lottieplot9.bsky.social
Generally floundering. Yogi, knitter, walker, sci fi nerd, occasionally sweary, Scottish, retired engineer, frequent user of the block button, rehomed Elsie the German Shepherd. She/her
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Drill bits are a given and the neighbours must think we're stingy and a bit odd when I peg out the poo bags on the line that have been left in all our pockets.
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I've learned the hard way about bits of tooling. The soap was a gift from our friends as he wouldn't take anything for the gas and supplies he used while welding, he'd forgotten he'd wrapped it in his shirt to stop it getting damaged on the way home. There would have been froth everywhere 🙄
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That would have been fun to watch in the washing machine (not)
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I loved walking across the cut silage fields with my last dog, the swallows would fly all around us and amazingly close as they hoovered up the bugs we disturbed.
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*cows farting
How does autocorrect not know about farting!
If shipping doesn't use this stuff, how will we dispose of it? Again, without tackling the big picture we just shift the problem around, and also, stop buying plastic shit from China.
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There's an element of the cows farming causing climate change here by focusing on shipping. It uses the heavy diesel that's left after all the lighter hydrocarbons are distilled off for petrol, petrochemicals etc. We need to address all of it.
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One of the benefits that came out of the yoga philosophy study stuff I did with the British wheel. Between that and the safeguarding training I did it packed several years of therapy into a much more condensed form, obviously with years of ongoing thinking etc. But this is bang on.
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When I was at primary school in the 60's, a lady came to the class, taught us how to clean our teeth, gave us a toothbrush and a small tube of toothpaste and I've done what she taught us ever since. Old fashioned Public Health in action.
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Oh that's lovely 😍
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It's all very well liking linen in this weather but then there's the flippin ironing.
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Possibly not helpful, but I paid £280 to have a car transported from the Scottish Borders to North West England. Used a local guy who did recovery and transport work. Probably similar for a local man with a van outfit given it's the driver's time, fuel and vehicle wear &tear you're paying for.
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There's a German shepherd version too, also completely on the nose.
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Very familiar. I love that old houses that have been left behind can have a new lease of life. Two houses on our lane are exactly like that, looking forward to seeing what the new owners will do with them.
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Oooo, red leaded steps, someone took good care of it back in the day. Proper standards.
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Menopause gave me my grannie's chin and at that point I did a complete 180 on my opinion on face lifts. I'd still never actually do it, but for a moment......
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Awww, Nutmeg is gorgeous too
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Excellent point, I agree.
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Bottom one
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Throw the toy
Throw the toy
Throw the toy
Squirrel!
Throw the toy
Gwan gwan gwan
THROW THE TOY
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🤣🤣🤣
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Ditto the little rural bit of the Cotswolds where Father Brown lives
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Ahhh, didn't realise. He's young enough to take it all in his stride, sounds like he's a clever lad.
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It's supposed to be one of the UKTV ( ie BBC owned) channels, I thought it would be on the U&whatever app but I can't find it either, that's a bugger.
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It would be so much easier if we could just ask them and get an answer 😁
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Yes, they're out and about in daylight. The only year I've had them in my garden they were on verbena bonariensis, so were high enough up to get a really good look at.
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Ahh, maybe he's looking for a safe cave space. Might be worth creating one where you'd like him to sleep, I've used a crate with the door left open but a blanket over and a water bowl and toys inside.
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It's a humming bird hawk moth. Fabulous wee beastie. They're rare her, too far north, you're very lucky.
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My life is murder on Alibi looks a possibility. It has Lucy Lawless in the lead which is a good sign.
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Congratulations!
Post pics 😀
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Good afternoon, reading Exit West by Mohsin Hamid and on the strength of his writing have put a hold on the Reluctant Fundamentalist from the library, and going old school with The Odessa File by Frederick Forsyth.
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Had to wait for it to cool down a bit. I have a desert gooseberry ripening up nicely but it's viciously spikey so I have to be wearing full protection to pick those. I'm the only one who likes them so I still have jam from a bumper crop 3 years ago. I remember lots of PYO in the Borders
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Oops, 19 at the time, one year matters at that age, also, had my first slow dance to Forever and Ever by Silk 🙄
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Today has mostly been about jam. Elsie chose the moment to demonstrate down dog.
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It definitely dates back to the 70's, I remember they were the thing to have, modern instead of the old candlewick blankets.
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I also found lots of linen pillowcases which I'm using.
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They were popular in the UK in the 70s
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I found lots of lovely blankets packed away, so I brought them home and they're in use again.
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It has an open box type construction which lets it breathe. I remember when everyone in the family had one but nowadays no one seems to have heard of them.
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I have to cover up for both sun and wee beasties so I have merino for winter and cotton for summer. I do rely too much on fleece but it has the advantage of being dry almost from the spin cycle which is a tough thing to forgo when you live on the wet side of the country.
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It's raining here too and I've rushed out to close the car windows and bring the washing in, but it's no cooler 🙄
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It got too hot and muggy, and I was bored, to pick the strawberries this morning. There are some redcurrants I probably won't bother with then full PPE to pick the desert gooseberries