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@@SecondThoughtsAboutTheMission I love a Doctor Who tangent. You listen to musicals right? Just asking because Jonathan Groff is in one of the episodes and his relationship with the Doctor is too adorable. I wish I liked 13 more than I did because I do like Jodie Whittaker, but somehow it just didn’t do it for me. I think it was the writing and the stories she got. But I’m already enjoying Ncuti Gatwa’s Doctor. It’s a totally different energy from Capaldi’s era but so much fun. A bit closer to Matt Smith, I think. And yes, Murray Gold is back-he’s made for scoring Doctor Who.

We’ll have to have a good Doctor Who chat sometime! I’m such a geek for it! Yes, I do listen to musicals, and I did see a preview for that episode! My boyfriend pre-pandemic had quite a career with musical theatre so I was lucky to see countless broadway shows here in Boston. I agree, I don’t think it was Jodi’s fault at all, it was the writing. My take was that Chibnall’s aim was to revert back to the sci-fi/historical based stories from the 60s through the 80s, and while I love and collect those stories, the show had ‘evolved’. My mom really liked the seasons with 13, which is cute. I can see a lot of people enjoying it if they weren’t aware of the show beforehand. I’ve heard good things about Ncuti Gatwa as an actor although i don’t think I’ve seen him in anything. Anyway, I’m sure I’ll like him.

@@SecondThoughtsAboutTheMission that’s interesting. I hadn’t read up on Chibnall’s intentions for the show and I haven’t watched many of the classic episodes. Maybe I’ve just gotten too used to the reboot to appreciate them. I’d love to be closer to broadway. I’ve been there once and saw a couple of things but otherwise it’s cast recordings for me! I know occasionally touring shows come through Canada but I haven’t seen many.

@@unicornsdonuts sure it’s the Marea Tarot. www.etsy.com/ca/listing/1691831958/marea-tarot

@@chaneldays yeah, I was trying to be polite but it’s got some issues!

@@chaneldays 11. I started with 10 because he was the only one I’d heard of but then 11 won me over. Unless Dr. River Song counts as a time travelling doctor, in which case, she’d be my favourite.

Yeah I like her as an actor and I think she was a pretty good doctor but she just didn’t get the spectacular moments and speeches that some of the other doctors have gotten, which I thought was too bad. And I just couldn’t get into a lot of the stories she got.

@@madwitch9977 the lists really are never-ending aren’t they. It’s quite a good deck but I need to stop buying decks now to use the ones I have because I haven’t used it enough! Though I am using all the colourful ones now that it’s summer. I’ll probably pull it back out this winter - I do enjoy meditations about duality and to what degree it even exists.

@@madwitch9977 sorry! My TBR isn’t getting any shorter either!

@@NicoleACottageWitch haha I must confess to envy on how many books you manage to devour! xx

@@madwitch9977 I often feel weirdly unsettled when I don’t have much time to read. It’s like somethings wrong! I’ve been a bookworm since I was very young.

@@SecondThoughtsAboutTheMission Ulysses is really a whole reading project all by itself. It’s actually paused at the moment while I catch up on some of the other things on my ridiculous TBR, but I’ll definitely get back to it. There are just too many things to read! Though as soon as I get Robin Wall Kimmerer’s next book, I’ll temporarily drop everything else! I don’t recall having any serious ethical concerns about The Bones Fall in a Spiral (just difference in preference but that’s fine).

@@NicoleACottageWitch I can’t remember how many years ago I read Ulysses, but so much of it stuck with me even though I didn’t take any notes, I have some more James Joyce in the house that I should read. Yes, definitely need to read more Robin Wall Kimmerer. The reviews I’ve read re: the Necromancy book claim it’s quite the ethical approach, but in the book which I read, the guy was actually robbing graves.

@@SecondThoughtsAboutTheMission oh yeah, grave robbing is not the way to go. Ugh. And I should have started with other Joyce. Instead I read Ulysses first a few years ago. It seems like it flows more easily now having read his other books.

@@NicoleACottageWitch it’s a controversial book and I don’t have quite the energy to discuss it in a wrap up yet lol but yeah, as I was saying, there’s no actual proof this guy actually DID what he claimed to do. Ulysses is the only Joyce I’ve read, yet I own most of his work! There’s just so much to read, and I don’t get to read as much as I used to, but I can’t stop lol

Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it!

That sounds like a beautiful idea.

Thanks!

Thanks! You’re all inspiring and very talented crafty people! 💜

Yeah, I’m taking a break for a bit! I hope your Hellenic Oracle study is going well. One of these days, I’ll study the Runic Oracle, but probably not for a while!

Moby Dick is probably my all time favourite. I’ve done several new operas like Everest and Filumena that are pretty cool. I like the music to Carmen but that and Butterfly kept trying to kill me whenever I stage managed them! Everything that could go wrong did! Mozart is pretty reliably fun though I don’t feel the need to do the Magic Flute again. It’s much less stressful just operating the surtitles. Oh and Dutchman was a lot of fun too.

All signs are pointing me to Moby Dick lately! 😂 honestly, I have to familiarize myself with the opera, that’s so interesting!! (I’ve been excited to read the book for a few years now and keep waiting for the perfect time, I think todays the day). Yeah … there’s some stupid librettos out there 😂 Love Butterfly, and Magic Flute and Dutchman are favorites too, saw productions of those here in Boston. It’s difficult choosing favorites, I also love the operas of Rossini, Donizetti, Monteverdi … my favorite from the ‘contemporary’ category would be the Philip Glass triptych: Einstein on the Beach, Satyagraha and Akhenaten, (Akhenaten being my first choice because I listen to it constantly!)

