Why did I agree to do a 40 minute talk. I've never done a 40 minute talk. That's twice as long as I'm used to.
Anna
@superteadrinker.bsky.social
Librarian. Archivist. Student. Tea drinker. Cat servant. Anglican't. Irritable and irritating.
Headache, cloudy, zoom cat. Are we going to have a storm?
Homer Simpson Pleads in The Simpsons
ALT: Homer Simpson Pleads in The Simpsons
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Slightly bothered by the redundant academics thinking they can just work in libraries instead. Lads, those jobs were cut 20 years ago...
I had a stressful nightmare about the moon last night and now considering that I may be a prophet.
📚 Michael Wheeler applauds a celebration by librarians. #reviews #books #churchtimes #libraries
Book review: Theological Libraries in the United Kingdom and Ireland: 70 Years of the Association of British Theological and Philosophical Libraries, edited by Christine Love-Rodgers, and Hannie Riley and Gudrun Warren
THE great copyright libraries of the UK and Ireland could be described as cathedrals of learning. Genuflection at the door would not be inappropriate. Equally impressive, though on a quite different scale, are some of the specialist libraries that...
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I wonder how much longer I can delay my first attempt at inflating my car tyres?
I need to pump up one of my car tyres and am absolutely terrified. Usually I'm fine just getting on with tasks by myself, but honestly I'd give up my right to vote and equal pay if a man would sort my car out for me.
Special Collections librarians know the value of a good pencil: this one’s at least 26 years old going by the phone number.
Just uttered those six little words all library staff love to hear: 'There's something unpleasant in the toilets'
Kit will now eat wet food again, but only if it's served in the lounge at the same time as I'm having my dinner.
Pondering the fact that of all the things the Egyptians did to the Israelites, it was a government injunction telling the Israelites to do more with less which brought down the seven plagues of Egypt. www.biblegateway.com/passage/?sea...
Bible Gateway passage: Exodus 5 - New International Version
Bricks Without Straw - Afterward Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and said, “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘Let my people go, so that they may hold a festival to me in the wilderness....
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Feeling much better than a couple of weeks ago, but still find if I'm busy one day I'm shattered the next.
Slightly worried the Bluesky fountain pen mafia are all now writing dis tracks about me and my new stationery
60,000 words klaxon (cut and pasted a particularly long appendix)
Advise needed please - I’m hosting a conference next summer with @basjk677.bsky.social and we’d like the papers to become an edited volume. How do we communicate this in the CFP and how do we engage with potential publishers? Thanks
Keep getting ads for middle aged dining clubs on Facebook with AI images, where every guest regardless of gender, ethnicity or age has the same features as each other. Terrifying.
If you look like this, sleep apnoea is the least of your problems
Eating a perfectly ripe peach. Then eating another one to keep it company. #TinyJoys
Dealing with the stifling room by finding a slither of even hotter room
I’ve found out that if you google Zebedee the AI overview will pull through a description of the biblical Zebedee and an image of Zebedee from The Magic Roundabout.
Ken Loach to direct John Betjeman's 'Slough'
Jesse Hawken@jessehawken.bsky.social · last wk.Studio execs are going to want to adapt more poems for the big screen now
A man wanders. Lonely As a cloud. But is he prepared for what comes next? Coming the theaters near you...
Jesse Hawken@jessehawken.bsky.social · last wk.Studio execs are going to want to adapt more poems for the big screen now