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Elizabeth Thomson
@peregryn.bsky.social
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Provincial Director of Ordinands for the SEC. Lives in Edinburgh. Curiouse peregryne and unproffitable questions.
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October 20, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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Christmas puddings, today in 2020 #todayinreview. Hadn’t quite anticipated the school nativity play effect.
six small Christmas puddings lined up on a table, each with a striped cloth cover
October 10, 2025 at 7:09 AM
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leaves from the permitted walk in the park, today in 2020 #todayinreview
fallen leaves, maple?, one red, one yellow with some red shading
October 8, 2025 at 6:50 AM
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sourdough this morning #todayinreview
a round sourdough loaf
October 5, 2025 at 6:15 AM
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Mosaic detail, St Paul's cathedral Dundee; today in 2023 #todayinreview
Detail showing lower robe, red with cross-cross pattern in gold and black
October 4, 2025 at 6:27 AM
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surprisingly pink Pink Lady, today in 2016 #todayinreview
an apple cut in half showing pink flesh
October 3, 2025 at 7:06 AM
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You remember. Today in 2011 #todayinreview
Adlestrop: wooden bus shelter containing the railway station sign and a GWR bench. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/53744/adlestrop
October 2, 2025 at 6:28 AM
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Not an exciting photo, but proof that
@davewalker.bsky.social's cartoons are drawn from life cartoonchurch.com?s=kitchen. Today in 2016 #todayinreview
a church kitchen with bossy notices everywhere
October 1, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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lighting the candles on the Bakewell screen in Derby Cathedral, today in 2017 - I think we were welcoming a new Dean #todayinreview
tall 18th century wrought iron screen, with candles at the very top, reached by a verger holding a very long taper
September 30, 2025 at 7:25 AM
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a boat in a box: Stromness, today in 2021 #todayinreview
view through a window to a harbour, where stone piers enclose a space of water with a small white rowing boat
September 29, 2025 at 5:59 AM
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Orkney stripes, blue/gray edition, today in 2021 #todayinreview
dry stone wall, dark blushes, light blue cloudy sky, all in horizontal stripes
September 28, 2025 at 6:09 AM
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ancient and modern: trains seen from a train, in Milan, today in 2023 #todayinreview
trains seen from a train: one old black locomotive, one red modern sharp-pointed
September 27, 2025 at 7:24 AM
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a not oppressively tidy Paradise; Basilica of Sant'Apollinare, today in 2023 #todayinreview
September 26, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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Human chain. Scaffolders at work on a murky day in Derby, today in 2017 #todayinreview
Six scaffolders at a corner of scaffolding round Derby Cathedral, each at a different level of the scaffolding, lowering a pole from the top down
September 25, 2025 at 6:20 AM
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More mosaics: the good shepherd and his beautiful socks. Ravenna, today in 2023 #todayinreview
September 24, 2025 at 6:58 AM
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Ducks this morning. 5th century ducks from the Neonian baptistery in Ravenna, today in 2023 #todayinreview
mosaic of ducks, plus one peacock
September 23, 2025 at 6:02 AM
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Not a creature was stirring, not even a - lobster. St Margaret’s Hope, today in 2016 #todayinreview
Pier with a stack of lobster pots, still water and the far side of the bay beyond
September 22, 2025 at 6:35 AM
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Liquorice allsort. Today in 2012 in Siena #todayinreview
Cathedral tower in Siena, in black and white striped marble
September 21, 2025 at 6:49 AM
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Tree of the day, today in 2023; the wych elm outside my front door in Dundee #todayinreview
green tree, lollipop-shaped, against blue sky
September 20, 2025 at 6:10 AM
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Stromness, today in 2016 #todayinreview
Stromness, seen from the ferry
September 19, 2025 at 6:47 AM
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Miller's Dale to Tideswell: today in 2020 #todayinreview
Green hills in the Peak District. Former railway viaduct in the foreground - now a footpath, formerly one of the lines named in Slow Train by Flanders & Swann
September 18, 2025 at 7:35 AM
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wooden salad bowls from the Burford wood shop: today in 2008 #todayinreview
one big bowl and six small ones, wide and shallow
September 17, 2025 at 6:26 AM
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Chilli market in Florence, today in 2012 #todayinreview
A square in Florence with lots of chilli plants, all with different red fruit
September 16, 2025 at 6:32 AM
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Old world half-timbered railway station: Matlock Bath, today in 2014 #todayinreview
Half-timbered railway station buildings
September 15, 2025 at 6:13 AM
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“I like your hat.” A lockdown photo, from today in 2020. The poem is Small Kindnesses by Danusha Laméris - poem in alt text. #todayinreview .
Sink, taps, soap, and a poem on the wall to read while you wash your hands. Small Kindnesses I’ve been thinking about the way, when you walk down a crowded aisle, people pull in their legs to let you by. Or how strangers still say “bless you” when someone sneezes, a leftover from the Bubonic plague. “Don’t die,” we are saying. And sometimes, when you spill lemons from your grocery bag, someone else will help you pick them up. Mostly, we don’t want to harm each other. We want to be handed our cup of coffee hot, and to say thank you to the person handing it. To smile at them and for them to smile back. For the waitress to call us honey when she sets down the bowl of clam chowder, and for the driver in the red pick-up truck to let us pass. We have so little of each other, now. So far from tribe and fire. Only these brief moments of exchange. What if they are the true dwelling of the holy, these fleeting temples we make together when we say, “Here, have my seat,” “Go ahead—you first,” “I like your hat.”
September 14, 2025 at 10:37 AM