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Xander Sable
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I bought metallic sharpies last year because crikey, if you can't buy yourself shiny pens as a grown adult, when can you.
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Egyptologist typing behind a fake moustache, à la Ellis Bell or George Sand. Likes: conservation, history, gardens, cooking, art, and writing quirky fantasy.
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Xander Sable
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I bought metallic sharpies last year because crikey, if you can't buy yourself shiny pens as a grown adult, when can you.
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Xander Sable
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Wow, that's some serious nursing, then - well done you! You gave him a chance when a lot of folks wouldn't have. And well done Tweetface - what a little fighter.
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Interesting! Thanks, Tania. 😊
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Hehehe - go look up the etymological origin of pillock, Rev. Though I bet 99% of Brits don't know it. 😊At lot of our 'this isn't rude' is actually quite... rude. Similarly, many of our rude words used to be perfectly polite before the Norman conquest.
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Hehehe - seen this yet, @indyfromspace.bsky.social 🤣
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There's such poetry in this simple, explorative curiosity. Lots of my talented folks on here could come up with something lovely in response, I'm sure, if you need a prompt today. 😊🏜️🐫🏖️
Thanks for posting @hels.bsky.social and for highlighting @davidrafferty.bsky.social and @ohrobin.bsky.social
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Lovely answer, @greynotgrey.bsky.social, thank you. 🏜️
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Oh, I don't think anyone's ridiculing this - the question's rather beautiful. Feels like there's a young mind there, full of curiosity. 😊
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Dry, though. Very dry.
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Enjoy. Judging from what I remember of being 9, that trip's going to foster some really formative memories. 😊
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Why are you punishing us like this! 😭😆🥓
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Love it. Resist!🐉
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That's a pretty darned cool thing! Great that you remembered enough detail to make it. It feels like it should be hung up somewhere lovely in a forest.
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Oh, well jelly! Looks like you may have the plant that the Great Slug Plague of 2024 managed to completely destroy chez nous - the beautiful orangey one? Lovely flowers - enjoy. 😊
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They leave such a mark. 😊 This year's fledging season, my fam reminisced about Two Blit, a bluetit who survived against abso every odd, since he was a tiny, nekked, day or so old pink bean when rescued from a very sad nest. Happily fledged out into the garden, after much assiduous care. 😊
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Lovely work. And he looks (rightly) very pleased with himself.
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And, guessing that paper's relatively shortly post war, some of those kids might well have lost family actively fighting fascists. Again as others have commented - it'd be great to see interviews with any of them still with us. Full power to their sand-filled sock.
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As folks have commented over on the OP, back when the papers used to just quietly report people taking action to stand up for humanity. Not actively agitate on fascists' behalf because 'it makes good news'. How far the apple has fallen from that tree.
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Wowzers, that's magnificent!
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Thank you - I must go there. Top exploring potential! Enjoy! 🏰
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Oh, and you've ground pepper and everything... mouth is *watering*. Enjoy your tomatoey goodness!
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Cooo! Where be ye?
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Isn't it Carolyn - we definitely need hope for these little guys. 🐸😊
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🤣 See what you did there, Doc. 😀
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Boosting to #Egyptology! 😊
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This is lovely work - so elegant.
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☔🌴🌦️😊
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Very encouraging news for frog-friends out there! Hope emerging from Australia, for helping frogs self-care out of a Chytrid infection. (Also, frog saunas. 😍🥰🐸) Thanks for sharing @sheencr.bsky.social and for highlighting @loreandordure.com and @tkingfisher.com 🐸
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I was so excited about the frog news I didn't even see it. 🐸😀 Also, autocorrupt on phones prob needs to go and sit in a sauna or something - it's maddening, and often total gibberish.
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Have we had Thom Yorkie yet?
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Cat-sitting, passed with flying whiskers. He's SO cute and insisted on waking me up to demand cuddles. 😊🖤🤍
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Being installed recently around any area of concrete, so municipal areas like school yards, carparks etc. Deep soil and lush (usually indigenous) planting to catch run off, and it really works. Lovely idea. Likewise, leaky woody dams in UK uplands, to prevent flooding low down. Slow that flow!
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Yay - thank you! 😊 And I understand they cheerfully did a sock and sandal combo, which prob made the sandals much more comfy for marching in. That little sock looks very warm and comfy. I *think* I've seen Egyptian ones with tiny little sock-ribbons for keeping them up.
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Sounds like mock orange, but there might be other shrubs with similar flowers. Blimming love a delphinium, me, but they only top out at 1.5m ish - can't grow them at mine because 🐌🐌🐌🐌🐌 ! 😆
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Undoubtedly, Loukas. 👏 Also, I only heard of raingardens recently, and they just sound magical - and are making a real difference esp in tropical areas subject to silting problems in their marine env. Wild patches are def similarly beneficial inland - and look fab, and heave with insects. ☘️
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Ahh, look at all that loveliness - is the first philadelphus? Mock Orange Blossom? Lovely shrub, that.
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🤣😂 Hurrah! The sock-related madness is now distributing earworms! 🐛
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And @stori3dpast.bsky.social would prob know more about the Roman socks than I do? 🧦
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PS I also absolutely flipping love that ancient people wore socks. I believe there's a letter from the Roman site of Vindolanda basically saying 'thanks for the socks' and numerous Ancient Egyptian examples exist - big toe socks, like Japanese tabi.
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2/ Within that division, come Socks That Are Sucked Down Into Your Shoe Irrespective of Length (aka the de'il's own socks) and Decent Socks. Since life's too short for the boring sort, and the De'ils own socks are infuriating, my sock pool is more limited than, um, normal people's. 🤣🧦
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Ta for this explanation - I had no idea crew socks were even a thing - we only ever had long socks and ankle socks (which I think were actually crew socks) here until whenever it was that socks went forth and multiplied. Socks, in my view, divide only into Cute socks and Boring socks. 1/
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Crumbs, I hear you. I sort of forget that every year when the weather changes.
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That sounds fab! 😊
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You gotta love the style, haven't you. Fair play. I must come up there and see these ginormagulls - they sound amazing. #gullzilla
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Yay, thanks! We need a horsehoe emoji! 😊 Ooh, that could certainly be interesting work - and it does need balanced thinking on the inside. Very much ☘️☘️☘️😊
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Hehehe - thanks everso, and very pleased to oblige. 😊 I'm between things atm myself, and I guess sometimes the best fun stuff does happen when you're not sure what's going to happen next - extra-ing was also a between things time.
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Hehe, it always amuses me when dogs go and assist the democratic process. Back when I used to be a presiding officer, they really made a very long day shorter. Including the time one fellow passed me a Jack Russell so he had hands free to make his mark. 😊
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Ugh - shame on them. And good luck for the hunt - here's to better days ahead. 🤞
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Ohhhh, I realise maybe I took that too literally and the former colleague might have done it to see if it said anything funny/weird? In which case, no disrespect to them.
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Oh that's everso sweet, and the impromptu sharing of knowledge/disciplines must have been interesting. Even if the circumstances were tricky!
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