Dinah Roe

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C19th literature. Victorian Poetry. Pre-Raphaelitism. Caregiving / Care. Editing Complete Poems of Christina Rossetti (Longman). Visit the Poetry By Carers project website https://carerspoetry.org/ for poems by caregivers.

Calico Cornish Rex sleeping - curled up like a ball with paw over eyes.
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, played by a young Gary Oldman (left) and Tim Roth (right),dressed in Elizabethan garb and staring in puzzlement (from Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead).
Image of a floral apron with frilly shoulders and an oversize bow at the waist splayed on a wall. Caption reads: 'Hill House x Williams Sonoma Aprons'.
Black and white still of a young Kiefer Sutherland wearing leather gloves and a trenchcoat & looking fakely repentant in 'The Lost Boys'.
Photo of Ai Weiwei's Sunflower Seeds Quote below describing this is from Tate Modern "Made up of millions of small works, each apparently identical, but actually unique. However realistic they may seem, these life-sized sunflower seed husks are in fact intricately hand-crafted in porcelain. Each seed has been individually sculpted and painted by specialists working in small-scale workshops in the Chinese city of Jingdezhen. Far from being industrially produced, they are the effort of hundreds of skilled hands. Poured into the interior of the Turbine Hall’s vast industrial space, the 100 million seeds form a seemingly infinite landscape."
A teacher stands in front of her class and says: 'Okay guys, one more thing, this summer when you're being inundated with all this American bicentennial Fourth Of July brouhaha, don't forget what you're celebrating, and that's the fact that a bunch of slave-owning, aristocratic, white males didn't want to pay their taxes'. Dazed and Confused 1993
Patti Lupone in Anything Goes, tap-dancing in sailor's costume, including cap. Winking.
James Marriott Self-education is still the key to a happy life Fixation on university degrees means we've forgotten our grand tradition of autodidacts - now's the time for a revival.
Spiderman pointing at spiderman meme.
The humanities underpin everything that truly matters: democratic citizenship, ethical decision-making, creativity, intellectual resilience. They are of critical importance in a world shaped by artificial intelligence, misinformation, geopolitical uncertainty and existentially threatening climate change, and where social media have enabled the circulation of dogmatic, ill-informed, assertion at the expense of evidence-based argument: where what is 'true' seems to depend not on the facts but who makes the claim.
Spiderman pointing at Spiderman meme
All our schemes
Language: There is language in this book.
Spiderman pointing at Spiderman.
From The Victorian Web "The etching features six children in addition to Jesus in the early angular awkward style of Pre-Raphaelite drawings from the early 1850s. Collinson has surprisingly shown Nazareth as being on the seashore, which it obviously wasn't. In the right background can be seen the buildings of a typical village of the Holy Land. Five cypress trees can be seen on the headland, echoed by five olive trees beneath them, which surely alludes to the five sorrowful mysteries (Newman 49) The large shells in the foreground are symbolic of pilgrimage. The young Jesus has a crown of hawthorn flowers on his head surrounded by a cruciform halo. This garland was a gift from John the Baptist and is symbolic of Christ's later crown of thorns worn at his crucifixion. The standing boy with a halo, who is undoubtedly intended to represent John the Baptist, hands Jesus a cross with a banner reading in gothic script "ecce Agnus Dei" [behold the lamb of God]. One young boy kneels reverently at Jesus's feet, his left hand holding Jesus's right hand. A girl holds up a baby for Jesus to bless. Two other children kneel in the background holding flowers, which likely also have symbolic meaning." https://victorianweb.org/painting/collinson/drawings/1.html
Austin Powers opening dance number, Mike Myers in centre, surrounded by real dancers in loud outfits.
Toppled statue of Edward Colston being chucked into Bristol Harbour by ebullient protestors.
Still of Parker Posey, seated, gesturing towards the door (from the film, 'Kicking and Screaming').
A box of 'Cadbury Creme Eggs 45 Eggs'
This is the book I was reading - My Year of Rest and Relaxation, by Ottessa Moshfegh. The title, author's name, and blurb are hot pink.
April 1 A Castle-Builder's World "The line of confusion, and the stones of emptiness' - Isaiah xxxiv.11 Unripe harvest there hath none to reap it From the misty gusty place, Unripe vineyard there hath none to keep it In unprofitable space. Living men and women are not found there, Only masks in flocks and shoals; Flesh-and-bloodless hazy masks surround there, Ever wavering orbs and poles; Flesh-and-bloodless vapid masks abound there, Shades of bodies without souls.
7 characters from the TV show 'Community' gathered in an open doorway & looking miffed.
Socks adorned with Dante Gabriel Rossetti's picture: 'The Day Dream', in which a brunette in a long dress (model is Jane Morris), is seated in a tree reading a book.
Balm in Gilead Heartsease I found, where Love-lies-bleeding Empurpled all the ground: Whatever flowers I missed unheeding, Heartsease I found. Yet still my garden mound Stood sore in need of watering, weeding, And binding growths unbound. Ah, when shades fell to light succeeding I scarcely dared look round: "Love-lies-bleeding" was all my pleading, Heartsease I found.
