No other TV show title has ever struck pure terror in my heart and spine the way ‘Bargain-Loving Brits in the Sun’ does.
Rosie Schaap
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Author, teacher, maker of excellent soups, proud chairperson of the Glenarm Wildlife Group. 🐿️ My new book is THE SLOW ROAD NORTH: How I Found Peace in an Improbable Country rosieschaap.net
I was chatting with a favourite bookseller yesterday, and told him I might have a better shot at solvency if I wrote a book about a selkie who falls in love with a werewolf. We had a laugh. But SHOULD I?
I bet Thomas Pynchon is furious that he didn’t come up with the name ‘Severin Wunderman’ before real life did.
The ‘Little Scorpion’ of the French Riviera
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"We may not all conceive of whatever it is as ‘holy,’ but I think most of us are seeking something that is beautiful and marvellous to us in some singular, seemingly intangible way. Like a more just world, with less cruelty, less suffering...this is the kind of ‘holiness’ I seek." My latest post:
Too Much With Us, Late and Soon
A Reflective Winter Solstice
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I love a good literary hoax, especially if it’s at the expense of Modernism. But these are my takeaways from ‘about this poem’: Witter Bynner was an asshole; the hostess a hero; I hope the waitress sued.
Madagascar [Opus 104]
How terrible to entertain a lunatic! / To keep his earnestness from coming close!
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Friends I have a lot of shallots in need of thin slicing and I can’t find the finger guard for my mandoline but I’m going in anyway.
The latest on ROSIE SCHAAP IS BROKE: If finance is math, do I even stand a chance?
No, YOU Do the Math
(because I can’t)
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Found the tweet that Joyce Carol Oates bodied Elon Musk with and it's so beautiful in its eloquent, simple take down. So much so he's crashing out trying to prove he reads books now. Put this in the Louvre.
Can’t help it: it pleases me to think of Kim Davis as the gay divorcee.
FROM THE ANNALS OF UNEXPECTED CELEBRITY OF WHICH I DO NOT FEEL WORTHY It has come to my attention that I was quoted by the Very Reverend Nicholas Frayling at the funeral of the great Dame Patricia Routledge. I should just retire now. #hyacinthbucketforever www.sussexexpress.co.uk/news/in-full...
IN FULL - the moving tribute to Dame Patricia Routledge delivered at her funeral
Dame Patricia Routledge - the full text of the tribute given at her Funeral in Chichester Cathedral on 5 November 2025 by the Very Reverend Nicholas Frayling, former Dean of Chichester.
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You’d think they’d at least have made the password Louvre1!
Folks better get their benefits stat!
Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 10mo agoBREAKING: A federal judge finds the Trump admin "did not comply" with his order to fund SNAP benefits. Judge John McConnell has verbally ordered the admin to *fully fund* SNAP benefits for the month of November — by tomorrow.
The New Yorker Mamdani cover is great but I just can’t bring myself to share an image with a Yankees cap.
Marathon day is one of NYC’s greatest annual occasions; I miss it. Here’s one reason why:
Sparrow J@summergirl505.bsky.social · 10mo agoPalate cleanse. Some humans are terrible, but more of us are great.
The people of Sudan are enduring unimaginable suffering - and the world is watching. I have written to the Foreign Secretary demanding the suspension of arms sales to the UAE.
This dog would like you to read this newsletter.
Halloween, or Samhain
Pumpkins, or Turnips
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Must I Create a System? featuring W. Blake, S. Beckett, and being shit at math
Must I Create a System?
And if so, can you please tell me how?
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Keris Fox is, in my experience, basically a unicorn: a writer who actually loves talking about money! She interviewed me for her excellent Substack, The Ladybird Purse. 🐞💰🦄
"How does your relationship with money affect your emotions?"
+ some actual health and safety
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New post on ROSIE SCHAAP IS BROKE. How do you describe the difference between being broke and being poor?
Broke or Poor?
Because they're not synonymous
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New post up at ROSIE $CHAAP IS BROKE. We lived pretty large in my childhood home. There were consequences.
Beyond Our Means
Or, Why I Hate the Telephone
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New post on my newsletter, ROSIE SCHAAP IS BROKE! Milo implores you to read it, and to subscribe. And to give him treats, stat.
Stormy Weather
and pennies from heaven
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I've just launched ROSIE SCHAAP IS BROKE, a newsletter (mostly) focused on personal finance, by a person who doesn’t understand money at all! Can I sort my shambolic financial self out and be debt-free by 2030? I hope you'll subscribe and join the conversation. rosieschaap.substack.com/about
About - ROSIE SCHAAP IS BROKE
I’m a writer. I’m broke. I’m writing a new book about being broke. Click to read ROSIE SCHAAP IS BROKE, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.
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Canceling Jimmy Kimmel show is not about Charlie Kirk, just like going after universities was not about antisemitism and occupying DC was not about fighting crime.
