I’m only a very occasional visitor here now, but I just started posting on Instagram again 😘

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Oh I don’t think I tagged you properly @jonhazan.net

A man holding a crocheted pink pear

Thank you for my hyper-realistic crocheted pear 🍐@jonhazan.net.
I love it. 🥰

Just have the best day! Love you too. x

Wishing the most joyful of wedding days to @daveslatts.bsky.social and @dscannell.bsky.social, the sun is shining for you beauties.
So very sad and disappointed I can’t join you due bloody COVID.

Thank you 😘

I always used to like their stuff, but expensive but usually my kind of thing. Don’t have any near me in Hampshire but I’m in Scotland this week.

Everything is so baggy now! I just go down a size or 2.

A mirror selfie of a man in a clothes shop fitting room.

I was the oldest customer in Urban Outfitters by about 20 years but hey I can still find the stuff I like.

This is my first time seeing them, though I’ve seen Jarvis do a DJ set 😆

Yeah I’m still trying to take it all in.

Pulp on stage at the Ovo Hydro Arena in Glasgow

Pulp surpassed expectations. They sounded incredible. I’m so happy they’re back. You’re in for a treat if you’re going to see this tour.

The Ovo Hydro concert arena with a crowd waiting for the show to start

Ready and waiting for Pulp at Glasgow.

Yes it was!

lol yes! With big clacky buttons to change the channel.

A TV in the corner of a room showing an episode of Top of the Pops from 1985

Watching 1985 Top of the Pops in my mum’s house.
Probably sitting in the same spot with the TV in the same corner as it was back 40 years ago.

I thought I was doing ok, maybe a bit of eye irritation. Then I heard myself in those videos and was like damn I sound like Darth Vader.

The sound of my breathing in these videos was the final push I needed to take my first antihistamines of the season. Pollen, you won this round. 😅

He is. And when Charlie’s owner came to collect him, he reminded me that Charlie used to get walked with another border collie who died a few months ago. So Charlie was probably just craving some border collie chill time.

I know it’s a busy time of year for the bird feeders, so I’ve been putting out fat balls, mealworms, seeds, suet pellets and peanuts. And it’s the fat balls that all the birds go for first. Which is good as I’ve found a cheap supply - Home Bargains.

A dog waiting outside a house door

Two dogs in a back garden

Anyway he wouldn’t leave. He sat outside for ages. Of course I took pity on him and let him through into the garden.
Got the owners number, let him know, Charlie gets collected shortly after, but you have to admire his independence.

Started heading back to the house, and Charlie would normally make his own way back to his place. Not today. He was with us all the way and got to ours before we did. 🤣

Did our usual thing, Charlie always has a stick with him, so threw that a few times for them both to chase.

Bumped into Charlie on the dog walk. He was on his own but he knows his way home. He’s the other border collie in the village, and him and Ronnie are always happy to see each other.

It’s come along for some lunch today

It’s usually there for quite a while but is easily spooked and then doesn’t come back till next day.

Not totally sure. My husband set it up, and he does electronics things as little projects, so maybe there’s something techy doing it.

A woodpecker eating some nuts from a hanging feeder

The app told us there’s a woodpecker visits our garden every morning around 9. And sure enough.

Yes this kept throwing me.

Yeah and again Mrs Flood only really works if Ruby is still the companion. Clearly the change to Belinda wasn’t part of the plan.