Elizabeth Siddal's illustration for Tennyson's 'The Lady of Shalott', showing the lady seated before a loom that loosely resembles the one in this article.
Frederick Sandys' picture of 'Cassandra' (1885). Head and shoulders picture in 3/4 profile, with eyes and mouth open in horror and long wavy hair buffeted by the wind.
P.S. This post was entirely generated and posted on Substack by agentic AI using my new Claude Code (Opus 4.6) workflow. Make of that what you will. P.P.S. That is, entirely generated based on my artisanal, hand-crafted human social media posts and thoughts on the topic. So who wrote it, really? You tell me.
Fore-edge painting depicting a view of Venice (gondolas, lovely architecture, a colourful gold, red and yellow sky with clouds)
Mix a pancake, Stir a pancake, Pop it in the pan; Fry the pancake, Toss the pancake, — Catch it if you can. Illustration is a woman tossing a pancake in the air while a child watches from each side.
1884 Another year of joy and grief, Another year of hope and fear: Oh Mother, is life long or brief? We hasten while we linger here. But since we linger, love me still, And help me still, O Mother mine While hand in hand we scale life’s hill, You Guide, and I your Valentine.
UK [meet] an occasion when people on horses chase and kill a fox with dogs: He attended a meet of Bicester Fox Hunt, in Oxfordshire. On average, I would guess, one fox is killed at each meet.
A horned and purple-cloaked Malificent from the Disney cartoon 'Sleeping Beauty' urges a beautiful sleep-walking princess to touch the spindle that will send her to sleep for 100 years.
A website login page that asks me to tick a box that says: Remember Me
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A ship at sea during a storm at night. Sailors pray to a robed St. Nicholas, who flies over them, giving his blessing. A mermaid swims away on the left.
A seated, coiffed Patrick Bateman examining eggshell business card in film of 'American Psycho'. Colleague to his left looks on snobbishly.
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Cardinal Newman “In the grave, whither thou goest.” O weary Champion of the Cross, lie still: Sleep thou at length the all-embracing sleep: Long was thy sowing day, rest now and reap: Thy fast was long, feast now thy spirit's fill. Yea, take thy fill of love, because thy will Chose love not in the shallows but the deep: Thy tides were springtides, set against the neap Of calmer souls: thy flood rebuked their rill. Now night has come to thee-please God, of rest: So some time must it come to every man; To first and last, where many last are first. Now fixed and finished thine eternal plan, Thy best has done its best, thy worst its worst: Thy best its best, please God, thy best its best. Christina Rossetti
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Still from the film My Beautiful Launderette, showiing the 2 main charaters outside the titural Launderette.
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A frazzled Cher from 'Moonstruck' with family sitting behind her in various stressed attitudes.
The Wicked Witch of the West brandishing an hourglass full of red sand.
Bottle of REF curl cream
Giant blue pointing foam hand
Poster for Off-West-End Play 'Saving Mozart'
To A Murderer And who is this lies prostrate at thy feet? And is he dead, thou man of wrath and pride? Yes, now thy vengeance is complete, Thy hate is satisfied.
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Joe Goldberg's cage from serial killer TV series 'You'
Brush Up Your Shakespeare [title] The girls today in society, Go for classical poetry, So to win their hearts one must quote with ease Aeschylus and Euripides. One must know Homer and, b’lieve me, Bo. Sophocles, also Sappho-ho! Unless you know Shelley and Keats and Pope. Dainty debbies will call you a dope.
From BBC news online AI chatbots mislead users querying LA National Guard photos published at 12:57 12:57 Shayan Sardarizadeh BBC Verify senior journalist AI chatbots are being increasingly used as fact-checking tools, with social media users asking them whether something they have seen online is true or not. However, incorrect answers from two chatbots are misleading users about the origin of two news photos showing National Guard troops sent to Los Angeles sleeping on bare floors.
a tiny insect playing a violin (though possibly a cello)
From left to right: Emma Morley (One Day) Minerva McGonagall (Harry Potter) Lisa Simpson (The Simpsons) Gandalf (Lord of the Rings)
A results graphic showing an overwhelming amount of blue, representing the instances of 'dead' and 'bride' in Rossetti's poems.
The Task: A Poem. In Six Books. William Cowper, 1810
A cartoon dog in a lab coat pointing to a poster that says 'Semicolons Can be Fun'. Another dog stands by, saying, 'No[sic] thank you'. Caption reads: 'Recent studies suggest that not only are people using less semicolons these days...'
Extract from 'The Dead Bride: There she lay so still and pale, With her bridal robes around her: Joy is fleeting, life is frail. Death had found her
Elderly Queen Elizabeth II smiling. Wearing purple hat, jacket & pearls. Headline: 'Queen Elizabeth's Final Diary Entry Contained Only 5 Words'
Left to right: Susan Sarandon, Cher, Michelle Pfeiffer wielding pins to stab a wax effigy in 'The Witches of Eastwick'.