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Dr Minx Marple

1 year

And 2. the divine whatevers (2023), edition of 90, £19.50 plus postage, ninety-six pages of love and longing. They come in a nice crimson shiny envelope with a bookmark and some prints from my work 100,000 kisses: let me know if you’d like one.

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2 years

Your reminder that this is tomorrow night and we should go out and look at it.

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Anne Carson. A short talk on hedonism.

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“If I had a dog, she would be a kind of faith” — Emily Berry 🌸🌸Blossom Hollinshead🌸🌸 🌸🌸🌸22.2.11 — 25.3.23🌸🌸🌸 🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸 I’m sorry to tell you that Blossom died in my arms early this morning, the gentlest and softest of deaths.

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Dear Academics, please stop a) assuming creative work is easier than scholarly work and b) imagining you’d be excellent at it without any practice. Regards, Creative Practitioners Everywhere.

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3 years

Please pray (or whatever) for my beloved, she is very ill, maybe a stroke. #Blossompig

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9 months

Found poem or incantation

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9 months

Found poem:

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2 years

If it suddenly feels like spring to you and you’re in Western Europe, that’s because many of us passed the ‘Persephone Day’ this week when we have ten hours of light. This is significant in that it supercharges the growing season, and we feel/see it everywhere.

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2 years

Blossom Hollinshead, keeper of my heart, born 22.2.11, made it to 22.2.22 and her 11th birthday despite everything.

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4 years

As the owner of a blind dog I just adore this

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4 years

OMG, I have been nominated for a Distinguished Teaching Award and have just really cried reading the testimonials. Nothing like this has ever happened to me before.

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4 years

Remember that Distinguished Teaching Award I was nominated for? Well, I have won it.

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4 months

Because no-one asked, I am compelled to fill the silence. These were my favourites, for various reasons, but mainly because I found them formally teasing or inventive or brilliant or just outrageously hot.

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5 months

Why hasn't an outlet asked @minxmarple to write about her best reads of the year?

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1 year

As a cis woman, I DEPLORE what is being done in my ‘defence’. Trans rights are human rights and I stand with trans people and reiterate their rights to be, their rights to protection, their rights to equality and appropriate medical care and everything that enables life, ffs.

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2 months

A lot of years ago now, a lovely young woman I never knew died in a tragic and terrible accident. Six months after she died, the man that loved her fell unexpectedly, madly, ridiculously in love with another woman. That is me. I remember her very often, but especially today. 💔

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4 years

hello to this again

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4 years

"Ghost Apples" are an unusual phenomenon where freezing rain coats rotting apples before they fall, then when the apple turns mushy it eventually slips out and leaves the icy shell still hanging on the tree.

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If you showed up at my bedside in this, I’d have it off you in seconds. And then I’d show you the door in my new scarlet robe.

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4 years

@DickKingSmith Nearly ten (and no eyes now) but a puppy at heart forever #BlossomPig

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4 years

Poor little sausage.🌸 NB I will fight you if you say she’s ugly. Eyes are overrated.

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4 years

Operation day for darling Blossom-pig. By tonight she’ll be the only dog without eyes that I’ve ever met. I know she’ll feel better when it’s done, but oh god, the absolute fear. Please keep everything crossed for her.

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1 year

Did someone say an erotics of criticism?

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3 months

bone close

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2 years

If you’d like a copy of my book, you can now actually buy one! £12 from Ma Bibliothèque —>

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BREAKING: Health officials say more than 12,300 Palestinian minors have been killed in Israel's war on Hamas in Gaza

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1 year

ravish my waning // goodnight

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2 years

I guess it’s official then. Astonished to confess that my book will be coming out with Ma Bibliothèque in July of this actual year. What a dream publisher for my funny little text on close reading Calasso.

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5 years

*ACADEMIC ANNOUNCEMENT FACE* I’m pleased to tell you that I’ll be joining De Montfort University’s fine art team in the autumn. I look forward to exciting times ahead, forty of your earth minutes from my front door. 🥳

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5 years

So, looks like Theresa May isn’t the only one who resigned today...

