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Jane H

@auntdahlia.bsky.social

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ex-tchr of PoliSci & pre-k. Francophile, dog lover, beach lover. 54 years after leaving Philadelphia, I'm back in its Bucks County suburbs. Reader of mysteries, Wodehouse, & many other things. Known in the other place as Wodehouse231

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Jane H @auntdahlia.bsky.social · 20h

1 ❤️ for the post, another ❤️ for the name

Jane H @auntdahlia.bsky.social · 21h

sorry about the cold still having you in its clutches

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Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social · 3d

Philip Larkin’s this be the verse mangled into Ozymandias, the text reads

They Oz you up, your mandyias.
They may not mean to, but they do.
They give you vast and trunkless legs
A sunken shattered visage too.
But they were Ozzed up in their turn
By Mandyias upon the sand
Who half the time had wrinkled lips And half in sneering cold command.
Oz hands on mandyias to man.
Like mighty works atop a shelf Look on them early as you can
Ye mighty and despair yourself

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Jane H @auntdahlia.bsky.social · 4d

Sadly there is no tub in this house.

Therefore I'm going down the . . . forgive the pun . . . rabbit hole to find a way to recreate this here at home

Stephen Farrow @stephenfarrow.bsky.social · 4d

Today's inspirational message:

Cartoon by Hannah Hillam.

A brook. In the brook, surrounded by flowers - in the style of John Everett Millais's painting 'Ophelia' - a white bunny, lying face-up in the water. On the bank, another white bunny is watching.

The bunny on the riverbank: "The lengths to which you're going for your love of pre-Raphaelite paintings is starting to freak Mom out."

The bunny in the water: "Good."

Jane H @auntdahlia.bsky.social · 4d

Still remember, as a Grown UP™ woman, tearing up in 1990, wailing "Kermie's dead!"

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Jane H @auntdahlia.bsky.social · 4d

Sad to say, I'm in such a good mood today that I can't think of my Big Gun, but I'm sure there is one. Beth's death in Little Women? Wait -- better than that, just the 1st measures of the music for the 1933 (Hepburn) Little Women!

(Started humming it to myself & felt ms choking up! 🥲)

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Jane H @auntdahlia.bsky.social · 4d

Well done. I'm a firm believer in the use of emotional reactions to gauge physical health, although I don't have such a reliable object to test against. For me, it's just "Oh, look, I'm crying at a faintly emotional moment in" name your poison, Big Bang Theory, NCIS "so I must be getting ill."

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Jane H @auntdahlia.bsky.social · 5d

actually, sort of an odd kind of skill to get the word w/out any obvious hint at all -- ??

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Jane H @auntdahlia.bsky.social · 6d

I'm an experienced tv watcher who knows the difference between real and fiction, but I can no longer watch the actor Marc Warren, who played Teatime, in anything else he's done because he as that character still frightens me.

Jane H @auntdahlia.bsky.social · 11d

Dear @padems.org : candidate info (or at least a reasonable amount) is fine.

But the recent, gray-scale, large print "Who you vote for is private, but whether you vote IS PUBLIC RECORD" -- calling it a voter report card, felt kind of threatening.

expected that kind of thing from the GOP

Jane H @auntdahlia.bsky.social · 12d

Left field but: 'Garlic & Pearls.' 2 women, 1 French, 1 Brit, alternating weeks explaining oddities of their countries. ex: Orangina vs Pimms cups; Club Med vs Butlins. Just long enough to hold your attn for 5 mins, never keeping you up long enough to hear the whole thing - or even half

Jane H @auntdahlia.bsky.social · 29d

I use the 'other' language site but -- I think it might be worth it to join DuoLingo short term just to get one of these. I can imagine no better way to warn people when it's not safe to approach me

Jane H @auntdahlia.bsky.social · Sep 26

did you ever see Truly Madly Deeply? Rickman & Juliet Stevenson; she's idealizing him after his death, then has to face reality when his ghost returns.

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Jane H @auntdahlia.bsky.social · Sep 26

thank you for this review. don't know either of the stars, but like non-simple romances

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Barbara Hershey @barbarahershey.bsky.social · Sep 25

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Jane H @auntdahlia.bsky.social · Sep 24

Share your favorite black and white movie

cast photo of the film 'A Midwinter's Tale'

Jane H @auntdahlia.bsky.social · Sep 22

That 2nd sentence is so important, and was something I/we, as teachers of pre-k children, had to say often. It's not unfair, in a classroom of 3s and 4s, when no one's been 'diagnosed' but differing needs are obvious, to meet each child at their level of capacity and need.

But some parents . 😖

Jane H @auntdahlia.bsky.social · Sep 18

Should I ask? Or would the answer send me running to the Times puzzle page to play 'Tiles' on zen mode?

Jane H @auntdahlia.bsky.social · Sep 17

Mine's the reverse of yours -- b/c I'm retired and have a big block of morning time! Add mini and sudoku at the beginning, subtract connections (I'm old and out of touch)

Have also been known to retreat to Tiles, maybe even in zen mode, when it "all" becomes too much after reading/watching news

Jane H @auntdahlia.bsky.social · Sep 17

if we're counting the impossibility of typing a word correctly: 'slef'

Try writing developmental psych papers w/out using the word 'self.'

Jane H @auntdahlia.bsky.social · Sep 17

every single one of them programmed to be actively user-hostile

Jane H @auntdahlia.bsky.social · Sep 12

@anitaanand.bsky.social , in an episode of 'Empire' podcast, talking about the year when both the Middle East (Suez) and Eastern Europe (Hungarian uprising) blew up, and, I think, relevant now: "I never thought I'd need to know the plural of apocalypse."

Jane H @auntdahlia.bsky.social · Sep 11

Hey @ghweldon.bsky.social , @lindaholmes.bsky.social , my nomination for silly movie plot is Truly Madly Deeply. Alan Rickman returns from the dead to convince his lover (Juliet Stevenson) to get over him, by resetting the thermostat and bringing home some other dead friends

Jane H @auntdahlia.bsky.social · Sep 7

what are Mekons?

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Jane H @auntdahlia.bsky.social · Sep 7

yup