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fionapatton.bsky.social @fionapatton.bsky.social · 2h
It made me think of the mansion in the first series of The Night Manager...I had to actually scour the internet for this image showing the spectacular hanging vines... It's a wedding venue in Majorca and bizarrely there were no still images in their website 🤷
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fionapatton.bsky.social @fionapatton.bsky.social · 6h
A lot of you seemed to like the pic of my friend's gorgeous speckledy calf the other day, so here's a bonus... Cousins? Half siblings? Anyway, enjoy 😜
More calves of the Speckle Park breed with varying degrees of speckle
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fionapatton.bsky.social @fionapatton.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
My Mum's kitchen prior to settlement on her unit. Looking like a scene from Sixth Sense 🫤
Kitchen cupboard doors open mid clearance
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fionapatton.bsky.social @fionapatton.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
And STAY out!
Tote bag bearing the words Vote Josh Out, on a priority Vline train seat
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fionapatton.bsky.social @fionapatton.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Who would have thought this prick would ever come in handy for anything?? #handtherapy #squeezethatbastard
Peter Spud Dutton squeezy potato
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fionapatton.bsky.social @fionapatton.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
And keep him out!
Tote bag bearing the words Vote Josh Out
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fionapatton.bsky.social @fionapatton.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I still think about how distracting the knitwear was in the Kdrama My Demon months after watching it. Too many to pick one and I definitely wasn't the only one pulled out of the story by a jumper!
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fionapatton.bsky.social @fionapatton.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Not sure it meets any of these criteria
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fionapatton.bsky.social @fionapatton.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
On Friday nights I would actually tear up watching Gardening Australia with him, especially the segment on what I should be doing in my garden that weekend. Knowing that back home this was happening
Front entrance overgrown with weeds Garden, lawn and driveway indistinguishable because of grass and weedsInaccessible side entrance and split system full of overgrown basil and weeds
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fionapatton.bsky.social @fionapatton.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Front door painted to look like the TARDIS TARDIS front door partially obscured by flywire and Xmas wreath
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fionapatton.bsky.social @fionapatton.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I'm using mine the same way at the moment because my cast means my thumb is not as opposable as usual and the nails have grown because I can't DO anything
Fingers of a hand in a plaster cast
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fionapatton.bsky.social @fionapatton.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Mum's laundry was pretty cute too!
Corner of laundry showing stained timber and 70s blue and green tiles
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fionapatton.bsky.social @fionapatton.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
A young couple (and pregnant at the time, I was the first one to guess 😁) bought Mum's place after she died, and haven't changed a thing after 3 years, although they did paint. I told them at the time, live with it a while, the layout works so well, and they agreed. And they adore the tiles 😘
Original 70s burnt orange tiles in my Mum's old kitchen.
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fionapatton.bsky.social @fionapatton.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Twelve frigging years ago I asked for a point in the floor for this lamp, which never happened so there's an extension cord running under the couch and up and over the bookshelf which still annoys me
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fionapatton.bsky.social @fionapatton.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I used it in the bathroom as well, he hated my tiles and asked me which way up they went 🤦 But he did as he was told.
Bathroom with painted pressed metal shower, black and white floor and Edwardian hearth tiles behind a pedestal basin
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fionapatton.bsky.social @fionapatton.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I have zero overhead cupboards in the kitchen I designed for myself. The plate rack is still a tiny bit high but *regulations blah blah 🫩 If I'm in my platform DM sandals it's fine 😁
Kitchen with open shelving and LOTS of drawers
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fionapatton.bsky.social @fionapatton.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
How do you know when your boiled egg is just right? After the third nursery rhyme but before the first national anthem... IYKYK 😘
Eggs in a saucepan with the Dutch musical egg timer, gift from my son's in laws
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fionapatton.bsky.social @fionapatton.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Charlie Patton at Howe, Evie 1906Fiona Patton photo reenactment at Howe, Evie 2025
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fionapatton.bsky.social @fionapatton.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Turns out it wasn't that hard to find 😏
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fionapatton.bsky.social @fionapatton.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Still have some weeds to dig out of the gravel but I am happy with how much I got done in the garden. Considering, as my witty neighbour put it, I did it all "single-handed" 😂
Weeded garden surrounded by tricky ring of lawn, perfectly edged and mown.
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fionapatton.bsky.social @fionapatton.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Bathroom smells like Spring flowers 🤗
Bathroom shelf with gold rush glass bottles, antique manicure set and vases with jasmine, mock orange and yellow banksia rose.
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fionapatton.bsky.social @fionapatton.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Australian native hibiscus
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fionapatton.bsky.social @fionapatton.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Have a look at my friend's new calf 🖤🤍 How ridiculously beautiful ... Like a chocolate point Siamese 😍
Speckle Park breed calf with white coat, chocolate ears nose and feet and Speckled knees
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fionapatton.bsky.social @fionapatton.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Loving myself sick right now cos I got my self-propelled mower started (without resorting to putting a bra on AGAIN if I had to ask the tradies over the road to help me). The grass was getting very long & potentially snakey, as you can tell by the easement beyond the little gate. I ran out of puff 😏
Back yard mowed using only one functioning arm
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fionapatton.bsky.social @fionapatton.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Blue crab with one enormous left "arm"
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fionapatton.bsky.social @fionapatton.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Not sure this reads how they think it reads. Anyone proofreading this stuff?? Like, anyone human I mean...