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2 years

This fucking escapologist lives to fight another day. Luck has shone on us. There’s a single pea-sized tumour, no operation to be done at this stage, and she’s fine after the sedation. 🎢🎢🎢🥹 (she was allowed on the bed this morning, she will be a monster after this)

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1 year

Thank you to everyone who has taken the time to send commiserations and love. We are deeply grateful though I am too swollen-eyed to see to make proper replies just now. We buried her in the garden and planted a great white cherry to keep watch over her.

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2 months

Good morning (?) twitter! What are your favourite essays about art (any era)? I'm asking particularly about essays, though i'm interested in your favourite writing about art in general too.

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3 years

My Handford hot take: Every woman who has been in a meeting recognises that meeting.

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4 years

This is the right PhD advice. The best submission is a submitted one. It’s the thing you learn how to do it on, not your life’s work (and yes, I know it feels like it is, when you are doing it- all phds are brave acts of faith imho).

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PhD guidelines at Leiden puts this very bluntly: "The dissertation need not be one’s life’s work. Any research project is theoretically infinite, but at some point the dissertation simply needs to be finished."

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2 years

Tag yourself, I’m 2.

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5 years

Please send all your strong thoughts to this one who collapsed on her walk today and is now in vet hospital 💔

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4 years

Are you a practitioner of art & writing/artwriting/art that is written/some variant of this, you know what I mean? Who is out there? I'm trying to compile a list of people working in this broad area for A Thing, please shout out, or shout out for people not on twitter.

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1 year

Which famous painting best reflects your soul?

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1 year

Which famous painting best reflects your soul?

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4 years

Here are my feelings this morning: 🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺

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2 years

Say hello to this sweet thing, finally in my hands.

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3 years

PUPDATE: she has been able to walk to have a wee, and eaten a whole bowl of chicken and biscuits. Hang in there my darling 🤞🌸

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3 years

Please pray (or whatever) for my beloved, she is very ill, maybe a stroke. #Blossompig

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3 years

If anyone needed good news: look who has made it into the garden (and is hopeful of a treat from my pocket). #BlossomPig

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1 year

Because why not?

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4 years

To remind me to go outside every day while working at home, I'm going to do a daily Garden Report, hopefully linked here but also using #marplesgarden for searchers.

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7 years

In case you'd forgotten my personal favourite Valentine 🖤

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7 years

Please notice this

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7 years

I'm tracking *45's number right now. He is growing by around 100 bots a minute. He is massing a propaganda army.

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23 days

TWITTER, this is not a drill, I have a grandbaby. Please meet Gwyn, head of the wild hunt, henceforth the centre of my life.

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5 years

Fuck off. Many of my students work hard and they get excellent, accurate, committed teaching, that’s why they get good marks. Our grading is externally tested, reviewed and validated by an Actual Expert. You are the problem here.

Department for Education

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5 years

We want #universities to stop artificial grade inflation and reset the norm on the proportion of first class and 2:1 degrees they award. We owe it to the hardworking students who have earned those top grades to stop this unfair practice. 🎓👉

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11 months

I have laughed at this for a full five minutes.

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🎶 I’m a bitch I’m an orca Sinking yachts Just off Majorca I’m a sinner I’m a whale Imma hit you with my tail

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4 years

I honestly wish I could read one take that said bloody well done to lecturers for getting everything that can be put online done so that some students can get marks and some can graduate and some can just tell us how bad things are, or check in and know someone gives a shit.

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1 year

Oh look who made it in time for my birthday #FlowerReport , it’s the Queen of Night (who lives at my front door) #marplesgarden #tulip

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5 months

So, twitter, I am unexpectedly teaching a whole seminar (12 weeks/ lecture/ seminar / workshop) on the fine subject of art and writing, to grad student artists. What works / texts can I not miss?* *assume I’m well-versed in this area but wanting — ahem — fresh meat.

