It’s a while since I have done some knitting. Here’s an elf knitted with donated wool from my aunt. I am going to do some more and put them into the woodland coffee morning in the spring.
#Knitting #SoftToy #Woodland
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Janet
@Janet_52square@sunny.garden
mastodon 4.7.3Variously smallholding, woodland management, house restoration and crafting, miniaturising, chatting, sewing, knitting and dolls house making and restoring of old broken things. #ADHD #autistic #crafter #MakersHour #MakersHelp
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Craft:
knitting, sewing, embroidery
Dollshouse:
No 52 Charlotte Square
Making:
Making things of all sorts
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@MakersHour@cupoftea.social A4 one of the best jobs I ever had was at the University of Stirling where I worked as a chaplain. I had a sewing group called Patches4Peace and I taught mending, sewing and transformation of garments. They were such lovely students and it was a fun group. #MakersHour
It’s that time again! If you haven’t heard Dundee-born Elsie MacDonald, you should! Go ahead and give an emerging alt-folk singer-songwriter a try.
Elsie is well known in the Edinburgh scene and beyond for their emotionally impactful performance style, creating intimacy with audiences in shared spaces.
Shamelessly posting as her proud mum!!
#BandcampFriday#Folk
#QueerPunk
#Music
https://elsiemacdonald.bandcamp.com/album/pulling-at-the-common-thread
Trying to measure tiny hinges and choose hardware for the sideboard when OH bursts into my craft room in excitement with ‘Duckett’s out for a duck, first ball!!’
Not conducive to concentration but it’s ok, we can watch the highlights together later. I have yesterday’s to see as well.
#miniatures #cricket
Last train of the holiday, over an hour late now. While waiting, I spotted an odd message in Haymarket which said ‘Dundee Railway Station is out of order’. I puzzled over this for quite some time but then caught it scrolling through the information. Eventually I saw the screen before which said, ‘The up-escalator in’
Can’t go to a gig without getting a new t-shirt. This is an original design by Kankawa Nagarra the artist I saw on Wednesday night.
It’s a journey from the tea-chest which she made into a guitar when she was young to her blues music today. She describes herself as ‘born in sand and washed in fire’.
#Blues #Australia #KankawaNagarra
Today is a big day for the little sideboard. I am going to glue the main pieces together. Wish me luck!!
#miniatures #dollshouse #No52
Highly trained Jack Russells in this part of the world. Putting in a good day’s work too.
#dogs #DogsOfMastodon #tractor #scotland
Completely forgot #MakersHour last night and had meant to share that I blocked my mini knitting (the silk one is now cast off but not blocked yet). The blue Lacey one is a shawl pattern but it has come out a bit big - the two tone garter is the size of a one twelfth scale double bedspread.
Sewing scissors for scale.
#knitting #DollsHouse #No52
Good news!!! We have four swallows on the wire this morning. Our mating pair, last year’s young who has been helping all summer and one little fledging who made it through the dry weather!! The first two fledgings vanished in the drought and this survivor was the strongest of three in the next clutch. It’s a fragile achievement but bloody hell does it make me happy!
#ClimateDiary #Swallows #BirdCallOut
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@MakersHour@cupoftea.social We have guests Tonight so missing #MakersHour but I wanted to share my dress maker’s dummies project in 1/12 scale. I made them in two halves, baking the front first then adding the back and baking it all again. Now I plan to cover them in fabric. I am going to turn a base for each on the lathe so just using lolly sticks stuck in Fimo for now. #DollsHouse #Miniatures
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@iamdavidobrien@mastodon.social @kathimmel@mstdn.social Ok, David, this is not cool - these are human lives and hard events to live through and it is not difficult to understand.
This is the deal: a person’s partner’s dad owned a parrot, sadly the dad passed away. The partner (who has now been looking after his late father’s parrot for some years) is being evicted.
The parrot needs a temporary home.
These people need empathy.
Nearly finished work for the week - have a couple of admin tasks which I can complete here and then I am done. BUT on arriving home I realised the rattle I heard when I got out the van was not a random bit of rubbish on the tarmac but the lid of my *new* water bottle.
So, now, I have to go back. 😭
#ADHD #weekend
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@ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org It’s crazy reading from my perspective… ‘the current administration is trying to speed up reviews’ and then it says litigation is slowing up the process- as if the only things keeping us from harvesting lots of healthy timber are lawyers and scientists, when in fact, climate change is driving burning and the environment can’t cope with the temperature rise.
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@ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org @ColesStreetPothole@weatherishappening.network If I can gatecrash the album party (with a cheap bottle of Hungarian red wine and an overwhelming desire to bore the people in the party-kitchen) then I would add that the best albums are designed as albums. If it’s just a music producer stuffing the tracks together with a boppy one, a sad one, then a banger there’s little merit in listening to the whole album. But if it’s a joyous ‘concept album’ or even just a well done singer songwriter album that’s a different world.
A few I love but can only listen to all the way through are Talking Heads, ‘Fear of Music’ and Marillion ‘Script for a Jester’s Tear’ and ‘Misplaced Childhood’ Runrig, ‘The Cutter and the Clan’ I would also put U2 ‘October’ and ‘War’ up there and then more modern ones too - I do like Snow Patrol, ‘Wildness’ is also an amazing concept album on recovery from alcoholism. Coldplay also made concept albums but in a more modern take… I think when the artist drives the concept, the album comes into its own.
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@suearcher@toot.wales @CurlyParakeet@mastodon.online i do remember a workman in the manse (so not of my choice) who handed me his mug once with ‘Take the air out of that, love.’ I made him tea but was very tempted to give him a mug of cold water.
