Grace Pritchard Burson

@gaudynight78

Twitter's official Dorothy L. Sayers stan account, 2018-24, now on Bluesky. New Englander in Quebec. Eph '00/YDS '04. Mom, priest (the sweary kind), writer (ask me about my musical!), doula. Yes, my grandma shot a Nazi. She/her. INTJ/5w4.

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Grace Pritchard Burson@gaudynight78· 15d

What's your sign

A sandwich board from thr Annapolis Royal farmers' market, with a smiling emoji in the middle. The text says, CAUTION SLOW DOWN SPECIAL EVENT. People having fun!

Grace Pritchard Burson@gaudynight78· 15d

The good life.

My copy of vol. 3 of DLS' letters, open on a picnic table, beyond which are visible the bike path and the river.

Grace Pritchard Burson@gaudynight78· 19d

IT BEGINS

The first Ontario peaches and the first corn on the cob of the season

Grace Pritchard Burson@gaudynight78· 24d

Badger has decided that this is the only version of dog pose required this evening

My friend Victoria's border collie mix crashed out on my yoga mat. My knees are visible as I was planning to, you know, do yoga.

Grace Pritchard Burson@gaudynight78· Jul 10

Though we've certainly got some bullshit

A screenshot of the map of Beaconsfield, Quebec, with a street pattern that makes no sense

Grace Pritchard Burson@gaudynight78· Jul 9

Il fait très beau sur les rives du fleuve Saint-Laurent!

Parc Noël-Spinelli in Lachine on a lovely summer evening

Grace Pritchard Burson@gaudynight78· Jul 8

Literally the view in front of me and to my left right now (Parc Noël-Spinelli in Lachine, right at the head of the canal; Bïa et Maracujá playing Brazilian music)

A park lawn on a clear summer evening. An outdoor stage with a five piece band. Lots of happy people, kids, bikes, doggos.

Grace Pritchard Burson@gaudynight78· Jul 7

At the launch party for EVERYBODY'S PERFECT with @bluejo.eurosky.social and @gretchenmcculloch.com at @argobookshop.bsky.social!

Gretchen McCulloch (curly dark hair, blue linen dress) and Jo Walton (blue fedora, white dress with blue pattern) sitting in front of a wall of bookshelves.

Grace Pritchard Burson@gaudynight78· Jul 3

I need to go see this heron!! Post a random picture or everything else will go bad in July.

Me in the house of mirrors at the Escher exhibit. I am wearing pigtails, and salmon coloured capri pants, a grey t-shirt with an octopus riding a bicycle, and Keen sandals, and carrying my purse and a shoulder bag with owls on it. A Williams themed bandana is tied to my belt and I'm taking a selfie. There are strings of white painted wooden birds hanging from the ceiling. All six surfaces of the room are mirrored, so infinite replicas of me (and the birds) are retreating into infinity in every direction.

Grace Pritchard Burson@gaudynight78· Jul 2

I'm at the jazz festival, I'm at the Escher exhibit, I'm at the combination jazz festival and Escher exhibit

Overhead banner at the entrance to the Festival International de Jazz de Montréal on Ste-Catherine

Selfie at the entrance to the Escher exhibit, which happens to be inside the Jazz Festival pedestrian zone

Grace Pritchard Burson@gaudynight78· Jun 30

Rejoice with me, for the season of Strawberry Shortcake for Breakfast is upon us

A plate containing a serving of homemade strawberry shortcake

Grace Pritchard Burson@gaudynight78· Jun 29

An extremely detailed infographic sarcastically titled "What part of legal immigration don't you understand?"

Grace Pritchard Burson@gaudynight78· Jun 29

Sadly the Vortex has gone elsewhere.

Grace Pritchard Burson@gaudynight78· Jun 26

A Facebook post of mine from July 2021:

"Halfway out the door, she realized she had forgotten her mask and went back into the apartment to get it. Even though she had had both doses of the new mRNA vaccine to protect her from the disease that had shut down most of the world for the past year and a half, the face covering was still required in indoor public spaces. She briefly thought about putting it on to filter out the smoke blowing over the city from the wildfires in the northwest, but it was too hot to wear it when she didn't actually have to. As she went down the stairs to the front door of the building, the fitness and location tracker on her wrist buzzed with a message alert, and she took out her smartphone to check it, rolling her eyes at the news notifications about the billionaire who had just entered low earth orbit in a private spacecraft of suspiciously phallic design."

