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thebaywindowgirl

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Maker of jewellery, taker of photographs, and baker of scones, treating you to a flake of my life. She/her. Rural Northumberland. Left leaning union member. Love the outdoors, politics and current affairs, books, art, and music. There will be pictures of sheep. And cake.
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purplepadma, (edited ) to random
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Do you prefer your battles to use…?

thebaywindowgirl,
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@purplepadma I find fight scenes incredibly tedious, both on screen and in books. Sorcery all the way for me.

purplepadma, to random
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Heads up that the excellent fantasy novel I am reading, Gardens of the Moon by Steven Erickson, is 99p on Kindle at the moment. Big recommend

thebaywindowgirl,
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@purplepadma is it very fighty? The write up on Amazon makes it sound fighty.

thebaywindowgirl, to random
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Short sleeves for the first time this year on ’s walk. Some of the lambs are looking quite chunky now.

Colour photograph of an upland landscape, with a grassy slope in the foreground and hills beyond. Three sheep are in the centre of the frame. The sky is blue.
Colour photograph of a sheep and lamb side on to the camera, facing right. Both have black legs and faces, and the adult has horns.they are in a grassy, hilly landscape.
Colour photograph of a wooden five bar gate set in a post and wire fence. Rough grass in front, a hilly landscape beyond. The sky is blue, and full of very puffy white clouds.

andycarolan, to random
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Will anyone notice if I go for a smol nap?

thebaywindowgirl,
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@andycarolan Not if you sneak off quietly.

purplepadma, to random
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Morning. Miss Cinnamon didn’t come home last night. Tom slept downstairs to listen out for her, but nothing. I’m very anxious.

thebaywindowgirl,
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@purplepadma fingers crossed she strolls in very soon.

Wen, to art
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Ancrum Arts - 4 years on

We acquired this steel woodpecker 4 years ago (or maybe 5) at Ancrum. It occupies a half trunk alongside the Borders Abbey Way which runs through our ‘garden’ (wild wild woods). It has weathered very nicely on both sides and is frequently commented on - which is probably because while we have two pairs of woodies in the woods, they are easy to hear and difficult to see.

Phot: Steel woodpecker on a tree near the Borders Abbey Way - the other side

thebaywindowgirl,
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@Wen That's a very beautiful thing. I had plans to walk a section of the Border Abbeys Way last year, but it never happened. Maybe this year.

thebaywindowgirl,
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@Wen My plan was to drive up to Kelso then get a bus to St Boswells and walk back to Kelso. I may seek your advice about buses if/when I do it!

RolloTreadway, to random
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Morning everyone. I think another day of gardening is in store today. There's just so much to do - plus, I'm behind on a bunch of things I would normally have done in April, because it was cold and wet and they didn't get done.

Earworm this morning, because of something I read when scrolling back my mastodon feed, is I Want To Be In The Mafia by BC Camplight.
https://youtu.be/D97HZztWpPY

thebaywindowgirl,
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@RolloTreadway Morning Rollo, and happy gardening. We actually have sunshine here at the moment, hope it’s shining on you too.

thebaywindowgirl, to random
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Home from work. That’s me on holiday for a couple of weeks! 🎉

TheBreadmonkey, to random
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If I was on the news covering the election results, I would simply stand up and shout "STOP! You've said all of the words. It's DONE!"

I just think at some point you have to recognise all of the words have been said and anything further would be devoid of meaning. From that point on, anyone that says 'deliver/ed/ing' should have to go to prison.

thebaywindowgirl,
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@TheBreadmonkey @purplepadma I just had to look up TWOC, which apparently means Trial Without Catheter, and now I’m very confused.

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So many sheeps enjoying the sunshine yesterday.

Colour photograph of a large woolly sheep suckling her two lambs. She is facing the camera, the lambs are tail-on, heads buried in her undercarriage.
Colour photograph, portrait format, of a group of two ewes and many small lambs. They are standing on the high point of a grassy slope. A hill rises steeply behind them.
Colour photograph of a white ewe standing side on to the camera, with a single lamb beside her. They are standing on a grassy slope. A very large hill looms behind them.

thebaywindowgirl,
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@eclectech Lambs score very highly on the Awwwww scale.

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An actual warm and sunny day for my walk , though very windy on the tops. It’s finally starting to dry out underfoot too.

