Elizabeth Heighway
@ehtranslates.bsky.social
I translate from French & Georgian, but sometimes you’d hardly know it.
Seems unfair that swinging this wildly between 'Actually this is quite good' and 'My very existence brings shame upon all translators' doesn't count as cardio.
November 25, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Seems unfair that swinging this wildly between 'Actually this is quite good' and 'My very existence brings shame upon all translators' doesn't count as cardio.
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Interactive COP30 Exhibit Allows Attendees To Be Shot Up Into Air On Big Spurt Of Oil
November 24, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Interactive COP30 Exhibit Allows Attendees To Be Shot Up Into Air On Big Spurt Of Oil
უალენდელონობით გათანგული. Ualendelonobit gatanguli. Consumed by AlainDelonlessness.
*takes two aspirin*
*takes two aspirin*
November 24, 2025 at 10:39 AM
უალენდელონობით გათანგული. Ualendelonobit gatanguli. Consumed by AlainDelonlessness.
*takes two aspirin*
*takes two aspirin*
Somebody needs to do a PhD on how much ambiguity Georgian literature can tolerate but it's not going to be me because I'm too busy lying on the floor crying into a saucepan and praying for a meteorite strike.
November 23, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Somebody needs to do a PhD on how much ambiguity Georgian literature can tolerate but it's not going to be me because I'm too busy lying on the floor crying into a saucepan and praying for a meteorite strike.
A good morning's work. Up at five, 40 mins trying to find a show to have on in the background, porridge, coffee, 35 mins trying to work out whether author means trousers or undercrackers, coffee, bloody ages asking self "postmodernist distortion or author just wrong?" Words translated: 7, maybe 8
November 23, 2025 at 9:29 AM
A good morning's work. Up at five, 40 mins trying to find a show to have on in the background, porridge, coffee, 35 mins trying to work out whether author means trousers or undercrackers, coffee, bloody ages asking self "postmodernist distortion or author just wrong?" Words translated: 7, maybe 8
How much longer have we got mullets for, do you think?
November 20, 2025 at 5:25 PM
How much longer have we got mullets for, do you think?
I have an entire music genre that i reserve for Getting Sh*t Done and that would be Cajun & Zydeco (yes, that IS two genres, I know I know) because nothing screams laissez les bons temps rouler like scraping burnt bit off the oven and sorting out tax returns.
November 20, 2025 at 12:49 PM
I have an entire music genre that i reserve for Getting Sh*t Done and that would be Cajun & Zydeco (yes, that IS two genres, I know I know) because nothing screams laissez les bons temps rouler like scraping burnt bit off the oven and sorting out tax returns.
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I was very likely to order from this new local restaurant before they delivered this, but the wording on their leaflet has absolutely sealed the deal
November 20, 2025 at 10:44 AM
I was very likely to order from this new local restaurant before they delivered this, but the wording on their leaflet has absolutely sealed the deal
Absolute scenes here as we* realise November's turtle on my turtle calendar has been wrongly labelled 😱
*I say we, but it's just me. Shockingly, nobody else in this household has strong feelings about turtle misidentification.
*I say we, but it's just me. Shockingly, nobody else in this household has strong feelings about turtle misidentification.
November 19, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Absolute scenes here as we* realise November's turtle on my turtle calendar has been wrongly labelled 😱
*I say we, but it's just me. Shockingly, nobody else in this household has strong feelings about turtle misidentification.
*I say we, but it's just me. Shockingly, nobody else in this household has strong feelings about turtle misidentification.
Woke with a start at dark o'clock to the realisation that my inability to understand any sentence with a number in it has led to me once again embarrassing myself with a publisher during timeline negotiations. Go me.
November 12, 2025 at 6:20 AM
Woke with a start at dark o'clock to the realisation that my inability to understand any sentence with a number in it has led to me once again embarrassing myself with a publisher during timeline negotiations. Go me.
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It seems pretty risky to tell people they won't see the change they want if they vote Green, given that they already voted Labour and didn't see the change they wanted.
Greens’ ‘undeliverable’ promises will let voters down, says Labour minister
Exclusive: Darren Jones says Labour has to convince young people it is ‘modern party of the future’
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 8:42 AM
It seems pretty risky to tell people they won't see the change they want if they vote Green, given that they already voted Labour and didn't see the change they wanted.
Why am I being inundated with sheet pan kebabs on Instagram all of sudden? Did I do something or are they just having their moment?
November 5, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Why am I being inundated with sheet pan kebabs on Instagram all of sudden? Did I do something or are they just having their moment?
