23 Posts from July 2026

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Ugly undersides

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The ugly underside of knitting flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license Today’s TDC says that: ‘Like an evil twin or a twisted pair, happy places can have an ugly underside’. Is your happy place always happy? What is its underside. On my knitting chest there is a bag containing a jacket half knitted by my MiL many years ago. I have plans to finish it and gift it to her daughter, my SiL, […]

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How do I complete thee (the TDC)?

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A great TDC today – to write or change a poem so it contains instructions about how to do it. I don’t think I quite did that, but I had a lot of fun changing the words to Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Sonnet 43.  Here it is: How Do I Love Thee? How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight […]

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Blaugust 2026

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Image from here As today is the last day of my holidays I’ve been trying to suck every last minute of my freedom – but the heavy rain this afternoon thwarted my plans for one last walk and confined me to the house. As I mooched around my various social media haunts I remembered that I’d seen a link to sign up for Blaugust 2026, so here’s my intro post. In case you don’t know: Blaugust is a month-long event […]

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HOMAGO

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Today’s TDC asks us to: Tell, show, what a culture of belonging looks like Since about 2016, when I was looking at CLMOOC for my PhD, I’ve had this sketch on my wall HOMAGO flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license This takes the HOMAGO from Mimi Ito and maps it onto the 3Cs model from sociology of religion – Community, or who we are; Cultus, or what we do; Creed, or what we […]

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Cinquain

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A cinquain is a five-line poem. Line one has one word and is the title. Line two describes the title in two words. Line three uses three words to express action. Line four uses four words to express a feeling. Line five uses one word that restates the title. Here’s mine for TDC5305 Hot So hot Very, very hot This is too hot Melting! Sunset flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license

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Motivational Poster

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For today’s TDC I created this poster. Apparently it’s HAL, but the reference is lost to me as I haven’t seen the film. (Not even my beloved Daily Create is going to make me start watching films!  Look, I get it – you all think I am missing lots of cultural references, but I have tried, and I just don’t watch after the first few minutes.)   You can do it poster flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative […]

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