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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 · 21/08/2026

And you know he isn’t reading all that. It’s too long, has multiple-syllabic words, and isn’t written in bold marker or crayon.

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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

It’s just kind of wild to think about. Then again, I’m the level of petty that would have documented everything including layers just to rub the contractors’ noses in it (presuming they are the guilty party).

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

Then there are everyday items, eg this Ariel tub. I haven’t seen these tubs in years, but people do reuse things (biscuit tin full of thread anyone?). The Ariel container may predate the contractors, but the life of the object could have continued for years after being discontinued by its maker.

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

She blames the contractors from whom she bought the house. They say it wasn’t them. Now, she also reckons there was a shed that the contractors cba with and just buried the rubbish. So the evidence is what is essentially ‘builder’s waste’, but garden sheds often have the same.

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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

Some may see an issue with social media and poor media literacy. I wonder what subject helps analyse and evaluate sources? Hmm. It’s history, Lucy! You don’t throw the baby out with the bath water. Reform can come in a way that moves the goal beyond exams.

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

I could go on about the wrongs of the education system, but for an education secretary to yet again confirm how little they actually know about the system, it would be laughable if I didn’t have to work within it. Yes, we do need to adapt to living today.

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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

A memorial to Thomas Wentworth, grandson of Thomas and Margaret. Thomas was the 1st Earl of Strafford and Lord Deputy of Ireland. He was beheaded at Tower Hill. While Charles I had reluctantly signed his death warrant, Thomas was reported to have said “put not your trust in princes.”

Memorial to Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl
of Strafford

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

The chest tomb of Thomas and Margaret Wentworth complete with their Tudor era accoutrements, constructed in 1587. For context, this is the year before the Spanish Armada was spotted in the English Channel.

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

The oldest part of the cemetery contains unmarked graves. This is the earliest attempt at memorialising the deceased, dating from the late 17th century.

Grave marker reads “Here lieth the body of Ralph Cutlatt of Harley who was buried the 2[…]th of December 1670”

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

A unique and funny grave marker in the old cemetery. On the opposite side, the grave marker reads “For goodnes sake, fix this stone up agane”

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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

Oh I did, thanks. Slept like a baby! 😂

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

Nothing in particular. Driving through it was just an experience. People just blowing through 30 mph zones, emergency services unable to get through gridlock, police attending an accident, and generally awful driving. I hated it, and I’m not a stranger to driving in cities.

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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 · 18/07/2026

Awesome! That tabby is living its best life. 🥰

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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 · 02/05/2026

Tangentially related, my favourite English teacher was an Anglophile lady with a thick Mississippi accent who named her son Geoffrey after Chaucer. She was a god when it came to understanding the English language and made me love Beowulf.

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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

Drats. I can’t for the life of me understand the justification for it. I can see that local libraries subscribe to these external companies so you can access them if you go in person to the library, but it seems ludicrous that you would have to go through a private company in the first place.

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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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