Nicola J

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Peace. Plants. 🌱 Planet. History. Art. Food. LGBT+ 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 Decluttering at https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/QualityVintageValue

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The journal Cultural and Social History is looking for an Editor again! 👇 Deadline for applications: 12 August 2024.

Call for Applications: Editor of Cultural and Social Historysocialhistory.org.uk The Social History Society invites applications for the position of Editor at its journal, Cultural and Social History. The journal is published by Taylor & Francis and has provided a platform …

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The garden is now full of bustling Wool Carder Bees. There’s a particular large male who has a deep bumblebee-like buzz. We managed to get a few pics in his brief rest periods. #bees #MyFavouriteBee #ento #UKwildlife

Small point I know but has anyone else noticed more drivers using the middle of the road? One car today was over the white line on my side of the road!

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Test batch Japanese milk bread. I am overjoyed. 🥹🍽️🍞

Good morning. No more Monday art class for me until September 😞 but going to try an aquarobics class until then 🤔

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That’s a first. Half way through the 1st half a small group start shouting, swearing and arguing at full volume. Show stopped, lights up and people thrown out.

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This made my morning

I overwintered one nicotiana plant from seed. It has now filled quite a large pot. No money involved. 😂

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Fritillary interpretation 🌱📷🌿 #nature

There will be beans!

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Markets left barely stirred by Labour’s thumping election win No risk. No change apart from a new opportunity to make more money www.theguardian.com/business/art...

Markets left barely stirred by Labour’s thumping election winwww.theguardian.com The City is relaxed about a result that it expects to bring only modest change as the economic outlook improves

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A “New Look” at Coco Chanel… lilith.org/2024/07/a-ne...

A “New Look” at Coco Chanel…lilith.org …and her previously overlooked Nazi connections—in 2024

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Four Reform seats is four too many. But to be second in so many is particularly worrying. No one should be complacent. #UKGE2024 3/3

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I came to my 14 year old with a concern about social media. He literally took his glasses off, rubbed his temples, and asked: “what have the moms on the internet said now?” 😯🫤😆

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A Minister for Libraries mooted:

Libraries should be at the heart of public lifewww.ft.com For those from less privileged backgrounds especially, they provide vistas of opportunity

A great day showing someone their family history back to an Italian ancestor from late 18th century.

Off to meet up with childhood sweetheart. Haven't seen him for over 50 years. Going to help him do his family history. He now has 4 grandchildren.

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"In an economy as regionally unequal as the UK’s, higher education is one of the few countervailing forces, spreading revenue and jobs to parts of the country that otherwise have little to fall back on....a financial crisis in this sector does not only impact on lecturers."

How the Tories pushed universities to the brink of disasterwww.theguardian.com The long read: Over the past 14 years, the Conservative dream of a free market in higher education has collided with the harsh reality of austerity and the cultural resentment of the radical right – d...

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It takes the Tories’ unique brand of incompetence to devise a system that both lands students with eye watering levels of debt and so underfunds universities that many are at risk of collapse. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Student loans: Almost 1.8 million owe more than £50,000www.bbc.co.uk More than 61,000 people have balances of £100,000 or more and 50 owe upwards of £200,000, BBC finds.

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Stained Glass Window Window of the abside of the Rosary Chapel, 1949 https://botfrens.com/collections/48/contents/17234

Good to be home but for 2 penalty notices for driving in a bus lane! Apparently. More to discover.

Just a coincidence that I’m missing all the election hoohaa- on a break I booked in March and avoiding news. 😂😂😂

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Read up.

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When you go out to paint, try to forget what objects you have before you, a tree, a house, a field or whatever. Merely think here is a little square of blue, here an oblong of pink, here a streak of yellow, and paint it just as it looks to you, the exact color and shape.

Spent the day in the only cloudy place in England.

American spelling klaxon #Wordle

Had worse Mondays

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This made me laugh out loud. 🤣 Yes. Yes, this is the fundamental dichotomy of existence. Thank you @elleisanisland.bsky.social

Sunshine due next week. Might have ripe figs this year!

Official message from Etsy this morning. “You’re doing awesome”. Calling the grammar police. Also it’s not true, my shop has gone quiet of late. 🤷🏼