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@countrylady.bsky.social
ADHD advocate. Kidney donor ditto. Perhaps they're connected. Old person.
As a matter of interest: American and British dates are written in a different order, i.e. 2025 12 22 and 22 12 2025. How is the USA one spoken? Or do you say the twenty-first of December 2025? Something to think about on Christmas Day. Bored already.
December 25, 2025 at 11:39 AM
As a matter of interest: American and British dates are written in a different order, i.e. 2025 12 22 and 22 12 2025. How is the USA one spoken? Or do you say the twenty-first of December 2025? Something to think about on Christmas Day. Bored already.
My husband just put the washing in the machine, then hung it in the garden to dry. I said thank you! I can't believe I did that, given that I've done it every time up to now! He's just taken my dashcam out of my car, prior to sale and I thanked him for that, but I'm obviously better mannered.
December 24, 2025 at 4:56 PM
My husband just put the washing in the machine, then hung it in the garden to dry. I said thank you! I can't believe I did that, given that I've done it every time up to now! He's just taken my dashcam out of my car, prior to sale and I thanked him for that, but I'm obviously better mannered.
@aiken-drum.bsky.social
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November 16, 2025 at 3:25 PM
@aiken-drum.bsky.social
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@shippingforecast.bsky.social
What has happened to the forecast? The readers are using slightly different intonations and speaking very quickly. I can't quote how it used to be, but in the last few months - a year? - it has changed, i.e. 5to7 as one word...
What has happened to the forecast? The readers are using slightly different intonations and speaking very quickly. I can't quote how it used to be, but in the last few months - a year? - it has changed, i.e. 5to7 as one word...
November 10, 2025 at 1:25 PM
@shippingforecast.bsky.social
What has happened to the forecast? The readers are using slightly different intonations and speaking very quickly. I can't quote how it used to be, but in the last few months - a year? - it has changed, i.e. 5to7 as one word...
What has happened to the forecast? The readers are using slightly different intonations and speaking very quickly. I can't quote how it used to be, but in the last few months - a year? - it has changed, i.e. 5to7 as one word...
@in-otter-news.bsky.social
Was wondering - is Steve, presumably with the help/hindrance of Brad, going to write an otterbiography, any time soon? We should be told...
Was wondering - is Steve, presumably with the help/hindrance of Brad, going to write an otterbiography, any time soon? We should be told...
November 4, 2025 at 1:47 PM
@in-otter-news.bsky.social
Was wondering - is Steve, presumably with the help/hindrance of Brad, going to write an otterbiography, any time soon? We should be told...
Was wondering - is Steve, presumably with the help/hindrance of Brad, going to write an otterbiography, any time soon? We should be told...
Can someone explain why the USA president has to be surrounded by henchpersons when talking to well, anyone? It must be difficult when some speeches take hours.
October 24, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Can someone explain why the USA president has to be surrounded by henchpersons when talking to well, anyone? It must be difficult when some speeches take hours.
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Little known zoo fact: Chet the chimp moonlights at local elementary schools checking kids for lice.
October 10, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Little known zoo fact: Chet the chimp moonlights at local elementary schools checking kids for lice.
I'm an #NHS pensioner of 19 years' standing. I just filled in a boring questionnaire to "help them improve the service". One of the final questions was asking if I was pregnant or breast feeding. I'm 79....I wonder what the survey cost?
October 4, 2025 at 3:46 PM
I'm an #NHS pensioner of 19 years' standing. I just filled in a boring questionnaire to "help them improve the service". One of the final questions was asking if I was pregnant or breast feeding. I'm 79....I wonder what the survey cost?
BBC News - Trump orders deployment of troops to Portland and authorises 'full force'
www.bbc.com/news/article...
I do hope #Weymouth has been informed and hatches battened down. Rather rude: #Dorset is not ready for this kind of behaviour. Well, not in term time.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
I do hope #Weymouth has been informed and hatches battened down. Rather rude: #Dorset is not ready for this kind of behaviour. Well, not in term time.
Trump orders deployment of troops to Portland and authorises 'full force'
The president says the latest move to send troops to a major US city is "necessary" to protect immigration detention facilities.
www.bbc.com
September 27, 2025 at 9:30 PM
BBC News - Trump orders deployment of troops to Portland and authorises 'full force'
www.bbc.com/news/article...
I do hope #Weymouth has been informed and hatches battened down. Rather rude: #Dorset is not ready for this kind of behaviour. Well, not in term time.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
I do hope #Weymouth has been informed and hatches battened down. Rather rude: #Dorset is not ready for this kind of behaviour. Well, not in term time.
I think you should change your name to Nemesis, Mr Conway.
September 8, 2025 at 9:59 PM
I think you should change your name to Nemesis, Mr Conway.
Today's ADHD.I have spent days trying to get round to doing 3 things online; sort out travel ins.Complain about my #iRoomba, buy a car. Couldn't do it. Then I DID! Everything done.Bought a car (unseen!) Paperwork filed. Now listening to podcasts with a clear conscience. And I treated the cat's ears.
August 28, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Today's ADHD.I have spent days trying to get round to doing 3 things online; sort out travel ins.Complain about my #iRoomba, buy a car. Couldn't do it. Then I DID! Everything done.Bought a car (unseen!) Paperwork filed. Now listening to podcasts with a clear conscience. And I treated the cat's ears.
