#Ursula Wreath

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Haunted Mansion Decorations, handcrafted wreath with hitchhiking ghosts, Welcome Foolish Mortals sign, madam Leota , glow in the dark eyes and battery operated lights

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Ursula Wreath

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TIARA ALERT: Celina d'Abo wore a diamond wreath tiara for her wedding to Jake Giordano at St. Andrew's Church in West Wratting, United Kingdom on 1 July 2023.

[brookston]

Holidays 5.29

Holidays

Armed Forces Day (Kyrgyzstan)

Army Day (Argentina)

Asexuality Day

Cultural Workers and Folk Artists Day (День Києва Київ; Ukraine)

Day of Internal Affairs Officers (Turkmenistan)

Dunkirk Evacuation Remembrance Days [thru 6.4]

End of the Middle Ages Day

Fall of Constantinople Day

Feronia Asteroid Day

Ganatantra Diwas (Nepal)

Hope Day

International Addison’s Day

International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers (UN)

International Mount Everest Day

International Pashto Language Day

Kiev Day (Ukraine)

Learn About Composting Day

Luilak (Lazy Bones Day; Belgium)

Mount Everest Day (Nepal)

National Alligator Day

National Dog Friendly Day

National Edison Day

National Elderly Day (Indonesia)

National 529 College Savings Plan Day

National Flip Flop Day

National Foot Fetish Day

National Heat Awareness Day

National Hydroxyapatite Day

National Paperclip Day

National Rugelach Day

National Sail Day

National White Wreath Day (Australia)

Oak Apple Day (UK) [a.k.a. ... 

Bobby Ack Day

Castleton Garland Day (Castleton)

Garland King Day 

Nettle Day

Royal Oak Day

Shick-Shack Day

Shik-Shak Day

Shitsack Day

Yak Bob Day

Paper Clip Day

Pink Flamingo Day

Put a Pillow on Your Fridge Day

Reconciliation Day (ACT, Australia)

Red Shirt Day of Action for AccessAbility & Inclusion (Canada)

Restoration Day (UK)

Rite of Spring Day

Scythe Day (French Republic)

Tony Stark Day

Veteran of Overseas Military Service Day (Poland)

Veterans Day (Sweden)

World Digestive Health Day

World Tiger Nut Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

Coq au Vin Day

Gnocchi Day (Argentina)

International Rooster with Wine Day

National Biscuit Day (UK)

Squoosh an Ice Cream Sandwich Day

Independence & Related Days

Constitutional Referendum Day (Vanuatu)

Democracy Day (Nigeria)

Republic Day (Nepal)

Rhode Island Statehood Day (#13; 1790)

Schalamzaar Empire (Declared; 2004) [unrecognized]

Wisconsin Statehood Day (#30; 1848)

5th & Last Wednesday in May

Bermuda Day [Last Friday]

European Neighbours’ Day [Last Friday]

Great Wisconsin Cheese Festival begins [Last Friday, thru Sunday]

National Heat Awareness Day [Last Friday]

National Senior Health & Fitness Day [Last Wednesday]

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Awareness Day (Western Australia) [Last Friday]

Trader-Willi Syndrome Awareness Day [Last Friday]

World Challenge Day [Last Wednesday]

World MS (Multiple Sclerosis) Day [Last Wednesday]

World Otter Day [Last Wednesday]

Festivals Beginning May 29, 2024

Bookfest Bucharest (Bucharest, Romania) [thru 6.2]

Corn Dry Milling Conference (Peoria, Illinois) [thru 5.30]

Dublin Tech Summit (Dublin, Ireland) [thru 5.30]

Primavera Sound (Barcelona, Spain) [thru 6.2]

Wellfleet Restaurant Week (Wellfleet, Massachusetts) [thru 6.4]

Feast Days

Aaron McGruder (Artology)

Alexander of Alexandria (Christian; Saint)

Ambarvailia (Old Roman No Work Day, Purification Festival to Ceres)

Arbor Day (Aston-on Club, Shropshire Celtic Book of Days)

Ascension of Baha'u'llah (Baha’i)

Bona of Pisa (Christian; Saint)

Clark Voorhees (Artology)

Conon and his son (Christian; Martyrs, of Iconia, Asia)

Consensual Bum Biting Day (Pastafarian)

Cyril of Caesarea (Christian; Saint)

Erwin (Christian; Saint)

Feast of Mars (Ancient Rome)

Hypomone (Eastern Orthodox Church)

Johnny the Wolf (Muppetism)

Lars Bo (Artology)

Louise-Adéone Drölling (Artology)

Madeleine Sophie Barat (Christian; Saint)

Mary Magdalen dei Pazzi (Christian; Virgin)

Mary, Mother of the Church (Christian; Saint)

Maximus of Trier (a.k.a. Maximus, Bishop of Tiers; Christian; Saint)

Oak Apple Day (Starza Pagan Book of Days)

Pillow Fight Day (Pastafarian)

Pope Alexander of Alexandria (Eastern Orthodox Church)

Siinnius, Martyrius, and Alexander (Christian; Martyrs, in Trent)

Spike Jones Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Sprouting Corn Day (Pagan)

Theodosia of Constantinople (Eastern Orthodox Church)

Theodosius (Positivist; Saint)

Ursula Ledóchowska (Christian; Saint)

William, Stephen, Raymund and their Companions (Christian; Martyrs)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Prime Number Day: 149 [35 of 72]

Sensho (先勝 Japan) [Good luck in the morning, bad luck in the afternoon.]

