineating facial features while leaving the other side undeveloped.
National Portrait Gallery, London. Given by the National Trust (Cornwall Regional Office) 1999

Water-Flower
1938
Oil paint on canvas
Exhibited at The Mayor Gallery, 1939
This sensual flower takes on bodily qualities, with fleshy petals and buds.
The composition shows Colquhoun's interest in boundaries, here between the flower above the surface of the water and its roots below. In this period, the idea of an animated, spiritually infused world began to emerge in Colquhoun's practice.
Water-Flower was designed for the women's ward at Moreton-in-Marsh Hospital near Colquhoun's hometown of Cheltenham.
Arts University Plymouth

THE TARO
In 1977, Colquhoun produced designs for a set of tarot cards Tarot decks date back to mid-fifteenth century Europe and are typically used for fortune telling and playing certain games. They usually include 78 pictorial cards divided into the Major Arcana (trump cards) and Minor Arcana (four suits).
Some occultists mistakenly thought that the tarot emerged from ancient Egypt. Colquhoun rejected the common spelling, believing 'Taro' was a truer reflection of these supposed origins.
Colquhoun's deck is unique, featuring no pictured figures or symbols. Instead, the artist used dripped enamel paint to create abstract compositions. Rather than providing direct instruction, Colquhoun designed her deck as a meditative tool and spiritual aid. Her cards combine the spontaneity of surrealist automatism with the Golden Dawn's interpretation of colour theories from Jewish mysticism.
The full deck was exhibited at the Newlyn Art Gallery in 1977.
In her 1978 essay 'Taro as Colour, Colquhoun recalled: "After I had completed the pack, I saw some slides showing nebulae in outer space and the birth of stars. These recalled my designs and confirmed my conviction of their cosmographic function:

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JacquiWine @jacquiwine.bsky.social · 2d

“He had no doubt that she had earmarked him for future use, in which case she had made a grave mistake. He was not so stupid as to take her on trust or to tolerate any demands she might make of him. No doubt she thought to seduce him into this.” #BookSky 💙📚

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A Private View by Anita Brookner

I’ve been making my way through Anita Brookner’s exquisitely written novels slowly but steadily over the past eight years. As a long-term reading project, I’m finding it fascinating to see how Broo…

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JacquiWine @jacquiwine.bsky.social · 18h

Yikes! I have and naturally it’s wonderful! I recall it being quite macabre and eerie, infused with those somewhat surreal images Comyns does so well. I wrote about it here:

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The Skin Chairs by Barbara Comyns

The novels of Barbara Comyns continue to be a source of fascination for me, from the wonderfully matter-of-fact Our Spoons Came from Woolworths – widely considered to be a lightly fictionalised acc…

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JacquiWine @jacquiwine.bsky.social · 20h

Reasonably priced secondhand copies come up very, very occasionally, so I’ll keep my eye out for you. (I was lucky enough to find one 5 or 6 yrs ago, much to my delight.)

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Simon Thomas @stuckinabook.bsky.social · 21h

I ranked Rose Macaulay's books, because someone has to do it

Unnecessary Rankings! Rose Macaulay

Time for some more rankings! Today is a very prolific writer – Rose Macaulay – so I’ve read 12 of her books, but barely dinted the surface. I have a lot more waiting on my shelves…

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JacquiWine @jacquiwine.bsky.social · 22h

Just wonderful! It looked so beautiful on the big screen - really sumptuous. Those dance scenes must have been very tricky to choreograph…

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James Dalrymple @jamesewand.bsky.social · 1d

First watch: Germany Year Zero, 1948 (courtesy of Arte). Third of Roberto Rossellini's so-called War Trilogy, with many of the hallmarks of Italian neo-realist cinema. A daring film, both for representing the post-war situation for ordinary Germans, and for focusing on the experiences of a child 1/3

The poster for Roberto Rossellini's Germany, Year Zero (1948)

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Marie Ruiz-Vidal @ruizvidal7.bsky.social · 1d

Bonjour
(Jean Shrimpton)

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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 1d

Corot produced this work of Notre-Dame church at Mantes (c1860) when he was particularly interested in the study of architecture. He made many paintings and drawings of churches during this period, although most are of much grander buildings such as Chartres Cathedral.

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Kaggsy's Bookish Ramblings @kaggsy59.bsky.social · 1d

On the Ramblings today, more Golden Age Crime! This time, a new title from @blpublishing.bsky.social the wonderfully atmospheric Scandalize My Name! Really enjoyed this one - more here: kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2025/10/08/h...

“…hatred, fear envy; which will it prove to be this time…” #GAcrime

I’m gradually making my way through the most recent set of review copies kind provided by British Library Publishing, and was moved towards the end of August to pick up “Scandalize My N…

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