Robyn

@partlyaside.bsky.social

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Former historian, current office drone. Californian loose in the Shire, obsessive about many things: books, food, cats & nature. YNWA. She/her.

A ginger Aby cat is curled up, his head resting on the stomach of a spotted tabby facing away from the camera, on a blanket.
The word is hopeful!
Scene from the 1923 film The Ten Commanments - which was filmed in the Guadeloupe dunes.
Overfull Emma Bridgewater stars pasta bowl full of, from 12 o’clock - Yorkshire puddings, roasted cabbage with caraway seeds, roast beef with horseradish, carrots cooked in parchment, marinated beets, and roast potatoes. Not pictured - gravy.
View from the big house on Raasay of Skye - shockingly green grass with some trees, a bit of peaceful blue sea, and then the mountainous shore of Skye.
What pretty clearly looks like a wet and sea-weedy three toe foot print in stone in a photo but was the source of much “do we think this is it?” conversation at the time.
A grey spotted cat with a donut shaped collar on the couch, asleep and with one foot stretched out.
Two bowls with cut up sausages, and roasted courgettes, peppers, tomatoes & potatoes with oregano!
A map of the U.K. showing where I’ve lived and/or bin. I’ve lived in Oxfordshire, Northamptonshire and Fife and stayed in a number of other places. But I am missing spots in Scotland, and like, the entire East Coast of England. And most of Wales, and Cornwall.
We say “pleb” with a short “e” (like “celeb”), not the long one that makes it rhyme with “dweeb”.
A blossoming magnolia tree reaches out over a very small brook in the middle of an English village. On the other side, a bench sits on a lawn behind a home.
Eric Cantona
Young Fathers performing “I Saw” in March 2024 at the BBC 6 Music Festival.
Two cats curled up together on a blue couch; the cat on the right is ginger, the cat on the left is cream with brown spots. Oblivious to the world.