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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 · 1h

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 · 1h

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 · 19h

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 · 15h

We are doing Good Work.

Isabel Rogers @isabelrogers.bsky.social · 16h

I thought of that, but then all the whips I've ever seen are a bit taller with no leaves, because of course I plant them in winter. So maybe. I don't know.

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Isabel Rogers @isabelrogers.bsky.social · 16h

It's going to get expensive in the sunflower seed department.

Isabel Rogers @isabelrogers.bsky.social · 16h

I don't think it's tall enough for a sapling? Dunno. Somebody *gestures* should define these things.

Isabel Rogers @isabelrogers.bsky.social · 16h

My Richmond Park acorn is absolutely smashing it. (what you can't see in this pic are the two coal tits perching ON my phone because they thought I looked interesting)

oak seedling in its first year, in a flowerpot on my deck. Prob too big to call it a seedling now - it's 20cm tall with lots of healthy leaves. and a coal tit. of course

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Isabel Rogers @isabelrogers.bsky.social · 17h

ah well then. overqualified!

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Isabel Rogers @isabelrogers.bsky.social · 17h

So much yes. I was feeling under the weather yesterday daytime (post jab), and discarded most films because I knew this would happen.

Isabel Rogers @isabelrogers.bsky.social · 17h

They are keen on raising the area, which you can do when you stop holding it under the tap. Should stop it swelling so much.

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Isabel Rogers @isabelrogers.bsky.social · 17h

Ouch. I've found you some reading while you wait ... www.nhs.uk/conditions/b...

Burns and scalds - Treatment

Appropriate first aid must be used to treat any burns or scalds as soon as possible. This will limit the amount of damage to your skin.

www.nhs.uk

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Isabel Rogers @isabelrogers.bsky.social · 22h

I think I've been moving into less lit places all my life.

Isabel Rogers @isabelrogers.bsky.social · 22h

I'm having loads of wonderful big windows to let daylight *in*, and will be putting a good deal of thought on how to keep my light from getting *out* on winter evenings.

Isabel Rogers @isabelrogers.bsky.social · 1d

Following last RT (opposing horrific idea of swarms of reflecting low orbit satellites pointing sunbeams onto bits that should be dark) - I'm lucky to live near a designated dark sky area. I talked my architect down from fancy 'garden lighting'. Nights should be dark outside. I owe it to the bats.

Tomintoul and Glenlivet - Cairngorms

The Glenlivet Estate consists of 230 square kilometers of Crown Estate land in the Scottish Highlands, within the boundaries of Cairngorms National Park. With the addition of 14 additional square…

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Lauren "Hope is Praxis" Lastname @verbingnouns.bsky.social · 1d

Now is the time to support DarkSky International and/or your local branch darksky.org

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Isabel Rogers @isabelrogers.bsky.social · 1d

I always loved this picture.

the Annie Liebovitz Vanity Fair fashion shoot 'Hollywood 2016', with a load of A list actresses dressed in black sitting or lying draped around, looking moody, not smiling, a lot of skin on show, primped and sultry. Diane Keaton stands on the right at the back, grinning straight into the camera, also wearing black but in a long sleeved black coat, high neck and black wide brimmed hat. They were her own clothes. She looks like she was enjoying herself enormously.

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Isabel Rogers @isabelrogers.bsky.social · 1d

evening

red sky at night lighting up the undersides of clouds, except it's supposed to be fine tomorrow. WHO IS LYING

Isabel Rogers @isabelrogers.bsky.social · 1d

This is glorious.

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Heidi Temple-Stephens @heidistephens.bsky.social · 1d

At the end of the summer season Cheltenham Lido drains down the pool and re-fills for winter cold water swimming. But before that, they open it to dogs for the weekend. It's Mabel's favourite day of the year.

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Isabel Rogers @isabelrogers.bsky.social · 1d

You know what's great when you're having a slobby day after your jab? Discovering there's a new Taskmaster that you didn't know was out.

Isabel Rogers @isabelrogers.bsky.social · 2d

Look at us getting prepared.

Isabel Rogers @isabelrogers.bsky.social · 2d

Last year I had to drive an 80-mile round trip for mine. This year a nearer pharmacy has started doing it, but I'm still not eligible on NHS. Very aware I'm fortunate to be able to get one anyway.

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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 2d

After a long pause, I've just done another England Covid & NHS update as we head into the autumn/winter season.

TLDR: we're in a significant Covid wave now, the NHS is stretched, get boosted if you're eligible.

christinapagel.substack.com/p/england-is...

England is now experiencing a significant Covid wave, after 10 months of relative quiet

The latest Covid situation in England and a look at where NHS services are as we head into winter

christinapagel.substack.com

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Isabel Rogers @isabelrogers.bsky.social · 2d

That's me all jabbed up for covid: ninety quid and probably feeling rough all weekend but I'm thanking brainy scientists for inventing it. Just wish the NHS covered more people though.

*reclines on fainting couch for weekend*

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