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Badger Mash

@badgermash.bsky.social

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Made of the land I lived on. Plants, Wildlife, BBC Radio 4, Tolkien, Tea, TaiChi, Policy rather than Politics, #Population #SaveOurBBC Worcestershire

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Badger Mash @badgermash.bsky.social · Sep 6

Imagining the consequnces if all the, currrently hyperactive, vexillophiles became guerilla gardeners.
Government, whether Lab, Con, Ref or Lib, would clamp down hard. Possession of a trowel would get you 10 years inside. The RHS would become a proscribed terrorist organisation.

Badger Mash @badgermash.bsky.social · 8h

"My Cheque Book" is a dangerously volatile issue for folk of a certain age, as I have found more than once, to my cost. Last time, once the local branch of the bank had closed, so they couldn't go and hold the place up, I said that, after a particular date, cheques would no longer be in use.

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Duncan Mackay @theduncanmackay.bsky.social · 2d

The lake of Llyn Cerrig Bach, Anglesey-one of those rare places where the veil between then & now can feel like mist, & never more so than, having spent the weekend hunting for its lost Iron Age artefacts, & with its ancient peat ingrained beneath fingernails, someone lifts a carnyx to their lips
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Paul Hemingway of Operation Nightingale, splendidly attired in ancient garb, playing an Iron Age carnyx in front of a lake.

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Badger Mash @badgermash.bsky.social · 8h

Biggins.

Badger Mash @badgermash.bsky.social · 8h

Parents, please check your kids’ candy this Halloween. I've just found, inside a Snickers bar, a Marathon bar of exactly the same size.

Maria J Pérez Cuervo @mjpcuervo.bsky.social · 8h

Parents, please check your kids’ candy this Halloween. I’ve just found an ancient metal whistle with the inscription “QUIS EST ISTE QUI VENIT" inside a Snickers bar. I blew it and heard a note of infinite distance, and now I’m haunted by a figure in pale, fluttering draperies. Be safe.

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Vanessa 🍁 @nesfarm.bsky.social · 10h

Canadian nICE Agents

#FundTheCBC

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When the ICE agent is Canadian… | This Hour Has 22 Minutes

YouTube video by 22 Minutes

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Badger Mash @badgermash.bsky.social · 8h

They seem to have run out of ammo here.

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Badger Mash @badgermash.bsky.social · 8h

This makes perfect sense, given that the infernal ITV soap "Crossroads" had a regular character called Amy Turtle.

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 10h

The etymology of ‘turtle’ is interesting as shell.

'Turtle' comes from the French 'tortue,' which in turn comes from the Late Latin 'tartarucha.'

‘Tartarucha’ was short for the phrase ‘bestia tartarucha’ which means "infernal beast" or "beast of the nether regions."

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Badger Mash @badgermash.bsky.social · 8h

Wonders whether it was chocolate cake, junior Guide, or household spirtit. Could easily be any, or all.

Badger Mash @badgermash.bsky.social · 10h

I once saw some in bloom in mid December near Penzance.

Badger Mash @badgermash.bsky.social · 11h

We have one right over the drive, and I usually attempt to limit doing leaves to, at most a couple of sessions, but had to do two and a half on acorns alone.

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Badger Mash @badgermash.bsky.social · 11h

@dandyandafop.bsky.social I've kept meaning to send you a photo of this to get overexcited about. I dimly recall it being built, C.1969.

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Badger Mash @badgermash.bsky.social · 11h

Bizarrely, we had the same situation a few weeks back, but with acorns. Like a woodland ball pit.

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Badger Mash @badgermash.bsky.social · 15h

Bucked Up Archives:

Buckinghamshire Archives @bucksarchives.bsky.social · Jun 10

Welcome to the archives.

Badger Mash @badgermash.bsky.social · 16h

Dangerously Johnsonesque

Badger Mash @badgermash.bsky.social · 18h

Here Be Monsters?

Badger Mash @badgermash.bsky.social · 18h

And a great voice on radio, not least in King Street Junior. However, once saw him as the unlikely host of a very early, and ill advised, virtual reality TV game show.

Badger Mash @badgermash.bsky.social · 18h

I was hoping the isobars might take on a bunny shape...

Met Office - weather and climate @metoffice.gov.uk · 19h

Storm Benjamin has been named by MeteoFrance

We are likely to see impacts from wind and rain across the UK tonight and tomorrow with yellow warnings issued ⚠️

Stay updated 👉 bit.ly/WxWarning

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Hell Ray-ser @sireviscerate.myatproto.social · Feb 10

It's impossible to play the hurdy gurdy without making it your whole personality. No one is a casual hurdy gurdy player.

Hurdy gurdy guy dressed like some kind of dingus cowboy

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Badger Mash @badgermash.bsky.social · 18h

This should be available in one-size-fits-all burka format, for work use. Not to be removed until a qualified maintenance psychiatrist is satisfied that the breakdown has been fully resolved.

Aidan McGlynn @aidanmcglynn.bsky.social · 19h

Same, sign, same

An electronic sign covered in an orange case that reads “! I am currently being repaired, sorry for any inconvenience”

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Badger Mash @badgermash.bsky.social · 20h

I bet there were teams of hackers, crouched inside long barrows, hacking the ley lines via inadequately warded henges.

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Piers @pierscooper.bsky.social · 1d

I’ve done a thing and finally published the business website for the @pboroearcare.bsky.social acct. www.earwax-gone.co.uk

Currently covering PE3 and PE4 postcodes, looking to do more later this year.

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Badger Mash @badgermash.bsky.social · 22h

Are we living through Catch 22 again? Could Trump have been persuaded to demolish the White House by Putin, to save him money on missiles? (And all that bother that goes with thermonuclear war.)

Badger Mash @badgermash.bsky.social · 22h

🦊#FoxiMax #1152 8/8
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Badger Mash @badgermash.bsky.social · 22h

🍃 Plant #753 🌴
I figured it out in 6 guesses!
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🔥 114 | Avg. Guesses: 10.2

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Become an evolutionary detective to find the Mystery Plant!

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