Abby Hipkin @desirablecalamity.bsky.social · 10/05/2026Love it when people do this in the gym, looks like a tiny, localised Rapture 010
Abby Hipkin @desirablecalamity.bsky.social · 05/05/2026When your day starts with 'get in the van, and we'll have a look at your brain'* *Good news, it's still there 030
Abby Hipkin @desirablecalamity.bsky.social · 03/05/2026Watching 'Dark Star' (1975). Judging from the set, costumes, and the 'alien' (a spray painted beachball) I'm estimating the total production budget to have been around £9.50. Obviously I'm loving every cheesy minute 😁 130
Abby Hipkin @desirablecalamity.bsky.social · 03/05/2026Pond maintenance time, and our Clerk of Works is keeping a close eye on proceedings #frogs #pondlife #gardening #spring 021
Abby Hipkin @desirablecalamity.bsky.social · 24/04/2026Member of the audience sitting behind me has just perfectly captured a fundamental challenge of identifying the debate or conference speaker at a Humanities event: 'He's the one in the brown jacket' "THEY'RE ALL WEARING BROWN JACKETS" 😁 000
Abby Hipkin @desirablecalamity.bsky.social · 23/04/2026Loving this little corner in one of our Humanities libraries - reach to your left for the relaxation zone, origami and colouring, reach to your left and it's all apocalypse theory and the birth of purgatory 000
Abby Hipkin @desirablecalamity.bsky.social · 17/04/2026Agreed to take the boy to a new hobby and inadvertently found myself in a 70s horror film 010
Abby Hipkin @desirablecalamity.bsky.social · 13/04/2026We're 50 feet from a river, how is the humidity in our office down to 22%?media.tenor.coma close up of a person holding a statue of a monsterAlt: Shrivelled 000
Abby Hipkin @desirablecalamity.bsky.social · 12/04/2026The 1950s did passive-aggressive in style: A full size tablet of Nestle's milk chocolate AND YOUR WEIGHT 020
Abby Hipkin @desirablecalamity.bsky.social · 24/03/2026Tuesday Tythings - Julian Warren's gorgeous owl and mice 'Tythings' sculpture in Oxford, one of the seven tythings of Abingdon Abbey (675-1538 CE) 000
Abby Hipkin @desirablecalamity.bsky.social · 24/03/2026One for anyone who's interested in the mediaeval period, buildings and landscapes, and human societies making what they can out of what they have (in person in Oxford but also available online) - 13th May 5-6pm www.ox.ac.uk/event/buildi...ox.ac.ukBuilding a Church out of Herring: Doles, Shares, and MaritimeDate: 2026-05-13T00:00:00 | Time: 5:00pm - 6:00pm | Venue: Oxford Lifelong Learning (in-person and online) Rewley House, 1 Wellington Square Oxford OX1 2JA 011
Abby Hipkin @desirablecalamity.bsky.social · 23/03/2026The view from this afternoon's #office #lovemyjob ❤️ 010
Abby Hipkin @desirablecalamity.bsky.social · 22/03/2026Equinox milestones - the back lawn has had its first cut of the year, and this idiot has had his first lecture of the year on the difference between delicious healthy snacks, and slugs that have drowned in a plant pot 000
Abby Hipkin @desirablecalamity.bsky.social · 21/03/2026#Caturday and dinner time for the street cats at Miradouro de São Pedro de Alcântara, Lisbon 070
Abby Hipkin @desirablecalamity.bsky.social · 19/03/2026The view from this afternoon's #office #lovemyjob ❤️ 000
Abby Hipkin @desirablecalamity.bsky.social · 19/03/2026You know how everything with goat's cheese in it tastes of goat? And when the sugar industry tried making sugar from parsnips, it all tasted of parsnip? Do you think it works like that for vampires? 000
Abby Hipkin @desirablecalamity.bsky.social · 16/03/2026Love this very smug hound laying on the tomb of Lopo Fernandes Pacheco, Sé de Lisboa #MementoMoriMonday 120
Abby Hipkin @desirablecalamity.bsky.social · 12/03/2026TFW it's a lovely present but you don't know where you're going to keep it 011
Abby Hipkin @desirablecalamity.bsky.social · 11/03/2026The view from this morning's #office #lovemyjob ❤️ 000
Abby Hipkin @desirablecalamity.bsky.social · 10/03/2026Oxford's magnolias (even the ones tucked away behind hoardings) are putting on a show already 020
Abby Hipkin @desirablecalamity.bsky.social · 09/03/2026The view from this morning's #office #lovemyjob ❤️ 010
Abby Hipkin @desirablecalamity.bsky.social · 08/03/2026TFW you take your first bite of the meal you just made and think "I am *good* at this" 000
Abby Hipkin @desirablecalamity.bsky.social · 08/03/2026Dexter's starting the day off by being gratuitously cute #snakesonsunday 120
Abby Hipkin @desirablecalamity.bsky.social · 07/03/2026Happy #Caturday from Hodge, the Southwark Cathedral cat 030
Abby Hipkin @desirablecalamity.bsky.social · 05/03/2026The view from this morning's #office #lovemyjob ❤️ 010
Abby Hipkin @desirablecalamity.bsky.social · 04/03/2026St Dunstan-in-the-East going all-out gothic for #WindowsOnWednesday 010
Abby Hipkin @desirablecalamity.bsky.social · 03/03/2026College dining halls are so stuffy and forma... 011
Abby Hipkin @desirablecalamity.bsky.social · 03/03/2026The view from this morning's #office #lovemyjob ❤️ 000
Abby Hipkin @desirablecalamity.bsky.social · 02/03/2026The view from this afternoon's #office #lovemyjob 010
Abby Hipkin @desirablecalamity.bsky.social · 01/03/2026One must always ensure one's effigy is alluringly posed to appeal to future donors 011
Abby Hipkin @desirablecalamity.bsky.social · 27/02/2026One week of nightly serenades from pond, and we have our first frogspawn of the year 🐸 010
Abby Hipkin @desirablecalamity.bsky.social · 26/02/2026That's... very specific. What are they going to make me look at?! 020
Abby Hipkin @desirablecalamity.bsky.social · 25/02/2026The last of today's very welcome early evening sun sinking behind @trinityoxford.bsky.social 000
Abby Hipkin @desirablecalamity.bsky.social · 25/02/2026The view from this afternoon's #office #lovemyjob ❤️ 030
Abby Hipkin @desirablecalamity.bsky.social · 24/02/2026Goals for this week: stop typing 'composted' instead of 'composed' 000