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Rachel Smith
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(She/her) Historian. Theatrical Type. Artist? Fashionable? Always tired. 🏳️‍🌈🌸🌈✡️
Polar history, films, TTRPGs and audiodrama are my thing ❤️
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I’d only been thinking this morning about how relevant Tom Lehrer still feels. Case in point…

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Tom Lehrer - Smut - LIVE FILM From Copenhagen in 1967
YouTube video by The Tom Lehrer Wisdom Channel
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July 27, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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Love you too 🥰
a woman is sitting on a couch making a funny face .
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February 26, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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Here she is, pride of place 🥰 my beloved Endurance ❤️
The completed Lego model of Shackleton’s Endurance, placed on a windowsill that overlooks gardens and trees
January 18, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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Day 5 (which is technically day 6 because of a pub quiz break) and she is COMPLETE 😍 my beautiful girl all ready to set sail 🥰
A Lego model of Shackleton’s Endurance, a black and white sailing ship with three masts and a small chimney stack for the engine. The model has 4 lifeboats hanging from the edge of the deck
January 17, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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Day 4, what an absolute beauty 😍😍😍 I love the tiny compass so much 🥰
A Lego model of Shackleton’s Endurance the hull is now complete and the upper deck has been assembled. All three masts are in place and there is a white chimney towards the stern section A close-up of a section of the upper deck where there is navigation equipment, including a tiny compass, the face of which is blue with a gold compass rose and a tiny N indicating North
January 15, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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Day 3 and she’s really coming together 🥰🥰🥰
A photograph of a Lego model of Shackleton’s Antarctic ship, Endurance. The front and middle sections of the hull have been completed and work has been started on the back section. She is a black ship with a white band and white cabins on deck An overhead view of the Lego model of Endurance with it split into two parts. One part is the front and middle of the hull with a cabin visible, the other part is the back of the ship with its engine and two smaller cabins either side of a central mast.
January 14, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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Progress day 2 (forgot to take a pic at the end of yesterday 🤦‍♀️): bags 1-7 done!
A photograph of an in progress Lego model of a ship, the bow section of the hull is mostly completed, and is black with a white band running round the top. The skeleton for the mid-section has also been put together and is waiting for the remainder of its parts to be added
January 13, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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To be fair we do definitely use napkins in that context in the UK too. It’s not that unusual! To the point that I couldn’t work out what on Earth the problem with saying that would be 😅
January 11, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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2/2…We also did a comparative essay on two texts of our choosing and I picked Engleby (Sebastian Faulks) and The History Boys (Alan Bennett) .

My stand out favourites were probably Chaucer, The History Boys, The Crucible & Macbeth. The only one I don’t remember being very keen on was Spies!
January 6, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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UK circa 2007-2009 (GCSE & A-level) we had: selected poems of Seamus Heaney & Gillan Clarke, Spies by Michael Frayn, Death of a Salesman, The Crucible, The Tempest, A Winter’s Tale, Macbeth, Chaucer’s A Miller’s Tale and assorted literature from WW1 (poems, short stories and novels)…1/2
January 6, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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She’s so beautiful 😭❤️
January 6, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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Noooo! Maybe they’ll bring the lifeboat back at some point? 😭😭😭
January 6, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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I was so emotional when I opened it, can’t wait to get stuck in!
January 6, 2025 at 6:51 PM