My review of Midnight Mass: ansatsusha000.wordpress.com/2026/04/09/r... I grew up in the church so many of the tropes were recognisable in a way that was simultaneously comfortable + uncomfortable.

SHIKIMORI N'EST PAS JUSTE MIGNONNE

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BELLE

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Virtual kisses as a holding response.

The Hunterston Brooch from the collections of the National Museums of Scotland in Edinburgh. Dating to around 700 AD, the brooch was found at Hunterston in North Ayrshire during the 1830s. 📸 My own. #FindsFriday #HunterstonBrooch

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I've started watching The Haunting of Hill House. Mike Flanagan knows what he's doing.

Spring is a busy time, it came early this year. I'm trying to start clearing the messy garden. 🪏 🍂🍁 For hubby’s brunch: cucumber, olives, kiwi, oranges, radishes, bell pepper, blueberries, black berries, watermelon, honeydew melon,Cantaloupe melon, cabbage. 🍜

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Syrian week on #52weeksofcooking and I made shish barak. Beautiful little lamb dumplings in yoghurt sauce. I followed a recipe from Reem Assil's cookbook Arabiyya - one of my favourites. Worth the effort of folding endless dumplings. Awesome food! niamhhallam.substack.com/p/shish-barak 🍜🍽️ #foodsky

Lmao, the info dump in S3E3 of Jujutsu Kaisen was a lot, but lowkey necessary. Also, I'm loving the brotherly vibe between Yuji + Choso.

drouard pears, painted by royal charles steadman, 1916

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TikTok is harassing me with Coachella content. I super duper don't care.

howell pears, painted by ellen isham schutt, 1911

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Shingham, Norfolk “Parallel lines II” Breckland landscape - • Scotch Pine trees planted decades ago as a shelter belt. • Sandy soil with flint nodules, ridged for a potato crop. @oneplacestudies.bsky.social

⎣ lights incense ⎤

Church of St. John the Evangelist, Gilford County Down Detail from “Our Lady of Lourdes” window by Harry Clarke. Particularly striking are the jewel like images in the upper part of the window. #StainedGlassSunday #HarryClarke

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'Clouds may gather, drift, and dissolve, yet the sky itself remains vast and untouched. So the aim [of meditation] is not an empty mind, but a free mind - one that knows thoughts without becoming entangled in them.'

I had Johnny Cash's version of Hurt in mind when storyboarding this song, and while there are many departures, this is still very satisfying to look at.

I love discovering new music. It's a top five feeling.

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Lemon Caper Chicken…..aka Piccata. #eat #food #cook #homemade #fromscratch 🍽️🍜

Here's why you should rethink porridge. Read my latest Substack post. jo4.io/a/dnIzM #BlackHomecraft #BlackFood #foodiesky #homemade #homecook #Foodsky #cooksky #Food #Foodie #blackfood #soulfood #blackfoodie #goodlunch #homecooking #recipe 🍽️ 🍜🥧

'Loving-kindness wishes for all beings to be happy. Compassion trembles at the suffering of others + responds with care. Sympathetic joy celebrates the happiness + success of others, free from envy. Equanimity holds all experience with balance, neither clinging nor resisting.'

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Another forgotten story of an amazing woman - now recovered in a biography by her great-niece. She qualified at Kolkata Medical College, became physician to the royal household in Nepal, & the first female Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians & Surgeons of Glasgow www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I need a week off, but I'll settle for the Easter weekend.

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Anglo-Scandinavian Brooch c. 1050 CE Silver. 36 grams. Found Bredfield, Suffolk 2009 Amazingly similar to one found near Ely, Cambridgeshire. 1694. Engraved cross design is surrounded by rivets & creatures. Owned by a wealthy person. See ALT text Now Castle Museum, Norwich, Norfolk #FindsFriday

A Bronze Age ‘belt plate’ which was discovered in 1879 when cutting peat at Langstrup, near Asminderød in North Zealand. Now part of the collections at The National Museum of Denmark. 📸 My own. #FindsFriday #Prehistory #Denmark

These days, when something annoying happens, I remind myself that it doesn't concern the essence of my being + keep it moving.

When people are determined on a mode of conduct which they know to be wrong, they feel injured by the expectation of any thing better from them. #JaneAusten #SenseandSensibility

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pineapple pineapples, painted by james marion shull, 1919

wickson plums, painted by ellen isham schutt, 1905

Sometimes, I get very tired of being the most organised person in the room.

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This magnificent brooch was found in Galloway as part of a Viking age hoard of gold, silver & crystal. It remains unclear who buried the hoard & why. The silver brooch is finely crafted with sinuous interlocking patterns & the heads of 4 creatures (maybe dragons). 🕰️850-1000AD 🏛️Melbourne Museum 📷me

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👀 Coffee time ☕️☕️🌺 - Ely, Cambridgeshire Anemone - 📷 31.03.2026 #elevensestime (delayed)

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fannie peaches, painted by elsie e. lower, 1906

Thinking about triptychs.

Childhood, like any stage of life, both is and isn’t finite. Time passes, but the past is kept alive by our memories and its indelible influence upon whoever we are and might become. So too with Calvin and Hobbes, whose adventures ended but never end, because there’s always more to explore. 12/12

But the final strip isn’t an exercise in ego. It also celebrates the timelessness & boundless creativity of its title characters, who are bigger than the confines of their strip. Calvin and Hobbes the comic strip may have ended. But Calvin and Hobbes the characters are eager to keep exploring. 11/12