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Gen3cats @gen3cats.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

#UnconfinedWalks to pick up tickets for our holiday next month. Took the scenic route and was rewarded by pretty steps snoozing dog. Also the solar panels on the car park always cheer me up

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Gen3cats @gen3cats.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Beautiful late summer #UnconfinedWalks with youngest. Still not at school, still no support from school as she isnt failing (yet) and no support from the GP (doesn't believe in medicating children but finally referred for counselling). But scrumped a fig, saw a squirrel and plenty of sloe bushes

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Gen3cats @gen3cats.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Eldest is missing having pets so now goes on a nightly ghecko hunt and has named her favourite Mikey...

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Gen3cats @gen3cats.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Cooking Sunday lunch for 2. Been a very long time since this was a thing so suspect timings will be slightly off as well as quantities...

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Gen3cats @gen3cats.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Been invited to the hen do of an old school friend. Great! Except she isn't taking into account that several of us have kids, work Saturdays or simply don't have the same disposable budget or love of city breaks (and its in London so why 2 nights hotel when everyone lives in South East??). Sigh.

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Gen3cats @gen3cats.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Highlight of today was lunchtime #UnconfinedWalks to post the eldest's sewing box to her. Apparently 8 threads cost 20 Euros... whole box of bits posted for £15.

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Gen3cats @gen3cats.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Cats2 and 3 have discovered how to climb onto the shed. Cat2 had sense to sit up there a while and then come back. Cat3 has wandered off exploring using the fence... luckily he came running back after 20 mins. But crikey i'm not ready for this stress level!

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Gen3cats @gen3cats.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Well eldest has found a wool shop in Cannes, got used to driving on the wrong side of the road and is now sending me photos like these. Meanwhile I am doing data entry at home after struggling to get her sister in to school (cat3 weed on her skirt which didnt help!) And chain drinking tea

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Gen3cats @gen3cats.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Eldest is taking 2 suitcases to France for a year. This is how much wool she is planning on taking...

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Gen3cats @gen3cats.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I've just cancelled my daughter's pocket money standing order as she is an adult and left school. Its only a token amount, purely for her to spend on whatever rubbish she wanted, but.... sob...

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Gen3cats @gen3cats.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Had my first readers in today who had only done research via chatgpt for their house history previously. Absolutely no idea if it had told them the truth or if they even understood the records I'd got out (luckily mid 19thc to 1954 but did include legal stuff). Sign of things to come?

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Gen3cats @gen3cats.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Colander eclipse. 15yo thought I was crazy but it works!

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Gen3cats @gen3cats.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Ah the fun of well meaning relatives having no clue just how competitive the world is for 18yo now (or that actually you need higher a level grades for jobs and apprenticeships than to get into university now)....yes CCD was fine 20 years ago but not now!

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Gen3cats @gen3cats.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Nice #UnconfinedWalks to the pub. Childhood character postbox toppers including a hidden Wheres Wally. Should have taken photo of my drink but too busy drinking and chatting. Suspect will regret this as have work tomorrow....

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Buckinghamshire Archives @bucksarchives.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

The Archive but it's a videogame from 1998.

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Gen3cats @gen3cats.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Promised eldest that I wouldn't watch Sewing Bee without her (she is away for 2 weeks). This is requiring super human effort tonight

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Gen3cats @gen3cats.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

#UnconfinedWalks around the cricket pitch, park and woodland whilst youngest at athletics. So dry leaves are falling already and it will feel like winter is going to last forever...

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Gen3cats @gen3cats.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Next door neighbour has just mown his back lawn for the second time since the hospipe ban started here. Wish they'd force everyone onto a water meter

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Gen3cats @gen3cats.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Cat2 is less than impressed with the first rain in 6 weeks.... the door is wide open

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Gen3cats @gen3cats.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Early morning dropping eldest off at Gatwick. I'm not a morning person but pre 9am on a Saturday is probably the best time to do the m25...

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Gen3cats @gen3cats.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

There is a joke in girlguiding that Rangers are just big Rainbows. Last time she had a unit bear she was in Rainbows but Olive is all ready to go in hand luggage to Kenya tomorrow!

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Gen3cats @gen3cats.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Still too hot for cats 2 and especially 3....

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Gen3cats @gen3cats.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Cat3 adores cat1. Unfortunately the feeling is not mutual...

