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Vivian H @vivianh.bsky.social · 1h

Pre-ordered...

Wizard's Tower Press @wtpress.bsky.social · 1h

Coming in October, the first of a brand new series by Chaz Brenchley. Read a review by KJ Charles here: www.goodreads.com/re...

And then preorder: wizardstowerpress.co...

Cover of Of The Emperor’s Kindness by Chaz Brenchley. Art by Ben Baldwin.

Image is of a young woman in a long pale dress stood outside the gates of a large, wooden mansion. The word ‘Verantha’ is written on the gates. White birds fly above her.

Vivian H @vivianh.bsky.social · 1h

It is currently functioning as an interim exhibition while a new building is being constructed. www.mainz.de/microsite/gu...

About the museum

Information about the museum. From our mission statement to the new Gutenberg Museum.

www.mainz.de

Vivian H @vivianh.bsky.social · 1h

"Interim exhibition". That'll teach me to skim better.

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Vivian H @vivianh.bsky.social · 1h

It has moved (and by implication shrunk), though I'm not clear if its new home is temporary or permanent. East Asian printing is specifically mentioned. www.mainz.de/microsite/gu...

About the museum

Information about the museum. From our mission statement to the new Gutenberg Museum.

www.mainz.de

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Vivian H @vivianh.bsky.social · 4h

Takes me straight back to some of the correspondence I had to deal with in my own local government days...

zuzak 🦭 @zuzakistan.com · 16h

Glasgow City Council has a whole sovereign citizen FAQ

whoever wrote this was so very tired

glasgow.gov.uk/whyyouneedto...

Why you require to pay Council Tax - Glasgow City Council

Information about why you are required to pay Council Tax.

glasgow.gov.uk

Vivian H @vivianh.bsky.social · 23h

My dad had a dog who loved apple cores, but who would carefully spit out all the pips and leave them in a neat pile. She only started doing this after he read out a newspaper article about apple pips containing cyanide...

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Vivian H @vivianh.bsky.social · 1d

It was shown at around teatime (so probably 5ish, in my childhood), and it can't have been on a Monday night because it doesn't go with cold roast meat and chips. It goes with beef stew, which I think was probably Tuesday or Wednesday. Yes, my childhood meals *were* that predictable.

Vivian H @vivianh.bsky.social · 1d

A thing that has been nagging at me for decades - does anyone else broadly comparable (mid 40s, grew up in the UK) remember a cartoon on Channel 4 in the late 80s or early 90s called The Inventive Boy? I think it was eastern European.

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Vivian H @vivianh.bsky.social · 1d

Reading The Waste Land and re-reading Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club back-to-back a few years ago was a fascinating and illuminating experience.

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Vivian H @vivianh.bsky.social · 2d

Always space for another pair of socks, if I want a portable project. Or Gudrun Johnston's Hansel hap, if I want big and mindless.

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Vivian H @vivianh.bsky.social · 3d

Local ones are more likely to charge (they need to), but I got an Art Pass, which gets me and the children into all ours (Norfolk) for free, plus 50% off big London exhibitions, so even better value than the local Museum Pass. One of my better decisions.

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Vivian H @vivianh.bsky.social · 3d

Current state: liable at any moment to burst out yelling "...cry my eyes violet, ELIZABETH TAYLOR!".

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Girl’s Own advice @girlsown.bsky.social · 6d

You should not pray for a husband. How do you know it would be for your happiness or your advantage, and not a hindrance?

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Vivian H @vivianh.bsky.social · 4d

If you can afford it, pay for it (it's a stretch for me, but honestly worth it). Taking one for the team - those who can't find any way to get jabbed.

Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 5d

After a long pause, I've just done another England Covid & NHS update as we head into the autumn/winter season.

TLDR: we're in a significant Covid wave now, the NHS is stretched, get boosted if you're eligible.

christinapagel.substack.com/p/england-is...

England is now experiencing a significant Covid wave, after 10 months of relative quiet

The latest Covid situation in England and a look at where NHS services are as we head into winter

christinapagel.substack.com

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Lee Harveryscary @valleyguitarist.bsky.social · 4d

🎵 If I was a sculptor, ha
But then again, no
Or a man who makes potions in a travelling show
I know it's not much, but it's the best I can do 🎵

Jobcentre advisor: No, I'm sorry Mr John, you have to look for three kinds of work. Your online account will have a to-do list, you need to be checking it.

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Vivian H @vivianh.bsky.social · 4d

Until, bluntly, ignoring medical advice and refusing drugs because she didn't like them, buying every snake oil theory and vaccine conspiracy on the internet, etc, killed her.

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Vivian H @vivianh.bsky.social · 4d

I often think of my mother. Born 1947, so remembered rationing clearly, but not old enough to see why it was still there after the war had been won, hurrah, up the Brits, etc. Her later life attitude towards a 'government' (NHS in general) telling her she couldn't have what she wanted all the time.

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Vivian H @vivianh.bsky.social · 4d

Thanks to this, I have my covid jab booked for Monday. Clubcard points and all! (Was eligible until this year; permanently eligible for free flu jabs, got that on Wednesday at independent pharmacy)

Rhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz · 4d

I got vaxxed today at Tesco. Tesco! Walked past some broccoli and some crème fraiche and some pork pies and some bread and biscuits and booze and kitchen roll, and into a small room where some dude stuck two needles in my arm in exchange for money and then I bought some ice cream and went home.

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Vivian H @vivianh.bsky.social · 5d

The people who can't cope without constant deference are frequently very sure that the Lord will just nod *them* through, not like those others, etc. I know I will not be able to stand in His presence, that all my shabby evasions will blaze on me.

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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 5d

Even now a crack team of Scottish culinary scientists are racing against time to discover a way to deep fry it.

juux @juux.com · 5d

omg part deux

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Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 6d

Many congratulations to my colleagues in the Forms of Labour project team on the publication of their new monograph! 🗃️👏🎉

Brilliantly, The Experience of Work in #EarlyModern England is available open access:

www.cambridge.org/core/books/e...

news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-h...

A woman’s place was not in the home: New book challenges assumptions about women’s work in early modern history

New research has revealed that women played a fundamental role in the development of England’s national economy before 1700. Far from being the unpaid homemakers and housewives of traditional historic...

news.exeter.ac.uk

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Vivian H @vivianh.bsky.social · 6d

SHE ATEN'T DEAD YET

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 6d

BREAKING

In a new video, Dolly Parton, the Queen of America, says she’s going to be ok.

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Vivian H @vivianh.bsky.social · 6d

(The travel was actually fun, booked before any of the non-fun things happened, but exhausting. The children go to their father for Sunday & Monday nights, so I can go anywhere as long as I'm at the school gate by 3pm on a Tuesday. This time it was two ferry trips and 12 hours in the Netherlands)

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Vivian H @vivianh.bsky.social · 6d

It is, and there is a very cheeky thing I didn't clock until far too late and now I need all my friends to hurry up so I can scream about it at them (Waterstones sent the paperback out early so I had it before most people. And it gave me the points I needed to fill up my loyalty card too)

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Vivian H @vivianh.bsky.social · 6d

We moved around a bit: Alresford. Westerham. Anywhere in west Cornwall and especially Mousehole.

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