Verity
veritysp.bsky.social
Verity
@veritysp.bsky.social
Librarian and nerd. Trying to keep my Star Trek posting to a reasonable level. Bi, she/her. Would strongly prefer not to be reposted.
And in Inca Mummy Girl for a less bleak outing.
November 22, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Seen in Ted (mood: "I have just accidentally killed my mother's boyfriend), Becoming Part 2 (mood: I have just killed my boyfriend and am running away from home), Helpless (mood: my Watcher is secretly taking my powers away and my mother has been kidnapped by an insane vampire).
November 22, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Went into London today and visited the Ursula K. Le Guin map exhibition (www.aaschool.ac.uk/publicprogra...) and then met up with my brother and visited multiple bookshops. Despite my intentions to be somewhat restrained (as I hope to get books for my birthday next week, and Christmas), I got these.
November 18, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Cooked the squash today! Roast squash and red onion with pearl barley, spinach and tomatoes, topped with feta and a lemon and tahini dressing. The squash was, sadly, slightly underwhelming, but I've saved lots of seeds for planting/roasting/swapping.
November 10, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Finding the sidebar on the Wikipedia page for Petrarch very funny.
November 7, 2025 at 7:10 PM
GBBO:
November 4, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Picture from TripAdvisor looking towards the Seven Sisters from Cuckmere Haven: dynamic-media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-...
November 4, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Snuggly angel.
November 2, 2025 at 8:06 PM
From earlier:
November 1, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Sleeping soundly.
November 1, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Katie came in from the garden and loudly demanded human attention (then purred while we brushed and stroked her).
November 1, 2025 at 11:22 AM
October 29, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Over the summer my mum gave me a small squash plant; I planted it in the vegetable patch, which it ended up sprawling over, and have just harvested its single fruit. Saltshaker for scale.
October 26, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Despite not having finished the last batch, I have acquired a new batch of library books, because a constant influx of new reading material helps to keep the horrors at bay.
October 21, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Relatedly, I have always liked this bit from Good Omens.
October 18, 2025 at 3:20 PM
The display also has Barbies on broomsticks, wearing knitted dresses. Most of my childhood Barbies were secondhand, and their clothes and accessories were as well; the collection included hand-knitted clothes as well as the standard Barbie ones, and it's nice to see more examples.
October 12, 2025 at 5:29 PM
From the Hallowe'en display in the window of my local Oxfam. Look, I know that there have been some alarming episodes of clinical negligence, but "surgeon" is not in and of itself a scary costume.
October 12, 2025 at 5:24 PM
I'm sure we're all familiar with the communal pickle barrels that didn't make it into The Dispossessed. (See screenshot from an interview with Le Guin. www.the-tls.com/regular-feat...)
October 9, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Reward and consolation books:
October 5, 2025 at 3:01 PM
I haven't managed to do much gardening this year, but I am proud of the tomatoes I grew from seed. (They're supposed to be small, apparently - the packet described them as currant-sized.)
September 29, 2025 at 8:54 PM
It's new library books time.
September 26, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Directly below this:
September 25, 2025 at 8:20 PM
I'm not sure that I would put Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell in the Historical section, although it does meet most of the criteria that appear above, to be fair.
September 19, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Alert: we've got a cat in the washing basket.
September 18, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Heartbreaking: The Worst Person You Know Just Made a Great Point.

(I planned to include the image, but according to Wikipedia it is copyrighted and not free to use, so I am avoiding it.)

(Streeting is not actually the worst person I know, but still.)
September 16, 2025 at 6:52 PM