what is keeping you going, rof friends? Things you can focus on, large or small.
Right now I am in slight quiver from the bad stuff of the last few days but am tending my new citrus tree, which is very restful. A bit worried the central heating might fook him up. Hope not.
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have also purchased four books, one of which is about witches and I am very excited
now just need to make some time to read it
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Which book about witches? Fiction or non-fiction? I just bought one called The Familiars but I haven't started it yet.
As for sanity, knitting.
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I find following every twist and turn of the brexit saga helps my mood....
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The rules of magic by Alice Hoffman! Remember practical magic by her? Loved that.
Only slight risk is that she goes in for love chat a lot and am feeling fragile at the moment on that front.
May start with Alone in Berlin instead. Although Brexit.
Ugh.
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Maybe I should try to write a book that is both engrossing and devoid of anything that could trigger an upsetting emotional response.
This could be my gift to the world. Yes.
Help me brainstorm!
It will be about a person. We will not get into their gender.
They will have no pets because pets can die.
Maybe a robot companion.
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But that makes you think about loneliness and imagine only having a robot companion.
This is hard.
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The dream of being thin*
I have lost half a stone and am sticking with fat fighters for another 12 weeks
*well less chubby really
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good work, phoebe!
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Planning fun activities is keeping me sane. Would quite like to fast forward through the next week though.
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this reminds me I need to book a holiday
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me too, anna - going on holiday on 5th and the days are deliberately crawling by...
PS soz to hear of heartbreak, Clergs. Alone in Berlin sounds as cheerful as A Woman in Berlin
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Where are you off to, Queenie?
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thz, QE, am considering writing a book that'd fooking learn him
or I would if I could find a way to make it untriggering
Alone in Berlin is actually quite good (from the first few pages). It's about Berlin under Nazi rule and all the things people have to do to cope. I like books set in terrible environments where the people still manage to thrive. Hence appeal of dystopian fiction I suppose.
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Spain. Coming home on 13th. If Brexitmaggedon happens on the 12th I might just stay there
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I love Alone in Berlin, though it does make me very very very sad
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remember to take a spanish phrasebook in case shouting things in English is immediately rendered illegal
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What keeps me motivated? Doing stuff. DIY, building Lego, making Star Wars costumes. That sort of thing. When you're unhappy and lonely, you do all the things you wanted when you were happy, but didn't have time to do because you were happy.
This is how my Darth Vader outfit came into being.
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uhoh
I suppose I should have anticipated that, phoebz. Guess it's one for the "feeling robust" pile, then.
*eyes pile of books that stretches to the moon"
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yes I just looked it up, I think I will read it! A Woman in Berlin is similar (things people have to do to cope/survive)
The Moment by Douglas Kennedy is one of my favourite books ever and runs along a similar theme
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I think I might try in our mad and furious city because I love London more than any man (and it disdains me in return about as much as any man)
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the fourth, in case you are wondering, is the time travellers guide to the resurrection. I totally HEART that series - both silly AND educational
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I love Spain. Whereabouts?
If Brexitmaggedon happens on the 12th you might have to.
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resurrection or restoration ??!
I just bought The Outcasts of Time by the same author (love his Clarencuex trilogy)
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we have booked a villa in Calp
I am totally going to go to Benidorm and have tacky cocktails with dry ice
and Phoebe I will just shout 'Sausage egg and chips!' in an Eddie Izzard stylee
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hahaha restoration
sorry
obviously the zombie apocalypse is quite appealing right now
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Clergs have u read the Syd Moore witchy books? Strange etc.
u would love
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Clergs if you want historical silliness, The Adventures of Alianore Audley by Brian Wainwright never fails to cheer me up
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thanks both I will kindle these right up
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wait yes I have witch museum and forgot! hurrah! free sort of new book
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oh liked Syd Moore's Witch Hunt and have just downloaded The Drowning Pool too
Other good witchy books
The King's Witch Tracy Borman
The Witch of Willow Hall by Hester Fox
The Witchfinder's Sister by Beth Underdown
I may have a just-realised obsession here
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heh
it is a good theme tbf
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You need to watch working girl and when Harry Met sally
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Fie and curses to stupid men
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I have just bought the All Hallows trilogy (the books which A Discovery of Witches series is based on).
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Ooooh and a factual one - Witchfinders by I think Malcolm Gaskill. the book that Torontochick rec'd iirc (apols if not).
made me realise that women were pressed or dunked because sootikens were mistaken as mice. only on rof would i have drawn such knowledge.
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Women were pressed and dunked because of the patriarchy, Wang. The witch thing was just a bullshit excuse.
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I wondered about those Badman but I tried to watch the series and couldn't get into it
people rave about the books though
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sootikens were a thing??????????????//
I should start to try to take comfort from living in an age when sootikens are not a thing eh
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I also struggled with Discovery. Felt like an Adult Twilight.
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There is a disappointing lack of norkage in the series, tis true.
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Anna you may be right on a macro scale but the hopkins lead mission (for want of a better word) was couched in religious tones. The superflous nipple that oft "defined" a witch was often a clitoris.
read th gaskill book it be good
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Oh god - Wang, please don't start talking about Mary Toft again.
