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🎄⛄Dig(gles) the hall with boughs of holly! (she/her)🎁❄️
@diggles.bsky.social
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Teacher, gamer, learner, crafter. Politically progressive Gen Xer & Green Party member💚. Lifelong nerd (Doctor Who, Star Trek etc) Hypermobile spoonie with Fibro & other stuff. #CovidIsAirborne (although I wish it wasn't) N95 masks all the way!
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One nice thing that came out of my trip into town this morning - I got photos at the cathedral. I never get sick of living so close to a World Heritage Site 😊
Durham Cathedral exterior Durham Cathedral interior. Durham Cathedral interior. A giant Christmas tree is at one end of the side aisle at the back of the building. Photo of some ancient wall paintings of saints etc in a side altar at Durham Cathedral.
December 4, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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Happy Wednesday folks! My dad and Hubby have just headed to the station so my dad can get his train back down home. I'm staying home because....see picture! (BTW Hubby texted me to say they got to the station OK although the travel was Not Fun but they're OK)
A picture of a very snowy UK street.
November 19, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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Hubby, Dad & I went out for a lovely walk in the sunshine after lunch (while we had sunshine!). First time I've had a proper time outside in the fresh air in a couple of days because of work, and it was nice. We went on one of our fave loops out into the nearby countryside.
A close up picture of red berries on a bush in the sunshine. A close up of tiny white flowers on a bush.
November 17, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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Photos from the light festival I've just been to- not as good as previous ones but still saw some cool stuff.
A light installation of a box filled with cascading white squares. Children play with the touch sensitive display. An art installation - a video projected onto a convex surface. The image looks like oil on water. A light installation of lots of strings of neon bicycle wheels covered in complex string designs. The rows of wheels are strung up in rows above the crowds heads, going into the distance. A light installation of bright neon strings strung across a large marketplace forming green triangular patterns. A crowd of people is below.
November 13, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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My neighbour's 7yo son has got really into birdwatching (probably my fault introducting him to the Merlin app 😁) so I dug out these pics from 2021 of a sparrowhawk(!) landing in our garden and catching a blackbird. Don't think I've posted them here before.
Sparrowhawk in my garden with their back to the camera. Sparrowhawk in my garden with their back to the camera. Sparrowhawk in my garden. A blackbird is in its talons.
October 30, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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I didn't know there was a US version of Blockbusters! *Quickly Googles* Ah, our version *was* based on yours; ours started in 1983 and led to a joke that's still with us GenXers to this day 😀
Meme of a smiling Bob Holness on the set of UK Blockbusters. Caption reads "Can I have a 'P' please Bob?"
October 27, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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I don't think I ever posted this: I finished another scrapbook over the summer, inspired by Ancient Greece. Here are some pics 😄
A scrapbook double spread in a brown book. The pages are decorated with various shades of purple, geometric designs and a big flower. Caption reads Greek Poetry A scrapbook double spread in a brown book. The pages are decorated with various shades of red, geometric designs and pieces of decorated or printed paper. Caption reads Aristotle A scrapbook double spread in a brown book. The pages are decorated with various shades of green, geometric designs and printed card. Caption reads Greek gods A scrapbook double spread in a brown book. The pages are decorated with various shades of blue, geometric designs, printed papers and stickers. Caption reads Greek pottery
October 27, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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I forgot to post these over the weekend! Autumn colours around where I live 😊🍂🍁
Autumn leaves on a grassy ground. The photographer's feet are at the bottom of the image A close up of brown leaves on the ground in the sunshine A photo of trees covered in autumnal leaves against a bright blue sky A close up of a brown autumn leaf on a tree with green leaves and the blue sky behind it
October 27, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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Sending lots of love and gentle hugs, Cal. Here's a beautiful flower photo a friend sent me from Kenya yesterday. Hold on, because brighter days *will* come xx
A beautiful yellow and pink large flower. I don't know what it is but this picture was taken by a friend in Kenya last week.
October 23, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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Morning JL! Cats! Cats always make me feel better. So have a cat. I saw this magnificent gentleman posing in Inverness last year.
A ginger cat loafing and posing on a garden wall in the golden light of evening. Houses are behind him.
October 23, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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Tropical World is a small zoo on the outskirts of Leeds. It's got some spectacular birds and butterflies as well as some reptiles and fish.
Giant brown butterflies feeding on pineapple slices in Tropical World, Leeds UK A waterfall in Tropical World, Leeds UK A Victoria Crowned Pigeon in Tropical World, Leeds UK. It is a bright blue bird, about the size of a pheasant. It has a spectacular crown of blue, black and white feathers. Giant tortoises eating lettuce in Tropical World, Leeds UK
October 2, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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Roundhay Park on the outskirts of Leeds is huge and contains this massive lake.
A beautiful green park covered in trees in Leeds UK A castle folly in Roundhay Park, Leeds UK A big crowd of swans on a lake in Roundhay Park, in Leeds UK The massive lake in Roundhay Park, in Leeds UK
October 2, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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More bonkers armour from The Armoury Museum, Leeds UK as well as a cool film prop on display from Lord Of The Rings, and the central core armour display. Info in alt-text
A museum case containing a medieval suit of armour. There is an additional shield and lance holder combo attached in The Armoury Museum, Leeds UK A medieval helmet with a spectacular moustache attached in The Armoury Museum, Leeds UK The inner core of the museum is filled with this tower of armour. It is white and hexagonal. Every surface is covered with arranged weaponry and armour in The Armoury Museum, Leeds UK Plastic mail armour made for the Lord Of The Rings trilogy. The info board is readable on zoom but explains that plastic chain mail is a lot lighter than the real thing and this sample is from the Weta film company archives in The Armoury Museum, Leeds UK
October 2, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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The Armoury Museum in Leeds is amazing - it's a sister museum to The Tower Of London and contains lots of armour and weapons from UK History & also from around the world.
