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Clotilde @clothildek.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Pagans is so good! I've raved about it to everyone I know and accidentally got my copy signed twice.

Clotilde @clothildek.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

My office team are both poorly and after I casually mentioned Northern Irish soup veg, they are now both planning on making soup off their own. My rant on the lack of soup celery in England was really quite restrained, all things considered.

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Clotilde @clothildek.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I think the true horror kicked in when I told her that was the sort of strong flavour that wasn't necessarily appealing on your first encounter, and compared marmite to olives and anchovies.

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Clotilde @clothildek.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

My mum moved from France to Northern Ireland before having kids, but the only thing that ever horrified her was when we got a taste for marmite.

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Clotilde @clothildek.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

The Nerdy Queer sells the badges on the quote, but fellow church workers/church goers might like this one, which a colleague introduced me to, and which I now wear on my work lanyard. It's from Abprallen on Etsy.

A manicured hand holding a pin badge. The badger is shaped like a stained glass window in the pink and blue of the trans flag. At the top of the window is the trans symbol. At the bottom of the window is a sword. In the middle are the words "Trans bodies are holy".

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Clotilde @clothildek.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

I now have a new ambition, which is to pick a literary sensation at random and spend the rest of my life avoiding it, just because.

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Clotilde @clothildek.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Happy Yorkshire Day, everyone. Celebrate by watching the traditional video of Bran Blessed rapping On Ilkla Moor Baht 'At share.google/8VkrlTv16299...

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Yorkshire Anthem - Ilkla Moor Baht 'At

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Clotilde @clothildek.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

My two favourite rowing stories are an incredibly niche and woefully unappreciated fanfic of Mary Renault's Alexander series set in an Oxford college rowing team, and See you at the Finish Line. The fanfic isn't really a romance, though.

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Clotilde @clothildek.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

My teenage children are on holiday with grandparents and now the mug shelf is overflowing.

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Alan Baxter @alanbaxter.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

You can kill a French vampire with a baguette. It's a painstaking process but it works.

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Clotilde @clothildek.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

My daughter recently came back from Lidl with a bottle of vodka and 3 pool noodles, which she used, at separate times, over the course of a fun weekend. I misheard her and thought she'd bought 3 pot noodles and that small change of wording created such a different weekend vibe!

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Clotilde @clothildek.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

The 16 year old woke me up by having a bath at 2am. I have been awake ever since. He went to bed a bit after 4. Today I will be mostly consuming caffeine while watching very easy tv. Or else having a migraine. Possibly both.

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Clotilde @clothildek.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

It was only 21 years ago that Tony Blair didn't feel able to convert while in office.

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Clotilde @clothildek.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

The football is now too tense, so I'm not looking.

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Clotilde @clothildek.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

I have the sense of humour of a 4 year old, so that joke has filled me with delight.

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Clotilde @clothildek.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

I'm off to investigate Rears and Vices on the strength of the title alone.

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Clotilde @clothildek.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

They are doing proper catwalk walks in amazing, crazy, creative outfits they've made/styled. And I love that they are being awarded their degrees but also putting into practice the things they've learned on the course.

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Clotilde @clothildek.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

My kid's going to be studying at UAL next year, so I follow them on Instagram and they've been showing reels of the graduations and you should all go and watch because the flair and panache and amazing outfits are not something I am accustomed to seeing at graduations.

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Clotilde @clothildek.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Happy belated birthday to one of my favorite songs

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Clotilde @clothildek.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I'm in the next room, listening.

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Clotilde @clothildek.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

England have won all their matches so far, and I haven't watched any of them, so I'm doing my bit for my adopted homeland by not watching this one either just in case my absence is the vital element to victory.

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The Cabinet of Doctor Alasdairi @alasdairstuart.com · 15/07/2026

How fucking DARE you, York.

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Clotilde @clothildek.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Jane Eyre in my forties was a completely different book to the one I read in my late teens.

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Clotilde @clothildek.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Sadly, Woodlouse Graveyard broke up before I ever got to see a live performance.

