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Becky Mynett @psalteryandharp.uk · 30/08/2026

I also recommend the Ankarsrum, especially if you make bread (I don’t have the slicing/mincing/grating attachments as my magimix processor still works). Here it is kneading:

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Becky Mynett @psalteryandharp.uk · 12/07/2026

I should have added a photo! Here's where I was.

Willow trees and a Giverny style bridge over water. The sky is blue.

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Becky Mynett @psalteryandharp.uk · 03/07/2026

The weirdest thing just happened… a package arrived addressed to me with return address of Hymns A&M and containing a new copy of a book I hadn’t ordered & already own. Did I lend mine to someone? (No, I found mine). Has anyone randomly sent me a copy thinking I might like it?

A copy of Becky Chambers’ excellent book, ‘the long way to a small angry planet’ on a padded envelope showing a return address of Hymns Ancient and Modern. There was no packing slip or note.

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Becky Mynett @psalteryandharp.uk · 24/05/2026

Not your point, I know, but ‘vague de chaleur’ rather than ‘canicule’ struck me as odd, so I checked the ngram. Must be the influence of English.

An ngram graph showing ‘canicule’ appearing in French from about 1540. The red line showing this is quite wobbly with a clearly rapid increase around 2000. ‘Vague de chaleur’ is shown as a blue line almost at 0 throughout the period 1500 - nowish.

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Becky Mynett @psalteryandharp.uk · 24/05/2026

I saw these daisies this morning and thought of @mooseallain.bsky.social!

An oxeye daisy next to an ordinary daisy, which is about the same size as the yellow centre of the oxeye. Other than size, they look the same.

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Becky Mynett @psalteryandharp.uk · 26/04/2026

Nature morte… yes, the tulips are dead. But I quite like the twisty shapes.

A glass vase on the mantlepiece. The shelf and wall are pale blue. To the left is a small soapstone sculpture of dancing figures. It is slightly pushed back. To the right is a brass carriage clock. There is no water in the vase but there is a spring of evergreen conifer and some dead, purple tulips with faded foliage. The flowers are twisted and drooping downwards in star shapes.

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Becky Mynett @psalteryandharp.uk · 24/04/2026

I inherited my grandma’s. It included some Italian buttons my grandad rescued (looted? Found abandoned in?) from a button factory during WW2, many of which I still have, now neatly sorted.

A plastic box with compartments containing buttons that are neatly sorted and threaded

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Becky Mynett @psalteryandharp.uk · 03/04/2026

That reminds me. Sea Pink is a really obvious colour to me as sea pinks are a flower that grows by the sea, particularly in the west of the UK. Also known as thrift. This clump is on Islay (Photo found at www.islay.org.uk/wp-content/u...).

A clump of sea pinks or thrift with rocks behind. The grass-like leaves have think green stalks growing up about 4 inches. Each is topped by a pink flower.

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Becky Mynett @psalteryandharp.uk · 02/04/2026

I actually stopped the car on the way home from church this evening to take a photo. Best shot I could get from a safe place to stop.

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Becky Mynett @psalteryandharp.uk · 04/03/2026

My 15 year old insists on using an espresso spoon for eating desserts. We cal, it the tiny spoon (next to a dessert spoon and teaspoon for comparison).

Three spoons on a marble worktop: dessert spoon, teaspoon and espresso spoon. I imagine they’re doing the ‘I look down on him’ sketch.

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Becky Mynett @psalteryandharp.uk · 27/02/2026

#TinyJoys The magnolia‘s started flowering today!

A magnolia tree with large dark red flowers just opening on the bare branches. Roof of neighbouring bungalow behind.

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Becky Mynett @psalteryandharp.uk · 15/02/2026

It is indeed! Here it is in slightly better light.

Ada Palmer’s Inventing the Renaissance showing the shiny gold foil.

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Becky Mynett @psalteryandharp.uk · 15/02/2026

It’s just come out in paperback here in the UK. I’m really enjoying it!

Ada Palmer’s book Inventing the Renaissance on my lap. The cover has concentric red and turquoise rings round a gold circle containing a photo of a statue. I think it’s Perseus holding up Medusa’s head.

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Becky Mynett @psalteryandharp.uk · 27/01/2026

Excited that I can finally reach the organ pedals!

Side view of a dark brown adjustable organ bench showing the handle to raise and lower it. You can see part of the pedalboard on the left.

View of new dark brown adjustable organ bench placed over the pedalboard. You can also see the single manual keyboard with a row of draw stops above. The bench blends in perfectly and only those of us who play the organ will notice it.

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Becky Mynett @psalteryandharp.uk · 06/01/2026

Your harpist would be wiser to play it the right way round! With the tallest bit away from her, like this:

Me (white woman with glasses and brown dishevelled hair) sitting at my harp. Not a great photo as it was hard to take (at arm’s length) so the harp could be seen properly!

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Becky Mynett @psalteryandharp.uk · 03/01/2026

Just marzipanned the Christmas Cake. #organised (This might now be a Twelfth Cake, or we might break in to it this afternoon now we’ve eaten all the stollen and Pannetone!)

