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Ebly Pamplemousse @ebly.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

I wore out this elbow darn before Easter - finally covered it up. There's also a couple more (tiny) holes at the edge of the ribbing. Not having the right size hooks, I ended up embroidering a couple of flowers (crocheting would've taken much, much less time) […] [Original post on mstdn.social]

A turquoise cardigan with the sleeve positioned over the body. You can see the previous (rectangular) darn in brown and pink woollen yarns. I wore through it and patched it up with pink embroidery floss.
Below the sleeve, you can see where the ribbing meets the body of the cardigan. Towards the button band on the left, is a small navy darned patch. To the right of this are a couple of embroidered daisies - yellow centres and white petals. They look quite niave because my hand sewing skills are terrible, but they also look a little cute.
I can now wear it for at least another year!

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Ebly Pamplemousse @ebly.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

Another cardigan, another hole...been sitting around, all summer, waiting for me to do something about it. Well, I did. Finally darned this hole... A little annoyed really as it's just on the inside of the elbow, somehow. So you can't really see the fix when […] [Original post on mstdn.social]

A rectangular stitched patch covering the hole and laddering seen in the other photo. There's a chunk of purple stitching in the middle of the rectangle, which is surrounded by dark blue embroidery thread.
It's not the neatest of stitching and it didn't really form the pattern I was hoping for, but it was the first attempt at this type of darning (not that I can remember the name of it). No worries though, I've more holes I can practise on (fortunately or unfortunately).

A pink cardigan with part of the sleeve pulled over my daring disc, showing both the hole and the laddering (above and below the hole). The fabric is also beginning to wear thin around the hole but that's not really visible in the photo.

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Ebly Pamplemousse @ebly.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026

When you realise that you don't have enough carrots for the carrot tarte tatin but you do have onions! And a lump of unidentified pastry in the freezer from Christmas, but it may be older. (Turned out to be flaky pastry but I still don't know when I made it.) […] [Original post on mstdn.social]

A savoury Tarte tatin made with orange carrots (on the right hand side) and white onions (on the left).
I've just turned it out of the pan, so there are a couple of maple syrup splodges on the blue sky white plate it is sitting on.

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Ebly Pamplemousse @ebly.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026

Had some apples going wrinkly in the fruit bowl so I did what I had to do - make some more muffins/cupcakes. Good way of using up some of the leftover oat milk too. (The mixture turned out a little more wet than before, and the cakes took a few more minutes to […] [Original post on mstdn.social]

Two sets of small cakes, all sitting in two orange silicone trays. There are round shaped ones on the left and, on the right, larger heart shaped ones - these ones are upside down in the photo because it's the only angle I could get without having a huge light flare on the silicone, from the kitchen light! (Part of this flare is still visible on the left hand side because I couldn't cut it out completely!)
These have just been taken out of the oven and were still very warm. Too warm to remove from the molds, so I couldn't eat them then! (I have now though!!!)

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Ebly Pamplemousse @ebly.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/04/2026

[UK politics with partial photo of the frog-faced cunt] I made a mistake of opening this envelope today - it's bumpf from fucking Reform. There's a post going round with a freepost address for them; but some are saying it's their old address. Anyway, if you […] [Original post on mstdn.social]

2 bits of paper from reform plc, and the back of a white envelope with the returns address.
I'm not going to write what the bumpf says as, quite frankly, it's not worth my time nor is it worth your time in reading their electioneering crap.
Should you want to return yours (without opening the envelope), the return address is:
PO box 61301,
London
N17 1DR.

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Ebly Pamplemousse @ebly.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/04/2026

A not quite #SilentSunday ! The big white fluffy clouds and blue skies were chased away by this👇:

A brown roof that's got white stripes running down it, due to the hailstorm we're currently having.
Water (rain? melted hailstones?) is running down the window, making the roof tiles look smeared. Quite a few hailstones are bouncing off the tiles but you can't see that in this photo. Thankfully, I'm not under that roof because the noise is almost deafening!