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Clotilde @clothildek.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Last weekend, I cleaned out maggoty bin juice from inside the wheelie bin. Today, I got rid of the woodlouse graveyard behind the kitchen kickboard while trying to fix the broken dishwasher. I'm a little bit worried about what creepy crawly adventures are in store for my next day off.

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Clotilde @clothildek.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

I loved it so much that I managed to get my copy signed twice!

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Clotilde @clothildek.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

It was one of my very favorite books that I read last year.

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Clotilde @clothildek.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

It's not even as though they don't have an excellent football team to cheer on in international games - the women's team has dominated the sport for decades.

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Clotilde @clothildek.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

That was the book that was so good it made me buy all of your other books in a binge-reading frenzy after I bought it on a whim for 99p on a key-date anniversary discount.

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Rachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

I would just like to thank Trump and FIFA for making the World Cup suddenly interesting for all us nerds with no interest in football but an unhealthy obsession with political scandals. It's been a difficult time for us these past two weeks. You've really come through

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Dr Tess Machling @tessmachling.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

This is amazing. Really makes you think about the lives, sights, sounds etc that become 'things in the ground'... #Archaeology 🏺

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Clotilde @clothildek.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Good morning, Womble! I am reading My Grandfather, the Master Detective by Masateru Konishi which is a very sweet homage to classic detective fiction featuring a young schoolteacher and her grandfather with dementia who solve mysteries together.

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Clotilde @clothildek.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

I posted too soon on the alt text, so I'll just put it here that my closest match is Sanna Marin

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Clotilde @clothildek.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Unlike virtually everyone I know, I am like neither Zohran Mamdani nor Pope Leo

Screenshot of politics quid results page: 86%woke/ 14% chud. 36% techbro/64% neo-luddite; 75% hopepilled/25% doomer; 91% Davis/9% Dubai.

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Clotilde @clothildek.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

It's 24.1 degrees in the office, and I've just put on my jumper. Please be kind to me during the colder months as I was clearly intented for somewhere warmer than Yorkshire, and spend most of the year a shivering wreck.

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Clotilde @clothildek.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

M&S limited edition strawberry and creme chia pudding is so good that several times this week I've found myself "forgetting" to make myself breakfast so that I have an excuse to buy some on my way into work.

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Clotilde @clothildek.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

This thunderstorm smells so good! The windows are open and the difference in the air is dramatic.

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Clotilde @clothildek.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

In the same way, lots of Americans think the UK is a terrible, miserable place because everyone they encounter from there is constantly moaning about how awful it is, without explaining just how culturally unacceptable it is to boast, or show pride, or even be pleased in an unironic way.

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Clotilde @clothildek.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

I just checked and my local tea shop has 16 different types of loose-leaf golden pekoe, but no tea bags, and for Lipton it looks as though the orange pekoe has been rebranded as "Ceylon pure black tea" which suggests that the local brands of Ceylon tea would probably be the best substitute.

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Clotilde @clothildek.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Is there a particular type of tea that works best for this? We are in Yorkshire, so will be spared the heatwave, but as I've never had authentic iced tea I don't know quite what the final effect I'm aiming for is.

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Clotilde @clothildek.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

When flags went up locally in York last summer, I had a visceral, panicked response, and this is why. Growing up, those flags meant one thing, and it wasn't good.

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Clotilde @clothildek.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

It's draw between Livejournal and the Guardian Talkboards. I still miss them both.

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Clotilde @clothildek.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Oh, that is such a good question, and I want to learn about clouds, too!

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Clotilde @clothildek.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

That's what my co-worker did for their birthday!

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Clotilde @clothildek.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

And I'm also making progress on all the unmanageable huge household tasks by making entries to do a small chunk at a time. This weekend is mostly set aside for lounging, but I do have an appointment with myself to test the paint for lead, and I'll be stripping some wallpaper in a couple of weeks.

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Clotilde @clothildek.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

I've started making calendar entries for things I want to do but keep failing to get around to, and it's giving me so much anticipatory joy to see chunks of time blocked off things like "drink tea and read magazines" and "bookshop and cafe afternoon".

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