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Anne Thériault @annetheriault.bsky.social · 2h

Sorry, i’m going to be insufferable for the next two weeks. Anyway, can’t believe how beautiful it is here, how we’ve basically stepped back into summertime, how good the food is, etc. We’re going to be talking about this trip for years and years.

My fourteen year old son sitting on a patio in Spain, facing away from the camera

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Anne Thériault @annetheriault.bsky.social · 4h

We saw my grandmother as soon as we got here and she looks great. A few hours later, 14yo & I went to the beach. It was sunny and hot. I’m having a wine on the patio right now and we’re about to go to dinner. After 36 hours of wearing the same outfit I’m excited to have a shower and go to bed though

A Mediterranean beach on Spain’s Costa del Sol

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Anne Thériault @annetheriault.bsky.social · 5h

Have discovered that in Spain, sometimes your conversational partner doesn’t speak English, and you don’t speak Spanish, but it’s possible you both speak a secret third thing (French)

(Have also discovered that I can understand quite a lot in Spanish, even if I can’t say much in it)

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Anne Thériault @annetheriault.bsky.social · 1d

The greatest calendar ever made 😢

The Vendémiaire page from my perpetual French Republican calendar

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Anne Thériault @annetheriault.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks, Joe!

Anne Thériault @annetheriault.bsky.social · 3d

I guess to be fair to him, the children weren’t actually going to fight. A moot point, anyway, since most met horrific fates along the way and I don’t think any of them were actually documented as making it to the so-called Holy Land. But I’m with you, not sure why anyone would want to go!

Anne Thériault @annetheriault.bsky.social · 3d

YESSSSSS

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Anne Thériault @annetheriault.bsky.social · 4d

The French Canadian experience of singing “Le clown Samuel” to your cat Sam at 2:30 am on a Friday. Il faisait toujours comme ça - miaou, miaou, miaou, miaou

(Cauchemar!!)

Marie Soleil chante Le clown Samuel

YouTube video by Simon Predj

youtu.be

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Anne Thériault @annetheriault.bsky.social · 4d

I told him it was bad, but, in the words of DJ Jazzy Jeff, parents just don’t understand (it’s cool, I love being in this phase where I’m the most unintelligent person to ever have lived)

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Anne Thériault @annetheriault.bsky.social · 4d

Great question!

Anne Thériault @annetheriault.bsky.social · 4d

Whoa! No way!! The universe is trying to tell you something?

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Anne Thériault @annetheriault.bsky.social · 4d

Tis the season for you to think about your fortune telling methods

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Anne Thériault @annetheriault.bsky.social · 4d

Image shows a still from the Barbie movie from the moment when Barbie asks “do you guys ever think about dying?” But instead the caption-looking text reads “do you guys ever think about scrying?”

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Anne Thériault @annetheriault.bsky.social · 4d

Yeah, I had to hand that one to him

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Anne Thériault @annetheriault.bsky.social · 4d

Weirdly, no lmao

Anne Thériault @annetheriault.bsky.social · 4d

14yo: [explaining why, if we lived in 13th c. Europe, I should let him go on the children’s crusade]
Me: I think you would have to be, like, a practicing Catholic who goes to confession and stuff
14yo: no! I wouldn’t have to go to confession! The point of a crusade is that my sins would be forgiven!

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Anne Thériault @annetheriault.bsky.social · 6d

This empty fruit box that I got from the soup kitchen where I volunteer has been a BIG hit around our house

A one-eyed tuxedo cat and a grey tabby are curled up in a large fruit box lined with a blanket

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Anne Thériault @annetheriault.bsky.social · 6d

I was thinking of Hamilton, Ontario (could have a fun number about working at the steel mill, followed by a somber number about climate change) but this works too

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Anne Thériault @annetheriault.bsky.social · 11d

Wasn’t expecting to cry while reading Patricia Routledge’s obituary but here we are.

Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/o...

Text reads: ‘She had high hopes for the afterlife. “When I approach the pearly gates,” she once said, “I’d like to hear a champagne cork popping, an orchestra tuning up and the sound of my mother laughing.”’

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Anne Thériault @annetheriault.bsky.social · 11d

❤️

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Anne Thériault @annetheriault.bsky.social · 11d

Adding another tangent: gosh I love trains so much

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Anne Thériault @annetheriault.bsky.social · 11d

I once read an excellent book about them (The Rosettis in Wonderland) through which I learned that they liked to joke that the PRB of Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood actually stood for Penis Rather Better

Anne Thériault @annetheriault.bsky.social · 11d

Oh god, don’t apologize! I just wanted to voice my affection while also acknowledging that I’m not firing on all cylinders right now

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Anne Thériault @annetheriault.bsky.social · 11d

A bold claim, because I’ve lived with many annoying cats, BUT this might be the most annoying cat I’ve ever met. However, I’m willing to overlook that (most of the time) because he and my kid adore each other.

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Anne Thériault @annetheriault.bsky.social · 11d

Hell yeah

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