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loulouloves.bsky.social
Twitter exile looking for a new home to moan in. Commoner. Printmaker, allotmenteer, trends agency manager and grandmama. I’m sometimes in Cape Town, mostly in Essex and London.
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Mountain drive this morning. Can’t wait to get home to my allotment tbh

I’m very pleased with my new hand woven fan. It’s just like a sunset and now I want a collection. I’m somewhere hot but didn’t want to go on about it.

Ive only just noticed the massive # in the top right corner of my feed. Am an idiot.

"work family" are you out of your fucking mind

Also just had a pedantic accountant chase me for a £4 invoice from August 2024. And not even wished me happy new year. I’ll take my sweet old time with that request.

Of all the things I had to accomplish this week, placing a lunch order with a New York delicatessen for an event which I won’t be attending has been ridiculously time consuming. With no local phone number. FML. I’ll complain all day but no one else would pay me this much to work from home. ☕️🫖

Not a pleasant first day back at the grind. Too much talking, thinking and typing. I’m out of practice.

Garlic buds peeking through the frozen mud at the allotment like little crocus tips. I’ve planted around 70 cloves this time as it’s a worthy crop. And it was still light here at 4:30pm today. Hope and Spring is nigh.

Elon Musk should have bought Facebook. Much more of a love match.

The leftover cans of cocktails won’t drink themselves #volunteer

Today is the shortest day. I’m going to light candles, clean the house and welcome the light. Happy Solstice! It’s better than Christmas.

I just had my first ever Pernod and Black. Like drinking liquid Black Jacks. Never again. Heartburn.

Why doesn’t the Sky News app give the full names of the men who raped Gisele Pelicot? This is the media channel that loves every morsel of detail. Something striking about that for me.

I’ve never liked Masterchef much with those two self satisfied presenter blokes. Making the brilliant Grace Dent a presenter is a very smart move.

Remember the giant avocado I ate? I decided to hatch the ENORMOUS pip and it grew a root. I’m thrilled. Thrilled! That is not my finger, it’s a pink bar of soap.

I have observed that there is a high proportion of Middle Aged Men among my peers who have a strong conspiracy theory/right wing mentality. I went to a presentation about compost last night that became really odd with a sudden descent into climate change denial and conspiracy theory. #notallmen

See normal sized avocado nestling next to these giants? I ate half of a giant one and I was full for hours. It was a top tier avo, not a bland gimmick like those miniature parsnips/carrots they try and swindle you with at Xmas. Only available in a Zürich Coop supermarket £4 or the Dominion Republic

I’ve reached my reading goal early this year. 24 books (mostly novels) in 2024. There was a period of my life when I couldn’t read novels at all. Zero focus. I’m so glad I persevered. Are any of you on Goodreads?

I have been trying unsuccessfully to buy some cracker snaps. I have decided to make my own after looking at the rubbish ones in the shops. That’s half my problem. Deciding I can easily do that, then I can’t.

Very excited to finally have this in my possession. I love her work, images and words. I’ve been collecting her stuff for years. It never fails to inspire.

It’s not often I have a daytime fire. It’s the height of luxury for me. Please note my tidy workroom. I had a spurt of motivation which has just departed.

One feed I really like here is OnlyPosts. It's the same as your main following feed, but it removes reposts and replies. It's nice to switch to sometimes when you're following a lot of people so their main posts don't get buried. bsky.app/profile/did:...

Did I ever mention how much I hate Microsoft? I just had to re-add the Authenticator app so I can log into a work portal and I think something snapped in my brain. Like an echo followed by whale song. Sweet Jesus take me now.

I’ve had a serious autumn deep clean in my phone. So many pointless videos culled from when I made free content for billionaires. I barely gram these days.

I really don’t know what to do with the blind rage I feel when drivers don’t indicate. It’s something I’ve got fixated on and need to stop. After all, my fury won’t change anything. And there’s much more to be furious about. FURIOUS.