🍂 Maple Cinnamon Claire Season🍂 @greenw77.bsky.social · 19h*ler på norsk: del to* Honestly, I think this proves it really is a game of chicken. Every time a rich person threatens to leave, you tell them that’s fine, off they pop, no more doing business in your country, ta ta! & watch them promptly not leave bcse they lose customers, market, income… 010
🍂 Maple Cinnamon Claire Season🍂 @greenw77.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Thank you! I can only recommend Esther Rutter’s excellent “This Golden Fleece” again, it’s full of fascinating detail about the UK’s history of yarn crafts 1240
🍂 Maple Cinnamon Claire Season🍂 @greenw77.bsky.social · 08/10/2026They were probably knitted flat (a knitting term where two long needles are used to create each piece which is then whip or mattress stitched to form a garment, as opposed to circularly where multiple needles are used to make a tube of fabric) 2330
🍂 Maple Cinnamon Claire Season🍂 @greenw77.bsky.social · 08/10/2026The yarn was untreated, high in lanolin, & so water repellent as well as making a thick, insulating fabric in the time before oilskin cloth jackets. Unlike stranded colourwork sweaters, where two threads are used to make a pattern & a thick fabric, ganseys use knit/purl patterns of a single thread 4390
🍂 Maple Cinnamon Claire Season🍂 @greenw77.bsky.social · 08/10/2026If you’re minded to, Esther Rutter includes a chapter on knitting her father a gansey in her excellent book about knitting in the British Isles. Gansey patterns were unique to the wearer, indicating marital status, number of children, etc., & it was said this was a way to identify men who drowned 3561
🍂 Maple Cinnamon Claire Season🍂 @greenw77.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Now to go & lump 4 metric tons of wood into storage while I question my life choices 010
🍂 Maple Cinnamon Claire Season🍂 @greenw77.bsky.social · 06/10/2026today your middle aged dad is dealing with the intricacies of the torx screw head system, & in the process has discovered that not only is there a brand called TERF, but a company called screw city 100
🍂 Maple Cinnamon Claire Season🍂 @greenw77.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Life has been tough for the Poddington Peas 010
🍂 Maple Cinnamon Claire Season🍂 @greenw77.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Today I tried a cinnamon roll latte with extra cinnamon on top & it was lush, proper seasonal nonsense of the finest whimsical order, lads 010
🍂 Maple Cinnamon Claire Season🍂 @greenw77.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I saw 10,000 Sex Arses play the Marquee in ‘85 after their EP got played by John Peel in a single uninterrupted half hour on radio 1 one Saturday night. Shame what happened to their drummer, still the ostrich survived which is a small mercy I suppose 0100
🍂 Maple Cinnamon Claire Season🍂 @greenw77.bsky.social · 03/10/2026OF THE WORST KIND!!! HOIST BY MY OWN IMMUNE SYSTEM! 010
🍂 Maple Cinnamon Claire Season🍂 @greenw77.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Anyway, anyone in the market for 26 vegan dark chocolate chip & toasted walnut cookies? Freshly made yesterday! 000
🍂 Maple Cinnamon Claire Season🍂 @greenw77.bsky.social · 03/10/2026The worst way to discover you might be allergic to something is to bite into, say, a delicious chocolate chip & walnut cookie you baked with your own two hands & think “Hmm, that made my mouth burn a bit. Did I add too much bicarb…? Wait a min- oh FFS FK!” 200
🍂 Maple Cinnamon Claire Season🍂 @greenw77.bsky.social · 03/10/2026If you’re a s€x worker pls don’t follow me, I’m not interested, good luck with your career, you deserve proper rights & protections but Imma block you thanks 000
🍂 Maple Cinnamon Claire Season🍂 @greenw77.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Oh sweet Dolly, the pr0n bots have arrived. Where’s the blocklist for that, jeepers Christmas 110
🍂 Maple Cinnamon Claire Season🍂 @greenw77.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Today your middle aged dad learned that the extra pointy bit on the end of some drill bits is called a brad. What an exciting life I lead 000
🍂 Maple Cinnamon Claire Season🍂 @greenw77.bsky.social · 01/10/2026but that interest is mine to reinvest or spend as needed. My VAT return goes back in too, because I can reclaim the VAT on some items. Like everyone I work hard & don’t begrudge paying my taxes, but I do feel that if I work hard to get my money, it can do some heavy lifting too 011
🍂 Maple Cinnamon Claire Season🍂 @greenw77.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Precisely- The wisest piece of advice I was ever given about money is not to let it work for someone else when it could work for me instead. My tax is taken off my earnings when never they come in, & it goes into a pot where it earns interest for me until it’s time to pay. I don’t make a lot, but 110