A plain marzippanned fruitcake on a flat plate marked with guidelines for cutting equal sized portions.

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Becky Mynett @psalteryandharp.uk · 28/12/2025

Very pleased with today’s loaf (pain de campagne, recipe from Brilliant Bread by James Morton).

A golden brown loaf of well-risen bread with a nice split in the crust down the middle and smaller slashes on the sides. It is on a cooling rack on a grey marble work surface.

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Becky Mynett @psalteryandharp.uk · 07/11/2025

Excited to receive my Christmas cards from @loreandordure.com. I didn’t get round to sending cards last year (long-Covid fatigue, too much to do) but this year I have an incentive!

A packet of hand printed Christmas cards featuring the lyrics to Twelve Days of Christmas, highlighting Seven swans a-swimming. The visible card is yellow with red and white text and gold snowflakes. There is also a red bonus card with a white paper wrapper printed with the snowflake design round it and a snowflake sticker. They are laid on a teal velvet background.

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Becky Mynett @psalteryandharp.uk · 01/11/2025

#TinyJoys New plant! We first saw this amazing plant at the Botanic Garden of Wales in the summer. Yesterday, we bought one from the garden centre at RHS Wisley. Love the leaves that look like they’ve been painted with a smaller leaf design.

A large houseplant with lime-green elongated leaves that have dark green edges and leaf-like pattern on them that looks like a twig with dark green leaves on it. We are looking slightly down on the plant and the leaves are splayed out in all directions. It is in a corner on a rosewood table in front of a blue-green wall.

A close up showing the elongated, ‘painted’ leaves. You can see that the undersides of the leaves are a dark, burgundy red. There is more of the pale-blue and teal patterned pot visible.

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Becky Mynett @psalteryandharp.uk · 08/10/2025

I have just taken delivery of the most unusually shaped and efficiently packed parcel I have ever seen! (It’s a two-part tree ring to demarcate a small bed around a new pear tree.)

A semi-circular arch wrapped in corrugated card with a postage label on top. Standing on a green carpet.

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Becky Mynett @psalteryandharp.uk · 15/09/2025

On closer inspection, the mini has six segments!

One full-sizes satsuma segment next to the mini satsuma, which has been splayed open to show it has six segments.

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Becky Mynett @psalteryandharp.uk · 10/08/2025

Merci ! Voici le photo du livret:

A booklet for a Metalwork Embroidery kit by Becky Hogg. The photo on the front shows a heron stitched mainly in silver on a white fabric background in a small embroidery hoop. The heron has dark blue and teal accents and it is standing next to three bulrushes.

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Becky Mynett @psalteryandharp.uk · 10/08/2025

Moi, je suis en train de broder un héron (à partir d’un kit de Becky Hogg).

A metal thread embroidery (Goldwork but not gold) of a heron in progress on a teal fabric. The felt and soft string padding can be seen and the beak and legs are complete. The head and neck are being couched using silver thread sewn down with white thread with blue and teal making a pattern on the neck. There is a RSN Stitchbank magnetic needle keeper to the top left.

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Becky Mynett @psalteryandharp.uk · 31/07/2025

Fellow trans allies, please get one of these badges if you haven’t got one already. I’ve had two young people say, ‘I like your badge’ (one pupil at my son’s school and a shop assistant just now), which makes it feel really worthwhile. Let’s show folks that lots of cis people support trans people.

A beige fabric hat with a pride ribbon around the crown and a trans ally badge pinned to it.

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Becky Mynett @psalteryandharp.uk · 12/07/2025

Found on the bookstall at General Synod (apparently it sells very well in the Church House bookshop in London) @jeremywilliams.bsky.social

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Becky Mynett @psalteryandharp.uk · 29/06/2025

St Peter and St Paul today, so this morning we sang the hymn I wrote a few years ago. Here’s our lockdown recording.

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Becky Mynett @psalteryandharp.uk · 03/06/2025

It’s available from the publisher here: www.ylolfa.com/products/978...

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Becky Mynett @psalteryandharp.uk · 03/05/2025

#TinyJoys The first (and only) flower on our new quince tree.

In the foreground, a slightly pink tinged white cup shaped bloom with purple stamens surrounded by green oval shaped leaves. The background shows the tree is on a terracotta pot on a stone patio.

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Becky Mynett @psalteryandharp.uk · 01/05/2025

Just as I give up translating, I have discovered that the book I translated several chapters of a few years ago (and which didn't have a publisher last I heard) was published last year by Routledge. And not only am I credited (inside, not on the cover), I am thanked! #TinyJoys

The cover of 'Early Modern Diasporas: A European History' by Mathilde Monge and Natalia Muchnik'. The cover image is in greens blues and turquoise and looks a bit like a satellite image of the earth.

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Becky Mynett @psalteryandharp.uk · 15/04/2025

Home made ciabatta (recipe from James Morton’s ‘Brilliant Bread).

Four uneven homemade ciabatta loaves on a cooling rack.

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Becky Mynett @psalteryandharp.uk · 29/03/2025

#TinyJoys Sunlight shining through the washing up to make a shadow still life on a door.

