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Oh dear, HenGen, sorry to hear that. I hope you’re better now. I’m glad your community is helpful.

Don’t shoot the messenger!

This one is mainly for Icemaiden.

That must have been painful!

This is sobering. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/nov/09/bird-flu-mutation-h5n1-virus-strains-pandemic

Yes, we’ve done that. It definitely counts as proper exploring - would even be properly low carbon if you had a horse instead of an engine!

We could use this where I live.

Daughter and S.I.L. are currently in Thailand. They visited the Maeklong market. The train goes slap bang through the middle and the stall holders move their stalls off the track at the last minute then set up again once it’s through.They caught the train and rode it through the stalls, then...

What a rich social life you lead, up there in the wilds of Shetland.

And a plastic glove when applying it!

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/oct/31/knitting-extraordinary-joy-heres-why Excellent article. I totally agree. It takes me a couple of years to work all round my family keeping them in sweaters, but this time I’m knitting a very complicated Aran just for myself. Though without a...

A friend of mine made this one.

Getting ready for Hallowe’en.

Two more history lessons with the Marsh Family. and then ;

Maybe the foxes have a myth claiming there’s a fox heaven with no electric fences, where they can freely hunt the chickens who didn’t lay well enough in life?

History of our country, in lecterns. The only practical and useful-looking one is Gordon Brown’s. Downhill all the way once the Tories get to spend our money. Liz Truss’s one is a good match, though - expensive, wooden and unstable.

Sounds more like humblebragging about their income and lifestyle to me.

What a lot we have in common!

He’s working on it.

Lucky girls! Do you suppose that battery hens have a religious belief that there is an afterlife beyond their shed, where at least some of them will go to a spacious heaven of grass, insects and dustbaths? Maybe the cynics among them tell the others that it’s just a made-up fairytale and that...