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Dutiful Murdock @dutifulmurdock.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Turns out he was hiding in my garden the whole time. Going to tell Citizen Chauvelin, brb. #ScarletPimpernel #HedgeAdjacent

Tiny orange red flowers on a sprig with waxy green leaves, against a flint shale background

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Dutiful Murdock @dutifulmurdock.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Today I managed to clear the frogs and a new mode dropped 😱 #Puzzmo #Ribbit

Grid of 4x4 circles with a coloured frog in each circle. Text overlaid reads "frenzy score: 187"

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Dutiful Murdock @dutifulmurdock.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

I'm rubbish at the post-game clearance challenge. Annoying.

16 circles arranged in a 4x4 grid. In the bottom left corner there is a yellow frog. There is a pink frog in the circle above, and another pink frog in the bottom right corner

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Dutiful Murdock @dutifulmurdock.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

The inheritance sequence by a.k. Faulkner, starting with Jack of Thorns. I started with one, on the off chance. My library speaks for itself 😆

In your library (15) a.k. Faulkner jack of thorns runes of fall wheel of fate...

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Dutiful Murdock @dutifulmurdock.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Nah, that was this glass pyramid 😆

1980s "futuristic" mirrored glass and red steel pyramid building. It was lit up red at night and was the highest point in Milton Keynes until they built the next big thing right next to it.

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Dutiful Murdock @dutifulmurdock.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

I've peaked for the day. Back to bed for me, nothing else can be done. www.hankgreen.com/fourbythree

Gold plaque unlocked, 200 points, 22nd June 2025. The image also has 12 coloured buttons.

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Dutiful Murdock @dutifulmurdock.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Morning Womble! I'm making steady progress through The Hallows by h.l.tinsley. How could anyone resist that tagline? The world is immersive, deliciously weird and the conspiracy large. Will our hero rescue his relationships as he solves the case?

1930s font, reading The Hallows h.l.tinsley. the tagline states "ancient bloodlines, illicit substances, floating nuns". There is a male silhouette wearing a fedora, against yellow lit windows in a wooden gothic revival arched window, adorned with 4-petalled white flowers.

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Dutiful Murdock @dutifulmurdock.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

#HedgeNews the tree doesn't appear to object to the intense pruning they had over the winter. We'll need to thin the fruit to allow them room to grow

Cluster of young apples on a branch with patches of a blue sky against dark green leaves

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Dutiful Murdock @dutifulmurdock.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Very kind of you but imma go this way instead...

Lightning strike map showing north Wales being absolutely blanketed in lightning strikes, and a handful in South Wales

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Dutiful Murdock @dutifulmurdock.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

It turns out I've been a good girl, and was visited by the spirit of bookmas at midnight. There are many copies available, but this one is *mine* Happy UK book birthday @rjbarker.bsky.social

Gorgeously stylish cover for the book, Mortedant's Peril by RJ Barker

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Dutiful Murdock @dutifulmurdock.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Replace the middle and turn the gold to silver.

Tunnock's dark chocolate tea cake wrapper, a starburst of gold and dark blue

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Dutiful Murdock @dutifulmurdock.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Sounds like a squeaky wheel, looks like a wren with cartoon angry eyebrows, it's a goldcrest. Just so you know how loud it is here, and who's making the noise. The background hum is the M4. #HedgeAdjacent

Screenshot from Merlin bird app, showing song thrush, Eurasian wren, goldcrest, blackbird and robin.

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Dutiful Murdock @dutifulmurdock.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

I have a Dragonlance one :) it's packed in a box somewhere at the mo...

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Dutiful Murdock @dutifulmurdock.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

The new horizons HSA have been and we've got five stars, lads. That whole thing about putting random stuff down seems to work on

Flowering lily of the valley, between a brick border and slate covered ground. There are also willow catkins on the slates

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Dutiful Murdock @dutifulmurdock.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

The experimental blackcurrant hedge seems to be happy as well #HedgeAdjacent

Cluster of blackcurrant flowers, known as a strig

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Dutiful Murdock @dutifulmurdock.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

One of these things is not like the others.