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Ebly Pamplemousse @ebly.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/04/2026

A view through the curved back window of a train carriage, at the little stream loco pushing/pulling the rest of the train along a hillside. The joys of having to book tickets in advance - you have to put up with whatever the weather decides. #FensterFreitag

The sides and back of the carriage are glass/thick plastic to allow you to see the countryside/hills.
Unfortunately, it was raining so all that could be seen was whatever was directly at the sides of the railway line.
At this point, there's a stone embankment on the left and a few conifers just behind the loco on the right.
The people sitting (their heads and shoulders just visible) are all looking a little cold, a little damp, but busy chatting to each other.

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Ebly Pamplemousse @ebly.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/03/2026

Pineapple, coconut and lime drizzle cupcakes. Should've been a loaf cake but I don't have a loaf tin. Could I have used my mum's tin? I could, but I couldn't be arsed going and hunting for it in her garage. Plus, it would've taken the best part of an hour to […] [Original post on mstdn.social]

8 heart shaped cupcakes sitting, haphazardly, on top of a grill rack. The icing on top of the little cakes has run off, and you can see the drips running down the sides, and drops of white icing on the baking tray underneath. It's a thin icing so the top is an opaque yellow-brown colour, unlike most iced cakes these days which come with a thick layer of white sugar on top, making most cakes far too sweet.

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Ebly Pamplemousse @ebly.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/03/2026

Spring comes in fits and starts. Happy Mothering Sunday. #SilentSunday

A bunch of yellow daffodils in a clear crystal vase. Just at the bottom left of the vase are a load of green stems (and the blades of a pair of scissors) that I cut off the daffs...
These were growing in my back garden until yesterday. The weather was such recently that they had started to bloom but the winds, rain, icy hail that we had on Friday meant that the top heavy blooms fell over, to become food for the slugs and other ground dwelling creatures.
So, I had to cut them and bring them indoors.
They are now on my mum's dressing table where, she tells me, they are emitting a subtle, sweet fragrance.
(And it's the only bit of brightness and Spring, seeing as how the weather has gone all crap again.)

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Ebly Pamplemousse @ebly.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/02/2026

Straight out of the oven, but I have to wait a few more minutes before it's cool enough to eat. Why can't it cool down quicker?!! #MardiPatisserie

A rectangular pyrex dish containing rhubarb (and a little bit of apple) crumble.

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Ebly Pamplemousse @ebly.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/01/2026

Mastodon has spoken! #TOTP (Screenshots of many people all agreeing that they like Visage's Fade to Grey, and that this episode is sponsored by the legendary club The Blitz)

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Ebly Pamplemousse @ebly.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/12/2025

For the very last #MardiPatisserie of the year - home-made double chocolate brownies. #ANewWayToBake

A pile of double chocolate brownies, straight out of the tin, all on a festive chopping board.
(One brownie is standing, leaning on the one next to it, just so you can see how fudgy-gooey it looks inside.)

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Ebly Pamplemousse @ebly.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/11/2025

[Chocolates] I was unable to get my cheese fix from Switzerland this year, but I think I may be sorted for my chocolate fix! And I don't have to go that far to get some either! #Chocolate #Manchester

Two squares of chocolate sitting on a slightly crumpled white napkin. The words Läderach and Switzerland are printed (in brown) at the bottom of the napkin.
The chocolates are milk chocolate and the top sides are coated with white chocolate. Printed on this is a fancy bee and "Hello MCR".

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Ebly Pamplemousse @ebly.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2025

[Flagshaggers] Car was at the garage a few weeks ago so I had to take the bus. Used to have 2 bus routes there, now only 1 so it takes a long time and goes on a magical mystery tour. Went through a very pretty village - all stone houses, cobbled streets […] [Original post on mstdn.social]

St George's cross flag flying (fluttering to the left) halfway up a lamppost. Below it is a red Royal Mail van, parked up outside the local newsagents. There's a side window on view, with, presumably, some of the items you can buy in said newsagents (I was too far away and at the wrong angle to see properly).

