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@vaneharriet.bsky.social

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ex-homeschool kid • ex-fundamentalist • ex-Saskatooner • ex-academic • mom to a non-speaking autistic teen • unlearning it as I go

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Col Nick Handy, who led the Army bomb disposal team in Plymouth, said German pilots near the end of the war often dropped their remaining bombs as soon as they reached Britain, keen to make it back home. "As a result, the south coast is probably littered with bombs," he said. "Have we found them all? Absolutely not. Will we find more? Absolutely."
Devon & Cornwall Police said on Facebook: "A huge thank you to the Southway community after a 250kg World War Two bomb was safely dealt with earlier today.
freezie vico serviette Clicks runners duotang chesterfield Keener
the actor Jonathan Pryce
Samuel L Jackson speaking into a mic and saying “go the fuck to sleep”
a college-age woman with orange hair in a pixie cut is sitting with her feet pulled up under her on a couch, reading a textbook. She is wearing a brown sweater and white sweatpants and making a squinty-eyed smile at the camera.
a woman in her 40s with reddish hair in a shaggy bob is looking off to the side, smiling, with one arm propped under her jaw. She is wearing a polka dot shirt and has a green lanyard around her neck
photo of the reverse of a medal with “good job!” painted on it with white eyeliner
Screenshot of a tweet which reads “Translating Canadian: • No Yeah = Yes • Yeah no = No • Yeah no for sure = Definitely • Yeah no yeah = Sorry, the answer is yes • No yeah no = Oh no, you've got nothing to worry about”
Photo of a vintage metal tin with the words “Gin pills for the kidneys” written across the lid
Hawkeye and Cora from Last of the Mohicans (1992)
a woman in jeans and a blue canvas jacket stands atop a piece of Hadrian’s wall
Philip from the Americans in a faux-turtleneck sweater and toothbrush moustache
Phillip from the Americans in various wild wigs
a field at dusk and the silhouette of a bare tree against a low overcast sky. the horizon is northwest and there’s a line of washed-out salmon light right at the rim of the world
a woman and 4 children sit beside a Christmas tree, surrounded by unwrapped gifts
a woman standing by a doorframe wearing a bright yellow raincoat
black and white photo of Myrna Loy, an actress from the 30s, glancing rakishly aside at the camera; she is sitting a little forwards as if her hands are braced on the edge of her chair and her hair is big tousled waves with a deep side part
vertical diptych of a woman in profile, seated, and a toddler standing up on her lap . in the top panel the woman is puckering for a kiss from the toddler: in the lower panel he has grabbed her nose and turned to look at the camera
a screenshot from Untitled Goose Game with the words “is this breakdown day ???” superimposed
one of Mucha’s “Spring” seasons pieces
photo of a phone case with Alphonse Mucha florals on it
view down a suburban London pavement; on one side is a low white-washed wall covered over with a vine turned yellow and scarlet-red. Half its leaves have fallen onto the ground below.
Screenshot of a news headline which reads “‘Scared the heck out of me': Falling fish smashes Sask. woman's windshield” In smaller text underneath: Main suspect is bird that dropped its prey
a woman in a green shirt is flailing her arms across her face, utterly OVERCOME, she cannot
screenshot of some Instagram ads which show women wearing sweaters in hunter and forest green
screenshot of the search page in the “Sign BSL” app with the following search history results: adventure tough rough swing animal special help wild nature jungle deep
a white woman in her 40s wearing black-framed glasses and a bunnyhug is gazing rather vacantly off-screen . She looks very tired
purple clouds over the North Downs with a green field in the foreground
'Look, are you two going to condescend to come to the war or must I prevail on the enemy to cancel for the day?
A paragraph of text from a book describing Biggin Hill airfield in 1940. One sentence is highlighted; it reads, “Situated on a plateau, it is known throughout Fighter Command as 'Biggin on the Bump'.”
Screenshot of a reddit post titled “Watch how to sign ‘Doncaster’ in British Sign Language”
Nothing much we can do about it so we live the way old bones and fossils lived, the way long-buried cities lived: we live instead —just as if and even believing that here and finally now, ours could be the real world.
looking east across the lake where a bank of cloud is turning to gauze in the sunrise
selfie of me, a mid-40s woman with pink-blond hair and black-framed glasses
photo of Waterloo Bridge at golden hour, looking east, with clouds like pulled-apart cotton balls over a blue sky
a sticker on a Thames-side lamppost shows a swastika being bulldozed by a football
view of the Thames looking eastwards towards the city, with a blue sky and cumulus clouds above