Unfortunate Day (Pagan) [28 of 57]

Premieres

A Battle for a Bottle (Phantasies Cartoon; 1942)

Bluebeard’s Brother (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1932)

Bold King Cole (Rainbow Parade Cartoon; 1936)

The Busy Bee (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1936)

Dial M for Murder (Film; 1954)

Dick Whittington’s Cat (ComiColor Cartoon; 1936)

Feel This Book, by Janeane Garofalo and Ben Stiller (Humor Book; 1999)

The Gods Themselves Isaac Asimov (Novel; 1972)

Half-Baked Alaska (Chilly Willy Cartoon; 1965)

The Hound and the Rabbit (Happy Harmonies Cartoon; 1937)

Hud (Film; 1963)

The Internship (Film; 2013)

I Yam Love Sick (Fleischer Popeye Cartoon; 1938)

Justice League: Starcrossed (WB Animated Film; 2004)

The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini (Novel; 2003)

The Last Days of Disco (Film; 1998)

Little Bits, recorded by Jimmy Bertrand’s Washboard Wizards (Song; 1926)

Little School Mouse (Tom & Jerry Cartoon; 1954)

Mary Had a Little Lamb, by Paul McCartney (Song; 1972)

The New Centurions, by Joseph Wambaugh (Novel; 1971)

No Time For Sergeants (Film; 1958)

Partly Cloudy (Pixar Cartoon 2009)

Pink on the Cob (Pink Panther Cartoon; 1969)

Private Dancer, by Tina Turner (Album; 1984)

A Raisin in the Sun (Film; 1961)

The Rite of Spring, by Igor Stravinsky (Ballet & Orchestral Work; 1913)

San Andreas (Film; 2015)

Sister Act (Film; 1992)

Smile Pretty, Say Pink (Pink Panther Cartoon; 1966)

Space Force (TV Series; 2020)

St. Moritz Blitz (Chilly Willy Cartoon; 1961)

The Stork’s Mistake (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1942)

Tears on My Pillow, recorded by Little Anthony & the Imperials (Song; 1958)

This Is A Book, by Demetri Martin (Humor Book; 2011)

Two Dots (Phone App Game; 2014)

Up (Animated Disney Film; 2009)

White Christmas, recorded by Bing Crosby (Song; 1942)

The Witch in the Wood, by T.H. White (Novel; 1939) [Once and Future King #2]

Yankee Doodle Dandy (Film; 1942)

Today’s Name Days

Erwin, Irmtraud, Maximin (Austria)

Doroteia (Bulgaria)

Euzebije, Polion, Većeslav (Croatia)

Maxmilián (Czech Republic)

Maciminus (Denmark)

Laido, Leido, Leidur, Luulik (Estonia)

Oiva, Oivi, Oliver, Olivia (Finland)

Aymar, Aymard, Géraldine, Maximin (France)

Erwin, Irmtraud, Maximin (Germany)

Ipomoni, Olivianos, Theodosia (Greece)

Magdolna (Hungary)

Ademaro, Massimo, Massimino (Italy)

Daris, Maksine, Maksis, Raivis, Raivo (Latvia)

Algedas, Erdvilė, Magdalena, Magdė (Lithuania)

Magnar, Magnhild (Norway)

Bogusława, Maksymilian, Maria Magdalena, Teodor, Teodozja (Poland)

Teodosia (România)

Vilma (Slovakia)

Maximino (Spain)

Jeanette, Yvonne (Sweden)

Theodora (Ukraine)

Duana, Duane, Duanna, Dwayne, Fitz, Fitzgerald (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 150 of 2024; 216 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 3 of week 22 of 2024

Celtic Tree Calendar: Huath (Hawthorn) [Day 18 of 28]

Chinese: Month 4 (Ji-Si), Day 22 (Gui-Si)

Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025) [Wu-Chen]

Hebrew: 21 Iyar 5784

Islamic: 21 Dhu al-Qada 1445

J Cal: 30 Magenta; Lastday [30 of 30]

Julian: 16 May 2024

Moon: 61%: Waning Gibbous

Positivist: 9 St. Paul (6th Month) [Theodosius]

Runic Half Month: Odal (Home, Possession) [Day 5 of 15]

Season: Spring (Day 72 of 92)

Week: Last Week of May

Zodiac: Gemini (Day 9 of 31)

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Holidays 5.29

Holidays

Armed Forces Day (Kyrgyzstan)

Army Day (Argentina)

Asexuality Day

Cultural Workers and Folk Artists Day (День Києва Київ; Ukraine)

Day of Internal Affairs Officers (Turkmenistan)

Dunkirk Evacuation Remembrance Days [thru 6.4]

End of the Middle Ages Day

Fall of Constantinople Day

Feronia Asteroid Day

Ganatantra Diwas (Nepal)

Hope Day

International Addison’s Day

International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers (UN)

International Mount Everest Day

International Pashto Language Day

Kiev Day (Ukraine)

Learn About Composting Day

Luilak (Lazy Bones Day; Belgium)

Mount Everest Day (Nepal)

National Alligator Day

National Dog Friendly Day

National Edison Day

National Elderly Day (Indonesia)

National 529 College Savings Plan Day

National Flip Flop Day

National Foot Fetish Day

National Heat Awareness Day

National Hydroxyapatite Day

National Paperclip Day

National Rugelach Day

National Sail Day

National White Wreath Day (Australia)

Oak Apple Day (UK) [a.k.a. ... 

Bobby Ack Day

Castleton Garland Day (Castleton)

Garland King Day 

Nettle Day

Royal Oak Day

Shick-Shack Day

Shik-Shak Day

Shitsack Day

Yak Bob Day

Paper Clip Day

Pink Flamingo Day

Put a Pillow on Your Fridge Day

Reconciliation Day (ACT, Australia)

Red Shirt Day of Action for AccessAbility & Inclusion (Canada)

Restoration Day (UK)

Rite of Spring Day

Scythe Day (French Republic)

Tony Stark Day

Veteran of Overseas Military Service Day (Poland)

Veterans Day (Sweden)

World Digestive Health Day

World Tiger Nut Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

Coq au Vin Day

Gnocchi Day (Argentina)

International Rooster with Wine Day

National Biscuit Day (UK)

Squoosh an Ice Cream Sandwich Day

Independence & Related Days

Constitutional Referendum Day (Vanuatu)

Democracy Day (Nigeria)

Republic Day (Nepal)

Rhode Island Statehood Day (#13; 1790)

Schalamzaar Empire (Declared; 2004) [unrecognized]

Wisconsin Statehood Day (#30; 1848)

5th & Last Wednesday in May

Bermuda Day [Last Friday]

European Neighbours’ Day [Last Friday]

Great Wisconsin Cheese Festival begins [Last Friday, thru Sunday]

National Heat Awareness Day [Last Friday]

National Senior Health & Fitness Day [Last Wednesday]

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Awareness Day (Western Australia) [Last Friday]

Trader-Willi Syndrome Awareness Day [Last Friday]

World Challenge Day [Last Wednesday]

World MS (Multiple Sclerosis) Day [Last Wednesday]

World Otter Day [Last Wednesday]

Festivals Beginning May 29, 2024

Bookfest Bucharest (Bucharest, Romania) [thru 6.2]

Corn Dry Milling Conference (Peoria, Illinois) [thru 5.30]

