Clotilde
@clothildek.bsky.social
Books, cathedrals, swimming in lakes, cooking, politics. Cat-lover sadly cursed by allergies.
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My Christmas pudding has finished steaming, so I can now retire to bed with three hot water bottles.
November 24, 2025 at 10:14 PM
My Christmas pudding has finished steaming, so I can now retire to bed with three hot water bottles.
There is a trail of slug slime on the washing up brush in the dish drainer by the kitchen sink and now I can never leave clean dishes to dry overnight ever again.
November 1, 2025 at 8:51 AM
There is a trail of slug slime on the washing up brush in the dish drainer by the kitchen sink and now I can never leave clean dishes to dry overnight ever again.
I've started going to the gym and lifting weights before work and I'm very sorry to have to say that I now sleep better, have more energy and am generally feeling pretty good and that all those annoying fitness people were actually telling the truth.
October 22, 2025 at 12:30 PM
I've started going to the gym and lifting weights before work and I'm very sorry to have to say that I now sleep better, have more energy and am generally feeling pretty good and that all those annoying fitness people were actually telling the truth.
I cracked and made a passive aggressive flow chart to put on that bit of worksurface next to the kitchen sink where everyone leaves their dirty dishes.
October 19, 2025 at 2:48 PM
I cracked and made a passive aggressive flow chart to put on that bit of worksurface next to the kitchen sink where everyone leaves their dirty dishes.
My reading for the month ahead will now mostly consist of Sayers and Eliot
Lord Peter Wimsey is the narrative voice of The Waste Land.
Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat
October 13, 2025 at 7:20 PM
My reading for the month ahead will now mostly consist of Sayers and Eliot
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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?” 🧵
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?” 🧵
October 5, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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?” 🧵
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?” 🧵
We've been having difficult and sad day at work today, but this is wonderful, hopeful, news.
September 24, 2025 at 12:26 PM
We've been having difficult and sad day at work today, but this is wonderful, hopeful, news.
A beautiful morning swim. Listen to the birdsong and the actual, literal wind in the willows.
September 21, 2025 at 8:48 AM
A beautiful morning swim. Listen to the birdsong and the actual, literal wind in the willows.
I'm doing something I've wanted to do since I was little, and am on my way to my very first Irish language class.
September 18, 2025 at 5:46 PM
I'm doing something I've wanted to do since I was little, and am on my way to my very first Irish language class.
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Reminder that 100,000 people marched for Trans Pride in London earlier this year, but because they weren't violent fascists, there was minimal press coverage, unlike the Nazis today.
https://www.them.us/story/london-trans-pride-march-turnout-record-uk-transphobia
https://www.them.us/story/london-trans-pride-march-turnout-record-uk-transphobia
London’s Trans Pride March Just Shattered Its Turnout Record
Organizers say it was the largest transgender rights march in the world.
www.them.us
September 13, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Reminder that 100,000 people marched for Trans Pride in London earlier this year, but because they weren't violent fascists, there was minimal press coverage, unlike the Nazis today.
https://www.them.us/story/london-trans-pride-march-turnout-record-uk-transphobia
https://www.them.us/story/london-trans-pride-march-turnout-record-uk-transphobia
I attended a talk he gave when I was at school in Belfast and was utterly inspirational, and one of the main reasons I became a lawyer, only to discover what a rarity he was.
The news of Conor Gearty's death has just been announced and I'm not coping. He was a mentor and the pole star in my constitutional thinking. He was also a great friend and fantastic fun to be around. I'm heartbroken for Aoife and the children.
September 12, 2025 at 11:05 AM
I attended a talk he gave when I was at school in Belfast and was utterly inspirational, and one of the main reasons I became a lawyer, only to discover what a rarity he was.
I snapped this quickly earlier, and it seems a good thing to post while things are grim.
September 11, 2025 at 4:46 PM
I snapped this quickly earlier, and it seems a good thing to post while things are grim.