First chapter of a dystopian near-future novel, or my morning on the way to the thrift store?

Grace Pritchard Burson@gaudynight78· Jun 25

This is my wall mounted heat pump, which runs on carbon-free Québec hydropower, and is saving my perimenopausal ass even in the relatively temperate summers of this province. (No alt text because the photo is literally just what the skeet says.)

Grace Pritchard Burson@gaudynight78· Jun 24

The iconic Haldeman quote, “Bad books on writing tell you to "WRITE WHAT YOU KNOW", a solemn and totally false adage that is the reason there exist so many mediocre novels about English professors contemplating adultery.”

Grace Pritchard Burson@gaudynight78· Jun 19

Just found this image on the Vanderbilt Library's lectionary website and how much do I LOVE it as direct evidence of 15th century birth practices?? (I have 100% seen women do exactly what Rebecca is doing in this picture - and been the one in blue.)

A manuscript illumination from the late fifteenth century, depicting the birth of Jacob and Esau. Rebecca is wearing a white coif and a red gown, hanging onto both ends of a sheet that has been looped over the bed frame above her head, staring up at the ceiling and screaming. A woman with a long uncovered braid in a blue gown is holding her around the shoulders. One midwife is standing at the back of the room holding newborn Esau, and the other is delivering Jacob, who is emerging from under Rebecca's skirts with his face upturned. Both midwives wear white headcloths and grey gowns.

Grace Pritchard Burson@gaudynight78· Jun 17

Another step on the path to old ladydom

Me displaying my shiny new gold beaded glasses chain

Grace Pritchard Burson@gaudynight78· Jun 12

Eat your hearts out, @bluejo.bsky.social fans!

A stack of copies of Jo Walton's EVERYBODY'S PERFECT, which is not yet out and which is purchasable on this dateliterally only one place in the world, the Argo Books table at Scintillation.

Grace Pritchard Burson@gaudynight78· Jun 11

Now this is an EXCELLENT question

A screenshot (yes, from Twitter, don't @ me) that says "Why do all the AI logos look like butt holes?" with an image of 13 AI logos that look like buttholes.

Grace Pritchard Burson@gaudynight78· Jun 11

One doesn't usually get to see a dragon boat up so close! (Still no thunderstorm)

A dragon boat full of people, turning around in the narrow Lachine Canal

Grace Pritchard Burson@gaudynight78· Jun 7

I wish you as much peace as my sister's kitten Fig napping on an ottoman.

A calico kitten napping on a rose-coloured ottoman.

Grace Pritchard Burson@gaudynight78· Jun 4

Grace Pritchard Burson@gaudynight78· May 25

This is literally a three minute walk from my house.

Grace Pritchard Burson@gaudynight78· May 23

Um ... what?! (From Silvia Moreno-Garcia's THE SEVENTH VEIL OF SALOME) John the Baptist's father was a priest of the Temple, that's kind of important to the story!!

Screenshot in which Josephus tells Salome that John's father is a merchant

Grace Pritchard Burson@gaudynight78· May 22

Grace Pritchard Burson@gaudynight78· May 19

The child has transited FakeLondon on his way to EvenFakerLondon for the summer

Life360 screenshot of my kid's train coming into London, ON, an hour ago

Grace Pritchard Burson@gaudynight78· May 18

Pick a Bond villain from the photos you already have on your phone

My childhood friend Harry sitting on a sofa looking very dapper and reading a large book.

Grace Pritchard Burson@gaudynight78· May 14

Because I definitely don't have anything better to be doing at work at ten to three on a Thursday afternoon ...

Wedding photo, of two absolute babies (we were 23), me with my hair up and a veil with beaded headpiece, wearing a white dress as described in the previous skeet and carrying a round bouquet, Josh in morning dress, walking quickly down the sidewalk outside the Graduate Club in New Haven.

Grace Pritchard Burson@gaudynight78· May 14

Amazing We Graces born at the bottom of the naming trend line have to stick together