Joss

Me too. BBC radio 4 did several eel programs recently and I was very put out they did not invite The Eel Historian.

Oh. I had missed the news about The Spaniel until I saw it now in the ALT text - why you should always read the alt text.

So very sorry.

Thank you for sharing her with us. She interjected lovely sardonic comment into the timeline with her spanielish expressions.

The Pentlands ones don't bat a beautifully ginger fronded eyelid if you stand next to them but I have seen people try to touch them which they nope at very quickly. Need to watch out for them turning their heads quickly.

But the cattle on the other side by the Kips are much more feisty! Beware

The only thing that ever changed was the size of the hill. The approach to marching up and then marching back down has been remarkably consistent.

I wonder i part of the coming story is emotional difficulties of young men who have been to prison due to their experiences in prison. He doesn't have the same cushion to come back to that Freddy had. Freddy was rehabilitated by prison, George's bad traits have been intensified.

The only thing he has going for him at the moment is he is not celibate. So he's just your standard entitled, abusive, misogynist who can't take responsibility.

It's literally weekly that she finds some kind of food waste dumped in the street or the park. 😕 some of it looks like discarded take away but some is being left deliberately- that bit looks deliberate and then had probably been stashed by a crow.

The stump of a chicken leg, dirty and wuth a sharp pointed bone protruding

Daisy who is a super cute dog but still has a shaved belly from all the vet trips

hazardous food waste out in Redhall Park @redhallpark.bsky.social and surrounding area, again.
Chicken, either raw, as in this case, or cooked is not a 'treat' for foxes. It could kill them or a dog.

Yet again had to wrestle bone away from Daisy, who has only just got over Ecoli at cost of c. 2k.

Despite a markedly left wing tendency is the current generation of my family, the most prized cookbook is 'Tory treats' compiled by the good wives of 1950s Banffshire.

They are an absolute menace for the visually impaired. If they fall over, the legs are left sticking up but there is nothing to allow them to be seen in the dark.

Oh! I did not realise till now the actor had changed. I wondered how she didn't sound like Daisy at all anymore.

Item being worn. Sorry rubbish photo.

This was knitted in part whilst attending #USS meetings as part of #UCU JNC. (Yes you can knit in meetings and be very present, it helps me zone out distractions)

Knitted jumper in shades of green eith flashes of purple and turquoise. Brioche technique produces rib like vertical lines

Other (right) side of same jumper, shoeing purple patterns at ypke and waist

Detail of the yoke

Detail of fitted and flared cuff

Finished piece.
Adult jumper. Reversible.
Technique brioche
Pattern- made up as I went along, bottom up, yoked, fitted jumper.
Yarn: multiple shades of acrylic blend cut & tied in (never again!)

#knitting #briocheKnitting #yarn #showMeYourKnits

Extruding🤣

Why do images sometimes not rotate 😕

A cardboard fruit box filled with nobbly yellow and yellow green fruits.

A slab of deep red, shiny membrillo, like a block of solid jam or a fruit jelly.

From quinces to membrillo
#allotment #gardening

Companies cannot release profit to shareholders unless their workers are well paid and their CEO's pay is decided by the workers.

University & college should be free & paid for by taxation.

People should be allowed and encouraged by free education to retrain in mid career.

Tax is good.

Pickets across the country. A march through Leicester.

Hundreds of jobs on the line.

We’re not standing by while the sector burns.

We will continue to fight.

Congrats to all involved for yesterday!

A photograph I took quite early on New Year's Day, 2019, while walking on the Isle of Purpeck, not long before I did a tweet using it, and the same caption. I imagine it won't have as much impact here, since loads of people have since reused it, and the phrase is now more widely known. It is still very very true, though. Lots of things are solved by walking. Although not everything, obviously.

Solvitur ambulando is my favourite Latin phrase. It means "it is solved by walking".

Dear MS Teams,
I hope you realise sooner rather than later that your share my location feature is potentially dangerous - mostly to women.

Also if your bosses are using it to check staff are in office to come see them in person- no need for Teams.

a woman is wearing a headset while sitting at a desk . ALT: a woman is wearing a headset while sitting at a desk .

Shittification and shareholder return

A rehash of an old thread

Why is everything crap. Well, here we learn why Adam Smith was an early Marxist, in that though he had great faith in markets

He had zero faith in merchants

And the reason why, is why no one answers your helpline

1/n

Amber: wedmin
👌
#theArchers

From 2014-2018 the Trust & UK landowners planted woods to mark the centenary of the First World War. Scotland's flagship site is at Dreghorn, near Edinburgh. This Remembrance Day, we thought we'd share how the wood is developing. A few years = a big difference! More Centenary Woods 👉 buff.ly/EoSA7Yi

No matter how many times I repeat the mantra
"The heating is on, you are either IN or you are OUT"
Daisy still insists on going in and out all day.

Its like the hokey cokey with doors.

Perhaps it a Halloween ghost plot and it will turn out that there is no Meadow Farm, Mulligan died in the 1850s and the Brookfield Archers have all had ergotamine poisoning

If correct, whilst there may not be many tears for those who are able to pay £1000s every month in AVCs, as an annual allowance 2k would be quite modest- what about people who are being made redundant and their payout exceeds the relatively low tax exempt cap? Any AVCs from redundancy could be hit

#theArchers surprise backstories:
Neil is a foundling. Everyone knew. No one mentioned it.

Esme lived next door to Archers. Appears to be ages with Brookfield kids despite 'old' dad. No one knew her.

They could even just have had David say, oh I ran into old Mulligan at [wherever]. He's looking a bit doddery / gloomy as ever.

Casual mention.

I guess the storyline is about rural loneliness *but* it's totally implausible no one knew Esme as a child.

Also if he was 'old' how old is she?