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Girl’s Own advice @girlsown.bsky.social · 4h

Enjoy this excessive illustration for Sunday’s caption contest! Give away lots of ❤️s, please repost to encourage more competitors, and include #GirlsOwnCC

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Victoria Gausden @ancientnmodern.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Here’s a little quiz. Are these characters from Matt Berry’s Toast of London or Wakefield Trinity players? Tyson Smoothy Isaiah Vagana Jazz Tevaga Mason Lino Clem Fandango

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Ian McMillan @imcmillan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

A poem from my new @carcanet.bsky.social collection Red River Valley

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Victoria Gausden @ancientnmodern.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

No-one famous but I think they look pretty stylish. My mum and dad on the left and two friends. Dad bought the car with his student grant and sold it for £17.

Four young people, one in a naval uniform, stand in front of a vintage Rolls Royce. Time: late 50s. Place: Birmingham

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Girl’s Own advice @girlsown.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Enjoy this Sunday’s caption contest! Give away lots of ❤️s, please repost to encourage more competitors, and include #GirlsOwnCC

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Victoria Gausden @ancientnmodern.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Very interesting. Cannibalism is dropped in casually at the end.

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Jamie Muir @jamiembrixton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I really hope the publication of biographies of Anita Brookner and Barbara Cartland at more of less the same time creates a literary Barbenheimer effect.

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Victoria Gausden @ancientnmodern.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The article on What’s Opera, Doc? is particularly interesting.

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Victoria Gausden @ancientnmodern.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Haven’t finished it yet but this is my dad’s birthday card. I am rather proud of the way I have avoided national stereotypes.

Two poodles sit on a terrace overlooking the Med. They have brought their pet on holiday with them.

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Victoria Gausden @ancientnmodern.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Spider season and a lovely cobweb covered in raindrops

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Victoria Gausden @ancientnmodern.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Cringe moment as a memory flashes into my mind of the time I wrote to someone apologising for not having written sooner and explaining that it was because I was “extremely busty”.

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Victoria Gausden @ancientnmodern.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

An interesting case. Naturist walks naked along a path at 6 30 in the morning, unfortunately for him, bumping into an off duty copper on the way. Is fined £800 for a ‘disorderly’ act -one which might cause fear, alarm etc. www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/u...

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Victoria Gausden @ancientnmodern.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I’m in the doghouse with my aunt as I’ve accidentally put my address on her Ocado order so I’ve just had a massive delivery of truffle crisps, Assam tea, Lindt chocolate and poached salmon which all count as basics for 95 year old ladies.

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Victoria Gausden @ancientnmodern.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

My little fleabag living her best life.

Daphne, a scruffy tortoiseshell cat, reclining on her ceremonial cushion

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Victoria Gausden @ancientnmodern.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I used to love this programme. I see there were guest appearances by both Brian Blessed and Colin Welland on this episode. The noise on set must have been deafening!

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Girl’s Own advice @girlsown.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Enjoy this Sunday’s caption contest! Give away lots of ❤️s, please repost to encourage more competitors, and include #GirlsOwnCC

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Victoria Gausden @ancientnmodern.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I am a reasonably peaceable person but I would very much like to give Jim Ratcliffe a massive boot up the arse.

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Victoria Gausden @ancientnmodern.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The one really strong thing in Wagner’s favour is that he didn’t write Strauss’ Elektra. Where is laryngitis when you need it?

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Victoria Gausden @ancientnmodern.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I’ve just received an email headed “Only 99 sleeps to go”. 🤢

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Neil Brand @neilkbrand.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I'm at the NFT on Sunday 2.30 to provide musical support to silent movie royalty Gloria Swanson and Pamela Hutchinson in a cracking presentation of Stroheim's Queen Kelly. A mindbender of a film, the silent equivalent of The Devils! Don't miss it, folks! whatson.bfi.org.uk/Online/defau...

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Buy cinema tickets for Queen Kelly + intro by film critic and historian Pamela Hutchinson | BFI Southbank

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 15/09/2026

‘It is the essence of Anita Brookner to show the kinds of discernment, the sort of noticing, that can cause life to be both wonderful and agonising at the same time.’ Andrew O’Hagan on the novelist, online early from the next issue. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Andrew O’Hagan · Omelettes and Whisky: Anita Brookner’s Edge

Over the course of 24 novels and 87 years, Anita Brookner achieved many dislocations of selfhood and may have become...

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Victoria Gausden @ancientnmodern.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Just read an interesting article about Anita Brookner wherein my Alma mater was described thus:

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Victoria Gausden @ancientnmodern.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Daphne’s extremely cross today as we have discovered and removed the one and a half mice she was keeping under the table for later.

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Victoria Gausden @ancientnmodern.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

This is so interesting. We stayed a couple of times near Gualdo in Marche. There was an account/diary in the house of the exact same circumstances of the abandonment of the camp. A local farm took in a couple of the escapees and kept them for the rest of the war and the account described that too.

