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(DIR) Post #B5yNCNwjksj1ZvNhjs by afewbugs@social.coop
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But a few things have changed since then, the ant pots are still there in my parents' borders but now completely engulfed by sea holly and cat mint, the rats are hopefully getting lots of yoggies and blueberries in the sky and the girlfriend is now my wife.
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The cat is still going strong, if a little scruffy and threadbare nowadays as he's a touch arthritic
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Laughton Greenwood near #Lewes in #Sussex will be holding its tenth anniversary celebration on the 2nd of August this year and I'll be teaching some woodland craft workshops at the event which will also feature children's activities, woodland art, a shared picnic with jacket potatoes cooked in the clay oven and woodland restoration volunteering.https://www.ticketsource.com/laughton-greenwood/t-njjaqrm?mc_cid=c5b66dd57b&mc_eid=38dcba9c95Laughton Greenwood is a lovely volunteer run community wood project restoring a neglected pine plantation to native woodland species. I was involved right back at the start of the project with all the admin involved in purchasing the woodland and setting up group and made them their first website, which has now been superceded by a far superior website https://www.laughtongreenwood.co.uk/ It's also where the photo of me brandishing an axe in my profile picture was taken. It's slightly terrifying how quick a decade can pass.#EastSussex #Brighton #HeritageCrafts #AncestralSkills #Bushcraft #SolarpunkSunday
(DIR) Post #B6QghkGw8XqPLwNIDA by afewbugs@social.coop
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Just popped round to my parents' to help my Dad upload his proof of address to the council website to apply for a resident's parking permit. As his proof of address was a photo of a council tax bill issued by the same council he was applying to I can't help but feel there must be a more sensible way to do this.
(DIR) Post #B6Qgho0QFt0kvsgA1g by afewbugs@social.coop
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Trying to do a bit of hype for my friend's #QueerOwnedBusiness: he'll be doing drop in talks on #UraniumGlass at #Exeter's #GandyStreet #FirstThursdays event on the 4th of June from Wand Vintage, https://www.wandvintage.com/, his antiques shop. It'd be great if anyone in #Devon could come along or share and get him a good crowd. https://www.instagram.com/p/DYZg-jgEYFN/
(DIR) Post #B6QghpLNHTMh59UPK4 by afewbugs@social.coop
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(For the avoidance of confusion, Charlie mentioned here is not my wife Charlie, he's a friend of mine who took voluntary redundancy from his chemistry research at the university to pursue his dream of running an antique shop and performing as a drag queen, and I think we can all agree that's one of the coolest career trajectories imaginable. We're not entirely sure what would happen if our friend group found a non binary Charlie to join the female Charlie and the male Charlie and complete the trifecta, but it's possible the universe might explode)
(DIR) Post #B6cgsvZUnXNnTmuHUO by afewbugs@social.coop
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@jensorensen it's amazing how literally everything that goes against the existing industrial model, no matter how obscure or implausible, seems to develop a "grassroots" scare campaign https://social.coop/@afewbugs/114608965104525785RT: https://social.coop/users/afewbugs/statuses/114608965104525785
(DIR) Post #B6lbSOjVzmd87QVtK4 by afewbugs@social.coop
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UK folks, does any sort of lockable cat proof screen door exist that can be left unattended (obviously only while we're in the house but to try and get a bit of airflow). Like this sort of thing but can be locked to the door frame not just held closed with magnets? TIA.https://www.amazon.co.uk/Windhager-03758-Insektenschutzt%C3%BCr-Individually-Shortenable/dp/B01CYIWNQ4 #AskFedi #UKHeatwave #IndoorCats
(DIR) Post #B6lbSQ5sw67OL5zGpU by afewbugs@social.coop
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#Exeter and #Devon folks, protest against the new EHRC guidance in Bedford square on Sunday the 31st.#UKTransphobia
(DIR) Post #B6lbSQmQNw96T1tF8S by afewbugs@social.coop
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How to grow fresh, tasty and nutritious #BeanSprouts and #Microgreens on your windowsill with simple, repurposed or recycled materials, and stick it to extractivist capitalism while doing so.https://tangledbankforaging.co.uk/2026/05/25/sprouts-on-a-windowsill-not-on-subscription-the-quiet-radicalism-of-growing-things/
