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Frantic gardener, knitivist, collector of weird shit, lover of bugs and sciency shit. And art and cursing. Fuck.

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A few photo highlights from my week. Cookies were LNY with my family, black sesame orange and sugar strawberry. Yarn mail from #QingFibre, and a greeble peeking at me.

Black sesame and orange zest cookie dough balls sprinkled with white sesame seeds sit in rows on aluminum foil. The cookies are black and white marbled, with specks of orange from the zest. One very little dough ball sits, ready to be baked for a waiting pupper - not pictured.

Two and a half rows of pink dough balls sit close together on aluminum foil. The strawberry cookies are dusted with sugar and freeze dried strawberry chips

Six colorful skeins of various fiber yarn. Each skein is situated horizontally, one on top of the other.
Green and greys, orange pinks and reds, yellows purples and blues. There are fingering weight, lace weight, worsted and DK weight yarns.

A light gray tweed chair covered in a white and cream, faux fur throw blanket. Peeking out of the blanket is a very tired cat that has fomo. One long muppet-like front leg sticks out toward the camera, toe beans exposed. The other leg is bent, paw close to the cats face.

February 1, 2025 at 8:33 PM

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新年快乐! 🧧🏮🐍
Happy Lunar new year!
This year I bought treats for my family and friends instead of making moon cakes 🥮.
I wish everyone prosperity and abundance!

Stacks of various sized boxes on a table. The largest is thin and rectangular, dark green with red tassel and gold grommets, says Laumière in white font. The other, smaller boxes are gold tied with black ribbon that say Cacao& Cardamom in black font. These boxes - which contain chocolates and fruit confections for Lunar New Year - sit on a wooden table.

A gold box of chocolates opened to reveal four tiers of assorted chocolates. Each tier contains four chocolates, two of each kind. Behind this box sits a stack of other boxes filled with chocolate.

January 29, 2025 at 7:07 PM

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First day above freezing in a few weeks. Assessed the greenhouse damage, made a dent in the weeds, and pruned up the roses. Ignore the compost bin. It’s too frozen to sift.

Now it’s back to knotting.
#blacksky #gardening #greenhouse

A chiminea with logs burning next row two watering cans filled with ice. In the background a raised garden bed, a collapsed compost bin sit in front of a greenhouse missing a roof vent. Cloudy day with barren trees on the skyline. A pair of damp work gloves sit too close to the fire to dry.

Curly haired freckle-faced woman with glasses on top of her head looking down at her phone. Plaid shirt and fleece vest, work gloves sticking out if a pocket. A Spanish revival house in the background.

January 26, 2025 at 8:28 PM

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January 26, 2025 at 3:03 PM

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Working these sleeves #taat as I’m determined to finish this project by Friday.
#knitting #yarn 🧶

The start of two knit sleeves in purple and cream yarn on the same needles. Items are sitting on a blue ottoman. Cakes of yarn sit above the needles.

January 26, 2025 at 1:35 AM

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A team in Exeter has developed a finger-prick test to classify long Covid into three types: weak antibody response, excess immune response, and unclear patterns.

Early results suggest it could guide tailored treatments, but larger trials are needed.

www.bbc.com/news/article...