Siobhan Hoffmann Sønderborg
@siobhanhoffmann.bsky.social
Freelance creative, project manager, and business development person. Previously in HE. Currently, all over the place.
Lover of books, ceramics, snacks, silliness, exploring, foul language, visual/material culture. (And sometimes tennis and hospitality.)
Lover of books, ceramics, snacks, silliness, exploring, foul language, visual/material culture. (And sometimes tennis and hospitality.)
It is bean club season. HOW EXCITING.
November 23, 2025 at 7:41 PM
It is bean club season. HOW EXCITING.
It may be the sherry, but I am resolved, next month, to brave Jarrolds food hall, with Rosie, to spent most of my festive budget on a large wedge of truffled Baron Bigod.
It's an *amazing* cheese, & Dulcie and Johnny are 2 of the nicest people you could ever meet/support. 🥰
It's an *amazing* cheese, & Dulcie and Johnny are 2 of the nicest people you could ever meet/support. 🥰
November 23, 2025 at 3:46 PM
It may be the sherry, but I am resolved, next month, to brave Jarrolds food hall, with Rosie, to spent most of my festive budget on a large wedge of truffled Baron Bigod.
It's an *amazing* cheese, & Dulcie and Johnny are 2 of the nicest people you could ever meet/support. 🥰
It's an *amazing* cheese, & Dulcie and Johnny are 2 of the nicest people you could ever meet/support. 🥰
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It’s Stir-Up Sunday and so, as tradition decrees, my Ultimate Christmas Pudding is #RecipeOfTheDay. I have converted many Christmas pud haters with this, which is due not to any brilliance on my part but to the treacly magnificence of the Pedro Ximénez sherry in it. www.nigella.com/recipes/ulti...
Ultimate Christmas Pudding
I don’t deny it: there is something unattractively boastful about calling one’s own recipe “ultimate”. But having soaked my dried fruit for this pudding in Pedro Ximénez — the sweet, dark, sticky sher...
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November 23, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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I just fished out the sherry glasses (they're actually Russian vodka glasses) and found (, almost missed), in the bottom, with the dust, two tiny (I'm talling smaller than a peppercorn) pieces of paper. One saying "I lov you" and the other saying "Bchk" (the noise an angry goose makes).
November 23, 2025 at 3:37 PM
I just fished out the sherry glasses (they're actually Russian vodka glasses) and found (, almost missed), in the bottom, with the dust, two tiny (I'm talling smaller than a peppercorn) pieces of paper. One saying "I lov you" and the other saying "Bchk" (the noise an angry goose makes).
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The joys of holding a wine glass as big as your forearm in 1607…
November 23, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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Just so you all also know, John was a Nigella fan (as we all are, for a variety of reason).
So her Christmas pudding recipe is suitable.
All you need for today is Pedro Ximinez, prunes, sultanas an raisins. Next week you need different ingredients.
So her Christmas pudding recipe is suitable.
All you need for today is Pedro Ximinez, prunes, sultanas an raisins. Next week you need different ingredients.
November 23, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Just so you all also know, John was a Nigella fan (as we all are, for a variety of reason).
So her Christmas pudding recipe is suitable.
All you need for today is Pedro Ximinez, prunes, sultanas an raisins. Next week you need different ingredients.
So her Christmas pudding recipe is suitable.
All you need for today is Pedro Ximinez, prunes, sultanas an raisins. Next week you need different ingredients.
It's Stir Up Sunday. I would always get a text from John, today, reminding me. More for him than for me, to be honest. He was religious. I am not. But the sharp relief of hindsight kind of makes it feel like it was a reminder that I was his daughter regardless of biology.
Go, hug your parents.
Go, hug your parents.
November 23, 2025 at 1:55 PM
It's Stir Up Sunday. I would always get a text from John, today, reminding me. More for him than for me, to be honest. He was religious. I am not. But the sharp relief of hindsight kind of makes it feel like it was a reminder that I was his daughter regardless of biology.
Go, hug your parents.
Go, hug your parents.
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It’s crazy to think about the crimes we’re going to learn about after this regime ends.
We’re already hearing about Watergate level crimes every week. Imagine what will come out after it’s over.
We’re going to need a full accounting of all that’s been done in violation of the constitution.
We’re already hearing about Watergate level crimes every week. Imagine what will come out after it’s over.
We’re going to need a full accounting of all that’s been done in violation of the constitution.
November 22, 2025 at 10:05 PM
It’s crazy to think about the crimes we’re going to learn about after this regime ends.
We’re already hearing about Watergate level crimes every week. Imagine what will come out after it’s over.
We’re going to need a full accounting of all that’s been done in violation of the constitution.
We’re already hearing about Watergate level crimes every week. Imagine what will come out after it’s over.
