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I saw something nasty in the woodpile.

#caturday #moocowcat #coldcomfortfarm

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Day 27 & 28/30

Flora tidies up the farm and her family.
Just what did Ada Doom see in the woodshed?

#Books
#BookSky
#30DaysBooksByWomen
#ReadingWomen
#ColdComfortFarm

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Surprise selfie gift from the big man fresh from last night! ๐Ÿ˜ƒ๐Ÿ‘Œ๐Ÿ‘‘ Thought that is a great Tuesday treat - enjoy! ๐Ÿ˜Š
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#IvanKaye #actor #producer #KingAelle #Vikings #HistoryVikings #BrianAndMaggie #TheCoroner #GunpowderMilkshake #AssassinationGames #TheBorgias #LayerCake #ColdComfortFarm #TV

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Her best-known work is Cold Comfort Farm, which showcases Gibbonsโ€™ skills as a satirist. Her writing was admired by many of her contemporaries, including T. S. Eliot. Virginia Woolf asked Gibbons to write for a publication printed by Woolf and her husband. The humor in Gibbons' work comes through in stages: first, laughter, then the thought that she is describing people you know, and then the realization that she is skewering you, too. Gibbons was so adept at satirizing writers and writing, that the writers and critics who determine who and which works should be in the canon of English literature have still not made her or Cold Comfort Farm part of it.

Her best-known work is Cold Comfort Farm, which showcases Gibbonsโ€™ skills as a satirist. Her writing was admired by many of her contemporaries, including T. S. Eliot. Virginia Woolf asked Gibbons to write for a publication printed by Woolf and her husband. The humor in Gibbons' work comes through in stages: first, laughter, then the thought that she is describing people you know, and then the realization that she is skewering you, too. Gibbons was so adept at satirizing writers and writing, that the writers and critics who determine who and which works should be in the canon of English literature have still not made her or Cold Comfort Farm part of it.

A sepia-toned photo portrait of writer Stella Gibbons, circa 1940s.
Credit: Yvonne Gregory
Image source: National Portrait Gallery (UK)

A sepia-toned photo portrait of writer Stella Gibbons, circa 1940s. Credit: Yvonne Gregory Image source: National Portrait Gallery (UK)

โ€œIt was curious that persons who lived what the novelists called a rich emotional life always seemed to be a bit slow on the uptake.โ€
-English writer Stella Gibbons, born on this day in 1902.

#WriterSky #BookSky #ColdComfortFarm #History #BOTD

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'Explosion of water voles' headline immediately makes me think of Urk Starkadderโ€ฆ
#ColdComfortFarm

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Happy Holidays, lovely team members!๐ŸŽ„๐ŸŽ…๐Ÿ‘‘ Have a wonderful time!๐Ÿ˜Š
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#IvanKaye #actor #HappyHolidays #MerryChristmas #KingAelle #Vikings #NigelLawson #BrianAndMaggie #TheCoroner #GunpowderMilkshake #AssassinationGames #LudovicoSforza #TheBorgias #LayerCake #ColdComfortFarm #SisterBonifaceMysteries

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Late happy #StNicholasDay with a little photo flashback to 2018 filming.๐Ÿ˜‰๐ŸŽ…๐Ÿ‘‘
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#IvanKaye #actor #producer#KingAelle #Vikings #KingAella #NigelLawson #BrianAndMaggie #TheCoroner #GunpowderMilkshake #LudovicoSforza #TheBorgias #LayerCake #DarkShadows #ColdComfortFarm #SisterBonifaceMysteries

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Published on this day 11th September a couple of years ago: print and audio interview with the king.๐Ÿ‘‘ Happy #ThrowbackThursday
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#IvanKaye #actor #interviews #KingAelle #Vikings #BrianAndMargaret #TheCoroner #GunpowderMilkshake #ApocalypseClown #TheBorgias #LayerCake #DarkShadows #ColdComfortFarm

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Carlton Theatre Group is performing โ€œCold Comfort Farmโ€ at the Studio, New Wimbledon Theatre. Evening performances 12-16th August and Saturday matinee performance.

Book now at www.atgtickets.com/shows/carlto...

#Theatre #AmateurProduction #ColdComfortFarm #CarltonTheatreGroup #NewWimbledonTheatre

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Happy birthday Kate Beckinsale, born July 26, 1973.

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#TodayInNerdHistory #July26 #katebeckinsale #underworld #click #everybodysfine #whiteout #MuchAdoAboutNothing #PrinceOfJutland #ColdComfortFarm #PearlHarbor #TheAviator #VanHelsing #TotalRecall #birthday

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Bindweed over a fence by a Field

Bindweed over a fence by a Field

"When the sukebind was in bud" #ColdComfortFarm

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The Penguin Classics edition of Cold Comfort Farm is on a tray table with a travel cup of coffee.

The book cover makes me smile every time, it has a jersey cow nose looming large at you.

The Penguin Classics edition of Cold Comfort Farm is on a tray table with a travel cup of coffee. The book cover makes me smile every time, it has a jersey cow nose looming large at you.

Annual re-read of Stella Gibbons' #ColdComfortFarm Given to me to read by my Granny as a teen, this book emigrated with me.

'Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery' - Mansfield Park on the imprint page. #Brava

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#Limerick #Nasty #Hertfordshire #pasty #Cornish #AuntAdaDoom #StellaGibbons #ColdComfortFarm www.youtube.com/channel/UCnf...

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Pecksniff: How far before โ€˜calm headsโ€™ becomes appeasement? In which Mr Pecksniff lays before his readers for their approval certain observations and speculations reflecting on the political life

Labour's terror of Brexit is reminiscent of #ColdComfortFarm, in which Ada Doom keeps her Starkadder family in thrall by repeating that, when young, she saw โ€œsomething nasty in the woodshedโ€.