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August 24, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Siamese apples (Red Gravenstein)
I'm trying to help my hospital improve the signage. A thankless task, as we all experience the deficiencies. I just have -and I work there! Any info you might have on simplifying signs in large campuses/buildings would be appreciated. I'm thinking of issuing large balls of string as patients arrive.
July 10, 2025 at 12:34 PM
I'm trying to help my hospital improve the signage. A thankless task, as we all experience the deficiencies. I just have -and I work there! Any info you might have on simplifying signs in large campuses/buildings would be appreciated. I'm thinking of issuing large balls of string as patients arrive.
It's officially hot in Dorset: my #ElizabethArden #8HourCream has gone runny. And the tin is 18 years old...
July 1, 2025 at 3:28 PM
It's officially hot in Dorset: my #ElizabethArden #8HourCream has gone runny. And the tin is 18 years old...
Does anyone know how to tell #Dunelm that their dark blue towels drip fibre all over the place for months....I can't find a place to do this. Don't want refund, just to let them know that this is happening...
June 23, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Does anyone know how to tell #Dunelm that their dark blue towels drip fibre all over the place for months....I can't find a place to do this. Don't want refund, just to let them know that this is happening...
@in-otter-news.bsky.social Is this Steve's personal brewery? It seems to be local. I wonder if Brad is a partner in the business?
June 23, 2025 at 12:36 PM
@in-otter-news.bsky.social Is this Steve's personal brewery? It seems to be local. I wonder if Brad is a partner in the business?
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Generally speaking, I don't enjoy being watched; but in this case I didn't mind at all!
Eyed Hawk-moth (Smerinthus ocellata)
12 June, Little Neston, Cheshire (VC58)
#TeamMoth
Eyed Hawk-moth (Smerinthus ocellata)
12 June, Little Neston, Cheshire (VC58)
#TeamMoth
June 13, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Generally speaking, I don't enjoy being watched; but in this case I didn't mind at all!
Eyed Hawk-moth (Smerinthus ocellata)
12 June, Little Neston, Cheshire (VC58)
#TeamMoth
Eyed Hawk-moth (Smerinthus ocellata)
12 June, Little Neston, Cheshire (VC58)
#TeamMoth
We have people coming for supper tonight, so we both buckled down. He drilled bigger holes in the watering can rose and I have spring-cleaned upstairs, inc. INSIDE the hoover, none of which they're going to see. He's now gone to the village shop for food....displacement activity writ large.
May 30, 2025 at 1:33 PM
We have people coming for supper tonight, so we both buckled down. He drilled bigger holes in the watering can rose and I have spring-cleaned upstairs, inc. INSIDE the hoover, none of which they're going to see. He's now gone to the village shop for food....displacement activity writ large.
I hear 2 iterations of the #shippingforecast each day and am intrigued by Valencia and Liverpool Crosby,which I can't see on any map of the sea areas.I see that L Crosby is an actual place,but the only Valencia I know is the one in Spain, on the East coast.They are in the inshore waters part.
May 24, 2025 at 4:10 PM
I hear 2 iterations of the #shippingforecast each day and am intrigued by Valencia and Liverpool Crosby,which I can't see on any map of the sea areas.I see that L Crosby is an actual place,but the only Valencia I know is the one in Spain, on the East coast.They are in the inshore waters part.
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Shoes and paintings Come and see. Lots of creative artists here in the Baptist Hall Union St Stroud.UK 0900 Till 1400. Nearest parking London Rd GL52AJ. Beware street closure in centre.
May 24, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Shoes and paintings Come and see. Lots of creative artists here in the Baptist Hall Union St Stroud.UK 0900 Till 1400. Nearest parking London Rd GL52AJ. Beware street closure in centre.
@shipping-forecast.bsky.social
If anyone's reading this..I hear, nearly every day, #Valencia mentioned in the #UK #shipping #forecast and I can't find it anywhere! I know where Valencia in Spain is, and it's not that one. Any ideas, please?
If anyone's reading this..I hear, nearly every day, #Valencia mentioned in the #UK #shipping #forecast and I can't find it anywhere! I know where Valencia in Spain is, and it's not that one. Any ideas, please?
May 23, 2025 at 2:33 PM
@shipping-forecast.bsky.social
If anyone's reading this..I hear, nearly every day, #Valencia mentioned in the #UK #shipping #forecast and I can't find it anywhere! I know where Valencia in Spain is, and it's not that one. Any ideas, please?
If anyone's reading this..I hear, nearly every day, #Valencia mentioned in the #UK #shipping #forecast and I can't find it anywhere! I know where Valencia in Spain is, and it's not that one. Any ideas, please?
@wxliz.bsky.social
Is your flood damage repair under way yet? Must be awful for you.
Is your flood damage repair under way yet? Must be awful for you.
May 17, 2025 at 10:52 PM
@wxliz.bsky.social
Is your flood damage repair under way yet? Must be awful for you.
Is your flood damage repair under way yet? Must be awful for you.
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There's going to be a brilliant comedy gig in Exeter on Wednesday 21 May featuring Mike Wozniak, Spencer Jones and a bunch of other comedians, to raise funds for the the comedy festival in June. There are plenty of tickets left so please spread the word! www.exetercornexchange.co.uk/whats-on/exe...
May 16, 2025 at 2:09 PM
There's going to be a brilliant comedy gig in Exeter on Wednesday 21 May featuring Mike Wozniak, Spencer Jones and a bunch of other comedians, to raise funds for the the comedy festival in June. There are plenty of tickets left so please spread the word! www.exetercornexchange.co.uk/whats-on/exe...