Dublin Tech Summit (Dublin, Ireland) [thru 5.30]

Primavera Sound (Barcelona, Spain) [thru 6.2]

Wellfleet Restaurant Week (Wellfleet, Massachusetts) [thru 6.4]

Feast Days

Aaron McGruder (Artology)

Alexander of Alexandria (Christian; Saint)

Ambarvailia (Old Roman No Work Day, Purification Festival to Ceres)

Arbor Day (Aston-on Club, Shropshire Celtic Book of Days)

Ascension of Baha'u'llah (Baha’i)

Bona of Pisa (Christian; Saint)

Clark Voorhees (Artology)

Conon and his son (Christian; Martyrs, of Iconia, Asia)

Consensual Bum Biting Day (Pastafarian)

Cyril of Caesarea (Christian; Saint)

Erwin (Christian; Saint)

Feast of Mars (Ancient Rome)

Hypomone (Eastern Orthodox Church)

Johnny the Wolf (Muppetism)

Lars Bo (Artology)

Louise-Adéone Drölling (Artology)

Madeleine Sophie Barat (Christian; Saint)

Mary Magdalen dei Pazzi (Christian; Virgin)

Mary, Mother of the Church (Christian; Saint)

Maximus of Trier (a.k.a. Maximus, Bishop of Tiers; Christian; Saint)

Oak Apple Day (Starza Pagan Book of Days)

Pillow Fight Day (Pastafarian)

Pope Alexander of Alexandria (Eastern Orthodox Church)

Siinnius, Martyrius, and Alexander (Christian; Martyrs, in Trent)

Spike Jones Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Sprouting Corn Day (Pagan)

Theodosia of Constantinople (Eastern Orthodox Church)

Theodosius (Positivist; Saint)

Ursula Ledóchowska (Christian; Saint)

William, Stephen, Raymund and their Companions (Christian; Martyrs)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Prime Number Day: 149 [35 of 72]

Sensho (先勝 Japan) [Good luck in the morning, bad luck in the afternoon.]

Unfortunate Day (Pagan) [28 of 57]

Premieres

A Battle for a Bottle (Phantasies Cartoon; 1942)

Bluebeard’s Brother (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1932)

Bold King Cole (Rainbow Parade Cartoon; 1936)

The Busy Bee (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1936)

Dial M for Murder (Film; 1954)

Dick Whittington’s Cat (ComiColor Cartoon; 1936)

Feel This Book, by Janeane Garofalo and Ben Stiller (Humor Book; 1999)

The Gods Themselves Isaac Asimov (Novel; 1972)

Half-Baked Alaska (Chilly Willy Cartoon; 1965)

The Hound and the Rabbit (Happy Harmonies Cartoon; 1937)

Hud (Film; 1963)

The Internship (Film; 2013)

I Yam Love Sick (Fleischer Popeye Cartoon; 1938)

Justice League: Starcrossed (WB Animated Film; 2004)

The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini (Novel; 2003)

The Last Days of Disco (Film; 1998)

Little Bits, recorded by Jimmy Bertrand’s Washboard Wizards (Song; 1926)

Little School Mouse (Tom & Jerry Cartoon; 1954)

Mary Had a Little Lamb, by Paul McCartney (Song; 1972)

The New Centurions, by Joseph Wambaugh (Novel; 1971)

No Time For Sergeants (Film; 1958)

Partly Cloudy (Pixar Cartoon 2009)

Pink on the Cob (Pink Panther Cartoon; 1969)

Private Dancer, by Tina Turner (Album; 1984)

A Raisin in the Sun (Film; 1961)

The Rite of Spring, by Igor Stravinsky (Ballet & Orchestral Work; 1913)

San Andreas (Film; 2015)

Sister Act (Film; 1992)

Smile Pretty, Say Pink (Pink Panther Cartoon; 1966)

Space Force (TV Series; 2020)

St. Moritz Blitz (Chilly Willy Cartoon; 1961)

The Stork’s Mistake (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1942)

Tears on My Pillow, recorded by Little Anthony & the Imperials (Song; 1958)

This Is A Book, by Demetri Martin (Humor Book; 2011)

Two Dots (Phone App Game; 2014)

Up (Animated Disney Film; 2009)

White Christmas, recorded by Bing Crosby (Song; 1942)

The Witch in the Wood, by T.H. White (Novel; 1939) [Once and Future King #2]

Yankee Doodle Dandy (Film; 1942)

Today’s Name Days

Erwin, Irmtraud, Maximin (Austria)

Doroteia (Bulgaria)

Euzebije, Polion, Većeslav (Croatia)

Maxmilián (Czech Republic)

Maciminus (Denmark)

Laido, Leido, Leidur, Luulik (Estonia)

Oiva, Oivi, Oliver, Olivia (Finland)

Aymar, Aymard, Géraldine, Maximin (France)

Erwin, Irmtraud, Maximin (Germany)

Ipomoni, Olivianos, Theodosia (Greece)

Magdolna (Hungary)

Ademaro, Massimo, Massimino (Italy)

Daris, Maksine, Maksis, Raivis, Raivo (Latvia)

Algedas, Erdvilė, Magdalena, Magdė (Lithuania)

Magnar, Magnhild (Norway)

Bogusława, Maksymilian, Maria Magdalena, Teodor, Teodozja (Poland)

Teodosia (România)

Vilma (Slovakia)

Maximino (Spain)

Jeanette, Yvonne (Sweden)

Theodora (Ukraine)

Duana, Duane, Duanna, Dwayne, Fitz, Fitzgerald (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 150 of 2024; 216 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 3 of week 22 of 2024

Celtic Tree Calendar: Huath (Hawthorn) [Day 18 of 28]

Chinese: Month 4 (Ji-Si), Day 22 (Gui-Si)

Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025) [Wu-Chen]

Hebrew: 21 Iyar 5784

Islamic: 21 Dhu al-Qada 1445

J Cal: 30 Magenta; Lastday [30 of 30]

Julian: 16 May 2024

Moon: 61%: Waning Gibbous

Positivist: 9 St. Paul (6th Month) [Theodosius]

Runic Half Month: Odal (Home, Possession) [Day 5 of 15]

Season: Spring (Day 72 of 92)

Week: Last Week of May

Zodiac: Gemini (Day 9 of 31)

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Piranesi by Susanna Clarke review – an elegant study in solitude

Paraic O’DonnellThu 17 Sep 2020 07.30 BST

The Jonathan Strange author returns with a mysterious tale that examines the nature of fantasy itself

“The beauty of the House is immeasurable; its Kindness infinite”: this is the reverent pronouncement of Piranesi, who believes he has occupied the house in question “since the world began”. Indeed, the house and the world, for Piranesi, are one and the same. Birds congregate in its cloud-wreathed upper halls and fearsome tides surge through its lower levels, but although Piranesi has journeyed widely – as far as “the Nine-Hundred-and-Sixtieth Hall to the West” – he has glimpsed nothing beyond it. And but for the bones of the dead, and an enigmatic visitor known only as “the Other”, he wanders this world entirely alone.

