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Abby Hipkin

@desirablecalamity.bsky.social
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She/her, trainer, mum, coach, INFJ, owner of 0.01% of a Colin Dexter sculpture that doesn't exist yet. Nearly a black belt. Often found in libraries, museums, lecture theatres or churches. All views & art either my own or credited appropriately.

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Abby Hipkin @desirablecalamity.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Wednesday.
Sticker reading 'This door is alarmed'
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Abby Hipkin @desirablecalamity.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Love it when people do this in the gym, looks like a tiny, localised Rapture
This gym-goer has vanished leaving only their trackie bottoms, shoes, and water bottle behind
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Abby Hipkin @desirablecalamity.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
When your day starts with 'get in the van, and we'll have a look at your brain'* *Good news, it's still there
A mobile MRI scanning unit
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Abby Hipkin @desirablecalamity.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Watching '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 😁
Lieutenant Dolittle in his state of the art spacesuit
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Abby Hipkin @desirablecalamity.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Pond maintenance time, and our Clerk of Works is keeping a close eye on proceedings #frogs #pondlife #gardening #spring
Froge!
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Abby Hipkin @desirablecalamity.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Little garden centre cat #caturday
A small black cat dozing between a step stool and a sack of compost
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Abby Hipkin @desirablecalamity.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Found a ghost in my strawberries!
A strawberry shaped like a little ghost
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Abby Hipkin @desirablecalamity.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Member 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" 😁
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Abby Hipkin @desirablecalamity.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Swifts! The #swifts are back in #Oxford
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Abby Hipkin @desirablecalamity.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Loving 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
A chair in a library - to its left is a display of relaxation activities A chair in a library - to its right is a selection of theology books concerning apocalypse and purgatory
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Abby Hipkin @desirablecalamity.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Spring blossoms
Oxford's Radcliffe Camera with spring flowers in the foreground
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Abby Hipkin @desirablecalamity.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Agreed to take the boy to a new hobby and inadvertently found myself in a 70s horror film
Spooky abandoned outbuildings
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Abby Hipkin @desirablecalamity.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
We're 50 feet from a river, how is the humidity in our office down to 22%?
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a close up of a person holding a statue of a monster
Alt: Shrivelled
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Abby Hipkin @desirablecalamity.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
The 1950s did passive-aggressive in style: A full size tablet of Nestle's milk chocolate AND YOUR WEIGHT
1950s trsin station platform coin-operated machine that dispenses "A  full size tablet of Nestle's milk chocolate AND your weight"
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Abby Hipkin @desirablecalamity.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Earning his Easter egg
Left - before, right - after
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Abby Hipkin @desirablecalamity.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Wednesday.
A Nankauri 'scare devil'
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Abby Hipkin @desirablecalamity.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Tuesday Tythings - Julian Warren's gorgeous owl and mice 'Tythings' sculpture in Oxford, one of the seven tythings of Abingdon Abbey (675-1538 CE)
Tythings, a sculpture of a mouse (left), an owl (centre), and two mice (right) sitting on the central three of seven pillars commemorating the seven tythings (or hamlets) of Cumnor
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Abby Hipkin @desirablecalamity.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
One 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.uk
Building a Church out of Herring: Doles, Shares, and Maritime
Date: 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
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Abby Hipkin @desirablecalamity.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
The view from this afternoon's #office #lovemyjob ❤️
Oxford's Pitt Rivers Museum
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Abby Hipkin @desirablecalamity.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Equinox 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
A silly little yellow dog
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Abby Hipkin @desirablecalamity.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
#Caturday and dinner time for the street cats at Miradouro de São Pedro de Alcântara, Lisbon
Lisbon street cats being fed
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Abby Hipkin @desirablecalamity.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
The view from this afternoon's #office #lovemyjob ❤️
The Ashmolean Museum
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Abby Hipkin @desirablecalamity.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
You 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?