🍂 Maple Cinnamon Claire Season🍂 @greenw77.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Especially when it comes to money 010
🍂 Maple Cinnamon Claire Season🍂 @greenw77.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Two months? Where is it, buried in Mordor? Do I need to perform the labours of Hercules to get it back? It was his, you took it for no reason I can discern using his trust that you wouldn’t abuse the system to do so, & you have the barefaced cheek to tell me it will take eight weeks to return? 010
🍂 Maple Cinnamon Claire Season🍂 @greenw77.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I suspect because they throw so many obstacles in the way of you getting it back. When it came to that £3000 of my dad’s, they said we could have it back…but since it was such a large amount, it would take two months to return in full, plus they would need ID & another (another!) copy of his d cert 210
🍂 Maple Cinnamon Claire Season🍂 @greenw77.bsky.social · 01/10/2026In my darker moments I sometimes think that part of the reason our energy keeps rising in price is that we all woke up to this neat little earner energy companies have going on, cancelled our DDs & now their savings pot & all it’s yummy, yummy interest went bye bye, so they have to recoup it 020
🍂 Maple Cinnamon Claire Season🍂 @greenw77.bsky.social · 01/10/2026interest it earned them instead. Imagine how many other people they did that to, & how much interest their money earned for companies who barely need it. & no, enough about ‘spreading cost over the year for winter’, I can save, earn interest on what I need to budget, & pay you myself when required 240
🍂 Maple Cinnamon Claire Season🍂 @greenw77.bsky.social · 01/10/2026When we were wrapping up my late dad’s estate we discovered he had over £3000 credit in his electricity account. They just kept on raising his direct debit, over & over & over. That £3000 could have been in savings earning him interest, or been used for one of his other expenses. Imagine how much 240
🍂 Maple Cinnamon Claire Season🍂 @greenw77.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I know what it’s like to be me, I am deeply familiar with that. I need to know what it’s like to be someone else, to know we share common humanity and a complexity of feeling, and in so doing learn about myself and them. That’s why they hate Art, because it calls for empathy as well as engagement 021
🍂 Maple Cinnamon Claire Season🍂 @greenw77.bsky.social · 30/09/2026The ability to be moved by another’s experience is human. The ability to express that experience through words, images, objects and music is human. I don’t need your demon box to write music for me, I need music to tell me what it’s like to be someone else, to feel what they feel, to be moved 141
🍂 Maple Cinnamon Claire Season🍂 @greenw77.bsky.social · 30/09/2026One day we’re going to realise that Art (capital A, portentous wanky voice) is not a set of special skills, they’re human behaviours we all can engage in. That the wonderful, haunted wodge of wet proteins & fats between our ears that gives us reflexive consciousness is also wired towards creativity 142
🍂 Maple Cinnamon Claire Season🍂 @greenw77.bsky.social · 29/09/2026This is how I have four 6mm/80cm circular needles 011
🍂 Maple Cinnamon Claire Season🍂 @greenw77.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Nah, I’m just lazy believe me. I wash the dish brush in there as well (or else I stick it in the washing machine with our dish towels, cloth & sponges) Bcse it has to have a cleaning cycle run every month, I usually do it then, stick the pot stands & bits off the cooker in as well. Sorted, as we say 010
🍂 Maple Cinnamon Claire Season🍂 @greenw77.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I put it through the dishwasher once a month. In my defence, I clean as part of my job so I have a schedule for nonsense like this 110
🍂 Maple Cinnamon Claire Season🍂 @greenw77.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Cometh autumn, cometh the ear problems. Oh how I delight in being slightly deaf, scratching my ears in my sleep, & having my GP give me another antibiotic eardrop prescription 030
🍂 Maple Cinnamon Claire Season🍂 @greenw77.bsky.social · 19/09/2026I don’t know if you used the audio tour, but I coughed up the €9 & it was very worth it. Surprisingly touching as well as informative. 000
🍂 Maple Cinnamon Claire Season🍂 @greenw77.bsky.social · 19/09/2026I loved that they had a range of work from across his life, especially his early pencil/pen & ink drawings. I’ve never seen them before & they were a revelation. Also the building is great, v. accessible; & the cafe was decent (coffee at least a 7/10), & not eye wateringly expensive either 110
