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Thomas Womack @fivemack.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
There is a tree full of hornets in the middle of our village. Today butterflies are landing on it too
A butterfly and two hornets on the trunk of a birch? tree
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Thomas Womack @fivemack.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Welcome to the Cherry Hinton menagerie!
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Thomas Womack @fivemack.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
I am certain this sandwich shop knows what it’s doing
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Thomas Womack @fivemack.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Rain over the Puys from the Puy de Dôme
Clouds with rain descending over a volcanic landscape.  At right of the picture a staircase winds down.
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Thomas Womack @fivemack.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
New country!
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Thomas Womack @fivemack.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
The bar and shooting range also offers axe throwing. I am distinctly surprised to have encountered this in Europe!
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Thomas Womack @fivemack.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
The Sun went out
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Thomas Womack @fivemack.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
MECHANICAL ELEPHANT
View out of the mouth of the Great Mechanical Elephant showing tusks and trunk
“Thank you for not falling off the elephant”

Me, delighted, with mechanical elephant in the background
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Thomas Womack @fivemack.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Marvels of French culinary innovation: ice cream sold with a spoon cast out of waffle-cone material that you can eat afterwards!
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Thomas Womack @fivemack.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
More than 10% of the way to Zaragoza (via Calais and Nantes). I wish there were a slightly clearer statement of when we needed to drive onto the ferry …
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Thomas Womack @fivemack.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
FIVE? What sort of heretical un-Lego-like number is FIVE?
Assembly instructions requiring putting five arm pieces around a wheel piece
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Thomas Womack @fivemack.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
I love the new opalescent Lego material!
Four leaves in a colour which is pink in transmission and blue in reflection, recalling the aurora
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Thomas Womack @fivemack.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
First, make four 1990s PC mice …
Four Lego waterlily petals looking exactly like first-generation ergonomic mice
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Thomas Womack @fivemack.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
My, using locally-hosted LLMs gives you a better appreciation of what lengths the Big Companies have to go to reduce hallucinations. LLAVA is sure that my picture of a tern is a seagull; and when I tell it it's not a gull, it informs me it is a heron standing on floating debris!
A tern, fishing near Bait's Bite Lock in Cambridge, with its spread tail-feathers reflecting in the water.
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Thomas Womack @fivemack.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Example pettable ankylosaur
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Thomas Womack @fivemack.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
The arc of shops with the walkway in front of the artificial lake: #dinoconuk definitely setting itself up for the Jurassic World fans. Lake so far appears mosasaur-free, and a reassuring absence of large pterosaurs.
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Thomas Womack @fivemack.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
#dinoconuk haul from @introvertebrates.bsky.social, www.patreon.com/SpeedThief, and Gert van Dijk of planetfuraha.blogspot.com
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Thomas Womack @fivemack.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Impressive animatronics and large-scale costumes walking the halls at #dinoconuk
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Thomas Womack @fivemack.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Waiting for the opening ceremony. Truly spectacular selection of dinosaur T-shirts here at #dinoconuk : the hot pink “Big Bony Club” ankylosaur my favourite so far.
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Thomas Womack @fivemack.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
I am wondering if the semiotics of this went beyond ‘it is exciting football time: what in our store is round?’
Lettuces individually wrapped in plastic printed with the classic pentagons-and-hexagons football design
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Thomas Womack @fivemack.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Sufficiently pleased by the beautiful fracture in the aluminium extrusion of this chair to forget I probably shouldn’t be sitting on the chair to document the fracture :)
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Thomas Womack @fivemack.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Meh, I reversed it an odd number of times in my head, it is from platform 4 that you walk out into the park. Platform 1 gets you to the largest biomedical research campus in Europe
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Thomas Womack @fivemack.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Cambridge South station, day one. You walk out from platform 1 straight into Hobson’s Park, which this time of year is a sea of wildflowers.
Station building - sweeping curved green roofsMultitudes of white and yellow flowersStation main stairs with impressive wooden roof aboveStairs down to platforms 2 and 3, note solar canopy
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Thomas Womack @fivemack.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
The Kazakhstan expo was a lot more impressive!
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Thomas Womack @fivemack.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Don’t worry about me, a green owl is just getting me to shout random seasonal words in Japanese at these sleeping chickens. はれ なつ あき ふゆ
A black chicken and an orange chicken standing very still on a pale blue deckchair.  Also in the image: a large trampoline and a sky-blue teapot
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Thomas Womack @fivemack.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Very positive thoughts about this giant scotch egg at the village beer festival, from www.scottieshotscotcheggs.co.uk
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Thomas Womack @fivemack.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
I would find these adorable noses even more adorable if they weren’t in my garage roof :(
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Thomas Womack @fivemack.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Johnson’s of Old Hurst have very new capybara babies! That the pond in their enclosure contains two new mallard ducklings suggests that capybara are really very exclusively herbivorous, which surprises me for rodents.
