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Abbaetha @abbaetha.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 11, 2024 at 05:05 UTC

They are wonderful pets.

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Abbaetha @abbaetha.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 11, 2024 at 04:07 UTC

Ha! I actually made progress on the needlepoint last night.

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Abbaetha @abbaetha.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 11, 2024 at 04:04 UTC

Then it was someone else! I must find attribution!

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Abbaetha @abbaetha.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 20:50 UTC

Ethiopian food has a collard dish too, now you mention it, and lots of wonderful legume recipes. This could be fabulous. Mmm.

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Abbaetha @abbaetha.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 20:30 UTC

What the hell party is this? Avoid at all costs. And I’m sure I could figure out a way to eat black-eyed peas and collards without utensils if I had to, they’re just that good.

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Abbaetha @abbaetha.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 20:06 UTC

They apparently did takes until Debbie R’s feet bled, then used the first take.

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Abbaetha @abbaetha.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 19:52 UTC

🤗

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Abbaetha @abbaetha.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 19:51 UTC

Love squoof. Love.

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Abbaetha @abbaetha.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 19:41 UTC

I don’t have the passage to hand but it’s very much about that - who is the culture afraid of? Conniving women (Livia)? False advisors? Slaves (also a constant concern in Rome)?

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Abbaetha @abbaetha.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 19:31 UTC

Mary Beard, in Emperor of Rome, touches on something similar. People died of random intestinal complaints all the time but calling it poison expresses something about the zeitgeist and context.

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Abbaetha @abbaetha.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 19:29 UTC

You start with Thus Was Adonis Murdered. She only wrote 4 books before passing - and someone here - perhaps @deannaraybourn.bsky.social? - noted that her mom was the model for Sally Bowles in Cabaret. Sarah Caudwell -

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Abbaetha @abbaetha.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 19:27 UTC

They are astonishingly plastic. And sweet about it.

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Abbaetha @abbaetha.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 19:19 UTC

Wallace and Gromit are my spirit animal. Also honey badgers, when I am feeling like being a jerk, but mostly the cheese fans.

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Abbaetha @abbaetha.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 19:15 UTC

📌

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Abbaetha @abbaetha.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 19:10 UTC

Regret to inform that Etsy would hook us RIGHT UP on tablet weaving.

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Abbaetha @abbaetha.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 19:04 UTC

Well, and Mr. Collins would have become instantly obsequious to Elizabeth, which would have inspired the snark.

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Abbaetha @abbaetha.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 19:03 UTC

I’m doing my needlepoint now because then I can be finished and then I can add a new craft! I’ve lost my mind!

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Abbaetha @abbaetha.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 18:36 UTC

I’m so sorry

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Abbaetha @abbaetha.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 18:27 UTC

Oh, I’m happy to think of my vax card as a scavenger hunt for sure.

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Abbaetha @abbaetha.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 17:52 UTC

Wooo!!!

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Abbaetha @abbaetha.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 17:50 UTC

While using a tractor powered by AI to do the actual building.

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Abbaetha @abbaetha.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 17:50 UTC

Another! I can has more shots?

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Abbaetha @abbaetha.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 17:19 UTC

Bones, I have heard of them, but I don’t let them cramp my style.

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Abbaetha @abbaetha.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 17:18 UTC

📌

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Abbaetha @abbaetha.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 17:16 UTC

I can’t explain, but it is true. And she got up from this and was dandy.

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Abbaetha @abbaetha.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 16:58 UTC

😂 since giving myself over to the passions of the moment would ideally involve sitting in a corner reading a book and refusing to speak to anyone regardless of the festivities, I often think of that with longing when it is very people-y.

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Abbaetha @abbaetha.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 16:54 UTC

Now breathe deeply, and put the back of your head on the top of your feet, bending through the torso.

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Abbaetha @abbaetha.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 16:51 UTC

Every time, EVERY TIME I think of the pride and prejudice scene after the edibles at the orgy I crack up.

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Abbaetha @abbaetha.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 16:50 UTC

It’s a running joke: I can do that, I just don’t want to.

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Abbaetha @abbaetha.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 16:50 UTC

I found an excellent blue cheese that manages to be both sharp and mild. Cabrales. I have struggled with the very sharp blues so this is exciting.

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Abbaetha @abbaetha.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 16:47 UTC

I and others live in a happy bookish corner here, and have bonded over Caudwell.

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Abbaetha @abbaetha.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 16:46 UTC

I still don’t know how it’s possible, and I saw it with my own eyes.

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Abbaetha @abbaetha.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 16:44 UTC

Tagging in @aristofontes.bsky.social!

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Abbaetha @abbaetha.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 16:42 UTC

@devanbarlow.bsky.social

We have a Caudwell fan! Alert!

(I will try to find the others I’ve corresponded with)

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Abbaetha @abbaetha.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 16:40 UTC

@hilarytamar.bsky.social

I am assuming a Caudwell fan? There are several of us here.

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Abbaetha @abbaetha.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 16:38 UTC

I read Hild and watched videos on tablet weaving and thought I would go that way, though perhaps I should consider finishing the ONE MEELION WIPs first. Maybe.

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Abbaetha @abbaetha.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 16:32 UTC

I just saw a bobbin lace exhibit in a museum. I’m simply not intelligent enough. I’d probably entomb my own hand in string.

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Abbaetha @abbaetha.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 16:27 UTC

Margaret here to help.

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Abbaetha @abbaetha.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 16:07 UTC

“Quelques mongoose, rampant, en paniers”

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Abbaetha @abbaetha.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 16:05 UTC

I know it happened, although I have no idea how.

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Abbaetha @abbaetha.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 16:04 UTC

She’s pretty special. She’s old, and evil, and very sweet to her humans, if not her sisters.

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Abbaetha @abbaetha.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 16:03 UTC

Excellent.

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Abbaetha @abbaetha.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 08:30 UTC

@mtgallagher.bsky.social

I have excellent cheeses for cheese club. I’ve lost track, is that next week?

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Abbaetha @abbaetha.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 08:04 UTC

I’m always yammering about umami and people just look at me. I add malted milk powder to most of my baked goods for this reason. An anchovy dissolved into oil adds so much depth … and Pomegranate molasses adds the sweetness, but not in a sugary way.

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Abbaetha @abbaetha.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 06:52 UTC

Amen.

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Abbaetha @abbaetha.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 06:32 UTC

Hello world! I am kitten! What are you doing today?

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Abbaetha @abbaetha.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 06:20 UTC

Hmm. By that logic, I have a Kuzum (just pure sweetness), a Margaret Lennox (pure evil, seriously), a Marthe (bosses everyone around), and a Will (smarter than she looks, but only exercises that smartness occasionally). Meet Margaret Lennox:

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Abbaetha @abbaetha.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 06:13 UTC

I will get the provenance and we can take it from there. It’s certainly post-columbian interchange…

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Abbaetha @abbaetha.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 21:35 UTC

If you find a Rube Goldberg probability system running around feeding time, though, take note.

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Abbaetha @abbaetha.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 21:34 UTC

I’m so sorry

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