🍂 Maple Cinnamon Claire Season🍂 @greenw77.bsky.social · 18/09/2026The Van Gogh museum is a delight. Absolutely loved it. Worth the trip just for that 110
Reposted by 🍂 Maple Cinnamon Claire Season🍂Nicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 17/09/2026Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy! 181141006478
Reposted by 🍂 Maple Cinnamon Claire Season🍂Mikel Reparaz @wikiparaz.bsky.social · 11/09/2026PAUL: What’s in the box? REVEREND MOTHER: Pain. [PAUL hesitantly puts his hand in the BOX, then FROWNS IN CONFUSION. He pulls out A BAGUETTE.] REVEREND MOHER: Hōn hōn, 6276922022
🍂 Maple Cinnamon Claire Season🍂 @greenw77.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Today your middle aged dad is sawing some old teak table legs in half to build a wood store. I’m using a handsaw, because I’m all butch like that. Grrr 010
Reposted by 🍂 Maple Cinnamon Claire Season🍂flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 11/09/2026An entire politics and worldview animated by a lively terror that somewhere, somebody might be eating a free cheese sandwich 2993949701
🍂 Maple Cinnamon Claire Season🍂 @greenw77.bsky.social · 10/09/2026This is a little like playing guess who. Wracking my brains to think of who might have squeezed seven books out of the wellness pipeline…Is Susan Powter still around? Michael Mosley (remarkably still publishing despite being 💀)? Are they a redhead in a hat? 000
🍂 Maple Cinnamon Claire Season🍂 @greenw77.bsky.social · 10/09/2026It’s soup season again, lads. Roll out the onions, find the garlic, get your starches & grains out of the cupboard because tonight WE FEAST 020
🍂 Maple Cinnamon Claire Season🍂 @greenw77.bsky.social · 07/09/2026I mean, the Gallaghers, that dog puppet on kid’s TV, my mum, TE Laurence, Nish Kumar, Michael Sheen, Raye, & Chazzles 3 are all British ffs. 010
🍂 Maple Cinnamon Claire Season🍂 @greenw77.bsky.social · 07/09/2026It’s what? Can I just clarify, when this raving soapy pillock says ‘British’ does he mean Dick VanDyke in Mary Poppins, Queen Victoria, or me being made to watch a compilation of Paul Hollywood talking wank about bread? Because those are 3 wildly different points on that compass 110
🍂 Maple Cinnamon Claire Season🍂 @greenw77.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Cake update: it has definitely improved with time. I took a slice today, it’s lost a lot of sweetness & has a denser, darker character now. Very nice fruit cake, maybe not quite Christmas cake (yet. More citrus, more spice, darker sugar, I think we might be there lads) 010
🍂 Maple Cinnamon Claire Season🍂 @greenw77.bsky.social · 07/09/2026There we go. Just call me Mrs Hinch. Content! 010
🍂 Maple Cinnamon Claire Season🍂 @greenw77.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Biological soap powder/stain remover will get burned crap off your pans. Make a strong solution, sit in pan overnight, scrape off, dishwash if you’re fancy. You can apply it as a paste on your stove too in a pinch 101
🍂 Maple Cinnamon Claire Season🍂 @greenw77.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Buy the product. I know, I know, it’s all bicarb & vinegar now, blah, blah- believe me, I’ve done that. Five hours of scrubbing later, done. Fuck that noise. Oven cleaner is amazing. I like wood polish, bathroom spray, premixed floor wash & febreeze. You want to make potions, be my guest. I will not 110
🍂 Maple Cinnamon Claire Season🍂 @greenw77.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Vinegar is great for glass, but not as good as a vinegar, water, a few drops of soap plus a Karcher Window Vac, a plain squeegee, or newspaper. Spray, wipe, vac/squee/paper. 110
🍂 Maple Cinnamon Claire Season🍂 @greenw77.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Vinegar & bicarb will not unblock jack shit. You want to make a volcano? Fine. You want to unblock a sink? Go buy the stuff. Don’t waste your time. (Speaking of unblocking, washing up liquid & boiling water will unblock a toilet 95% of the time) 110
🍂 Maple Cinnamon Claire Season🍂 @greenw77.bsky.social · 07/09/20263) Dust with the vacuum cleaner. No, I mean it. Put the brush attachment on, do corners, skirting boards, windowsills, surfaces, walls, go nuts. I cleaned the inside of our Velux with the vacuum, took me 2 minutes. Amazing 110
🍂 Maple Cinnamon Claire Season🍂 @greenw77.bsky.social · 07/09/20262) Our blessed lady Dolly did not give us the vacuum cleaner, the dishwasher, & the washing machine for you to sweat your balls off cleaning by hand like this is Dowton fking Abbey. Get a drill brush, borrow a steam cleaner, wrap a cloth around a swiffer/e-cloth mop head. Make it easier on you 110