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.
Best Buy Ever.
(The kitten came free.)
(The kitten came free.)
June 24, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Best Buy Ever.
(The kitten came free.)
(The kitten came free.)
As if there wasn't enough insanity/evil to spread around.
June 17, 2025 at 1:10 PM
As if there wasn't enough insanity/evil to spread around.
The one on the lower right. Such perfect side-eye.
June 16, 2025 at 5:24 PM
The one on the lower right. Such perfect side-eye.
I have a better memory than I thought I had.
I remembered reading this, seven years ago, and I now smiled and chuckled along with my seven-year-younger self.
I hope you're not stopping? That restaurant review was fun but I'd miss the family columns.
I remembered reading this, seven years ago, and I now smiled and chuckled along with my seven-year-younger self.
I hope you're not stopping? That restaurant review was fun but I'd miss the family columns.
June 15, 2025 at 8:29 PM
I have a better memory than I thought I had.
I remembered reading this, seven years ago, and I now smiled and chuckled along with my seven-year-younger self.
I hope you're not stopping? That restaurant review was fun but I'd miss the family columns.
I remembered reading this, seven years ago, and I now smiled and chuckled along with my seven-year-younger self.
I hope you're not stopping? That restaurant review was fun but I'd miss the family columns.
May Chuck be better than you hope and may the chemo be a nothingburger embuggerance.
June 12, 2025 at 5:12 PM
May Chuck be better than you hope and may the chemo be a nothingburger embuggerance.
I don't even know that brand, yet I know I can agree totally.
June 12, 2025 at 5:03 PM
I don't even know that brand, yet I know I can agree totally.
I was very lucky (I mean: Google?!) to find a mill here in Czechia that grinds local wheat & accepts orders, from 4 to 60+ kilos of flour.
They send it out once a week, for logistic reasons & to guarantee it will always arrive within two weeks.
So I'm sorted for organic, stoneground wholemeal & rye.
They send it out once a week, for logistic reasons & to guarantee it will always arrive within two weeks.
So I'm sorted for organic, stoneground wholemeal & rye.
June 12, 2025 at 9:44 AM
I was very lucky (I mean: Google?!) to find a mill here in Czechia that grinds local wheat & accepts orders, from 4 to 60+ kilos of flour.
They send it out once a week, for logistic reasons & to guarantee it will always arrive within two weeks.
So I'm sorted for organic, stoneground wholemeal & rye.
They send it out once a week, for logistic reasons & to guarantee it will always arrive within two weeks.
So I'm sorted for organic, stoneground wholemeal & rye.
It may depend if you cross borders?
I was always travelling while having long hair & beard & shabbily dressed.
It seemed too risky to have the loose leaf tea in a pouch, or in my case more likely a plastic bag.
I was always asked where I went & what I carried. Having the shop packaging seemed wise.
I was always travelling while having long hair & beard & shabbily dressed.
It seemed too risky to have the loose leaf tea in a pouch, or in my case more likely a plastic bag.
I was always asked where I went & what I carried. Having the shop packaging seemed wise.
June 12, 2025 at 7:55 AM
It may depend if you cross borders?
I was always travelling while having long hair & beard & shabbily dressed.
It seemed too risky to have the loose leaf tea in a pouch, or in my case more likely a plastic bag.
I was always asked where I went & what I carried. Having the shop packaging seemed wise.
I was always travelling while having long hair & beard & shabbily dressed.
It seemed too risky to have the loose leaf tea in a pouch, or in my case more likely a plastic bag.
I was always asked where I went & what I carried. Having the shop packaging seemed wise.
I had rice with coconut milk & fruit for breakfast, and ate what was left for lunch, so a nice and cosy start of the day.
I'm too lazy to get up but my one and only big poppy is flowering, so that counts for peaceful?
No complaints about either adjective anyway.
May calm & peaceful find you too.
I'm too lazy to get up but my one and only big poppy is flowering, so that counts for peaceful?
No complaints about either adjective anyway.
May calm & peaceful find you too.
