@suespins.bsky.social
Gardener, allotment holder. Plays with fibre - spins, knits, crochets and weaves. Has had an 'interesting career path' - now retired!
Current postgrad student at UHI, Viking Studies.
Current postgrad student at UHI, Viking Studies.
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If you enjoyed the Accidental Tour-ist, then perhaps you might put your ballot paper in the digital box? I'd be enormously grateful. I mean, there's bigger things in the word than this. But the really teeny tiny things also matter (to me).
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November 5, 2025 at 6:06 PM
If you enjoyed the Accidental Tour-ist, then perhaps you might put your ballot paper in the digital box? I'd be enormously grateful. I mean, there's bigger things in the word than this. But the really teeny tiny things also matter (to me).
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Watch out for Ea Nasir this Halloween!
October 31, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Watch out for Ea Nasir this Halloween!
Really enjoying the talks this afternoon at the @pictishartssociety.bsky.social conference!
Re the invisible charcoal industry, I'm wondering if some, at least, of their cooking was done using charcoal - this would just increase the need for a managed charcoal industry . . .
Re the invisible charcoal industry, I'm wondering if some, at least, of their cooking was done using charcoal - this would just increase the need for a managed charcoal industry . . .
October 4, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Really enjoying the talks this afternoon at the @pictishartssociety.bsky.social conference!
Re the invisible charcoal industry, I'm wondering if some, at least, of their cooking was done using charcoal - this would just increase the need for a managed charcoal industry . . .
Re the invisible charcoal industry, I'm wondering if some, at least, of their cooking was done using charcoal - this would just increase the need for a managed charcoal industry . . .
So a train ticket from 1996 I’ve found in my second hand copy of Women’s Work: the first 20,000 years. I’d like to think it belonged to the person who’d bought the book when it was newly published and hope they enjoyed it and found it interesting.
August 25, 2025 at 12:36 PM
So a train ticket from 1996 I’ve found in my second hand copy of Women’s Work: the first 20,000 years. I’d like to think it belonged to the person who’d bought the book when it was newly published and hope they enjoyed it and found it interesting.
I have achieved the impossible and picked my one courgette 🤣🤣 from the allotment.
Maybe I’ll have more later . . .
Maybe I’ll have more later . . .
July 28, 2025 at 3:17 PM
I have achieved the impossible and picked my one courgette 🤣🤣 from the allotment.
Maybe I’ll have more later . . .
Maybe I’ll have more later . . .
As I have a long day, it's a bacon roll for breakfast; porchetta cure bacon from Turnbull's of Alnwick - absolutely delicious. Thoroughly recommend it if you're anywhere near Alnwick this summer!
July 16, 2025 at 8:34 AM
As I have a long day, it's a bacon roll for breakfast; porchetta cure bacon from Turnbull's of Alnwick - absolutely delicious. Thoroughly recommend it if you're anywhere near Alnwick this summer!
Added another 10grms or so to this bobbin, grey masham dyed by @freyalyn.bsky.social for day 8 of #tourdefleece #TDF2025
Been in the stash for several years, so time to get it spun!
Been in the stash for several years, so time to get it spun!
July 13, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Added another 10grms or so to this bobbin, grey masham dyed by @freyalyn.bsky.social for day 8 of #tourdefleece #TDF2025
Been in the stash for several years, so time to get it spun!
Been in the stash for several years, so time to get it spun!
The last of my Scottish merino was plyed yesterday. #tourdefleece day 6.
Second image shows all the skeins of this fibre - 253 grms in total. I’m hoping this is enough to make a top for me. Pre-wash it’s about fingering weight, will check when I find my yarn balance, but c800m.
Second image shows all the skeins of this fibre - 253 grms in total. I’m hoping this is enough to make a top for me. Pre-wash it’s about fingering weight, will check when I find my yarn balance, but c800m.
July 11, 2025 at 4:46 PM
The last of my Scottish merino was plyed yesterday. #tourdefleece day 6.