Nosferatu, not a fan of the parsnip
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Abby Hipkin @desirablecalamity.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Good morning from sunny #Oxford
Left: Radcliffe Camera, ahead: All Souls College, right: The University Church of St Mary the Virgin
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Abby Hipkin @desirablecalamity.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Love this very smug hound laying on the tomb of Lopo Fernandes Pacheco, Sé de Lisboa #MementoMoriMonday
The 14th century tomb of Lopo Fernandes Pacheco, Sé de Lisboa
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Abby Hipkin @desirablecalamity.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Terrifying
A box of 'GoodSlim Drain Hot Plus', whatever that might be
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Abby Hipkin @desirablecalamity.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
TFW it's a lovely present but you don't know where you're going to keep it
Statue contemplating a mammoth skullAnd a close up
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Abby Hipkin @desirablecalamity.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
The view from this morning's #office #lovemyjob ❤️
Window view from a TAP Air flight to Portugal for a conference
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Abby Hipkin @desirablecalamity.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Oxford's magnolias (even the ones tucked away behind hoardings) are putting on a show already
Magnolias in flower around Oxford (clockwise from top left: Hertford College, High Street, Cricket Rd and Outram Rd)
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Abby Hipkin @desirablecalamity.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
The view from this morning's #office #lovemyjob ❤️
Oxford's Pitt Rivers museum, viewed from the Clore Gallery (1st floor)
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Abby Hipkin @desirablecalamity.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Monday.
The memorial to Lionel Lockyer, (17th century quack and miracle cure merchant) Southwark Cathedral
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Abby Hipkin @desirablecalamity.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
TFW you take your first bite of the meal you just made and think "I am *good* at this"
Borlotti beans and kale, in a sauce made from roasted butternut squash, garlic, and potato, served with bread and butter and a little grated cheddar
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Abby Hipkin @desirablecalamity.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Dexter's starting the day off by being gratuitously cute #snakesonsunday
Dexter, a Western Hognosed snake
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Abby Hipkin @desirablecalamity.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Happy #Caturday from Hodge, the Southwark Cathedral cat
Hodge, Southwark Cathedral's resident cat
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Abby Hipkin @desirablecalamity.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
The view from this morning's #office #lovemyjob ❤️
The Museum of Natural History, Oxford
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Abby Hipkin @desirablecalamity.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
St Dunstan-in-the-East going all-out gothic for #WindowsOnWednesday
Aisle windows of a disused London church, now overgrown
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Abby Hipkin @desirablecalamity.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Magdalen on a moody misty morning
Magdalen College tower, viewed from St Clements
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Abby Hipkin @desirablecalamity.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
College dining halls are so stuffy and forma...
Dinosaur!
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Abby Hipkin @desirablecalamity.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
The view from this morning's #office #lovemyjob ❤️
The Clarendon Building (left), Bodleian Library (behind) and Sheldonian Theatre (right), Oxford
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Abby Hipkin @desirablecalamity.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
The view from this afternoon's #office #lovemyjob
The Ashmolean Museum's 'East meets West' gallery
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Abby Hipkin @desirablecalamity.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
One must always ensure one's effigy is alluringly posed to appeal to future donors
Shakespeare's tomb, Southwark Cathedral
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Abby Hipkin @desirablecalamity.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
All you need is
LOVE
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Abby Hipkin @desirablecalamity.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
One week of nightly serenades from pond, and we have our first frogspawn of the year 🐸
Frogspawn! (And flag iris, plus a little duckweed)
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Abby Hipkin @desirablecalamity.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
That's... very specific. What are they going to make me look at?!
Screenshot of a confirmation of an Adult eye test appointment
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Abby Hipkin @desirablecalamity.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
The last of today's very welcome early evening sun sinking behind @trinityoxford.bsky.social
Trinity College Oxford, taken from Parks Road
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Abby Hipkin @desirablecalamity.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
The view from this afternoon's #office #lovemyjob ❤️
Oxford's beautiful Museum of Natural History
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Abby Hipkin @desirablecalamity.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
They're back! 🐸
Frogs!
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Abby Hipkin @desirablecalamity.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Goals for this week: stop typing 'composted' instead of 'composed'
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Abby Hipkin @desirablecalamity.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Spring!
Daffodils in Grandpont woods
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Abby Hipkin @desirablecalamity.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Actual disaster
A broken tea mug
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