Susy Atkinson
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This is a personal account and views are my own. But you knew that anyway.
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"Counterfactuals" are "what ifs" for people who think their imaginations deserve a loftier title.
January 8, 2025 at 11:55 AM
"Counterfactuals" are "what ifs" for people who think their imaginations deserve a loftier title.
How am I only discovering lemon pigs now?
lemon pig of 2024 before and after absorbing all my bad luck over the calendar year like a fucked up little yellow dorian grey. it is nearly time to rest, my faithful child.
January 1, 2025 at 9:01 PM
How am I only discovering lemon pigs now?
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schrödinger:
cat with a gun: I said get in the box
cat with a gun: I said get in the box
December 28, 2024 at 12:41 AM
schrödinger:
cat with a gun: I said get in the box
cat with a gun: I said get in the box
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Today’s festive #AshmoleanAdvent treat is Utagawa Kuniyoshi’s beautiful ‘View of snow on Benten Hill’ at Kinryūzan Temple in Asakusa.
December 20, 2024 at 10:21 AM
Today’s festive #AshmoleanAdvent treat is Utagawa Kuniyoshi’s beautiful ‘View of snow on Benten Hill’ at Kinryūzan Temple in Asakusa.
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✨It rarely gets the centre of attention because of the lantern tower but the 12th Romanesque nave at Ely Cathedral is jaw-dropping - so I put my tilt-shift lens to use..📸
December 18, 2024 at 6:55 AM
✨It rarely gets the centre of attention because of the lantern tower but the 12th Romanesque nave at Ely Cathedral is jaw-dropping - so I put my tilt-shift lens to use..📸
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The convenient thing about how the term “woke” has evolved is that it allows me to quickly identify patently unserious people when they use it.
December 15, 2024 at 2:17 PM
The convenient thing about how the term “woke” has evolved is that it allows me to quickly identify patently unserious people when they use it.
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Today’s poem is called ‘A Traditional Family Christmas’.
December 13, 2024 at 10:07 AM
Today’s poem is called ‘A Traditional Family Christmas’.
At my most diligent, I can take care of a box of mini Stollen over two cups of tea.
Christmas update: Am now 7% lebkuchen. Solid start but work to do.
December 10, 2024 at 8:33 AM
At my most diligent, I can take care of a box of mini Stollen over two cups of tea.
Aye, right. I wish.
December 2, 2024 at 10:14 PM
Aye, right. I wish.
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Top tip. Wife has just worked out how to turn the festive Mariah Carey earworm so prevalent at this time of year seamlessly into the tune of Theme From Flood by They Might Be Giants, and I hope that this knowledge could save a lot of people a lot of grief.
November 25, 2024 at 8:34 AM
Top tip. Wife has just worked out how to turn the festive Mariah Carey earworm so prevalent at this time of year seamlessly into the tune of Theme From Flood by They Might Be Giants, and I hope that this knowledge could save a lot of people a lot of grief.
A useful reminder. I wish I’d realised years ago how little it matters to be good at something you enjoy.
“I’d be rubbish,” I told my husband when I tentatively raised the subject of trying pottery for the first time at age 34. “So?” he asked. “What’s wrong with being rubbish?”
For this week's @newstatesman.com I tried something different: being okay with failure
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For this week's @newstatesman.com I tried something different: being okay with failure
www.newstatesman.com/culture/life...
I started pottery. I knew I’d be rubbish
But that was the whole point.
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November 21, 2024 at 2:00 PM
A useful reminder. I wish I’d realised years ago how little it matters to be good at something you enjoy.
Reckon we should just adopt the best word from any language and all go with it. Schnee’s in, and Schnecke instead of snail?
Germans are supposed to be dour but the German word for snow suggests a gleeful outpouting of joy.
SCHNEE!!!!
SCHNEE!!!!
November 19, 2024 at 8:46 AM
Reckon we should just adopt the best word from any language and all go with it. Schnee’s in, and Schnecke instead of snail?
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cartoon of the day
November 15, 2024 at 7:53 AM
cartoon of the day