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Ruth@sugarglider.bsky.social |
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Therapist, cat owner, art studio owner (?!), ex-archaeologist. Interests in existential philosophy, art, ways of thinking, what it is to be human. Hates retweets.
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I found us a nice, relatively calm pub to watch the football in and it was good! I enjoyed it! It is very fun to be in a room full of very happy people celebrating something, whatever it is :)
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Yesterday was mostly Studios work, today will be 100% therapy work with guitar class in the evening. We are doing Ain't No Sunshine which is an enjoyable piece with no bloody power chords!
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You know if anyone claims they're unbiased they immediately are 🤣
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After two years of intermittent charity shop trawling we have found only one decently priced sofa that doesn't turn W into a croissant. So for the first time ever we will be buying a *new* sofa(bed). I have never chosen a sofa colour in my life. How on earth does one do this?!
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I think until we all face up to the effects of COVID on almost everybody's mental faculties, we're probably all living a delusion :/
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Fingers crossed for you x
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A friend is in town tomorrow night and wants to see us and also....watch the football?! So we will be off to the pub tomorrow evening. I have absolutely zero idea of what this will be like or how to find an appropriate pub but it'll be an experience!
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I think if it hadn't have been billed as an autobiography about discovering yourself through travel etc etc I wouldn't have been quite so shocked by how the author almost double-downed on a fixed US white evangelical position and probably would have given it 3* for the writing skill 🫣
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Yeah absolutely. And I'm cool with people trying out something they're not, it just starts to get uncomfortable when people are profiting off someone else's culture and experience.
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Just written a rather bald 2* review for a book on StoryGraph, which I do feel a bit bad about. It was a very readable book, it was just a bit like watching a car crash happen as the author talked about Indians with primitive dwellings, and adopting a baby from Guatemala 😬
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See also Frank Tuner - I was well sad when I read his background. It's not terrible, just not what I had assumed from his music.
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On my book list for rereading is Paul Cornell's Shadow Police novels, which I remember being excellent and thoroughly recommend if you like urban fantasy. In the second, Severed Streets, you can also get the vicarious ?pleasure of experiencing Neil Gaiman as a bad guy.
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They turned out to have at least one right wing member, and didn't even like the banjo which I immediately felt was a betrayal, because that was the key good bit of their music.
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lmty trying to find any specfic market that is open to a novelette over 10k is ...incredibly disheartening. Oh well, guess I'll be saving this one for an eventual collection, but I'm allowed to feel a little sad.
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Last time I saw that I knocked on the door for the cat 🤣
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Partner came back from looking after his mum with a litre bottle of olive oil! A litre! Feeling bougie as hell :)
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I just ate a Dahl I could never make at home because DAMN the amount of ghee and salt in it was GORGEOUS.
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Rice cooker? Honestly astounding. I make a lot of one pot meals in them.
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Terrence the polyp has been yeeted! It was...not a fun experience but it was quick and kind. And if I feel up to it I'm having takeaway for dinner later :)
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Yeah, didn't bother to see it because of the casting. I was really excited before they announced it.
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Some of these election night pictures are genuinely so cheering.
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Absolute blessings on my own constituency where my Labour candidate held out, Reform only got 1k votes, and the Green candidate came in second place (!) with 20% (!) of the vote - largely nicked off incumbent Labour. Tories 4th place. Bloody lovely place to live.
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Your votes definitely mattered yesterday!
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It was! It's a tiny little village-type event but the volunteers are great and everyone is so excited to get you to try different drinks and recommend things. It all happens in a small local church and grounds, very cute :)
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I know what you mean! Also, decisions are finite. Enjoy the estate car whilst you have it :)
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Too wiped out to socialise, so the beer festival that I have been looking forward to for months was a quiet time of just me and husband. It was still great. Tried some interesting beers and ciders and ate bao buns. Pro beer festival move - take your own camp chair.
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I have a small panel van...my packing gets rather extreme as a result! I mean, I'd hate to be without my slow cooker....my pillow....the rice cooker....a decent set of knives... 🤣
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They survive! Let's see if they can live through both the awful dry summers and the relentlessly wet autumn-spring.
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Nice photos!
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Just a few more days to go before the bloody election is over. Coincidentally voting is the same day as the opening of my favourite little beer festival, which is perfect timing for a continuation of our tradition of voting and then getting a beer to celebrate :)
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Great turn of phrase!
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It really works (same if you need to put eye drops in your own eyes, coincidentally) - you get a second or two extra grace which I find is just enough to empty the whole capsule. I don't have to hold my two, I just scratch their heads with one hand and squeeze out the dose as fast as possible.
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Being able to spontaneously upgrade to the dining carriage and get dinner on the train home from London. Such a lovely thing.
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Train travel just seems to get sadder. Looked at the Avanti 'cafe-bar' on this train and it's a miserable little desk with four sandwiches and half a dozen plastic wrapped snacks. There are better coffee machines in my local Tescos. It's like they don't *want* to be successful.
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Mine are : WHAT JUST HAPPENED I DON'T UNDERSTAND FLEEEEEEE. (I warm the capsule to body temperature, and they don't notice anything has happened until it starts to evaporate from their skin).
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Saw a bunch of really good looking "Green/Lib/Labour voter but voting X to get rid of the Tories" posters yesterday. Hunted them down online but you can't download them without giving the organisation your personal details and agreeing to receive pestering. Fucks sake.
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I once went to a lecture at a Royal Society (wooden panelling, no other women, middle of the afternoon on a week day) and after the lecture finished we exited to the (softly carpeted) room where drinks were served. It was all sherry. Not even a glass of water, just a choice of different sherries.
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🤣 I don't mind ladders, it's keeping them off the chairs that's a challenge for me!
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Have crashed straight into adult-child middle-aged-ness by going through my mother-in-law's cupboards and stealthily throwing out 4yr out of date food, stealth cleaning the fridge, and worrying that she doesn't have a CO detector on her fireplace.
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I could say this...🤔🤣
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Today was perhaps not the best day to try and plant up the tree pit outside my home, the ground was absolutely rock solid and needed a couple of buckets of water before I could scrape a hole for each of my new drought resistant grasses.
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Yeah, I don't want to read the exposition, I want to read hints and shadows and mystery!
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I don't know much about writing but that sounds like a really good way of making excellent characters. (One of my favourite tricks is to start a fantasy series at book 2, so I get lots of complex interesting characters without the obvious exposition)
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This how much PhD ended up with separate, equivalent size, volume of appendices 🤣
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Nice!
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I will once again be voting for the party third-most likely to match my political position 🙄
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Rescued a bad morning and turned it into a good afternoon, and a productive evening where I felt like I was doing a good enough job, and then I even cooked dinner, took out the bins and ran the fire alarm test. Surprised myself.
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Yes, I named it Terrence 🤣 I have it scheduled for eviction in a couple of weeks, but when it's hurting it helps to give it a silly name :)
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Maybe 🤣 I don't mind if so, I don't blame the gecko, and in my dream it was remarkably large and healthy looking 😆
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My 73 year old mom has a sight-hound with a high prey drive, that pulls her over at least once every six months. She loves that dog, but I just don't know what to say anymore. I firmly believe people have the right to make stupid choices, but I worry she's going to break something bad.
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