Five animals I've seen in the wild (I've picked the ones I was most excited about): Mountain gorillas Red squirrels African wildcat African elephant Groundhog

Knitting friends, I'm making my first jumper, which has raglan sleeves. I'm knitting it for large son, and did a great job of the front up to the start of the raglan, where I have promptly fucked it right up. Is there a safe-ish way to unravel back to the start of the raglan?

Happy #taikatuesday to those who celebrate!

Nothing like driving past dozens of sagging St George's flags to spend five hours in Accident & Emergency on a Friday evening to get the weekend off to a great start. Have left my mum to sleep on a trolley in a corridor as it's going to be hours before she can see a doctor. Bit bleak tbh.

Introduce yourself with the last five concerts you've seen: Kalandra @ Papillon Southampton Jamiroquai, Raye and the Charlatans at Victorious, Southsea The Killers @ St Mary's Stadium, Southampton Darren Criss @ the London Palladium Nick Cave @ The King's Theatre, Southsea Bit of an odd lot!

There's been a lot of distracting and dismaying Real Life happening, but this one can always raise a smile. I know I've posted it too many times, but I don't care. Happy #TaikaTuesday!

Friends, it has been a terrible few weeks in which my elderly mum has managed to survive both sepsis and what looked like terminal renal failure. Stress levels have been HIGH, and I have not been sleeping.

RIP Jane Goodall, who has been a constant source of inspiration since I read about her work with the chimpanzees of Gombe when I was about 15.

Post you from a different era Easter 1993, 17yrs old, approximately 50% hair, working a lock on (I think) the Shropshire Union canal.

People interested in seeing Rhys’s show in Indy: I’ve unfortunately had to cancel my plans to go. Alas, they do not refund tickets (😒) but they do allow you to change the name on the ticket. So who wants to be there Oct. 4 at 8:30pm? Let me know so we can discuss further.

I'll be 50 tomorrow. I was going dancing with my dearest friends today. But my lovely mum collapsed on Monday and has been teetering on the brink ever since, so instead I will shortly be going back to the hospital to try and get her to eat, and to listen to whatever Mum wants to say.

DO👏IT👏FOR👏THEM👏 #SaveOFMD #RenewOFMD #OurFlagMeansDeath #OFMD #ForRhysie

Today's in-car listening: Save Us, Michael Bolton by @knivesinfeet.bsky.social read by @happydaiz.bsky.social. It's fab and distracted me from the weird noise the car was making, which strongly suggested that something was about to fall off. Highly recommended. on.soundcloud.com/QOo8NHIsvV82...

you know what you need? THEM.

IT'S TIME FOR ART!!!! Welcome to #YWMLP: You Wrote Me a Lovely Postcard, a fundraiser for @theyoungcenter.bsky.social ! At this link, you'll find 100+ beautiful pieces of postcard art in sets of 4 and 12—peruse, get excited, make an account and start picking your faves! Fundraiser opens the 30th!

Happy #TaikaTuesday to all the Taikaholics who did not knock a whole, fresh cup of extremely hot tea all over their right hand this afternoon, comprehensively ruining their day. Having a quantity of lovely new Taika to gawp at has helped, but I'm going to pull out a classic serotonin boost...

I got changed into my gardening clothes to do some much-needed gardening, sat on the bench with a cup of tea, looked at the parched disaster of my back garden for a bit, and now I'm changing out of my gardening clothes into something cleaner to cook dinner. Zero gardening done. Yay me.

That's me right there, 0 works and 10,000 bookmarks. Come and jump in, the water's great.

Car broke down 3hrs into our journey home from Wales, 2hrs from home. Waited four hours for the breakdown service. Our car stinks of teenager shoes, we've been in it for 12 hrs, and my husband is now driving home so slowly you'd think we were in a hearse. "It's a comfortable speed" he says.

Happy #TaikaTuesday to those who celebrate. I see that T & R are partying in the Med. I'm two weeks younger than T and just woke myself up snoring, less than ten mins into an attempt to stay up to catch the Perseid meteor shower. It's a different sort of life 😂. Cheers, m'dears.