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Gen3cats @gen3cats.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

#ConfinedCocktail whilst sitting in the garden for the first time in days - so nice being sub 30 degrees! Risking a gin and tonic (Welsh Wind i think) for the 1st time in a year. Was very ill last time I drank gin and not sure if I have developed an intolerance or just drank too much. Cheers!

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Gen3cats @gen3cats.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

#UnconfinedWalks to pick up a 2Good2Go bag of healthy brownies. Local yarn bombers have been busy again. Brownies had a great texture but as 18yo said could use a bit more sugar....

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Gen3cats @gen3cats.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Scrumped mulberries and chips for tea, plus the incriminating evidence of said scrumping on my hands...

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Gen3cats @gen3cats.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Ahh the millionaire who was selling her daughter's new look tops is now selling revision guides as her son has finished his gcses. And not cheaply to do someone a good turn either. No words

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Gen3cats @gen3cats.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

I think we are all this level of too hot at the moment....

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Gen3cats @gen3cats.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Earlier #UnconfinedWalks to the local well dressing event (established 1982). There was cake, plant, book and jigsaw sale. Alas we did not win the raffle.

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Gen3cats @gen3cats.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Eldest has an interview as an au pair this evening. Anyone have any wise words or cautionary tales to impart? What should she be asking/ noticing?

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Gen3cats @gen3cats.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Cat2 and 3 update. Cat2 weighs 1kg, 90g more than her brother!

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Gen3cats @gen3cats.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Had to leave mid scrabble game to pick the youngest up. Just played 'viceroys' on a double word score, so 84 points. In no hurry to go back as suspect will never top that....

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Gen3cats @gen3cats.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Eldest arrived at school for her a level maths exam at 8.30am this morninv to discover it is actually an afternoon exam. She didn't appreciate me pointing out that it was better than the other way round!

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Gen3cats @gen3cats.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Back up to 3 cats (cat1 slowly coming around to his new brother and sister, mainly as he prefers kitten biscuits....)

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Gen3cats @gen3cats.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Cat1 has just killed the 2nd magpie. Eldest has declared she is going to fail her history gcse.

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Gen3cats @gen3cats.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

We had two magpies nesting in the tree in the garden. Past tense because cat1 has just killed one and eaten its head (probably condemning the whole family). Just how much bad luck has he brought on us?

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Gen3cats @gen3cats.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Beautiful evening #UnconfinedWalks to find the local rspb reserve. Found the edge of it plus bonus danger sign but needed to get back for Eurovision. Very dry spring here (April only had 5% normal rainfall) so already cracks in the field

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Gen3cats @gen3cats.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Educational and surprisingly warm #UnconfinedWalks following a self guided walking tour tracing witch hunts in Manningtree (4 women were hanged on this green). Girls fascinated by a working phone box (60p min call) and an ancient oak called Old Knobbly

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Gen3cats @gen3cats.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Deliberately went to Morrisons to buy the favourite cat food and spent £30 on bits and bobs. Just got home and realised I forgot the cat food...

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Gen3cats @gen3cats.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Paleography and language help needed, please! I'm cataloguing papers from early 1900s and come across this... I think includes something about next Tuesday?! It is in a bundle of correspondence to Arthur Stanley. Any help gratefully received!

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Gen3cats @gen3cats.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

The lilac bush in our garden is just starting to open up and the smell is amazing

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Gen3cats @gen3cats.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Watching TOTP2 solo because youngest has a trial shift at same restaurant as eldest (but pot washing). This will either be a massive success or total failure. Will be a long evening of worry i suspect

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Gen3cats @gen3cats.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Lovely spring like #UnconfinedWalks after dropping a parcel off. An end wall of ivy filled with nesting birds tempted me down Meeting Lane which had a little cemetery tucked along it and a pathway leading to fields and the top road via disused gravel pits. Had to get back for taxi duties sadly

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Gen3cats @gen3cats.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

And now just to ruin my mood (after obviously a full day at work, traffic on way home, grabbing half an hour in the garden, forcing 18yo to do revision, sorting food, parenting etc) i try to cancel obscenely high car insurance renewal but system is down... and it auto renews tomorrow

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Gen3cats @gen3cats.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Just heard the ice cream van - summer is on its way

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