Katharine Schopflin

@schopflin.bsky.social

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Information manager, Long Covid, dementia care, choral singing. An atheist of Jewish extraction who really likes Anglican churchgoing. She/ Her.

Small black cat facing the camera, sitting on an unmade bed with white sheets and pillows with a green leafy pattern.
Pathway by a river dyke. You can see a wooden sailing boat moored up with the back visible, boom in boom crutches and awning on.
Very small glass of white wine on a terrace table, with a table number nine . In the background people milling around and sitting down. Blue sky.
The poster, a middle-aged freckley blonde English woman wearing a red dress, standing in front of the bell tower in the Campi in Siena.
Concert poster: main image is a Victorian image of a Renaissance man leaning towards a young lady in a classical terrace while propping up a harp. Concert title: Harpsonnets, songs of love and longing for choir and harp. Harpist Tamara Young. Conductor Jonathan Pease. Saturday 4th July 7pm at St Olave Hart St, EC3R 7NB. Music by Holst, Lotti, Palestrina, Viadana, Cecila McDowall, James Bassi. Tickets £15
Plate carrying a large portion of reddish scrambled eggs with a bunch of cut cress in the middle. Also on the plate, crushed avocado and buttered sourdough toast cup of tea and glass of water behind.
Page from an order of service including 'We have left undone those things which we ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done; and there is no health in us'
Black curled up on a patterned green and white duvet. Bedroom furniture seen behind.
Concert poster for Saturday 9th May at 5.30 St Mathias Church, Wordsworth Road N16 8DD. Gjeilo's Sunrise Mass and Vaughan Williams' Serenade to Music. Blue background with an abstract orange sunrise and London skyline in the background.
Screenshot from an online quiz. Text reads: Explanation Uruguay generates around 98% of its electricity from renewable sources, primarily wind and hydropower! This small South American nation underwent a remarkable energy transformation in under a decade, going from heavy fossil fuel dependence to becoming one of the world's greenest grids- all without government subsidies.
Breakfast shot: metal pan containing yoghurt, chickpeas and eggs with chili sauce, pul biber and rocket leaves scattered. Behind, a large cup of tea and three slices of toast in a basket.
Book cover: Boater, a life on England's waterways, by Jo Bell. It's a bright blue cover and the illustration is of a red, black and blue narrowboat on a narrow canal between green banks with a bridge in the background.
Black cat on a blue patterned duvet. Her fur is on end and her ears are pointed. Her head is partially turned to the camera.
Black and white wedding photo. Outdoor urban night shot. Bride and groom in a clinch but facing the camera, both smiling. She's wearing a white dress decorated with black flowers. He's in a suit with a silk waistcoat. He has a buttonhole, she has flowers in her hair and a corsage. You can't really see but it's the wharf of the London Canal Museum.
Breakfast on a blue china plate: buttered toast, mushrooms, hash browns, two grilled half tomatoes and a fried egg. Wooden table, newspaper (actually the LRB) seen behind.
Poster advertising a concert. The background is the pre-raphaelite painting 'Hesperus, Evening Star, Sacred to Lovers' by Joseph Noel Paton. The concert is on Saturday March 21, 7pm at St Olave's Church, Hart St, London EC3R 7NB. The programme is Brahms Four Quartets, Thompson Frostiana, Eric Whitacre All Seems Beautiful To Me and Stanford Songs from the Princess of Tennyson. Tickets £15.
A very young Roddy Frame, dressed a la Bob Dylan, but with 80s indie tousled hair, holding a semi-acoustic guitar.
A man and a woman at a bar. He has his arm round her. There's a bright red drink in front of her (it's breton kir). There are blue ropes coming down from the ceiling as they are actually sitting on swings.
Wooden board with breakfast. Metal bowl containing tomato sauce, in it are fried eggs, fried halloumi and blobs of sour cream. Four triangles of flatbread to the side.
Wooden board with breakfast. Metal bowl containing tomato sauce, in it are fried eggs, fried halloumi and blobs of sour cream. Four triangles of flatbread to the side.
Email message reading: Don't swap out ... parsnips. Whether roasted to a nutty caramelisation, or blended into silky soups,parsnios offer a versatile sweetness that elevates any winter dish. Did you know? Parsnips become significantly sweeter after a frost, as the cold tempetatures trigger a natural process that converts their starches into sugars.
Plate holding two fried eggs on flatbread with some scattered herbs. Crossword and bottle of tabasco seen behind on table.
Football programme for Leyton Orient, dated 28.3.16 on a wooden table with sheet music seen behind.
Book cover: Blooming Flowers, acseasonal history of plants and people by Kasia Boddy.
