Becca ✨

Part of a still from Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring, of Pippin saying 'we've had one breakfast, yes, but what about second breakfast?'

A copy of JRR Tolkien's 'The Hobbit' and a mug of hot chocolate, artfully arranged. The mug is covered in baby penguins. I like penguins.

Day 2 (yes, I'm slightly on a Tolkien binge at the moment)

Watching Lord of the Rings (The Two Towers (the Extended Edition)) in a cosy living room with friends. There is a Pomeranian ignoring the film and eyeing up a plate of food. His name is Dante. Just before this picture he managed to steal and eat a Babybel when no one was looking. Classic Dante.

So a wellness app I use has suggested daily taking a picture of things that have brought joy (which feels sorely needed atm). We'll see how long I keep this going, but for now, day 1 (yesterday):

GenderGP isn't great tbh, it's effectively DIY w/ extra steps. Easy to get started and quick to get hormones, but you get nothing for your money - the monthly fee doesn't include appointments/prescriptions - and they don't really bother checking in on you, there's basically zero support or oversight

An excerpt from the Wikipedia page on Timeless Tests: The last timeless Test was the Fifth Test between England and South Africa at Durban in 1939, which was abandoned as a draw after nine days of play spread over twelve days, otherwise the England team would have missed the boat for home. This match had started on 3 March. South Africa had set a target of 696 for England to win. By the time England had to leave to catch their boat home, on 14 March, England had reached 654 for 5 (the highest ever first-class fourth innings score). This is the longest Test cricket match on record. The match had not been expected to take more than five days, but rain and rolling rejuvenated the pitch three times during the match, and it was still in good condition for batting when the match was abandoned.

I mean they used to do 'timeless tests' where they kept playing until a result, but they stopped that after a 9 day game nearly stopped the England team from making their boat home

A slightly new-look Abra is a reserve today, looking forward to seeing cool bots do their thing!

An Em dash is just when you move really fast

Our featherweight axebot BABS, decorated with a surgical mask, 'blood' spatter, 'scalpel', plasters, and a saw bolted to her axe

'Anyway, that's how I lost my medical licence.'

Spent some time decorating BABS ahead of @bristolbotbuilders.com's Bevs event

Statues of the three Pokémon Go team leaders plus Professor Willow at the Pokémon Centre in Ikebukuro

A statue of Piplup

Ikebukuro right? Visited (and said hello to Piplup) a couple of months ago!

I regularly visit All Saints in Leamington - such a beautiful church, but I had no idea about the bonkers history and design choices! Will take a look with fresh eyes next time I'm there

'Guards! Guards!' for the start of Vimes' story or 'Going Postal' for Moist von Lipwig, but honestly you'd be hard-pushed to find a bad Discworld book!

A clodsire plushie, with an incredibly peaceful facial expression, being held up one-handed in front of a crane game machine that he's just been won from

Rescued the boy 🤎

The meme of Poe Dameron from Star Wars: Episode 9, but saying "somehow, Jesus returned" instead of Palpatine.

Happy Easter!

Unsecured penguin caused helicopter crash in South Africa Pilot lost control after bird in cardboard box slid off a passenger's knee and knocked controls, aviation authority finds.

The penguins! They're fighting back!

Excellent choice of treat/distraction tactic 💜

That's such a shitty combination of memories, hope you're doing okay :( 🫂

Yeah you weren't kidding, that is very very very cool

Thank you, random stranger scrolling through Tiktok full-volume on the bus. It's like having my own personal deeply incompetent DJ 🎶

I think they're just hyped to be there tbh.

'Look at me Ma! I'm in a museum! AAAAAAAAAA!'

Yeah definitely not Abra's best event unfortunately, bit of a difficult draw but that's the way it goes sometimes. Hoping to give her a bit of a redesign in the next few months, there's a couple of things I want to try (but still retaining the same spirit of Abra of course ✨)

Abra's competing once again on Saturday! It's a very scary field but she'll be full send, as always ✨

bbb.gd/stream to see how she gets on, fights live from 11am!

Oh these are amazing! Gonna have to go back and listen to the Gemini episode again now ^^

AAAAAAA a mini two-legged ankylosaurus?! I love it :D

What is your favourite lesser-known dinosaur that you think not enough people have heard of? 🦕

So hard to pick one! Vimes' Boots is certainly up there, but I love the passage about the linesmen living on in the clacks in Going Postal.

'Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?'

Yes please! I've always sneezed deafeningly loudly 😅

Crimson Skies is such an under-known gem of a game, my brother and I played the PC version endlessly

Cute! 💜 Where's the top from?

That's okay though, cause it's a pirate's favourite letter. Oh, you'd think it'd be R, but their first love is the C.

The top plate of my beetleweight robot Abracagrabra, complete with googly eyes, propped up and looking at the rest of her chassis

One unexpected drawback of having a robot with googly eyes is that she can look at you in horror and/or disapproval as you perform surgery on her