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Patrick Mackie
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Staff to Tinkerbell. Phumbling fotographer. Humanist and secularist. I am looking forward to retirement next year and visiting galleries, museums, and classical concerts. Living in Argyll and loving in Ayrshire.
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Vale Tinkerbell.
b. 01/06/2007
d. 25/05/2025.
A good and faithful cat.
May 25, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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Trump's "Executive Orders" are, in plain English, diktats, which makes him ... er ... a diktator? Have I got that right?
Clip from Oxford Languages defining "diktat" as "an order or decree imposed by someone in power without popular consent".
April 10, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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If I'd ordered this and not been served breaded spleen stuffed with cheese, I'd be very disappointed. #WhyPunctuationMatters
Extract from a menu reading "Panko breaded melt in the middle camembert with a cranberry sauce dip".
March 17, 2025 at 7:25 AM
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Christmas Eve highlights.
A stags-horn candelabra with lit candles.
December 24, 2024 at 8:15 PM
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Some rando called Tammy-many-numbers has followed me.
Tammy has a screw loose. It's there on the shelf behind her.
The cheek and the fall of long hair of a female face. There's a shelf behind her with just one thing, a bolt, or screw, sitting on it.
December 18, 2024 at 5:28 AM
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A frosty morning here in #Argyll, with a wintry dawn.
Nice to work from home this morning.
The pre-dawn sky with bands of rose and pink against a dark-blue sky. The silhouette of a chimney stack. Trees on the horizon with the old crescent moon rising.
November 28, 2024 at 8:19 AM
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This is going to be fun!
Concert programme cover for the RSNO at Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, performing Carmina Burana and The Dong With The Luminous Nose. The cover shows the Wheel of Fortune set against a fiery background.
November 16, 2024 at 7:04 PM
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Tinkerbell questioning why her rest has been disturbed.
A silver tabby Bengal cat looking at the camera, with one paw extended.
November 16, 2024 at 1:32 PM
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Tinkerbell helping with the housework this morning.
A cat sitting on top of a duvet cover.
November 7, 2024 at 12:16 PM
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Good morning.
Pre-dawn light in a clear sky with trees on the horizon.
September 19, 2024 at 5:24 AM
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My son and his best men at his wedding in Somerset on Saturday.
Good luck to Alex and Emily.
Three young men wearing kilts and kilt jackets.
September 2, 2024 at 11:40 AM
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La vie continental in Somerset.
A pint of beer on a table in a town square with half-timbered buildings.
August 29, 2024 at 7:33 PM
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Tinkerbell makes her own rules about when I wake up in the morning.
A cat standing on my chest at stupid o'clock this morning.
August 21, 2024 at 5:58 AM
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My son is getting married in 11 days time and has asked me for a load of chidlhood photos for some obscure Gen Z reason. No pressure. Anyhow, here's one of him at Bristol Zoo 30 years ago.
Small boy touching the beak of a mandarin duck mural.
August 20, 2024 at 2:58 AM
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My love sent me home with a posy from her garden.
A posy of flowers on a dark ground.
August 19, 2024 at 9:19 PM
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Tinkerbell in her favourite place. So what if I have things to do?
#proofofcat
A cat curled up on her staff's legs.
August 18, 2024 at 8:28 AM
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Hello World!
Meet Tinkerbell.
Head of a cat on a floral background.
August 16, 2024 at 7:51 PM