Rachel J Kirkwood

Well I googled the name of the act + “territorial application” and it pointed me to a Wikipedia entry that suggested the Act applied to E, W, NI, but not S (which has its own act).

Perfectly valid choice in an English context.

Er, hello?
Interesting choice of GIF there …

Yeah, she’s the one who when working for the politically impartial BBC described Jeremy Corbyn ‘leaving his lair’. A memorable phrase.

Long got summers are overrated.
Emily Brontë had it right!

Aha! So that’s who they named the library after!
My first encounter with an OPAC was there.

Fabulous! But at least your parents were there. In 1989, the year it was 99.9% certain I would graduate, my parents double-booked themselves to a holiday abroad and couldn’t come.
I’m still bitter …

I shook her hand when I graduated.
Didn’t curtsy though 😆

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What would life be without a TBR pile?
I have to admit that I actually shelved some of mine yesterday in a sudden attack of realism. And the need to actually write something.

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It stinks when even reading is tiring.
There's always doomscrolling ...

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In diese Stadt hatte ich mich verliebt.
In der Stadt auch.
😍

Weird but kinda beautiful.

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It's a false narrative of illegal immigration created by the media (traditional as well as social) which politicians are either unaware of or unable/unwilling to challenge. Where is the leadership?

It's not just #Quakers who do silence.

Doing a guest slot at Sacred Trinity in a Taizé service jointly devised with my dear colleague @timcalvert2.bsky.social
I may have snuk in my favourite chant by Margaret Rizza 🎶

Because you lost your moral compass a very long time ago?

Ginger and white ‘cat’ reclining on stool in front of an orderly desk.

Notices on door: “please keep this door closed” and “Last one out please turn off the cat”.

The tradition of the Library Cat being upheld by my #ModernCollections team @uomlibrary.bsky.social Manchester.
“Last one out please turn off the cat” 🙀

And in British English, puff can mean homosexual (derogatory slang).

Tattoo Snake reaches for red apple symbolic of knowledge of good and evil.

Tattoo of protective flaming sword of Aziraphale, guardian of the eastern gate of Eden, and angel wings.

How’s this for embodied theology? Tattoo highlights from the Genesis3 story as subverted by the Pratchett/Gaiman #GoodOmens story, where knowledge and asking questions is a good thing and angels are on the side of humans alongside demons.

A stack of two brown boxes, one of which says ‘C’est boîte est verte’.

High summer is apparently the time to buy boots on sale. This brown box is giving me a Magritte vibe.

Ha! So I just enjoyed all the banners 😄

Oh! Sorry to miss that on my wanderings across campus today (I was at a #QuakerStudies conference).

You inspired me to overcome my undergraduate distrust of Blake and re-read his stuff - and such a helpful lens to read Fox through!

Best of this week’s 3 conferences today: in Leeds for #QuakerStudies with Ben @cosmichope.bsky.social on Fox+Blake & @barbarabirch.bsky.social on embodied theology. Mention of the CONTAINER #metaphor not by me but @markdruss.bsky.social

It’s ok to mention the eschaton @markdruss.bsky.social you’re among Ffriends 😜