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Sylvia Foolproof Suddes

@bossproofreader

Copy-editor extraordinaire. Goddess.

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It’s so tourists are sure they’re heading in the right direction.

13.03.2026 08:11 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Is this the Viennese muse’s?

13.03.2026 08:06 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Straight ahead.

13.03.2026 07:53 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

It used to be °F.
When I moved to Spain in 1990, I was confused by °C.

12.03.2026 15:42 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I was surprised to hear our 1970s settees described as daybeds on telly this morning.

We had two, but even that wasn’t sufficient for all eight of us.

#TooNorthernForDaybeds

12.03.2026 15:21 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Pah, looks are fuck all.

12.03.2026 13:47 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Are you single?

12.03.2026 13:33 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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A tad breezy up here.

12.03.2026 13:31 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

Disgracefully luxurious.

11.03.2026 17:09 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

😂😂😂

11.03.2026 14:23 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Montage showing pressed plant specimens from an 18th-century bound herbarium.

Montage showing pressed plant specimens from an 18th-century bound herbarium.

Lovely to be able to share this 18th-century bound herbarium for a workshop on botany and the book, funded by the Isaac Newton Trust and Trinity College, Cambridge. We’ve also digitised the volumes, so everyone can take a look!

cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-ADD-...

11.03.2026 08:46 👍 103 🔁 34 💬 1 📌 1

Culture war latest: the Bank of England has announced that after a public consultation, to which it received 44,000 responses, the next new banknotes will feature native wildlife.
Tories: "It is deeply depressing that under Lab our national heroes are considered too 'divisive' to be on bank notes."

11.03.2026 11:23 👍 389 🔁 76 💬 94 📌 187
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Choosing autumn-sowing broad-bean seeds means less chance of blackfly infestation in springtime.

11.03.2026 08:31 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Soothing. 🌊

11.03.2026 04:34 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The soundscape!

10.03.2026 21:47 👍 11 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

When I explained the concept of a mortgage to my son, he suggested we sell our house for half its value and buy it back from ourselves, thus ensuring that our mortgage future payments would be half of what they are now.

20.02.2026 21:10 👍 12 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0
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The Society of Authors has launched a scheme to identify books written by people in a market awash with AI-generated material.

10.03.2026 21:38 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

The first true leaves look like the leaves of whichever veg you grow.

10.03.2026 20:56 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The seed of this cucumber seedling is still attached to its first leaf – more properly its cotyledon. Cotyledons are the seedling’s survival kit and provide energy until the plant can make its own food.

It‘s sorcery.

10.03.2026 15:11 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Poke my eyes out!

10.03.2026 12:01 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Can’t do owt else.

10.03.2026 12:00 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Strangely, I’m off my heed, but I haven't had my usual-in-the-past mind-alterers.

Just a couple of procedures yesterday, then a massive drop in blood pressure.

Am back home. x

10.03.2026 10:54 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Having my medical wristband secured on my writing wrist is doing my head in.
It’s impossible to remove it.✂️🔥😡😡😡

10.03.2026 05:38 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

The weird thing is, I wasn’t hungry afterwards.

Everyone (that’s three friends) who‘s had the same procedure (albeit only one rather than my two) said they were ravenous and immediately hit a Wetherspoons for chicken and mash!

Still haven’t eaten.

10.03.2026 04:34 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Black bracket fungus.

The tree stump is a multi-storey, multi-depth household of plants and insects, secret tunnels and hidden rooms throughout.

09.03.2026 17:33 👍 25 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

😊

09.03.2026 16:25 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

More to do in six weeks, but I’m pleased it’s over. x

09.03.2026 14:16 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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I collapsed afterwards and was on a drip for an hour. 😳

Do you like my easy-access knickers (hole goes at the back)?😬

09.03.2026 14:15 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Lungwort!🥰

09.03.2026 06:31 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

For whom must we preserve Empire?

Disgusting.

09.03.2026 06:22 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0