(DIR) Post #B6owoOcllHT6fDZK8e by afewbugs@social.coop
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@fesshole/116650063381658444I used to work at a botanic garden, and someone wrote in to complain about the number of non white staff in the cafe and how it should stop serving so much foreign food and serve "proper English food like quiche". I know this because the letter was circulated around the entire organisation to be universally mocked.I miss the days when this sort of thing was treated with derision instead of called "legitimate concerns"#UKracismRT: https://mastodon.social/users/fesshole/statuses/116650063381658444
(DIR) Post #B7YfN0fxZLmXkvG39s by afewbugs@social.coop
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Dared to venture across the Tamar last night to the wilds of deepest Cornwall to join a friend's moth survey party. And I have to say this is without doubt the most beautiful photo of a moth trap I or probably anyone else have ever taken
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We got a good crop this morning
(DIR) Post #B7YfN1Cvam9ZPAgNXs by afewbugs@social.coop
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UK moths have some pretty unhinged names, that I think probably say more about Victorian gentleman entomologists than about the moths themselves. They seemed to be mostly horny (the Maiden's Blush), existentially uncertain (The Confused, The Suspected, The Uncertain, The Nonconformist) or mildly deranged (the Dingy Footman, the Obscure Wainscot). I'm looking forward to reading this on the way home to try and figure out why.
(DIR) Post #B7r3h5OYwGLjHPCgMq by afewbugs@social.coop
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I wish we in the UK could mobilise half the outrage we express about "air conditioning is a waste of energy and bad for the planet" and target it at AI datacentres, short haul flights, the beef industry, fast fashion or golf courses. They all do huge amounts of planetary harm without the justification of potentially saving lives in a heatwave.
(DIR) Post #B7r3h6euEz17CNrFTs by afewbugs@social.coop
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Also no one seems to complain about air conditioning in cars, but as soon as anyone starts talking seriously about putting it in buildings like hospitals, schools or workplaces suddenly everyone's an armchair climate activist
(DIR) Post #B7vtpyedKGEnmADOsK by afewbugs@social.coop
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I hate headlines like this. You read the article and discover she works in finance, he runs a life coaching business whatever that is, and they retired once their savings hit £1 million which didn't come from making their own sandwiches.Meanwhile out in the real world most of us have been bringing packed lunches to work since the 2010s at least and are still one unexpected vet bill away from a couple of months of home haircuts.
(DIR) Post #B7vtpzhrPkPh2SjUXo by afewbugs@social.coop
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To angrily overthink this further, it really does illustrate how people in the UK (and probably the wider Western World) are so completely isolated from one another by income bracket we don't really understand each other's lives. All of this couple's friends are presumably in finance or life coaching so to them making lunch instead of buying it sounds so outrageous they presumably approached the BBC and got themselves interviewed about it because they think they've done something so unusual. When really the unusual thing is that it worked.
(DIR) Post #B7vtq0GFLtv2l6ox8q by afewbugs@social.coop
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They also mention not putting on the heating in winter and using jumpers and hot water bottles instead, during which they presumably continued performing well enough in finance and life coaching. I'm guessing their house is high enough quality that it retained some heat and didn't immediately get covered in damp and black mould. Meanwhile during the really cold winter we had a couple of years back I was really worried about how exhausted one of the cleaners at work was getting, who admitted he couldn't afford to heat his house and it was too cold to sleep properly.
(DIR) Post #B7vtq0k1ZBjqFSkjYW by afewbugs@social.coop
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But I think the thing I really hate about these type of headlines is how they feed into victims blaming. People aren't poor because they don't have enough money for a decent life and it's really hard to claw your way over life's obstacles without money rather than having them knock you back further. They're poor because they spend too much money on sandwiches instead of making their own, the lazy idiots