Posts by MiniMia@beige.party
 (DIR) Post #Aw7iONLHoPuHfCOo4W by MiniMia@beige.party
       2025-07-14T10:27:54Z
       
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       @moonrabbit @handmade_ghost @helenclayton @Nickiquote It's been a very long time since I did a Moomin Monday, so here's my first one since I joined beige and don't have to edit them! :moomin_yay: "There’s nothing as lovely as being comfortable and nothing is so simple.  Mymble didn’t feel sorry for those people she met and then forgot, and she tried not to get mixed up in what they were doing. She regarded them and their mess with amused surprise.The eiderdown was blue.  Moominmamma had collected the down for six years and now the eiderdown lay in the guest room facing south inside its cover of crocheted lace waiting for someone to be comfortable.   Mymble decided to have a hot-water bottle at her feet, she knew where they were kept in this house.  She would wash her hair in rainwater every fifth day.  She would take a little nap at dusk. In the evening the kitchen would be warm from the cooking.You can lie on a bridge and watch the water flowing past. Or run, or wade  through a swamp in your red boots. Or roll yourself up and listen to the rain falling on the roof. It’s very easy to enjoy yourself.  The November day moved slowly towards twilight.  Mymble crept in under the eiderdown and curled her toes round thehot-water bottle. It was raining outside.  But at the moment she didn’t need to do anything except sink down in the warmth, the whole world was a single great big eiderdown which encircled a mymble and everything else was outside."#MoominMonday #BeMoreMoomin
       
 (DIR) Post #Aw8ajoKi3G8mynncxM by MiniMia@beige.party
       2025-07-14T22:00:25Z
       
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       G'nite all :blobcat_sleeping: :BlahajHuggingHeart: :moomin_butterfly: "Moominmamma shivered and clutched her handbag tight as she looked out over the stormy night sea.'Shall we build a new house and try to sleep again?' she asked. 'That wouldn't be any use,' said Moomintroll.  'We'll wrap ourselves up in the blankets and wait till the sun gets up.'So they sat in a row on the beach, very close to one another, and Sniff sat in the middle because he thought it was the safest.The night was nearly over now and the storm was far away, but the breakers still thundered in over the sand.  The sky began to grow pale in the east and it was very cold.  Then, in the first light of dawn, they saw the Hattifatteners setting off from the island.Boatloads of them glided away like shadows from behind the point and steered out to sea.The Hemulen breathed a sigh of relief.  'I hope I never see a Hattifattener again,' he said.  'They're probably looking for a new island for themselves,' said Snufkin, enviously.  'A secret island that nobody will ever find!'  And he followed the little boats with longing eyes.'Look how lovely it is!' said Snufkin.  The island had been washed by the rain and now sparkled in the early morning sunlight.  'I shall play a morn-ing song,' he went on taking out his mouth-organ.'Come and swim!' cried Moomintroll.  And the whole lot pulled on their swimming suits and rushed out into the breakers (except the Hemulen and Moominmamma and Pappa who thought it was still too cold).Glass-green and white waves rolled in over the sand.  Oh, to be a Moomin and to dance in the waves while the sun gets up! The night was forgotten and a long June day lay before them. They dived likeporpoises through the waves and sailed in on the crests towards the beach where Sniff was playing in the shallow water.  Snufkin was floating on his back far out and looking up into the blue and gold sky."from 'Finn Family Moomintroll', by Tove  Jansson#Bookstodon #MoominMonday #BeMoreMoomin
       
 (DIR) Post #AwLroJZXZxqvpPcM1g by MiniMia@beige.party
       2025-07-21T07:12:53Z
       
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       Monday = :moomin_hello: :moomin_butterfly: "Moominmamma glanced towards the stairs that disappeared in troubled waters.  She thought of her kitchen.  Her thoughts moved on to the coffee tin on the chimney piece and she wondered if she had remembered to screw the lid on. She sighed.'T’ll dive for it,’ suggested Moomintroll, whose thoughts had moved exactly the same way.‘You couldn’t hold your breath for so long, dear,’ replied Mamma anxiously. Moominpappa gave them a strange look. ‘I’ve often thought,’ he said musingly, ‘that one ought to look at one’s abode sometimes from the ceiling instead of from the floor.’‘Do you mean ...?’ said Moomintroll delightedly.Moominpappa nodded. He disappeared into his room and presently returned with an auger and a narrow saw.  Everybody gathered around him and watched interestedly while he worked.   Moominpappa found sawing his own floor to pieces just a little dreadful, but at the same time highly satisfying.A few minutes later Moominmamma for the first time saw her kitchen from the ceiling. Enchanted, she looked down to a dimly lit, light-green aquarium. She could glimpse the stove, sink and slop-pail down on the bottom. But all the chairs and the table were floating around near the ceiling.‘Dear me, how funny,’ said Moominmamma and burst out laughing.  She laughed so hard that she had to take to the rocking chair again.  It felt very refreshing to see one’s kitchen like that. Moomintroll stood quite still for a moment and took a few calm breaths.   Then he plunged down into the kitchen.He swam straight to the pantry and managed to open the door.  Inside the water was white with milk, with a few specks of loganberry jam thrown in.  A couple of loaves of bread passed him slowly, followed by a school of macaroni.  Moomintroll snatched the butter dish, caught one of the wheaten loaves and swerved back by the chimney piece for Moominmamma’s coffee tin.  Then he rose to the ceiling and took a long breath.‘There, I had screwed the lid on!’ said his mother delightedly.  ‘This is quite a picnic. Do you think you can find the  coffee pot and some cups, too?’They had never had a more exciting breakfast.  They picked a chair that no one had ever liked and chopped it up.  Unfortunately the sugar had melted, but Moomintroll found a tin of treacle instead. His father spooned marmalade straight from the pot, and Little My busied herself with the auger, boring her way through the loaf without anybody saying a word.Time and again Moomintroll dived for new things, and then he splashed water around the whole room.‘I'm not washing any dishes today,’ Moominmamma said hilariously.   'Who knows, perhaps I'll never wash dishes any more?  But please, can’t we try to save the drawing-room suite before it spoils?’"from 'Moominsummer Madness', by Tove Jansson#MoominMonday #BeMoreMoomin
       
