@orchardnotes.com An Api Noir, looking quite noir inside and out!

Let's go back to getting our news in the traditional way: by waiting until a privateer anchors at Port Glasgow with a bunch of intercepted letters and a renegade priest. [Aberdeen Press & Journal, 25 Sep 1780]

@jowilliams.bsky.social @lakesstiles.bsky.social Now reading the OS triangulation history. In the summary of the first triangulation, this excellent account of Mr Brown's vital knowledge

@lakesstiles.bsky.social www.telegraphpoleappreciationsociety.org

Trains are crap.

@lakesstiles.bsky.social 👇 map.openseamap.org

@lakesstiles.bsky.social @loukellett.bsky.social

I detest electric hobs.

@loukellett.bsky.social @lakesstiles.bsky.social phwooarw!

Is making the right amount of crumble for apple crumble impossible?

I have a great concept for a detective novel, if anyone wants one.

I hate cooking.

How easy is it to become a priest? Sounds like it will be cheaper and easier than being forced to use "Making Tax Digital" by HMRC, and priests are exempt

@lakesstiles.bsky.social Rye burger buns

New invention idea: nail scissors that prevent clippings flying off randomly.

@lakesstiles.bsky.social Historic Gillie stilin

@elluetravel.bsky.social Been meaning to say, if you haven't got the bus to Griesalp, you should!

@loukellett.bsky.social You do food. Do modern onions have the eye watering thing removed? Or, do you know your onions about onions?

Just discovered the Roman() function in Excel. Back in a while.

@lakesstiles.bsky.social We've identified your Christmas present.

@lakesstiles.bsky.social Orthogonal stile'n

Scythed the path. Soaked in sweat. Feeling rustic.

Square port hole!! What is this!?

@elluetravel.bsky.social Sorry but more Swiss question: How is Schwyz pronounced? (Shcherwiz??) Are red and white cranes a particularly Swiss thing? Why do traditional Swiss chalets tend to be scattered but Italian ones clustered ?

Weisshorn North and East ridges this morning.

@elluetravel.bsky.social . Is there a difference in connotation between Pfad and Weg?

Disproportionately pleased at having installed a gutter down pipe. It's vertical too.

4 posts arrived and @dfgillie.bsky.social not kidnapped. A good day.

@lakesstiles.bsky.social Some very complex gatery. Near your place

I concur

ChatGPT is a) rubbish and b) an infuriating combination of sycophancy, confidence and dishonesty.

Not entirely irrational concerns: 1)Carpark barriers closing on me 2) Pulling the hair of the person in the seat in front when I grab it to stand up on a train. 3) Knocking the barometer off the wall and having mercury beads everywhere.

I am a church goer and we get even worse euphemisms, such as 'called home' or the even worse 'promoted to glory'. It makes me cringe so much. Last time one of our congregation died I told my husband that if I die before him he is to veto such language when they announce it to the church.

@lakesstiles.bsky.social When did OS 1:25k maps stop showing water features on the key?

@lakesstiles.bsky.social I know you are mainly a stiles and gates chap but have considered manhole covers. Here's a classic BS467 with ears all round

@lakesstiles.bsky.social A modern NT, viscous-damped clean-line gate

Look, GPS woman, the phrase is "congestion ahead", not "a congestion ahead". Grrr

On the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, we thought we'd answer a question that's often asked, "If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?" Allow our scaled diagram to explain...

Are Azuma trains meant to sound like "a zoomer" ?

Hotel Ibis Glamour

In my considered viewing, electric hobs are horrendous things.

Everyone is wrong.

I quite the Tesco piped music. Should I be concerned?

@brendar.bsky.social beat this!

Many too small pieces

The background to Treason Act 1495 is quite something

@lakesstiles.bsky.social These people make proper passing place signs

Brushing up on spherical geometry and learn "if one is not sure whether one lives on a sphere or a plane one can answer the question by measuring the sum of angles in triangles" Good to know.

I'm inventing grammar tonight. Dative gerund is my latest idea

Breakfast reading :UK risk register. Severe space weather is a concern GOV.UK www.gov.uk National Risk Register 2025