It's not, it's horrific!!! 😁 I'm looking forward to this, but I'm not watching it from a treadmill!
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It's not, it's horrific!!! 😁 I'm looking forward to this, but I'm not watching it from a treadmill!
Well, that's a bit unexpected Oop North.
If anyone asks me to define side eye, I'm showing them this. 😂
Was fading fast but then remembered I pocketed all the unwanted Biscoffs from the cafe at weekend. Bonus Monday treat. 😁
Autumn's coming.
A neat little single leg up stile for @lakesstiles.bsky.social Heading down from Stanage Edge to Hathersage.
Higger Tor, looking suitably magnificent. And reminding that whilst I always moan about how long it takes to get to the Peak District, I always enjoy it when I get there.
Been to see the 50th anniversary release of Jaws at the IMAX. It was BRILLIANT. Minor downside, can't stop quietly singing "fairwell and adieu to you fair Spanish ladies..."
Can't believe they published that without Spike on the cover as well. He was pivotal to the musical episode.
No one understands the Wars of the Roses, there were to many Edwards involved for it to be comprehensible to mere mortals.
Oh God, that scone looks amazing. Total scone envy. 😁
God, it's been A Day. And breathe.
I'm placing it above raisin and biscuit but below honeycomb on my Yorkie Excellence Scale. Would eat again.
Ah, yes. That one was excellent (if not quite as good as honeycomb).
It's a novel - tracychevalier.com/my-novels/a-... Also contains bonus bellringing facts. 😁
Exciting discovery made when buying milk after yoga. Will it be an acceptable replacement for the Yorkie Honeycomb, though?
I recently read Tracy Chevalier's A Single Thread and now find myself fascinated by kneelers. That's a lovely selection. 😁
Maybe I didn't quite think through the whole 'log as weapon' scenario... 😂
That's excellent. Beautifully and clearly articulates the problem.
It was dark when I got up this morning. 😥 And I've been glued to a screen since. Here's some lovely rolling hills, in compensation.
Oh no, that's aages. I hope it flis through. Or you get miraculously bumped up the list somehow.
He looks like he needs a hug. 😥
One of the best bits of my garden is the tiny space next to the kitchen where I'm all hidden, and when I look up I get a little frame of my own bit of sky.
Love the bat mugs! 🦇
Nice light. 💚 Good lumpy hill things, too.
The poise! The elegance! 😁
Really looking forward to needing a jumper to go out, rather than a hat, a litre of factor 50 and a dry top to change into in the car park. 😁
Oh no! Hope it's a very light dose and a swift recovery.
There's nothing quite like lying full length on the living room floor peering at a map though. It's when I miss my cats most, they used to join me. 😁
Oh, brilliant. That's simultaneously appealing and a bit terrifying.
Actually looks a bit more "AI start up CEO accused of bit coin fraud. " Sorry, that probably didn't wholly help.
And for @lakesstiles.bsky.social a very neat and tidy, small but perfectly formed gate topper finishing off a fine example of sticky out stone stile. On the Pennine Journey* near Sedbergh. *I'm still not entire sure what this is.
Terry Pratchett was truly a very wise man. 😁
Also, met a fluffy behemoth.
Been out chasing waterfalls. Also known was wandering round the Howgulls looking at Cautley Spot. Glorious day.
Shroom Season Part 2, MASSIVE bracket fungi on a tree near Sedbergh. With boyfriend's hand for scale. I may have just been hungry by this point but it totally looks like a massive marshmallow covered in chocolate powder. 💚 #fungifriends
Coffee definitely tastes better when duck from Herdy mugs. Fact. 😁
Shroom Season is upon us! #fungifriends
Just watched Black Bag. 1) excellent film 2) I now need to redesign all our interior lighting. #filmsky
Does she know you're sharing such a candid ears shot in the internet??? 😁 Shocking stuff!
Yes, it's properly beautiful the moment, especially in evening light. 💜
Nice light o'er the moors tonight. Very feeling that summer is fading out now.
The acceptable face of invasive species. 😃 New Zealand willowherb, epilobium brunnescens. Growing neatly and obtrusively from the rocky path up Pike o'Blisco. #wildflowerhour
Enchanter's nightshade (circaea lutetiana), in a woodland gorge in the northern Yorkshire Dales for #wildflowerhour Beautifully delicate.
You don't get more August perfection than this. Heather out, pipits popping about, butterflies and bees buzzing about. Bloody lovely.
Sunny Yorkshire Dales squeeze stile, for @lakesstiles.bsky.social On the way up Great Coum from Dent. A hill that doesn't shy away from the whole concept of gradient.
It's nice to have a (vague) mission. 😁
And the knobbly bits in the Langdales are very knobbly indeed. 😁
Yep. Wainwrights done, Wainwrights left to do. I'm not racing to completion here, I'll probably manage it by 2035 at this rate. 😁
Look at all those lovely lumpy bits. 💙 As someone on this very app said, there's a reason it's called GREAT Langdale.
