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Colette Willis @colettewillis.bsky.social · 1d

I should never have doubted 🙏

Colette Willis @colettewillis.bsky.social · 1d

But, and I know this is not the main takeaway here, NOT ALL THOSE KEYS ATE FACING THE SAME WAY. Is it a metaphor or is the artist a psychopath, what is reality anymore.

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Colette Willis @colettewillis.bsky.social · 1d

I HOWLED

Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 3d

I was looking up the Cliff Richard Wuthering Heights and found some clips. I laughed so hard I cried and have not stopped laughing. A clip. I really tried not to laugh. The boat remains a mystery.

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Colette Willis @colettewillis.bsky.social · 1d

Because Finn McRedmond

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the ghost of pony pony huckabuck @spindlypete.bsky.social · 4d

check out this absolutely terrifying ancient babylonian lullaby

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What is the oldest lullaby or nursery rhyme that...
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As far as the earliest we know of, it's another Babylonian tablet, about 4000 years old and most often known as Little Baby in the Dark House. We don't have the music for it, but again, the BBC article has a good go at describing some commonalities of the music that tends to accompany lullabies, so that might inspire you.
The rough translation for that Babylonian lullaby, by the way, is:
Little Baby in the dark house
You have seen the sun rise
Why are you crying?
Why are you screaming?
You have disturbed the house god.
'Who has disturbed me?' says the house god.
'It is the baby who has disturbed you!
'Who scared me?' says the house god.
'The baby has disturbed you, the baby has scared you, making noises like a drunkard who cannot sit still on his stool.
He has disturbed your sleep!
'Call the baby now, says the house god.
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Raven Books @ravenbooks.bsky.social · 4d

There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion. Even with the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, there are matters of which no jest can be made. ~Edgar Allan Poe

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RedruM @dorsalstream.bsky.social · 4d

ME: What’s the first rule of bite club?
DRACULA: Is it biting?
ME: That’s right, Dracula, it’s biting.
RATTLESNAKE: [quietly to himself] I was gonna say biting.

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Colette Willis @colettewillis.bsky.social · 4d

I’m just sitting here doing the Nathan Fillon meme. Everything is meaningless.

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Colette Willis @colettewillis.bsky.social · 5d

That’s so cool Sylvia!

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Colette Willis @colettewillis.bsky.social · 6d

God that has cheered me right up!

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Trish Byrne @trishyb.bsky.social · 7d

I mean, leaving babies out in the woods because you thought the fairies had swapped them for demons used to be a rural
pursuit too, but we managed to move on from that.

Virgin Media News @virginmedianews.bsky.social · 7d

🗣️ “If a fox is being ripped limb from limb and is dying a slow and agonising death - how can you say you abhor animal cruelty?”

🗣️ “These are rural pursuits and have been for many, many years.”

Heather Humphreys discusses her support for fox hunting and hare coursing.

#TheBigInterview

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Colette Willis @colettewillis.bsky.social · 7d

“Oh Perry,” I sigh as you run away, clutching your book to your chest, “oh what will become of you?” Joints creaking, I heave myself upright and head to the general store to get you a barley sugar stick and a spool of cobalt blue silk thread. You are my only nephew, after all.

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Colette Willis @colettewillis.bsky.social · 7d

Why, Peregrine,” I’d say, clucking as I bend down to see more closely, “you’ve got bilberry juice on your good lace collar!”
You’d fix me with a steely stare. “No, aunt,” you’d say. “That is not bilberry juice, it’s an embellishment. And this, you’ll find, is my second-best lace collar.”

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Colette Willis @colettewillis.bsky.social · 7d

Apparently Dalmatians were often used as circus dogs…

Half-Dalmatian dog yawning widely while perched on a step stool in front of a French door

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Colette Willis @colettewillis.bsky.social · 8d

I would have screamed the place down!

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Colette Willis @colettewillis.bsky.social · 8d

Fascinated that one of the worst Irish accents is from an Irish actress, who delivers working-class Dublin pronunciation with a D4 intonation, if that makes sense. Amazing.

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Colette Willis @colettewillis.bsky.social · 8d

Yeah we have Gatsby blue in the sitting room which I do like but I want that shot of cobalt…

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Colette Willis @colettewillis.bsky.social · 9d

I’m always in search of the perfect blue. That’s gorgeous.

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Colette Willis @colettewillis.bsky.social · 9d

Ok he really, REALLY wants to live with you! If you don’t mind me asking, what is that stunning deep blue paint?

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Jen Matthews @jenwritesagain.bsky.social · 10d

Stunning poem by Anne Tannam 💙
#amreading

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Colette Willis @colettewillis.bsky.social · 10d

Was it in black and white? I remember seeing Them (1954) on tv at about the same age and being terrified!

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Colette Willis @colettewillis.bsky.social · 12d

I am absolutely in favour of milking the goose as a gilding the lily for the milkshake duck era. If you know what I mean you need to log off now! (And drive to my house to prise my phone out of my shrivelled clawlike hand)

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Colette Willis @colettewillis.bsky.social · 13d

Late Night with the Devil from a couple of years ago is fun.

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Colette Willis @colettewillis.bsky.social · 13d

🎈🎈🎈happy birthday! 🎈 🎈🎈

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