MrsDoyle @ MrsDoyle @sh.itjust.works

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Bluey. I'm an adult and don't have children. It's my guilty pleasure.

My brother in law recently acquired one of these and is obsessed with stalking and blasting flies with it. He shot a big blowfly and it exploded in a ghastly mess on the wall. Very effective and - according to him - satisfying.

Correct, though I'm old enough to remember using old money, and it was never six and a half, just sixpence ha'penny.

I love all the old coin words: florin (two shillings), half a crown (two and six), thrup'nny bit (3d), farthing (quarter of a penny).

Back in the 1970s some friends and I ate some fly agaric we found in the botanic gardens, because we'd heard it got you high. The other three went on to have a fantastic time, high as kites, in a nightclub. Me? I spent hours on my knees in front of the toilet, vomiting and vomiting and vomiting. Do not recommend.

I'm not talking about rowing machines. I'm out on the water with a crew, hauling on an actual oar. It's the best thing ever.

https://scottishcoastalrowing.org/

Peonies.

https://binnynurseries.com/herbaceous-peonies/p/paeonia-lactiflora-angel-cheeks

Because it's proper bacon, what you would call "Canadian" - thick, juicy rashers, two at least, freshly cooked, enveloped in buttered bread or, in Scotland, a fresh "morning roll", which has a slightly crispy top.

Stornoway black pudding is the best.

And with all that piffle, they never actually tell what it's made from. I assume some kind of acrylic? In which case it will snag and pill like crazy and look complete crap within a month.

I should start knitting these for Christmas gifts.

You've just reminded me of my late sister, who insisted she could access my WiFi from 300 miles away. "How else am I getting internet?" A mystery for sure.

I cut my own hair during lockdown. I did it outdoors, using regular scissors and a mirror. It came out not too bad, from the front anyway. Not sure what the back looked like - it felt ok. That's shortish hair, I'm sure long hair would be easier.

Rowing and swimming (in a pool, not because the boat capsized). Both are non weight bearing, easy on the joints. Rowing is excellent for your core.

I have some diaries I wrote on my PC in 1983/4. The PC was quite the thing - it had an amber screen rather than green, and two floppy drives. I can't remember what word processing program I was using, but haven't found a codec that displays a lot of the special characters.

The only datum I can think of is tidal datum, used in shoreline measurements. I've seen the plural given as datums though.... argh!

While we're at it, it's turmeric, not choomarick.

My anthill is myriad. It's the same as many. "Myriad stars", not "a myriad of stars".

Absorbing foreign words has been happening since forever in English. Example: Mirror is an English word, right? No, it's a loan word from French, introduced after the Norman conquest in 1066. The English word is "looking-glass".

Don't have a cow (English), what's your beef (French)?

Espresso is proper coffee!!

https://www.gaggia.com/our-history/