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Andy Coates @andywoodturner.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

Roses are red like Rudolph's nose. The cops arrested Santa, and interfered with his clothes...

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Andy Coates @andywoodturner.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

ChatGPT down as well, apparently. So not all bad news, then...

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Andy Coates @andywoodturner.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Cloudflare has gone down...taking tons of websites offline. Inc Twitter. I can't even order a piece of wood I needed! Called them instead, and they were "too buy trying to sort the website out!" Try all you want, mate, *you* can't fix it! You might as well take some money...

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Memorial Device @memorialdevice.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

The MD list of Alternative National Treasures: Samir Zitouni. 🙏

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Andy Coates @andywoodturner.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Added the eye and legs…but the rest was a complete accident. Will keep

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Andy Coates @andywoodturner.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

Almost all I've done for the past two weeks is make acorn boxes, acorn pendants, and variations on the theme. I've made a lot. An awful lot. Everybody went mad for acorn boxes...

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Andy Coates @andywoodturner.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

You have to admire the parents that encouraged this...good work

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James A @exeterdormouse.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Club and Penguin can no longer be described as chocolate biscuits as they contain more palm oil and shea oil than cocoa. Coming soon: "Mr Kipling makes exceedingly good cake-style products" www.theguardian.com/business/202...

theguardian.com

If you like a lot of chocolate on your biscuit … look away now

Club and Penguin bars are now ‘chocolate flavour’ after owner McVitie’s cuts cocoa content amid soaring prices

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Andy Coates @andywoodturner.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Just blocked a new follower who believes that recognising Palestine as a state, is a sign of mental illness. Fucking whomper

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Andy Coates @andywoodturner.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Carved Australian Goldfield Burr bowl, on Ebony ball feet and leg 9 1/2" at widest dia, 7 1/4" at narrowest dia, 4" high (Burr from @tonynicol3.bsky.social . Thank you :)

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Andy Coates @andywoodturner.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

A little story. To brighten (or not) your day... FL (French Lady) was in today. FL turns only lighthouses (don't ask...I've stopped asking). So, she was turning a lighthouse. "What do you think, Andy?" <yawns> Yeah, it's great. As good as any of the 150 you've already made. She plonks it...

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Matt Owen @mjowen174.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

If you could please do us a favour and RT (or whatever it is on here) my writing CV I would be extremely grateful. I am a very capable writer of words, mainly “humorous”’ and if you have some PROPER paid work for me, please DM me. Thank you for your time www.mathew-owen.co.uk

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I offer a broad and diverse range of writing services. Get in touch!

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Emma @emmasartworks.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

Shells - ancient and modern - from the beach at Redcar. The modern oyster was considerably more battered than the 200 million year old ones. Watercolour painting. #fossils #shells #art #nature 🐡

Watercolour painting of shells found on the beach at Redcar, northeast England; there is a modern oyster shell on the left, showing outside and inside, though it is very sea-worn. The remainder are fossils from the lower Jurassic period (c200mya) - Cardinia bivalves, a fragment of Ammonite and Gryphaea oysters.

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Andy Coates @andywoodturner.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

I've been playing with wild apples. Apple pie with Za’atar spices…will make again.

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Andy Coates @andywoodturner.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Found a walnut tree, hidden in a copse. Need a sturdy sack to re-visit it.

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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Just 5 spaces left on my small museums for mental health w'shop this Sat,on how collecting & arranging small objects improves mental health. Incl BRILLIANT research showing that playing TETRIS makes us more resilient to stress 👇Earlybird price expires tmrw👇 workshops.emmamitchell.uk/courses/smal...

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Andy Coates @andywoodturner.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

I found a weird, self-ebonised acorn...so...obviously...I had to make a copy in 5,000 yr old Bog Oak, and English Oak...2"

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Andy Coates @andywoodturner.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

4" (large) Acorn box in English Oak

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Andy Coates @andywoodturner.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

3 3/4" & 3" Acorn boxes in English Oak...

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Andy Coates @andywoodturner.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Acorn box in English Oak… *acorn for scale 😂

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Andy Coates @andywoodturner.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Having turned the last Acorn box, and packed it for posting, I thought I'd make another...but...I like a challenge, so...

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Andy Coates @andywoodturner.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

If only the flag shaggers had bought British-made flags, instead of, patriotically, Chinese...then the flags might not all be sloughing like the brain cells of the hard-of-thinking

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Andy Coates @andywoodturner.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

I picked up some acorns the other day. One was particularly well formed. So...

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Andy Coates @andywoodturner.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Just two days of rain and wind, and all the temu flags are shredding, and breaking their bonds. Soon be just more plastic waste to break pollute fields and gardens. I'm guessing that the hard-of-thinking "patriots" won't be doing a community litter pick...

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Andy Coates @andywoodturner.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Brambles in reclaimed Oak frame 245mm by 200mm

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Andy Coates @andywoodturner.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Australian Goldfield Burr bowl. 450mm wide, 250mm deep, 55mm high, bowl 240mm diameter... 2 videos of the making (where it looked quite different at one point) at the TikTok place

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Andy Coates @andywoodturner.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Convicted. Now doing time... Joyous.

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Andy Coates @andywoodturner.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Decorative lidded chalice* Australian Goldfield Burr, and African Paduak 205mm T by 85mm D (at widest) *could be sealed to make it usable as a drinking vessel

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Andy Coates @andywoodturner.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

I wanted a nice piece of wood for a thing...So, after looking through one of the wood racks, I decided on this piece of Cocobolo. It’s been sitting patiently waiting to be used since 1996 (!!!), so it should have its day, right? So, I need the replacement cost today, to work out its value…and…

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Andy Coates @andywoodturner.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Australian Goldfield Burr box, with inset tenon and decorative matching base layer. Infilled fissures with turquoise green mica pigment. 90mm by 90mm

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Andy Coates @andywoodturner.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Autumn discount...https://ko-fi.com/andycoates/link/AUTUMN33

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Andy Coates @andywoodturner.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

I this for a walk today, along with the old Oak block, simply to take a picture in the sunshine... Australian Goldfield Burr hollow pot with large Ebony stopper... 5 3/8" tall, 3 1/2" Dia

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 03/09/2025

Nigel Farage looks uncomfortable as Jamie Raskin uses his opening statement to absolutely demolish him

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Andy Coates @andywoodturner.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Australian Goldfield Burr. Carved bowl, with three ebony legs, one that pierces the bowl, and is capped with an ebony and paduak "plum". 19" long, 7 1/2" wide, and 4 1/2" high...

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Jane Duke @janeduke.com · 23/08/2025

A little video (with twinkly music) showing a reduction linoprint building up in 11 layers. The finished print will be in my shop shortly, once it has dried and I have trimmed, signed and dated the edition. Subscribers to my 'Dapple Scrumping' newsletter will get priority access.

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