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Victoria Gausden

@ancientnmodern

Old bag. Still, at least I can now get a ‘flu jab. Plagued by impending sense of doom and a small haughty cat called Daphne Whitethighs.

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I'd seen the first segment of this before, but the part about the Holocaust documentary is new to me. Not surprising but still astounding.

10.03.2026 17:11 👍 146 🔁 58 💬 16 📌 4

And do people sit and REARRANGE them, when you’ve got them just how you like them?

10.03.2026 17:48 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

It’s a very unmodish fridge in which to keep my gin!

10.03.2026 17:40 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

She’s always happy to suffer for her art.

10.03.2026 12:54 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

That might have been more information than you were seeking!

10.03.2026 12:30 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Well, my actual pens are in the pen pot and my pen bag and scattered throughout the house and about 75% of them work… but never the first one you try although it is always immediately put back to be discovered next time. These are mainly brushes and some white gel pens which work after a fashion.

10.03.2026 12:30 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
A small cat sits on the corner of a table staring at the camera in an effort to bend the photographer to her will by the power of thought alone. There are some daffodils, a bowl of marbles and a brush pot in the shape of a hedgehog.

A small cat sits on the corner of a table staring at the camera in an effort to bend the photographer to her will by the power of thought alone. There are some daffodils, a bowl of marbles and a brush pot in the shape of a hedgehog.

Domesticity

10.03.2026 12:03 👍 18 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 0

“Cecily?”
“Yes,Harold?”
“You know how I told you you would look good in a paper bag?”
“Yes, Harold.”
“I was wrong.”

#GirlsOwnCC

08.03.2026 18:16 👍 22 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Enjoy the Sunday caption contest. Give away ❤️s, retweet to encourage more competitors, include #GirlsOwnCC

08.03.2026 17:58 👍 21 🔁 14 💬 42 📌 17
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In last Sunday’s Wales-themed caption contest
🥇 @julesmrobertsf1.bsky.social
🥈 @herodotuspenguin.bsky.social
🥉 @flups.bsky.social
=4th…..

07.03.2026 20:50 👍 16 🔁 4 💬 4 📌 0
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…=4th @diarts1.bsky.social and @beakmoo.bsky.social and …..

07.03.2026 20:50 👍 16 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
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…. and highly commended to @nosila63.bsky.social @andygilder.bsky.social @janevsw.bsky.social (dark!) with more to amuse you at #GirlsOwnCC

07.03.2026 20:50 👍 16 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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It’s Squirrel Saturday!!

07.03.2026 11:18 👍 12 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

I may not live that long!

07.03.2026 11:09 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I see the Well of Awful People from whom Trump draws his ‘team’ has not yet run dry.

06.03.2026 22:40 👍 20 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 0

It’s a satirical film in which lots of horrible billionaires go on a cruise and then run into a storm in the course of which the plumbing is overwhelmed and the entire boat fills up with shit. It is rather satisfying in its own way…and certainly memorable!

06.03.2026 22:32 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Have you seen Triangle of Sadness?

06.03.2026 22:20 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

How awful! Milk it for all it’s worth! Get well soon xx

06.03.2026 00:03 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Lucky you! Still, he was very entertaining during Brexit

04.03.2026 22:23 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Google Will Self and Mark Francois for a treat.

04.03.2026 22:07 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 0

My favourites are The Book of Dave and How the Dead Live.

04.03.2026 21:26 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

Yes but he’s literary Marmite. People either love him or hate him.

04.03.2026 19:58 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I love Will Self and he was wonderful on Front Row. I’ve never heard him laugh before so that was a bit disconcerting.

04.03.2026 19:33 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Also, I believe James Howson was not treated very well. Paid little, had his voice overdubbed and had serious vulnerabilities round MH. It was every bit as tragic as the novel really.

03.03.2026 20:19 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

As a writer he was prone to making so many mistakes.
Even his blood was typo.

02.03.2026 08:56 👍 11 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
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Thought we’d have a Sunday caption contest suitable for #StDavidsDay Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Hapus

Give away ❤️s, retweet to encourage more competitors, include #GirlsOwnCC

01.03.2026 18:00 👍 33 🔁 16 💬 45 📌 20

"you have one notification"

01.03.2026 15:19 👍 26 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0

🙂 I’ve only ever seen them twice: on Anglesey and in Dumfries and Galloway. They are such beautiful little creatures. I’m very jealous.

01.03.2026 13:27 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

And did it scream?

01.03.2026 13:24 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Lucky you!

01.03.2026 09:42 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0