Susanna Clarke is a writer who has never quite been given her due. She is hardly obscure, of course; her first novel, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, became a worldwide bestseller and was given a plush TV adaptation by the BBC. But its lingering influence – perhaps all the more notable for her long quiescence – has not been fully appreciated. Infusing “great tradition” verisimilitude with the imaginative radicalism of Ursula Le Guin, it gave rise to what might be called magical archaism, a fictional strain that has since become widespread. Like Hilary Mantel, Clarke made the very notion of genre seem quaint.

Yet even as her imitators proliferated, she herself returned only briefly to her antic and ornate parallel Regency. The Ladies of Grace Adieu, a collection of stories published in 2006, was politely received by critics but didn’t quite rekindle the fervour of devotees. And, given the long silence that followed, even non-devotees might wonder what to expect of this new novel. Does it announce an author boldly reclaiming her territory, or one emerging from her own shadow? Well, it’s complicated.

Some distinguishing features are immediately apparent. This is, for a start, a much shorter novel than its predecessor, whose doorstopper proportions were a byproduct of its garrulous and vastly digressive style. All that has been cast aside here, in favour of a prose that is economical almost to the point of austerity. And where Jonathan Strange was populous and richly polyphonic, Piranesi is a tenebrous study in solitude. It is also newly mysterious. Its narrator, though deprived of both company and reliable memories, seems curiously content with his lot. He wanders empty halls and courtyards, cataloguing in his meticulous journal entries their bewildering array of statuary. He documents with satisfaction – and with no trace of despair – how he has sustained himself with meagre catches of fish and staved off the cold by burning dried seaweed.

Piranesi does evince at least some curiosity, not least about who he really is; he was given that name by the Other and cannot remember his own. He wonders, too, about the identities of the dead, but subsumes even these pressing questions into acts of tranquil devotion, bringing offerings of water lilies to the forlorn remains of “the Folded-Up Child”. These moments are touching, though related with affectless decorum, but Piranesi’s peculiar equanimity comes to seem unsettling.

So too does his abject gratitude for the Other’s occasional gifts. The various items – multivitamins, a sleeping bag, plastic bowls – are as incongruous in this setting as the “shining device” that the Other carries, but it takes more momentous events to disturb Piranesi’s obliviousness. These begin when he finds signs of another visitor to the House. Enthralled, he relates the news to the Other, whose habitual cold indifference gives way to stern warnings: Piranesi must keep away from this other person at all costs; his very sanity could be in danger.

It would be a disservice even to hint at the revelations that follow, revelations that not only upend Piranesi’s world but confront the reader with some truly onerous moral uncertainties. What can be said, though, is that at least the contours of the truth are encoded in this novel’s architecture. Here it is worth reflecting on the subject of Clarke’s overt homage. The historical Piranesi, an 18th-century engraver, is celebrated for his intricate and oppressive visions of imaginary prisons and for his veduta ideate, precise renderings of classical edifices set amid fantastic vistas. Goethe, it is said, was so taken with these that he found the real Rome to be greatly disappointing. Clarke fuses these themes, seducing us with imaginative grandeur only to sweep that vision away, revealing the monstrosities to which we can not only succumb but wholly surrender ourselves.

The result is a remarkable feat, not just of craft but of reinvention. Far from seeming burdened by her legacy, the Susanna Clarke we encounter here might be an unusually gifted newcomer unacquainted with her namesake’s work. If there is a strand of continuity in this elegant and singular novel, it is in its central preoccupation with the nature of fantasy itself. It remains a potent force, but one that can leave us – like Goethe among the ruins – forever disappointed by what is real.

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JANUARY 3: Pamela Sydney Frankau (1908-1967)

English novelist Pamela Frankau was born on this day in 1908. Best known for the coming of age tale, A Wreath for the Enemy, Pamela had several love affairs with women in addition to her relationships with men.  

Born in London, Pamela was the daughter of Dorothea Drummond-Black and popular novelist Gilbert Frankau. After her father abandoned the family for his mistress in 1919, Pamela and her older sister Ursula were shipped off to the Burgess Hill School for Girls in Sussex. It was there where Pamela honed her skills as a writer.

Her first novel, Marriage of Harlequin, was published in 1928 when she was only nineteen years old. The book was met with critical acclaim and from there Pamela would publish 20 novels over the next decade. It was around this time that she entered into a relationship with the Italian-born poet Humbert Wolfe.

 Although Wolfe was a married man, the relationship was intense and Pamela stopped writing for almost ten years after his death in 1940. Having sworn off writing, Pamela threw herself into the war effort. Throughout the 1940s, she worked as an officer in the Auxiliary Territorial Services. It was there where she had her first serious relationship with a woman, a fellow officer named Marjorie Vernon Whitefoord.

Pamela photographed in 1949 by Elliott & Fry.

However, the love affair with Marjorie did not last. Pamela would marry an American intelligence officer named Marshall Dill following the end of the war in 1945. The couple moved to California and had a child, but their son tragically died in infancy due to health complications. In 1951, Pamela split from her husband and moved back to her birthplace of London.

By this time, Pamela was writing again. Her most famous novel, A Wreath for the Enemy, was published in 1954. At some point in the 1950s, Pamela met the woman who would become her life partner, Margaret Webster. Webster was a notable actress and theater director who had previously been a lover of Eva Le Gallienne.

The two eventually settled down and set up homes in both London and Martha’s Vineyard in the United States. While working on the novel, Colonel Blessington, Pamela was diagnosed with breast cancer. She would struggle with disease for five years before passing away in 1967 at the age of 59.  When Webster published her autobiography a year later, the book was dedicated in Pamela’s memory.