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fionapatton.bsky.social @fionapatton.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
My grandcat watching on my Mum's tv when he was just a baby. Wish I had pics of bigger him at my daughter's but we were too busy peeling the bugger off the precarious shelf hanging high above her tv from where he apparently thought he had a better chance of catching the birds as they flew off 😏
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fionapatton.bsky.social @fionapatton.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Reminds me of a pastel drawing by my father in the 60s
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fionapatton.bsky.social @fionapatton.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Looking forward to resuming my "normal" Springtime routine of constant duckwaddling/Cossack dancing along my gravel paths and driveway pulling out weeds! My plastered up wrist and smacked up hip have prevented me at the *worst possible time this year 😏 I'm sure the neighbours have missed it too 🤣
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fionapatton.bsky.social @fionapatton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Everyone looks better in tweed 😘
My grand-cat sporting a Harris Tweed harness not quite blending with the Australian garden
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fionapatton.bsky.social @fionapatton.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
My little housemate needs a reminder of the house rules 😏 For 2 days I've been calling him to stop hiding for his own safety as the grand-cat is coming to visit. Tonight I closed the hall door as my daughter is watching the telly... Ta-da!! The hall light wasn't actually on until I took the photo 😬
Young huntsman Spider sitting way too close to the door handle
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fionapatton.bsky.social @fionapatton.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
So, do portable dunnies on residential building sites get emptied or exchanged during the build or do they just sit there stewing in the sun for months? Any knowledgeable Kennys out there? (Fingers crossed the wind doesn't blow from the North East!!)
Shane Jacobsen in his title role as Kenny Smyth
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fionapatton.bsky.social @fionapatton.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Same ❤️
Warm bars of early morning sunlight through venetian blinds
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fionapatton.bsky.social @fionapatton.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
My horizon has just become a lot closer 😕
The trees I used to see still visible through the roof trusses of the new build opposite my house The trees I used to see still visible through the roof trusses of the new build opposite my house
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fionapatton.bsky.social @fionapatton.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
My current Huntsman housemate, keeping an "eye" on things
Huntsman spider with legs arranged to look like an eye painted on the wall
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fionapatton.bsky.social @fionapatton.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Here's my flowering almond, bursting into colour since showing nothing just 3 days ago. Through my bedroom window, as I still can't get down the steps 😏
Flowering almond tree with crimson blossom
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fionapatton.bsky.social @fionapatton.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
My first Father's Day without Dad too 🥲 Dear old goofball
90something man hamming it up for the camera
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fionapatton.bsky.social @fionapatton.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Drawing by my Dad
Oil pastel on paper mid 1960s Craig Sinclair Patton
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fionapatton.bsky.social @fionapatton.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I grew something similar ❤️
Bunny soaking up the winter sun in an empty terra cotta pot
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fionapatton.bsky.social @fionapatton.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
You have way better accidents than I do! I'm not green with jealousy but give it a couple more days.
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fionapatton.bsky.social @fionapatton.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Daughter has just sent me this photo of my grand-cat Bertie looking somewhat unimpressed with his new crocheted Pavlova hat. He's very good about being dressed up in costumes but he seems to assume it's another type of harness and therefore expects to be taken for a stroll in the garden 😏❤️😉
Black cat in a pavlova bonnet waiting at the door
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fionapatton.bsky.social @fionapatton.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
I'm blue da ba de dabba daee 🎶
Arm in cast bruised from elbow to fingertips (baby huntsman on wall thinking poor humans only have 2)
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fionapatton.bsky.social @fionapatton.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Thank goodness the new build over the road won't block views like this 🙏
Full moon rising over paddocks and my front garden
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fionapatton.bsky.social @fionapatton.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I swear when they plastered my broken wrist on Monday they accidentally attached the hand of some blue/green skinned alien. Unfortunately I can't show you the spectacular rainbow coloured hip!
Bruised fingers in plaster cast Bruised fingers in plaster cast
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fionapatton.bsky.social @fionapatton.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Although, almost worth it
Clean windows, crap view
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fionapatton.bsky.social @fionapatton.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Could be worse, you could have broken your dominant wrist cleaning fucking windows 🫩
Fractured wrist x-ray
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fionapatton.bsky.social @fionapatton.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Here you go, to tide you over 😉
Bertie the Halloween vampire bat Bertie the Halloween vampire bat
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fionapatton.bsky.social @fionapatton.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Looks like my back yard at the moment 😲
What should be a gravel path around my deck is now a muddy moat
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fionapatton.bsky.social @fionapatton.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Bertie in his genuine Harris Tweed harness in my garden Bertie being a Halloween vampire bat
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fionapatton.bsky.social @fionapatton.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
It certainly did that... plus I found an even better Japanese vase to replace the one destroyed by my grand-cat a few weeks ago, and bargained the total price down by 10%
The necessary cranes standing in what will be a pond but is a pile of mulch on a weed mat for the moment
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