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Stoat
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Agriculture, arts and TNF-α
Goth/Metalhead/Swiftie
Pokémon Trainer
Buying the farm,
In Essex, England



Post on my local FB yesterday. I did ask if they were okay (no judgement) they haven't replied...
April 11, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Roman Chicken Brooch in my local museum, reminding us that
"Chickens... considered to have prophetic abilities and show the gods' opinions".
Quite right too.
March 9, 2025 at 7:22 PM
That is a Pokémon! My Pokémon! That's Starmie! The very Pokémon I've been wearing on my shoulder all-day at Excel for the European Pokémon Championships!
February 22, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Been waiting 6 months for a reply from a London Hospital about Important Thing.
I received the reply at 5.30pm today (Friday). It's nonsense. It's plainly an "It's Friday before half term, I want this off my desk" response.
This is the Linkedin professional profile pic of the sender. Says it all.
February 14, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Dry Cleaner's shop near me has been closed for a year or so. Not a soul goes in or out. Somehow this has created the perfect ecosystem for the (previously) small Jade potted plant left abandoned inside. It's even happy flowering now 🌱🌵
February 9, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Credit @alisolomain on Instagram
February 9, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Left new job after 10 days. Disappointing, but not entirely unexpected. Better a life lesson than working for nasty people.
(Photo: annalaura_art on Instagram)
February 7, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Difficult days with difficult decisions.
I-ching to help focus a little.
"Overweening Dragon has regrets"
Thanks I-Ching, clear as mud as ever.
February 6, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Week 2 of all-day Zoom meetings. I'm getting irritated, so distracting myself by knitting just out of camera shot.
February 6, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Struggling to focus on work now I've discovered a sparkly ink for fountain pens.
February 3, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Local man got drunk & had 'tragic accident'. Funeral photos are public domain in local paper. Flare, mobile phones. I must be getting old.
January 27, 2025 at 7:24 PM
More genius from Kim Noble.
(Who's not yet on BlueSky, but is on Instagram as www.instagram.com/mrkimnoble )
January 24, 2025 at 1:17 PM
(Sadly poster isn't on BlueSky)
I need to learn how to make this set in a different fabric, for whatever in-person meeting I have to do next. No-one messes with a woman in a cape.
January 24, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Mounjaro (GLP-1) first success: My auto-immune hair loss has stopped, which is the miracle atheist me has prayed for many times.
January 16, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Build-A-Bear Workshop doing Frida Kahlo bears.
I am conflicted.
January 13, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Today is Plough Monday! So get yourself a cake and sing an appreciative song to your keyboard.
(Sadly Eleanor Parker isn't over here yet.)
January 13, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Must be better than my Boots cheese sandwich.
January 9, 2025 at 5:49 PM
12th Night today, so licence for a last knees up if needed.
(Eleanor Parker isn't over here so link to The Other Site x.com/ClerkofOxfor... )
January 5, 2025 at 9:43 AM
January 4, 2025 at 5:19 PM
£40 off Mounjaro & Ozempic at MedExpress with code 1Q3D8R
(TBH the clinics are all much the same. I use MedExpress as they've been easy, fast, on the cheaper side & send via Royal Mail not blasted Evri like many others. But I'm sure other clinics are equally good.)
January 1, 2025 at 3:20 PM
1.15pm today. Local Co-op corner shop has deemed it Easter.
December 31, 2024 at 5:19 PM
New year jam making today (pic tightly cropped as my kitchen is ancient). Local tradition says NYE jam predicts the next year. If jam comes out sweet, all will be well. If it's bitter, there's a rough year ahead.
December 31, 2024 at 4:36 PM
Neighbour has the best weathervane.
December 30, 2024 at 10:06 PM
The one with butterflies tells of how a local vicar claimed to have shot an eagle. That's it. That's the Local News there.
Also, taxidermy seagull (black headed gull to be precise).
December 27, 2024 at 6:16 PM
Stopped by the cursed dioramas in the local museum.
(The lighting really is that low.)
December 27, 2024 at 6:00 PM