A small black cat on a bed, climbing a duvet mound towards the photographer who is under the duvet.
Wooden board carrying breakfast. Cast iron pan with eggs and tomatoes, white cheese and spinach scattered on top.
Book cover for Patrick Wright's 'A Journey Through Ruins'. Mostly blur with a motley montage of buildings under the title.
View from a ship porthole. Grey sea, snowy wooded land in distance, cloudy sky.
Headline from the London Review of Books: Lifted Up by Deborah Friedell. A review of 'The Strange History of Samuel Pepys's Diaries' by Kate Loveman
A narrow, snowy, cobbled street. To the right is a building with locked metal doors. A red sign outside reads 'DM' and if you get very close 'Depeche Mode Bar'
Book cover showing a man in a trench coat, holding a gun, collapsed in an armchair with a Russian newspaper over his face. Title is 'The Spy who died of Boredom', author is George Mikes.
Snowy pathway in a pine wood. To the left is a historic wooden building.
Outdoor gear shop in a shopping mall. It is called 'Schietwetter'.
Commercial lounge table. There's a copy of The Fence magazine. Also a wine glass of clear liquid, ice cubes, red berries. You can just see a bit of a fever tree tonic bottle.
Sleeping cat on a duvet. You can kind of see a black furry mound and the outline of a head with cats' ears.
Three tupperware dishes, without lids, all containing chocolate walnut brownies.
Blue patterned bowl resting on a small saucepan. It is piled up with chocolate squares and chunks of butter.
Tumbler glass of clear liquid, small ice cubes and lemon floating, on a wooden surface with a lamp behind.
Breakfast on a domestic plate on a wooden table: scrambled eggs on white toast, sliced avocado, cherry tomatoes and smoked salmon.
Black cat with green eyes, lying on a bed with face obliquely turned to the viewer.
Cooking dish taken out of the oven, showing beige, cheese-topped dish with browning and crispy edges
A short cocktail on a napkin on a table. White with a red chilli rim and slice of lime.
A set of house keys (yale and mortar) attached to a label for advocate cat flea treatment, sitting on a work service.
Copy of 'The White Book' aka '100 Carols for Choirs' by David Willcox and John Rutter. This copy is being held up vertically to show a sheaf or bookmarks. The one at the front says 'Away'.
Flat landscape on a river estuary. Big sky woth clouds. Fields and greenery in the foreground.
A dark furry shape on a blue duvet. You may be able to discern cats' ears and a tail curved round, with the head buried in it. Bedroom furniture visible behind.
Floral plate holding breakfast. Two fried eggs on top of fried potatoes, onions and peppers with two slices of brown toast seen behind.
Concert poster: title is 'Songs and Sonnets'. Illustration is a picture of Shakespeare with a 'Hanover Choir' logi. Other information not in my caption: featuring music by Elgar, Sarah Quartel and George Shearing. Piano Stefan Catto. Musical director Jonathan Pease.
A full English breakfast on a rectangular blue plate: mushrooms, fried halloumi, fried eggs on toast, 3 hash browns, half a grilled tomato and a bowl of mashed avocado. Behind a glass bowl of baked beans and a large cup of tea.
Glazed earthenware oven dish resting on a yellow plate. It contains a tomato and pepper mix with scrambled eggs. 4 pieces of toasted sourdough are laid in front. Glass of water seen behind.
Wooden bowl full of green apples, the kind you get off a tree so flawed skin and the odd leaf. On a wooden table
Round white plate holding a round dollop of browned mashed potato topped with poached eggs and pea shoots. Cup of tea seen in the background.
Hardback copy of Owen Hatherley's The Alienation Effect, with a slightly damaged dust jacket. On a garden table. In the background a black handbag, glasses case and tumbler of clear liquid with a lemon slice in it.
The poster, a middle aged woman with long hair and glasses holding up a glass of fizz. She is outside and you can see greenery in the background.
Bowl of noodles in brown gravy, on top is a fried egg and spring onions. Just behind, you can see a book called 'A History of the World in 47 Borders'.
Section of a piece of sheet music. Above the top bar line is the title: 3. Sun and Moon and then immediately above the second visible bar of music: hi tom or brushes on snare (off)
Metal bowl containing eggs scrambled with tomato, dotted with cheese and spinach, on a wooden table with a glass mug of tea seen to the side.
Small baked scones laid out on a black silicon liner on a baking tray. Behind you can see a window overlooking a garden.
Opened bottle of fizz, 'Camel Valley' visible on the label, on a wooden table.
Breakfast tray bearing 2 fried eggs, a pile of bacon, mushrooms, 2 fried potato cakes, a bowl of broad beans in tomato, a sausage and half a grilled tomato. Behind you can see a cup of tea, a metal teapot and an empty water glass.