A blue-grey panelled interior door with a sunlit strip across the middle. The sunlit area has interesting shadows formed by a colander on the left, a Chinese spider type strainer in the middle and something that looks like a spiky plant on the right, but is probably a glass jug with cutlery in it.

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Becky Mynett @psalteryandharp.uk · 14/03/2025

It’s a sad day when the obituary page covers two people with whom you have had interesting conversations. RIP Geoffrey and Clive.

The obituary page of the Church Times with lengthy obits for General Synod stalwarts Geoffrey Tattersall and Clive Billenness.

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Becky Mynett @psalteryandharp.uk · 18/02/2025

At morning prayer (at home), I like to use the WCC’s prayer cycle. This week we are praying for Austria, Switzerland and Lichtenstein. As well as intentions and prayers there is usually a song. I was struck by the simplicity & future tense in this French text to Ps 100. I like praying in French.

Music to the Old Hundredth with text in French, English, German and Spanish. The English text is the familiar “All people that on Earth do dwell”. The French:
Vous qui sur la terra habitez, (Y’all who live on earth)
Chantez à pleine voix, chantez. (Sing lustily, sing)
Réjouissez-vous au Seigneur, (Rejoice in the Lord)
Égayez-vous à son honneur. (Cheer up in his honour)

Lui seul est notre souverain, (He alone is our Lord)
C’est lui qui nous fit de sa main: (He made us with his hands)
Nous le peuple qu’il mènera, (We are the people he will lead)
Le troupeau qu’il rassemblera. The flock he will assemble)

Dans sa maison dès aujourd’hui, (In his house, from today)
Tous présentez-vous devant lui: (everyone present yourself before him)
Célébrez son nom glorieux, (celebrate his glorious name)
Exaltez-le jusques aux cieux. (Exalt him to the heavens)

Pour toi, Seigneur, que notre amour (May our love for you* Lord)
She renouvelle chaque jour, (be renewed each day)
Ta bonté, ta fidelité (Your goodness, your faithfulness)
Demeurent pour l’éternité. (Remain for eternity)

* You is in the familiar ‘tu’ form, as is usual for family, children, pets and God.

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Becky Mynett @psalteryandharp.uk · 15/12/2024

No hippopotamuses, but our local garden centre, surprisingly, does have a rhinoceros!

A life-size fibreglass rhino next to some fake bamboo in a marquee. (Yours for £3999.99)

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Becky Mynett @psalteryandharp.uk · 01/12/2024

I’ve ordered badges this year (and pencils for my choir). I couldn’t really justify another top as I got this last year!

Me (a white woman with long brown hair and glasses) wearing a navy long-sleeved T-shirt with the first line of the Advent Matin Responsory on it. The lyric is “I look from afar:” and the notes are d r d t, l, d. The shirt is from Q&P.

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Becky Mynett @psalteryandharp.uk · 24/11/2024

#TinyJoys making homemade mincemeat (pudding tomorrow, probably). I find commercial mincemeat and puddings too sweet so usually make my own added sugar free one using my own recipe refined from my grandma’s.

A large pan of homemade mincemeat with a wooden spoon in it.

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Becky Mynett @psalteryandharp.uk · 12/11/2024

Thank you again to @markdruss.bsky.social for the copy of this, which I won on here. It got muddled up with my birthday presents so I have only opened it today. A lovely extra present that I am looking forward to reading!

A copy of “The Spirit of Freedom: Quaker-shaped Christian theology” by Mark Russ. The cover illustration is a spiral of birds in flight in shades of orange and turquoise with blue title and author all on a white background.

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Becky Mynett @psalteryandharp.uk · 07/11/2024

STOP THIS IS A CRAFTING PIC CHECKPOINT. Please share a minimum of (1) picture of your crafting WIP before proceeding. Recommended action after sharing the pic is to craft instead of doomscrolling. Thank you. 🧶 NB - blanket & socks are WIPs (blanket currently lap sized but aiming for double bed!

A completed sock and an incomplete sock on a circular needle on top of a crocheted blanket on my lap. The socks are in bluetit wool (self-striping in blue, yellow, green, and dark grey with white flecks). The blanket is worked in small squares in poppy-field inspired red, yellow, green and grey forming patchwork panels.

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Becky Mynett @psalteryandharp.uk · 19/09/2024

I believe they hem them. Personally, I don’t see why you’d need to for cleaning cloths. The Japanese method of patching things, on the other hand, is brilliant. The running stitches make the patch much more secure and hard wearing. Here’s a patch on my favourite jacket.

A pale pink patch with running stitch across it in embroidery silks in shades of pink, purple and gold. It is patching a worn area of a jacket made of pink and purple striped cotton ikhat cloth with thin gold stripes.

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Becky Mynett @psalteryandharp.uk · 23/09/2023

Just finished reading this encouraging book. Lots of positive stories. Highly recommended (even though the translators have used ‘theologist’ instead of ‘theologian’).

Front cover of ‘Humankind: A Hopeful History’ by Rutger Bregman

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