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when the plague ends and i move out (for real this time) i’m getting a framed photo of ursula le guin, drawing a laurel wreath on it, and hanging it on my wall as inspiration

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Ursula Wreath

[wishmachines]

She arrived in a carriage and with a retinue. She was veiled and dressed in purple. That very day they got her married to the emperor. They got her married, I say, because when she saw him, white as a worm, feeble, with red eyes and trembling hands, she found him disgusting. But she was well brought up, she’d been educated for the throne. She spent her wedding night sitting on a footstool, in a white tunic bordered with gold, a wreath of flowers on her head, waiting, by the light of a single lamp. The next night she waited again; I brought her fresh flowers for the wreath. And after that she didn’t wait any more.

Angélica Gorodischer, “The Two Hands” Kalpa Imperial: The Greatest Empire That Never Was (translated by Ursula K. Le Guin)

[brookston]

Holidays 5.29

Holidays

Army Day (Argentina)

Asexuality Day

Cultural Workers and Folk Artists Day (День Києва Київ; Ukraine)

Democracy Day (Nigeria)

End of the Middle Ages Day

Fall of Constantinople Day

Ganatantra Diwas (Nepal)

Hope Day

International Addison’s Day

International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers (UN)

International Mount Everest Day

International Pashto Language Day

Kiev Day (Ukraine)

Learn About Composting Day

Luilak (Lazy Bones Day; Belgium)

Mount Everest Day (Nepal)

National Alligator Day

National Dog Friendly Day

National Edison Day

National Elderly Day (Indonesia)

National 529 College Savings Plan Day

National Heat Awareness Day

National Hydroxyapatite Day

National Paperclip Day

National Sail Day

National White Wreath Day (Australia)

Oak Apple Day (UK) [a.k.a. ... 

Bobby Ack Day

Castleton Garland Day (Castleton)

Garland King Day 

Nettle Day

Royal Oak Day

Shick-Shack Day

Shik-Shak Day

Shitsack Day

Yak Bob Day

Paper Clip Day

Pink Flamingo Day

Put a Pillow on Your Fridge Day

Reconciliation Day (ACT, Australia)

Republic Day (Nepal)

Rite of Spring Day

Scythe Day (French Republic)

Tony Stark Day

Veterans Day (Sweden)

World Digestive Health Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

Coq au Vin Day

Gnocchi Day (Argentina)

International Rooster with Wine Day

National Biscuit Day (UK)

Squoosh an Ice Cream Sandwich Day

4th & Last Monday in May

Memorial Day (US) [Last Monday] a.k.a. ... 

Decoration Day (f.k.a.)

Great Jubilee Day, A (f.k.a., commemorated Revolutionary War)

National Hamburger Day

National Moment of Remembrance [3:00 PM]

Poppy Day [also 11.11]

Prayer for Peace Day

Ratu Sir Lala Sukuna Day (Fiji) [Last Monday]

Spring Bank Holiday (UK) [Last Monday] a.k.a. ... 

Gloucestershire Cheese Rolling and Wake (Cooper’s Hill, UK)

Late May Bank Holiday (Isle of Man)

Spring Holiday (Jersey)

Tetbury Woolsack Races (UK)

Week of Solidarity with the People of Non-Self-Governing Territories begins [Last Monday]

Independence Days

Rhode Island Statehood Day (#13; 1790)

Schalamzaar Empire (Declared; 2004) [unrecognized]

Wisconsin Statehood Day (#30; 1848)

Feast Days

Alexander of Alexandria (Christian; Saint)

Ambarvailia (Old Roman No Work Day, Purification Festival to Ceres)

Ascension of Baha'u'llah (Baha’i)

Bona of Pisa (Christian; Saint)

Clark Voorhees (Artology)

Conon and his son (Christian; Martyrs, of Iconia, Asia)

Consensual Bum Biting Day (Pastafarian)

Cyril (Christian; Saint)

Erwin (Christian; Saint)

Feast of Mars (Ancient Rome)

Hypomone (Eastern Orthodox Church)

Johnny the Wolf (Muppetism)

Madeleine Sophie Barat (Christian; Saint)

Mary, Mother of the Church (Christian; Saint)

Maximin of Trier (a.k.a. Maximus, Bishop of Tiers; Christian; Saint)

Monday after 7th Sunday after Easter (a.k.a. …

Dicing For Bibles (St. Ives, UK)

Memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Monday of the Holy Spirit

Pentecost Monday

Pfingsten (Germany)

Whit Monday

Pillow Fight Day (Pastafarian)

Pope Alexander of Alexandria (Eastern Orthodox Church)

Siinnius, Martyrius, and Alexander (Christian; Martyrs, in Trent)

Spike Jones Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Sprouting Corn Day (Pagan)

Theodosia of Constantinople (Eastern Orthodox Church)

Theodosius (Positivist; Saint)

Ursula Ledóchowska (Christian; Saint)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Prime Number Day: 149 [35 of 72]

Sensho (先勝 Japan) [Good luck in the morning, bad luck in the afternoon.]

Unfortunate Day (Pagan) [28 of 57]

Premieres

Dial M for Murder (Film; 1954)

Feel This Book, by Janeane Garofalo and Ben Stiller (Humor Book; 1999)

Hud (Film; 1963)

The Internship (Film; 2013)

Justice League: Starcrossed (WB Animated Film; 2004)

The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini (Novel; 2003)

The Last Days of Disco (Film; 1998)

Mary Had a Little Lamb, by Paul McCartney (Song; 1972)

The New Centurions, by Joseph Wambaugh (Novel; 1971)

No Time For Sergeants (Film; 1958)

Partly Cloudy (Pixar Cartoon 2009)

Private Dancer, by Tina Turner (Album; 1984)

A Raisin in the Sun (Film; 1961)

The Rite of Spring, by Igor Stravinsky (Ballet & Orchestral Work; 1913)

San Andreas (Film; 2015)

Sister Act (Film; 1992)

Space Force (TV Series; 2020)

Tears on My Pillow, recorded by Little Anthony & the Imperials (Song; 1958)

This Is A Book, by Demetri Martin (Humor Book; 2011)

Two Dots (Phone App Game; 2014)

Up (Animated Disney Film; 2009)

White Christmas, recorded by Bing Crosby (Song; 1942)

Yankee Doodle Dandy (Film; 1942)

Today’s Name Days

Erwin, Irmtraud, Maximin (Austria)

Doroteia (Bulgaria)