I needed his energy again. I need his wild n free-ness. 🧡 #OurFlagMeansDeath #ofmd

Happy #TaikaTuesday on the day we learned that there was, in fact, a concealed crotch zipper in the cutest onesie ever worn by a grown man.

I make brooches and earrings and things in my shop! ❤️ withyworkshop.myshopify.com

Dear Crew, after reading the lovely Put Your Body Next To Mine... I've got an itch for #ofmd fics involving Ed and a baby. Any suggestions, please? #ofmdficrec archiveofourown.org/works/676923...

This is a wonderful thing.

No cheating. Post the last pic of your pet. Charlie Chips and Lily Pops this week

It's been a no good, very bad day that even the delights of #taikatuesday can barely lift. So here's a triptych entitled Today, Tonight, Tomorrow, in which T is standing in for a sick and exhausted Caucasian peasant woman (me). The tomorrow one may be aiming a bit high, tbh.

I had to go straight to bed after Brownies because the BBC series of Day of the Triffids was on and it was too scary for me.

Contains multitudes, I tell you. Happy #taikatuesday m'dears. I hope we are all swimming, and not sinking.

once again asking for a signal boost, friends 🥹🙏🐱

@oatmilktruther.bsky.social I've spent two hours thinking about how much I want to go to aquafit with Ed Teach and much of that wondering what he wears. For half of that time I was trying to simultaneously feign interest in my 84yr old mum's rant about her carer stealing her tinned goods.

I'm so hot. I can't handle it. Rita & Taika did #taikatuesday so I don't have to, bless their chaotic little hearts.

Highly recommended by moi. It's delicious

It's a been a complicated week in which events have really cut into my #OFMD reading time, which is just rude. Just about kept up with smashing chapters of Please Let Me Hold You, Wingman and Out Of the Bag.

Babes I just wanna say for anyone who's seen the Ao3 stats going around and now feels weird or sad about their own stats - stats say absolutely nothing about how good an author you are, or how beloved your fics are. You and your writing are amazing, and no numbers can change that.

This? Perfect.

This week I have enjoyed supportive hubby Taika in his bucket hat dad dancing to Rita singing. I'm not going to share that a) because I can't find it and b) technical ineptitude. So my #TaikaTuesday offering is Taika at a con because it will probably never happen again, more's the pity

HI I HAVE TICKETS FOR THE FRIDAY PERFORMANCE AND CAN'T GO do you want to go? Yes? Let's talk turkey in my DMs

New #ofmd fic from @bktrashcat.bsky.social and @slightestwind.bsky.social in one day?! What a time to be alive (this is not intended to be sarcastic). A shitty day greatly improved.

Another absolutely glowing review for our dear Rhysie. ⚠️CW: Contains Spoilers!⚠️ #RhysDarbyFaction www.allthatdazzles.co.uk/post/review-...

Happy #TaikaTuesday my darlings. Have a great one.

My week in reading... Finished Hymn to Virgil by @oatmilktruther.bsky.social and The Ex-House by @caladria.bsky.social, both of which were unreasonably good. archiveofourown.org/works/63316585 archiveofourown.org/works/64147240

I've literally just watched him avenge Ragnar by killing Aetholwold. I'll be fine.

I'm sitting in the garden with a gin and tonic enjoying the beautiful scent of my Daphne "Eternal Fragrance". It was my dad's favourite, and he died 11 years ago today, so it's lovely that it's in full bloom. Love you, Dad, and still miss you every day. Richard Ashby, 19 Dec 1945 - 11 June 2014

Today's TV Show recommendation is the historical comedy "Our Flag Means Death". Stede Bonnet, a pampered aristocrat, abandons his life of privilege to become a pirate in the early 18th century. Streaming on Max, two amazing seasons. Historical Drama x RomCom x Farce. Original & wonderful.

I give you fluff. You deserve it. *Pay no attention to their feet. You go draw some feet. Tell me how easy it is. #ofmdfanart #ofmd

friendly reminder

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