Jan Thie
@janthie.bsky.social
Amateur bread baker, cat botherer, book addict, writer:
https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B0841RPQBS/allbooks
In a former life: freelance translator, copywriter & journalist; pub cook, and night manager in a Dutch hotel for the homeless for 17 years.
https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B0841RPQBS/allbooks
In a former life: freelance translator, copywriter & journalist; pub cook, and night manager in a Dutch hotel for the homeless for 17 years.
I just finished a book I won't name, because if you can't say something nice...
Still, around two third of the book, I thought, 'We're not going there, aren't we?' We did go there.
There are two types of story endings I don't ever want to see:
'It was all a dream'
&
'It was all in his head.'
Still, around two third of the book, I thought, 'We're not going there, aren't we?' We did go there.
There are two types of story endings I don't ever want to see:
'It was all a dream'
&
'It was all in his head.'
June 16, 2025 at 9:24 PM
I just finished a book I won't name, because if you can't say something nice...
Still, around two third of the book, I thought, 'We're not going there, aren't we?' We did go there.
There are two types of story endings I don't ever want to see:
'It was all a dream'
&
'It was all in his head.'
Still, around two third of the book, I thought, 'We're not going there, aren't we?' We did go there.
There are two types of story endings I don't ever want to see:
'It was all a dream'
&
'It was all in his head.'
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awww
A robin made a nest in one of my plant pots right outside my studio. The baby birds are hatching today.
June 10, 2025 at 3:59 PM
awww
I tested out an interesting-looking recipe. Technically an appetiser but I had it for dinner with a cucumber salad:
foodmymuse.com/stracciatell...
It's really good.
#Appetiser
#ItalianFood
#Ciabatta
#Breadsky
foodmymuse.com/stracciatell...
It's really good.
#Appetiser
#ItalianFood
#Ciabatta
#Breadsky
May 28, 2025 at 6:02 PM
I tested out an interesting-looking recipe. Technically an appetiser but I had it for dinner with a cucumber salad:
foodmymuse.com/stracciatell...
It's really good.
#Appetiser
#ItalianFood
#Ciabatta
#Breadsky
foodmymuse.com/stracciatell...
It's really good.
#Appetiser
#ItalianFood
#Ciabatta
#Breadsky
Those who will read my coming book (and read past chapter 12) will get this.
Others won't. Not ever
#Booksky
#SpaceOpera
Others won't. Not ever
#Booksky
#SpaceOpera
May 28, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Those who will read my coming book (and read past chapter 12) will get this.
Others won't. Not ever
#Booksky
#SpaceOpera
Others won't. Not ever
#Booksky
#SpaceOpera
'Tis the season to take all the logs outside again, and to start the soot-clearing of the living room; especially the big fern, since its leaves are covered with the dust of ashes. As is the small bookcase and that small cupboard in the kitchen.
I'm late this year because laziness.
#SpringClean
I'm late this year because laziness.
#SpringClean
May 28, 2025 at 12:31 PM
'Tis the season to take all the logs outside again, and to start the soot-clearing of the living room; especially the big fern, since its leaves are covered with the dust of ashes. As is the small bookcase and that small cupboard in the kitchen.
I'm late this year because laziness.
#SpringClean
I'm late this year because laziness.
#SpringClean
I don't know what he thinks he'll find up there.
(I think I'll call him Musk.)
(I think I'll call him Musk.)
May 27, 2025 at 1:11 PM
I don't know what he thinks he'll find up there.
(I think I'll call him Musk.)
(I think I'll call him Musk.)
Great. I managed to delete this post.
In short: I'm shit at promoting my own work and I need an agent. I'm willing to pay 50% of the profits.
Anyone can apply because anyone will be better at it than I.
I won't look over your shoulder: see above.
#Booksky
#Agent
The books are here:
In short: I'm shit at promoting my own work and I need an agent. I'm willing to pay 50% of the profits.
Anyone can apply because anyone will be better at it than I.
I won't look over your shoulder: see above.
#Booksky
#Agent
The books are here:
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May 26, 2025 at 7:49 PM
One of the best jokes ever?
“I wanted to be a writer when I was eight, and it was only later in life, when I was nine, that I wanted to be an actor.”
A good article, and I know it doesn't say everything but still:
"[He's'] celebrating 68 years and counting with his wife, Arlene."
#AlanAlda
“I wanted to be a writer when I was eight, and it was only later in life, when I was nine, that I wanted to be an actor.”
A good article, and I know it doesn't say everything but still:
"[He's'] celebrating 68 years and counting with his wife, Arlene."
#AlanAlda
‘My mother didn’t try to stab my father until I was six’: Alan Alda on childhood, marriage and 60 years of stardom
Best known as Hawkeye in M*A*S*H in the 70s, the 89-year-old actor has topped the Netflix charts with a revamp of his 1981 film The Four Seasons. He talks about Martin Scorsese and Woody Allen – and w...
www.theguardian.com
May 26, 2025 at 5:12 PM
One of the best jokes ever?