Second image shows all the skeins of this fibre - 253 grms in total. I’m hoping this is enough to make a top for me. Pre-wash it’s about fingering weight, will check when I find my yarn balance, but c800m.
Second image shows all the skeins of this fibre - 253 grms in total. I’m hoping this is enough to make a top for me. Pre-wash it’s about fingering weight, will check when I find my yarn balance, but c800m.
Today’s Tour de Fleece work, Scottish merino as a two ply. #TDF2026 #tourdefleece
July 7, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Today’s Tour de Fleece work, Scottish merino as a two ply. #TDF2026 #tourdefleece
July 5, 2025 at 12:17 PM
I love it when little gems like this appear!!!
And I should again mention here my favourite slang version of “feeling like a fish out of water” from Rome dialect, which is me sento come Batman ar compleanno de li puffi. It means “I feel like Batman at a Smurfs’ birthday party”
June 28, 2025 at 11:30 AM
I love it when little gems like this appear!!!
Birdsfoot trefoil (I think) in the short turf at The Ring of Brodgar in Orkney earlier this week. #WildFlowerHour
June 8, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Birdsfoot trefoil (I think) in the short turf at The Ring of Brodgar in Orkney earlier this week. #WildFlowerHour
Slightly damp visit to the wonderful Ring of Brodgar, on a day carefully chosen to avoid the crowds!
June 5, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Slightly damp visit to the wonderful Ring of Brodgar, on a day carefully chosen to avoid the crowds!
I do like watching harbours, there’s always something happening even if I don’t know what’s going on. And just for now, the weather is pleasant.
June 2, 2025 at 12:05 PM
I do like watching harbours, there’s always something happening even if I don’t know what’s going on. And just for now, the weather is pleasant.
it's amazing what 3 hours at the allotment can do, planted courgettes, squashes and pumpkins, all a bit small, but as I can't get there for the next couple of weeks, better there than in pots, plus runner beans, beetroot, swiss chard, kohl rabi, pak choi, radicchio, radish, psb, now resting with tea
May 25, 2025 at 12:00 PM
it's amazing what 3 hours at the allotment can do, planted courgettes, squashes and pumpkins, all a bit small, but as I can't get there for the next couple of weeks, better there than in pots, plus runner beans, beetroot, swiss chard, kohl rabi, pak choi, radicchio, radish, psb, now resting with tea
No idea why there’s a cannon here, next to the river in Morpeth. Not sure who it’s protecting what from, though it is near the castle.
May 16, 2025 at 8:27 AM
No idea why there’s a cannon here, next to the river in Morpeth. Not sure who it’s protecting what from, though it is near the castle.
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@nedboulting.bsky.social - one for you?
As some of you know, one side of my family, the Briaults, is an unbroken lineage of father to son #goldsmiths & diamond setters going all the way back to 1720s France. Sadly, this lineage ended when my great grandfather died young at 42 years of age. But before he died, he had quite the life!
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May 6, 2025 at 9:26 AM
@nedboulting.bsky.social - one for you?
At last, the weather has broken and it is raining here, with thunder and lightning! Maybe I won’t need to water the allotment today after all 😀🌱
May 1, 2025 at 5:10 PM
At last, the weather has broken and it is raining here, with thunder and lightning! Maybe I won’t need to water the allotment today after all 😀🌱
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tiny, wild buckwheat: thymeleaf buckwheat (Eriogonum thymoides)
April 27, 2025 at 8:33 PM
tiny, wild buckwheat: thymeleaf buckwheat (Eriogonum thymoides)
My first swallow here in north east England!!
April 24, 2025 at 11:10 AM
My first swallow here in north east England!!
My afternoon study buddy
March 27, 2025 at 3:32 PM
My afternoon study buddy
The scent from these is glorious today in the sunshine in my backyard. Only wish I could share it 😀
March 25, 2025 at 2:30 PM
The scent from these is glorious today in the sunshine in my backyard. Only wish I could share it 😀