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lottevesta.bsky.social
Dorset-based, middle-aged plumber, learning to install ASHPs. Likes cycling, animals, gardening and some other humans. Always curious. Often wrong. Sometimes grumpy. ADHD made me late.
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I had a bat fly into me in the twilight on a wooded path. I liked to think it was because I was too fast for its sonar to pick me up 😜 Neither of us were harmed, just alarmed.
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I don't think I ever read it, but the cover illustration seems very familiar to me. Those stories from childhood are so precious 😍
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And you can find them being read on YouTube too, ny the late great Bernard Cribbins. youtu.be/PV031WmXgQ4?...
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I think my daughter still has my copy of Mortimer's Tie. She's now 27 and also obsessed with corvids! He was so naughty.
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I think they're amazing. One of my favourite books as a kid was about a girl and her rescued raven. His name was Mortimer. I just want to be their friend!
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Yes, exactly. Very much like these ones.
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They were fabulous, reminiscent of a Mondrian painting.
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I couldn't get my bike out today because my garage door is broken. Sad because it is such a lovely day. Decided to walk and get the bus instead, and got to tell a lady at the bus stop how much I liked her boots. Couldn't have done that in my van.
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This was my set up during my brief attempt at working off a bike. There were a number of factors in in being so brief, none of them to do with the bike. I still miss it.
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I went down into a Victorian section of the London sewers once. Every single brick laid by hand. It was beautiful (and not particularly smelly).
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I saw a man sitting on a bench this morning, feeding two crows from his hand. I wanted to be both his friend and him.
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That's not a cat, it's a troll in a fluffy coat.
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We need these back!
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Right? I'm 53 and I was sure she had a couple of years on me.
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I went to a Medieval women's writing exhibition at the British Library last week. There was an account of a trans woman on trial for soliciting. 630yrs old evidence. blogs.bl.uk/digitisedman...
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Needed this. The owl and the head threw me!
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@labeler.procycling.social can do that for you.
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By "new parents" I think he just means misogynistic fathers. What a mean spirited knob.
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Despair and division are friends of fascism. We must remain connected through love and respect, and have faith that things will change for the better ❤️
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Finally got one!
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Please🤞
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Yes, yes you can. That's horrific.
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Can we be sure that it hasn't started already?
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No, we haven't, but Im tempted. He's a rescue from Romania. The only breed I'd put money on him having is husky, but the rest is anyone's guess! How about yours?
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They look so similar to mine that I did a double take. Albeit slightly longer legs!
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Not the point of the post at all, but is that your doggo?
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Jan 6th was a failed coup. This is the real deal.
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I'm sad to say that I keep thinking of what happened to the Ceasescus in Romania and hoping for a reprise in the US.
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They lie. Like share bags of crisps. Pppfft.
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I have seen the sign for Wolford Chapel many times but did not know the significance. Thanks for the explanation!
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Understandable.
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Now you've simply gone too far.
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The chocolate biscuit snack or the bird?
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I'm guessing that's Iman in the Tia Maria ad, but who is that in the Turkish Delight one?!
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A great source of pride to me is that I have put two links in The Chain over the past couple of years.
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Alright Mystic Meg. Now would you kindly give us tomorrow night's lottery numbers?
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Those would be a lot more fun as a slide.
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My dad overruled my mum's ban of us watching Tiswas, thanks to his crush on Sally James.
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Blue Nun
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He's a Labrador in human form.