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Abe & Eddie

@abdecker.bsky.social
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Raised in Devon close to the sea, now landlocked in Switzerland, I write fiction for adults & children and translate. Website: abdecker-skinner-books.com

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Abe & Eddie @abdecker.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Swedish businessman Dahlerus recalled meeting Hitler & how he went on a rambling monologue ranting that Germany could win a rapid war and that he would "build U-boats, build U-boats, U-boats, U-boats, U-boats" and "airplanes, airplanes, airplanes, and I shall annihilate my enemies". Sound familiar?
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Abe & Eddie @abdecker.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Idiotically left my sandals outside the back door last night. This morning one was gone and the other was half-eaten! I reckon it was a marten, so I should count myself lucky that it didn’t have a go at one of the beast’s favourite specialities: brake linings!
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Abe & Eddie @abdecker.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Snap
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Abe & Eddie @abdecker.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Rummaging through an old abandoned drawer I came across a small portfolio of work by my old artist friend from Austria, Charles Kaltenbacher. This is what stared up at me, and it seems especially apt today. “Anstrengung gegen Rechts” roughly translates here as “Toiling to defeat the right”.
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Abe & Eddie @abdecker.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Saw this hanging in the Peggy Guggenheim Museum in Venice a few years ago along with this other Magritte, The Voice of Space, which I'd never seen before
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Abe & Eddie @abdecker.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
This seems to be another of his obsessions
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Abe & Eddie @abdecker.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I love Escher. Saw a wonderfully captivating exhibition of his work earlier this year, some of it beautifully brought to life through animation, such as this one
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Abe & Eddie @abdecker.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Lovely pic. I see Mr and Mrs Hudson as a 70s Yorkshire equivalent of Grant Woods' American Gothic couple
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Abe & Eddie @abdecker.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
After more than 2 months of relentless heat it‘s a joy to spend a few days in the cool of the Black Forest
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Abe & Eddie @abdecker.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Eventide in the Ruhrpott
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Abe & Eddie @abdecker.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
How to treat a lady when you take her out for lunch
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Abe & Eddie @abdecker.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Huge billboard on the side of a building in Germany “Do the right thing“
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Abe & Eddie @abdecker.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
In Harran, south-east Türkiye close to the Syrian border, they have buildings almost identical to the trulli of Apulia
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Abe & Eddie @abdecker.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
It's my birthday today. I received this from my sister-in-law. Looks like an interesting change from all the fiction I surround myself with
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Abe & Eddie @abdecker.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Bitcoin firm StackBTC advertised by Nigel Farage loses 15% of asset value
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Abe & Eddie @abdecker.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Whenever I see images of Stephen Miller I'm always reminded of Adolf Eichmann. The resemblance is uncanny
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Abe & Eddie @abdecker.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Visited a major Valloton exhibition back in February. A couple of weeks ago, the catalogue finally arrived. Of his many landscapes this is one of my favourites
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Abe & Eddie @abdecker.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Saw this in Raphael’s house in Urbino. It was first thought to be a portrayal of him with his mother painted by his father, but was then reckoned to be an early painting by Raphael himself.
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Abe & Eddie @abdecker.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Only one on the beach
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Abe & Eddie @abdecker.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
There’s something quite creepy about the angel’s hands by Simone Martini reaching down from the ceiling in Siena’s Palazzo Pubblico
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Abe & Eddie @abdecker.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Found this little beauty on the path outside the house. It seemed in distress, unable to fly and buffeted by the breeze
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Abe & Eddie @abdecker.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Not been on here lately. Too immersed in a fascinating trip in italy. Now trying to find my way home after an encounter with MC Escher in Padua
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Abe & Eddie @abdecker.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Storm brewing over Arezzo
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Abe & Eddie @abdecker.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
I have the room above her
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Abe & Eddie @abdecker.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Strollingg through the streets of Siena yesterday I chanced upon these amazing drummers
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Abe & Eddie @abdecker.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Gilbert and George Sleeping at the MAMbo in Bologna
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Abe & Eddie @abdecker.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Love this museum. So much staggeringly beautiful, immaculately preserved Minoan culture. One of the things that caught my eye was this handbag-style pottery on the other side of that particular cabinet
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Abe & Eddie @abdecker.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
"We cannot let lunatics have a nuclear weapon"
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Abe & Eddie @abdecker.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
When Charles said actions matter more than words, I'm not sure cosplaying Capo dei Capi was what he had in mind
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Abe & Eddie @abdecker.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
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Abe & Eddie @abdecker.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Visited the Cezanne exhibition at the Beyeler yesterday & was delighted to find two of his Card Players paintings there. But what really caught my eye in a different part of the building was Gerhard Richter’s Elbe series of 31 linocuts.
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Abe & Eddie @abdecker.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
I wonder, is this still true today?
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Abe & Eddie @abdecker.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Weather’s too glorious to sit at a screen all day, so I’m taking a break on the balcony to prevaricate & enjoy nature’s sumptuous colours before I get back to editing my next novel
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Abe & Eddie @abdecker.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
The sun goes down over Southern Sweden after 3 weeks on grandparent duty
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Abe & Eddie @abdecker.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
My memory of Beirut in quieter times. But even then the scars of wars past were still visible everywhere. It's high time they were left to live in peace
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Abe & Eddie @abdecker.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
It gives me an uneasy feeling to know that I can enjoy beautiful early morning skies in Southern Sweden right now, while the orange-coloured skies in the Gulf region mean death and destruction for the people living there.
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Abe & Eddie @abdecker.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Likewise from the peace of Scania
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Abe & Eddie @abdecker.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Reading a report about a symposium on C.G. Jung last weekend, I was intrigued to learn of the Jung family rumour suggesting that his grandfather was the illegitimate son of Goethe.
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Abe & Eddie @abdecker.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
The 'murder' of Khamenei was a 'cynical violation of all norms of human morality', says the fascist in the Kremlin who tried to assassinate Zelenskyy as well murdering many of his own citizens and thousands of Ukrainians
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Abe & Eddie @abdecker.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
'I sensed an enormous inner desolation' The darkness behind LS Lowry's famous city scenes www.bbc.com/culture/arti...
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Abe & Eddie @abdecker.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Getting in the carnival mood with the dressing of the Three Kings today before the Basel Fasnacht kicks off on Monday
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Abe & Eddie @abdecker.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
A fabulous Beryl Cook exhibition in Plymouth. Must try to get over there before it closes at end of May
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Abe & Eddie @abdecker.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
So at last, after much editing and re-editing, I’ve finally finished my next novel and sent it off for a full professional edit. Meanwhile, 'Flowers from the Black Sea' is still available
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Abe & Eddie @abdecker.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
So at last, after much editing and re-editing, I’ve finally finished my next novel and sent it off for a full professional edit. Meanwhile, 'Flowers from the Black Sea' is available
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Abe & Eddie @abdecker.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
My consultant of choice: Dr Alice, specialist in wonders
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Abe & Eddie @abdecker.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Sun sets on Lake Geneva. Heading home tomorrow
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Abe & Eddie @abdecker.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
This time every year, I like to post squirrels of Davos as a reminder that it's also possible to run into charming and delightful creatures when you're there
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Abe & Eddie @abdecker.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
I seem to remember those cars had a wonderful suspension. Not sure about the model in my snippet, since it's a somewhat older design
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Abe & Eddie @abdecker.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
More to Rubens than meets the eye: turn this old man on his head and a woman's face appears in his beard www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
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Abe & Eddie @abdecker.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
He even has a passing resemblance to Eichmann
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