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one morning, when gregor samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a very hungry caterpillar
September 1, 2025 at 3:41 PM
one morning, when gregor samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a very hungry caterpillar
I swam for 30 minutes before work this morning with my earbuds in their case tucked into my swimsuit. The earbuds are still working. I suspect that the charging case isn't.
September 8, 2025 at 1:24 PM
I swam for 30 minutes before work this morning with my earbuds in their case tucked into my swimsuit. The earbuds are still working. I suspect that the charging case isn't.
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Babe, new candidate for "most unfathomable spatial comparison" just dropped.
September 5, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Babe, new candidate for "most unfathomable spatial comparison" just dropped.
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Today is the 273rd anniversary of 2 September 1752, which is significant because it was followed by 14th September. Yes, this was the day we finally changed to the Gregorian calendar, 170 years after Gregory XIII suggested it – and the legend says we rioted about it, wanting ‘our 11 days’ back...
September 2, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Today is the 273rd anniversary of 2 September 1752, which is significant because it was followed by 14th September. Yes, this was the day we finally changed to the Gregorian calendar, 170 years after Gregory XIII suggested it – and the legend says we rioted about it, wanting ‘our 11 days’ back...
I made a super-healthy green goddess dressing today by blending silken tofu with vast quantities of herbs and adding garlic, lemon juice, EVOO, salt, pepper and nutritional yeast. My lunch was glorious. An absolute star of my accidentally vegan repertoire.
September 2, 2025 at 12:39 PM
I made a super-healthy green goddess dressing today by blending silken tofu with vast quantities of herbs and adding garlic, lemon juice, EVOO, salt, pepper and nutritional yeast. My lunch was glorious. An absolute star of my accidentally vegan repertoire.
My daughter walks past "one of these hotels" most days - it's next to the convenience shop. The people living there are our neighbours, the same kids who are in her class at school, the same adults who are waiting in the playground, or in the queue to buy milk at the shop next door.
Asked by the BBC how he would feel if "your daughter was having to walk past one of these [asylum] hotels every day?" Keir Starmer replies that "I completely get it".
"I understand why people want the hotels closed. I want them closed".
"I understand why people want the hotels closed. I want them closed".
September 2, 2025 at 11:32 AM
My daughter walks past "one of these hotels" most days - it's next to the convenience shop. The people living there are our neighbours, the same kids who are in her class at school, the same adults who are waiting in the playground, or in the queue to buy milk at the shop next door.
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being Prime Minister seems quite stressful, so it must be a relief for Nigel Farage that he gets to run the country without bothering
BREAKING: Yvette Cooper says she is suspending all applications to bring family members to the UK under the asylum system.
September 1, 2025 at 3:25 PM
being Prime Minister seems quite stressful, so it must be a relief for Nigel Farage that he gets to run the country without bothering
I just signed up for Irish lessons and am excited but nervous. This is something I've wanted to do since I was little, but never really had the opportunity.
August 28, 2025 at 5:59 PM
I just signed up for Irish lessons and am excited but nervous. This is something I've wanted to do since I was little, but never really had the opportunity.
About a foot behind my desk is a strange indoor gutter (I work in an old and eccentric building). I love working here on rainy days because I'm in an attic, with the sound of rain falling on the roof immediately above me, and what sounds like a river running behind my back.
August 27, 2025 at 2:25 PM
About a foot behind my desk is a strange indoor gutter (I work in an old and eccentric building). I love working here on rainy days because I'm in an attic, with the sound of rain falling on the roof immediately above me, and what sounds like a river running behind my back.
This is fascinating and is an area of history that I know far too little about.
If you've ever wondered why Dublin has a church dedicated to St. Werburgh -> A great account here from @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social on Ireland's Anglo-Norman history & the use of English saints "in a kind of sacred imperialism".
www.historytoday.com/history-matt...
www.historytoday.com/history-matt...
Making Medieval Ireland English
www.historytoday.com
August 27, 2025 at 9:49 AM
This is fascinating and is an area of history that I know far too little about.