 (DIR) Post #AwOB6DPBX8TlMKwWMy by MiniMia@beige.party
       2025-07-22T08:20:54Z
       
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       Underlying mood of every day of my life.  #Bookstodon
       
 (DIR) Post #AwRJKtOFc5iejctZMO by MiniMia@beige.party
       2025-07-15T09:06:53Z
       
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       @TheBreadmonkey Gonna give a shout out here to Kitty Marion, who gets overlooked quite a lot.She came to London from Germany aged 15, became an actress in the music halls, joined the Actress Franchise League - which put on pro-suffrage plays - and the WSPU.  She set fire to a stand at a racecourse in retaliation for the death of Emily Wilding Davison.She was force fed in prison over 200 times.Fern Riddell's book about her is brilliant.
       
 (DIR) Post #AwamEVV4RT2JLskxfM by MiniMia@beige.party
       2025-07-28T11:58:16Z
       
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       We interrupt your Moomins with a dose of wisdom from Hundred Acre Wood.#Life #Pooh
       
 (DIR) Post #Ax8A7cN9Dqk0Ou4Pse by MiniMia@beige.party
       2025-08-13T14:59:53Z
       
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       @TheBreadmonkey Absolutely mainlined this last week if you've not seen it :blobcatthumbsup:
       
 (DIR) Post #Ax8J6xjbDDfzx5KloO by MiniMia@beige.party
       2025-08-13T13:53:33Z
       
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       Just dropping in quickly to recommend a beautiful documentary I watched last night.#Documentary
       
 (DIR) Post #AxFHRS3PM4LbyZxeBU by MiniMia@beige.party
       2025-08-16T21:09:25Z
       
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       Here's Audrey for Caturday#Caturday
       
 (DIR) Post #AxI4zuyBdZQrZZVG2i by MiniMia@beige.party
       2025-08-18T08:03:34Z
       
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       :moomin_hattip: :blobcatlove: "When I awoke I was looking straight up into a new world that was all green.  Understandably enough, I was very surprised, as I had never seen a tree before. They were dizzyingly tall and straight, and they supported a green roof.  The leaves swayed gently and glistened in the morning light, and a great many birds were dashing back and forth, screeching with delight.  I stood on my head for a moment to calm myself.  Then I shouted, 'Good morning!   Who does  this beautiful place belong to?   Are there any Hemulens here?''Don't bother us! We're busy playing!'  the birds cried and threw themselves headlong among the leaves.I walked farther into the wood.  The moss felt warm and very soft, but there were deep shadows under the bracken.   Swarms of small creatures such as I had never seen before were jumping and flying about, but of course they were too small to understand serious conversation.   At last I met an older hedgehog sitting by herself and polishing a large nutshell..Good morning, ma'am!' I said.  'I am a lonely refugee who was born under rather special stars.''You don't say,' said the hedgehog, none too enthusiastically.  'I'm working.  This is going to be a milk bowl.''Indeed,' I said, and became aware that I was hungry.  'Who owns this beautiful place?''No one!  Everyone!' said the hedgehog with a shrug.'I, too?' I asked.'By all means,' mumbled the hedgehog and continued polishing her milk bowl.'So you're quite sure, ma'am, that this place doesn't belong to some Hemulen or other?' I asked, worriedly.'A what?' said the hedgehog.Imagine, this happy creature had never come across a Hemulen!'A Hemulen has terribly large feet and no sense of humour,' I explained.  'She has a protruding, slightly depressed snout, and her hair grows in indefinite tufts.  A Hemulen does nothing because it would be fun to do it, but only because it must be done, and she tells one all the time what one ought to have done and - 'Good gracious!' cried the hedgehog and backed away among the bracken."#MoominMonday #Bookstodon #BeMoreMoomin
       
 (DIR) Post #AxdmRoMAC9R1WEQJrE by MiniMia@beige.party
       2025-08-28T20:38:29Z
       
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       🎶  Goodnight and joybe with you all ... 🎶 Sleep well, kittens :blobcat_sleeping: 🕊️ Cara Dillon - The Parting Glass#Music #Folk
       
 (DIR) Post #AxfOuh1aWZuWarxU2K by MiniMia@beige.party
       2025-08-29T15:35:14Z
       
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       Well I *definitely* didn't plant that there 😄 #Gardens #Bloomscrolling
       
 (DIR) Post #AxjHMKJQXW1TGBo9b6 by MiniMia@beige.party
       2025-08-31T12:52:15Z
       
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       #SilentSunday #Bloomscrolling #FleurisTonFil
       
 (DIR) Post #AzBGlxd7pa7aMLYUAS by MiniMia@beige.party
       2025-10-13T21:03:26Z
       
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       I approve this message** apart from Fedi, obvs#Bookstodon #FuckAI