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Ebly Pamplemousse @ebly.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2025

Managed to get out into the garden between showers today. I'm so excited! I've got courgettes!!!!!! For the first time ever!!! Ok, they're not as large as I thought they'd be, and the flowers have rotted, but I managed to get some the slugs/snails/woodlice didn't yet eat! #Gardening

6 round, yellow courgettes in a colander. One has a small but thick piece of stem still attached whilst another has a green end. The other four all have brown ends where their flowers have rotted. There is also a single, courgette flower - it fell off the plant whist I was cutting these courgettes from their stems.

5 small, yellow, round courgettes growing under large green leaves. Three of them have no flowers because they've rotted off whist the other two still have their flowers attached. Hopefully, they will grow a little more/larger and I'll be able to pick them in a couple of days.

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Ebly Pamplemousse @ebly.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2025

No good bread tonight, and the crumble's finished, so I'm on apple muffins* instead. *Should've been a cake but, really, who wants to wait 30-40 minutes plus, for a cake to bake, when you can wait 10 minutes instead? #MardiPatisserie #ANewWayToBake

8 heart shaped muffins (little cakes, not the bread ones) in an orange silicone tray, which is sitting on top of a baking rack. It took a lot of restraint to not gobble them up immediately (being so hot they were steaming helped!).

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Ebly Pamplemousse @ebly.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2025

[Crumble and custard] Can you have apple crumble and custard for breakfast? Why, yes, yes, of course you can!

Two bowls of crumble and thick, thick custard, waiting to be eaten. There's a small piece of crumble left in a rectangular pyrex bowl, and a small pan on a black trivet containing scrapings of custard.
(The remaining crumble has gone back in the fridge. Don't worry about the custard though, it was finished off bet quickly.)

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Ebly Pamplemousse @ebly.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2025

I've no cream, no yoghurt and not enough milk to make custard. 😬 Going to have to force myself into eating the crumble by itself; it's tough but someone has to do it. #MardiPatisserie

An apple crumble just out of the oven (it looks a little pale but everything seems to be overexposed in this photo). In fact, there's so much reflection going on, you cannot see the apple layer under the crumble.

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Ebly Pamplemousse @ebly.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2025

Just received a text message, from the govt, about the emergency alert that's going to happen on Sunday (1500, 07/09/25). Find out hilarious that Google thinks that the UK govt is spamming us! (I've no idea whether my phone will do the siren/alarm as i didn't […] [Original post on mstdn.social]

Text message just received in my phone, from the UK government saying there's going to be an emergency alert at 1500 on 07/09/25. Phones will vibrate and make a siren noise.
At the very bottom is a message saying I can't reply to it.
At the very top is a message asking if I want to save UK Gov as a contact, or report it as spam.

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Ebly Pamplemousse @ebly.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/08/2025

Every now and then, a photo of someone's 'harvest' pops up on my TL - multiple large red juicy tomatoes, waiting to be picked, or a large pile of courgettes. Well, this is the first year ever, that I've managed to get courgettes to not only flower but to fruit […] [Original post on mstdn.social]

A small green tomato hanging off a plant. Next to it is the bamboo cane supporting this plant, with a green cane topper in the shape of a flat flower. The topper is about 2cm in height, which is about the size of the tomato. None of the seeds were from cherry tomatoes but from normal sized ones; I really hope they'll grow more, I really do.

Another tomato plant with a small, green, very unripe tomato hanging in the centre. If you zoom in, there looks to be little flecks of yellow (pollen maybe? I don't know) on the edges of the tomato and on the stems. There are a couple of even smaller tomatoes barely visible, and quite a few out -of-focus yellow flowers (in varying stages of openness).
These tomatoes are a flat green colour, unlike that in the other photo, which seems to be darker at the top, almost forming dark green stripes stretching down over the body of the tomato.
These seeds weren't cherry tomatoes either.

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Ebly Pamplemousse @ebly.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/07/2025

Was going through some files and I found some acetates. Must be from 95-6. I could just wipe off what I wrote, and reuse them... But what for? Does anyone still have an OHP?

