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Elizabeth @19syllables.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Farewell #sinfulsunday; a friend I didn’t even know I needed. Taught me things, upheld me, introduced me to some of the best people on the planet. I can’t express the gift this meme & its community’s been. Big thanks & love to Molly & all who took part. This from 2021, when I was a reg contributor.

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Elizabeth @19syllables.bsky.social · 21/06/2024

@girlonthenet.bsky.social I’m listening to Woman’s Hour this morning speaking about stealthing and thinking about you. (Also, as an aside, I wish this offence had a different name. The word ‘Stealth’ has slightly admirable sneaky/heroic vibe doesn’t it?)

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Elizabeth @19syllables.bsky.social · 16/05/2024

When your frock says summer but your boots say winter; that’s accidental cottage core.

Summer dress, walking boots, black lab, light rain.

Summer dress, walking boots, black lab, light rain. Her face is love.

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Elizabeth @19syllables.bsky.social · 28/04/2024

When I left home my Dad made up a toolkit for me. I’ve added to it, but at its core it’s still that vintage set. I used it in my old job, & now I’m framing paintings, the friendly, worn, hickory handle of his old awl fits perfectly in mine as I go about the work. Love finds a way, even after death.

Vintage awl and hammer on a cutting board beside a painting I’m framing.

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Elizabeth @19syllables.bsky.social · 26/04/2024

Have you got anything positive to share? It’s easy to find bad news…got anything good to tell us? We need to hear as much of it as we can muster.

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Elizabeth @19syllables.bsky.social · 26/04/2024

I’m having to walk home because of a flat tyre, which I thought’d be a downer, but there’s such a Springy, Friday vibe on the streets, workers gathering outside pubs, tradies grabbing a tinny for the bus, kids at the ice-cream bar with pocket money, people buying good, weekend food for slow cooking.

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 24/04/2024

'Railing at Castel Sant’Elmo (St Elmo Castle) in Naples Installed by local artist Paolo Puddu the railing allows those who understand braille to read the words of famous Italian author Giuseppe de Lorenzo and picture the view.' www.euronews.com/travel/2021/...

picture of a metal railing with braille on the surface, the background of the photo is out of focus.

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Elizabeth @19syllables.bsky.social · 01/04/2024

I’m like the Alannis Morissette of drinking tonight; in one hand I’ve got whisky, and in the other one chamomile tea.

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Elizabeth @19syllables.bsky.social · 01/04/2024

Waiting impatiently for my man to wake up so that he finds out that I’ve down the sleeves of his dressing gown up for April fool’s day! Wake up for goodness sake!! I can’t wait anymore. Hehehe!!!

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Elizabeth @19syllables.bsky.social · 19/03/2024

For a while there, the radiators were ticking the exact same tick that the long-case clock ticked in my grandparents house in the 70s. I was back there for a moment. It felt so nice.

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Stiles @lakesstiles.bsky.social · 18/03/2024

Trotternish Ridge from north of Gairloch

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Elizabeth @19syllables.bsky.social · 16/03/2024

Love the nostalgic build-up of a film with an overture.

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Elizabeth @19syllables.bsky.social · 09/03/2024

Made a meringue/penguin/Antarctic/sea leopard edible birthday diarama thingy.

Meringues, cream and play mobile crafted into an Antarctic Scene. Birthday candles too.

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Elizabeth @19syllables.bsky.social · 08/03/2024

It’s national women’s day, I’ve spent some of it thinking about all the fabulous women in my life. From my wise, love-filled elderly mum to my vibrant daughters and all the amazing women I have collected on the way. I’m so happy and lucky to stand with you. xx

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Elizabeth @19syllables.bsky.social · 07/03/2024

This is my favourite, though there are so many which are interesting.

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Elizabeth @19syllables.bsky.social · 07/03/2024

I was in a beautiful 2nd hand bookshop today, piled floor to ceiling with books like a cave.

