Mary Brazier

@marybrazier.bsky.social

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Mental health social worker and military historian (MA), interested in Psychiatry in the Second World War. Collector of spaniels. Will bore on request. Fun at parties.

Woodburner burning
An advert for knitted hats for dogs
A video clip of a spaniel sleeping on the sofa flat on her back with her legs in the air like a proper tart.
A cocker spaniel who looks like she’d expect bespoke biscuits for her birthday.
Photo of Douglas Spaniel sitting patiently at the bottom of the stairs for me to finish work for the day.
A letter from Siegfried Sassoon to David Stafford-Clark giving consent for quoting a poem in his own collection and criticising his illegible signature.
A copy of ‘The Invisible Campaign’
American word fae calls to recognise Bollock
Douglas Spaniel carrying my old childhood ‘sweep’ cuddly toy.
Sally spaniel snuggled up on the sofa
Douglas spaniel doing zoomies over the frozen puddles
A woolly hat with destroyed pom pom
A copy of a 1960s girls magazine with a teenage girl in school uniform tackling the evil Nazis
Entry confirmation for Oxford half marathon
A spaniel, reclining on his bed. No fucks given.
A spaniel lying on her back showing her lady parts.
A frosty field with the rising sun burning off the morning mist.
Photograph by Stuart Bertie of Lesley and I walking through the snowy forest at Treblinka.
The memorial at Belzec extermination camp.
An article in private eye magazine listing numerous senior clergy who failed to act on knowledge that John Smyth was abusing children.
Three people at the national army museum for James Holland’s Cassino ‘44 talk. Barry Grogan is incapable of smiling in photos.
Two dogs in a field as the sun comes up on the horizon
A snow covered back garden.
A weather forecast for sleet at 1 degree temperature
Douglas Spaniel, looking surprised to be caught reclining in his sister’s ’kitchen bed’.
A Christmas cactus with pink flowers
A wild haggis hiding, in the knowledge that it is the haggis hunting season.
A photo of Douglas Spaniel holding his cuddly Ted (Big Ted)
Hungarian Cream Cake
A T54 tank
Film poster for the wartime film A Canterbury Tale
Memorial plaque in Budapest commemorating victims of fascist and communist regimes
The route of my very slow run/walk around the banks of the Danube near the Budapest parliament building
A spaniel not enjoying her bath.
The holocaust memorial in Budapest
6 war wafflers having a drink.