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Mrs C @cogitoergo.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Oh, yes. I’m quite sure they’ll take note and listen.

Mrs C @cogitoergo.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Parasocial stuff is odd for me, but the death of Dolly Parton hits different. I’ve shed tears for a person I never knew personally. She wasn’t just talented. She was a woman raised in abject poverty who used her fame and money to help countless others. She was what others should aspire to be.

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Mrs C @cogitoergo.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Have any of you actually tried drawing a hippo? It all goes fine until you get to the eyes. Look at those things! Something about them just doesn’t translate in my brain and on to paper. They’re proper weird.

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Mrs C @cogitoergo.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Heat in British homes in the summer be like

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Mrs C @cogitoergo.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I’m currently invested in the frustrations of a woman on TikTok who keeps digging up rubbish from a midden that was buried in her garden. It’s all fairly recent stuff, and I do feel bad for her, but I think I’m fascinated because it’s a little microcosm in problems with archaeological dating.

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Mrs C @cogitoergo.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Partial eclipse and bonus UFO

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Mrs C @cogitoergo.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Missing muscadines and scuppernongs this time of the year. I used to love picking those things and getting literal buckets full along with blackberries from my grandma’s back yard.

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Mrs C @cogitoergo.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Took a picture of a cool gravestone with an interesting patina only to notice the looming big, veiny obelisk in the background.

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Mrs C @cogitoergo.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Do people still appreciate crocheted blankets and knitted caps for their babies (primarily British folks)? I don’t know if I’m old or too southern American, but I don’t want to make something for someone they won’t want or use. I still have my son’s blankets gifted 20 years ago.

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Mrs C @cogitoergo.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

“Don’t go that way. Never go that way.”

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Mrs C @cogitoergo.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Poor dear. If only there were more important things going on in the world.

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Mrs C @cogitoergo.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Arbor Low, a Neolithic henge monument in Derbyshire. It’s interesting to note this is the first time I’ve noticed people leaving things. It’s like a continuation of past repurposing and reverence.

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Mrs C @cogitoergo.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

History?? Since when is that a focus beyond being a political propaganda football? It isn’t a core subject timetabled with twice as many lessons. Students have a choice of opting out of history past KS3. Often, SATS takes priority, so pupils come to us woefully unaware of what history actually is.

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Mrs C @cogitoergo.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

When visiting a Neolithic site, it gives main character assembling a small copper structure to meditate under. However, to smoke a few times on-site, despite it being specifically prohibited, and in the middle of a tinder-dry field, makes you an arsehole. I hope this clarifies things.

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Mrs C @cogitoergo.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Wentworth Church and cemetery including the old church and even older cemetery. Pictures of some of the more interesting grave markers I came across included.

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Mrs C @cogitoergo.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

A quick PSA for anyone thinking of driving in Nottingham. Don’t. Just don’t. You’re welcome.

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Mrs C @cogitoergo.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Currently on a trip and we cross a toll bridge. One student didn’t understand why there is a toll. Their friend was explaining private ownership of said bridge and punctuated it with “you know, like the troll under the bridge…” A* explanation. I chuckled.

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Mrs C @cogitoergo.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

I finally found it - the book that inspired The World of David the Gnome!

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Mrs C @cogitoergo.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

I actually loathe the fact that most interest groups and businesses just have Facebook pages. I get it. It’s free, but I just loathe Facebook. I can’t even try to give away a sodding sofa because I refuse to have a Facebook account (Yes, I know about alternatives, but people don’t really use them).

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Mrs C @cogitoergo.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Saved a spiky boi 🦔 from the middle of the road. My hands are a bit hurty now.

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Mrs C @cogitoergo.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

We went to say goodbye to our old friend yesterday. The Boy and I love walking around Sherwood Forest. We were both sad to hear about Major Oak as I’m sure people around the world are, too.

Major Oak, an ancient oak tree, stands with a large canopy of bare limbs twisting towards the sky. It sits in a green field in front of a forest.

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Mrs C @cogitoergo.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

It’s kind of messed up that customer service representatives are corporate whipping boys, so I try to be nice, when in reality, all I want to do is get shrill with overpaid people much higher in the hierarchy.

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Mrs C @cogitoergo.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

A nice walk for any taphophile yesterday 🖤🤍

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Mrs C @cogitoergo.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Yesterday’s adventure was brought to by my incessant and tangential deep dives. To my knowledge, it’s the northernmost doom painting in England. It’s 14th century and way bigger than internet pictures would have you believe. St Mary and St Martin’s, Blyth, Notts - a mere 10-15 minute drive for me!

