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Sylvia Foolproof Suddes

@bossproofreader.bsky.social
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Copy-editor extraordinaire. Goddess.

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Sylvia Foolproof Suddes @bossproofreader.bsky.social · 4h
Yesterday, a small, enticing-looking parcel arrived by special delivery. I opened it with excitement: I couldn’t remember ordering anything. It’s a quartet of microwave egg poachers. I didn’t order them, I’ve never owned a microwave, and I’m a master egg poacher. There’s no return address.🤷🏻‍♀️
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Sylvia Foolproof Suddes @bossproofreader.bsky.social · 19h
Same as my mate. I recently got her into it. I fell at the final hurdle.
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Sylvia Foolproof Suddes @bossproofreader.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I‘ve added the location of my flat.
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Sylvia Foolproof Suddes @bossproofreader.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Here’s a special mosaic for you, @olivierroth.bsky.social. In 2017, I travelled by train to meet an author in Nantes to work on his opus (which was about Locomotion Number One).🚂 #MosaicMonday
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Sylvia Foolproof Suddes @bossproofreader.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
#MosaicMonday Manchester Victoria 🚂
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Sylvia Foolproof Suddes @bossproofreader.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
At the cemetery.
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Sylvia Foolproof Suddes @bossproofreader.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
It must be marvellous never having to queue. – Dad Suddes to an entitled queue-jumper in the library sometime in the 1970s. Died on this day 1988. Image: me ‘n dad.
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Sylvia Foolproof Suddes @bossproofreader.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Four hours of bramble fighting, eight plotheads, and a single courgette cake. It is roasting hot!
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Sylvia Foolproof Suddes @bossproofreader.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It’s like they tried to hide the contributor.
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Sylvia Foolproof Suddes @bossproofreader.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Poor bugger.
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Sylvia Foolproof Suddes @bossproofreader.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
My housing officer is dynamite! She *listens* and she *ACTS*.
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Sylvia Foolproof Suddes @bossproofreader.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Rodent? Not only chomped, but cut from the plant.😑
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Sylvia Foolproof Suddes @bossproofreader.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The calming effect.
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Sylvia Foolproof Suddes @bossproofreader.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Sylvia Foolproof Suddes @bossproofreader.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
What the fuck? How can it cost so much? I read my own meters monthly. And that’s *every household* in the country.🤯🤬
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Sylvia Foolproof Suddes @bossproofreader.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
‘Look, the order fixed for eternity which the Sun God and the God of the Tempest have created for the country of Egypt and the country of Hatti, (that is) peace and fraternity without leaving place among them to any enmity.’ The world’s oldest peace treaty. Image: Turkiye ministry of culture.
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Sylvia Foolproof Suddes @bossproofreader.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Sylvia Foolproof Suddes @bossproofreader.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Just mooning about on a crisp morning.
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Sylvia Foolproof Suddes @bossproofreader.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
To be picked, roasted and bottled.
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Sylvia Foolproof Suddes @bossproofreader.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Does rearm look funny to you?
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Sylvia Foolproof Suddes @bossproofreader.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
🩵
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Sylvia Foolproof Suddes @bossproofreader.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
For a few short seconds, all was well with the world.
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Sylvia Foolproof Suddes @bossproofreader.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Huh.
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Sylvia Foolproof Suddes @bossproofreader.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Let’s hope it’s ready.🤞🏽
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Sylvia Foolproof Suddes @bossproofreader.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Tethered to the house for four hours.😫
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Sylvia Foolproof Suddes @bossproofreader.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Gruesome, scandalous – and completely ideological.
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Sylvia Foolproof Suddes @bossproofreader.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
In the town centre this morning.
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Sylvia Foolproof Suddes @bossproofreader.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Wildflower seeds carefully collected and dried.✔️ Two beds weeded.✔️ Small amount of compost raked in.✔️ Seeds broadcast.✔️
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Sylvia Foolproof Suddes @bossproofreader.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Exhaustion.
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Sylvia Foolproof Suddes @bossproofreader.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
That’s me done for the day.
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Sylvia Foolproof Suddes @bossproofreader.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Every time I need summat from the kitchen cupboard… Sigh.
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Sylvia Foolproof Suddes @bossproofreader.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This looks a bit more than heavy petting to me.😳
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Sylvia Foolproof Suddes @bossproofreader.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
So the preservation and continuation of a group rather than its destruction. Does this idiot assume we’re as thick as him, or what?
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Sylvia Foolproof Suddes @bossproofreader.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
🤭🤭🤭 A rich fruit cake.
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Sylvia Foolproof Suddes @bossproofreader.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Another four peppers ready for plucking.
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Sylvia Foolproof Suddes @bossproofreader.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I’m just grating it. Greating it.
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Sylvia Foolproof Suddes @bossproofreader.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Oh!
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Sylvia Foolproof Suddes @bossproofreader.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The local House of Fraser, Binns, has closed down after 104 years.
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Sylvia Foolproof Suddes @bossproofreader.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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Sylvia Foolproof Suddes @bossproofreader.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
☀️
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Sylvia Foolproof Suddes @bossproofreader.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Lentil soup now ready for nephew number two.
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Sylvia Foolproof Suddes @bossproofreader.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
What a powerhouse! #StippledArachnid
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Sylvia Foolproof Suddes @bossproofreader.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
It’s a beautiful late summer/early autumn day. Wish I was treading a Roman road.
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Sylvia Foolproof Suddes @bossproofreader.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
While struggling to familiarise myself with outdoor life this morning, and 30 minutes from home, I bent down and heard a tear. Recalled with horror the colour of my underwear. Tied my overshirt round my undercarriage. Struggled home. Do other people have these daily struggles?
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Sylvia Foolproof Suddes @bossproofreader.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Pissed.
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Sylvia Foolproof Suddes @bossproofreader.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
My growing skills are better than my geographical know-how.
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Sylvia Foolproof Suddes @bossproofreader.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
As suspected, Google uses our personal data. When fitbit was taken over by Google, I started getting insistent messages suggesting my actions be tracked. I’ve always said no.
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Sylvia Foolproof Suddes @bossproofreader.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The planter plants are settling in. They should fill out in their second year.🌱
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Sylvia Foolproof Suddes @bossproofreader.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Fascinated by mould since food recycling started. Also by heat generation. Life. Amazing.
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Sylvia Foolproof Suddes @bossproofreader.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The highlight of this interminable illness is discovering I can print from bed.
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