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4 years

PUPDATE: all Blossom’s biopsies are clear, last op has been ‘curative’. Pretty delighted tbh.

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3 years

Look at this walking miracle. There has been impertinent barking, rolling in the grass and mugging a complete stranger for treats. [and before you ask, no, it was Blossom 🌸🐷] #BlossomPig

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2 years

Do we like this bag, dressing Twitter, as a new life school bag?

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3 years

I am delighted to announce that my organ and I have parted company and I am sitting up in bed drinking peppermint tea and eating a biscuit. #NHS4Ever

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8 years

I am like a slip of comet, Scarce worth discovery, in some corner seen Bridging the slender difference of two stars, Come out of space, or

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1 year

They are coming #FlowerReport

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4 years

Blossom update: Poorly one, lots of meds but still alive & home. 🤞🌸 (she’s my flower report)

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5 years

Please send all your strong thoughts to this one who collapsed on her walk today and is now in vet hospital 💔

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3 years

#FlowerReport #BloomScrolling

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11 months

Hello, can you see this anyone?

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3 years

Can’t get over my own cuteness to be honest. Shortest hair in forever, but I think I can make this work.

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3 years

Christmas list has begun.

Journal of Art in Society

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3 years

Hand jewellery based on the myth of Daphne, who grows into a tree to avoid the advances of Apollo ~ Heather Roblin, Toronto-based metalsmith and jeweller

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1 month

The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea. Karen Blixen

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11 months

Is it just me or is there something slightly come-hither about Ayrton’s Minotaur?

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2 years

Moonrise in the wood tonight.

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2 years

🖤 Issey Miyake (photos by Sarah Moon) — always dreaming of your exquisite pieces

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4 months

She’s fine. Totally successful op, now demanding coffee and my attendance in the late afternoon. I might be ugly crying on the bathroom floor. 🙏

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4 months

I wish the fucking phone would ring with news.

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4 years

Hollyhocks, high summer. These grown from seed gathered from my parents garden where the hollyhocks were planted to mark the end of WW2. (Between 6 and 8 feet high)

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5 years

That ‘if you’re reading from your paper go home’ thing? ABLEIST. It’s just ‘no laptops’ in disguise. Yes, it can be (but isn’t always) boring listening to someone read, but fml we are academics and adults. I can’t believe we are even having this conversation.

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3 years

A magical combination

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4 years

I am really fucking sick of people saying ‘online lectures in their bedrooms’. There are people and endless endless work behind those ‘online lectures’ and seminars and workshops and tutorials and pastoral meetings and online coffee dates and tea parties and discussion groups and

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9 months

Night, wind-blown waiting room of the gods.

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5 years

She’s sedated in the vet hospital overnight, hope to have an update tomorrow.😭🌸

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5 years

Please send all your strong thoughts to this one who collapsed on her walk today and is now in vet hospital 💔

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6 years

Hello, I’ve just had a poisonous, upsetting email from a student which has made me cry & spoilt my day off. Is it unprofessional to ask one of you witches to hex them & their entire family down to ten generations?

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5 years

Pretty sure ‘you’re not fucking Odysseus, go to therapy’ is gonna be my most-repeated comment of 2019.

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4 years

For the first time since Blossom got ill in November, the field is dry enough to walk around. A whole new experience now she can’t see, cautious & intent, lots to sniff at and snuffle for.

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2 years

Moose god on the timeline. All bow.

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2 years

Extraordinary white moose was spotted taking a dip in a pool in Sweden's Varmland County ( by Hans Nilsson )

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6 months

Some Personal News: I’m extremely pleased to announce that I’ve added a silver sequinned skirt to my wardrobe. I’m excited about my future in it, and looking forward to collaborations with existing and new items.

