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Ceona @ceona.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Well today properly felt like autumn so I made a lentil cottage pie with a ton of cheese on top and that's how we start the season.

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Ceona @ceona.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The junior parkrun I volunteer at celebrated its third birthday today. I got to keep the balloon. The last 3 years have been so much fun and I'm so glad to be part of this every week.

A large rainbow coloured number 3 helium balloon

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Ceona @ceona.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

This is weird because I was having a rant in my head about this earlier after a "I just want a normal coffee" speech I saw online. It's 2026, that particular "funny bit" has been circulating for decades now. You know what a cappuccino is now.

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Richard J @preachypreach.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Giant kaiju attacks an Edo fishing village

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Ceona @ceona.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Niche complaint, but all the new junior parkrun gear is so much better than the adults range. Their new milestone socks just launched and they are excellent and only go up to a size 5. Boooo. Even for the kids that's a bit stingy given you can junior parkrun up until you turn 15.

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Ceona @ceona.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Conversations with my son: "so the teacher suggested we make a poster featuring an animal, an action and a place. So I did a shark playing the trumpet in Antarctica".

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Ceona @ceona.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Yes we skipped most of those, although I did get the artist in a globe picture as it was quiet at that point.

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Ceona @ceona.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

The MC Escher exhibition at Somerset House is very good but very crowded for a ticketed event. Also the worst gift shop I've ever seen. Incredible artwork though, I liked the early stuff which is very simple but creates such complexity.

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Ceona @ceona.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

We did the Garden Museum today. It's currently got a really nice exhibition about Benton End. Set up a bit like you're walking through the house and lots of striking artwork. The kitchen sink did test my son's understanding of "don't touch that". "But it looks so touchable..." It really did.

A full size realistic kitchen sink. Covered in blue & white patterned tiles and filled with fake dirty plates. It's a representation of the kitchen sink in Benton End.

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Ceona @ceona.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

One week left of the summer holidays and only one thing left to tick off the "list of things to do in the holidays". How's that for parenting folks? Also I may really have run out of London museums now.

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Ceona @ceona.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I didn't expect them to work as well as they have and I'm delighted. Knowing what a pain it is being very short sighted I just wanted to save as much vision as we could.

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Ceona @ceona.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I cannot function without my glasses. My kid can go swimming and see fine. They can get out of bed in the morning and not immediately reach for the specs. All because of some magic glasses with weird circles that somehow stop myopia getting worse.

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Ceona @ceona.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I am short sighted. I started wearing glasses as a child and every eye test my eyesight got worse until I was in my 20s. My eldest child is also short sighted. They have myopia control lenses and a completely stable prescription since starting with them. Science is so cool.

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Ceona @ceona.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Rain is great isn't it? Look at it, all wet and incredible.

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Ceona @ceona.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Massive congratulations to both of you.

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Ceona @ceona.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

You found the Moomin, good work!

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Ceona @ceona.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

A spark from railway work started a fire that burned through a bunch of gardens in my corner of SE London. So I'm all for that emergency alert. It is dangerous out there at the moment.

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Ceona @ceona.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Well @preachypreach.bsky.social made me a cat food box with a hole in it, then a friend got me glasses and all turned out awesome. The eclipse was cool. There was a large and friendly crowd in the local park. Kids were enthused.

Image of the solar eclipse, a little sliver of sun with the moon in front and a black background

The solar eclipse projected through a colander on to a paper plate.

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Ceona @ceona.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

A friend got some glasses for me and I was won over by the eclipse. We had a great view from the local park and enjoyed trying out glasses, the pinhole box and a colander.

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Ceona @ceona.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Oh that's a cool place to view it from. I did have a look for the special glasses at the weekend when I finally realised this was happening. I already couldn't find fast enough delivery. People queued for hours in Greenwich yesterday, I do not have the patience.