Wall of a church with faint outlines of a doom painting. The top register is Jesus with Mary and the Apostles alongside an angel blowing the trumpet for Judgement Day. The second register is dominated by scenes of different people rising from their coffins for judgement. At the right against a deep red background are outlines of the angel Michael holding weapons next to a faint outlines of a demon. At the bottom of this register appears another demon, a cauldron and what may be a wheelbarrow or cart. The left had register depicts saved souls being led away by another angel.

Closer picture of the hell scene above what is thought to depict scenes of Christ’s life in smaller box registers. The scenes are very difficult to make out.

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Mrs C @cogitoergo.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Yesterday I went to Bolton Museum, so I am providing obligatory Bes photos.

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Mrs C @cogitoergo.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Garages with shop cats will always have my loyalty. I’d never seen a garage cat until this week, and I will 100% go back just so I can pspspsps their cross-eyed ginger cat. I ain’t even mad I paid so much for tyres and realignment.

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Mrs C @cogitoergo.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Seeking a genuine, non-cynical answer as that’s where I automatically go - why do people in the U.K. have to pay private companies to access historical census data?

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Mrs C @cogitoergo.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Checks out. Needs Phoenicians though, and no, Carthage doesn’t count.

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Mrs C @cogitoergo.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Realising furniture shopping comes with the need for understanding geometry. I was straight A material in high school until geometry came along and wrecked my world. 🫠

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Mrs C @cogitoergo.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

I can categorically say Predator: Badlands is the best RomCom I’ve ever seen in my life.

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Mrs C @cogitoergo.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Nice to see the U.K. can arrest a disgraced royal. Meanwhile, in America 🦗 🦗 🦗

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Mrs C @cogitoergo.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Well I don’t see what everyone is complaining about. This copper is perfectly fine. I won’t stand for Ea-Nāsir slander.

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Mrs C @cogitoergo.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Hey, remember when The Watchmen TV series showed how deep the Operation Paperclip rabbit hole went, and many people learned about NASA’s origins through popular media, but the storyline about the continuance of the conspiracy was the fictional part? Yeah…good times, good times…

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a bunch of purple grapes with faces and the words oh i member below them

ALT: a bunch of purple grapes with faces and the words oh i member below them

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Mrs C @cogitoergo.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

My Year 13s are currently learning Christian moral ethics and actions with the case study of Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Despite the years that separate us from Bonhoeffer’s death, some of his theology becomes more prescient every time I teach it.

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Mrs C @cogitoergo.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

Yeah, everyone thought I was being dramatic when I said I didn’t want to watch Civil War because it was too close to the knuckle when it first came out.

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Mrs C @cogitoergo.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

Well bugger me, I guess. 🤷🏻‍♀️ It is the the sad truth of being an immigrant. You will never be able to go back to where you came from because it’s a place left back in time, and you’ll never be truly seen as belonging in your adopted home. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

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Number of people who say Britons must be born in UK is rising, study shows

Exclusive: Research finds ‘worrying’ surge in support for hard-right narratives on national identity

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Mrs C @cogitoergo.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

Oh my god, I don’t need hot honey on everything. STAHP

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Mrs C @cogitoergo.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

I’ve got a lovely little stereoscope, dee-dee-lee-dee and now I can see Seti in 3D.

Stereoscope with a stack of stereoscopic late 19th to early 20th century photographs including one of the mummy of Seti

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Mrs C @cogitoergo.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

Oh, it’s the time vortex part of the year where I lose track of day, hour, and year.

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Mrs C @cogitoergo.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

I hate the look of the new Nolan Odyssey film. If that makes me tedious and boring, so be it. If you want an adaptation that is wildly out-of-step with the period(s), Oh Brother Where Art Thou was brilliant.

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Mrs C @cogitoergo.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

The general fogginess has really helped capture the weird, ghostly factor once associated with Christmas 🖤

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Mrs C @cogitoergo.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

“Autism didn’t exist in my day…” Seriously, I survived off of Kraft macaroni and cheese and the odd chicken tender specifically made by my grandmother for years. It’s a miracle I got through early childhood without getting scurvy. Anyways, happy this fella is doing okay now.

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Mrs C @cogitoergo.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Going to try to fit a 6-7 tree in the boot of my Fiesta. Pray for me.

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