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Liz
@lizmakesit.bsky.social
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Reader, knitter, sewist, Spoonie. Lover of purple, sparkles and pretty things. She/her. Living in West Oxfordshire, UK.
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The more I look at the world right now, the more I think of this:
Image from a page in a book by Margaret Atwood (I think Maddaddam, definitely the second or third in that trilogy). The text says: “But hatred and viciousness are addictive. You can get high on them. Once you've had a little, you start shaking if you don't get more.”
November 11, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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Playing catchup as I meant to start this on the 1st, but sorted out my pre-advent (advent-advent? advent squared?) #ReverseAdventCalendar today. I’ll put a treat (at least) in each day, then send to the food bank at the beginning of December so there’s time for it to be given out before Christmas.
A cardboard box containing the start of a collection for the food bank.
November 8, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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Dinner plans changed slightly when I realised the figs needed eating up. I’m not crying about it. 😋
A cream dinner plate with small peach colour-flowers and a light brown circle close to the rim (1980’s Woolworths). On the plate is a small pile of mixed salad leaves and four fresh figs cut into quarters. You might think they are sprinkled with white mini-marshmallows, but no, those are goats’ cheese pearls. Drizzled over are a spoonful of balsamic vinegar and half a spoon of runny honey from my ex-colleague’s bees. Some black pepper has been grated on top.
October 29, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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Finding it difficult to put this down.
The book Ripples From the Edge of Life by Roland Chester. The cover shows a pool of water with concentric ripple, towards the top it reflects orange a sunrise/set. Across the bottom is the tagline: The impact of a life-changing diagnosis.
October 18, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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Without downloading anything new, where are you mentally?
A picture of a tasselled bookmark, showing a woman in an armchair with her head down on a laptop on the table in front of her, possibly asleep. The text above reads: She believed she could but she was really tired so she didn’t.
October 6, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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He was accompanying an explorer - who wrote a book about it:
The book “Into The Heart of the Sierras: Yo Semite. Big Trees. Etc.” It is an antique hardback with a drawing of big trees, with tiny people on horseback at the bottom and an inset picture of a rocky landscape. The text and frame of the cover images are picked out in gilt. The pages also have gilt edges.
October 5, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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This is spot on.
The top of a page in the book MaddAddam. Next to the page number (20) is the authors name: Margaret Atwood. The short paragraph reads “But hatred and viciousness are addictive. You can get high on them. Once you've had a little, you start shaking it you don't get more.”
September 23, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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I possibly have some older salt, but it’s too far back on the shelf to reach without climbing on something - and not a spice!
A partly empty jar of black peppercorns. The best before date is July 2008.
September 10, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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I bought these mostly for the tin, but they also contribute to my 5-a-day, right?
A small (approx 4x3”/10x8 cm) rectangular with the lid off. On the lid of the tin is a picture of a vintage sewing machine and other sewing paraphernalia (thimbles, buttons, needles, hooks & eyes, scissors, reels of thread, pins and pincushions). A round gold label on the top left tells you the tin contains fruit jellies. Inside the tin is a plastic bag with yellow, red, green and purple-almost-black jelly sweets.
September 6, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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Book: I know what you’ve done, by Dorothy Koomson.
September 6, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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I have a record of my rubella jab when I was 11 😂
Part of a page of a child’s school exercise book. In pencil, is written “On Monday Elizabeth had an injection for when she had babys.”
July 20, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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Going to be earwormed all night now by “A rose will bloom …”
A scene from the 1968 film Romeo and Juliet. Juliet is bidding Romeo farewell, holding his face in her hands as she leans over the edge of the balcony to give him a passionate kiss.
July 11, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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I don’t have pets, but here are the dogs-in-law. I hope you feel better soon.
Two Italian greyhound/whippet dogs lying on a brown sofa. The one on the left is light brown and curled under a blanket, the one on the right is silver-grey and stretched out. No room for humans here!
July 10, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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I bought this in (I think) February so I would have it for the hot weather, put it away and forgot it - until last night. I hate being blown at by electric fans, so am very glad I remembered it!
A fan made from wood (or bamboo) sticks open to show stripes in 24 different colours from inside to the edge.
July 1, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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Day 9: a queer book over 100 pages - I’ve recently enjoyed reading Cinderella is Dead by Kalynn Bayron
The book Cinderella is Dead by Kalynn Bayron.
June 9, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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Day 8: a queer book with a happy ending - I was an embarrassingly long way through this book before it clicked in my UK English brain that “fall” was not about falling down (literally or metaphorically), but referred to autumn 😆.

The Fall of Whit Rivera by Crystal Maldonado

#ReadingPride
The book The Fall of Whit Rivera by Crystal Maldonado.
June 8, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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Day 6: I don’t have a book for today’s prompt, so instead here’s the third in a YA trilogy with queer characters that I’ve recently enjoyed reading. Defy the Night / Defend the Dawn / Destroy the Day by Brigid Kemmerer.

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The book Destry the Day by Brigid Kemmerer.
June 6, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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Day 5: a queer book where main character has a fun/interesting job - what could beat captain’s “clerk meets butler meets housekeeper meets batman” on a dirigible with crew including a ghost, werelioness, Templar-trained assassin, your twin brother and your (shape-stealing) best friend? #ReadingPride
The book Competence by Grace Carriger - A novel of high dudgeon and high tea.
June 5, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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Day 3: a queer book that has been on my TBR for too long - Vivi Conway and the Sword of Legend by Lizzie Huxley-Jones.

But although I’ve procrastinated on this, at least I’ll be able to read the rest of the series straight after! 🙂

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The book Vivi Conway and the Sword of Legend by Lizzie Huxley-Jones.
June 3, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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Day 2: a queer book that reminds me of home - it’s about coming home and becoming a home - Romancing the Werewolf by Gail Carriger.

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The book Romancing the Werewolf by Gail Carriger.
June 2, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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May’s reading summary from @thestorygraph.com
A summary of Liz’s reading in May. Totals: 55 books; 17,967 pages. First, Middle, Last books, with cover images First: Bleak House - Charles Dickens Middle: Flower Fables - LM Alcott Last: The Sisters Grimm - Menna Van Praag Average book length: 344 pages. Average time to finish: 2 days A pie chart shows 89% fiction; 11% non-fiction A bar chart shows the most read genre was mystery, followed by classics, historical, then equal numbers of thriller and fantasy. A line chart shows pages read per day over the month, but the line is very jagged and not an accurate representation as books were only updated when finished, not per day. A final pie chart shows the books were 69% print, 16% audio and 15% digital.
June 1, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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The MMR vaccine available when I was young, but I know I had the rubella vaccine at 11 as it was documented in a younger sister’s school book 😂!
The bottom of a page in a school exercise book. Written in pencil a child’s handwriting it say “On Monday Elizabeth had an injection for when she had babys”
May 1, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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The Longest Week (reading it throughout the week), and Stone Cold.
Two books - on the left, The Longest Week by Nick Page; on the right, Stone Cold by David Baldacci.
April 12, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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I’m loving this!
The book Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia.
March 22, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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Before and after. Now to send off to @littleprincesses.bsky.social.
A woman wearing a cream knitted cardigan with almost-straight dark brown hair nearly to her waist stands with her back to the camera. Two tails of dark brown hair, bound in three places with elastic hair bands, on a purple cutting mat. The hair is almost 20 inches (51 cm) long.
March 19, 2025 at 8:15 PM