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grumpyoldclive
@grumpyoldclive.bsky.social
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Retired mass spec bodger. Paintings of questionable worth.
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Snow-ish scene.
December 29, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Just arrived. @hutchinsondave.bsky.social

Merry Christmas!
December 23, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Recommendation if you’re in the Leeds/York area.

www.rythrearms.co.uk

Possibly the best steak I’ve ever had.
@popher.bsky.social
Technically I should never eat again.
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The Rythre Arms Steakhouse Restaurant - Enjoy premium, perfectly cooked steaks and a cosy atmosphere, proudly serving Yorkshire since 1983!
www.rythrearms.co.uk
October 1, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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visitwakefield.bsky.social
Traditional Yorkshire Pudding and Chilli con Carne.
September 28, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Tegel village, watercolour, early June.
Watercolour of Tegel village, under sunlit trees, early June.
August 3, 2025 at 7:51 AM
@popher.bsky.social No Victoria Sandwiches this week, but I can present the Wakefield Trinity cheesecake. Made by herself.
Three different colour layer cheesecake
July 27, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Fulton St, New York, a few years ago.
June 24, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Portal alert, @simonguy.bsky.social
June 22, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Currywurst
June 1, 2025 at 10:22 AM
1st go at plein air last weekend.
May 17, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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thesecretdj.bsky.social
To be fair, he did warn us all that we were never going to survive unless we get a little crazy.
May 7, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Discovered Rudston Monolith today.
Might work as a portal @simonguy.bsky.social
April 13, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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twonks.bsky.social
Brian?
April 10, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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redscharlach.bsky.social
Maslow's Hierarchy of Knees
A pyramid-shaped diagram resembling Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, except it's now a Hierarchy of Knees. At the top is "Bee's", and working down the pyramid, the other knees are "Bended", "Knobbly", "Housemaid's" and "Wounded". I first scribbled this for Twitter in 2017 and am reposting it now because a friend has asked for puns to cheer her up.
March 17, 2025 at 11:18 AM
"Step away from the graphite sticks"
March 17, 2025 at 5:30 PM
View from beach cafe, Vancouver. Watercolour.
March 1, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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limerickwhiskey.bsky.social
Ian Fleming's original James Bond novels haven't aged well. For example, Moonraker - published almost exactly 70 years ago in April 1955 - features a villain who's a super-rich industrialist and rocket-maker seeking to cause chaos because he's a secret Nazi. Such a silly idea!

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a man holding a cup of coffee stands next to another man in a room
ALT: a man holding a cup of coffee stands next to another man in a room
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February 22, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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lethalityjane.bsky.social
The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.
Excerpt from a public letter Roald Dahl wrote encouraging people to vaccinate their children. Olivia, my eldest daughter, caught measles when she was seven years old. As the illness took its usual course I can remember reading to her often in bed and not feeling particularly alarmed about it. Then one morning, when she was well on the road to recovery, I was sitting on her bed showing her how to fashion little animals out of coloured pipe-cleaners, and when it came to her turn to make one herself, I noticed that her fingers and her mind were not working together and she couldn’t do anything. “Are you feeling all right?” I asked her. “I feel all sleepy,” she said. In an hour, she was unconscious. In twelve hours she was dead. The measles had turned into a terrible thing called measles encephalitis and there was nothing the doctors could do to save her. That was twenty-four years ago in 1962, but even now, if a child with measles happens to develop the same deadly reaction from measles as Olivia did, there would still be nothing the doctors could do to help her. On the other hand, there is today something that parents can do to make sure that this sort of tragedy does not happen to a child of theirs. They can insist that their child is immunized against measles. I was unable to do that for Olivia in 1962 because in those days a reliable measles vaccine had not been discovered. Today a good and safe vaccine is available to every family and all you have to do is to ask your doctor to administer it.
February 15, 2025 at 5:49 PM
My first proper job, I used to install these.

collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/objects/co84...
70-70F mass spectrometer | Science Museum Group Collection
70-70F mass spectrometer, made by VG Micromass, Winsford, 1974 and used at the University of Oxford for research into the metabolites of cannabis, with associated manuals & research papers.
collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk
August 8, 2024 at 10:50 AM
Listen out for Triffids in the morning chaps
May 10, 2024 at 11:00 PM