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Last Notes npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 I’m not sure that would work with some of them. They’d just shrug and leave the child at home with a screen. npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 A slur on whom, exactly? Is “spooksexual” the latest thing? Oh, no, that wouldn’t work. “Spysexual”? npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 Ah, I didn’t realise she was on Newsnight. That explains it, they’re really cutting that back. npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 Fair. npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 I’d missed that. Jesus. npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 I thought that had been well received? npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 Gosh. That’s a surprise. npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 Presumably. Just looking back at last year and by mid September I had pea-sized sprouts on the stems. This year I don’t really even have stems. npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 Reasons for withdrawal included military needs in the wake of the Ukraine invasion … fair enough… and Home Office plans to house asylum seekers. sigh npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 God this makes me angry. The police found two “almost completely naked” 13-year-old girls, blind drunk “with seven adult Pakistani men”. “South Yorkshire police arrested the thirteen-year-old girl for being drunk and disorderly”, after which she was charged and convicted. Andrew Norfolk then added, teary-eyed: “They did not even question the men”. npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 @npub1q33…mqu0 do you remember YY28s? Or were they too pop for you? npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 comfrey Given her liver is probably already stressed by the medication she was on, that’s a hard nope even if I was sure it wouldn’t contaminate the eggs. cider vinegar Pretty sure it’s not worms that are the problem. npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 Buggeration. https://media.spinster.xyz/016d6a47c27312531bf44b7bbbd4fa14b721d847daa7507dad6881985d45353f.mov npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 I’m not sure they were ever a big thing. I mean, what’s the point? Some of my sewing ladies are forever making stuff of varying degrees of uselessness to sell on charity stalls, I don’t think I’ve ever seen a mug rug. npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 Oh, Ro, no! npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 Did you enjoy Last Campfire? Chants is definitely one where the non-player can join in with suggestions for what words mean. npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 @npub1m84…mutq first especially. npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 Fortunately, the idiots were also too idle to walk very far, so it was spotted from the road by a passing driver before it spread too far. npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 Serious question: do men find that attractive? npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 https://media.spinster.xyz/b314e75cfdc91cd75f6230443e221588bae91b285f7790375090a180c927c309.jpeg https://media.spinster.xyz/bcf3a9cf00227761706b67e55c6275e6c53b281d715af828b9de8c3be1206497.jpeg https://media.spinster.xyz/e13f90cb2079c7875d252af006df30804352f0789b693b298e18073a3c9e7db7.jpeg npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 Wow! That’s an impressive hatch rate! npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 I do feel sorry for those Russia spy kids. “Ok, you’ve got half an hour to pack a bag and then we’re moving house. Oh, btw, you need to learn Russian because we’re not actually Argentinian.” npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 I don’t use it, but it might think you’re a bot scraping content because you don’t post / interact in the way it expects users to. npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 I think the wall’s done. https://media.spinster.xyz/3445e524de8fa6ee41494d40941f32696be663b1e3f2ed96aec5d20b65f44f9f.jpeg npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 I’m not sure he’s waiting that long, given today! npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 The first time today I heard a BBC newsreader refer to “new French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal“, I figured it was a slip of the tongue, but I’ve heard it at least twice more since. Are they trying to make people think that the election result has been respected, or something? npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cprqpd0rjd1o Good. It looks bloody awful. Visitors have placed thousands of padlocks on the bridge in Bakewell over the past decade, making it a tourist attraction in its own right. But Derbyshire County Council is removing the locks to do maintenance work, then changing the design of the bridge so locks cannot be attached in future. npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 That’s a terribly tricky one to search online! I can’t think why paint (or indeed some sort of infection) on his feet would stop him from flying. npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 I think they just like auspicious-sounding names! npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 https://media.spinster.xyz/cf4554059e0d5f2f3a4288e395f47765cd77451f27f36ee104b0a25949036470.jpeg npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 Hmm. That could theoretically lead to a third term, couldn’t it? If something took out the president and VP. npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 You could be, if you joined Nostr! npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 I’ve just seen this, which I’d not heard about previously. Aren’t all your police armed? A local cop did finally confront the shooter but reportedly retreated when Crooks threatened him with a gun, allowing him to take his shot. npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 Booooooring! npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 Happy St Swithin’s Day, everyone! https://media.spinster.xyz/d3117e73ff1dea430e7c977369b3e2c18ed5c0ecd3b4b277dee3bf52619e94a6.jpeg npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 Ah, that’s why my feed is so quiet: NA.S is down :( npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 Wait, I thought chlamydia could cause infertility? npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 wtf???? npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 OMG, White House press officer has apparently said that this evening Biden has “a big boy press conference”. That’s up there with Jill Biden’s “You answered all the questions!” npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 Do you know what rootstock it’s on? If it’s a dwarfing / quince / “patio” type and was only repotted last year then it should be ok. This is about the extent of my knowledge of pears. npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 It’s bloody July and my peas have only just started flowering. npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 Fingers crossed. I didn’t get a single one last year. npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 It’s been miserable-but-at-least-dry today, but the sun peeped out and I took the chance to run out for half an hour of much-needed hoeing of weed seedlings before they got established. npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 I bloody love properly fresh courgettes. If the plants do well, get ready for photos of courgettes for dinner every day! npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 Having just done the maths, I will share that her metacam dose is the same as you would give a dog weighing 15kg / 30lb. npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 Woo hoo! https://media.spinster.xyz/872864ed6a65e97c9067fab1da20ed79dc6029e6097777befef5c2439b3ede38.jpeg npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 Lupins? npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 It can be a wee bit fiddly to clean the bulb area, make sure you put it straight into a mug of water so that any residue doesn’t set like concrete. npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 Yes, I have that one: has a sliding clip on the back that hooks to the side of the pan. https://media.spinster.xyz/e6efaf73dbc6affc9ec10e52131e5eec0d637c61718cbe6c88d1f2cf13711ea3.jpg npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 Look at the size of that; public shaming does the trick; tipped out the worst-damaged tub of potatoes and got a reasonable haul; the ducks having fun with the potato compost. https://media.spinster.xyz/e58bb38568805eba7db3c331fe7fb5db5467d54e10dc8a7fe4eb3817c7afd49b.jpeg https://media.spinster.xyz/00dc8e03c6a1cfbbe6def3db541c2e5df7cf08654ecac8d0f4770edfe8d9c8b5.jpeg https://media.spinster.xyz/0b19e3aea944383370875b3d0eed004002b306a49dd37f02dccccc1ab5324156.jpeg https://media.spinster.xyz/4060096631339fd469adb410f5373771b0e4e50439f8b0b34105e01b6e917b35.jpeg npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 @npub1e3x…kndc ^ npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 wtf? It’s off at the wall, why are my radiators hot? #note1hvz…pcda https://media.spinster.xyz/c5fe7010637e6417c50f354dd1777462ca943f37200c621ff5f0411c8ec18555.jpeg npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 If Dog is going deaf, I feel really awful because he’ll never again hear that he’s a good boy. He is a good boy. :( npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 Annoyingly, one has just buzzed itself in (I opened the un-screened window to try and speed up the cooling). They’re probably coming from Herself’s much heap. npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 Bloody roasting! Down to 24.5C…. I could do with that breeze back to blow through the house a bit! npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 I’ve had Reform as a tick option since they started election polling. Interesting. npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 Also spinach (for green) and beetroot (for purple). Then again, wasn’t there a charcoal fad a few years ago? ISTR warnings about things like charcoal ice cream negatively affecting medication uptake and potentially causing unplanned pregnancies. npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 Ladies (or, I suppose, gents) who’ve had both below-worktop and eye-level ovens, which do you prefer? npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 I’m assuming that, but have a nagging fear that I Did Something Wrong. After all, drill bits are sold in sets, not individually (AFAIK). npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 D-I-how? I was drilling a hole for a screw earlier, and the drill bit just snapped in half. Bosch, so presumably decent quality. I have used that drill bit many times before. Does this just happen, did I cock up, very late-showing manufacturing flaw…? npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 I know, it’s Germany, but WTF? https://media.spinster.xyz/c20d6f09d34e935689532b6329419b2fd7f463c40190a518080a98c724f0783d.jpeg npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 Oh, yeah, I forgot you’d gone low-carb. Rutabaga and carrot mash? npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 You could easily do it on a single burner hot plate. Cook the chicken, set it aside, almost cook the potatoes, set aside, go back to the chicken pan and add veggies / make the sauce. The potatoes would stay hot long enough and finish cooking with a lid on them. npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 Chicken, peas and spinach in a creamy sauce. Was going to be asparagus but, as the summer cabbage foretold, it’s done for the year. https://media.spinster.xyz/788be13eba5db38544bf3e9f7dea70f4044aeacef20df419ad793b84b29c98ac.jpeg npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 The woman I head say it did quite a long “aaah”, could be she swallowed a hint of an r? Might come out stronger in a more rhotic accent. npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 For hosting: https://btrf.ly/ npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 Yes, they’re fine. He took them off out back to fiddle with them, but my guess is that the nose bits had been bashed too flat. I thought about having a go myself but didn’t