Elizabeth Heighway
@ehtranslates.bsky.social
I translate from French & Georgian, but sometimes you’d hardly know it.
Woke with a start at dark o'clock to the realisation that my inability to understand any sentence with a number in it has led to me once again embarrassing myself with a publisher during timeline negotiations. Go me.
November 12, 2025 at 6:20 AM
Woke with a start at dark o'clock to the realisation that my inability to understand any sentence with a number in it has led to me once again embarrassing myself with a publisher during timeline negotiations. Go me.
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It seems pretty risky to tell people they won't see the change they want if they vote Green, given that they already voted Labour and didn't see the change they wanted.
Greens’ ‘undeliverable’ promises will let voters down, says Labour minister
Exclusive: Darren Jones says Labour has to convince young people it is ‘modern party of the future’
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November 8, 2025 at 8:42 AM
It seems pretty risky to tell people they won't see the change they want if they vote Green, given that they already voted Labour and didn't see the change they wanted.
Why am I being inundated with sheet pan kebabs on Instagram all of sudden? Did I do something or are they just having their moment?
November 5, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Why am I being inundated with sheet pan kebabs on Instagram all of sudden? Did I do something or are they just having their moment?
Listening to an audiobook in which 'red herring' has been translated literally despite that having no idiomatic meaning in the target language, which is actually the ultimate red herring as the poor listener will be so busy wondering where fish come into it that they'll never see the murderer coming
November 5, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Listening to an audiobook in which 'red herring' has been translated literally despite that having no idiomatic meaning in the target language, which is actually the ultimate red herring as the poor listener will be so busy wondering where fish come into it that they'll never see the murderer coming
A morning that was uplifting and depressing in almost equal measure (uplifting won by a nose) weeding veg beds with a delightful, motivated, bright 12-year-old who was telling me about all the things that just *stopped* when he got to secondary, like forest school, non-sport clubs, school council...
November 3, 2025 at 1:57 PM
A morning that was uplifting and depressing in almost equal measure (uplifting won by a nose) weeding veg beds with a delightful, motivated, bright 12-year-old who was telling me about all the things that just *stopped* when he got to secondary, like forest school, non-sport clubs, school council...
Making fruit leather with my grape harvest cos winter is coming and AI stole 90% of my commercial clients, yay.
November 2, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Making fruit leather with my grape harvest cos winter is coming and AI stole 90% of my commercial clients, yay.
Look, I'm old so I don't understand these things. How do those language exchange apps work, do you literally just go in and see who's online and... chat?!?! While you're both there? Randomly? #whatfreshhell
October 31, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Look, I'm old so I don't understand these things. How do those language exchange apps work, do you literally just go in and see who's online and... chat?!?! While you're both there? Randomly? #whatfreshhell
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Il nous faut une catégorie "banger de tous les temps" à ressortir régulièrement comme 👇
October 31, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Il nous faut une catégorie "banger de tous les temps" à ressortir régulièrement comme 👇
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A Christmas Carol, but Scrooge is visited by the spirits of 3 freelancers whose invoices he didn't get around to paying before Christmas
Sure Halloween has lots of ghost stories, but do any of them involve THREE ghosts? I think not
October 31, 2025 at 9:10 AM
A Christmas Carol, but Scrooge is visited by the spirits of 3 freelancers whose invoices he didn't get around to paying before Christmas
Once again I find myself translating intimate body parts and I tell you what, the level of nuance and subtlety of tone/register between the various words for bits is both a marvel and an absolute pain in the patootie / derrière / ass / arse / trunk / squishmallows.
October 31, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Once again I find myself translating intimate body parts and I tell you what, the level of nuance and subtlety of tone/register between the various words for bits is both a marvel and an absolute pain in the patootie / derrière / ass / arse / trunk / squishmallows.
Thinking of monetising my journey to achieving a single decent push-up. T-shirts, motivational montages, a podcast, maybe even a webtoon. What a fool I am for only thinking of this now.
October 30, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Thinking of monetising my journey to achieving a single decent push-up. T-shirts, motivational montages, a podcast, maybe even a webtoon. What a fool I am for only thinking of this now.
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Once saw a man by the river doing a sort of Mortal Kombat stance, squaring up to a massive hissing swan & he kept shouting “I won’t fucking back down pal” at it, as it advanced on him, wings outstretched like a terrible, vengeful angel & sometimes it seems like that is basically the entire world now
October 29, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Once saw a man by the river doing a sort of Mortal Kombat stance, squaring up to a massive hissing swan & he kept shouting “I won’t fucking back down pal” at it, as it advanced on him, wings outstretched like a terrible, vengeful angel & sometimes it seems like that is basically the entire world now
I need the Michael Sandel of the literary theory world. Who is that? I need a literary theory/criticism podcast that's engaging, follow-alongable, informative and would go with washing up/carrot-chopping. Help.
