Night Nixie

Sees life through rose-coloured spectacles. Wanders through life and wonders at life.

[Night Nixie @nspeden]

@ilovenostalgia TELL HIM HE’S DREAMIN'
(For the Aussies)

[Night Nixie @nspeden]

@ilovenostalgia you'd better stop
Before you tear me all apart
You'd better stop
Before you go and break my heart

[Night Nixie @nspeden]

@SaraBCmtl @UrsulaV This is me too! WGTDB was my gateway, then clockwork boys and paladins. I bought A House with Good Bones because I found it at an airport, but it’s still in my TBR pile because … horror …

[Night Nixie @nspeden]

@DrSueMoss Saw one of these (giant stinging tree) on a bushwalk in the New England region of NSW in a National Park (not rainforest) near Hillgrove. We were warned not to go near it and told of the unaware who used it’s nicely shaped leaves as toilet paper 😱

[Night Nixie @nspeden]

@Kizzia30 Yes. I don’t remember it from my childhood, but my kids had mufti days at primary and secondary school in Australia
- they were born between 1988 and 1996

[Dr. Alec Couros @courosa]

Worth the read.
https://t.co/pJtn6RrYnY

[Night Nixie @nspeden]

@Phokion1 @EdMcDonaldTFK @DunnettCentral I second this! I’m currently rereading it via audiobook and learning the correct pronunciation of some of the names (e.g. Eachmarcach)! Focus is on Scotland, but with interactions with the Cnut & the Danes, Irish, Mercians, Wessex, and others from southern England

[Night Nixie @nspeden]

@UrsulaV Look what I found (and bought) at Sydney domestic terminal T3!

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@DocHollandD Oh yeah! Cats on catnip are next level 🤣

[Night Nixie @nspeden]

@DocHollandD Yay! Glad you’re still all together. Good to know they’re settling into the new place 😊

[Night Nixie @nspeden]

@UrsulaV Alive! Went away to march in an Autumn Parade as an 8th century Saxon and, although I’m sad the story finished without me, I’m ecstatic that we survived! These are so much fun! Thank you, Ursula!

[Night Nixie @nspeden]

@UrsulaV Thanks for not dying while I was asleep! Though death looms and WHO VOTED FOR HYPOTHERMIA!!!! 7 am here and ready for adventure

[Night Nixie @nspeden]

@KatyFlynnDesign @UrsulaV Please do! I’m an early riser - just not that early!

[Night Nixie @nspeden]

@UrsulaV So, that’s 3 am Sat 1 April for me … 🙃

[Kingfisher & Wombat @UrsulaV]

About six months ago, I ran a weird little Choose Your Own Adventure using the Twitter poll buttons. Alas, Elon has decided those will only be available for blue checks, starting April 15th.

So hey, how about one last hurrah?

[Night Nixie @nspeden]

@UrsulaV I have finally found an advantage to be awake at 2:55 am with a headache!

[Night Nixie @nspeden]

@nicolaz Thank you! That’s very helpful. Being Australian, I find I have to factor in accent as well, especially variations between US and UK accents. So, I’ve been deep-diving into pronunciation recordings! Fascinating to hear the variations. Not useful that AUD also = Australian $

[Night Nixie @nspeden]

Finally, after several years of searching and failed attempts at purchasing, I now have all 3 Aud Torvingen books by @nicolaz Currently rereading The Blue Place and a question arises: is Aud pronounced Awd as in Maud, Owd as in cloud, or Ahd as in hard?

[Night Nixie @nspeden]

@electra_rhodes Thank you for sharing this story - moved me to tears (a rare occurrence)