Second hand Bookshop, books piled floor to ceiling..

Bookshop interior with mountains and canyons of books.

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Elizabeth @19syllables.bsky.social · 07/03/2024

If you’re lucky enough to be able to, have you posted a card to your mum for Mothering Sunday yet? Quick, there’s still time!

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Elizabeth @19syllables.bsky.social · 07/03/2024

This little thing was 4 this week! Happy birthday Reckless!

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Elizabeth @19syllables.bsky.social · 04/03/2024

Casual safety and food feel like such a luxury this morning. Like I am utterly spoiled with my riches in that regard.

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Elizabeth @19syllables.bsky.social · 03/03/2024

Who wants a croissant and a coffee in the park with Rexi and I?

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Elizabeth @19syllables.bsky.social · 29/02/2024

Home is where the heart/hearth/dog is…

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Elizabeth @19syllables.bsky.social · 27/02/2024

Short poses life drawing tonight. These are 5 and 10 mins each. I’m beginning to really lean into the way I like to draw….with a rubber!

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Elizabeth @19syllables.bsky.social · 26/02/2024

That’s all I can do today…. Now I’ve taken the masking tape off it looks so funny with the naked lady I painted him over! I’ll have to take the circular saw to it!

Oil portrait of a bare-chested, moustachio’d man.

Oil portrait of a bare-chested, moustachio’d man on the left side of a board on which you can see a failed nude woman!

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Elizabeth @19syllables.bsky.social · 25/02/2024

I have never signed a painting. It feels too presumptuous.

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Elizabeth @19syllables.bsky.social · 23/02/2024

I found out today that you never feel more naked than when you’re naked but also wearing a lanyard.

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Elizabeth @19syllables.bsky.social · 23/02/2024

Hands up if you’re present! 🙋🏼‍♀️

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 23/02/2024

'The tea drinking fills the public-house, makes the frequenting of it habitual, corrupts boys as soon as they are able to move from home, and does little less for the girls, to whom the gossip of the tea-table is no bad preparatory school for the brothel.' Cottage Economy, William Cobbett, 1833

23. The drink which has come to supply the place of beer has, in general, been Zea. It is notorious that tea has no wuseful strength in it; that it contains nothing nutritious ; that it, besides being good for - nothing, has badness in it, because it is well known to produce want of sleep in many cases, and in all cases, to shake and weaken the nerves. It is, in fact, a weaker kind of laudanum, which enlivens for the moment and deadens afterwards.

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Elizabeth @19syllables.bsky.social · 23/02/2024

Dreamed of my dad. He smelled of line-dried shirts and Swarfega. I was warm under the crook of his arm. There must be a Japanese/German word for the sense of love/loss/luck it’s left me feeling this morning

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Elizabeth @19syllables.bsky.social · 23/02/2024

I think this is finished. Might sand it a little bit….but otherwise it’s just time to frame and price it.

Oil painting of knife and fork on a folded napkin.

Close-up of oil painting of knife and fork on a folded napkin. It’s pretty gestural when you get near to it….

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Elizabeth @19syllables.bsky.social · 19/02/2024

Sweet peas showing their faces too now! 🫛 Hooray! Come on spring!

Cosmos now over 2 inches tall and sweet peas just breaking through the soil out of their loo roll beds.

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Elizabeth @19syllables.bsky.social · 16/02/2024

And now all my tomatoes are puckering up for a kiss too! (I kissed this one back.) 👄

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Elizabeth @19syllables.bsky.social · 16/02/2024

So the 30 days has past. I’ve irrecoverably cut my ties with the 8000 people on Twitter I used to be connected with. I thought I’d feel free, but honestly, I could cry. Now it’s just you guys (and a few in insta) Think I’d better go back to the real world to find people.

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 16/02/2024

BBC Broadcasting 1932

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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 11/02/2024

For those of you struggling to write romantic verse in Valentine cards over the next few days, don’t despair: even the great poets had to start somewhere.