October 27, 2025 at 1:19 PM
I need the Michael Sandel of the literary theory world. Who is that? I need a literary theory/criticism podcast that's engaging, follow-alongable, informative and would go with washing up/carrot-chopping. Help.
Been up since 6.30 carving a Peppa Pig pumpkin. It's already looking a bit wilted. Chances of it lasting till 31st: -16 billion. Excellent use of a morning.
October 26, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Been up since 6.30 carving a Peppa Pig pumpkin. It's already looking a bit wilted. Chances of it lasting till 31st: -16 billion. Excellent use of a morning.
Got wedged in the cellar hatch at the back of the bookshop while trying to get myself and my bike through it and woke up whilst stuck fast with my legs and rear wheel dangling over the street below, and a heart rate of 750.
#dreams
#dreams
October 25, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Got wedged in the cellar hatch at the back of the bookshop while trying to get myself and my bike through it and woke up whilst stuck fast with my legs and rear wheel dangling over the street below, and a heart rate of 750.
#dreams
#dreams
The standard of bad Christmas films has really gone down recently. They're not bad-good anymore, they're just *really bad*. What am I to put on in the background?!? Sad times 🙁
October 24, 2025 at 12:24 PM
The standard of bad Christmas films has really gone down recently. They're not bad-good anymore, they're just *really bad*. What am I to put on in the background?!? Sad times 🙁
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This cartoon and others are now in the art-for-sale section of my website: www.tomgauld.com/art-for-sale
October 23, 2025 at 2:17 PM
This cartoon and others are now in the art-for-sale section of my website: www.tomgauld.com/art-for-sale
Watching a rudely single-dug worm legging (?) it back to the underworld earlier today I was struck by the fact that I would never truly understand how that worm was experiencing urgency, if indeed it was, & 5 minutes later I was still staring into space & that, people, is why I never earn any money
October 21, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Watching a rudely single-dug worm legging (?) it back to the underworld earlier today I was struck by the fact that I would never truly understand how that worm was experiencing urgency, if indeed it was, & 5 minutes later I was still staring into space & that, people, is why I never earn any money
Has anyone done a study on whether there's a motion-smoothing gene like the coriander gene, cos if I'm within 3 channels of a show with motion smoothing I come out in hives but my kids can't even see it.
October 21, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Has anyone done a study on whether there's a motion-smoothing gene like the coriander gene, cos if I'm within 3 channels of a show with motion smoothing I come out in hives but my kids can't even see it.
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October 21, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Drowning in a sea of flags on our estate but massively buoyed by a trip to our local community centre where they're quietly cracking on with ESL classes, food & gardening projects & various other schemes & opportunities to enable refugees to live with dignity & purpose rather than just as statistics
October 20, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Drowning in a sea of flags on our estate but massively buoyed by a trip to our local community centre where they're quietly cracking on with ESL classes, food & gardening projects & various other schemes & opportunities to enable refugees to live with dignity & purpose rather than just as statistics
Fun fact: Anaklia Port is where the Lebanon lizard first landed in Georgia! For more fun lizard facts, wrapped up in a thoughtful exploration of memory and identity, read Archil Kikodze's 'Lizard on the Gravestone' or, if you don't speak Georgian, maybe commission me to translate it, ahem... 🦎
🇨🇳🇬🇪 Can China revive Georgia’s long-stalled Anaklia Port, and at what cost?
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Can China revive Georgia’s long-stalled Anaklia Port, and at what cost?
While new Chinese funding has appeared to reinvigorate the long-stalled and controversial deep-sea port in Anaklia, scepticism remains.
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October 19, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Fun fact: Anaklia Port is where the Lebanon lizard first landed in Georgia! For more fun lizard facts, wrapped up in a thoughtful exploration of memory and identity, read Archil Kikodze's 'Lizard on the Gravestone' or, if you don't speak Georgian, maybe commission me to translate it, ahem... 🦎
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October 18, 2025 at 6:41 PM
I tell you what, I am putting so much work into this bloody garden with its 2 (TWO) ponds and all the rest, if I don't get frogs next spring I'm gonna throw hands
October 18, 2025 at 10:36 AM
I tell you what, I am putting so much work into this bloody garden with its 2 (TWO) ponds and all the rest, if I don't get frogs next spring I'm gonna throw hands