I’ve been rewatching the 1995 TV adaptation of ‘Pride and Prejudice’ with Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle. I had forgotten just how much time Firth spends just smouldering in the first few episodes. He doesn’t have many lines, but his smouldering is world class.
Father Ted meets the Exorcist! The emphasis is firmly on the comedy in this comedy/horror, but it was exactly the laugh we needed this weekend. Great characters and some fabulous lines, with a 1980s aesthetic that hit the spot brilliantly. If you are a fan of Garth Marenghi’s Dark Place, you’ll probably like this too.
Violet 📷🌈
Indigo bluebells. 📷🌈
Blue. From last year. 📷🌈
New oak leaves are a fabulous fresh green colour. 📷🌈
Yellow 📷🌈
Orange nasturtiums 📷🌈
Red post box. 📷 🌈
For it might be the mothering of your sweet soul
If you open your eyes and see
That the life of a man it comes with little plan
It flourishes like a flower
As tender in the heart into which you’re born
So cherish your every hour
— Sam Lee, “The Moon Shines Bright” 💬
“I meant,” said Ipslore bitterly, “what is there in this world that truly makes living worthwhile?” Death thought about it. “CATS, he said eventually. CATS ARE NICE.” — Terry Pratchett, Sourcery 💬
Hello Earth
Hello Earth
With just one hand held up high
I can blot you out
Out of sight
Peek-a-boo
Peek-a-boo, Little Earth
— Kate Bush, “Hello Earth” 💬
“Time, not important. Only life is important.” — Mondoshawan, The Fifth Element. 💬
“[…] the great Tree of Life, which fills with its dead and broken branches the crust of the earth, and covers the surface with its ever-branching and beautiful ramifications.” — Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species 💬
“Supposing a tree fell down, Pooh, when we were underneath it?” “Supposing it didn’t,” said Pooh after careful thought. Piglet was comforted by this. — A. A. Milne 💬
“How long the same things? Surely I will yawn, I will sleep, I will eat, I will be thirsty, I will be cold, I will be hot. Is there no end?” — Seneca 💬 (quoted in a Guardian article about boredom)
New post: Building a Raspberry Pi Roon endpoint
My fun weekend project!
I made a floor pouffe yesterday from a free Closet Case Pattern. It is designed to be made from those scraps that are too small to use for clothing but too big to throw away, and then filled with smaller scraps!
Just had breakfast listening to a duet between Hildegard of Bingen (Medieval plain chant, on Radio 3) and a blackbird (in our garden, through the open door). Bliss. I recommending starting every day like that if you have cooperative local wildlife.
New post: Extending org-roam
In which I create a monstrous pile of scripts in order to make notes on journal articles in org-roam.
I came across a wren on my walk today. Its song was as sweet and sharp as lemon sherbet. The unexpected force with which its tiny body punched the air into explosions of sound knocked all the stale indoor air from my own lungs and replaced it with cool spring freshness.
Blossom.
New post: Making things in isolation
In which I sew an incredibly bright shirt to celebrate my birthday.
Ah, my old friend Fraycheck (aka ‘Rafelstop’) - you save my sewing bacon again when I get a bit wayward with the rotary cutter! 😬
This fox was enjoying a patch is sun in our garden this morning, while sparrows shouted at it from a nearby bush.
