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AHappyFlower

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Gill Fraser Lee. English literature scholar, (MA, researching #museums #dickens), public historian (HistoryNeedsYou.com)>, voice artist. Likes tea, cats, Robert Donat (Robert-Donat.com), music & poetry. Daft. She/her. Cambridge, but Scottish.

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Sorry to hear it! It’s a total pain, but we’ve had it before, living by a wood and a river and open fields as we do. I hope the little critters depart soon.

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Good evening peoples. I hope you’re all chipper. It would appear there is a rat in our attic, which is fun. It chooses to stomp about in the wee small hours, so one is even more fatigued than usual. What’s going on in your neck of the woods?

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Ah yes, understandable.

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I had a cuddly one before this one. Such pretty fur, such great little pussums. Do you have a cat these days?

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She’s a bit of a monster! A real character, brave and angry 😂

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Yes!

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Sir Galahad and the Pale Nun Julia Margaret Cameron, 1874

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Also, I shall be eating no more Brussels sprouts for the foreseeable future. Or, in fact, chestnuts.

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Late to the party (as usual!): Happy New Year, Blue Sky! I am trying very hard to shake abject lethargy and get on with ‘stuff’. Tomorrow. Maybe it’ll happen tomorrow.

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A butterfly! That’s jolly. I hope you’ve successfully foraged and are ready to feast. I’m exhausted already (but then I usually am). Last Christmas was horrific and flashbacks to that are not fun, but I expect I’ll get through it.

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Update on the university debacle: apologies have been received and all has been rectified. I am, once again, a student. Stressful few days.

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Ok, my tv viewing standards suitably lowered, Quality Street cracked open, I’m doing festive. I’m scheduling in a lot of sleeping.

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just for the halibut (hell of it) (terrible old joke) (not even a joke) (what is wrong with my brain today?) here are three scissor-paper-cuts made by Lotte Nicklass, circa 1918, to illustrate an edition of A Thousand And One Nights

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It’s a wild and woolly solstice hereabouts. Stay safe and hold fast for the return of the light as the wheel of the year turns. Image: Sarah Greenman.

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They’re looking into it as we speak… More news as we have it!

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I have had a response from the Dean but not really an apology or explanation. It’s surprisingly atrocious.

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Aggrieved. My university has withdrawn me from my course without telling me, or consulting my supervisor. It’s entirely their error, but they’re expecting me to sort it out. If they actually answered their phones or emails, it might help. So today, I emailed the boss.

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Now I'm home I hope to quickly publish my latest novel, Mythily: "Oh my god it's brilliant!" "Sci-fi horror set in 1937, with Nazis, zombies & giant spider-crabs, along with aliens & lots of humour." "Bonkers, but it's fast paced & compelling too." Just for you lot, here's a preview of the cover:

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Morning! Very glad you’ve had a good sleep. Marvellous suff, sleep.

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Françoise de Félice (1952- France).

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I’m very glad. Horsepiddles are exhausting. Here’s a getting home hug.

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Oh bloody hell! I haven’t been here, and missed this. Mahoosive hugs, my friend xxx

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I might have visited the wonderful Blood of Angels again today, to talk about adding to my daisy tattoo. Cambridge was eerily quiet.

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I still exist. Trying to write all the words, and they’re coming out very slowly. Taking the evening off to watch the wonderful Martin Carthy via Live to your Living Room. I adore him.

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I have special fondness for the boneyards of feral churches. Those territories of the dead where the departed can no longer rely on visitation by living and have abandoned themselves to the company of trees. The whispers you hear in them are unbroken, prophecy filled. – #CLNolan

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I was AllRobertDonat at The Other Place, and run his website. I’m sure we’ve spoken about the great man before.

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Good evening, Blue Sky! I hope you are all keeping warm and dry. It’s properly wintry now, isn’t it? Thinking of those without warmth and shelter and how such things should not be.

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Ohhh, how lovely. I hope you’ll share photos.

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