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Winnie

@athena44.bsky.social

Venetophile; love travel; voracious reader…especially crime genre. Enjoy puzzles -jigsaws, Sudoku, Wordle, Waffle whatever and debating legal and political issues. Opera lover.

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Poem: ‘A Letter to Spinoza from Venice’. Baruch, I write from Venice,Where the city holds itself togetherThe way a theorem holds, not by force,But by the quiet agreement of its parts.You might, perhaps, approve of that.Today, I crossed in…

Poem: 'A Letter to #Spinoza from #Venice'.
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17.02.2026 20:39 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

I saw a strong hint so won’t post today.

17.02.2026 17:19 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

😂

17.02.2026 13:03 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Loved it!

16.02.2026 22:52 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Oh my!

16.02.2026 22:50 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Nice start to Family Day holiday😀 ..and I think we’re done with minus 20 temps!

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16.02.2026 11:56 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I think I need new starter..

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15.02.2026 11:46 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The end of another perfect day zzzzzz

15.02.2026 00:37 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

🤣😂

14.02.2026 23:24 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Not an easy one..

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14.02.2026 11:48 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

With it being Fri 13th ..
Bad start but then got lucky

Wordle 1,700 4/6

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13.02.2026 12:04 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Didn’t know you had worked there! When we lived in Taiping in 1955/6 we took a rail trip there and stayed in a Martello tower! Visited again in 2003 on a cruise..and what a difference!

12.02.2026 22:31 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Being retired has its benefits😀

12.02.2026 15:05 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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NYT Crossplay: Play and Spell App - App Store Download NYT Crossplay: Play and Spell by The New York Times Company on the App Store. See screenshots, ratings and reviews, user tips and more games like NYT…

Have you tried the new Crossplay game?
Scrabble type game against a computer

apps.apple.com/ca/app/nyt-c...

12.02.2026 13:05 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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12.02.2026 11:37 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Think long term …

11.02.2026 20:07 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thomas Frank did a great job with Brentford. I hear he was loved by fans.
Sad story..

11.02.2026 14:50 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Ended up with few options

11.02.2026 11:34 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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11.02.2026 11:33 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Researcher leads first-ever study of Canadian ‘SuperAgers’  - Western News Part of a large international consortium, the study will compare its findings with neurodegenerative disease cohorts from studies funded by the Ontario Brain Institute.

Very interesting study

news.westernu.ca/2023/04/rese...

10.02.2026 22:19 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Just back from 4 hours of cognitive testing in the SuperAging (US spelling because main centre is in Chicago) program.
Challenging but 👍.

10.02.2026 21:28 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Mind you cars driven into crowds, explosives and knives are also a problem.

10.02.2026 19:55 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Looking forward to it!

10.02.2026 19:53 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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10.02.2026 11:04 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I haven’t seen that one here.

10.02.2026 04:09 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Lovely! Which Thai red curry paste do you like?

09.02.2026 22:17 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Lucky today…

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09.02.2026 11:44 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Congrats!
Mine was a bad start plus wild guess

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08.02.2026 11:45 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I got3 yellow but…

07.02.2026 16:09 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Wow!

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07.02.2026 12:55 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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