Elizabeth d'Anjou

@elizdanjou

Freelance editor and workshop presenter. Editing instructor at TMU. Vegetable gardener. Shares space with husband, dog, cats, and bunny. Doting aunt. Ask me about bringing Eight-Step Editing to your team or organization.

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Elizabeth d'Anjou@elizdanjou· 20d

Colour alert! This is not a drill! We have colour on a tomato!! Initiating ripeness watch protocol.

Close-up on a lush tomato plant showing a bunch of 6 or so cherry tomatoes, all green except for the furthest one, which has a hint of orangey-red.

Elizabeth d'Anjou@elizdanjou· Jul 12

Visiting Henry's fanciest patio yet!

Henry the huge wolfhound looks up at the camera as he lies (somewhere between really and goofily) on the stone patio of a very upscale hotel. My hat, my husband's leg, and a couple of coff
ees are visible at a little round table.

Elizabeth d'Anjou@elizdanjou· Jun 26

Oh look, an official email from the Canada Revenue Agency! This is definitely how they always look, and of course they use the email address with my family nickname. I'll be sure to click the big blue button below this text and scan & upload my driver's license and passport at the "secure portal."😎

Header and first few lines of an email that is so obviously a scam it's kinda comical: the sender is CRA - Verification with the email address contact@wdzxsj.com. The recipient is zabby. The subject line is "Please review your identity verification records within 48 hours to prevent account limitation."

The heading is "Action Required: Identity Verification Update."

The text says "In accordance with Canadian financial regulatory guidelines and Know-Your-Customer (KYC) standards, all active accounts must maintain current and valid identification on file."

Elizabeth d'Anjou@elizdanjou· Jun 9

Viola is EXTREMELY certain it's time for me to call it a day. #StetPet

A smoky-grey cat with bleeping tongue sits between my keyboard and monitor, giving me a very pointed look.

Elizabeth d'Anjou@elizdanjou· May 12

From the menu at our local Middle Eastern place. (Comes to about 82 cents per falafel if you buy 12, but about 94 cents each if you buy 20. We usually buy two of the dozen.)

Excerpt from Nasr's Falafel menu showing a dish piled with falafel balls and prices of 12 units for $9.85 and 20 units for $18.85.

Elizabeth d'Anjou@elizdanjou· May 9

It's Saturday! 📺 Post a cartoon TV series you love.

Overview of British children's show Sarah & Duck

Elizabeth d'Anjou@elizdanjou· May 7

Nature channel on our side porch!

A robin sits in a nest atop a substructure of dried plant material, built on the back surface of a rectangular heat lamp suspended from a wooden porch ceiling. (Fear not, the heat lamp is not in use! By us, anyway.)

Close-up of the nest itself, a classic round twigs-and grasses affair. Just a bit of a baby bird's head is peeking out of the top.

Close-up of the nest from above, showing a little pile of (3? 4?) baby robins. They are very young, mostly naked pink, though you see the dark top of the head of one of them. They have just a little bit of yellowish fuzz here and there.

Elizabeth d'Anjou@elizdanjou· May 3

Three species sharing an ottoman.

Selfie taken on the couch of my stretched-out legs, with Snug the blavk-and-white cat nestled in my shins and Henry the grey brindle Wolfhound beside them, taking up the rest of the ottoman (and photo).

Elizabeth d'Anjou@elizdanjou· May 2

Lazy halloumi (non) kebabs

Sautéed onions, sweet bell peppers, and grape tomatoes over a bed of rice topped with slices of halloumi cheese with showy grill marks (looking extremely yummy, which it is), garnished with a sprig of fresh mint.

Elizabeth d'Anjou@elizdanjou· Apr 25

Happy Indie Bookstore Day! Feeling so appreciative that my town of 5,000 people has such a store. (Pushkin is the store cat. He loves a stroller!)

Facade of my local bookstore, Books & Company. The big bay window is decorated with festive streamers. The front door has a decal with the words "BOOKS OPEN DOORS."

Close-up of the front door from the inside of the store, showing a sign with a line drawing of a cat in the corner. It reads "STOP Please check your stroller for Pushkin."

Elizabeth d'Anjou@elizdanjou· Apr 14

On my way to Toronto for a social with students and fellow instructors in the Publishing Program at TMU. Feeling the weight of my responsibilites as an emergency-exit-seat occupant -- and pleased it's an old-school setup with a little red hammer. 😀

Snap of the inside of a train car shows the tops of some empty seats and a window that features a little red hammer in a box for smashing the window panes in case of an emergency evacution where the doors are not a safe option.

Elizabeth d'Anjou@elizdanjou· Apr 8

Small pleasures--getting ready to make egg salad and taking a moment to appreciate the eggs I hard boiled to dye on Easter and then decided not to bother dying cuz my eggs from Farmer Jennifer are so pretty just as they are. (Also cuz I felt lazy, lol.)

Six eggs nestle in a white soup bowl. Three of the eggs are pale caramel brown and three are pastel blue.

Elizabeth d'Anjou@elizdanjou· Mar 30

Rose Tyler (Billie Piper) and The Doctor (Christopher Eccleston), standing in the Tardis from the first reboot season. Dialogue: "What do you think?"

Elizabeth d'Anjou@elizdanjou· Mar 21

In this last one, Snug and Bear are side by side in the bay window, in identical sphinx positions, looking out at the wet, snowy street.

Elizabeth d'Anjou@elizdanjou· Mar 21

Snug and Bear in the same spot, lying side by side, both straight and compact with legs tucked beneath them, facing in exactly the same direction.

Snug and Bear on the dog bed again, both curled up the same way with heads tucked on front legs.

