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Cathy Brown @cathyab.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Work Christmas do. Pagan death metal festive antlers. Forgot the secret Santa present. Ah well! #hohoho

Woman with short dark blue hair, smiling, on a train. She is wearing a headdress of antlers and green leaves with two red, long tailed birds attached to it.

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Cathy Brown @cathyab.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

Sooooo… this happened yesterday. #TKR

Picture of a smiling woman with purple hair in front of her open door. She is on crutches with a dressing on her left knee. Her green ‘t’ shirt says Bionic Woman on it in multicoloured letters.

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Cathy Brown @cathyab.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Being dropped off at a little countryside station at daft o’clock to make my way down to the @barrowcadbury.bsky.social office in the big city is a joy on a morning like this!

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Cathy Brown @cathyab.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

Today, I have mostly made sausages!

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Cathy Brown @cathyab.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Yesterday, I made chocolate brownies for Kiki Dee (No.2 in my occasional series of “Chocolate Cakes I Have Baked For Pop Stars”). She commented that they were good, and did an awesome version of Amoureuse after knocking back a glass of red wine. I would like to be her when I’m 78.

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Cathy Brown @cathyab.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Any day with poetry in it is a good one. A day with Ayan Aden, #Birmingham’s poet laureate, in it is special. ”Find strength in needing each other”

A young Somali woman stand in front of a pull up banner marked “Birmingham Community Action Network” - she is speaking, delivering her poem “People make People”

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Cathy Brown @cathyab.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Anyone else getting a buzz from hanging out washing on a sunny spring day? #littlethings

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Cathy Brown @cathyab.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Apparently Wisdom is arriving shortly - heaven knows I need some!

An Uber screen shot declaring that Wisdom is on their way

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Cathy Brown @cathyab.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Some Southern hemisphere star gazing! Incredible. Haven’t seen a night sky like this since trekking in Nepal in 2009. Amazing what a lack of light pollution can reveal.

A southern hemisphere night sky full of stars

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Cathy Brown @cathyab.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Admiral, there be whales here…

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Cathy Brown @cathyab.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Currently enjoying the delights of beautiful Denmark, #WesternAustralia. Wandered the various Williams Bay trails today, including Greens Pool, Elephant Cove, Waterfall Beach.

Greens Pool in Western Australia. A white sand beach with clear blue water under a stormy sky

A beach waterfall through sand dunes and rocks

Rocks on a beach which with some imagination look like elephants. They are pretty big

A smiling couple on a beach, with hats on. Clear greeny blue water behind them and a dramatic cloudy sky above

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Cathy Brown @cathyab.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Over years, I made lots of granny squares before boredom set in on each project. A pal finally offered to crochet them into a blanket for me. It took me 18 months to remember to find them & another year to take them 5 minutes up the road and drop them off… picked the blanket up today. #proud #ADHD

Smiling woman with purple hair, glasses on her head, wrapped in a colourful crochet blanket

A crochet blanket spread out on a pale sofa. The blanket is made of mismatched granny squares in lots of different colours and patterns, with a black and grey edging

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Cathy Brown @cathyab.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

I’ve tidied AND dusted AND hoovered the bedroom. Unless you know what an #ADHD bedroom has the potential to be like, this will seem like an inconsequential thing. I even put John’s laundry away (but only after I managed to do mine). #allevening #floordrobe #dogsofbluesky

A panoramic shot of a VERY TIDY bedroom, with a dog on the bed looking out of the window

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Cathy Brown @cathyab.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

9 hours, 4 films, so many laughs! Godzilla A Go Go 2 at The Quad in Derby. Just fabulous! Godzilla vs Hedorah was almost as mindbendingly bonkers as #Godzilla vs Mothra. Almost.

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Cathy Brown @cathyab.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Birthday pub lunch and canal walk with my lovely Mum! We do like a canal. And lunch. Well, and pubs #birthday

4 people, 2 men and 2 women, standing smiling by a canal bridge

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Cathy Brown @cathyab.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

If you see this, post an archer

Matt Fraction’s Hawkeye. A comic book archer with a purple and black costume, blond hair, a quiver of arrows on his back and a metal bow just loosed

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Cathy Brown @cathyab.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Ah, insomnia. Sometimes it’s just every crap thing that’s ever happened to me going around in my head as I lie twitching in bed. And sometimes I clean the kitchen! Like with actual floor mopping and shit. #adhdresult

A galley kitchen in pale blue, with black worktops and a grey tile floor fucking 100% cleaner than it was ten minutes ago.