@@SecondThoughtsAboutTheMission I should listen to some Philip Glass opera. I’ve only listened to his piano music and love it. I remember glancing at the surtitles during Lucia Di Lammermoor (also very good and based on the Walter Scott novel), and thinking “oh this is why it’s in Italian!” Some of the lyrics were so ridiculous in English! Oh and that reminds me, I also love the opera Manon by Massenet but I haven’t listened to it in a long time. And yes, the book Moby Dick is so beautiful! It is a bit meandering sometimes (I think he spends quite some time describing knots and types of whales and things like that), but it’s so beautiful I’ve read it twice.

Uh yeah.. started reading Moby Dick a couple of days ago, and I’m already thrilled: it’s everything I was looking for

I will look into the Green Planet. I haven’t seen it. And I agree, this was a brilliant tag, though maybe a bit more intimidating than “lighter” tags! I’m glad you enjoyed it. Hopefully more people will do it sometime. Plant love always. 💚🌿

Thanks!

Yeah I snapped that Da Vinci tarot up pretty quickly! Used book sales are so dangerous but so much fun - I usually go with certain subject areas in mind but then I’m bound to find unexpected things too. I’ve got a bit of a backlog of videos to catch up on too. Oh well!

Those are better to start with than Ulysses! 💜

I do usually plant herbs and vegetables together. Usually some herbs like basil go with tomatoes because their roots don’t need as much space as the tomatoes and then chives go with strawberries to keep the bugs away but beyond that I haven’t gotten much into companion planting. Mostly it’s just a matter of necessity on a balcony! The reddish flowers were peony leaves from some grocery store flowers that now have a second life as mulch. Though I do have some purple oxalis out there, but it’s struggling. The plant rescue was a lot of fun and very interesting but also a bit sad because that land is about to get bulldozed.

Thanks for creating this tag. It was a lot of fun! 💜

Thanks! It’s an incredible but bonkers show. I tried to explain it to my family once and they definitely think I’m nuts (I mean, they did before but they really do now!). It’s so much fun and has often pushed the boundaries of representation on TV, which I appreciate.

Yeah I really enjoy the colour palette here and I’ve decided I need more pink in my life, just for fun! Thanks for watching!

I haven’t heard that story but now I think I need to read up on it!

I haven’t yet but maybe I should. I also saw that @rosehoneyritual posted about The Alchemy of Thoth deck, which is very tempting (and which I’d somehow never seen before)!

@@NicoleACottageWitch I love Annie Farrar’s Daydreaming in Situ. I bought the Marea this morning 😱 I wasn’t going to, but I was worried I would miss out and regret it. A beautiful deck and I love the emotions in the minors and courts. I love Thoth minors ♥️ thank you for showing it!

Excellent! And no, I hadn’t heard of The Forest, but I’m looking it up immediately. That sounds so cool.

Ok, I’m back quickly to say I just started it and, for reasons I can’t explain, it reminds me immediately of Holst’s the Planets, so I’ll probably like it. I really need to learn to talk about music in even a slightly coherent way!

@@NicoleACottageWitch oh good, I’m glad you think you’re going to like it! I love David Byrne and everything he did with The Talking Heads … genius. And don’t worry; you’re fine! I feel inept myself sometimes because my partner is a professional musician and we talk about music a lot, but I’m familiar with some terms pertaining to classical music that he isn’t, and he doesn’t understand how it is I’ve read some of the books I’ve read (by Charles Rosen etc) because he wouldn’t be able to get through them lol

Me too. 💜

People have been sleeping on the myths of Scotland. I like knowing the Greek myths but I think prefer the Irish and Scottish I’ve read so far.

So many books to read! And I want to read them all! It’s an ongoing problem. I definitely need to read more Chekhov. I read some of his plays ages ago for my undergrad but I’ve been sleeping on his shorting fiction. I’d say Stein is up next but I’m also reading about 7 books right now and really need to finish at least one of them first!

@@NicoleACottageWitch it’s a definite problem for me too. I was reading 7 or 8 books recently myself … finished a couple recently so I’m making progress but yeah lol I read Chekhov plays for a theatre history course years ago and that’s how I discovered him, LOVED those courses. I forgot to mention: I think it’s cool you read the books which inspired operas. I haven’t read many actually; Eugene Onegin by Pushkin is the only one I can recall at the moment, but I read the librettos which accompany the operas I own. I love opera! 🥰

I’ve been reading a lot of the old blokes lately! Mostly because I’m studying Ulysses which references tonnes of them and it’s fun to get to know some of the connections-which writers inspired other writers, things like that.

Oh yeah, there’s a lot of referencing in Ulysses for sure! Can’t wait to hear your thoughts on it.

I’ve listened to a lot of audiobooks lately. And I may have gotten more Edna O’Brien this month! I’ll start the Country Girls soon. I’ve tried to bring mint indoors over the winter and always end up killing it somehow so I’ll try to plant it outdoors soon and hopefully dry a bunch by the end of summer.

@@NicoleACottageWitch I think she’s fascinating, Edna O’Brien, I’ve read a handful, and own a few I have yet to read. I’ve never attempted growing anything edible outdoors; it’s not my wheelhouse, but I wish lol