I have been up Cold Pike and Pike o'Blisco. SPOILER: Cold Pike was not cold today. 😃 Bloody good day out. 135 done, 79 to go.
I recently read a novel where a couple went for a romantic walk in Manchester's Piccadilly Gardens in the 80s. I laughed myself daft at that.
I did, but I'm wishing I'd stayed in there with the air con. 😂
Ye Gods!
The car just said 28 when I got in.
Running over Crib takes bravery. Best of luck to her! Great pictures. I had an inversion the first time I did Crib, but I was too young and wibbly to properly appreciate it!
💙 I've been loving eating blackberries on my walks. It's a good time of year for light snacking. 😃
WILL IT HAVE AIRCON? Honestly, I don't care about an underground station at Piccadilly or solving the intractable problem of the Castlefield Corridor if I can have aircon.
This train is what a nuclear bomb probably feels like. I feel like Sarah Connor in T2.
Reader, the home train does not have aircon. 😥 Though lovely chap on my team bought us all mini magnums earlier. Pluses and minuses.
😂 Valid point.
Praying for air conditioned trains today.
Tonight's sheep/tree combo. Slightly startled sheep. Good tree.
Duck pond sunset on tonight's evening walk. Should probably stick the headtorch in again next week. Just in case.
Muamba Posy, by Vanessa de Silva. Amazingly striking and botanical. 💚 Including intrepid photographer. 😁
Wild Uplands, in Penistone Country Park. Tower is made of sheep. 💚 Loved this, mad and monumental. bradford2025.co.uk/programme/wi...
Didn't forget #WildflowerHour whilst I was up the moors. Foxes and Cubs (pilosella aurantiaca), up on the rocks at Penistone Country Park. One of my absolute favourites. Love a ginger wildflower.
Been up the wily, windy moors, complaining about the reinvention of Heathcliff as a romantic hero. He was a thug and an abuser. Someone help me down off this soapbox. Anyway. Top Withins is rather glorious.
Ridiculously good moon out there tonight. Proper showing off from our local, friendly astral body.
😂💚 But mostly 😂
See Jurassic Park: Rebirth was made by someone who loves Jaws and the Alien films a much as I do. 😁 Bonus Jaws trailer at the screening too. 💚 🎥🎬
Loved this. Perfect entertainment. The scrap with the young lads over the car was glorious comedy.
Heather's out. Nights are drawing in. We're on the turn again. Etc. Yes, I know it's still only early August. 😁
That's a rather beautiful cairn.
I see the Weather Gods have remembered my birthday (leave booked) is on Thursday. 😡 Still, 9 years ago it was a much worse forecast and I was in a tent at Clachtoll campsite. 😂
Well, I've learned a new word today then.
Everyone is sharing lovely and informative owl stories for #InternationalOwlAwarenessDay 💚 My owl story: I was once bitten by a barn owl. I rang NHS 111 to ask if I needed a tetanus or anything. They asked several times "bitten by WHAT?" Then laughed at me. 😁 Bloody owls. 😁🦉
😂 Roll on autumn!
If I'd known it was going to end up warm enough to take my cardigan off in the office, I'd have ironed the back of my top as well as the front. 😁
Oh, poor teasels! Hope everything mostly survives.
That's a marvellous alt text on the first photo. 😂 Well done.
Have a lovely summer and a lovely rest.
That's encouraging! Hope you've got where you're going now or that anywhere onwards isn't too tricky!
😂 Animals make the best conversational partners. I used to spend a LOT of time "discussing" things with my cat.
Happy Monday! Make sure Mavis's ears are securely tied down today. 😁
Not the best day to be traipsing into Manchester. Wish me working trains, later. "Oh, Manchester, so much to answer for..." 🎶
Audible "Oh.... FUCKing HELL" from behind me at the end of Sightseers. I empathised. 😁
If be quite happy with that. The house I grew up in had one opposite. I used to go and sit in it, gothicly, as a teen. 😁
Fuelled much of today's balsam bashing with hedgerow snacks. Highly satisfying morning.
Just lovely. 💚
I hadn't thought of that! Your beautiful picture captures the Time Before the Great Shiny Tower Sproutings of the 2020s.
Perfect choice.
Rob Newman 💚
These are totally my favourite so far. 💗
God, I've driven past that a gazillion times with no idea it was hiding such beauty. 💚
💡 Of course, the solution to everything. 😂
If you want to know how my day is going, I've just watched a video on how to tape a broken toe. 😥 Still, if Lucy Bronze can do a whole football tournament with a fractured tibia, I can do a yoga class with a strapped up toe
Tried to type thirded. Auto corrected to tired. Stand by both.
One of those days.....
@mostlyrambling.bsky.social Look! Proper coloured ice cream 😂