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Jane Duke

@janeduke.com

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Fine art printmaker from York, England. Dapple scrumper. Sometimes found loitering in a medieval hall and talking to strangers. Not at home to joy sponges. More professional and businesslike on Substack and my website. https://linktr.ee/janeduke

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Jane Duke @janeduke.com · Mar 17

My occasional post for people who have followed me for printmaking (thank you!), explaining that most of the grown-up printmaking stuff happens over on my Substack, which is completely free by the way.

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Dapple Scrumping | Jane Duke | Substack

Tales from a printmaking studio. Click to read Dapple Scrumping, by Jane Duke, a Substack publication.

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Jane Duke @janeduke.com · 1h

Extraordinary... 👀

Jane Duke @janeduke.com · 1h

I find it is often necessary to do a quick confirmation Google to check how a word is used OVER THERE. Can't take anything for granted...

Jane Duke @janeduke.com · 2h

I did exactly the same Google search this morning, so now we both know what each other has been doing.

Jane Duke @janeduke.com · 3h

She's going to be very confused...

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ChrisP @wordsmithgetxo.bsky.social · 23h

In an old ad for board game Scattergories in Spain a player was shown flouncing out while anothet said “OK, we’ll accept ‘octopus’ as a pet”.
“Aceptamos pulpo” has now entered the language in the meaning of “that’s a bit of a stretch but let’s go with it just for the sake of argument”.

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Jane Duke @janeduke.com · 19h

Same, though sometimes I get up the courage to go and have a dance in the other room. Also you won't BELIEVE who I bumped into by the punch bowl; they're really nice and normal to chat to and I managed not to fan girl.

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Jane Duke @janeduke.com · 19h

All of the above apart from the getting an agent bit 👍

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Jane Duke @janeduke.com · 1d

Thanks Tony 😊

Jane Duke @janeduke.com · 1d

*awkward cough* New reduction print now available, should you have any interest at all in that sort of thing...

Bluebells in April - reduction linoprint

Limited edition of 10 prints Image size 20 x 30 cm Paper size approx 26 x 36 cm Somerset Satin printmaking paper The edition number, title, signature and date are written under the image in pencil. Th...

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Jane Duke @janeduke.com · 2d

I was having a conversation the other day about how it's amazing that any of us who were children in the 60s and 70s made it to adulthood. I now realise that John Noakes and Blue Peter were *why* they had to have all those terrifying public information films.

a cartoon of a boy and a cat with the words charley says below them

ALT: a cartoon of a boy and a cat with the words charley says below them

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Jane Duke @janeduke.com · 2d

Now you've gone too far. None of us can match that, can we?? x

Jane Duke @janeduke.com · 2d

Give it up, you WILL be too hot or too cold, probably both at different times.

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Jane Duke @janeduke.com · 2d

Oh what a good idea. *files away for reference*

Jane Duke @janeduke.com · 2d

'Rotter' not on Worgle's word list. I say.

Black and white photo of actor Terry-Thonas, grinning at camera from the driver's seat of a car, wearing a bowler hat and with a cigarette holder clamped between his teeth.

Jane Duke @janeduke.com · 2d

I was helped by all the obits today!

Jane Duke @janeduke.com · 2d

How appropriate that Dame Jilly was the last question on University Challenge tonight. (Unanswered because of the bell, but it was Rutshire).

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Jane Duke @janeduke.com · 2d

FFS PULL THAT PRAM AWAY FROM THE EDGE 😱

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Coates is Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 3d

Leonard Rossiter as Reggie Perrin explaining why he was late to the office

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Jane Duke @janeduke.com · 3d

You know how starting the day with physical exercise is supposed to make you feel energised and ready to get going? Yeah nah...

a little girl is hanging upside down on a swing in a park

ALT: a little girl is hanging upside down on a swing in a park

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Jane Duke @janeduke.com · 3d

Oh I know exactly what you mean 😄 (I still have a load of files on my pc I haven't deleted JUST IN CASE...)

Jane Duke @janeduke.com · 3d

Well done. It is enormously hard to step back. I had to delete a few bookmarks and remove my own access to some things when it was clear no-one else was going to 😳

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Jane Duke @janeduke.com · 3d

Thanks, I enjoyed that. The credits really are a masterpiece, somehow making you nostalgic about people you've never met but who are still real people that you feel you remember.

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 3d

Ever wondered where all the Cheers title photos are from? I did. And I've gathered everything I can find into this post. That was fun.

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Where nobody knows your name...

Tracing the anonymous faces at the start of Cheers.

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Jane Duke @janeduke.com · 3d

It is impossible (for me) to read the origjnal stories without picturing Jeremy Brett.

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Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · 4d

IMPROVISED OWL PHYSIO

Dr Delyth Badder @folklorewales.com · 4d

Six weeks ago, I picked up a year-old tawny owl with a broken leg off the main road near our home and dropped him off at our nearest vet.

After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵

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