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Isabel Rogers

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Writer. Relatively chirpy. Stockwell Park Orchestra series, and sometimes poetry. isabelrogers619 on instagram https://farragobooks.com/book-series/the-stockwell-park-orchestra-series isabelrogers.org

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Isabel Rogers @isabelrogers.bsky.social · 10h

Gorgeous!

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Isabel Rogers @isabelrogers.bsky.social · 13h

oh no! Mine only comes on in 15 second bursts when it sees movement, so should catch something.

Isabel Rogers @isabelrogers.bsky.social · 13h

Most of the time. no promises...

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Isabel Rogers @isabelrogers.bsky.social · 13h

Set up the wildlife camera next to the mahoosive and increasing hole in the bank by my gate, which is rapidly emptying out earth from where it needs to be. Dunno what I'm going to do when I find out what's digging it, mind. But all info is good, right?

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Isabel Rogers @isabelrogers.bsky.social · 14h

Well this is lovely. What a life he's had. And it's not over yet.

‘Risky is the best way to be’: Tim Curry on sexuality, surviving a stroke – and 50 years of stardom

From Rocky Horror to the Muppets, Curry’s extraordinary career made him world-famous. Then, a stroke left him paralysed. The actor talks about his cocaine years, his friendship with David Bowie – and ...

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Isabel Rogers @isabelrogers.bsky.social · 16h

Only a brief lull today. Back to full strength tomorrow.

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Isabel Rogers @isabelrogers.bsky.social · 16h

Baked a banana and choc chip loaf today, but there's only one builder here. So far I've had two slices and he's accepted a couple more for afternoon cuppa, bringing his total up to four. Gotta get through it somehow. Fresh cake is the business.

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Isabel Rogers @isabelrogers.bsky.social · 17h

oh ffs. That's basic level stuff they're not doing there.

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Isabel Rogers @isabelrogers.bsky.social · 17h

as in, you would do them all, all of the time? I'm conflicted on that. Some are... terribly long. And we *have* already heard it. YES for little ones. MAYBE for 3 pages (of a symphony cello part, which might be 7 for the first violins with all their twiddles).

Isabel Rogers @isabelrogers.bsky.social · 22h

I don't think they will ever do it again. Unless they have to live, like a prom. What has happened to us?

Isabel Rogers @isabelrogers.bsky.social · 22h

They are spoiling you wonderfully.

Isabel Rogers @isabelrogers.bsky.social · 22h

All I ask is that Radio 3 play all the movements a composer wrote. I know this ship has sailed so far over the horizon it is now upsidedown. But JEEZ we are not gnats with gnat-sized attention spans.

I don't send out individual chapters. Readers get the whole thing.

*waves kerchief sadly at ship*

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Isabel Rogers @isabelrogers.bsky.social · 1d

It's at these kind of things that I miss Justin Trudeau. It was only out kindness that he didn't rip Trump's arm off at the shoulder. Totally could have.

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Sue Beesley @suebeesley.bsky.social · 1d

Truly incredible...

Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 2d

9-yr-old Ukrainian Sasha Paskal has won gold&bronze medals at the All-Ukrainian Rhythmic Gymnastics Competition "Black Sea Cup"

In the summer of 2022she was seriously injured by a Russian strike and underwent a leg amputation

Sasha didn’t give up.She went through rehabilitation
📹bokareva.solovey.m

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Isabel Rogers @isabelrogers.bsky.social · 1d

Yes. And how people can care for each other despite having different opinions, and it can endure through change. Wonderful stuff.

Isabel Rogers @isabelrogers.bsky.social · 1d

Channel 4, I think? The streaming bit. But I also have the dvd box set. Because I knew I'd want it again. Yes, those lines my GOD

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Isabel Rogers @isabelrogers.bsky.social · 1d

Suddenly out of nowhere comes the need to rewatch Boston Legal. The whole thing. Friendship. Love. Betty White. James Spader being given increasing licence. Older women stars. William Shatner shooting things. 4th walls. Michael J Fox. Dancing. Halloween. Fishing. And back to love. God it was good

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Isabel Rogers @isabelrogers.bsky.social · 1d

Ah - I remember this! Still so glad you were both safe.

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Moose Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 1d

When I posted this thread a couple of days ago I mentioned the moment we realised how bad our dog's eyesight had got. Here's that story, which I originally posted on Twitter…

Moose Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 3d

This is our dog Nutmeg.

She will be 12 this month. She lost her eyesight gradually a couple of years ago. We knew she had cataracts from her milky eyes, but one day we realised they had got pretty bad. (How we realised how bad they had got is another story I will post on here at some point).

Moose Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 3d

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Isabel Rogers @isabelrogers.bsky.social · 1d

counting in coal tit:

(spotted woodpecker got within 5 metres of me - should have put more peanuts on my hand. wouldn't that be a marvellous thing? or would it shove its beak straight through my hand?)

2 coal tits on my hand, one in process of taking off rather beautifully

three coal tits on my hand. you can see where this is going

yep. four. it's the sunflower seeds and my beguiling ways

WHOA! five! there is not technically enough room for five, with the amount of scrapping they tend to do, so it's all a bit of a midair scrum. If they would line up and take one seed each nicely it would be easier. but no

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Isabel Rogers @isabelrogers.bsky.social · 1d

Sunshine lifting the mist over the wash tent. Who says Mondays aren't romantic?

First glimpse of the sun over the hill and trees this morning, after thick fog. Lifting fast, with the promise of blue sky to come. My trusty wash tent stands in the garden, variously pegged down and lashed to nearby trees. Water droplets on everything.

Isabel Rogers @isabelrogers.bsky.social · 1d

Ugh. Well, the only cleaner I have ever had (back in another brief life with a husband) was blimmin lovely. Hope yours will be too.

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Isabel Rogers @isabelrogers.bsky.social · 1d

oh god, I hate that. And you're poorly sick? This is all kinds of unfair.

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 2d

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

Members of the force's sports squad, responsible
- among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower.
After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access.
Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said.
Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs".

There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said.
A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said.
"The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there."
Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."

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Isabel Rogers @isabelrogers.bsky.social · 2d

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