Shirley
@shirleylemon.bsky.social
Back home in Herefordshire. Slowly being crushed under the weight of books still to be read.
Well, that's me done. I'm going to bed.
March 1, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Well, that's me done. I'm going to bed.
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I can’t recommend the weird, almost body-horror gruesomeness of this episode on mincemeat enough, but my biggest takeaway is that Fanny Craddock appears to have perfected an aesthetic that can only be described as “Samurai Thatcher”.
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
December 22, 2024 at 8:06 AM
I can’t recommend the weird, almost body-horror gruesomeness of this episode on mincemeat enough, but my biggest takeaway is that Fanny Craddock appears to have perfected an aesthetic that can only be described as “Samurai Thatcher”.
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
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Here is Gisèle Pelicot's full statement outside the court. I share it in honour of her immense courage. ~AA
December 19, 2024 at 5:18 PM
Here is Gisèle Pelicot's full statement outside the court. I share it in honour of her immense courage. ~AA
I am also going to be using this as my go-to excuse for the foreseeable future:
December 14, 2024 at 10:49 PM
I am also going to be using this as my go-to excuse for the foreseeable future:
When someone buckling under the weight of their basket at the checkout asks if they can go ahead of you as they've only got 'a few bits'. #Conclave
December 5, 2024 at 6:49 PM
When someone buckling under the weight of their basket at the checkout asks if they can go ahead of you as they've only got 'a few bits'. #Conclave
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‘South Korean Martial Law’ is now a smaller measurement of time than a Scaramucci, Truss, or Kwarteng
December 4, 2024 at 12:39 PM
‘South Korean Martial Law’ is now a smaller measurement of time than a Scaramucci, Truss, or Kwarteng
So that would be two wild boar that hurtled screaming past me on my walk this morning 😱🐗😱🐗 #herefordshire
December 3, 2024 at 12:50 PM
So that would be two wild boar that hurtled screaming past me on my walk this morning 😱🐗😱🐗 #herefordshire
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Might have something to do with sustained attacks on Higher Education in general, and the humanities in particular, by the previous government and its client journalists at the Telegraph, along with massive cuts to funding, caused by that government's policies. You can't have it both ways.
December 1, 2024 at 8:06 AM
Might have something to do with sustained attacks on Higher Education in general, and the humanities in particular, by the previous government and its client journalists at the Telegraph, along with massive cuts to funding, caused by that government's policies. You can't have it both ways.
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Here we go! #LiteraryAdventCalendar Day 1, and it's one of my all-time favourites: Poet Laureate Simon Armitage listing the manifold humiliations of reading poetry in public.
December 1, 2024 at 8:31 AM
Here we go! #LiteraryAdventCalendar Day 1, and it's one of my all-time favourites: Poet Laureate Simon Armitage listing the manifold humiliations of reading poetry in public.
A stroll up the lane and hello December
December 1, 2024 at 12:25 PM
A stroll up the lane and hello December
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Good man yourself Oedipus, how’re ye keeping these days, tell me now, do y’still have the
November 28, 2024 at 9:55 PM
Good man yourself Oedipus, how’re ye keeping these days, tell me now, do y’still have the
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ALL HAIL
All hail the return of Our Fallopian Overlords
All hail the return of Our Fallopian Overlords
November 24, 2024 at 2:37 PM
ALL HAIL
All hail the return of Our Fallopian Overlords
All hail the return of Our Fallopian Overlords
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To be fair she does look like a chicken.
November 23, 2024 at 2:08 PM
To be fair she does look like a chicken.
Hereford Times editor: Can you go out & get some shots of Storm Bert in the city?
Journo: Yeah, sure. (goes to Waitrose, takes a snap out of the car window)
Journo: Yeah, sure. (goes to Waitrose, takes a snap out of the car window)
November 23, 2024 at 4:23 PM
Hereford Times editor: Can you go out & get some shots of Storm Bert in the city?
Journo: Yeah, sure. (goes to Waitrose, takes a snap out of the car window)
Journo: Yeah, sure. (goes to Waitrose, takes a snap out of the car window)
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Sometimes a simple cover design does everything. Here are some examples of ones I love. What are yours?
November 23, 2024 at 12:25 PM
Sometimes a simple cover design does everything. Here are some examples of ones I love. What are yours?
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Powell and Pressburger alert!
A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH (1946), one of the most inventive and headily romantic films ever made, is on BBC Two today at 12.35 and BBC iPlayer. See thread for some background to the iconic stairway to heaven and its impact on wider culture.
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A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH (1946), one of the most inventive and headily romantic films ever made, is on BBC Two today at 12.35 and BBC iPlayer. See thread for some background to the iconic stairway to heaven and its impact on wider culture.
🧵
November 23, 2024 at 10:55 AM
Powell and Pressburger alert!
A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH (1946), one of the most inventive and headily romantic films ever made, is on BBC Two today at 12.35 and BBC iPlayer. See thread for some background to the iconic stairway to heaven and its impact on wider culture.
🧵
A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH (1946), one of the most inventive and headily romantic films ever made, is on BBC Two today at 12.35 and BBC iPlayer. See thread for some background to the iconic stairway to heaven and its impact on wider culture.
🧵
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We just had beef or salmon at ours.
November 20, 2024 at 6:47 AM
We just had beef or salmon at ours.
Chef's kiss of an anecdote 👌
For those who don't know this story, which I first shared six years ago today....
This one time I got my days wrong at work and ended up alone in a room with my boss and the President of Ireland while I was on ketamine.
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This one time I got my days wrong at work and ended up alone in a room with my boss and the President of Ireland while I was on ketamine.
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November 17, 2024 at 7:20 PM
Chef's kiss of an anecdote 👌
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Tony Hatch is 85 now. He not only wrote this extraordinary classic but produced the huge sound to - this among so, so many others. I have not seen a documentary on him. If he were American we would be in absolute awe.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_m4...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_m4...
Petula Clark ~ Downtown (1964)
YouTube video by TheOldrecordclub
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November 16, 2024 at 9:41 PM
Tony Hatch is 85 now. He not only wrote this extraordinary classic but produced the huge sound to - this among so, so many others. I have not seen a documentary on him. If he were American we would be in absolute awe.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_m4...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_m4...
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Planning to watch the BFI and Film Foundation restoration of I KNOW WHERE I’M GOING! (Powell and Pressburger, 1945) today? It's on BBC Two (and iPlayer) at 16.10. Given my borderline obsession with the film, here’s a thread with some IKWIG-related info and links.
November 16, 2024 at 11:44 AM
Planning to watch the BFI and Film Foundation restoration of I KNOW WHERE I’M GOING! (Powell and Pressburger, 1945) today? It's on BBC Two (and iPlayer) at 16.10. Given my borderline obsession with the film, here’s a thread with some IKWIG-related info and links.