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@paul_ipv6@infosec.exchange @ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org @ColesStreetPothole@weatherishappening.network how did I miss Pink Floyd … yeah, fabulous stuff. I still listen to vinyl but I have succumbed to the shuffle gods on my phone…
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4/3 (oops) The cause of this drought is a high pressure system sitting mid-Atlantic which is being caught between southern weather patterns pushing north and northern ice melt/higher temperatures pushing northern weather fronts south.
This high is storing heat out at sea and evaporating sea water which currently has nowhere to go. While we are all needing rain, the likely outcome of a summer weather pattern like this is storms- and storms which have been powered by a continuous high pressure ‘battery’ or energy store for weeks.
This is so very far from the normal tracking of weekly changeable weather across the Atlantic to the Western Seaboard of the UK it is hard to imagine or prepare for - there’s certainly a lot of unpredictability in it - but in basic terms we are likely to be in for a wild autumn after such a hot summer.
#ClimateChange #Weather #UK
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@tempusfelix@wehavecookies.social It’s a balance for me of trying my best without letting that become soul-destroying. I can’t say I always manage. We’re excluded from hose pipe bans because we keep waterfowl but we are trying very hard to keep watering to an absolute minimum. One thing I could try next winter is to install more water butts - we only have 2 and one leaks - both are pretty much empty now.
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@LPerry2@mastodon.social @ColesStreetPothole@weatherishappening.network @ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org Like most (?) people I know the Bronski Beat cover better but the original has something ethereal the cover just doesn’t catch.
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@overholt@glammr.us Yeah pull out the plug in the library, the lights go out. Pull the plug on AI and everything is lost - migration is a myth.
@MakersHour@cupoftea.social Thanks for hosting when there’s so much else going on for you guys! Very much appreciated.
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@paul_ipv6@infosec.exchange @ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org @ColesStreetPothole@weatherishappening.network Yes, I second this. Somethings I just can’t bear on shuffle - it has to be all or nothing.
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@Perrin42@mastodon.social @michael_w_busch@mastodon.online @ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org I have added musical clash of those songs I have downloaded for work - as I am a funeral celebrant this means I can go from BugHunter ‘Panic Room’ to Westlife’s cover of ‘The Rose’ then back to TMBG ‘Dig my Grave.’ This cracks my kids up!!
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@tempusfelix@wehavecookies.social @ianturton@mapstodon.space @suearcher@toot.wales they need painted black and aren’t recommended for watering livestock but they work well for garden water.
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@suearcher@toot.wales @tempusfelix@wehavecookies.social Yes you’ve done really well with that system. With 5 geese, 9 ducks, 3 ducklings, 12 chickens and a 2.5 acre field thats a lot of water. It is a different sort of consideration and the costs quickly rise when scaling a domestic system up. This is the exciting journey ahead of you!!
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@Maker_of_Things@cupoftea.social You’re doing a lot at the moment. If it was me I’d be tempted to take a rest later…
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@LonM@social.vivaldi.net My guess is poor procurement. They didn’t spend enough time and resources on what they needed and how to achieve it. The dizzying fact is that the reason they ditched the previous app was also poor procurement because they didn’t factor in any legacy procedures at the beginning. 🤦♀️ Learning from the past seems to be in short supply!
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@suearcher@toot.wales @tempusfelix@wehavecookies.social You’ll be there before you know it!!
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@IcooIey@mastodon.green @tempusfelix@wehavecookies.social It comes hard to pay out money for something that was always free and plentiful. I have been gardening for over thirty years now and only in the last five have I given any thought at all to watering anything that grows in the ground outside. This year it has rapidly become a crisis. Watering was a job easily done by watering cans and confined to pots and greenhouse/polytunnel. Hey ho.
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@CptSuperlative@toot.cat @emilymbender@dair-community.social I remember a retiring academic in Edinburgh in the early nineties saying of the growing purchase of commissioned essays as a student practice, ‘I came here for more than this.’ AI can’t write anything as good as a commissioned essay and we definitely came here for more than this.
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@codingWombat@social.tchncs.de @eickefrohwein@social.cologne @DrJLecter@beige.party Not heard of that before is Root a verb or noun? Or both, like fuck?
Having had quite enough adulting for one day - I was listening to Johnny Cash in the car and ‘The Chicken in Black’ came on and I wondered just how many popular songs there are with a chicken in them? Hit me up with all your suggestions!!
#music #chickens #ChatHuman
Went on a squirrel monitoring training walk today to learn how to count squirrels in a statistically significant way.
Met a friend there and invited him over for lunch - which was impromptu and fun.
Cut a lot of rampant brambles, wild rose and honeysuckle out the front garden.
So that’s #ThreeGoodThings#3GoodThings
This weekend I have
1 cut a huge amount of grass.
2 done a fair bit of much needed housework including loads and loads of laundry.
3 Painted the back window and prepped two more.
So that is #3GoodThings #ThreeGoodThings #weekend
Enjoying staying with my aunt. It is very comforting to be here in the best possible sense.
1 We went for a short drive to the local village
2 I fixed her Sat Nav
3 We watched University Challenge together.
#ThreeGoodThings
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@MakersHour@cupoftea.social A4 I don’t. I am
Really shy of telling anyone, but after my art classes I have just joined an art club. This might encourage me to share a bit more. (But it might not).
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@MakersHour@cupoftea.social A1 👋 hello #MakersHour I am Janet and I have been working on my sideboard, knitting a shawl and helping with a dolls house restoration with my son’s fiancée and their kitten. She’s wondering how she would get down the stairs…