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Ohhhhh, M, how I love you.

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This is an amazing object - a sheet of parchment has been cut with scissors into bible verses and decoration. It's unbelievably ornate and detailed. Lucky Giordana gets to conserve it!

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Kiki has a Playmobile advent calendar at work. Every morning we're greeted by Playmobile cuteness.

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Magnus and I are staying at his sister's lovely flat in Newington while we get our kitchen done. Rather than mess up her impeccable kitchen (she's trying to sell too), we ate out tonight at Kalpna, a famous Edinburgh vegetarian Indian restaurant. It was possibly the best meal we've had for a very long time. This is the cool mosaic peacock in the dining room.
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Sally bought this card for her brother's birthday - I love it!

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(click for full-size. It should be legible.)

Kiki was working on this handbill today, and I think it is absolutely brilliant. Dated 1847, it pleads with the people of Scotland to turn their backs on two gentleman from Virginia who are 'at present lecturing throughout Scotland on Christian Union'. These two gentlemen, you see, 'assert that slavery, considered in itself, is not sinful - is not opposed to the spirit and principles of Christianity - and that the Saviour, and his Apostles, sanctioned the practice of man holding property in man.'

It goes on:

'For the sake of suffering humanity - for the sake of THREE MILLIONS OF YOUR FELLOW CREATURES groaning under the cruel bondage of American Slavery - People of Scotland, see that you do not in any way countenance that abominable system; beware lest you, in any degree, sacrifice your well-known Anti-Slavery principles, by apparently assenting to the absurd opinions of these men on this matter. Protest against their pro-Slavery views - tell them that you can have no connection with them, until they go home and urge upon their Slaveholding brethren to cease to do evil, to learn to do well, to seek judgement, and to EMANCIPATE ALL THEIR SLAVES!'

Excuse my French, but fuck yeah!!! This gave me goosebumps. Powerful stuff!

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A cool light thingy at the Camera Obscura.
More here.

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The very generous gift card I got as thanks for doing some training for local law librarians at work. No, thank YOU, librarians!

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This VW bus has been parked in our street for the past couple of weeks. It's just like the one we had when I was little.

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Catching up... Friday 5th September, 2008

This is an awesome hoodie... click on it to see its full splendour.