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What is a sootiken?
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eugggh
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Dat's white wabbit...
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I have just had to google sootiken
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HEH HEH HEH HEH HEH!!!!!
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Oh god only this morning it popped into my head that rof used to be fixated with the idea of soutkins.
Ive never heard the word anywhere else.
THEY WERENT A THING
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I thought that too, linda! but wang seems to be saying otherwise!
grimmers
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I just don't see how it is possible. If nothing else menstruation would prevent this
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Hey, u r the ones with the fanoirs, dont blame the postman
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Apparently they feature in this book: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Dictionary-Disgusting-Facts-Alan-Williams/dp/0708828884
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And I daresay mens, erm, wangs were just as disgusting back then.
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there is a theory that the slang word “pussy” arose because it catches the mouse (sootikin)
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Yikes.
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I have no doubt anna that a proud English schong in say 1407 would have bowed with the benefits of bacterial appreciation. You'd not need to buy a Philladelphia for weeks...
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one of the Enid Blyton books has a cat named sootikin
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the sulliment :(
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Mmm. Grow your own Roquefort.
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I always knew that Enid Blyton was a filfmonger (and a muncher).
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Do we think she knew what a sootikin was?
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http://message.snopes.com/showthread.php?t=85597
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Fun fact: Enid Blyton was asked to be a witness in the Lady Chatterley's Lover obscenity trial, but she declined.
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well this thread took a turn
great stuff guys!
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One suspects the cat may have been black. Yes?
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it certainly has cheered up my "sorry, boss, I have to work from home because of some embarrassing crying issues" afternoon, QE
I have bought a fookload of therapy stationery from Hema also
now I just need a project to use it for!
I have some post-its that look like speech bubbles
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and a pink sparkly pen
and I am thinking really hard about it to try to keep from thinking about the smell of sootikinses
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Hema is dangerous. I spend so much money in there.
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Could be.
Oh my god - look at the images results for "Sootikin" or "Sooterkin" on Google This guy looks like Wang without the glasses:
https://www.bing.com/images/search?view=detailV2&id=2DE9274679EE4AC0133B4173274CD9C13AF7A6E7&thid=OIP.NVUa5tWm5dBPs7EsXLSQKgAAAA&mediaurl=https%3A%2F%2Fmireinoporuncaballo.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2017%2F09%2Fgenoma42_03.jpg&exph=300&expw=400&q=sooterkin&selectedindex=5&ajaxhist=0&vt=0&eim=1,2,6
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it has every thing you could possibly want without technically needing!!
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Yesterday I bought loads of wooden coat hangers, imagining how lovely my wardrobe will look if we have proper coat hangers and not those wire ones you get from the dry cleaners.
Coat hangers, ffs.
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At the moment the prospect of being able to have a beer at 5pm in the sun is getting me through three hours of property law lectures.
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i've never even heard of Hema
it looks like Tiger/Flying Tiger right? (which I love. Stuff! And more stuff!)
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very like Flying Tiger but nicer stuff I would say
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Anna I chucked out all plastic / wore coat hangers and replaced with wooden ages ago, and it still makes me happy. My clothes also hang in colour groupings
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There's one on Oxford Street I think Queenie.
It sells a bit of everything. Sweets and biscuits, seasonal decorations, candles, kitchenware, tights, stationery, toiletries, makeup... lovely children's toys if you need a present for someone.
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Yes Linda, I think wooden coat hangers are an aspirational lifestyle choice. I'm going to keep buying them.
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the only reason I went in one is that tottenham court road is roadworksed by a mental person and it was impossible to get across to Muji
I am glad I discovered it!
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Oh mine were from ikea :-/
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Hema/Tiger are basically the new Muji but better
I used to spend hours in Muji
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they are !
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Anna, sod wooden hangers. I moved to white padded silk hangers at 25 and have never looked back
even when my clothes were tat from charity shops they always looked so fancy on the hangers
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surely you can only use white padded silk hangers for slinky items of lingerie?
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Who puts lingerie on hangers?
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women in films
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Yes I just throw it on the floor.
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presumably in a 'having removed it from a laydee first' rather than an 'I am actually Eddie Izzard' way...?
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I couldn’t possibly comment.
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HEMA stroopwafels!!!!!
And baby stuff
And kitchen stuff
and stationery
and general retail therapy without breaking the bank.
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Tiger mini stroopwafels also awesome but evil
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why are they evil more than normal ones??
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Because I can eat a whole bag in one sitting
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heh
am picturing this without chewing
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Late to this party but my fancy hangers are slim black velvety things so that clothes can't slip off and you can get more hangers in the wardrobe!
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Hehe this is a great thread. Glad you liked witchfinders wango
and I concur with meh - those velvety thin hangers are the best.
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The thin ones don’t keep the frame of a suit very well. I have nice curvey thick wooden ones for suit jackets and they have a sort of velvety bit on the bottom rung for the trousers.
Probably breaking some gentleman’s code by hanging them together but it’s not like I ever wear them anymore anyway.
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I don't actually have a normal wardrobe. Must rectify.
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Err how do you hang things then?
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