Acetates talking about excitatory amino acids used in gravy preparation. The green instructions are rather faded but you can guess how tasty the gravy was. Apparently, potassium may or may not be affected in gravy and who knows what happens to schizophrenic gravy - I, unfortunately, didn't make any notes about that.

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Ebly Pamplemousse @ebly.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/05/2025

If someone has to deny that you sound like Enoch Powell, then perhaps we've all read/heard it wrong; if it has to be denied multiple times, then perhaps you are taking a leaf out of Powell's book/speech. #UKPolitics #Immigration

Headline from the politics live blog on The Guardian's website today: "Starmer completely rejects suggestion he echoed Enoch Powell in immigration speech, Number 10 says".
Below is a link to another article titled: "Starmer's immigration speech completely different to Enoch Powell's, says Yvette Cooper". (For those who don't know, Cooper is the Home Secretary.)

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Ebly Pamplemousse @ebly.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/04/2025

The yarn chicken is going to win. I have 2 rows left to stitch, and then all the edges to close up, and I don't have a big enough ball left. 😢 I do have another ball but I'm unsure if it's the same colour or not, because whilst this one is named, that one's […] [Original post on mstdn.social]

A piece of crochet in a golden yellow yarn. There is a crochet hook with a red handle, and a few bulb pins, sitting on top.
Above the work is what remains of the yarn - a small, scraggly bundle. I have to use that to try to finish off the last 2 rows. It's no wonder that the piece has been in time out for the past couple of weeks!

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Ebly Pamplemousse @ebly.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/04/2025

And still he doesn't listen. Will he ever pay attention to the poppers? (Probably not.) #TOTP

4 posts all basically telling Peter Powell to keep his hands to himself (instead of on the audience).

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Ebly Pamplemousse @ebly.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/03/2025

Mother's Day treat. #HappyMothersDay to all who celebrate; happy Sunday to everyone!

The mild version:a samosa on a saucer, covered with (yoghurt) raita and a bit of red sauce. Behind it is a takeaway box containing 2 dahi wada in whatever raita hasn't been taken away already!

The spicier version: another samosa but this time covered with the same raita, and then topped with green sauce and homemade brown sauce (tamarind chutney).

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Ebly Pamplemousse @ebly.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/03/2025

I could either pay £1 for a bunch of daffodils at the supermarket, or I could just go in the back garden and pick up all the ones that had fallen over after last night's weather. Still no sign of the ones in the front opening yet. #Flowers #Bloomscrolling

A bunch of yellow, multi-petalled daffodils in a glass. They look so bright and cheery but, upon close inspection, the petals are a little translucent. I'm guessing the temperature was a little too cold for them.

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Ebly Pamplemousse @ebly.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/03/2025

A couple of days of warm weather and the daffodils in the back garden finally started to open. A couple of warm days does not mean a couple of days of sunshine though; only one was sunny. And that probably explains why the daffs in the front garden are still closed. #SilentSunday #Bloomscrolling

Two daffodils standing proud in the back garden. The back one is still closed, but the front one has all its petals open. (It's not your usual trumpet type, but one with multiple petals.)
Behind the closed daff, you can just about see a blue plant pot with some green stuff sticking out of it. Behind that (and both daffs) is blue fencing with white-ish fence posts. (I didn't paint them last year so it's all looking less than pristine.)
Just over the top of the open flower, the sun is shining, illuminating the open petals beautifully.

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Ebly Pamplemousse @ebly.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/03/2025

Some time before lockdown times, I bought a little blue & white jug containing muscari bulbs - mainly because I wanted the jug. I planted the bulbs in this green pot but they never flowered. Year after year, green shoots came up but no flowers. As I didn't need […] [Original post on mstdn.social]

A green plant pot sitting, half in the sun, in front of a brick wall. Inside the pot are 4 blue muscari flowers, standing erect, but in differing directions. There is a mass of long, spiky green leaves at the base of the pot.
You can't imagine how happy I am that my bulbs in a reduced priced jug, finally flowered!

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