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Amanda Hill @mandahill.bsky.social · 17h

I sowed a few rows of lettuce after harvesting the garlic and it's just about ready.

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Amanda Hill @mandahill.bsky.social · 22h

The Kinks, Waterloo Sunset youtu.be/N_MqfF0WBsU?... #LyricsPrompt

The Kinks - Waterloo Sunset (Official Audio)

YouTube video by The Kinks

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Amanda Hill @mandahill.bsky.social · 3d

It took most of the day, but managed to get two IT people from two different organizations and two different cities into the same room at the same time to resolve a problem. #SmallWin

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Amanda Hill @mandahill.bsky.social · 13d

Value advanced fares were great. That was for a first class seat! The ticket for the journey home was also in the book: £56 for a standard fare during rush hour.

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Amanda Hill @mandahill.bsky.social · 13d

Memento of a former life, found in a book.

Value advanced first class single ticket from Manchester to Euston in 2006.

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Amanda Hill @mandahill.bsky.social · 15d

Was gifted an unexpected free two hours this afternoon. Would have been a crime not to go out for a ride.

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Amanda Hill @mandahill.bsky.social · 16d

The eggplant flower from a month ago did produce an edible fruit, but it was the size of a grape. Not exactly a feast.

Yellow tomato with two grape-sized eggplants.

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Amanda Hill @mandahill.bsky.social · 22d

It's been a disappointing growing season, but I did get a small Thanksgiving harvest.

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Amanda Hill @mandahill.bsky.social · 24d

Satisfying to reunite mislabelled photos which have been separated by most of the alphabet for about 50 years.

Envelopes labelled "Mrs J. C. Dodds" and "Jean Wadds".

Contents of envelopes all photos of the same woman.

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JA Westenberg @joanwestenberg.com · 29d

And it never looks like the forecast.

I’ll admit, and I’ll own my anxiety: I’m terrified that AI will kill my plans, that it’ll rearrange the coordinates of my life in ways I cannot anticipate, that it’ll mean the death of the written word and the end of creativity and so on.

20/22

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Amanda Hill @mandahill.bsky.social · 29d

Glorious conditions for an #earlyMorningBikeRide

Sunshafts in light mist around a tree with autumnal leaves.

Trail leading past a tree with orange leaves under a blue sky.

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Amanda Hill @mandahill.bsky.social · Oct 3

I finally have enough tomatoes to roast some into soup. In *October*. And we still haven't had much rain.

Baking trays with multi-coloured tomatoes ready to roast.

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Amanda Hill @mandahill.bsky.social · Oct 2

Thinking it might be Bryophyllum pinnatum, or Mother of Thousands. (Sounds a bit ominous.)

Amanda Hill @mandahill.bsky.social · Oct 2

A small succulent gift. Can anyone identify it for me? Trying not to kill it in the first week...

Small succulent plant with serrated leaf edges.

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Amanda Hill @mandahill.bsky.social · Oct 2

A small succulent gift. Can anyone identify it for me? Trying not to kill it in the first week...

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Amanda Hill @mandahill.bsky.social · Sep 30

Dahlias making up for a disappointing summer.

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🇨🇦 Bernice Hillier 🇨🇦 @bernicecb.bsky.social · Sep 30

This is believed to be the oldest investigation in Canada to be solved with the assistance of investigative genetic genealogy.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Saskatoon police identify century-old remains of 'woman in the well' found in 2006 | CBC News

The remains of an unknown female were discovered in a well shaft in Saskatoon's Sutherland neighbourhood in 2006. Now she has been identified as Alice Spence (nee Burke), a woman of Irish ancestry, ab...

www.cbc.ca

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Amanda Hill @mandahill.bsky.social · Sep 28

I've not seen these before: vacated nests of organ pipe mud dauber wasps.

Pipes of mud made by organ pipe mud dauber wasps.

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kelly jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · Sep 27

$14 million dollars allocated to the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) was pushed through to the America 250 team to fund "Freedom Trucks"–propaganda telling a whitewashed version of history.

What's happening at IMLS is beyond budgetary concerns.

bookriot.com/imls-freedom...