Good luck! I hope your resolution is easier to come by than ours π€
17.02.2026 22:35 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0@physmus.bsky.social
Retired physics teacher, clarinettist, churchwarden. Stafford Orchestra, Staffs Chamber Orchestra, Great Wyrley Concert Band. Originally from Hampshire, almost a Midlander now (after 40 years). Still talks funny though.
Good luck! I hope your resolution is easier to come by than ours π€
17.02.2026 22:35 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Two more calls...
And apparently the cheque is in the post!
Resolved in under a year. I'll take that.π
Managed to speak to someone about this... another hour on the phone that I won't get back.
Daring to dream that the end may be in sight though
Just flogged through this myself. The only consolation is that a friend who banks with Lloyds says that they are even worse!
17.02.2026 13:28 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0My bus fare to school was 3d, I liked that you could stand it up.
After 1971 it became 1p. Much less fun for a small child.
If love and acceptance have felt out of reach, I hope this image invites you to reconsider that story.
For those who donβt struggle with it, I hope it affirms what you already know.
My lawn is on the way to becoming a peat bog
15.02.2026 16:59 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0I have a lot of important things to do, and the time to do them.
So I'm sat here eating cheese.
And me.
Completely unnecessary.
Small crowd watching a boat go through the canal lock this afternoon. Quite common in tourist season, but not so much in February! π€·
14.02.2026 18:11 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Blimey. Luckily still got the uniform grey sky here. Hope you're ok π
11.02.2026 15:05 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0It passed over here briefly about half an hour ago. Some sort of alien spaceship?
11.02.2026 14:54 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Drivers are required to have functional eyes. They just need the sense to use them.
11.02.2026 14:38 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Sorry to be that guy!
(But he did.)
... Jesus told me that it's because of our shared, multifarious humanity.
11.02.2026 08:58 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Damp mordy creepit from behile the darklymost gloom of night.
No sunshile, as cloudboles deposy more raindropples, all trickly-how onto squelchit lawns and tappity-tap on umbrellodes like Gene Kelly. Folly folly.
On the plus side, puddle-stampy.
Deep joy!
That's amazing!
10.02.2026 22:42 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0And I'm well aware that they're both incredible talents, and I'd have loved to have been there to hear them sharing a stage.
10.02.2026 12:25 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Ok, apologies.
What I thought was a funny comment on the look on his face in the picture clearly wasn't.
Happy to delete.
Love this! Biochemistry is borderline magic
09.02.2026 21:27 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0For the rain it raineth every day.
09.02.2026 09:00 β π 266 π 32 π¬ 9 π 8I think we know the context...
05.02.2026 15:57 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Not sure
04.02.2026 22:59 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0It was!
I enjoyed exploring different traditions, and deliberately returned to the Anglican church where they were (almost!) all accepted
Not exactly...
Baptised Anglican (infant)
Congregational with Boys' Brigade ages 9-18
Ecumenical chapel at university
Confirmed Anglican aged 23.
This is how it's done, people.
Please do it.
Thanks.
Pretty sure that Wales isn't an island...
02.02.2026 09:40 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Mine still works as ID for DBS checks
01.02.2026 23:13 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I think Wrexham to Liverpool was one of them, so maybe we can hope...?
30.01.2026 10:10 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Friend of mine has been working on battery trains on the Isle of Wight and North Wales.
30.01.2026 10:07 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0