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'You don't mind waiting in the car?' 'I have a book.' 'You won't get bored' 'I have a book.' 'I might be an hour.' *Waves book*

I realise for me it's a bit of a creative cul-de-sac drawing yet another pirate, a safe space, but, darn it all they're extremely fun to doodle. I'm waiting on a visitor and needed to kill time in a fun way.🤷🏼 Also, yes, I'm inking before I've finished doodling, again.😁

@LLaaksoWriter "Oh cool. How is it?" Brilliant, better than I imagined. I picked it up in the two for one credit Audible sale. "(Stephen Fry does an amazing job as Sherlock Holmes narrator, btw.)" I've heard his Holmes narration he's great. My preference is for full-cast, music, and effects.

@dept42 Oh cool. How is it? (Stephen Fry does an amazing job as Sherlock Holmes narrator, btw.)

Not posted one of these for awhile but here goes... Tonight's cooking audiobook accompaniment, A Study in Scarlet, Sherlock Holmes's first mystery.

@ElizaH64344 Still wonderful, still brilliant, still that mad glint in the eye. 😊

Oh Tom ❤️ youtu.be/g9vBmYA3qf0

@LLaaksoWriter No narrator it's full-cast radio play.

@dept42 Who's the narrator?

@AuthorJMac Very busy with housework most of today. Hoping to read quietly now and drink tea.

@dept42 Thank you! I hope you're having a good day. (Someone has to, right?)

After being sick and thus awake a lot last night, I still got up in the morning to write. Not because I'm some kind of a devoted workaholic. It's because stories are my comfort. Writing & a cup of strongly-tasting but decaf tea is what is going to help me forget about my misery.

@JMSimpsonauthor 😬 Oh boy, what could go wrong with that. 😁 I really hope he was joking.

Chatting to a guy yesterday who was telling me he was going to semi-retire with his wife and set up a dog grooming business. Him- We’re going to call it the grooming gang. Me-😳 Really?

I can't believe how long I've been waiting for season two and I noticed it's available now, brilliant. That's tonight's entertainment sorted.😊 #DeadLoch

@SamWalksALot I was beginning to think winter would never end. 🥶

Happy First day of spring 🌸 Everything is waking up... isn't it wonderful? ☀️

Morning!👋🏻 Crazy how many of you love cake. Yesterday's cake photo was liked a lot, even by people that don't follow me, (surprising as it wasn't retweeted). Good job I didn't post today's Custard Tart, you guys would have lost your minds. Just need to turn likes in to follows.🙄

@LucyChalice "What are your Friday plans (and faces)?" Lots of housework but I'm struggling to choose what audiobook I want to listen to, (priorities). My face pictured below.😬😁 (Self portrait doodled by me)

@ArtfulEmma I'll save you a slice. 😁

@dept42 This is my favourite cake 😘

Apple and blackberry, cream, sponge cake, with a crumble topping.😋

@ont_stoop Supermarket.

@dept42 local bakers or supermarket-seemed to have a lot of jam in it

Okay, we've had a couple of really nice, warm, sunny days but the evenings still have enough of a chill to them that I can get away with making Shepherd's Pie tonight. The salads of summer can stand down. 😁 Winter stodge is still on the menu.

@AuthorJMac You'll have to forgive me but your written English is so good I often forget you're Polish. I totally mean this as a compliment.

@dept42 Yeah, I understand the reasoning, and I take no offense when people do it. But, as I said, my name is [in Polish] Joanna, not [in English] Joanna, so we don't shorten it to "Jo" and it feels foreign to me. More like an unrelated nickname than my name. :)

One of the quirks of being in the English-speaking space is that people sometimes assume I shorten my name to Jo. While I'm not to bothered when they use it, my original name is pronounced differently (Yo-an-nah), and it shortens to... Asia (A-shya) via Joasia (Yo-a-shya), which

@ont_stoop Sadly not, shop bought.

@dept42 looked nice, homemade?

@LucyChalice My first thought was Christmas 😬😁 sorry.

Gotta be a Chalice, right? 👀

@ont_stoop It was quite a small cake to begin with and I'd already eaten other things.😁🤷🏼

@dept42 only tiddy

@AuthorJMac We just end up shortening people's names for our convenience. Something you can't do with mine.

@AuthorJMac I'm English, you probably would quickly become Jo to your English friends if you lived here, unless you asked them to call you Joanna. Calling you Jo from an English perspective would be because you were liked, loved by your friends and would never mean to be offensive or rude.