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Dr Amanda Brunton
@amandycat.bsky.social
Lover of early modern drama, PhD on early modern epitaphs in manuscripts. Chicken wrangler. she/her
148 followers90 following367 posts
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Phwoar, steady on there, we aren't trying to murder anyone

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Phil getting excited about a post hole, double shot

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'I googled him and it's just...regular guys??' We all looked at her kinda blank She puts on an approximation of an English accent and says 'you know, "ARE YOU READY FOR TOM BOWLER??" I don't get it. All the Tom Bowler's I googled are regular guys.' Tombola. She meant Tombola.

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We are sitting outside stargazing, and she says to us 'look, I googled this before asking you but it got me nowhere. There's this ad on all my podcasts right now that has confused the hell out of me. Do you know who Tom Bowler is?'

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So our next door neighbour is a very sweet American lady who has lived in the UK for about a year. We all regularly have a good chuckle at little bits of cross-cultural miscommunication, the latest one has absolutely done me in

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Pressed 15 gallons of apple juice with our neighbours this weekend. Lenny was hard at work as apple quality assurance dog (He was mostly delighted that we had brought SO MANY BALLS into the garden!).

Lenny, a yellow labrador, stands on a blue tarpaulin covered in a huge pile of green and red apples.
Lenny, a yellow labrador, looks away from the camera with an apple in his mouth. Amanda's hand reaches into the frame to grab his collar to try and prevent him from stealing any further apples.
In the foreground is an apple scratter (essentially a shredder for apples) standing over a bucket of shredded apples. Behind it, Lenny, a yellow labrador and Roscoe, a brown greyhound, snooze on the lawn.
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Once more for those in the back - FUCK CANCER. I'm sorry for your loss. Thank you for sharing your mum with us today, it was a pleasure to meet her.

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Never knowingly off brand

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Also, I have grown up going to that part of Cornwall with family, if you want a list of 'magical places in Cornwall that make you feel stuff' I have a list (Godrevy lighthouse is way up there)

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The workshop itself is just such a lovely clean, light space, and they have a lot of her wooden sculptures in there. Honestly, just get on the train and go. I have loved her work since I was a teen and saw the pieces in the tate you pictured, I was so overwhelmed by her studio in the best way.

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Dr Amanda Brunton
@amandycat.bsky.social
Lover of early modern drama, PhD on early modern epitaphs in manuscripts. Chicken wrangler. she/her
148 followers90 following367 posts