About Me
Created: 2025-06-15 (08:48:40) — Modified: 2026-03-08 (21:00:00)Status: ongoing
My name is Tamsyn. I have lived in Canberra, Australia, my whole life. I would love to live elsewhere some day, but only if it is as cold, or colder than here, and has interesting birdlife. I used to write anonymously, but cannot be bothered with that these days. Anyone who knows me and somehow winds up on this site would make the connection pretty quickly anyway.
I spend a lot of time exploring the mountains around me, or bicycling around and napping in the grass. The white-winged chough is my favourite creature. I like divey bars and cafes that let me hide in the corner and write for hours. My dream is to live in a sprawling apartment with lots of beds, all of them mine.
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If you want to leave a comment or get in touch, feel free to email me at tamsynwyatt@gmail.com
Orm and the Ormulum
The Ormulum is a twelfth century biblical exegesis. Orm, its author, wrote it out on low quality parchment in a dense and untidy hand overlaid with corrections and marginalia.
The final work of around nineteen-thousand lines has for centuries been described as repetitive, tedious and ugly. But it also enjoys an afterlife among linguists because it used an idiosyncratic, phonemic orthography that preserved the language as it may have actually been spoken in that particular part of the isles, in the particular era.
I have such a soft spot for Orm and the Ormulum, someone whose eccentric lifework was simultaneously a failure and an enduring success. It resonates with my hopes for my work, that even if it is messy, incomplete, often ugly, it might still enjoy an afterlife of its own. Strange ruins.
Þiss boc iss nemmnedd Orrmulum
forrþi þatt Orrm itt wrohhte
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