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Caroline Coetzee

@sunwitch.bsky.social
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Gently morphing from youth opera direction to libretto writing. Unrepent old leftie. Foreigner. She / her.

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Caroline Coetzee @sunwitch.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
RIP John Crowley. Such a wonderful writer gone.
The end of Little Big by John Crowley:
 Then there was a dark house made once of time, made now of weather, and harder to find; impossible to find and not even as easy to dream of as when it was alight. Stories last longer: but only by becoming only stories. It was anyway all a long time ago; the world, we know now, is as it is and not different; if there was ever a time when there were passages, doors, the borders open and many crossing, that time is not now. The world is older than it was. Even the weather isn’t as we remember it clearly once being; never lately does there come a summer day such as we remember, never clouds as white as that, never grass as odorous or shade as deep and full of promise as we remember they can be, as once upon a time they were.
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Caroline Coetzee @sunwitch.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
When my daughters were just the right age there was this brilliant show. I couldn't quite believe it - made answering the where poo goes question so easy.
Old CBeebies show called Come Outside, sadly unavailable to stream. "Sewage
Come Outside
Educational fun for children.

Auntie Mabel has the unsavoury job of cleaning up Pippin's mess and putting it down the lavatory. The investigative pair are intrigued to find out where the dirty water goes, and so follow their noses to a sewage treatment plant to learn more about the poop process."
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Caroline Coetzee @sunwitch.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Ah OK - seen a few of your other posts now so I know what you’re talking about. Was momentarily a little confused - this was the last Marlowe I saw
Ncuti Gatwa as Kit Marlowe in Born with Teeth for the RSC
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Caroline Coetzee @sunwitch.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Let me introduce you to bunny chow
A loaf of white bread filled with curry: a South African dish originating from Durban Indians
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Caroline Coetzee @sunwitch.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Still buzzing 2 weeks after introducing Hidden Star at @teteateteopera.bsky.social. Here's Susanna Davis as schoolgirl Annie, in love with the stars! Now to bring Annie Walker, 19th century astronomer, home to the Cambridge Observatory in 2026 for a full performance with @cambridgeastro.bsky.social
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Caroline Coetzee @sunwitch.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
As if by magic..
8 in 10 farm estates affectedby changes to the inheritance tax regime set out in the autumn budget would be able to pay their entire IHT bill out of non-farm assets according to a study by the Centre for the Analysis of Taxation, which produces independent academic research on tax policy.
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Caroline Coetzee @sunwitch.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Friday the 26th
Friday the 23th poster image -  words removed
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Caroline Coetzee @sunwitch.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
And, no, this is not just another book about wizard school, as seen advertised on multiple occasions post HP.
A Wizard of Earthsea 1st edition cover
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Caroline Coetzee @sunwitch.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Kit's Coty House, looking magnificent in the Kent sunshine!
Kit's Coty House, Kent. A magnificent dolmenKit's Coty House, Kent. A magnificent dolmen from the other side
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Caroline Coetzee @sunwitch.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
I first met his work here as a child and have loved it ever since.
John Burning ham's illustration of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang roaring into the air over a motorway tailback.
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Caroline Coetzee @sunwitch.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Aaah... RIP Breyten Breytenbach.
Breyten Breytenbach: Seisoen in die Paradys.
Mag daar altyd 'n lig brand in julle huis 
Mag die paddas julle onthou Mag die appels aljaar soeter word 
En die druiweprieël groener. Mag julle vriende wyn saambring vir die kuier. 
Mag die huis wat julle betrek, deurtrek bly 
Van die geur van sederhout en malvablare 
Mag die walle van julle slote nie te gou inkalwe 
En instort nie 
Sodat die water nog helderder daarin kan vloei 
Mag die sterre en die berg en die stilte 
Oor julle en julle gesin bly waak 
Nou en môre en môre se aand En elke van daardie dae se nag.

May a light always burn in your house
May the frogs remember you
May the apples grow sweeter every year
And the grape arbour greener. 
May your friends bring wine when they visit. 
May the scent of cedar wood and mallow leaves always spread through your house. 
May the banks of your ditches not cave in 
And collapse too soon
So that the water can flow even more clearly there. 
May the stars and the mountains and the silence
Keep watch over you and your family
Now, and tomorrow and the evening of tomorrow 
And each of the nights of those days.
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Caroline Coetzee @sunwitch.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Also adored this!
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Caroline Coetzee @sunwitch.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Never was a 'Do not touch' sign so needed.
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