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NeverFadingWood 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇵🇱🇪🇺 @avantgardening.pl · 16h

#NFWHealth #OneLittleVictory Yes, I know, I'm eating from the pan, but Heinz cream of tomato soup with a dollop of rotten fish in the shape of Lea & Perrins. That's real comfort food right there. None of yer overboiled rice sludge here, nosiree.

Heinz Cream of Tomato soup with drops of Worcester sauce. In a saucepan.

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NeverFadingWood 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇵🇱🇪🇺 @avantgardening.pl · 19h

I did. And they do help with the needing to do something with my hands.

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NeverFadingWood 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇵🇱🇪🇺 @avantgardening.pl · 14/10/2026

#NFWHealth #OneLittleVictory The final piece of my non-smoking strategy is in place - a set of black obsidian kolomboi to give my hands something to do while not smoking.

A set of black obsidian Greek worry beads.

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NeverFadingWood 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇵🇱🇪🇺 @avantgardening.pl · 06/10/2026

A few more views. It's so lovely being outside amidst so much greenery. And almost smoke free.

A view along a pathway. On the right is a large glasshouse

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NeverFadingWood 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇵🇱🇪🇺 @avantgardening.pl · 05/10/2026

My 9 albums #my9albums On a different day, some of these would be different - it's a fairly fluid cstegory

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NeverFadingWood 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇵🇱🇪🇺 @avantgardening.pl · 02/10/2026

#NFWHealth #OneLittleVictory As it's the first proper meal I've had in a week, I decided to splash out and get some pierogi ruskie. Looks alright, innit.

Polish pierogi ruskie sprinkled with fried onion and chives. Served on a traditional Polish Bolesławiec plate.

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NeverFadingWood 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇵🇱🇪🇺 @avantgardening.pl · 01/10/2026

Thanks. Got some Greek worry beads to keep my hands busy. Plasters and pastilles. Going to give it a real go.

A photo of black obsidian Greek worry beads

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NeverFadingWood 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇵🇱🇪🇺 @avantgardening.pl · 01/10/2026

#NFWHealth #OneLittleVictory To replace cigarettes, I've got pastilles and my komboloi are on their way. These are they. Let's do this.

A photo of black obsidian Greek worry beads or komboloi.

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NeverFadingWood 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇵🇱🇪🇺 @avantgardening.pl · 30/09/2026

Feeling very nauseous and under the weather. Fortunately #Marmite is keeping me company. #NFWHealth

A small black cat with green eyes lying on a black bed.

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NeverFadingWood 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇵🇱🇪🇺 @avantgardening.pl · 29/09/2026

#NFWHealth #OneLittleVictory Ladies, gentlemen, and all others! A winner has been found in the What To Do With My Hands competition. And the winner is κομπολόι - Greek worry beads. Something like this. Must be stone.

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NeverFadingWood 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇵🇱🇪🇺 @avantgardening.pl · 29/09/2026

Here is one of the main sources of my desire to quit. If #Marmite is suffering from my smoke, that is my best reason and source of motivation to quit. Look at how relaxed she is now!

A small black cat lying on a window frame with her forelegs hanging down either side of the window. Supremely relaxed

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NeverFadingWood 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇵🇱🇪🇺 @avantgardening.pl · 26/09/2026

#NFWHealth #OneLittleVictory .Gigantic One. Brilliant set from Peter Hammill, who's as close to a musical hero as I've got, he'd chosen a couple of songs that I really wanted him to play, and encored with Refugees. And as I said to my friends, if that's the last song I hear him play live, that'll do

A white-haired Peter Hammill, dressed completely in white, as is his wont. He's playing an expensive-looking acoustic guitar.

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NeverFadingWood 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇵🇱🇪🇺 @avantgardening.pl · 25/09/2026

First time in my life I've ever bought myself a small pizza. 🤣

A photo of a small pizza. Most of what's visible is rocket and mozzarella.

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NeverFadingWood 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇵🇱🇪🇺 @avantgardening.pl · 25/09/2026

A gas mask! You've just reminded me. My 1st classroom here was at the top of 1 of the turrets. It had 2 wee annexes, and in one of them was an ancient calculator, the manual kind, which fascinated me of course. But there was one of those WWII gas masks for babies! Camouflage green, for some reason.

A photo of the Old Building of George Heriot's School in Edinburgh. A 17th-century affair. A square with a large turret at each corner.

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NeverFadingWood 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇵🇱🇪🇺 @avantgardening.pl · 21/09/2026

Good morning from us. #Marmite's waiting patiently for breakfast.

A bearded man in his 60s with a black cat on his lap.

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NeverFadingWood 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇵🇱🇪🇺 @avantgardening.pl · 18/09/2026

#NFWHealth #OneLittleVictory No more crumpets, so I need some bread for the weekend. Abd here it is. Parówki, fresh bread, and mustard for dinner. This country *really* knows how to bake bread.

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NeverFadingWood 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇵🇱🇪🇺 @avantgardening.pl · 18/09/2026

#NFWHealth #OneLittleVictory Ryszard phoned earlier and asked if I wanted a sokowirówka, so of course I said yes, if it's going free. So I now have a juicer of some kind. I'm not supposed to drink fruit juice of course, unless I have a hypo, but surely just occasionally.

A photo of a juicer. Rather in need of a clean.

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NeverFadingWood 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇵🇱🇪🇺 @avantgardening.pl · 18/09/2026

#NFWHealth #OneLittleVictory Had to try a new coffee. I guess my previous one is out of season or something. This one's also Colombian; the tasting notes say: yellow fruit, cascara, compôte, and lime honey. Sounds very interesting, but apart from compôte I have zero idea what any of them taste like.

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NeverFadingWood 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇵🇱🇪🇺 @avantgardening.pl · 15/09/2026

#NFWHealth #OneLittleVictory Last year's, but still. I've been leafing through the book of ethnographic photos I helped translate and edit, and those photos are just stunning. I'm so proud I was able to work on that project and do a good job. Look at this guy.

An old black-and-white photo of a man in Polish peasant attire. He's staring straight into the camera.

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NeverFadingWood 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇵🇱🇪🇺 @avantgardening.pl · 11/09/2026

Unfortunate. Not quite as unfortunate as Polish fashion designer Ewa Minge.

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NeverFadingWood 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇵🇱🇪🇺 @avantgardening.pl · 09/09/2026

#NFWHealth #OneLittleVictory Just refound this photo of NFDad and me. Love it. I owe that guy so much. And today's good news means I might actually get my MA before we pop our clogs.

A black-and-white photo of a man holding up his baby son.

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NeverFadingWood 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇵🇱🇪🇺 @avantgardening.pl · 09/09/2026

I wonder how Marmite's doing this time I'm away. Missing her dreadfully, as always. 😻🐈‍⬛

A small black cat looking out of a window to her left.

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NeverFadingWood 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇵🇱🇪🇺 @avantgardening.pl · 08/09/2026

#NFWHealth Eyes down for round 6. Blood taken, let's see what's what. For the first time in 4 weeks they can put the cannula in my right arm. Yes, it matters to us lefties.

A middle-aged man wearing a black T-Shirt and a grey panama. He's got a fag hanging out of his mouth.

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NeverFadingWood 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇵🇱🇪🇺 @avantgardening.pl · 08/09/2026

But in the meantime… Don't really want to be here - I have a metric fucktonne of stuff to do at home - but I'll find some way of entertaining myself. What are you all up to? Best wishes to you all.

A middle-aged man wearing a black T-Shirt and a grey panama. He has a cigarette in his mouth.

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