“I wanted to be a writer when I was eight, and it was only later in life, when I was nine, that I wanted to be an actor.”
A good article, and I know it doesn't say everything but still:
"[He's'] celebrating 68 years and counting with his wife, Arlene."
#AlanAlda
“I wanted to be a writer when I was eight, and it was only later in life, when I was nine, that I wanted to be an actor.”
A good article, and I know it doesn't say everything but still:
"[He's'] celebrating 68 years and counting with his wife, Arlene."
#AlanAlda
Question:
I am writing about an alien species, and it makes sense to give them they/them pronouns.
Which is easy enough to do but I hit upon one problem:
X was 'close to Duez's growing ground.'
What should I do with that possessive?
(I have to use the name, and can't do 'their'.)
I am writing about an alien species, and it makes sense to give them they/them pronouns.
Which is easy enough to do but I hit upon one problem:
X was 'close to Duez's growing ground.'
What should I do with that possessive?
(I have to use the name, and can't do 'their'.)
May 24, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Question:
I am writing about an alien species, and it makes sense to give them they/them pronouns.
Which is easy enough to do but I hit upon one problem:
X was 'close to Duez's growing ground.'
What should I do with that possessive?
(I have to use the name, and can't do 'their'.)
I am writing about an alien species, and it makes sense to give them they/them pronouns.
Which is easy enough to do but I hit upon one problem:
X was 'close to Duez's growing ground.'
What should I do with that possessive?
(I have to use the name, and can't do 'their'.)
May 23, 2025 at 9:51 PM
May 22, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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One of the cartoons from Physics for Cats
May 22, 2025 at 1:51 PM
One of the cartoons from Physics for Cats
A visit from the Health & Safety inspector is always somewhat fraught.
The feeder passed the test though.
Yay! (Sorry.)
The feeder passed the test though.
Yay! (Sorry.)
May 22, 2025 at 12:07 PM
A visit from the Health & Safety inspector is always somewhat fraught.
The feeder passed the test though.
Yay! (Sorry.)
The feeder passed the test though.
Yay! (Sorry.)
Listening to this is a spring ritual.
It's in Dutch and the lyrics are great but absolutely untranslatable. You can do it but then you lose him.
The refrain: 'So I am, thank God, worth yet another spring.'
As someone living with cancer, I get that.
He died of lung cancer not long after this.
It's in Dutch and the lyrics are great but absolutely untranslatable. You can do it but then you lose him.
The refrain: 'So I am, thank God, worth yet another spring.'
As someone living with cancer, I get that.
He died of lung cancer not long after this.
Maarten van Roozendaal - Mooi (Live)
YouTube video by funky stuff
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May 21, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Listening to this is a spring ritual.
It's in Dutch and the lyrics are great but absolutely untranslatable. You can do it but then you lose him.
The refrain: 'So I am, thank God, worth yet another spring.'
As someone living with cancer, I get that.
He died of lung cancer not long after this.
It's in Dutch and the lyrics are great but absolutely untranslatable. You can do it but then you lose him.
The refrain: 'So I am, thank God, worth yet another spring.'
As someone living with cancer, I get that.
He died of lung cancer not long after this.
May 21, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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Mother and Child #2, 1971 wood carving by Elizabeth Catlett, artist and sculptor who often focused on the experience of fellow African American women #WomensArt
May 21, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Mother and Child #2, 1971 wood carving by Elizabeth Catlett, artist and sculptor who often focused on the experience of fellow African American women #WomensArt
I have four big freezer drawers for fruit, mostly from my garden, but I also freeze things like lemons, after I've used the peel. I had two big freezer bags with cut up lemon.
So, I made lemon syrup.
These will end up in one small freezer bag.
#LemonSyrup
So, I made lemon syrup.
These will end up in one small freezer bag.
#LemonSyrup
May 20, 2025 at 11:28 PM
I have four big freezer drawers for fruit, mostly from my garden, but I also freeze things like lemons, after I've used the peel. I had two big freezer bags with cut up lemon.
So, I made lemon syrup.
These will end up in one small freezer bag.
#LemonSyrup
So, I made lemon syrup.
These will end up in one small freezer bag.
#LemonSyrup
Okay, that's just weird:
May 20, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Okay, that's just weird:
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So I was noodling around on a piano the other day and came up with this little thing which is either weird or melodic or both.
#Piano #MusicianSky
sericscribner1.bandcamp.com/track/aftern...
#Piano #MusicianSky
sericscribner1.bandcamp.com/track/aftern...
Afternoon, 5/5/2025, by S. Eric Scribner
from the album Granite: Piano Improvisations
sericscribner1.bandcamp.com
May 20, 2025 at 3:51 PM
So I was noodling around on a piano the other day and came up with this little thing which is either weird or melodic or both.
#Piano #MusicianSky
sericscribner1.bandcamp.com/track/aftern...
#Piano #MusicianSky
sericscribner1.bandcamp.com/track/aftern...