Amanda Hill

Archivist; grower; escaped Briton.

[Amanda Hill @mandahill]

@PSleeman I talked to a 60-year-old man last week who is still dealing with the consequences of having a sadistic female teacher in a religious school. He was trying to find out more about her, to get some sort of resolution. It was heartbreaking.

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Every day I get to decide anew whether the random capitalization or the apostrophe is the most annoying thing about this sign.

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@jimdowning Maybe?

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Anyone like to guess at this hard-to-read word? Letter from Charles Ramsay Devlin to Wilfrid Laurier in 1901: https://t.co/2jpEdGEz7l

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@harchivist Ooh, that's a big help. Maybe Dangermen?

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Grieving at the decay of Twitter: so many people I know have left already and all the promoted garbage makes it unusable. It's like a favourite cosy café has been demolished and replaced with a concrete bench and billboards. https://t.co/BYX7INg6uI

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@harchivist 😥

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Gardening advice is to divide rhubarb in early spring. I didn't get to the job until early summer and I thought I'd killed all the transplanted pieces.

Now there are some signs of rhubarb life. Maybe I'll get a harvest in 2025...

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"Silencing people makes a lot of noise, and part of that noise is the shuffling of papers."

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Professor Yu: "The irony, to me, of surveillance and exclusion is, it creates a lot of paper."

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Archival find of the day.

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I aspire to be able to throw the ball as far as the dog thinks I can.

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The radishes were somehow still edible. Pickling them just to get that shade of pink

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I may have forgotten about the radishes

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The confusingly-named Early Dwarf Tall tomato is certainly proving to be early.

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Having this kind of a day

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@IvaCheung @DetailedDraft It's the fancy French name.

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First time growing orach (red fire). Haven't tasted it yet, but the colour of the leaves is quite something.

[Amanda Hill @mandahill]

"People might not think that was much of a position of power, but then they'd never been minutes secretary to a meeting of slightly deaf old men." Terry Pratchett, Small Gods