An old capybara, three younger capybaras and six this-month capybara babies
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Thomas Womack @fivemack.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
I’m quite impressed that honeycomb-filled cardboard laminate solid enough to hold my weight is cheap enough that it was the packing material around my Argos furniture
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Thomas Womack @fivemack.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
This skull was by the side of the house while I was pulling up weeds - the jaw was on but fell off when I touched it. Is it plausibly that I didn’t bury our ferret deep enough a few years ago?
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Thomas Womack @fivemack.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
I am sure that there is a better way of pulling a frame out of a video than ‘pause it at the right moment and hit screenshot. These inter-cloud lightning bolts parallel to me cause ten-second rumbles of thunder.
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Thomas Womack @fivemack.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
And water comes out of the bottom! I ended up balancing mine on a library stool with the drain going into a large bucket. The plush aardvark is optional but relieves the frustration.
Heath Robinson air conditioning balancing effort, with bonus plush aardvark
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Thomas Womack @fivemack.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
How to lose your air conditioner warranty :(
UPVC window hinged open with an air conditioner hose attached to it in what I thought was ‘jury-rigged but the best I could do’ and the manufacturer thought invalidated the warranty
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Thomas Womack @fivemack.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
With this exchange rate you are entirely not spoiling us, ambassador!
A bottle of Arizona Ice Tea on sale for £2.29 ($3.05)
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Thomas Womack @fivemack.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Get to them quickly! After only a couple of months they’re already nutria-sized and less excitingly cute (these sweeties are in our local zoo in England at Christmas)
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Thomas Womack @fivemack.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
My emotions when watching motor racing maybe shouldn’t be so similar to watching wildlife docs: ‘I hope that one on its own at the back is OK, I hope the wolves don’t get him’
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Thomas Womack @fivemack.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Dunkelbrise!
Chart of energy use and tariff, showing the battery filling up with <2p/kWh electricity overnight on this windy night
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Thomas Womack @fivemack.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
'muhym' for 'minute' is weird - suggests it was transcribed from italicised or cursive Russian, the 't' character in минут becomes m-shaped in handwriting or in italics.
The Russian word 'minut' in Times New Roman italic; looks like MuHym but all the letters the same height
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Thomas Womack @fivemack.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
It’s weird living in the future. One-handed astrophotograph with a cellphone while holding the lead of a lively Staffie (portrait by moonlight) in the other hand
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Thomas Womack @fivemack.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Mutant crunch cream!
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Thomas Womack @fivemack.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Had a lovely ten minutes this afternoon watching a cormorant fishing in the bay at Es Cana. Really not immediately obvious from rear view it was bird rather than something in the seal or otter line: a sleek brown back above water and the folded wings looking rather foot-like.
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Thomas Womack @fivemack.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
I love this exposition of the Hierarchy of Heaven (‘Santi protettori di Palermo invocano la grazia contro la peste’) - the people ask S. Rosalia who asks the Virgin Mary who asks Jesus who asks God. @adapalmer.bsky.social ‘s translation of grazia as ‘client-patron influence’ is an epiphany
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Thomas Womack @fivemack.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
A category of devotional object I hadn’t seen before - a manuscript order of service, from the Gloria to the blessing after the Mass, in an almost reliquary-grade frame
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Thomas Womack @fivemack.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Somebody looked at the Garden of Unearthly Delights and decided to reproduce bits of it in 3D at tchotchke scale … www.clart-store.com . I do not have luggage space for something this fragile :(
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Thomas Womack @fivemack.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Arancina con aranciata
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Thomas Womack @fivemack.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Bother, I have followed my nose to a place where the roads don’t link up to where the bus goes from without retracing my steps. But look what beautiful flowering succulents I am lost by!
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Thomas Womack @fivemack.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
I am having trouble thinking of another city in a setting quite so good as Palermo. Lisbon’s not bad, am I missing somewhere obvious on the English coast where the hills go up to 2000 feet around and behind it? Are there places I could take a photo of Los Angeles not unlike this one?
Palermo view from the top of Monreale cathedral
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Thomas Womack @fivemack.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
The cathedral construction started in 1174 and the King who ordered it married Joan of England, sister of Richard I, in 1177; so of course the set of saints includes Thomas of Canterbury (martyred 1170, canonised 1172)
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Thomas Womack @fivemack.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Whoever made this Head of John the Baptist had definitely witnessed a real decapitation!
Head of John the Baptist on a platter, with really striking details of the vasculature and the trachea
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Thomas Womack @fivemack.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
They did the floor in pietra dura mosaic! How rich were these kings??
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