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  Went on a squirrel monitoring training walk today to learn how to count squirrels in a statistically significant way. Met a friend there and invited him over for lunch - which was impromptu and fun. Cut a lot of rampant brambles, wild rose and honeysuckle out the front garden. So that’s #ThreeGoodThings #3GoodThings

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  Trying to measure tiny hinges and choose hardware for the sideboard when OH bursts into my craft room in excitement with ‘Duckett’s out for a duck, first ball!!’ Not conducive to concentration but it’s ok, we can watch the highlights together later. I have yesterday’s to see as well. #miniatures #cricket

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  It’s that time again! If you haven’t heard Dundee-born Elsie MacDonald, you should! Go ahead and give an emerging alt-folk singer-songwriter a try. Elsie is well known in the Edinburgh scene and beyond for their emotionally impactful performance style, creating intimacy with audiences in shared spaces. Shamelessly posting as her proud mum!! #BandcampFriday #Folk #QueerPunk #Music https://elsiemacdonald.bandcamp.com/album/pulling-at-the-common-thread

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  Last train of the holiday, over an hour late now. While waiting, I spotted an odd message in Haymarket which said ‘Dundee Railway Station is out of order’. I puzzled over this for quite some time but then caught it scrolling through the information. Eventually I saw the screen before which said, ‘The up-escalator in’

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  Pleased with the colours on my chopping board tonight. #food #harvest #GYO

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  #SilentSunday

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  It’s a while since I have done some knitting. Here’s an elf knitted with donated wool from my aunt. I am going to do some more and put them into the woodland coffee morning in the spring. #Knitting #SoftToy #Woodland

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  Enjoying staying with my aunt. It is very comforting to be here in the best possible sense. 1 We went for a short drive to the local village 2 I fixed her Sat Nav 3 We watched University Challenge together. #ThreeGoodThings

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  Today is a big day for the little sideboard. I am going to glue the main pieces together. Wish me luck!! #miniatures #dollshouse #No52

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  Can’t go to a gig without getting a new t-shirt. This is an original design by Kankawa Nagarra the artist I saw on Wednesday night. It’s a journey from the tea-chest which she made into a guitar when she was young to her blues music today. She describes herself as ‘born in sand and washed in fire’. #Blues #Australia #KankawaNagarra

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  Good news!!! We have four swallows on the wire this morning. Our mating pair, last year’s young who has been helping all summer and one little fledging who made it through the dry weather!! The first two fledgings vanished in the drought and this survivor was the strongest of three in the next clutch. It’s a fragile achievement but bloody hell does it make me happy! #ClimateDiary #Swallows #BirdCallOut

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  Nearly finished work for the week - have a couple of admin tasks which I can complete here and then I am done. BUT on arriving home I realised the rattle I heard when I got out the van was not a random bit of rubbish on the tarmac but the lid of my *new* water bottle. So, now, I have to go back. 😭 #ADHD #weekend

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  Highly trained Jack Russells in this part of the world. Putting in a good day’s work too. #dogs #DogsOfMastodon #tractor #scotland

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  Completely forgot #MakersHour last night and had meant to share that I blocked my mini knitting (the silk one is now cast off but not blocked yet). The blue Lacey one is a shawl pattern but it has come out a bit big - the two tone garter is the size of a one twelfth scale double bedspread. Sewing scissors for scale. #knitting #DollsHouse #No52

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  4/3 (oops) The cause of this drought is a high pressure system sitting mid-Atlantic which is being caught between southern weather patterns pushing north and northern ice melt/higher temperatures pushing northern weather fronts south. This high is storing heat out at sea and evaporating sea water which currently has nowhere to go. While we are all needing rain, the likely outcome of a summer weather pattern like this is storms- and storms which have been powered by a continuous high pressure ‘b...

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  Having had quite enough adulting for one day - I was listening to Johnny Cash in the car and ‘The Chicken in Black’ came on and I wondered just how many popular songs there are with a chicken in them? Hit me up with all your suggestions!! #music #chickens #ChatHuman

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  This weekend I have 1 cut a huge amount of grass. 2 done a fair bit of much needed housework including loads and loads of laundry. 3 Painted the back window and prepped two more. So that is #3GoodThings #ThreeGoodThings #weekend

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  Scone loaf anyone? Warm from the oven. It’s very nice with butter and jam. #food #baking

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  @MakersHour@cupoftea.social Thanks for hosting when there’s so much else going on for you guys! Very much appreciated.

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  #ThreeGoodThings A friend came round for lunch and we ate homegrown salad in the garden & chatted. I planted out the beetroot and did some general gardening. We had gin & tonic after OH got home from work. A good day. Night all. #3GoodThings

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  It’s that time of year again! #HomeBrew #Beer

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  The first. Sweet peas. Wish I could share the scent. #BloomScrolling #CottageGarden #Gardening

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  I’m very slowly making an art deco inspired sideboard. There’s a lot still to be done, nothing you see here is glued in yet - but here’s a dry fit of the main parts. #DollsHouse #No52 #Makers #Craft #Miniatures

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  A good day. 1, I tidied the polytunnel. 2, Hosting dinner with visiting family was lots of fun. (I made goose egg quiche, and a victoria sponge). 3 I came second at Trivial Pursuit (since I am usually last this feels like a triumph). #ThreeGoodThings #3GoodThings

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  Tragic news: our local landfill site is on fire. The blaze is horrendous and the smoke towering over the tiny village of Ladybank. Locals are to keep windows and doors shut. The A92 is closed in both directions so our normally sleepy little road is very busy. I’m feeling pretty crap about it. We can’t go on using plastics and chucking them in the ground and hoping it never comes back to bite us. #ClimateChange #ClimateDiary #PlasticCrisis https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1e209vye0lo

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  Oriental Poppy in the rain #BloomScrolling

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  Scotland votes today for our parliament. I have voted - hoping everyone who can will do! #Scotland #politics

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  My gift has arrived! The recipient seems very pleased which is lovely. #MakersHour #DollsHouse

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  Sitting in the evening light waiting for my #ArtClass to begin.

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  Happy 1st of May: take it away Billy Bragg and Dick Gaughin… #international #RedFlag #May1st https://youtu.be/zEKYQ4GOqmk?si=a4wsYM9bHl_LO84r