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Ceona @ceona.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I'm failing to get excited about the eclipse and I've concluded it's because it involves too much planning. I don't have the spare brain space to be thinking about how to view it and where to view it. Someone just hand me a cereal box with a hole in please.

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Ceona @ceona.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Swearing levels were fun for our second generation as my mum is American and doesn't see crap as a swear word. Which didn't quite gel with my sibling's parenting style. He winced a lot every time she said it in front of the small grandkids.

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Ceona @ceona.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I'd be surprised by arse if reading to an 8 year old. I'd probably be expecting something more kid book sweary that nobody says in real life. Dunderhead or something. I'd rather arse than something like bitch. If it's not aimed at a person arse is less rude, like an "oh arse" comment.

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Ceona @ceona.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

You can customise that too. I look forward to you indulging your inner nerd.

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Ceona @ceona.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

It's finally the summer holidays in our house. Rejoice! Rejoice!

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Ceona @ceona.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

The Potentials as a whole are proving very annoying.

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Ceona @ceona.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Have got to the final season of Buffy with the teenager. I warned them without details that there was lots of annoying stuff in this season. Mostly Kennedy. Kennedy has just turned up and instantly I got "who is that? Oh god, is that Kennedy?". Instant hatred.

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Ceona @ceona.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Not even running on fumes anymore.

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Ceona @ceona.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Hope you get some sleep and those antibiotics do the trick.

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Ceona @ceona.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

It's not the school holidays in this house yet. Send help.

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Ceona @ceona.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Check it out. I thought this monster was a newt or something at first glance. Huge!

A very long leopard slug in the grass. Longer than your finger. Big girl.

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Ceona @ceona.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

I've done it and mostly spent the week sitting around reading a book, if that's any comfort. Did one very mundane case, no violence involved.

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Ceona @ceona.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

I believe it does, although it seems quite excited about being buttery rather than subtle.

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Ceona @ceona.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

These crisps are awesome.

A large sharing bag of crisps. They are French. Label reads Brets. La Bretonne Subtiiilement beurrée!

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Ceona @ceona.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Really really keep that chip up to date. We got our Millie back 10 years later.

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Ceona @ceona.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

If football fans wrote fan fic.

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Ceona @ceona.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Oh she's got a double layered dress. I had forgotten that. You have to love some 90s layering.

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Ceona @ceona.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

I am watching Before Sunrise and am reminded again how annoying it is that I am not, in fact, Julie Delpy looking stunning in a strappy dress over a t-shirt. Style. Icon.

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Ceona @ceona.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

I'm sure Wacaday was giving chunks away as prices for a while. Or did I hallucinate that memory?

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Ceona @ceona.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

That's the one! I never remember the names after I've planted them.

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Ceona @ceona.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

The bees also like my hollyhocks. Which I also planted in a less than ideal spot. I didn't really think about how big they are when I put them at the front of the border.

A large hollyhock plant. It has yellow flowers with purple centres and a bee is busy collecting pollen inside one flower.

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Ceona @ceona.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Buzzy bee on my flower. It's a purple flower. It's possibly too tall to be in this planter but let's not dwell on that.

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Ceona @ceona.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Buzzy bee on my flower. It's a purple flower. It's possibly too tall to be in this planter but let's not dwell on that.

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Ceona @ceona.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

So is Farage going to use some of his £5million to pay for this by election?

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Ceona @ceona.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

I'm reasonably certain the last lot put a CCTV camera in locally to us. It now has a pile of fly tipped waste underneath it.

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Ceona @ceona.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Currently enjoyed watching the few Labour councillors in our area post things like "we are asking the council to do more about fly tipping and put CCTV up." Do they think we have forgotten they had years to do it themselves?

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Ceona @ceona.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Buried the old cat's ashes underneath the lavender bush where she liked to sleep. Current cat immediately went to investigate, dancing on her grave or a last goodbye?

A black and white cat crouched in the dirt next to a small geranium plant.

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