@pecksniffsdiary.bsky.social

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I feel a kinship with everyone who has sketched out the family tree from the movie Cold Comfort Farm.

"There will be no butter in hell!"

#ColdComfortFarm
#FavoriteMovie
#PoetLife

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Bit of fun for #MancrushMonday with Ivan on a Deadline cover to give the entertainment media some ideas.๐Ÿ˜‰๐Ÿ‘‘ Have a wonderful week!๐Ÿ˜Š
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#IvanKaye #actor #producer #KingAelle #Vikings #NigelLawson #BrianAndMaggie #GunpowderMilkshake #ApocalypseClown #TheBorgias #LayerCake #ColdComfortFarm #TV #movies

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A blackwork sampler depicting scenes from Cold Comfort Farm

A blackwork sampler depicting scenes from Cold Comfort Farm

Just over half way through my #stellagibbons #coldcomfortfarm #blackworkembroidery sample

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A dark and rickety farm house, a loopy bull, and a comically off-kilter sense of looming silliness greet you in the naive folk-style art of this book cover for Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons, in bright cheery buttercup yellow against a more sombre forget-me-not blue. Published in 1932 but set about 15 or 20 years in its own future, Cold Comfort Farm is historic science-fiction, as well as being, as a quote from the Sunday Times at the bottom of this cover claims, "Probably the funniest book ever written."

A dark and rickety farm house, a loopy bull, and a comically off-kilter sense of looming silliness greet you in the naive folk-style art of this book cover for Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons, in bright cheery buttercup yellow against a more sombre forget-me-not blue. Published in 1932 but set about 15 or 20 years in its own future, Cold Comfort Farm is historic science-fiction, as well as being, as a quote from the Sunday Times at the bottom of this cover claims, "Probably the funniest book ever written."

For fun in February, A-Cover-A-Day, books I love, that's all. #StellaGibbons #ColdComfortFarm #GothicSpoof #NovelHumor #TooFunny #LaughterIsTheBest #LoveConquersAll #TheHigherCommonSenseConquersAll #HistoricSciFi #MyFunnyValentine #BookSky #ThomasHardyHarHar ๐Ÿ’™๐Ÿ“š

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Cold Comfort Farm (film) - Wikipedia

GREAT NEWS

YouTube channel "grimportents" has the entire 1995 TV film adaptation of COLD COMFORT FARM by Stella Gibbons

Here's a link to the Wikipedia entry for "Cold Comfort Farm" (film), for anyone who has not heard of this gem:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_Co...

#filmsky #film #ColdComfortFarm

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Iโ€™m watching The Double on Netflix and episode 24 (/40) there is an actual madwoman in the woodshed!
If only Stella Gibbons were with me now #ColdComfortFarm lives

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Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons

Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons

Welcome the first #TuesdayBookClub of the year! ๐ŸŽ‰ This week, weโ€™re diving into Stella Gibbonsโ€™s Cold Comfort Farmโ€”a hilarious, sharp, and utterly charming tale about bringing order to chaos. Have you read it? Share your thoughts! โœจ๐Ÿ“– #ColdComfortFarm #StellaGibbons
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Little convention flashback on #Christmas traditions before we proceed to the New Year. ๐Ÿ˜‰๐ŸŽ„๐Ÿ‘‘
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#IvanKaye #actor #ComicCon #KingAelle #Vikings #BrianAndMargaret #TheCoroner #GunpowderMilkshake #ApocalypseClown #AssassinationGames #LudovicoSforza #TheBorgias #LayerCake #DarkShadows #ColdComfortFarm

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Happy Holidays to all of you!๐Ÿ‘‘๐ŸŽ„๐ŸŽ
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#IvanKaye #actor #producer #MerryChristmas #KingAelle #Vikings #HistoryVikings #Kingร†lla #NigelLawson #BrianAndMargaret #TheCoroner #GunpowderMilkshake #ApocalypseClown #LudovicoSforza #TheBorgias #LayerCake #DarkShadows #ColdComfortFarm #TV #movies

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This is one of my favorite books and my very favorite movie.
Rufus Sewell!
#ColdComfortFarm
#Booksky

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I wonder if the 'There's Something In The Barn' "thing" is related to the 'There's Something Nasty In The Woodshed' "thing"? ๐Ÿค”
#HorrorMoviesForTheHolidays #TheresSomethingInTheBarn #binge #horrorxmas๐Ÿ”ช๐ŸŽ„ #ColdComfortFarm

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Actor Ivan Kaye who played King Aelle on Vikings with a crown on his head and a fan in his hand looking at the camera with a raised eyebrow at the German Film & Comic Con

Actor Ivan Kaye who played King Aelle on Vikings with a crown on his head and a fan in his hand looking at the camera with a raised eyebrow at the German Film & Comic Con

Ivan Kaye aka King Aelle. German Film & Comic Con Essen August 2024.
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#IvanKaye #actor #producer #Vikings #KingAella #NigelLawson #BrianAndMargaret #TheCoroner #GunpowderMilkshake #ApocalypseClown #AssassinationGames #TheBorgias #LayerCake #DarkShadows #ColdComfortFarm #SisterBonifaceMysteries

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Oo! Still on iplayer for another few months. I loved the book, but never saw this (too busy being traumatised by something Iโ€™d seen in the woodshed, no doubt) #ColdComfortFarm

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Probably something nasty. Maybe to be found in the woodshed.
#TheArchers
#ColdComfortFarm

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"There's something nasty in the woodshed"
#ColdComfortFarm
@RadioX

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"My little water vole." said Urk to Elfine #ColdComfortFarm RT @UK_Wildlife Water vole at @RSPBRyeMeads http://t.co/whxqyIpyU1

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