Listening to an audiobook in which 'red herring' has been translated literally despite that having no idiomatic meaning in the target language, which is actually the ultimate red herring as the poor listener will be so busy wondering where fish come into it that they'll never see the murderer coming
November 5, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Listening to an audiobook in which 'red herring' has been translated literally despite that having no idiomatic meaning in the target language, which is actually the ultimate red herring as the poor listener will be so busy wondering where fish come into it that they'll never see the murderer coming
A morning that was uplifting and depressing in almost equal measure (uplifting won by a nose) weeding veg beds with a delightful, motivated, bright 12-year-old who was telling me about all the things that just *stopped* when he got to secondary, like forest school, non-sport clubs, school council...
November 3, 2025 at 1:57 PM
A morning that was uplifting and depressing in almost equal measure (uplifting won by a nose) weeding veg beds with a delightful, motivated, bright 12-year-old who was telling me about all the things that just *stopped* when he got to secondary, like forest school, non-sport clubs, school council...
Making fruit leather with my grape harvest cos winter is coming and AI stole 90% of my commercial clients, yay.
November 2, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Making fruit leather with my grape harvest cos winter is coming and AI stole 90% of my commercial clients, yay.
Look, I'm old so I don't understand these things. How do those language exchange apps work, do you literally just go in and see who's online and... chat?!?! While you're both there? Randomly? #whatfreshhell
October 31, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Look, I'm old so I don't understand these things. How do those language exchange apps work, do you literally just go in and see who's online and... chat?!?! While you're both there? Randomly? #whatfreshhell
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Il nous faut une catégorie "banger de tous les temps" à ressortir régulièrement comme 👇
October 31, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Il nous faut une catégorie "banger de tous les temps" à ressortir régulièrement comme 👇
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A Christmas Carol, but Scrooge is visited by the spirits of 3 freelancers whose invoices he didn't get around to paying before Christmas
Sure Halloween has lots of ghost stories, but do any of them involve THREE ghosts? I think not
October 31, 2025 at 9:10 AM
A Christmas Carol, but Scrooge is visited by the spirits of 3 freelancers whose invoices he didn't get around to paying before Christmas
Once again I find myself translating intimate body parts and I tell you what, the level of nuance and subtlety of tone/register between the various words for bits is both a marvel and an absolute pain in the patootie / derrière / ass / arse / trunk / squishmallows.
October 31, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Once again I find myself translating intimate body parts and I tell you what, the level of nuance and subtlety of tone/register between the various words for bits is both a marvel and an absolute pain in the patootie / derrière / ass / arse / trunk / squishmallows.
Thinking of monetising my journey to achieving a single decent push-up. T-shirts, motivational montages, a podcast, maybe even a webtoon. What a fool I am for only thinking of this now.
October 30, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Thinking of monetising my journey to achieving a single decent push-up. T-shirts, motivational montages, a podcast, maybe even a webtoon. What a fool I am for only thinking of this now.
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Once saw a man by the river doing a sort of Mortal Kombat stance, squaring up to a massive hissing swan & he kept shouting “I won’t fucking back down pal” at it, as it advanced on him, wings outstretched like a terrible, vengeful angel & sometimes it seems like that is basically the entire world now
October 29, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Once saw a man by the river doing a sort of Mortal Kombat stance, squaring up to a massive hissing swan & he kept shouting “I won’t fucking back down pal” at it, as it advanced on him, wings outstretched like a terrible, vengeful angel & sometimes it seems like that is basically the entire world now
I need the Michael Sandel of the literary theory world. Who is that? I need a literary theory/criticism podcast that's engaging, follow-alongable, informative and would go with washing up/carrot-chopping. Help.
October 27, 2025 at 1:19 PM
I need the Michael Sandel of the literary theory world. Who is that? I need a literary theory/criticism podcast that's engaging, follow-alongable, informative and would go with washing up/carrot-chopping. Help.
Been up since 6.30 carving a Peppa Pig pumpkin. It's already looking a bit wilted. Chances of it lasting till 31st: -16 billion. Excellent use of a morning.
October 26, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Been up since 6.30 carving a Peppa Pig pumpkin. It's already looking a bit wilted. Chances of it lasting till 31st: -16 billion. Excellent use of a morning.
Got wedged in the cellar hatch at the back of the bookshop while trying to get myself and my bike through it and woke up whilst stuck fast with my legs and rear wheel dangling over the street below, and a heart rate of 750.
#dreams
#dreams
October 25, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Got wedged in the cellar hatch at the back of the bookshop while trying to get myself and my bike through it and woke up whilst stuck fast with my legs and rear wheel dangling over the street below, and a heart rate of 750.
#dreams
#dreams