Bluesky capture of gif search for Donald Sutherland. Three of the pictures are of him. The second image of the four is Bernard Cribbins in doctor who.

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Dutiful Murdock @dutifulmurdock.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

If they're going with mantasy, all the heroes dress like this. I don't make the rules

Sean Connery wearing thigh high boots, and red mankini, pointing a firearm to the side. He has a donkeyplait falling to the front of his decisively unshaven chest.

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Dutiful Murdock @dutifulmurdock.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

For the literally no one who will ask... Behold ButtHenge!

Rustic bench built from three large pieces of rock. It looks like Stonehenge but was designed for sitting on, not some celestial calendar. I guess on midsummer the sun might shine directly through it, I've not checked.

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Dutiful Murdock @dutifulmurdock.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

I know it's been a hot minute since I was in school, but wtf is year 14?

Article about changing a-levels in the UK. In England and Wales, AS levels can be taken at the end of year 12, and the A2 at the end of year 13. The article refers to exams at the end of years 13 and 14.

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Dutiful Murdock @dutifulmurdock.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

This one is more recently made, and the pattern is based on the great ouse

Piece of bobbin lace, with a dense strip curving back and forth, a gimp strand echoing the curve, then a simple ground, with footside on the right hand edge.

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Dutiful Murdock @dutifulmurdock.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

I've had some fun with sashiko, and non-loom darning. If the fabric is getting thin, then sashiko may be a useful approach for the trousers. The following are all the same cushion cover, performing the round patch, triggered the need for the square patch. The sashiko covers a three inch tear

Inside the sashiko fix. There is a patch of stabilizing fabric, and a running stitch thread pattern

Wonky square darn on a decorative cushion

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Dutiful Murdock @dutifulmurdock.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Ignore the cat, she was sulking because she wasn't allowed in any of the boxes.

Large pile of cardboard boxes. There is a torti and white cat, actively ignoring said pile of boxes. You can feel the "there are no boxes here" energy coming off her in waves

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Dutiful Murdock @dutifulmurdock.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

"we've found a plant, and we need the latin name to be something meaningful, you know? not just planty mcplantface" "gotcha!"

label for the Ornamental bramble, "Rubuscockburnianus"

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Dutiful Murdock @dutifulmurdock.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

This was one of our favourites and "don't ask me any questions" entered the family lexicon. See also "this is not my hat". That crab is such a grass.

Illustration of a small orange crab. Their eyestalks are right up; their eyes wide open. They are pointing urgently at a clump of seagrass.

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Dutiful Murdock @dutifulmurdock.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

I had a hole in a cushion and while I was darning that hole, I also made a new one. The second darn was way more fun to do :) visible mending for the win!

circular darn in blue darning thread, on a grey and black cushion

square darn in blue thread on a grey and black cushion

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Dutiful Murdock @dutifulmurdock.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

There's a soundtrack as well. The great tit is mighty annoyed I'm sat here and doesn't mind telling me so.

Screenshot from merlin birdapp, showing it's detected song from great tit, song thrush and European robin.

We've also had house sparrow, wood pigeon, collared dove, blackbird, jacksaws and magpies.

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Dutiful Murdock @dutifulmurdock.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

Hedge news! This is not the best photo, as the tree is quite tall and the best bit is at the top. Either way, the smooth leafed holly is doing her thing and the red berries are profuse. The hedge is starting to feel festive

Smooth leafed holly, with red berries against a light blue November sky

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Dutiful Murdock @dutifulmurdock.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Oooh fabulous! I managed to get a shot of the sparrowhawk we see once a year. It was on the trellis when I saw it, but when I had returned from getting my camera, it had giggled madly and flown into the tree.

Female sparrowhawk (we think) in a crack willow tree

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Dutiful Murdock @dutifulmurdock.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

I maintain that this design is one of the greats of the 20th century. The silver and red iteration is also iconic. My preference is for the dark chocolate rather than the milk; controversial, I know.

Tunnocks tea cake wrapper, dark chocolate variant. A dark blue eight pointed star, surrounded by a gold eight pointed star, and series of gold and blue concentric circles, finally surrounded by gold and blue lines which would converge at the centre of the original blue star.

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