Much like the last photo, but both cats have uncurled about halfway.

Elizabeth d'Anjou@elizdanjou· Mar 21

Happy Caturday from Snug and her Uncle Bear, whom she really admires and likes to emulate. Can you tell?

Snug, a smallish black-and-white shorthair, and Bear, a big black longhair, sprawl casually shoulder to shoulder, looking at the camera, in similar positions at one end of a large dog bed.

Elizabeth d'Anjou@elizdanjou· Mar 2

Ooh, I am the official Designated Window Exit volunteer in case of train emergency! I told the staff person who asked me I had had the spiel before but on an older train car model, and she clearly knew my type: "Ah, well, it's very similar but there's no little hammer on these so it's not as fun." 😎

View of a wintry Ontario landscape seen through a train window. You can just make out a corner of the seat ahead of me. Two dark rectangle at the top of the window are the handles.

Elizabeth d'Anjou@elizdanjou· Feb 21

OK, I know kings are a touchy subject these days, but it DOES amuse me to sign a contract with one every time I teach a workshop for a federal government team. Also, you have to love a "therefor." 😎

Part of a contract on official Government of Canada letterhead and a header with the contact details of the Public Health Agency of Canada.

Under the main head "CONTRACT," the text reads "You are requested to sell to His Majesty the King in right of Canada, in accordance with the terms and conditions set out herein, referred to herein or attached hereto, the supplies and services listed herein and on any attached sheets at the price or prices set out therefor."

Then, under the subhead "Vendor," is my name.

Elizabeth d'Anjou@elizdanjou· Feb 17

This is a CAT checkpoint. Show the most recent cat photo on your phone.

Snug (a small black and white cat) and her beloved uncle Bear (a large, long-haired black cat) are.in the dog bed a foot.apart in exactly the same semi-curled pose looking in exactly the same direction.

Elizabeth d'Anjou@elizdanjou· Feb 8

I'd like to speak to a manager, please.

Screenshot of part of a Canadian Weather Network web page showing that it's minus 30 degrees celsius and feels like minus 40.

Elizabeth d'Anjou@elizdanjou· Feb 8

It was yet another frigid day here, perfect for sunbeam snoozing. The sunbeam covered Henry's bed perfectly for a while this afternoon and then when it moved on Snug was ON IT. #Caturday

At the edge of the living room floor area rug we see Henry the giant grey brindle wolfhound lying on his side on his crib-mattress dog bed. The bed is in shadow, with a large sunbeam on the floor just in front of it bathing Henry's long legs extending off the bed edge in a tangle as well as Snug the black-and-white cat, sleeping in more or less the small cat equivalent of Henry's side-snooze pose.

Elizabeth d'Anjou@elizdanjou· Jan 23

Really, Globe and Mail? Minneapolis is shut down in the most impactful protest *in a century* and your only mention of Minnesota shows near-empty countryside with the *epitome* of literal "both sides"-ism?

A snip from the Toronto Globe and Mail's digital front page shows the headline "Left and fight, Minnesotans look for a way out of chaos."

Elizabeth d'Anjou@elizdanjou· Jan 2

Gorgeous! We had a lovely sunny afternoon and my husband and I walked with Henry to the fancy hotel on Main Street for a mocha & snack (us) and lots of admiration from passers-by (Henry). #stetwalk

Henry, a massive grey brindle Irish wolfhound, lies on the floor of the hotel lobby beside a fancy white armchair, looking at the camera as if being photographed regularly in public is no more than his due (as it is).

Elizabeth d'Anjou@elizdanjou· Dec 22

I dunno, it seems to me that Sharyn Alfonsi got the principles on the record pretty clearly.

Quote from Bari Weiss making various dumb excuses for spiking the CECOT story, including "We need to be able to make every effort to get the principles [sic] on the record and on camera."

Elizabeth d'Anjou@elizdanjou· Dec 8

Henry the wolfhound lies on the light-filled hotel lobby floor with his head half under an armchair, snoozing in his spiffy black coat, while I just manage to get half my head and hot chocolate cup into the frame.

Elizabeth d'Anjou@elizdanjou· Dec 8

The rumors are true! The hotel on Main Street lets you come in with your dog to get food and drink at the cafe if you take it to the hotel lobby half of the space to consume it. Makes for a nice break on a chilly #stetwalk. 😀🐶

Henry the Irish wolfhound, in his black and royal blue coat, relaxes on the floor of a hotel lobby with his head tucked under an armchair.

Elizabeth d'Anjou@elizdanjou· Dec 3

Woah, this podcast scratched so many of my itches! 😀 I am pretty sure what I read was this hardcover. (I don't have it, bc it belonged to my older sister -- who failed to appreciated it sufficiently, but nevertheless strictly enforced her authority over my access to it in our shared room.)

Hardcover of A Wrinkle in Time with a somewhat worn dust jacket in navy blue, featuring small white silhouettes of the three children at some distance from each other, each inside several concentric circles -- some in thin black lines and some in wider green ones. A gold foil Newberry Medal sticker is in the upper right corner.

Elizabeth d'Anjou@elizdanjou· Dec 2

Ooh, it's in Heather Cox Richardson's "Letter from an American" today!

Paragraph ending "She attributed the orders of September 2 to Admiral Bradley, appearing to be setting him up for underbusing."

Elizabeth d'Anjou@elizdanjou· Nov 21

View from the cockpit of the Millennium Falcon, showing the backs of Han and Chewie's heads as they watch out the window ("wind"shield?) during a shift into hyperdrive.

Elizabeth d'Anjou@elizdanjou· Oct 30