newjustine
@newjustine.bsky.social
Cake-baker, tea-drinker, dog-walker. Observer of the watchable, remarker of the remarkable. Yellowbelly by origin and now a miller’s moll in the Netherlands.
Time-killing haiku
Waiting in my broken car
By the cold roadside.
Waiting in my broken car
By the cold roadside.
February 5, 2026 at 5:36 PM
Time-killing haiku
Waiting in my broken car
By the cold roadside.
Waiting in my broken car
By the cold roadside.
Today's mood: at my desk in Rotterdam listening to Genesis from the 1980s on headphones, raiding my lunchbox to eat the marmalade sandwiches and Bovril sandwiches (yeah, in that order) and struggling to find the file I worked on yesterday. Pffft.
February 4, 2026 at 9:40 AM
Today's mood: at my desk in Rotterdam listening to Genesis from the 1980s on headphones, raiding my lunchbox to eat the marmalade sandwiches and Bovril sandwiches (yeah, in that order) and struggling to find the file I worked on yesterday. Pffft.
I know I'm good at writing factual stuff but now even MS Word thinks so too!
January 23, 2026 at 11:36 AM
I know I'm good at writing factual stuff but now even MS Word thinks so too!
Can highly recommend chamomile and valerian tea, and a glass of mead before bed. Slept like a 15th century monk and didn't even wake for matins.
January 23, 2026 at 8:33 AM
Can highly recommend chamomile and valerian tea, and a glass of mead before bed. Slept like a 15th century monk and didn't even wake for matins.
This was last week. Only lasted a couple of days.
January 11, 2026 at 9:48 AM
This was last week. Only lasted a couple of days.
Parmesan and rosemary crackers. Was it a mistake not to let the dough chill before cutting them out?
December 31, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Parmesan and rosemary crackers. Was it a mistake not to let the dough chill before cutting them out?
Can’t remember what day this was, but one of the most enjoyable walks for ages - along the old Louth Navigation canal that heads out to the sea. Imagining this route 300 years ago busy with wool barges and far more people than were there while we walked with friends and dogs.
December 28, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Can’t remember what day this was, but one of the most enjoyable walks for ages - along the old Louth Navigation canal that heads out to the sea. Imagining this route 300 years ago busy with wool barges and far more people than were there while we walked with friends and dogs.
Last night’s pie of Xmas dinner leftovers. Made from scratch in my mother’s kitchen.
December 27, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Last night’s pie of Xmas dinner leftovers. Made from scratch in my mother’s kitchen.
Mablethorpe beach looking south on Christmas Eve afternoon. Wind is straight off the North Sea, so bitterly cold.
December 24, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Mablethorpe beach looking south on Christmas Eve afternoon. Wind is straight off the North Sea, so bitterly cold.
Sitting in my home office this morning looking out onto the street and waiting for inspiration, I've seen 3 cement trucks already this morning, and remembered this (which my Pa used to sing- I thought he'd made up a song but no, it really exists) www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKdr...
Cement Mixer Slim Gaillard
YouTube video by tybolini2
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October 24, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Sitting in my home office this morning looking out onto the street and waiting for inspiration, I've seen 3 cement trucks already this morning, and remembered this (which my Pa used to sing- I thought he'd made up a song but no, it really exists) www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKdr...
I’d rather eat mashed potatoes than pasta. Every time.
October 22, 2025 at 5:02 PM
I’d rather eat mashed potatoes than pasta. Every time.
Breakfast is half a pint of tea and two toasted teacakes with butter. I made them myself on Sunday. #smugbaker
I ate them at my desk though.
I ate them at my desk though.
October 21, 2025 at 6:24 AM
Breakfast is half a pint of tea and two toasted teacakes with butter. I made them myself on Sunday. #smugbaker
I ate them at my desk though.
I ate them at my desk though.
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Feral churches holding green communion growl at careless trespass. Their wild mysteries are not easily untangled. They scratch the soul, infect with untamed spirit. They place the language of vegetation upon the tongue and you find yourself offering thorned hymns. – #DAKilroy
October 17, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Feral churches holding green communion growl at careless trespass. Their wild mysteries are not easily untangled. They scratch the soul, infect with untamed spirit. They place the language of vegetation upon the tongue and you find yourself offering thorned hymns. – #DAKilroy
October 17, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Found some macramé string in a bargain bin. Bought it on a whim. Haven’t done macramé since I was 10. Lets seen what a mess I can make…
October 11, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Found some macramé string in a bargain bin. Bought it on a whim. Haven’t done macramé since I was 10. Lets seen what a mess I can make…
Whoever thought 'edge to edge' cardigans for women were a good idea can do one. You never see buttonless cardigans for men, do you?
