Abby Hipkin
@desirablecalamity.bsky.social
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.
Love it when people do this in the gym, looks like a tiny, localised Rapture
When your day starts with 'get in the van, and we'll have a look at your brain'* *Good news, it's still there
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 😁
Pond maintenance time, and our Clerk of Works is keeping a close eye on proceedings #frogs #pondlife #gardening #spring
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" 😁
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
Agreed to take the boy to a new hobby and inadvertently found myself in a 70s horror film
We're 50 feet from a river, how is the humidity in our office down to 22%?
a close up of a person holding a statue of a monster
Alt: Shrivelled
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The 1950s did passive-aggressive in style: A full size tablet of Nestle's milk chocolate AND YOUR WEIGHT
Tuesday Tythings - Julian Warren's gorgeous owl and mice 'Tythings' sculpture in Oxford, one of the seven tythings of Abingdon Abbey (675-1538 CE)
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...
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
ox.ac.uk
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
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?
Love this very smug hound laying on the tomb of Lopo Fernandes Pacheco, Sé de Lisboa #MementoMoriMonday
TFW it's a lovely present but you don't know where you're going to keep it
Oxford's magnolias (even the ones tucked away behind hoardings) are putting on a show already
