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CaraBruar

@CaraBruar@sfba.social

Fantasy writer and poet. She/her. Lover of plants, water and sky. I'm a very visual person and love images, art and design. I try to grow things and make things out of yarn. Living on Wiradjuri country in the Riverina in south eastern Australia.

I also write mysteries and romance as Jai Baidell.

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Richard_Littler, to asd
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If you've ever wondered what it's like being autistic with ADHD, it's a bit like this for me. (I always assumed everybody thought like this).


@actuallyautistic

CaraBruar,
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@Richard_Littler @actuallyautistic every day in primary school was like this. We had verbal arithmetic tests, known as "mental". I could do the work, but only ever got a score of 1/10. Couldn't tune in fast enough to hear the other 9 questions. Like a detour between the ear and the brain that took too long. I still struggle with anything verbal and complex.

eclectech, to photography
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Best. Horns. Ever.

CaraBruar,
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@eclectech cows generally seem interested in cameras, I've seen many images where they are eyeballing the equipment, always wonder what they are thinking. Fantastic photo.

timrichards, to random
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I ordered 3 of the exact same T-shirt from Target - and they're sending them as three separate parcels from three separate stores. Hmm OK, maybe not that efficient...

CaraBruar,
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@timrichards the black art of stock control 🙂 I don't buy from Target. If they wanted my custom they wouldn't have closed the Target store in my town.

CaraBruar, to random
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Really enjoyed Judge Dee Mysteries on Netflix, stories about an incorruptible magistrate during the Tang dynasty. Hope season 2 starts soon, I have withdrawal symptoms. . https://www.netflix.com/au/title/81761553

CaraBruar,
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@kyonshi in Australia it is, hope it is for you too.

CaraBruar,
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@kyonshi I didn't know there was an earlier one. This one is very moral, maybe a little bit moralising, but I still really enjoyed it.

CaraBruar, to books
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(10 authors you’ve read at least 5 books by)

Terry Pratchett
Connie Willis
Dorothy Dunnett
Gavin Lyall
Rachel Neuemeier
Lois McMaster Bujold
John le Carre
Isaac Asimov
Sulari Gentill
Josh Lanyon

@bookstodon

CaraBruar,
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@kcfromaustcrime @bookstodon I could easily do 50 but I don't like all of them as much now as I did originally, the top 10 have passed the test of time

CaraBruar,
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@kcfromaustcrime @bookstodon I was thinking of the 60s and 70s. Ludlum, McLean, Bagley, the world they describe doesn't exist any more and the action that carried the stories is disconnected from reality. Less a problem for character based stories like le Carre, where the anachronistic world is not critical to the plot.

CaraBruar,
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@kcfromaustcrime @bookstodon Then there's John Buchan, a great storyteller, but the racism and misogyny is difficult to swallow now. Same for Heinlein and Asimov.

CaraBruar,
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@kcfromaustcrime @bookstodon in the 70s there were many women who wrote sci fi eg Joanne Russ, later Barbara Hambly. These books are difficult to find now so tend to be forgotten.

CaraBruar,
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@kcfromaustcrime @bookstodon maybe more important, I have changed. I'm not the same person, so I see those stories differently and judge them by different criteria. Even 10 years makes a difference, I looked back at my early Kindle purchases and there aren't many I would read again.

shlee, to random
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Drinking coffee on the back porch and what do I see?!

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CaraBruar,
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@shlee disturbing in so many ways ...

thisismyglasgow, to glasgow
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Former bonded warehouse on Bell Street in the Merchant City area of Glasgow. At the time it was built in 1882, it was the largest warehouse in Glasgow. Constructed for the Glasgow and South Western Railway as part of their College Goods Station, it was designed to be fire resistant and was kitted out with hydraulic lifting equipment from the start.

CaraBruar,
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@thisismyglasgow it's still a very large building in this century. Excellent photo.

CaraBruar, to zerowaste
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Door mat purchased in 1974 when we married and set up house.
Supposely recycled tyres or may be manufacturing waste since there were factories in Adelaide, South Australia, back then.
Has been in continuous use at all the places we've lived since 1974.
It's probably good for another 50 years.

CaraBruar,
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@vga256 interesting. They are practical but not pretty. I wonder where they came from really.

vga256, to random
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last year @ThreeOhFour told me that buying a kilo of old used stamps was a bad idea

this is what being wrong looks like my friend 😂

CaraBruar,
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@vga256 interesting project. I had a stamp collection plus many unprocessed used stamps but I decided that I didn't want them as part of a downsizing project. I gave them to a local stamp collecting society. It was the artwork that appealed to me too 🙂

chestas, to Tasmania
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We have a flock of Silvereyes attracted to our garden by a fig tree.

This is my wife's photo

CaraBruar,
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@chestas wonderful photo, your wife has talent

samhainnight, to random
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While I was at Ross yesterday, I came across a collapsible canvas roof like thing, like you’d see over a stand at a farmers market. Only $35! I’ve been wanting one, so I grabbed it up! Last that evening, I saw one at Costco for $150, so I was like, Score! Still I wondered why no one else had grabbed it from Ross before me.
Dear reader, I realized in the middle of the night, it was because the canvas was red, & no one wanted one for their farmers market booth that might be associated with Trump.

CaraBruar,
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@samhainnight you could paint it. Flowers maybe?

thisismyglasgow, to glasgow
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Love this ivy-pattern tile from a tenement close in the Thornwood area of Glasgow.

CaraBruar,
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@thisismyglasgow that has a folkloric Green Man feel about it

CaraBruar,
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@thisismyglasgow maybe Protestantism frowned on such depictions

timrichards, (edited ) to Trains
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Now free for all to read... I spent two days in the middle of nowhere, rolling across the Nullarbor Plain aboard the Indian Pacific train. Here's what it was like:

Rails across the Nullarbor https://www.patreon.com/posts/97387169

cc @seatsixtyone

CaraBruar,
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@timrichards @seatsixtyone I took that trip for some time alone. It was fantastic as long as I stayed in my cabin otherwise there was too much enthusiastic socialising. Not what I was there for.

CaraBruar, to australia
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Bushfires in Victoria are about 350 to 400 km from us but the smoke from them has arrived here this afternoon.

This is a screenshot from our backyard PurpleAir quality sensor. Best to stay inside.

timrichards, to sydney
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Crikey! Big walking day today.

CaraBruar,
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@timrichards that's a lot of steps. I need a day off if I do 5000. And Sydney is very hilly and humid. I've been enjoying your photos.

skinnylatte, to languagelearning
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Every week I do my language homework, panic about how ‘I don’t know these words’, then realize that all the words I don’t know are the Taigi words that originated from Japanese

Also, I have to zoom in to see how to write some traditional characters, coz I’m getting old (and I actually only know how to write simplified)

CaraBruar,
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@skinnylatte that's interesting, I didn't know that Japanese words were used in Taiwan. Makes sense with the history. Are there also Taiwan origin words and grammar as well as Mandarin?

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