Colour photograph of a stretch of grassy moorland, with a rough track running away from the viewer to the right of the frame. A ridge of hills rises gradually beyond. Blue sky overhead.
Colour photograph of a wooden gate and stile, in a post and wire fence. It runs across a stretch of rough grass, with hills beyond. Blue sky overhead.
Colour photograph of a burn running away from the viewer, between grassy banks. Sheep graze on the right hand bank. There is a stonewall to the right, and a grassy slope rises on the other side. Hills in the distance. Blue sky overhead.

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In the Spanish deli cafe hiding from the chatty cleaners. Too much of a strain to engage today. I’m the only person in here which is perfect, and the waitress knows my order without me saying a word. NO RHUBARB TO BE FOUND IN TOWN

thebaywindowgirl,
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@purplepadma I don’t know if it’s all thevrain, but rhubarb seems to be really scarce this year.

purplepadma, to random
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Hi, I’m up after 13 hours of sleep but too depressed to communicate effectively. I see lots of lovely supportive messages and I really appreciate them. I’ll try and respond later. Thanks, everyone

thebaywindowgirl,
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@purplepadma please don’t feel pressure to respond, just take care of yourself xx

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The Community MH Team lady rang!! I had given up hope. She’s coming to my house to see me on Thursday. Please, please let her be both nice and effective 🤞🏻

thebaywindowgirl,
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@purplepadma ooh, good news. Fingers very much crossed for you.

RolloTreadway, to random
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Jealous of all your cats. Why can't I have a cat? Or a dog. Or a chinchilla, whatever. No fair.

thebaywindowgirl,
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@RolloTreadway I’d love to have a cat again, but renting, so no.

thebaywindowgirl,
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@eclectech @RolloTreadway I think a similar thing was mooted for England and Wales, but the Tory landlord MPs in Westminster have pissed all over the Renters’ Reform Bill.

purplepadma, to random
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I’m struggling and I need cuteness or soothing things in my feed, anyone able to oblige?

thebaywindowgirl,
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@purplepadma I can offer a soothing pastoral scene, complete with sheepy cuteness.

purplepadma, to random
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Things I could do this coming week:

  1. Take the bus to the seaside and walk on the beach
  2. Take the bus to Biggertown and browse the charity shops
  3. Running
  4. Start my tapestry kit
  5. Follow a new path out to the woods
    Must try not to just lie in bed plotting my own demise
thebaywindowgirl,
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@purplepadma Did you make any headway with your jigsaw?

thebaywindowgirl,
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@purplepadma I’m sorry, but that did make me laugh. Hope you get on better with the tapestry. I have one that I do when visiting my mother, to distract me from her monologues.

thebaywindowgirl,
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@purplepadma Mine is a hare too, it’s a William Morris design. I do find tapestrying quite meditative.

RolloTreadway, to random
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Mowed the stupid lawn. Another good thing about getting rid of that lawn, if I could do so, would be that it might stop people letting their dog shit on it.

Why would you let your dog shit on someone's lawn anyway? And not pick it up? The fuck is wrong with some dog owners?

I love dogs, I've had dogs in the past, I wouldn't dream of letting one shit on someone's lawn.

thebaywindowgirl,
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@purplepadma @sheepnik @RolloTreadway And why do some of them make the effort to put the shit in a bag, then hang in in a tree or hedge. Wtf is going through their heads when they do that? I took a dog out for a walk in the country the other day, she did a shit, I bagged it and carried it home, where I put it in the bin. It’s not hard.

thebaywindowgirl, to random
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Apologies for the running commentary on tedious mansplainer last night, it was a long train journey. I was actually in London to see a John Singer Sargent exhibition at Tate Britain, and it was spectacularly lovely, especially where they also had the dresses in the portraits on display beside the paintings.

Colour photograph of a portrait of Ellen Terry as Lady Macbeth by Sargent. She is dresses in a long blue green dress, and hold a crown above her head.
Colour photograph of the dress from the portrait in the previous portrait. It is green, with huge bell sleeves, and a red velvet cloak worn over the top.

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https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/apr/27/work-and-pensions-committee-chair-tells-ministers-to-fix-carers-allowance-issues

' “The government defends the mean-spirited rules which penalise carers’ earnings beyond £151 a week... then criminalise carers for any overpayments of carer’s allowance. Given HMRC have the earnings data, why don’t they [DWP] just write to carers if they think they’ve accidentally gone over the earnings limit?” '

'Timms called for the carer’s allowance earnings limit to be increased in line with the national minimum wage after it was in effect frozen five years ago...'

thebaywindowgirl,
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@TalktoBeverley How far would £81.90 get you in a care home? Absolutely nowhere. These people are saving the nhs and councils millions by caring for their relatives at home, and they deserve better.

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