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key-lime pie @keymonster.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

This is a very good visual for how talking about artists helps us. If you’ve commissioned, bought from or worked with an artist, please talk about it. It helps us a lot.

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Costumed Vole @costumed.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Very glad to see you here. I've gone cold turkey on all US news after you-know-what (I'm British so I have that luxury) but I do miss you and thank you for the work you have done for the last 8 or 9 years. All the very best in the future. One day, I will be brave enough to listen to you again.

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

This is why, in the real human world, people prefer talking to their friends to sitting watching adverts and listening to uninvited strangers. Sure, there’s less money in it, so someone is going to have to work that bit out, but humans being social is what social humans enjoy.

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Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

And I made you all a playlist to listen to while perusing the Biscuit Connoisseur Starter Pack... 10. Bourbon Jovi 9. Florentina Turner 8. Fleetwood Macaroons 7. HobNob Dylan 6. Viscounting Crows 5. Pearl Jammie Dodger 4. Garibaldi Barlow 3. Oreo Speedwagon 2. Lionel Rich Tea 1. Jaffas on Airplane

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Costumed Vole @costumed.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Why didn’t they print them one-sided? Was the cost saving so high? I couldn’t bring myself to ruin the comic.

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Costumed Vole @costumed.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

My grandmother knitted me one in apricot and white. I cringe at the memory.

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Costumed Vole @costumed.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

They’d run out of maps last time I went (covid lockdown walking) and I didn’t think of googling on my phone. Did find either Alcock or Brown (can’t remember which!) on my way round, though. Small toy biplane left as tribute. Sweet.

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Costumed Vole @costumed.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

I have a new pair of mittens. How bad would it be to put them on a string? How bad really?

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Costumed Vole @costumed.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Goodness me, how very wholesome!

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Costumed Vole @costumed.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

We all will, unless we get very lucky.

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Costumed Vole @costumed.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Pretty much an all-purpose craft substance.

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Costumed Vole @costumed.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

I’ve used spray starch but it was a long time ago. I used to have some matte finish PVA varnish. Maybe try something like that?

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Costumed Vole @costumed.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Thank you! I will give it a try next time. My trouble is being unable to follow directions and read maps… Lowry is on the end of a row near a path and the grave has pots of paintbrushes instead of flowers. His name is on the side of his parents’ headstone iirc.

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Costumed Vole @costumed.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

I am such a fan of Harry Clarke.

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Costumed Vole @costumed.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

I live about a mile from the cemetery where this is. I've wandered round it twice, trying to find this, and failed. Found LS Lowry, though.

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Costumed Vole @costumed.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Oh, that’s undoubtedly true, but I just came to prefer the character story arc over the sword and sorcery spoof. That’s just my preference.

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Costumed Vole @costumed.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Terry P is my guilty pleasure, but the early stuff isn't the best of his work imho. I guess you have to start at the beginning to get the build up and understand the way Discworld works, but the later stuff is much more fully realised and funnier. (My opinion, anyway.)

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Costumed Vole @costumed.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Should have mentioned that it stands for Memorial Device Alternative National Treasure.

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Costumed Vole @costumed.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

You need to get in touch with @memorialdevice.bsky.social I somehow was awarded the honour despite having none of the right qualifications, but I’ve worn the badge with honour ever since.

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Costumed Vole @costumed.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Great to see so many MD ANTs here!

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Costumed Vole @costumed.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Yesterday for me. I don't regret it 24 hours on.

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Costumed Vole @costumed.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

I’m not a game player, sorry. Should have realised. I’m a big podcast listener also but have to admit that I zone out when the crochet gets tough.

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Costumed Vole @costumed.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Audiobooks help you do 2 of those at a time. Except dance. That would be weird.

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Costumed Vole @costumed.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Thank you for coming here and doing this. It is like old times.

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Costumed Vole @costumed.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Think the next one will seem even longer.

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Costumed Vole @costumed.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Is 'posts' considered bad form?

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Costumed Vole @costumed.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

I am so glad to find you here, now I've moved from The Other Place. I'm an ancient British female, so absolutely not your target demographic, but I love your posts. Thanks for making them.

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Costumed Vole @costumed.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Hello again. Nice to see you here.

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Costumed Vole @costumed.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Gosh, that's very philanthropic. I only knit for myself. (No one else has ever indicated they'd be interested...) On the other hand, I used to make jewellery and there's not a single friend who hasn't got drawers full of my earrings.

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Costumed Vole @costumed.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

I read somewhere an account of how to predict how a yarn will knit up by looking at it in the ball, but I'm damned if I can find it. If you are happy with it, then go for it. (Although does that mean you will have to keep your distance from other people?!)

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Costumed Vole @costumed.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

HOORAY!! Word of the Day makes my day! The only downside of listening to @susiedent.bsky.social 's book on audio is not being able to see the words at the start of each chapter to make a note of them.

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Costumed Vole @costumed.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Well, you've done it very nicely. I'm a fan of patterned yarn, but it is a bit of a lottery how the patterns turn out. I'm making a lot of socks right now (anxious? me?) and if they don't show a picture of the knitted fabric on the label, it's a bit of a game of Yarn Chicken.

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Costumed Vole @costumed.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

I've just been in to deactivate my account and it felt horrid. Had to dash in and out asap for fear of seeing something awful.

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Costumed Vole @costumed.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Not keen on the yarn, but your edges are beautifully neat and even.

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Costumed Vole @costumed.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

You're very welcome. You've provided me with endless entrainment while swimming - got You're Dead To Me downloaded onto my underwater MP3 player.

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Costumed Vole @costumed.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Just gone down by one more in the last 10 minutes as I've just deactivated my account.

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