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Evidence and the Neil Gunn just because it's been on the shelf awaiting reading and I finally got around to it.

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The series captures the book beautifully: note perfect.

#lyme, tick borne infections, UK. I reported 30+ tick bites annually for years to GP, with several already this year - all with significant reactions. Told: nothing available, try cetirizine to quell reactions and if I learn of anything else to report back as ticks are an increasing problem. Sigh.

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How magnificent. I had an inkling that you would. I'm giving nothing away. When I first read about it and Julia Roberts narrating was mentioned, I did wonder but gave it a go anyway and was immediately charmed.

My "robin" with a diverse range of song turned out to be a robin and a garden warbler. The swallows that return every year are actually barn swallows. And there's more.

Same here, but I never could and that in itself may have have been a hint of things to come. The only sound here is birdsong. Thanks to Merrydholl's Merlin recommendation, several unknowns are no longer unknown unknowns.

Music rabbit holes are lovely. Connectedly, 'Due South' was a favourite and all of the diverse music that they showcased (an unexpected bonus) still features in my collection today.

Likewise, I've never used the TV as electric wallpaper.

If you liked Colin then look out for 'No Activity'. It featured several of the same cast and is fairly off the wall. It was on iPlayer for a while but wasn't when I last looked.

Leonard... is great. Given what you've said about other programmes, I think that it will prove to be a success.

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The irony is too hard to bear at times but I'll be sure to put it on my watchlist. I revisited 'A Very Peculiar Practice' and it was just as bizarre 40 years on. I didn't see them all back then and so it was interesting to view it all the way through. The nuns.

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But is it as good as the all time classic for snappy dialogue - 'His Girl Friday'? And then there's 'The West Wing' but we won't mention season 5.

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Another recent and endearing favourite was 'Leonard and Hungry Paul'. In a different direction with swearing as a fine art: 'Colin from Accounts' - both still available on iPlayer.

Recommendations are always appreciated as I'm consistently way behind the TV curve. 'Only Child' has been a recent and unexpected pleasure. 'Dinosaur' not so long ago was similarly endearing. I'm clearly missing Scottish voices.

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I don't think that I could find a use for it but if you have a hyperbaric oxygen chamber then can I have first refusal?

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Hijacked your thread again. Sorry.

All 🫂 back. Two separate, equally unimaginable worlds for most. External reactions to both made me lose faith in most people. Resilience is our superpower and yet unsolicited, idiotic "advice" still arrives as it's so swiftly forgotten that we were the smartest and most able friend.

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Widowdom + ME is quite a place.

Distressing news: Chambers - the only dictionary and rightly so, lists the pronunciation as mij. That's according to my well thumbed 1993 edition. I've trusted Chambers from early high school onward and finally I've found an error.

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Elegant, eloquent, magnificent. Thank you for describing the world that the ignorant agressively dismiss. If only we could dunk them in it to fully experience it. To fossick just one gem does you a disservice, but transactional "friends" is so insightfully true. Widow/ers also know of this.

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Sorry for hijacking your Gold Blend and Buffy man thread.

Not forgetting the Barnesian era.

It's not the hardest thing to imagine given the excitement of Brother Wilfried.

Likewise. Robbie Keane was a disaster waiting to happen.

Fishupahill @fishupahill.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

And yet he was so memorable... 'Super Caley go ballistic, Celtic are atrocious' for one.

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Thanks for Merlin. I went outside in the perfect 22°C breezy sunshine to try it and got quite a haul, including two that I've never seen.

Echidna inspiration comes from 'First Dog on the Moon', although Brenda the civil disobedience penguin will always be my favourite character.

I more felt like a young echidna. Geddit?

Crows: ah. Admire yes, but them throwing themselves not long after dawn at my kitchen window from early spring has put them in my bad books.

You'll get sparrows, they're fun, I don't - upahill see. Woodpeckers and cuckoos though - just lovely. Flower identification often defeats me and so I use 'Flora Incognita' for those.

Agreed. Cognitive dysfunction and impairment appears to vary significantly between #pwME. I'm a shadow of who I was. And yes, people using the term "brain fog" for anything and everything trivial is infuriating and another example of a cardinal symptom of ME being dismissed and downplayed.

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Far more efficient than my way of hearing it, finding the source and then heading off to the RSPB website to try and identify it. A tawny owl has taken up residence here. The barn owls still squeak at night and so it must be a peaceful coexistence. The swallows returned a few weeks ago - joy.

Fishupahill @fishupahill.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Most people just don't realise that in the work until you drop system, dropping early is common, sudden and there's no safety net unless you've somehow made your own. So many think that it will never happen to them. We know different. I had an imperative too. World Cup: could MO'N beat Brazil?

Fishupahill @fishupahill.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

I saw far too many signs and knew that I had to stop. No ambulance, but if I'd left it any longer then there would have been. I don't know about Calmac, I've been away from the fold for a while and living in exile; hence you being appointed as my Celtic guru.