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Alastair Gittner @agittner.bsky.social · 15m

Did you know (and apologies if you do, its just a fact I love) that in Victorian times some views were deemed so beautiful that people might faint if they looked at them directly, so viewing places (like Claife viewing tower on windermere) had mirrors so that you could consider the view safely

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Alastair Gittner @agittner.bsky.social · 1h

My OH has been to B&M; pack of Liquorice Allsorts for us and about £25 worth of bird food

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Alastair Gittner @agittner.bsky.social · 1h

It’s the kind of day to just blow bubbles (table gift from the wedding at the weekend)

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Alastair Gittner @agittner.bsky.social · 2h

Currently listening to "Hatful of hollow;" We visited Liverpool at the weekend and stayed in the Sefton Park/Smithdown Rd/Ullet Rd area and I was transported back to my student days at the Uni when I would come home and play newly acquired vinyl (incl this) after lectures. indie Dad dancing

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Alastair Gittner @agittner.bsky.social · 3h

I've got more plants than I have windowsill space so I am going to give it a go.

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Alastair Gittner @agittner.bsky.social · 4h

enshitification continues.

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Alastair Gittner @agittner.bsky.social · 8h

But as you can only see with the naked eye around a few thousand stars, on an average dark morning the leaves have it !

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Alastair Gittner @agittner.bsky.social · 8h

Yes I was about to say, he trekked 150 miles over sea ice to cross the 53 miles of the strait

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Alastair Gittner @agittner.bsky.social · 8h

I wonder? More stars than leaves or more leaves than stars?

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Alastair Gittner @agittner.bsky.social · 9h

Here’s a story for you. Come Hull and high water. The man who took 28 years to walk from the southernmost point of Chile home to Hull. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

bbc.co.uk

How Karl Bushby battled English Channel doubts to reach UK soil

The adventurer is walking home to Hull after setting off on his global adventure in 1998.

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Alastair Gittner @agittner.bsky.social · 16h

haha...of course you do 😀

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Alastair Gittner @agittner.bsky.social · 16h

to create steam and smoke...doesn't affect the taste

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Alastair Gittner @agittner.bsky.social · 17h

..ah interesting...depends on the author huh...?

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Alastair Gittner @agittner.bsky.social · 17h

We have some of those fancy dan coffees that come like this so I will on occasions ask my OH for a "sachette" of coffee

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Alastair Gittner @agittner.bsky.social · 17h

..yeah but then I feel guilty for ignoring all the research and work that an author completes . One personal friend writes books and uses them extensively and I feel obliged.

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Alastair Gittner @agittner.bsky.social · 17h

Ah...you just employ the sausage dam

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Alastair Gittner @agittner.bsky.social · 17h

Let's be honest...its affectation. All burgers are "smashed." I make my own burgers sometimes, I take a ball of mince and squash into a burger and put it in the pan. Doing it in the pan is merely performative.

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Alastair Gittner @agittner.bsky.social · 22h

The yorkshire teacake..the bread roll of kings to put your burger in. And don't give me any grief about currants. That is a fruit teacake. this is a hill I am prepared to die on.

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Alastair Gittner @agittner.bsky.social · 23h

...nah my lunchtime one condensed into a 2mm strip of pappy mush on the bottom of the burger. Like all the others i've ever had. A burger demands a proper bread roll.

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Alastair Gittner @agittner.bsky.social · 23h

...its not just pubs and their owners I blame for this. It is members of the public that have allowed this to happen. Come the revolution.............. #trotskydinersunite

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Alastair Gittner @agittner.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Does anyone know who it was that introduced the brioche burger bun, serving chips in mini-frying baskets and swapping plates for singed platters of wood? So I can go back in time and “prevent” it happening.

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Alastair Gittner @agittner.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I sometimes wonder that if I could be sure the climate disaster would wipe out humanity in total (or down to a pitiably small number) and allow a human free world to recover, I would go out and fly everywhere, burn oil and gas and hasten the process as much as I could.

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Alastair Gittner @agittner.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Are there still concerns about which native forest they are getting their wood from? I know a few years ago when I visited British Columbia people were angry about Drax taking wood from environmentally important forests.

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Alastair Gittner @agittner.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Good morning followers who read books: how do you deal with books that have pages and pages of notes? 1.read them all as they appear in the main text 2.read them at the end of the chapter 3.ignore them (if it were important it’d be in the main text) 4.Just read the odd one if it interests you

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Alastair Gittner @agittner.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Catching up with #celebritytraitors2 and already hooked. Love the way that they all buy into the game and pretend there is a risk they might kill all 21 in the first game....😂

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Alastair Gittner @agittner.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

There are some seriously deviously clever game designers behind #celebritytraitors2

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Alastair Gittner @agittner.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Of course I meant Lite beer as there are some cracking American Beers, eg Pliny the Elder

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Alastair Gittner @agittner.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The definition of a human; something that turns proper beer into american beer.

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Alastair Gittner @agittner.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I'll bear that in mind, can't I just buy a really expensive road bike instead?

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Alastair Gittner @agittner.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The teacher who jacks it in at 57 is probably saving their sanity.

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Alastair Gittner @agittner.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This is true; you have to work quite hard to persuade them that bullet points will score marks. I've heard examiners say that it is possible to get full marks with bullet points.

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Alastair Gittner @agittner.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I'm off to count mine now...... though I do wonder if my collection of dog eared paperbacks, education books and science textbooks at all stages, are perhaps not what they mean by a "private library"

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Alastair Gittner @agittner.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It's exactly the same in science. The information from AQA for science tells a similar story. I used to try to coach the lower prior attainment kids to write anything at all for the "6 markers" telling them that they would be doing more than the majority of the other kids.

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Alastair Gittner @agittner.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Thank goodness it was all in that order, any other would have made for an interesting morning 😂

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Alastair Gittner @agittner.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It’s bread baking day so I will use half of it, save a quarter and discard the rest. (Which will probably be the over flow anyway)

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Alastair Gittner @agittner.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

As a Lycra wearing road cyclist you get used to it after a while 😂

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Alastair Gittner @agittner.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

My starter this morning decided to recreate the Magic Cooking Pot

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Alastair Gittner @agittner.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Which of course begs the obvious question............

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Alastair Gittner @agittner.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Someone has found the Tory play book from yester-year. The Power stance has made a come back.

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Alastair Gittner @agittner.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

A little moustache surely is not far off.

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Alastair Gittner @agittner.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

If only the many brave and resilient woman at Greenham Common had discovered that just trying to nick the diesel would have worked. They might have not had to camp for so long.

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Alastair Gittner @agittner.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I met his wife who was lovely and helped a colleague of mine set up an important medical research charity.

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