Euzebije, Polion, Većeslav (Croatia)

Maxmilián (Czech Republic)

Maciminus (Denmark)

Laido, Leido, Leidur, Luulik (Estonia)

Oiva, Oivi, Oliver, Olivia (Finland)

Aymar, Aymard, Géraldine, Maximin (France)

Erwin, Irmtraud, Maximin (Germany)

Ipomoni, Olivianos, Theodosia (Greece)

Magdolna (Hungary)

Ademaro, Massimo, Massimino (Italy)

Daris, Maksine, Maksis, Raivis, Raivo (Latvia)

Algedas, Erdvilė, Magdalena, Magdė (Lithuania)

Magnar, Magnhild (Norway)

Bogusława, Maksymilian, Maria Magdalena, Teodor, Teodozja (Poland)

Teodosia (România)

Vilma (Slovakia)

Maximino (Spain)

Jeanette, Yvonne (Sweden)

Theodora (Ukraine)

Duana, Duane, Duanna, Dwayne, Fitz, Fitzgerald (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 149 of 2024; 216 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 1 of week 22 of 2023

Celtic Tree Calendar: Huath (Hawthorn) [Day 15 of 28]

Chinese: Month 4 (Ding-Si), Day 11 (Ding-Hai)

Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)

Hebrew: 9 Sivan 5783

Islamic: 9 Dhu al-Qada 1444

J Cal: 27 Bīja; Sixday [27 of 30]

Julian: 16 May 2023

Moon: 70%: Waxing Gibbous

Positivist: 9 St. Paul (6th Month) [Theodosius]

Runic Half Month: Odal (Home, Possession) [Day 4 of 15]

Season: Spring (Day 70 of 90)

Zodiac: Gemini (Day 8 of 32)

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Holidays 5.29

Holidays

Army Day (Argentina)

Asexuality Day

Cultural Workers and Folk Artists Day (День Києва Київ; Ukraine)

Democracy Day (Nigeria)

End of the Middle Ages Day

Fall of Constantinople Day

Ganatantra Diwas (Nepal)

Hope Day

International Addison’s Day

International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers (UN)

International Mount Everest Day

International Pashto Language Day

Kiev Day (Ukraine)

Learn About Composting Day

Luilak (Lazy Bones Day; Belgium)

Mount Everest Day (Nepal)

National Alligator Day

National Dog Friendly Day

National Edison Day

National Elderly Day (Indonesia)

National 529 College Savings Plan Day

National Heat Awareness Day

National Hydroxyapatite Day

National Paperclip Day

National Sail Day

National White Wreath Day (Australia)

Oak Apple Day (UK) [a.k.a. ... 

Bobby Ack Day

Castleton Garland Day (Castleton)

Garland King Day 

Nettle Day

Royal Oak Day

Shick-Shack Day

Shik-Shak Day

Shitsack Day

Yak Bob Day

Paper Clip Day

Pink Flamingo Day

Put a Pillow on Your Fridge Day

Reconciliation Day (ACT, Australia)

Republic Day (Nepal)

Rite of Spring Day

Scythe Day (French Republic)

Tony Stark Day

Veterans Day (Sweden)

World Digestive Health Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

Coq au Vin Day

Gnocchi Day (Argentina)

International Rooster with Wine Day

National Biscuit Day (UK)

Squoosh an Ice Cream Sandwich Day

4th & Last Monday in May

Memorial Day (US) [Last Monday] a.k.a. ... 

Decoration Day (f.k.a.)

Great Jubilee Day, A (f.k.a., commemorated Revolutionary War)

National Hamburger Day

National Moment of Remembrance [3:00 PM]

Poppy Day [also 11.11]

Prayer for Peace Day

Ratu Sir Lala Sukuna Day (Fiji) [Last Monday]

Spring Bank Holiday (UK) [Last Monday] a.k.a. ... 

Gloucestershire Cheese Rolling and Wake (Cooper’s Hill, UK)

Late May Bank Holiday (Isle of Man)

Spring Holiday (Jersey)

Tetbury Woolsack Races (UK)

Week of Solidarity with the People of Non-Self-Governing Territories begins [Last Monday]

Independence Days

Rhode Island Statehood Day (#13; 1790)

Schalamzaar Empire (Declared; 2004) [unrecognized]

Wisconsin Statehood Day (#30; 1848)

Feast Days

Alexander of Alexandria (Christian; Saint)

Ambarvailia (Old Roman No Work Day, Purification Festival to Ceres)

Ascension of Baha'u'llah (Baha’i)

Bona of Pisa (Christian; Saint)

Clark Voorhees (Artology)

Conon and his son (Christian; Martyrs, of Iconia, Asia)

Consensual Bum Biting Day (Pastafarian)

Cyril (Christian; Saint)

Erwin (Christian; Saint)

Feast of Mars (Ancient Rome)

Hypomone (Eastern Orthodox Church)

Johnny the Wolf (Muppetism)

Madeleine Sophie Barat (Christian; Saint)

Mary, Mother of the Church (Christian; Saint)

Maximin of Trier (a.k.a. Maximus, Bishop of Tiers; Christian; Saint)

Monday after 7th Sunday after Easter (a.k.a. …

Dicing For Bibles (St. Ives, UK)

Memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Monday of the Holy Spirit

Pentecost Monday

Pfingsten (Germany)

Whit Monday

Pillow Fight Day (Pastafarian)

Pope Alexander of Alexandria (Eastern Orthodox Church)

Siinnius, Martyrius, and Alexander (Christian; Martyrs, in Trent)

Spike Jones Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Sprouting Corn Day (Pagan)

Theodosia of Constantinople (Eastern Orthodox Church)

Theodosius (Positivist; Saint)

Ursula Ledóchowska (Christian; Saint)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Prime Number Day: 149 [35 of 72]

Sensho (先勝 Japan) [Good luck in the morning, bad luck in the afternoon.]

