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Torin8
@torin8.bsky.social
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WIP, aloof, introverted, cat serving human. Sometimes by sheer luck, I might say something insightful; otherwise usual nonsense warnings apply.
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The rain has passed leaving a lovely day.
View of a damn wall with a wet path along it to the left of the path is a steep green grass bank. The water is to the right of the wall. Along the centre of the picture is an Embankment of trees running along the side of the reservoir. A low winter sun is above the trees slightly obscured while lighting cloud. The rest of the sky is an azure blue. A view down a reservoir lined either side with trees in their winter garb. Above is a blue sky with whisps of cloud reflected in the water below.
December 16, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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It seems there are penguins moving into my local woods for the winter.
A plastic penguin placed in the fork of a tree.
December 12, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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With the help of a £8 new battery and Calibre software, I've resurrected this old Kindle reader. I still think it's one of the best they ever produced.

I'll just side load on it as I try not to buy stuff off Amazon and I don't even think Amazon support it anymore.
An ancient Kindle keyboard with the bird screensaver on it.
December 12, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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Look at my new (to me) Victorian brass candle snuffer.

It's not often I can say I've given my rod a good rub and my bell-end a thorough polish but I can now!
*Insert Kenneth Williams Meme here*
December 10, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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A rather ghostly looking Twisted Spire this evening.

Perhaps there are three spirits looking for their next Scrooge to convert up there.
An English church spire lit in the darkness. The spire is. Ghostly pale grey blue. The spire is the famous Twisted Spire in Chesterfield, England.
December 9, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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Can't beat a good carol sung in a big church.
December 9, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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It's time to get the ol' "Seemless Hygienic" out for the mince pies.
A baking pan with 12 circles in for baking pies or macaroon etc. It has a small stamp with the name 'Seemless Hygienic' on is 2 smaller circles. In the 12 large circles 4 have the shape of a shell, 4 are smooth and 4 have the shape of an ivy leaf in the bottom. There is a heavy patina on the grey, blue metal.
December 7, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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Emptiness under cold skies
A beech wood, looking up into the canopy. The trees are bare now and the sky above is a cold blue.
December 5, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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Short days, long shadows.
Looking down a path on a beech wood. The trunks of trees leaves long shadows on the copper woodland floor.
December 2, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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I'll take December days like this.
December 2, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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I was raised on these streets:
The Gauntlet Arcade game <img src="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/1*GbgXAK04k04kkm_JzAqKSQ.png" alt="Inside the Arcade: “Gauntlet” (1985) | by Billy Hartong | SUPERJUMP | Medium"/>
November 29, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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Time to start the Christmas reading list.

Hard to beat this classic:

#SpeakHisName
#TerryPratchett
Terry Pratchett's Hogfather. <img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/44/Hogfather-2.jpg/250px-Hogfather-2.jpg"/>
November 25, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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Out with the old, in with the new.
A tired plastic fire surround and electric fire. Surround in beige in colour. Fire is silver and looks so dated. I've hated it all these years I've been in this house. The new, a Portuguese limestone fire surround and mantle piece, nice and deep that I can put a click on and candle sticks and decorate it for Christmas. The electric fire is an imitation wood burner with cast iron door and fire effect.
November 25, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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I'm with Calvin.
November 21, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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The frost persisted in the shadows today.
Long 3 finger shaped ice growing across a muddy hole. An oak leaf dusted in frost lies on the grass.
November 21, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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Where's my snow????
Calvin doing the snow dance and Hobbes saying that's there's no snow yet.
November 20, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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The brook is overtopping.
November 16, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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If you care about the countryside and where we are and how we got to this rather dire place then read this book.

So many memories stirred with this book even though I'm not a farmer.
English Pastoral, An Inheritance by James Rebanks.
November 10, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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Rainy wood
November 10, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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A wet lunchtime walk.

Not seen the brook this high in what feels like 8 months... And it probably is that!
A small reservoir lined with trees either side of the water. The trees are dark in the mists of the rain and are in their late autumn garb of sparse brown leaves. The dark water is scattered with fallen leaves and there is a dozen ducks floating in the left hand side of the photo. A brook. The water is high and is almost at the banks. Mounds of leaves are scattered across the stream bed, causing obstructions and causing the waters to rise even more.
November 10, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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Possibly anything up to 60in of snow forecast in the US this week.

I need snow here.
November 9, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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If you see this, post an album cover with a motor vehicle on it.
November 8, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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The canopy is quickly emptying and now it's treasure lies on the woodland floor.
A view up into a beechwood canopy. The the branches of the trees are increasingly becoming more visible as the leaves. Leaving their stark silhouettes against the whites sky. A golden copper carpet of leaves cover the road. There is a small bridge in the foreground there is a track off to the left hand side. A few of the trees are still green but most are now empty. Another view a path sided with beech trees with their increasingly empty branches.
November 7, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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I think they left him in standby mode while they treated the human.
November 6, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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The autumnal gate portal.
A view along a woodland path to a field gate in a portal in the middle distance. The beech trees around are golden and brown and the track is muddy.
November 4, 2025 at 4:42 PM