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With the End of June - The 2024-2025 Podfic Bingo Challenge is closed (having allowed extra time for those that wanted to post their completed cards)!

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xkcd_feed

https://xkcd.com/3114/

That was quicker than usual! The cabin's sprinkler system often makes it really hard to keep anything lit.

https://xkcd.com/3114/

stonepicnicking_okapi

I am much happier with this one. Imagine an author (typewriter) penning the scene of a Gorey Summer.

stonepicnicking_okapi

At Noon by Reginald Gibbons

The thick-walled room’s cave-darkness,
cool in summer, soothes
by saying, This is the truth, not the taut
cicada-strummed daylight.
Rest here, out of the flame—the thick air’s
stirred by the fan’s four
slow-moving spoons; under the house the stone
has its feet in deep water.
Outside, even the sun god, dressed in this life
as a lizard, abruptly rises
on stiff legs and descends blasé toward the shadows.

stonepicnicking_okapi

Wednesday's word is courtesy of

kitarella_imagines and is...

...persiflage

[pur-suh-flahzh, pair-]

noun

1. light, bantering talk or writing.
2. a frivolous or flippant style of treating a subject.

origin

First recorded in 1750–60; from French, derivative of persifler “to banter,” equivalent to per- prefix meaning “through, thoroughly, very” + siffler “to whistle, hiss.”

example

Maybe that shows that they’ve finally gotten wise to the PR persiflage of Big Pharma. Los Angeles Times 10/11/23

xkcd_feed

https://xkcd.com/3113/

We're building on our earlier success getting web developers to pay to change the backslashes in our displayed payment URL to forward slashes.

https://xkcd.com/3113/

smallhobbit

Journaling prompt: What are your favourite summer-associated foods?

Not so much food, as the memory of summer picnics. Which conjures up ideals of everyone sitting round a check tablecloth, relaxed and enjoying a selection of delicate foods. Whereas the reality is the wasps after everything sweet. The sudden gust of wind blowing over a tub of mini sausages and taking off with the pretty, carefully chosen, paper serviettes and causing children to rush madly after them, thus falling over and returning with muddy hands etc. Trying to drink a mug of hot tea, because the calendar might say July but otherwise you'd never know, and having hair blow in the mouth. And just when you think it's going to be okay after all, half the tablecloth blows up and falls on top of the iced cupcakes.

Of course, all this may be alleviated by sitting in the car because it's raining and still enjoying the bread rolls, packets of crisps and chocolate mini rolls - which certainly haven't melted.

Or even better, giving up on the whole idea and spreading the tablecloth out on the living room floor and picnicking at home!

stonepicnicking_okapi

Today (9 Jul) is the day that is celebrated as the day of the BTS fan (ARMY). 13 Jun is their debut day but this is the fandom's founding day. So happy day to

bethctg and

celli and all the other ARMYs of the world

bts

stonepicnicking_okapi

1. It is day #2 of my job and I had to call #911 for my client. Talk about being thrown in the deep end! He's okay and I'm okay but it was still a wild second day.

2. Also Minisculus woke up with neck pain enough to make him sob and scream, and I had to leave him. I am being thrown the working mom angst right from the start.

3. But Minisculus placed 7th in his race at the regional club championship so he got to stand on the podium and a bronze medal the size of a dinner plate.

I'm trying to figure out my routine. I will add a second client on Thursday so I suppose I am waiting for that to figure out what I do when (like grocery shopping). I am reminding myself to take it easy and just handle one enormous shift at a time. Being a working mom fand having my kid be a latch key kid is enough for this week.

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unconventionalcourtship

It's the end of another

unconventionalcourtship round! Many thanks to all that participated this year. Whether you wrote fic, read fic, signed up, made banners, promoted the fest or fell down the UC Generator rabbit hole your participation was very much appreciated.

Now the fest is over here is this year's masterlist to peruse while you give yourself a pat on the back!

Here is this year's masterlist of fic:
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unconventionalcourtship

You above all else (9847 words) - Chapter 1 and Chapter 2 (on dreamwidth)

Chapters: 2/2
Fandom: Bridgerton (TV Show)
Rating: Teen and Up
Warnings: No Warnings Apply
Relationships: Anthony Bridgerton/Kate Sharma
Characters: Anthony Bridgerton, Kate Sharma, the Bridgerton family plus Simon Hastings, the Sharma family.
Additional Tags: Friends to Lovers, Regency setting, Angst, Pining, The Gulf between Social Classes, Canonical Character Death Referenced, Eldest Children Syndrome, Time Jumps, Unconventional Courtship 2025
Summary:

Anthony Bridgerton and Kate Sharma were inseparable as children since he’d defended her from an irate tutor. Once she thought there was something more growing between them until grief and the divergent demands of their positions drew them apart.