Three horse and rider statues all wearing armour on display in The Armoury Museum, Leeds UK A model of a full-sized elephant with rider. The elephant is wearing the only complete example of elephant armour left in the world. in The Armoury Museum, Leeds UK A terrifying looking medieval helmet. A spectacular set of Samurai armour from Japan in The Armoury Museum, Leeds UK
October 2, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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(Thread) I've finally finished organising my photos from our Leeds minibreak last week. Here's Leeds city centre.
A photo of a canal surrounded by renovated warehouse buildings under a blue, cloudy sky. Leeds UK. Town Hall in Leeds UK. A river through Leeds UK city centre. The river is completely still. Residential buildings stand on either side and there's a bridge in the distance. A canal basin in Leeds UK. It's surrounded by office buildings, and the canal basin is covered with green patches of algae. There is a small yellow boat approaching.
October 2, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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Post a movie you like with a terrible Rotten Tomatoes Score
Screenshot of The Avengers movie score on Rotten Tomatoes (the Uma Thurman and Ralph Fiennes one. The GOOD ONE. Not that Marvel rubbish)
September 17, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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Sending you massive hugs and so much love, my friend. I hope this pic of a swan family in Lymington I saw in June helps. The baby hitching a lift on the parent's back always makes me 😍
A photo of an adult mute swan and their seven tiny cygnets. 5 are swimming in formation behind their parent, one is swimming behind, and one is hitching a lift of th eparents back. All the swans are swimming on a bright stretch of water and the sun is shining on them.
September 16, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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Those are epic, Michael! I see we have similar taste in socks: I wore my monster socks today 'cause they always make me smile 😁
A picture of feet clad in very silly red, blue and green socks covered in cartoon pictures of monsters. The background is a colourful crochet blanket and a black sheet.
September 12, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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Once in a while the YouTube comment section brings forth pure gold. I just found this under a Professor Dave Explains debunk of flat earth:
A screenshot of a You Tube comment by @DmitriWestCoast. "Trying to reason with a flat earther is like playing chess with a pigeon: it doesnt matter how great of a player you are. The pigeon will always knock your pieces down, shit on the board and declare victory." It has 4.8 thousand upvotes.
September 9, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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Timeline cleanse: I've just learned about this adorable little termite eater in Australia called the numbat. Aren't they gorgeous 😍
A photo of a numbat. It's an adorable little creature from Australia. It's marsupial and eats termites. It's got a cute, pointy fuzzy face, with little ears sticking up, a striped back and the tail & general body shape of a squirrel. This one is stitting on a tree branch.
September 3, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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Drop an old person you’re going to turn into in the future
A drawing of Granny Weatherwax, from the Discworld books. The drawing is by DeviantArt artist Iddstar.
September 2, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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How I captain a Starship.
A still from the BBC science fiction/comedy show Red Dwarf. The character Dave Lister is holding a cheaply-made big red box. On the front it reads 'Holly Hop Drive' on a big orange sign. On the top is a red stop button and a green start button.
August 29, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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We also saw/heard a load of birds during our August week in Sussex: magpie, great tit, blue tit, long-tailed tit, robin, herring gull, blackbird, wren, collared dove, chiffchaff, then at Sheffield Park yesterday, Canada Geese and super cute Coots! #2425YearOfBirding
A photo of 2 Canada Geese on a lake at Sheffield Park, UK. A photo of a Eurasian Coot on a lake at Sheffield Park, UK
August 27, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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Photos from Sheffield Park, a National Trust garden in Sussex that I visited with my dad yesterday on my holiday. It was a good way to spend our last day!
A photo of a big lake surrounded by trees at Sheffield Park, UK. A hosepipe can be seen reoxygenating the lake. A photo of a big lake surrounded by trees at Sheffield Park, UK. Canada geese can be seen in the foreground and a stately home in the background. A photo of another big lake surrounded by trees at Sheffield Park, UK. A map of the gardens at Sheffield Park, UK. It's fully zoomable.
August 27, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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I think that, thanks to lots of help, a bit of Googling autographs and a process of elimination, I've got all the signatures on my 2007 Doctor Who Storybook labelled! Massive thank you to @gbblackrock.bsky.social @nuallain.bsky.social and @thasceles.bsky.social for their help 💜
Inside front cover of the Doctor Who 2007 Storybook with an illustration of the Tenth Doctor and Rose just outside the TARDIS on an alien planet. The illustration is covered in signatures in black marker, All are labelled in yellow annotation on the image. Signatures are probably, from top left of left page and going anticlockwise: Justin Richards, Nicholas Briggs, Daryl Joyce, Clay Hickman, Gareth Roberts, Steven Moffat, Martin Geraghty, Rob Shearman and Mark Gatiss.
August 18, 2025 at 6:32 PM