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10.03.2026 15:20
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I have I think four versions of solitare on my laptop and I go through intense periods of hating one of them and then being obsessed with it and hating a different one.
About every 2.5 years I actually do this, it's a weird low key compulsion, often enhanced by some kind of deadline.
Ha ha! 'Seven years ago' is the perfect distance, isn't it, as even families with big age gaps probably don't bridge that, making it 'recent but wholly unknowable'.
Started the day with someone on tiktok accusing me of "cosplaying British" for using the word "jumper".
I'm from Manchester.
Fair.
God, my school was CONSTANTLY allegedly about to have a fight with 'Harriet or Brighton Hill' which were the nearest 'rivals'. Neither of them that close - at least a twenty minute walk away and not in a useful direction. Never happened to my knowledge. But the rumours ripped through us thrillingly.
I know it feels like it, but 1876 is not 200 years ago.
Can anyone give me ideas for easy batch cooking recipes that can be cooked straight from frozen? My mum and dad will not be able to manage the concept of defrosting something overnight.
If anyone would like to know a little more about why I’m like “this” - pick this up and read my chapter “The Basingstoke Scream” thanks for a lovely evening @grindrod.bsky.social
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It's great isn't it! I love things like that.
Watched a video after you mentioned it last time (I think) & the woman doing it had an ottoman thing at the end of her super king bed that was massively in the way. I have never in my LIFE seen anyone doing something so awkwardly, it made me laugh. (I believe it works, but I believe you, not her.)
There's a woman I follow on FB who's 'growing a dress' - she planted the flax last spring and is STILL spinning, the processing of the plant into something she could attempt to spin took FOREVER. (It's fascinating! But good grief.)
My favourite thing about the Famous Five and the Adventure books was the camping. And then Swallows and Amazons. Adult-free outdoor fun. Despite obviously being an indoor child who mostly liked reading, ha ha.
I didn’t see it on the telly but this is the edition I have, bought in Smiths at the time. I very much loved a ‘children in the woods’ story as a child.
@katebeaton.bsky.social I always love your journal comics but this set are particularly fine. 💜
@matwinser.bsky.social it’s not often I see a pic of Siouxsie that I never saw before and here’s the second in two days.
A colourful painting on rough-edged paper with a cluster of standing stones inside a circular ditch below a stylised sun with a face.
I want to make space for new works in my Etsy shop, so everything on there is now 20% off - including this watercolour on recycled cotton rag paper entitled 'Sun Henge' and paintings of ancient monuments in Brittany and Britain. Check it out here: shorturl.at/HDzSI
#StandingStoneSunday
How lovely! 🥰
N i c e
Vodafone call me ‘Jacqueline’ and it makes me twitch. That’s for the doctor and my first year infants teacher.
Showing us all up as ever.
small hours big time one car on back roads heading west - Lincolnshire chalk upland lanes at night - sunk / hedged / straight one car parked up at that nature reserve on the hill
6/3/26 - nocturn
Ooh I saw the Fallen Women do their Fall karaoke thing, it was excellent. Fun!
Ha ha brilliant.
Yeah I haven't done it for years and I wasn't very good when I did. It's quite complicated. 😄
Yes, I think so.
Ha ha right? Bobbin lace is mad.
I'm reading the Reacher novels. I started in 2022 and it all seemed fine, but every single one I've read in the last year-ish has made me go 'ah yes. Serious people doing serious things seriously and effectively. In America! Seems unlikely!'
Why not pick up a copy of #KneadtoKnow for #BritishPieWeek!?
Within its pages, you'll find out about everyday pies & pasties & also wondrous & ridiculous ones like Yorkshire Christmas Pyes & the Denby Dale Pie.
Published by Icon Books & available as an audiobook from @wfhowes.bsky.social