To Kate, the warm, close knit Bridgerton family lead a charmed life and spending Christmas with them is both an honour and a relief from the challenges her own little family face.

But when she comes face-to-face with Anthony again, she hardly recognises him in the cold, aloof man he's become. Worse, he seems to see her as a spinster maid, below his notice, and an outsider

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Inspired by HOME TO FAMILY by ANN EVANS

Amnesty post - sorry this is late!

Current Mood: accomplished

xkcd_feed

https://xkcd.com/3112/

After determining that his body was full of pipes carrying iron-rich fluid, our current theory is that the dagger-shaped object precipitated within the wound.

https://xkcd.com/3112/

stonepicnicking_okapi

I survived my first day of work! Huzzah!

So we have to play this song.

Watch on YouTube

smallhobbit

FutureLearn

Italian for Beginners - Part 4 (Open University)
Much to my surprise I'm finding I'm able to complete the quizzes with fewer mistakes and understanding more, which is encouraging.

What do Popular Songs Mean? (University of Leeds)
Like the previous music course I've done with Leeds Uni, this was aimed at potential music students, which I imagine is only a very limited proportion of those taking FutureLearn courses. Some things were interesting, some were a reminder of things I learnt on an OpenLearn course; at other times they would teach about analysis, but then when I came to work through an example for myself the answer would come up 'you may think xxx, but in this case yyy applies'. And in at least one occasion there seemed to be a contradiction between something stated earlier and than later in the course.

OpenLearn

Egyptian Mathematics
I read through the course, but it lacks the presentation of later courses. It was interesting to see a little about Egyptian mathematics, although very little has survived, probably because most of their maths had to do with practical problems they encountered rather than matters they deemed sufficiently important to save for posterity.

Babylonian Mathematics
Similarly with this course, although there was a small amount that was presumably kept for teaching purposes. Unlike our modern maths, with a decimal system of counting, the Babylonians worked in 60s, so comparing then and now isn't always easy.

The Science of Nutrition & Healthy Eating
My latest badged course. Definitely interesting and made me consider what I do eat. Not sure it will change my diet - but I'm more aware of food labels and what I should be considering.

stonepicnicking_okapi

Not my best work. I've done several Alice in Wonderland-themed collages which are much better than this. But my brain is not my friend at the moment, and I have filled up the last of my three inserts I was using for collage so I will be using my Agatha Christie notebook and my art notebook going forward. Both are smaller but I think that might be a good thing.

smallhobbit

The second theme this month at

allbingo is Western.

Here's my card:

Armadillo	Sunbonnet
Chasing a Dream	Rattlesnake

smallhobbit

Creative Prompt: Write a love poem to anyone or anything you like

Who or what do I love?

Let's go with cakes

There's my husband, of course

And the scones which he bakes

And the Daughter

To whom we send Christmas cake

Plus her sibling the Son

Who takes us out for cake

I have some good friends

And yes, we do discuss cake

Not to mention my church

With a variety of cake

Shakespeare wrote sonnets

And I eulogise cake!

xkcd_feed

https://xkcd.com/3111/

Low gravity can cause bone loss, so we're pleased to report that, since we initiated capsule motion, the number of bones in each crew member has been steadily increasing.

https://xkcd.com/3111/

stonepicnicking_okapi

For new friends, personal posts not on Tuesdays are called 'Into the Void' as in 'Screaming into the Void'

THANK YOU to everyone for the well wishes on the new job. I will respond individually but I just wanted to do a quick blast of thanks now. Orientation went well. I have clients starting MONDAY! I am low-key terrified, but that's to be expected with something so new. So my schedule will be 8 am to 2 pm with going from one client's house to a second client.

Lots of deep breaths...

THANK YOU!

smallhobbit

This has to be one of my favourite

allbingo challenges. This year I chose the Holidays theme to give me:

Winter Solstice	Christmas Day
New Years Eve	St. Nikolaus Day

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Collage Journal: A Gorey Summer

Poet's Corner: At Noon by Reginal Gibbons

Word: Persiflage

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Sunshine Revival Challenge #3

Happy ARMY Day!

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Unconventional Courtship Masterlist 2025

[Bridgerton - Kanthony] You above all else

Geology Murder

Music Monday: Let the River Run by Carly Simon

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