One of the trees was leaning over under the weight of the apples! It's only a dwarf tree poor thing. I'd even thinned the apples in spring, though maybe that just made bigger apples. #gardening
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mastodon 4.6.5I am an artist and designer (software, web/apps: UX, UI, user research, branding). I paint and draw and take lots of photos, and make things.
I live near the sea in Wales.
Politically left, morally Quaker-flavoured animist humanist.
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Tonight has been good for self esteem. The doctor said “you’re obviously quite muscular”* and that I don’t look anywhere near as old as my age. So I could have cuddled him for that (but didn’t)
- there are BMI** ranges to qualify that I’m now within but that shifts the scale in my favour even more
** and yes, I have many issues with BMI
Fascists stealing history
So glad I painted the gate this colour. It was meant to be a different shade but there was a bit of a saga with it all. #ShittyCameraChallenge
Was just in the local shop, the store radio was playing some track* that was the same pitch as a baby crying, just one lyric, over and over,
“this gurl is on fyahhh!
this gurl is on fyahhh!
this gurl is on fyahhh!
this gurl is on fyahhh!
this gurl is… [etc]”
I was getting very twitchy.
Old man mutters at in-store radio.
Train photos!
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My mild preoccupation with making shells out of wood continues. I have finally figured out how to make these wooden hinges!
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@Florapis@toot.wales That's a pain! Will you be able to find a new location for them OK?
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@Florapis@toot.wales How widely spread are they? I'm hoping most farmers are pretty keen on you keeping bees on their land?
They’re flowerin’ in the rain, just flowerin’ in the rain
What a glorious feelin', I'm happy again… 🎶
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@UraniumSlug@fosstodon.org I had wondered if my family would even recognise me now. A neighbour mentioned she hadn't recognised me until she saw me come out of my front door.
Fuzzy roses. #ShittyCameraChallenge
A few years ago I bought this shirt, I like the pattern, I wanted something summery and loud, but it didn’t fit. Now it does! Might be a bit big now actually. Not sure I’m actually in my Hawaiian shirt era but while the weather’s like this I’m enjoying wearing it. #selfie 🥳
Oh, must make a note of that. Open notes.
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Shit. I forgot what I meant to write down.
Arrrrrggghh
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So if anyone needs a designer, freelance/part time or full time (but remote cos I'm out in the wilds) then do please let me know. #FediHire
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@alex@tech.lgbt The promo pictures show vibrant colour, then you see one for real and it's like a photocopy on newsprint. I adore BW e-ink though, it's so smooth.
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@alex@tech.lgbt I thought it was telling how the upcoming Palma 3 is Carta 1300, no colour layer like the previous version. The colour is such a gadgety distraction.
The Kazanlik Damascus Rose is flowering, loads more than last year. This is the variety that Turkish Delight is flavoured with, it smells amazing.
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@sueellenfast@cosocial.ca Yup, I think I need to see if there’s something up with the soil around there too.
I read that weird ‘apology’ from OpenAI and it was the weirdest mush of technobabble I’ve read outside of… I dunno, satire maybe. Like someone had read a bit of a William Gibson and watched a bit of Star Trek and thought, “I’ll have a go at that”.
But no, a real thing out here in the supposedly real world.
The laurel bush is flowering! It had loads of bees and butterflies on it earlier too. #BloomScrolling
Went out to see what the weather felt like. It was nice! Took photos of flowers. #BloomScrolling
I’d ordered some puff pastry and then didn’t feel like eating pastry. Damned if I’m wasting it so made lots of pies to go in the freezer, including these apple and raisin ones. They taste like Christmas. #food
Sticky!
Proto-strawberry!
Sat in the workshop with the door open. This rarely happens so every now and again a local cat would come to the door all curious and sniffing things, then see me and get this look of absolute astonishment. Any movement from me and peeyoww they’d be off like a shot. Many of these cats know me, but clearly this was too far out of context for them to handle.
I think the orange one was more startled as it likes to roll around on the doormat outside.
Had a conversation involving The Past today, which I usually avoid, but it made me look up my old school. Turns out this year is a round number of decades since I was there and some of my year group did a reunion. I am not in touch with any of them since I had a terrible time there and most of them were awful people.
I saw the photos and didn’t recognise a single one of them. There were names I remembered but I couldn’t have matched them to any of the faces.
Had a bit of medicalness lately (an unexpected reoccurrence of something I’d expected to stay fixed for longer) which means with the heat I have been deeply bone tired.
But! The temperature is kinda nice right now so I should be able to sleep well tonight and I’m looking forward to that. Also the medical thing increases the chances of getting a permanent fix sooner though, which is positive.
So many mentions of backrooms.
Saw a video clip of a thing, but it wasn't clear so I looked it up. The first result appeared to be a real news site, but the photo on the article was… suspicious. Entirely different kind of building. The kind of thing an LLM would come up with from “Italian court building partially collapses” so it looked like the (American) ‘Italianate' architectural style, with a street of picturesque rubble. Yup. Fake.
This is the real thing, minor injuries only, thankfully.
https://en.ilsole24ore.com/art/collapse-at-bolzano-court-overnight-investigations-underway-AJxNKRL
Still going through my photo library sorting it into albums, adding keywords and so on (I take pictures and screenshots of everyyythinnng as a memory crutch). I’m now on early March 2020 and bloody hell it’s like the foreshadowing bit of a disaster movie. Wasn’t expecting it to hit so hard, but I know what’s coming now.
Now that’s some summery weather! 😎🌞
I watched a bit of the cheese rolling. It’s definitely a thing.
This Swarovski person really looks like someone I used to work with. It definitely wasn’t her, I haven’t worked with any sparkly billionaire heiresses. #eurovision
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@RichBartlett@infosec.exchange Met Office forecast was consistently 3 degrees higher than reality (and every other prediction) on every day except one. It was a bit weird.
The French one was good! First one I’ve thought that. #eurovision
Norway’s is a bit White Stripes. Even the visuals are like the Seven Nation Army video! #eurovision
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@Richr@mastodon.social Furst time I’ve ever seen one for real. Are you still in the same place in Brighton?
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@glass@typo.social It’s quite unexpected, right? I thought it’d happen when I was a lot older!