Unfortunate Day (Pagan) [28 of 57]

Premieres

Dial M for Murder (Film; 1954)

Feel This Book, by Janeane Garofalo and Ben Stiller (Humor Book; 1999)

Hud (Film; 1963)

The Internship (Film; 2013)

Justice League: Starcrossed (WB Animated Film; 2004)

The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini (Novel; 2003)

The Last Days of Disco (Film; 1998)

Mary Had a Little Lamb, by Paul McCartney (Song; 1972)

The New Centurions, by Joseph Wambaugh (Novel; 1971)

No Time For Sergeants (Film; 1958)

Partly Cloudy (Pixar Cartoon 2009)

Private Dancer, by Tina Turner (Album; 1984)

A Raisin in the Sun (Film; 1961)

The Rite of Spring, by Igor Stravinsky (Ballet & Orchestral Work; 1913)

San Andreas (Film; 2015)

Sister Act (Film; 1992)

Space Force (TV Series; 2020)

Tears on My Pillow, recorded by Little Anthony & the Imperials (Song; 1958)

This Is A Book, by Demetri Martin (Humor Book; 2011)

Two Dots (Phone App Game; 2014)

Up (Animated Disney Film; 2009)

White Christmas, recorded by Bing Crosby (Song; 1942)

Yankee Doodle Dandy (Film; 1942)

Today’s Name Days

Erwin, Irmtraud, Maximin (Austria)

Doroteia (Bulgaria)

Euzebije, Polion, Većeslav (Croatia)

Maxmilián (Czech Republic)

Maciminus (Denmark)

Laido, Leido, Leidur, Luulik (Estonia)

Oiva, Oivi, Oliver, Olivia (Finland)

Aymar, Aymard, Géraldine, Maximin (France)

Erwin, Irmtraud, Maximin (Germany)

Ipomoni, Olivianos, Theodosia (Greece)

Magdolna (Hungary)

Ademaro, Massimo, Massimino (Italy)

Daris, Maksine, Maksis, Raivis, Raivo (Latvia)

Algedas, Erdvilė, Magdalena, Magdė (Lithuania)

Magnar, Magnhild (Norway)

Bogusława, Maksymilian, Maria Magdalena, Teodor, Teodozja (Poland)

Teodosia (România)

Vilma (Slovakia)

Maximino (Spain)

Jeanette, Yvonne (Sweden)

Theodora (Ukraine)

Duana, Duane, Duanna, Dwayne, Fitz, Fitzgerald (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 149 of 2024; 216 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 1 of week 22 of 2023

Celtic Tree Calendar: Huath (Hawthorn) [Day 15 of 28]

Chinese: Month 4 (Ding-Si), Day 11 (Ding-Hai)

Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)

Hebrew: 9 Sivan 5783

Islamic: 9 Dhu al-Qada 1444

J Cal: 27 Bīja; Sixday [27 of 30]

Julian: 16 May 2023

Moon: 70%: Waxing Gibbous

Positivist: 9 St. Paul (6th Month) [Theodosius]

Runic Half Month: Odal (Home, Possession) [Day 4 of 15]

Season: Spring (Day 70 of 90)

Zodiac: Gemini (Day 8 of 32)

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Digging Deeper 🕳

Thanks to @haztobegood and @pocketsunshineharry for the tag! I really liked reading your answers, loves!

I’m tagging @whatagreatproblemtohave @disgruntledkittenface @hazzabeeforlou @reminiscingintherain @wait4ever @muchbetterjulia and @banderlion 

1.Do you prefer writing with a black pen or blue pen? Black, mostly. I had a phase where I used fountain pens, I like the blue ink better there.

2. Would you prefer to live in the country or city? The city, I think. I like not having to own a car, but I do love nature. Where I live now I pretty much have the best of both worlds. 

3. If you could learn a new skill what would it be? I’d like to be better at woodwork and handiwork. Right now I can come up with makeshift solutions to problems, but I always feel like whatever I make or do around the house is just botched LOL

4. Do you drink your tea/coffee with sugar? Yes in coffee and fruit teas, but I prefer honey to sugar. Nothing sweet in black or herbal teas. 

5. What was your favourite book as a child? When I was very little, I loved to read books about horses. One series I remember getting from the library was called Sternenschweif (My Secret Unicorn in English) and then later I really liked Bartimaeus. 

6. Do you prefer baths or showers? Showers. A bath can be relaxing but only a couple times a year.

7. If you could be a mythical creature, which one would it be? For some reason mermaid was the first one that came to mind? Wouldn’t mind being a vampire or a witch either. 

8. Paper or electronic books? Both. 

9. What is your favourite item of clothing? I bought a couple dresses that I really like the other week. One’s sunflower yellow and the other has printed tulle. I go absolutely nuts for tulle. Most of my graduating collection was made from it hahaha

10. Do you like your name or would you like to change it? I don’t mind it, actually. I think it sounds a bit like your fun older aunt and that’s exactly the energy I’m going for! 

11. Who is a mentor to you? I have someone who I’ve worked with since I was 15 and she was my teacher at some point as well... I look up to her a lot and I’m really thankful that she’s always believed in me and my talent because I wouldn’t be where I am today without her. And I wouldn’t be considering my next steps without her guidance. 

12. Would you like to be famous and if so, what for? Yes, for what I create. I wan’t to make things that connect to people emotionally and prove to myself that I can be successful in fashion without losing my kindness. 

13. Are you a restless sleeper? I rotate in my sleep, LOL.

14. Do you consider yourself a romantic person? YES!! VERY!!

15. Which element best represents you? Earth. 

16. Who do you want to be closer to? My soulmate who’s hopefully waiting out there for me somewhere. 

17. Do you miss someone at the moment? My friend Dani, who’s working abroad for a while and @harryandlouisdragmedown because I’m upset about all the times we were supposed to meet that COVID ruined. 

18. Tell us about an early childhood memory. I remember my grandpa teaching me how to make traditional Hungarian grave wreaths for All Hallows Day when I was little. He used to sell them to make extra money in the winter. 

19. What is the strangest thing you have eaten? I can’t really think of anything super-strange... I’ve had milk directly from a cow’s udder before?

20. What are you most thankful for? My mother and the way she raised me.

21. Do you like spicy food? Yes!! And I’m going to use this chance to say that “white people don’t like spicy food” is Eastern European erasure!!! 

22. Have you ever met someone famous? Conchita Wurst, if that counts. Oh, and Carrie Hope Fletcher!

23. Do you keep a diary or journal? I have a bullet journal, that I try to keep regularly but that’s mostly just to do lists.

24. Do you prefer to use a pen or a pencil? Depends on what I’m doing! haha

25. What is your star sign? Virgo (Leo moon) 

26. Do you like your cereal soggy or crunchy? Soggy (I know, I’m gross)

27. What would you want your legacy to be? That I created things that made people feel good and that I was kind. 

28. Do you like reading, what was the last book you read? I love to read! I mostly read fanfic now, but the last book I read was Erebos by Ursula Pozanski. I didn’t really like it though so I wouldn’t recommend. I’m looking forward to starting The Song of Achilles.