We’re going to need a full accounting of all that’s been done in violation of the constitution.
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With its various and playful explorations of authenticity — "found documents", metafictional games with readers, etc. — The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (1824) by James Hogg, anticipates some of postmodernism's best trickery: http://buff.ly/2p3UZIt
November 22, 2025 at 8:45 PM
With its various and playful explorations of authenticity — "found documents", metafictional games with readers, etc. — The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (1824) by James Hogg, anticipates some of postmodernism's best trickery: http://buff.ly/2p3UZIt
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He sleeps with clenched hands; and wakes with his own bloody nails in his palms.
November 22, 2025 at 5:47 PM
He sleeps with clenched hands; and wakes with his own bloody nails in his palms.
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This young man has it exactly right.
November 21, 2025 at 11:30 PM
This young man has it exactly right.
A temporary studio Ghibli store? O.m.g
November 21, 2025 at 8:17 PM
A temporary studio Ghibli store? O.m.g
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My latest, for New Statesman
Tinkering with ECHR definitions will not help the government, by David Allen Green
The proposed changes to Articles 3 and 8 in asylum cases will achieve little or nothing
The proposed changes to Articles 3 and 8 in asylum cases will achieve little or nothing
Tinkering with ECHR definitions will not help the government
The proposed changes to Articles 3 and 8 in asylum cases will achieve little or nothing
www.newstatesman.com
November 21, 2025 at 2:14 PM
My latest, for New Statesman
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When an awful work of art is criticised for being awful I always imagine the artist reacting like Rick from the Young Ones.
November 20, 2025 at 11:59 AM
When an awful work of art is criticised for being awful I always imagine the artist reacting like Rick from the Young Ones.
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Holidays are coming…
November 20, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Holidays are coming…
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What is motonormativity? I'm on my way to an air pollution event in a city centre and the organisers have put the driving directions ahead of the public transport directions in the email
November 20, 2025 at 8:14 AM
What is motonormativity? I'm on my way to an air pollution event in a city centre and the organisers have put the driving directions ahead of the public transport directions in the email
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Ergh....
Bellingcat’s contact email has always been a magnet for people with fairly unusual views; paranoid delusions, sprawling conspiracies, the works. But recently, the pattern has shifted, we’re seeing more and more emails clearly written with ChatGPT.
November 19, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Ergh....
I've realised what it is about Monty Don that confuses me.
He doesn't have eyebrows.
He doesn't have eyebrows.
November 19, 2025 at 6:46 PM
I've realised what it is about Monty Don that confuses me.
He doesn't have eyebrows.
He doesn't have eyebrows.
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What kind of #earlymodern knee pad would you choose to look fancy around the year 1500? I would totally be wearing number 7 or 10. #skystorians
November 19, 2025 at 2:18 PM
What kind of #earlymodern knee pad would you choose to look fancy around the year 1500? I would totally be wearing number 7 or 10. #skystorians
Today, I took delivery of some reading lights so that I can read in my armchair next to the fire, and on the sofa whilst D is playing computer games.
*beams*
*beams*
November 19, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Today, I took delivery of some reading lights so that I can read in my armchair next to the fire, and on the sofa whilst D is playing computer games.
*beams*
*beams*
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When I arrive at the party
November 19, 2025 at 5:53 AM
When I arrive at the party
My life now consists of darkness punctuated by brief intervals in which I call my biological Dad up, and tearfully whisper, in a Werner Herzog voice, "I vould like to see ze beez."
We have a tricky relationship.
But he understands that a video call with a bee update is his best form of support.
We have a tricky relationship.
But he understands that a video call with a bee update is his best form of support.
November 19, 2025 at 10:38 AM
My life now consists of darkness punctuated by brief intervals in which I call my biological Dad up, and tearfully whisper, in a Werner Herzog voice, "I vould like to see ze beez."
We have a tricky relationship.
But he understands that a video call with a bee update is his best form of support.
We have a tricky relationship.
But he understands that a video call with a bee update is his best form of support.
Where would I be able to source old scallop shells? Like... A lot of them...
November 19, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Where would I be able to source old scallop shells? Like... A lot of them...
Today I accidentally defrosted a pot of homemade chicken gravy (made with homemade chicken broth) instead of congee...
Which means I have to cook roast chicken today. Because you can't throw out good gravy. You just can't.
Which means I have to cook roast chicken today. Because you can't throw out good gravy. You just can't.
November 19, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Today I accidentally defrosted a pot of homemade chicken gravy (made with homemade chicken broth) instead of congee...
Which means I have to cook roast chicken today. Because you can't throw out good gravy. You just can't.
Which means I have to cook roast chicken today. Because you can't throw out good gravy. You just can't.