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Piedwarbler

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Books 📚📕 Book posts, knitting, and nature. Most of my posts are boring and some are of hedgehog emergencies 🦔🪴🐛

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Piedwarbler @piedwarbler.bsky.social · 22h

7pm in Portugal. Someone has already bagged their sunbeds for tomorrow. Is this a record?

Two sunbeds this evening with towels bagging the space

Piedwarbler @piedwarbler.bsky.social · 1d

Bought some yarn today in Olhão 🧶🧶 but what to knit? I got three 100g skeins.

Bora Bora by Mondial in cotton/bamboo mix

Light worsted/fingering weight and the colour is sort of neutrals with a pink strand that knits up striped

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Piedwarbler @piedwarbler.bsky.social · 1d

Background for Love, by Helen Wolff. It’s about a woman in 1930s Europe, trying to find a way of living.

The cover is vibrant orange with buildings and people

The blurb explains that Wolff founded Pantheon Books and that she spent some time renting a cottage in Saint-Tropez

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Piedwarbler @piedwarbler.bsky.social · 2d

Lovely holiday reading - a woman takes a cottage in Saint-Tropez for her own for three months.

A woman and her lover escape 1930s Berlin for the Côte d’Azur

Helen’s take on life - let yourself sink into its arms

Piedwarbler @piedwarbler.bsky.social · 2d

Ooh great choice

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Piedwarbler @piedwarbler.bsky.social · 2d

I agree! It’s my third of hers - and Rebecca is still my favourite - but they’re all great stories and so well told.

Piedwarbler @piedwarbler.bsky.social · 3d

Walked through Olhão market today, and saw lots of lovely crocheted things 🧶💕 #knitting #crochet

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Piedwarbler @piedwarbler.bsky.social · 3d

Almost finished Jamaica Inn ❤️

The book with blue blue sky, a swimming pool, and a Magritte bookmark in the shape of a bowler-hatted man

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Piedwarbler @piedwarbler.bsky.social · 4d

Current view. Olhao Portugal ❤️

Sun brolly, blue sky, and a copy of Jamaica Inn

Piedwarbler @piedwarbler.bsky.social · 5d

Libraries often have knitting and crochet groups too ☺️

Piedwarbler @piedwarbler.bsky.social · 5d

Not sure Cornwall and lashing rain goes with a Portuguese sunny day but it’s a reading group read, so what can I say?!

Piedwarbler @piedwarbler.bsky.social · 5d

I’ve knitted two jumpers, one in cotton and one in a sort of mohair. You can see the mistake in my cabling here. I went the wrong way! It’s got an icord edge.

Piedwarbler @piedwarbler.bsky.social · 5d

I made a cabled scarf a month or two ago, in alpaca. That worked. Apart from the bits where I cabled in the wrong direction 😬

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Piedwarbler @piedwarbler.bsky.social · 6d

That’s not surprising - I just wondered… I don’t think a project like that is right for me yet - I’ve been knitting for 9 months now. All full of admiration for your skill and hard work

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Piedwarbler @piedwarbler.bsky.social · 6d

Stunning! How long did it take you?

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Piedwarbler @piedwarbler.bsky.social · 6d

Wonderful holiday reading. Murata has so much to say about how it feels to be human. I loved Convenience Store Woman, too.

The cover is lime green with a tiny stuffed toy on the cover with a sad expression

Piedwarbler @piedwarbler.bsky.social · 7d

That’s not what I thought it might be about at all!

Piedwarbler @piedwarbler.bsky.social · 7d

Love it!

Piedwarbler @piedwarbler.bsky.social · 7d

I must give that a listen. But I did feel quite down when I’d finished the book. Maybe I need something more uplifting next!

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Piedwarbler @piedwarbler.bsky.social · 8d

Oh my word how lucky are you?!!!

Piedwarbler @piedwarbler.bsky.social · 8d

I read that as a class reader when I was in year 8 at school! I remember one line: “Be kind,” she said. But this may be a false memory. Our teacher was a young trendy chap

Piedwarbler @piedwarbler.bsky.social · 8d

I’m so uncomfortable with the idea of undeserving poor 😥

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Piedwarbler @piedwarbler.bsky.social · 8d

I suppose that might have been the idea of deserving and undeserving poor? Like the Cratchits? It’s such a long time since I read it. 😩Had to help my class to get hold of that idea. They thought the ‘deserving poor’ deserved to be poor, instead of the other way around

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Piedwarbler @piedwarbler.bsky.social · 8d

This is my favourite weekly book post 🥰

Big Bearded Spookteller @bigbeardybooks.bsky.social · 8d

It's Monday again and today I'm reading The Employees by Olga Ravn translated by Martin Aitken

What book(s) are you reading this week?

💙📚 #BookSky #AmReading #MondayReads #TBR

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white circle in a blue background and the words "It's Monday! What are you reading?" in the circle

Piedwarbler @piedwarbler.bsky.social · 8d

I loved it too!

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