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Clare J
@mrspingu.bsky.social
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Cyclist, scientist, catist, cakeist. Not at all in that order.
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Ok, not a spice, but I threw these out a couple of weeks ago from 2016. I do not know why a) I had so many cherries, or b) why I did not bin them when we moved in 2021.
A tower of out of date glace cherries and mixed peel.
September 11, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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Lovely in lavender #proofofcat
A tortie cat with a sleepy face sits in front of a lavender bush.
August 27, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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My feed
August 1, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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A bag of proto leaf mould makes a comfy bed in wildlife corner. #caturday #proofofcat
A sleepy tortie cat lying on a coffee sack full of leaves surrounded by weeds in the corner of a garden.
July 5, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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Timeline cleanse. Jumbly paws. #proofofcat
Tortie curled up asleep with paws in a pile.
July 2, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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Lovely #caturday morning bellies #proofofcat
Tortie cat lying stretched out on a brown carpet with various cat toys surrounding.
June 28, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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@franglaise.bsky.social saw one of these today and thought of you
A French shutter holding open device in the shape of a man's bust
June 9, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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That thing when you're in the wine shop and have to buy something based on the label.
Wine bottle label, black background with a planet behind and 2 cats in space suits with their fingers (?) almost touching
May 30, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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Made a Friyay night cocktail with my rhubarb. www.theguardian.com/food/2023/ap... bit disappointed as all I can taste is the lime and the ginger beer
May 16, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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Goodbye ghastly greige! Pretty much finished apart from a bit of tidying up. Tesa tape tip from @theofficialgrb.bsky.social worked amazing!
Awful peeling greige wall covered in a lot of filler 3 walls completed in Little Greene Intelligent Matt emulsion in Julie's dream (a barely there yellowy pink) Final wall completed in Little Greene Intelligent Matt emulsion in Adventurer (an aubergine shade) Crisp join line between paint colours in corner, light pink vs purple
March 31, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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@theofficialgrb.bsky.social can you advise please? I'd already sanded and filled the flaking paint on this wall, but I just washed it down with sugar soap and it's just peeling off in sheets. Do you reckon I should coat the whole wall with Peel Stop?
Greige paint peeling off in sheets in a hand in front of the wall.
March 20, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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Hi Gary @theofficialgrb.bsky.social I'm finding I need 3 coats of a light colour to cover this because of the contrast between the old paint and the white filler. Could I help this by touching up the filler with the old colour? This remaining wall will have a dark purple going on it.
March 17, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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Woo, finally finished painting the woodwork. Achievement unlocked! (Week 12).
Newly painted (white, or Shirting by Little Greene) cupboard door, with new brushed nickel finish beehive doorknob. Greige walls with lots of filler patches
March 15, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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Here are some we had yesterday.
Cocktails. Left to right: something with pastis, almond syrup & soda, a Martinez & a London Calling. Cocktail, a Dopa Cena with a pattern on the top of the egg white in orange.
March 7, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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That feeling when you think you've finished the last of the scraping and filling, and then you stumble across 2 more cracks. 😞
Photo collage, top image a greige wall with lots of filler on it. Bottom 2 a greige wall with cracks showing.
March 7, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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101 Dalmatians - filler
A greige wall covered in patches of filler.
March 1, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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Farrow & Ball, oh how I hate thee. Let me count the ways @theofficialgrb.bsky.social
Corner of two greige walls with hundreds of bits of plaster visible where I've scraped off flaking paint. A longer shot of a greige wall with flaking paint scraped off
March 1, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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Plant your Pumpkins in late February and hope for fine weather #proofofcat
A tortie cat sits in a flowerbed, in the sun, looking over the grass.
February 28, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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Thought you might be interested in my weekend ceilings
Twiddly art nouveau lamp with carved ceiling Patterned ceiling and daffodil motif wall covering Art nouveau stained glass doors Stained glass ceiling
February 25, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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Making all the things. What a mess
4 tubes of somewhat messy rolled baklava going in the oven Kitchen scene, nuts on filo pastry sheet on a black workshop. Kitchen scene, frittata cooling in a frying pan and baklava assembly. View down a kitchen worktop. 2 loaves of bread in the foreground, a pan of sugar syrup on the boil, the Dutch oven used for the bread, a frittata and some filo pastry. Green splashback for some colour.
January 26, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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This is Roscoe, my brother's absolute unit #proofofcat. He loves when we visit cos he gets 3x the spoffles
Black cat on an oriental style black and cream rug
December 31, 2024 at 4:33 PM
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And now deactivated and changed to croissant mode.
Tortie cat lying curled up on a lap covered in a purple and blue fleece blanket.
December 31, 2024 at 12:49 PM
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Sausage mode activated. #proofofcat
Tortie cat lying stretched out along legs covered in a purple and blue fleece blanket.
December 31, 2024 at 12:47 PM
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Morning. Tortie demands the yoghurt tax #proofofcat
Tortie cat with question mark tail standing on a cloudy grey floor with grey kitchen drawers behind.
December 29, 2024 at 10:03 AM
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Gym, then 2 loaves of bread and a stollen. Tired now.
Kitchen with black worktop and line green splashback. 2 loaves of bread on left, a stollen and an orange with no zest on the right.
December 22, 2024 at 6:14 PM