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Cathy Brown @cathyab.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Morris Dancers decamped from X, went viral and now have a thriving Morris starter pack that spans 3 continents… bsky.app/starter-pack...

Screen shot from Bluesky that’s says ‘Musk loses Morris dancers, it’s over’

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Cathy Brown @cathyab.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

In breaking news, dog remains unconvinced of the purpose or value of snow #snowday #dogsofBluesky

A selfie of the poster and her dog in a snowy garden. She’s wearing a colourful fleece. The dog is staring at something, he has snow on his muzzle

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Cathy Brown @cathyab.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

#UKSnow DE4 6/10 (could be worse here in #Derbyshire, and probably is higher up!)

A snowy garden from a window. The snow is several inches deep. Taken at night

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Cathy Brown @cathyab.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

What a fab influx of awesome #Morris folk! I’ve added loads to the starter pack but if I’ve missed you (or added you inappropriately!) just let me know. Here’s a jolly pic of the heady days when my knees still worked and I was dancing with @shrewsmorris.bsky.social

Smiling female Morris dancer in a grey dress. The sun is shining. She’s moving at pace, with a short stick in each hand. There are bright yellow and orange flowers on her straw hat.

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Cathy Brown @cathyab.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

We have a fab pop up shop in #Wirksworth #Derbyshire for the next little while. The Cabin of Makers CIC - with @inkyconditions.bsky.social sorting them out. I couldn’t resist these cards - for those of us who know us, this is me, John, Ant & Tom - everyone else, feel free to guess!

A card with a bouzouki on it, and the words ‘do not make me reach for my bouzouki’ The background is a dark yellowy orange and the bouzouki is blue.

A card with a print showing a pint of beer, golden with bubbles rising and a decent head.

A card with a print showing a window, with the words ‘I’ve started writing everything down’ above the window and the words ‘just like they said I should do’ below the window

A card with a black and white print of a monster. Above the monster are the words ‘no really’ and below are the words ‘I’m fine’

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Cathy Brown @cathyab.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Firecracker Margaritas - Olmec, Triple Sec, Choluba. Lime juice and sugar syrup. Tajin to rim the glass and a red chili to garnish. #cocktails #weekend

2 cocktail glasses on a cluttered counter top. A small red chilli garnish, a Tajin rim and an orangey hued margarita in each glass. A Choluba sauce bottle to the side.

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Cathy Brown @cathyab.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Tea in #Brum - round the corner from Acorn Antiques!

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Cathy Brown @cathyab.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

7 applications in today. Yay, #ADHDHyperfocus! The dog has been bored though, so I’ve taken him out in the moonlight to muppet at shadows.

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Cathy Brown @cathyab.bsky.social · 06/11/2024

Mood. Starting to think hell might be better. Obviously I haven’t finished it because #ADHD. Should probably stop doomscrolling * *doesn’t stop doomscrolling

Woman weaving a wicker basket with a focused expression - meme words are “almost done weaving the handbasket I’m going to hell in”

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Cathy Brown @cathyab.bsky.social · 03/11/2024

Antique-y day in Derby today. Got myself a lovely little copper pin tray to add to my Hugh Wallis collection. Chatted to loads of knowledgeable people. J bought a sherry decanter. Top morning!

Copper and pewter Arts & Crafts bowls and trays

Sherry decanter on a wooden shelf with 2 other decanters in the background

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Cathy Brown @cathyab.bsky.social · 26/10/2024

Sentimental cooking. My Dad’s knives. My Grandma’s Le Crueset (the wide one is older than me). My partner’s mum’s tablespoons. A recipe he’s been cooking for 30 years. Pics on the wall painted by friends. Food is love. Love is life. Life is food. The world is your oyster. I might have had some wine.

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Cathy Brown @cathyab.bsky.social · 25/10/2024

Leaf collecting day today. Dog is baffled. Nothing new there really! #dogsofBluesky

Dog on a leafy path next to a hessian sack

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Cathy Brown @cathyab.bsky.social · 24/10/2024

In what I know to be a very #ADHD related identity thing, I’ve had my portrait painted. I love this so much. Created by the amazing Fi Marks of fimarks-art.co.uk it’s a great view of what goes on in my head & who and what keeps me rooted.

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Cathy Brown @cathyab.bsky.social · 20/10/2024

Ahh, Pigsy… www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/...

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