29. How do you show someone you love them? I like to make and give gifts and I simply tell them I like them and what I like about them. I pretty much voice every nice thought I have.

30. Do you like ice in your drinks? Nah, I feel like that’s an American thing? I only like ice in cocktails.

31. What are you afraid of? Failure. That’s my worst fear.

32. What is your favourite scent? Hay in the summer. Just that warm summery scent that’s hay mixed with wildflowers. 

33. Do you address older people by their name or surname? It depends. If I meet somebody casually or at a fashion event, I’d go by their first name. In other situations I would use the formal “you” we have in German and probably go for the last name.

34. If money was not a factor, how would you live your life? I'd buy my mom a house on the outskirts of the city and myself a flat in the city. And I’d want to own a workshop with an attached shop so I can make and sell my stuff in the same place. 

35. Do you prefer swimming in pools or the ocean? The ocean, hands down! My favourite are lakes and rivers, then the sea and then pools. I hate the scent of chlorine and how it makes my skin and hair feel.

36. What would you do if you found £50 on the ground? Look around to see if I can see somebody who might’ve lost it and pocket it if it isn’t obvious somebody’s looking for it.

37. Have you ever seen a shooting star? Yes! Loads! We used to always sit outside really long into the night during August meteor showers when I was a kid. 

38. What is the one thing you would want to teach your children? To stand up for themselves and be responsible and kind.

39. If you could get a tattoo, what would it be and where would you get it? I want a rose on my forearm and maybe some sunflowers on my ankle.  

40. What can you hear now? My mother and my grandma talking over adverts on the TV.

41. Where do you feel the safest? At home. That’s such a basic answer LOL

42. What is the one thing you want to overcome/conquer? I wish I could get over my fear of taking the master tailor’s exam so I could start realizing my dreams. And I wish I were better at taking care of myself, especially my body.

43. If you could travel back to any era, what would it be? I really don’t know. I love the drama and fashion of the 18th and 19th century, but that would only be fun if I were rich and that’s unlikely hahah. 

44. What is your most used emoji? 😂

45. Describe yourself using one word. I asked my mom and she said “annoying” and then she corrected herself to say “pedantic, as in annoyingly perfectionistic.” 😂I think that’s pretty accurate.

46. What do you regret the most? Not listening to myself when I thought I should take a gap year. It resulted in me dropping out of school twice because I was burnt out. 

47. Last movie you saw? Oof. Tom Harlock’s videos on Amberlynn? Ahaha I don’t really watch movies. Although I did watch the Hamilton recording the other day!! 

48. Last tv show you watched? The Epstein documentary on Netflix. I can’t seem to finish shows anymore, but I did finish that one! 

49. Invent a word and it’s meaning. If you ask Lynda, I invented the word “légère” hahah 

[poem-today]

A poem by Derek Mahon

At Ursula's 

A cold and stormy morning    I sit in Ursula’s place and fancy something spicy    served with the usual grace

by one of her bright workforce    who know us from before, a nice girl from Tbilisi,    Penang or Baltimore.

Some red basil linguine    would surely hit the spot, something light and shiny,    mint-yoghurty and hot;

a frosty but delightful    pistachio ice-cream and some strong herbal    infusion wreathed in steam.

Once a tomato sandwich    and a pint of stout would do but them days are over.    I want to have a go

at some amusing fusion    Thai and Italian both, a dish of squid and pine-nuts    simmered in lemon broth,

and catch the atmospherics    the happy lunchtime crowd, as the cold hand gets warmer    and conversation loud.

Boats strain at sea, alas,    gales rattle the slates while inside at Ursula’s    we bow to our warm plates.

Derek Mahon

Image: Ursula Roncken's café “Cucina” in Kinsale, home to Derek Mahon.

[firemars-moved]

bonfire, cranberry and cocoa for the asks? 💗

cranberry : what’s one physical feature that you get complimented on?

one time an old lady told me i had “fantastic legs” which was slightly creepy but thanks anyway queen xo they’re just longer than they have any business being im literally 90% limbs

cocoa : if you could have any type of hair, what colour and cut would you have?

long black straight hair omggg .. i want to dye mine soooo badly but i’m allergic to dye 🤕 i have this cheap black wig tho nd i literally NEVERRR have felt sexier than when i wore it last lmfaoo 😭

bonfire : describe your dream house

im putting a read more bc i got carried AWAY with my cottage fantasy. this bitch (me) wants 2 be ursula from kiki’s delivery service sooo bad 😐

ok my absolutely unrealistic DREAM house…. would b a little one-story cottage on the edge of the woods. inside the house i have plants and vases of flowers in homemade ceramics everywhere and all my bowls and plates are handmade and there’s handpicked herbs and flowers hanging up drying in the kitchen and little tables and chairs i carved myself and there’s always a pot of herbal tea on the stove incase anyone comes to visit… it’s light and clean and there’s sunlight through the windows all day… i have one small room with floor to ceiling bookshelves and stacks and stacks if books about every topic imaginable and a comfy little armchair infront of the window which had one of those windowsills you can sit on and curl up to read in… and i keep little handwritten journals all over the place filled with drawings of flowers and herbs and lists of natural remedies and recipes and things that made me smile that day.. i have candles everywhere and crystals and trinkets from my adventures around the world and photos and letters from friends and loved ones pinned up.. and i have a cat that sleeps on the doorstep in front of the brightly painted wooden door that has a flower wreath on it… in the garden i have fruit trees and i grow flowers everywhere and there’s little pots of herbs on all the windowsills and a vegetable patch and chickens running around and a freshwater stream and little pond with frogs and fish and there’s wildgrass everywhere and an old fence with wildflowers growing around it…. behind the house i have a little workshed with a pottery wheel and canvases and lots and lots of paints and a wooden table that’s splashed with all sorts of colours and theres art on every inch of the walls… in the front of the garden there’s a little table where i can sit in the mornings and drink coffee and watch the sun come up….. the house is private and quiet but only a bike ride away from a small little village with a tea shop and a library and a bakery.. and everyone there is lovely and i bring them fresh fruits from my garden and they pay me in freshly baked bread.. and i have a wife…………… i need to stop omfg im getting out of CONTROL . but yeah this is the dream 🥺🥺