Open post Mark Taylor @mark@social.markiswrit.ing · 9mo ago Replying to @derbadian@mas.to @mark@social.markiswrit.ing Did you used to get Galaxy Truffle? If you did they've been gone since before 2023 (when I started doing this!) @derbadian@mas.to They dropped them in 2011, possibly I should have got over it by now
Open post Mark Taylor @mark@social.markiswrit.ing · 9mo ago Replying to @derbadian@mas.to What do you mean you don't obsessively count the number of chocolates in a tub of Celebrations every year and put the results into an Excel spreadsheet!? Anyway, the 2025 results are in: Bounty x5 Galaxy x5 Galaxy Caramel x5 Maltesers x5 Mars x9 Milky Way x9 Snickers x9 Twix x7 The tub itself has gone down another 50g since 2024 (100g since 2023!) Hard to believe that I used to give this content to Zuckerberg for free, you're welcome Fediverse! #Christmas #Chocolate #Shrinkflation @derbadian@mas.to Valuable work, thank you. I would add that I think it's always worth explicitly stating "Galaxy Truffle × 0"
Open post Mark Taylor @mark@social.markiswrit.ing · 3mo ago What our garden lacks in care, attention, and plants that are there on purpose, it makes up for in cinnabar moth caterpillars.
Open post Mark Taylor @mark@social.markiswrit.ing · 2mo ago A tiny story about a first date https://www.scattering.ink/daily/2026/07/31/by-the-river/ #fiction #microfiction #dailystory Scattering By the River Their first date was a picnic by the river. He arrived early at the spot he had suggested: his favourite place on the south bank. She arrived right on time, and right across from him, waving from the north bank. They never settled whether the pin he sent her was
Open post Mark Taylor @mark@social.markiswrit.ing · 2mo ago Stories about letters, a first date, ice, an egg, a library growing in the rock face, and the nonsense your dad told you. https://www.scattering.ink/2026/08/the-current-beneath/ #fiction Scattering The Current Beneath Stories about letters, a first date, ice, an egg, a library growing in the rock face, and the nonsense your dad told you.
Open post Mark Taylor @mark@social.markiswrit.ing · 1mo ago Stories about graffiti, sunshine, seeds, wind, and the breakdown of the hope machine. https://www.scattering.ink/2026/08/the-hope-machine/ #fiction #writing scattering.ink
Open post Mark Taylor @mark@social.markiswrit.ing · 1mo ago A tiny story about a maze tattoo https://www.scattering.ink/daily/2026/09/04/maze/ #fiction #microfiction #dailystory #writing scattering.ink
Open post Mark Taylor @mark@social.markiswrit.ing · 2mo ago Replying to @revk@toot.me.uk @bloor@bloor.tw I do wonder what the legislation is on these bans. They are described as a "hose pipe ban", but does the wording of the law ban things that are not a hose pipe. I.e. if you filled a bucket from a tap in the bath and took outside to fill bird bath, is that allowed? No hose pipe, after all. And is the plumbed in water tap that pours in to my hot tub from above, to top it up, also banned, as it is not a hose pipe? @revk@toot.me.uk @bloor@bloor.tw This is the legislation: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1991/56/section/76 "filling or maintaining a domestic swimming or paddling pool" is one of the things that can be banned outright, hosepipe or not. legislation.gov.uk