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Red Sky At Night / Joanne Sheppard @redskyatnight.bsky.social · 9h

I’ve had people express tremendous shock that I own a Kindle “because you’re such a keen reader”, as if being a keen reader means the paper is more important than than the actual words

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Red Sky At Night / Joanne Sheppard @redskyatnight.bsky.social · 1d

To this day in our house we cannot pause anything on telly for one of us to go for wee without saying ‘No flipping’ to the person left on the sofa

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Red Sky At Night / Joanne Sheppard @redskyatnight.bsky.social · 1d

I wasn’t criticising his broadcasting. He seems a nice bloke, but sadly in terms of dancing ability, he was the weakest contestant left so it’s probably right that he went, really. For some reason, when he was cast I would have put money on him being a decent dancer, but evidently not!

Red Sky At Night / Joanne Sheppard @redskyatnight.bsky.social · 1d

I see Ross King is out of Strictly, which gives me the perfect opportunity to inform you that when I was speculating yesterday about whatever the fuck he’s had done to his face, my friend Nicola observed that ‘He looks like a Scrub Daddy’

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Red Sky At Night / Joanne Sheppard @redskyatnight.bsky.social · 2d

In a masochistic sort of way

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Red Sky At Night / Joanne Sheppard @redskyatnight.bsky.social · 2d

I like them too

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Coates is Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 2d

It’s the 150th anniversary of the birth of Aleister Crowley, the man who – among *many* other things – once put an acrostic in an “apparently innocuous book of devotional verse” which spelt out ‘The Virgin Mary I desire but arseholes set my prick on fire’ www.weiserantiquarian.com/pages/books/...

A young Crowley, with a silly bow tie on, looking at camera with self-conscious intensity

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Red Sky At Night / Joanne Sheppard @redskyatnight.bsky.social · 2d

Talking of vicious sweets - you mentioned Turkish Peppers on the WSC podcast. I had a Norwegian housemate at uni in the 1990s who used to dissolve them in neat vodka to make a tarry-looking drink of such potent flavour that downing a shot was like swallowing the distilled essence of one’s own death

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Red Sky At Night / Joanne Sheppard @redskyatnight.bsky.social · 2d

Or I could try to erode a hole in the roof of my mouth using the corrosive nature of excess sherbet lemons. Cheaper than doing it with cocaine, at any rate.

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Red Sky At Night / Joanne Sheppard @redskyatnight.bsky.social · 2d

Might see if I can eat enough pear drops to end up in hospital with ethyl acetate poisoning

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Red Sky At Night / Joanne Sheppard @redskyatnight.bsky.social · 2d

I did once work with an American who had encountered chicken in a savoury pie, but nothing else. She was very on board with British pies though. She said “I can’t believe it never occurred to me that if you can make a pie with chicken you can use, like, any meat”

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Red Sky At Night / Joanne Sheppard @redskyatnight.bsky.social · 2d

I think that, had I ever been constipated to the point of hospitalisation by my own gluttony, I would not alert the media

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Barnsley man in hospital after three-day cola bottles binge

Nathan Rimmington ate his way through 3kg of sweets - and doctors were shocked he survived.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 2d

Why did @redskyatnight.bsky.social have some disconcerting reservations about Sherlock Holmes' apparent terms and conditions of employment for The Baker Street Boys? Find out here... timworthington.org/2024/11/01/t...

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Red Sky At Night / Joanne Sheppard @redskyatnight.bsky.social · 2d

Yes! Who the fuck would have had enough meat or eggs to make that during the war?

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Red Sky At Night / Joanne Sheppard @redskyatnight.bsky.social · 2d

Criticising a hand-raised pie as something that looks like it could have been eaten under rationing is a bit rich coming from the country that considers grits to be an acceptable side order