June 11, 2025 at 1:05 PM
I had rice with coconut milk & fruit for breakfast, and ate what was left for lunch, so a nice and cosy start of the day.
I'm too lazy to get up but my one and only big poppy is flowering, so that counts for peaceful?
No complaints about either adjective anyway.
May calm & peaceful find you too.
I'm too lazy to get up but my one and only big poppy is flowering, so that counts for peaceful?
No complaints about either adjective anyway.
May calm & peaceful find you too.
I stopped travelling quite some time ago but I remember I started travelling with various loose leaf teas, bought in my* teas store and still unopened, in my mid-twenties, so I must have done it close to three decades.
*Of course I was someone who had and talked about 'my' tea store.
*Of course I was someone who had and talked about 'my' tea store.
June 11, 2025 at 12:52 PM
I stopped travelling quite some time ago but I remember I started travelling with various loose leaf teas, bought in my* teas store and still unopened, in my mid-twenties, so I must have done it close to three decades.
*Of course I was someone who had and talked about 'my' tea store.
*Of course I was someone who had and talked about 'my' tea store.
Someone here got an insane review by a reader who was offended that the writer had dared to introduce humour to a genre that should be free from humour.
(I can't remember but I guess some incel with firm opinions about his favourite genre; I'm guessing SF or fantasy.
(I can't remember but I guess some incel with firm opinions about his favourite genre; I'm guessing SF or fantasy.
June 10, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Someone here got an insane review by a reader who was offended that the writer had dared to introduce humour to a genre that should be free from humour.
(I can't remember but I guess some incel with firm opinions about his favourite genre; I'm guessing SF or fantasy.
(I can't remember but I guess some incel with firm opinions about his favourite genre; I'm guessing SF or fantasy.
I would have gone for the salad for the first one. (That recipe looks good though.)
June 9, 2025 at 3:28 PM
I would have gone for the salad for the first one. (That recipe looks good though.)
It does depend a bit?
I write pretty sloppy first drafts, because my overall goal is to get to the end of it.
So, halfway through, I may realise (for instance) that a certain character requires more depth (or removing) but I will only act on that after the first draft is done.
I write pretty sloppy first drafts, because my overall goal is to get to the end of it.
So, halfway through, I may realise (for instance) that a certain character requires more depth (or removing) but I will only act on that after the first draft is done.
June 9, 2025 at 6:35 AM
It does depend a bit?
I write pretty sloppy first drafts, because my overall goal is to get to the end of it.
So, halfway through, I may realise (for instance) that a certain character requires more depth (or removing) but I will only act on that after the first draft is done.
I write pretty sloppy first drafts, because my overall goal is to get to the end of it.
So, halfway through, I may realise (for instance) that a certain character requires more depth (or removing) but I will only act on that after the first draft is done.
I started snacking on frozen watermelon again. I'll keep doing that - but I will add this to my repertoire. In a slightly simplified form. Without the walnuts. I have three walnut trees and the first few years I overdid things, walnut-consumption-wise.
June 8, 2025 at 2:35 PM
I started snacking on frozen watermelon again. I'll keep doing that - but I will add this to my repertoire. In a slightly simplified form. Without the walnuts. I have three walnut trees and the first few years I overdid things, walnut-consumption-wise.
Damn. The shop is out of courgettes, till Monday. Oh well, I'll survive.
June 8, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Damn. The shop is out of courgettes, till Monday. Oh well, I'll survive.
Just what I need! Thank you.
June 8, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Just what I need! Thank you.
Still only one thing to say after listening to the pod & debriefing:
'Oy!'
'Oy!'
June 7, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Still only one thing to say after listening to the pod & debriefing:
'Oy!'
'Oy!'
You would know this, I'm sure, but wasn't PN supposed to have a really big brain too?
June 6, 2025 at 12:09 PM
You would know this, I'm sure, but wasn't PN supposed to have a really big brain too?
This is a novel though, not a novella, so the old minimum price was €6 (and a bit.)
June 6, 2025 at 8:58 AM
This is a novel though, not a novella, so the old minimum price was €6 (and a bit.)