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Monissa
@monissa@aus.social
mastodon 4.7.2Takes lots of photos
Writes lot of fantasy
Tries to write other stuff but not very successfully
Grows medicinal herbs, carnivorous plants & odd succulents
Kills indoor plants
Autistic
Cranky
93 Followers
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Joined November 07, 2022
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Camellia sinensis, if you've ever wondered what #tea flowers look like :)
To jump or not to jump...
(Ostia Antica I believe)
Part of the Ring of Brodgar, #Orkney.
It must have been raining. It was about to become a heavy rainstorm and gale.
#StandingStones #Neolithic #LandscapePhotography #TemporaryPictures
My Senet set (ancient Egyptian board game). As you might be able to tell from the background, it was a Christmas present.
Remembered to get a late season photo of the Venus Flytrap
Southern Cross Station, #Melbourne
Part of the Ring of Brodgar, Orkney. Just minutes before a full-on rain and wind storm hit.
Walking from the dark entrance tunnel into the sunlit, and slightly wet, amphitheatre at #Pompeii.
Tregiffian Burial Chamber. A Neolithic/Bronze Age chambered tomb on the road between Penzance and Land's End. Actually, some of it is under the road.
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The classic view at Bridestowe, with the red dirt constrasting with the rows of lavender
#lavender
Isle of the Dead, at the former convict settlemet (place of secondary punishment) of Port Arhur, in the southeast corner of #Tasmania.
Prisoners were buried in unmarked graves on the island, but free people (officials, military, their families ) have headstones.
Also at Southern Cross Station, #Melbourne
(And last #TemporaryPictures Now I need a new theme/topic!)
5 August 2020: When Launceston woke to.. snow???
Dear Internet,
This is NOT an aerial photo of of Pompeii, c.1900, OK?
My mother loves #Poldark which means I get to listen to it a lot. One of the filming locations is Charlestown in Cornwall, which stands in for Truro and Falmouth.
The lighting is a bit bleak. It was just a few hours from a heavy storm breaking.
Bees like oregano
Bressay, an island of Shetland (and homes to lots of seabirds)
Night time at Flinders Street Station, #Melbourne
#NightPhotos #TemporaryPictures #TrainStations #VaguelySinisterBuildings
Sort of a reserve filming locations. The police drama Shetland is, obviously, filmed in part in Shetland, including the largest town Lerwick. This beach, between buildings on the town's waterside, is one location that often appears. Now out on the water...
There is a longboat, which if I remember correctly, is used for an annual festival. It often on the TV show in the background. It's rather noticable, if you have someone who shouts "Viking ship" every time it appears :)
Another #Poldark filming location, the tin mines of #Botallack in Cornwall
A thread
New bus driver?
Bus pulls into stop. I go to get off but neither door opens.
Bus driver "You never said which door you wanted. "
WTF,
Also, there were people standing at the front door trying to get off.
Launceston library is replacing their lift. I think the current one has been there since the building was opened in the early 1970s.
New season Imperial Mandarins are the best citrus.
That is all.
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@fee_fi_fo_fum@aus.social Mostly I think it likes our backyard.
I use rainwater/demineralised water, and keep it in a small pot of peat moss/perlite, but my other one (growing in apparently the same conditions) struggling this year. Last year it was bright green with decent sized traps. This year it's yellow and small traps . So I don't know :)
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4/5 Fruit and vegetables.
Apples: jonagold (centre) and red pippins (front)
Carrots: "Most unusually shaped vegetables"
Marrow: "Largest/longest vegetable"
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@IanDSmith@mas.to I forget the details, but the original owner's wife came from or was born in Devon
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@jackeric@beige.party
I'd got west first too :) I mean the east coast is lovely but the west is just so Interesting.
About as useful as usual
Some days it is more useless than others.
@cheryanne@aus.social Thanks :)
I have taken to listening to music at bedtime (orchestras playing rock and pop, love these) with a sixty minute timer. I usually go to sleep during the second or third song.
Sometimes I'll wake after 40-50 minutes.
"What's that noise?"
"Music?? Where is music coming from?"
Every. Time.
Colosseum, Rome.
(In B&W because I wanted to see how it would look in a zine I was making.)