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Katharine Schopflin @schopflin.bsky.social · 13h

All power to you Caroline. Not that you should need it to, just, you know, use the loo.

Katharine Schopflin @schopflin.bsky.social · 15h

Exciting Baltic plans for new year. Usual Stockholm-Tallinn trip, then down to a spa hotel at Pärnu, then onto Riga! Back via Travemunde ferry.

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Katharine Schopflin @schopflin.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

On leave today (or tomorrowif you prefer). I actually did work last year but generally I book my birthday off ever since Bad Boss made me cry on my birthday once.

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Katharine Schopflin @schopflin.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Cheers to anyone who's awake and it's the right time! Intense day at work, extended choir rehearsal, 3 delicious pints of landlord and now heralding my 55th year with a G and T made with Estonian Möhn gin, present from my late father's wife.

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Ed Morrish @edmorrish.com · 19/07/2025

another good way of thinking about what cracking value radio 4 is that it makes twenty hours of programming a day - news, drama, comedy, documentaries, a soap opera, arts - for about £90m/yr, while spotify pay joe rogan about £60m/year to listen gullibly to liars for about nine hours per week

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Katharine Schopflin @schopflin.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Hey, comparisons are odious. Adverts are massive triggers one way or another. X

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Katharine Schopflin @schopflin.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Whatever you feel is valid. Having said which, I'm only just feeling able to feel some of those feelings and I don't think they'll go away very soon.

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Katharine Schopflin @schopflin.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

That's very sad, but unfortunately not surprising.

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Katharine Schopflin @schopflin.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

We had an alumna-organised one in March 2020. I was about to start a new job and was too tired to go. Just as well ..

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Katharine Schopflin @schopflin.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Practice nurse told me I had 'excellent' blood pressure this year (then spuriously popped 2kg off my weight to account for my summer dress and trainers).

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Katharine Schopflin @schopflin.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I think you can guess that it's not!

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Katharine Schopflin @schopflin.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I do! In a previous job I saved a Google chat message. It was a very unfortunate spelling mistake from someone seeking a reset on their account.

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Katharine Schopflin @schopflin.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Thought I would try and go out today (non-working day) but it's raining, I don't feel great and there's a lot on this week.

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Katharine Schopflin @schopflin.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

This is a good piece but we should accept a lifelong single woman can be fulfilled. Brookner's depression may have had nothing to do with being single. In fact the latter may have made her more functional. Andrew O’Hagan · Omelettes and Whisky: Anita Brookner’s Edge share.google/ufqsCAGdaaqt...

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Andrew O’Hagan · Omelettes and Whisky: Anita Brookner’s Edge

Over the course of 24 novels and 87 years, Anita Brookner achieved many dislocations of selfhood and may have become...

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Katharine Schopflin @schopflin.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

There's a book called Rooms of One's Own about the homes of various writers, male and female. I really think that's a bad title. Most male writers haven't struggled for a time and place to do their writing (and I don't think that's what the book is about).

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Ali B @alic.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Did you know that transplant patients still pay full prescription charges for everything? I take 13 medications every month just to keep on top of things. Please sign: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/77...

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Katharine Schopflin @schopflin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It's like mass observation or the 'other lives' obit column.

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Katharine Schopflin @schopflin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I'm the third of the name .. sadly no OBE or groundbreaking research for me.

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Katharine Schopflin @schopflin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

An obituary for my aunt, a rare example of a female mainframe 'computer' who made the move to software engineering (albeit via research) www.legacy.com/us/obituarie...

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Katharine Schopflin @schopflin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Are you a DP/Compliance officer feeling sidelined and not really listened to? Don't forget that anyone completing a procurement specific questionnaire will be so incredibly relieved that you and all your systems and procedures exist, because this evidence may get them the business.

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Katharine Schopflin @schopflin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

There was a Food Programme on emulsifers. Since sodium alginate in the form of gaviscon is basically what keeps me functional, I had a hard time demonising them. To be fair the programme didn't either.

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Katharine Schopflin @schopflin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Back to work today, but it's birthday week. Both of which mean some serious pacing will be necessary.

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Katharine Schopflin @schopflin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The Day of the Triffids TV adaptation. Didn't help that my older sister told me they were real and would regularly make a knocking sound and then hiss.

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Katharine Schopflin @schopflin.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I think I remember that. William Empson's son?

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Katharine Schopflin @schopflin.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Crime fiction fans. If you are thinking of embarking on John Banville/ Benjamin Black do read them in order and avoid the mounting dread I'm feeling knowing exactly what the next few chapters hold.

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Katharine Schopflin @schopflin.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Happy Birthday Froglet! An excellent week to be born in.

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Katharine Schopflin @schopflin.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The problem with weekends away is ... rail replacement buses. Only as far as Southampton Airport Parkway but I can't remember the last time I went away at the weekend that there wasn't some kind of rail disruption.

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Katharine Schopflin @schopflin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I was so happy, having seen the film, to see that production. It was so much more than the film. I had Ian Charleson, Belinda Sinclair, Julia Somerville and Bob Hoskins.

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Katharine Schopflin @schopflin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026