I'm shopping for a cardigan that buttons up so it can do the same thermoregulating job at the front as it does at the back and the sides. Not a huge ask, is it?
I'm shopping for a cardigan that buttons up so it can do the same thermoregulating job at the front as it does at the back and the sides. Not a huge ask, is it?
October 9, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Whoever thought 'edge to edge' cardigans for women were a good idea can do one. You never see buttonless cardigans for men, do you?
I'm shopping for a cardigan that buttons up so it can do the same thermoregulating job at the front as it does at the back and the sides. Not a huge ask, is it?
I'm shopping for a cardigan that buttons up so it can do the same thermoregulating job at the front as it does at the back and the sides. Not a huge ask, is it?
My poor old editor brain is bolting away this afternoon.
Compare and contrast:
1. Pumpkin spice is for spicing pumpkins
2. Cod liver oil is for oiling cod livers.
#AmEditing
Compare and contrast:
1. Pumpkin spice is for spicing pumpkins
2. Cod liver oil is for oiling cod livers.
#AmEditing
October 8, 2025 at 3:51 PM
My poor old editor brain is bolting away this afternoon.
Compare and contrast:
1. Pumpkin spice is for spicing pumpkins
2. Cod liver oil is for oiling cod livers.
#AmEditing
Compare and contrast:
1. Pumpkin spice is for spicing pumpkins
2. Cod liver oil is for oiling cod livers.
#AmEditing
October 8, 2025 at 3:35 PM
A grey gloomy day. We’ve put the heating on for the first time. Shall we have winter now and get it over with?
October 7, 2025 at 4:19 PM
A grey gloomy day. We’ve put the heating on for the first time. Shall we have winter now and get it over with?
Ever since the pensions planning meeting last week, my email has been spammed with messages saying I've sign up to all kinds of investment newsletters. No I bloody haven't. The only way you got my email was because #BlackTowerFM let you have it. Not cool, Black Tower. Not cool at all.
October 1, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Ever since the pensions planning meeting last week, my email has been spammed with messages saying I've sign up to all kinds of investment newsletters. No I bloody haven't. The only way you got my email was because #BlackTowerFM let you have it. Not cool, Black Tower. Not cool at all.
For #LincolnshireDay, there’s this. vimeo.com/38927384?fbc...
The Lincolnshire Poacher (1947)
A rendition of the traditional English folksong 'Lincolnshire Poacher', accompanied by animated drawings. Find out more information about this title…
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October 1, 2025 at 5:56 AM
For #LincolnshireDay, there’s this. vimeo.com/38927384?fbc...
People with surnames beginning with W are discriminated against because they always come last in lists.
Discuss.
I bring this up now because it's to do with trying to join a thing that's a perk from my employer and being overlooked twice. I'm taking the issue to HR now.
Discuss.
I bring this up now because it's to do with trying to join a thing that's a perk from my employer and being overlooked twice. I'm taking the issue to HR now.
September 25, 2025 at 1:00 PM
People with surnames beginning with W are discriminated against because they always come last in lists.
Discuss.
I bring this up now because it's to do with trying to join a thing that's a perk from my employer and being overlooked twice. I'm taking the issue to HR now.
Discuss.
I bring this up now because it's to do with trying to join a thing that's a perk from my employer and being overlooked twice. I'm taking the issue to HR now.
"Pay no attention"
Perfect.
I love the way the paracetamol bombshell has been utterly deflated by proper scientists.
Perfect.
I love the way the paracetamol bombshell has been utterly deflated by proper scientists.
September 23, 2025 at 2:05 PM
"Pay no attention"
Perfect.
I love the way the paracetamol bombshell has been utterly deflated by proper scientists.
Perfect.
I love the way the paracetamol bombshell has been utterly deflated by proper scientists.
Going through old photos. These were my absolute favourite trousers in 1986-1988. I wore them until they had holes and even then I fixed the holes and carried on wearing them. My mum and my sis look good too. 📸
September 19, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Going through old photos. These were my absolute favourite trousers in 1986-1988. I wore them until they had holes and even then I fixed the holes and carried on wearing them. My mum and my sis look good too. 📸
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Shot, chaser
Young men more likely to vote Green than Reform. Young men second most progressive group of any demographic. Combined right-wing vote barely bigger than Green vote alone for young men
Young men more likely to vote Green than Reform. Young men second most progressive group of any demographic. Combined right-wing vote barely bigger than Green vote alone for young men
September 14, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Shot, chaser
Young men more likely to vote Green than Reform. Young men second most progressive group of any demographic. Combined right-wing vote barely bigger than Green vote alone for young men
Young men more likely to vote Green than Reform. Young men second most progressive group of any demographic. Combined right-wing vote barely bigger than Green vote alone for young men