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7 months

WHY DO THEY MAKE ME SAY WHAT THE THING WILL BE? HOW DO I KNOW BEFORE DOING THE FUCKING WORK? IF I KNEW ALREADY WHY BOTHER DOING THE RESEARCH?*

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3 years

UK academia, you have made it to the last teaching day of 2020. I’ve rarely seen so much grace under pressure as your work with students in 2020. You have been miraculous, and I know at what cost. I salute you.

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Happy Birthday, favourite. Thinking of this forever 💙

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2 years

Oh forget the twitter take over, I just turned in my book for the very final time. All proofs done. Cover done. That is it. It is off my desk forever. Next time I see it, it will be an object!

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2 months

I rarely speak of it, it’s not my story to tell, except for the afterwards. But some of you might want to know, that even after terrible pain, pain so bad you think you might die, happiness and joy can still come, unlooked for and unexpected.

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2 months

WTF with the 'tedious slumber of aging'? you do realise that's very ageist language, right? Try taking your own advice and thinking critically about the limits and unfair society puts on people.

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🛎️ @BigGive campaign update 🛎️ We're 30% towards our target! If you've already donated - thank you🫶 If you haven't please donate today - your donation will be DOUBLED until 26 March! 🧵

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2 years

Perhaps being ‘mid-career’ is defined by thinking ‘oh do fuck off’.

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4 months

A very horrible thing is when the person you love most in the world is having medical tests and you are forced to imagine your life without them. It is not the worst thing, but it is free fall fear.

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July. This is what all the smartest desks will be wearing.

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5 months

To my great surprise, Fabulae got a mention in the @GrantaMag list, courtesy of the brilliant Eley Williams. To be among this company is wildly flattering. 💖 Please support small presses like Ma Bibliothèque, they take big risks & make beautiful books.

Books of the Year 2023 | Granta

Contributors and friends of the magazine reflect on what they read in 2023.

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2 years

Obviously they aren’t the flat, black sensible boots I actually need but Y/N?

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6 years

Remember when I made a wish for a gardening & art column....

MAP

@MAP_magazine

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GARDENLUST #1 : THE HELLMOUTH MAP is delighted to announce a new monthly column by artist Isabella Streffen ( @MinxMarple ) following the renovation of a garden over winter and beyond

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I’d love this.

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16th century ring that unfolds into an astronomical sphere

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If you have any spare prayers or incantations or however you commune, please send them for my darling basset. She’s having ultrasounds and xrays this afternoon and I’m terrified & tearful.

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3 months

Just so you know, the time I have been allocated by the university workload model to write 12 new lectures is 24 hours. And in fact, I have not actually been allocated any prep time for this module (58 hours of f2f teaching including lectures, seminars, workshops) at all.

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3 months

My series of 12 lectures on Writing Art starts tomorrow, and my series of 12 lectures on Practices of Site starts on Thursday if you were wondering how it is going.

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Five years ago on this spot, Doc demanded exclusive rights in all formats and territories in exchange for all the love and half the sweets. I said, ok done. He has never let me go a single day without knowing that I am loved, and what a gift that is, the best one.

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Full disclosure: - I didn’t get the fellowship I really wanted and I’m thinking of throwing it all in - someone I love has really upset me and I want to something I can’t articulate - I didn’t get shortlisted for a job and now I’ve seen the list I’m furious & indignant

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4 years

Blossvent Calendar, day 1: day three after op, gently snoozing on Doc’s lap.

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@MinxMarple

1 year

Every time I try to answer your messages, I just start crying all over again, so please bear with me. I’m not being rude or entitled or careless, I’m just overwhelmed.

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Dr Minx Marple

@MinxMarple

3 years

There has never been any real attempt to make society safer for women, non-men or POC, it’s all just sticking plasters and soothing clucking. No-one ever gives up power willingly, they have it ripped from their cold hands. And that’s what this is about.

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Dr Minx Marple

@MinxMarple

4 months

Good morning to waiting for news only. Please keep your fingers crossed that my Mama comes through her op ok.

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Dr Minx Marple

@MinxMarple

1 year

This blue is nice yes? Pls excuse hospital hair etc.

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