want to risk snapping them off. npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 TIL that menarche is pronounced men-ah-key. Don’t think I’ve ever actually heard it said before, only seen it written down. npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 Some time ago, I was putting the bin out when a gust of wind caught the lid and smacked it into my face. My glasses have been Not Quite Right ever since, and today I finally happened to be passing the optician and went in to see if they could help. I should have made a special trip months ago! npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 Thankfully, they don’t seem to be an issue around here. npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 Could be scale insects? https://www.rhs.org.uk/biodiversity/scale-insects npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 I’ve got some of that Skin So Soft that the SAS use. I should probably remember to put it on! npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 I don’t know: I’ve never known midges be active in the heat of the day anywhere else, but I seem to get bitten far more then, when I’m out gardening. npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 No, never felt the need; even daily horse fly bites were kept in check with daily OTC one. These are itchy buggers though! npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 Thanks, I’ll risk one as I’ll get no sleep otherwise. npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 On checking, I tell a lie. I had a loratadine this morning. https://media.spinster.xyz/0cfb30258dba50ea72f9b5660970a8e78707f8651681642650d2c9138b07b95b.jpg npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 Oh no, I thought it had brightened up? npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 I remember godless-daughter once reeling into the kitchen to great alarm after putting her bedding on to wash. npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 My (inherited) kitchen has those Formica worktops, and there’s a noticeably discoloured patch where I put the olive oil to kneed my bread dough. I would be very happy to go back to something actually wipe-clean like granite. npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 It would probably be a bit more welcoming to guests if they weren’t sharing their room with stacks of tins and bags of dried pasta! npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 I’m not planning to sell (and have already put a hell of a lot more in capital improvements in since I moved) but good point! npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 I reckon so. It’s not a good use of the space at present because of the door and the need to be able to creep sideways to the back, npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 Oh, god, my old house had a wall-mounted cupboard just above the washing machine. I smacked my head standing up so many bloody times! I had to stop letting friends over 5’ out anything in the machine for themselves! npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 Ah: moon! https://media.spinster.xyz/69e9d89afb56edfdaa3f4eedefd02d1da431a143f280c486fa38b270efbcf49b.jpeg npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 Happy solstice! https://media.spinster.xyz/126e8298e80d91c851aac3459d61fa77ba182a76a4cb08cd3d48df1e61918807.jpeg npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 We have some weird variety of midges here, which come out in the middle of the day more than at dusk. Turns out they were about when I was building the duck prison exercise yard yesterday. (Yes, I had an antihistamine this morning. No, it is not really helping any more. Can you have more than one 24 hour antihistamine per day?) npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 Oh no! I’m sorry, love. I thought you’d patched it up? npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 Yes, very worrying. npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 We love you anyway. npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 Mrs Dog Treat, on learning that one of the Stonehenge vandals was in his 70s and after I said they’d probably just get a slap on the wrist: “I can think of some people I’d like to throw paint over” significant look in the direction of the Goblin. npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 Jesus, is that Putin? He’s definitely changed in the face. npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 Daft bugger! npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 Ankle all ok after? npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 Does it have a use beyond being slightly thuggish ground cover? Or is this one of those same-name-different-plant things? https://media.spinster.xyz/cdaa08be50fad13753b01a9ffbd619ee7245cc1d7fad44855619b98e715559ce.jpeg npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 Is there such a thing as a fridge freezer where the freezer part is bigger than the fridge part, or is 50/50 as good as it gets? npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 It’s not been said, which gives you your answer. npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 That is hideous. npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 iOS having a moment with its auto-categorising of my shopping list. I suppose petrol is an oil product, but I’m very confused that it’s helpfully asking me if I instead want to move it to “meat”… https://media.spinster.xyz/ca06767862edd7061892250bc1b27213f3d2b4009de1c3b9408d35d11b1c45ea.jpeg npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 Oh, FFS. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cw44mdee0zzo Part of Stonehenge has been covered in orange powder paint by protesters. Two Just Stop Oil campaigners sprayed the paint on the historic site near Salisbury, Wiltshire, at around 12:00 BST on Wednesday. The move comes the day before celebrations begin for the Summer Solstice at the 5,000-year-old landmark. npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 They have nibbled a bit, but mostly they’re in there (or rather, out of the garden) because they decided the potato bags were the best sleeping / nesting places and smashed up all the bloody foliage!