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Bridget B
@bugshaw.bsky.social
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Science fiction, movies, robots, Cambridge-UK based, don't eat nearly as much chocolate as when I first wrote my Twitter profile...
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Bridget B @bugshaw.bsky.social · 16h
Bit of both! I have a few machine quilt projects half finished, and some cross stitch cards to make for Christmas, for a start...
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Bridget B @bugshaw.bsky.social · 18h
I don't often pay much mind to likes, but I do feel particularly supported in my endeavours with the last couple, thank you :-)
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Bridget B @bugshaw.bsky.social · 18h
Well it's a nice idea, a nice alternative focus. I might not manage all aspects of the projects, but I can see where I'm at. And next year I can get back to watching 30 films in 10 days.
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Bridget B @bugshaw.bsky.social · 18h
CFF time is approaching! Oct 23-Nov 2. Usually this is Cambridge Film Festival, but current health and mobility limitations mean complications/risks/discomfort outweigh the fun.
Instead - Craft Fabric Finish, 11 days of projects. I'm nearly improved enough to manage sewing and a little ironing.
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Bridget B @bugshaw.bsky.social · 22h
Aha! If I want a bird feeder, but I don't want it over soil to avoid seed mess, and I don't know how to fix a bracket to the fence over the patio bit -
I can get a big old pot and fill it with spent compost and put a pole feeder in it on the patio! Easy sweeping, adjust position for bird access.
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Bridget B @bugshaw.bsky.social · 1d
The 80/20 rule of time travel films. 80% is set in the 80s, 20% is set in the 20s.
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Bridget B @bugshaw.bsky.social · 1d
Choices
Close up inside a kitchen cupboard. There is a mug, a box of herbal tea labelled "Sleep", and a tin of Nescafé Azera americano intense.
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Bridget B @bugshaw.bsky.social · 1d
Hoped for delivery early morning (ARRIVED as I was typing this) (live worms for the garden) (I'll make them at home in a minute).
And the diabetes course I've been on for a year, went to finish writing up the lessons but they took one out and renumbered the rest so it's a mess.
WORMS NOW
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Bridget B @bugshaw.bsky.social · 1d
A day where everything has a hurdle. Weird dentist appointment (accidentally added to internal scanner reservation calendar). Try to buy a Kobo audiobook but won't accept my password or send me a reset link. Weird hospital call, appointment is at a different hospital (8+8min on hold).
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Bridget B @bugshaw.bsky.social · 1d
You know those electrical switches in kitchens, where a red edge is visible when they're switched on so you absolutely know they're on?
In a dream I saw one of these switches, unusually large. I thought "I wonder what happens if I press this" and the red edge showed, written on it STUPIDITY.
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Bridget B @bugshaw.bsky.social · 3d
Yes!
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Bridget B @bugshaw.bsky.social · 3d
There must be something in the change of the season. I looked in the fridge, and the two lodgers and I each have a broccoli.
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Bridget B @bugshaw.bsky.social · 4d
She has big dark eyes herself.
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Bridget B @bugshaw.bsky.social · 4d
We're mostly breathing nitrogen.
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Bridget B @bugshaw.bsky.social · 4d
Missed lunch plans but could not have pushed through for it.
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Bridget B @bugshaw.bsky.social · 4d
5 weeks of this relapse. I was going to post that I was much improved but then I squeezed too much into an hour (manageable planned things plus 3 extra or unplanned things) and just had to lie down quietly in the dark for 3 hours. Gentle afternoon, should feel better again tomorrow.
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Bridget B @bugshaw.bsky.social · 18d
Sep 26: 1 month since Covid2, 3 weeks of Long Covid relapse.
Days still variable and it's easy to crash.
Worst days are a lot better than the worst of LC1 in 2020 but nowhere near as good as the worst days of 3-6 months ago. Same pattern for Best days.
Baseline feels bit better this week than last.
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Bridget B @bugshaw.bsky.social · 4d
The gardener did a lot of backfilling with the opportunity to check the root balls.
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Bridget B @bugshaw.bsky.social · 13d
Question 1: why does the soil level in pots go down? Is it watering and compacting, is it leaving through the bottom, is it turning into plant? I fill the fresh pots right up, and a year or so later they're 5-7 cm down.
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Bridget B @bugshaw.bsky.social · 4d
And the colour tester pots which I thought would be useful for touch-ups, state "not to be used for touch-ups" as it's a different formulation. All 14 listed on Olio and collection arranged.
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Bridget B @bugshaw.bsky.social · 4d
I got a fantastically thorough reply from my step dad, which I shall copy out and stick to the tins - this sort of paint you peel the skin off carefully and thin with white spirit, that sort just needs a splash of water. Paint is expensive so hang on to it, ok for ten years.
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Bridget B @bugshaw.bsky.social · 13d
Question 4: Paint! I have several tins/tubs in the garage (which is next to the garden), left over from the house painting 2 years ago. How long does opened paint last? Is it useful to hang on to some for touchups, or should I get it to the recycling centre for reuse?
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Bridget B @bugshaw.bsky.social · 4d
You can discover what percentage of a tank you produce!
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Bridget B @bugshaw.bsky.social · 5d
Having a herbal/fruit tea kind of afternoon.
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Bridget B @bugshaw.bsky.social · 5d
Sympathies - worst pain I ever had.
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Bridget B @bugshaw.bsky.social · 7d
Finished at 9pm, ten hours steady with meal breaks and a Tesco delivery. So glad to have it done at last.
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Bridget B @bugshaw.bsky.social · 7d
Annoyingly not much capacity to multitask, even reading such micro-blogs. Means more time double-checking page numbers (which are so terribly small) and whether I've done both sides. Took me 8 page scans to compose this.
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Bridget B @bugshaw.bsky.social · 7d
160-200 pages of old financial statements I can scan and shred, that will be a quick win, I thought.
Looks like a 5 hour job.
Fiddly landscape with page numbers off by one so I have to focus to not miss/misorder/double scan pages.
How much will I get through before the recycling van comes??
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