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Victoria Gausden @ancientnmodern.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Started watching Fackham Hall. It makes the Carry On films look like Ibsen.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

AI advocates say we have no right to stop innovation in the free market. Hogwash. We don’t allow corporations to come up with new nuclear weapons or varieties of cocaine or biological pathogens. We protect the public from certain kinds of innovation. We need guardrails on AI before it’s too late.

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Victoria Gausden @ancientnmodern.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Interestingly, the crunchy bit in my milkshake (using past their best strawberries) turned out to be a bluebottle.

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Girl’s Own advice @girlsown.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Enjoy this Sunday’s caption contest! Give away lots of ❤️s, please repost to encourage more competitors, and include #GirlsOwnCC

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Victoria Gausden @ancientnmodern.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

They’re playing Brunnhilde letting rip on Radio 3. It’s exhausting even to listen to it and all I can think of is the marvellous Bugs Bunny version - What’s Opera, Doc.

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Victoria Gausden @ancientnmodern.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Just had an hour and a half in the dentist’s chair. The full experience: little rubber block to keep your mouth open; plastic umbrella thing (in case it rains?); the drill that feels like an angry wasp trapped in your mouth; the drill that feels like an irritated mosquito; multiple X rays etc etc

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Victoria Gausden @ancientnmodern.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I wish that interviewers and commentators would occasionally get some of these self-proclaimed nationalist Christians to explain which bits of the Sermon on the Mount they are currently seeking to enact.

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Jonathan Calder @lordbonkers.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

i am confident that anyone in a black balaclava who got in Grace's way would have been twatted with an oar.

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Victoria Gausden @ancientnmodern.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I could have sworn I left a cat somewhere round here. #catoflage

A small cat hiding behind a jar of wildflowers.

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Victoria Gausden @ancientnmodern.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Random facts from this weekend: * discovered my next door neighbour plays polo. She doesn’t have a horse as far as I know. Maybe this explains why her Labrador always looks exhausted. * went to a lovely but lengthy concert which left me wanting less * ate nothing but cake yesterday

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Girl’s Own advice @girlsown.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Enjoy this Sunday’s caption contest! Give away lots of ❤️s, please repost to encourage more competitors, and include #GirlsOwnCC

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Girl’s Own advice @girlsown.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

In last Sunday’s caption contest 🥇for a sweet caption in memory of an icon @maggie23.bsky.social 🥈 @chopper32.bsky.social 🥉 @jalata.bsky.social 4th @catju.eurosky.social Highly commended @paulgarrard.bsky.social @welshie12.bsky.social plus more very entertaining captions at #GirlsOwnCC

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Victoria Gausden @ancientnmodern.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Good job I saved £3500 yesterday as I’ve returned home to find I’m being done for speeding. 35mph in a 30 zone literally yards from the 50mph sign. Too keen, that’s my problem.

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Victoria Gausden @ancientnmodern.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

The elephant plant stand I bid on went for £3500 against an estimate of £200-300!!!! And its tusks had dropped off. This means that I have technically saved £3500 so it’s been a very profitable day.

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Caoimhe Deyn @empressofkashyr.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Incredible interaction I had with a stranger today. So I was walking down the street, mind my bizz, and a woman passes by, catches my attention, and says 'there's courgettes everywhere up ahead' I take a moment to process that insane statement, thank her for the information, and continue onwards 1/

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Victoria Gausden @ancientnmodern.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

If they’re all so rich and fascinated by medieval embroidery and history, it makes you wonder why they never bothered to go and see the tapestry when it was in Bayeux. There’s a caravan site in Honfleur that I could have recommended if they wanted to save money.

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Victoria Gausden @ancientnmodern.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I’ve booked myself in for a print course for the sole reason that I will be able to invite people up to see my etchings.

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Gargarin @gargarin.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Had my haircut today, as they always do they showed me the back of my head I always feel I should have more of an opinion about the back of my head, but I don't.

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Victoria Gausden @ancientnmodern.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

If you have a few minutes to spare, you could do worse than to read the Wikipedia entry for Gunby Hadath who wrote school stories. I stumbled on it accidentally and it is like an episode of Ripping Yarns with an attribution subplot as good as Shakespeare v Bacon.

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Victoria Gausden @ancientnmodern.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Last night I dreamt I made a tarte tatin but forgot to put any sugar in it and that I knitted a jumper but, when I’d finished, discovered there were lots of little holes where I’d dropped stitches. My brain is clearly telling me to worry about something but I don’t know what.

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Victoria Gausden @ancientnmodern.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I think Daphne’s growing up. She’s more or less stopped biting. Note for newer readers: Daphne is a cat.

A tortoiseshell cat wrapped in a duvet. Not bitey at all. No, not at all.

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hilliatfields.bsky.social @hilliatfields.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Introduce yourself with the 10 Hilliat Fields albums that you didn't buy because y'all a bunch of slack-jaw bastards too afraid of real art.

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Victoria Gausden @ancientnmodern.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Thunder, lightning, unbelievable amounts of rain here. I think poor Raye is supposed to be performing at Leeds Festival now. #WhereTheHellIsMyRaincoat

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