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The Dalai Farmer @grovedigger.bsky.social · 11h

I'm like the Spanish Inquisition really, nobody expects me (or my rusty hole)

The Dalai Farmer @grovedigger.bsky.social · 13h

"I think the term is 'touché', Miss Jones; not 'gotcha you bastard'" This bloody roof light has been bugging me for three years. Today, I have defeated it at last

A section of metal boat roof with a small fitted roof light for letting daylight into a windowless cabin. The glass is cracked on the fitted light

Same roof, light removed showing a rectangular rusty hole down into the cabin

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The Dalai Farmer @grovedigger.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I also have tickets to see the Kings of Convenience, and Bill Bailey. That's a good birthday I reckon

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The Dalai Farmer @grovedigger.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Treated myself to a new TIG welding set for my birthday, because I'm worth it. Tax deductible, of course.

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History and Heritage Yorkshire @handhyorkshire.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Last one for today. Autumn in Halifax by Tim Green. I love the geometric composition of this image. CC BY 2.0

The image shows traditional Yorkshire gritstone and stone-slate terraced buildings rising above a tiered dry-stone retaining wall, set against a backdrop of autumn-coloured woodland hills.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 07/10/2026

rip to one of the coolest software engineers who ever lived

Margaret Hamilton standing next to a printout of code she and her team wrote for the Apollo program, which is as tall as she is

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Radio Lento @radiolento.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

This week's winner of best tree in the park. ⭐

a tree with a thin trunk and head of yellow leaves. some have fallen on the grass below making a lovely yellow circle under the tree. other small trees around, bigger ones in the distance - all with green leaves still. on a sunny day in the park.

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Mr Roger Quimbly @rogerquimbly.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

As Nigel Farage has still released no denial after I have repeatedly called him a wanker, I can only assume that he is too busy masturbating.

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The Dalai Farmer @grovedigger.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

As the nights are drawing in apace I feel it is almost time for my annual relisten of Wireless Nights.

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The Dalai Farmer @grovedigger.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I think someone has set about Kemi with an iron dome in the not-too-distant past. One with a long handle, and swung like Rik Mayall upon the bonce of Ade Edmonson

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Nostalgic Things that go bump in the night @nostalgicthing.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Still as glorious today as it always was.

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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 06/10/2026

He just can’t help himself

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The Dalai Farmer @grovedigger.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I ain't saying international breaks are good, but I give so few fucks about the national teams that in the last fortnight I've finally managed to pack up smoking

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The Dalai Farmer @grovedigger.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The building conservation course I ran at CONTED was all about the materiality and systems of the buildings. Before we taught anything about architectural styles we taught about geology, landform, and cropping to understand what they were made of and why

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Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Sheffield! Tonight!

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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Most TV is just this now.

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The Dalai Farmer @grovedigger.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The one on the left looks the better of the two. Go for forged and not welded ones as the weld always breaks

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The Dalai Farmer @grovedigger.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Ah fucking mint, that'll be absolutely top notch!

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The Dalai Farmer @grovedigger.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Now that Man City have been found guilty of all that dodgy dealing, I wonder how many points Spurs will be docked as a punishment

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Christopher Moore @theauthorguy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

A.I. companies are not trying to figure out how to protect you from their technology. They are trying to figure out how to monetize it without liability. Since we won't pay for it directly, they'll convince companies that to compete, they HAVE to have it. Enjoy your newly priced streaming services.

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Steven (with a PH) @sjksalisbury.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Christening a baby is nothing like christening a ship. I know that now. Once again I can only apologise.

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The Dalai Farmer @grovedigger.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Yea, we're shut on the Oxford since July as well. Still, at least I'm not in Leicester

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The Dalai Farmer @grovedigger.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Oxide rarely lasts long enough to get it's bearings with me, let alone settle. I've got that much old machinery that the minute a tin gets opened it's all used! (But yes, I remember finding old tins like that)

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The Dalai Farmer @grovedigger.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Had you run out of water? We've been well low here

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The Dalai Farmer @grovedigger.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

High risk stuff, painting a boat on a blowy September day. All I need is for the rain to hold off for about the next 8 hours and all will be well 😬

The all-steel front cabin of a working narrowboat, painted in light blue with a red roof and red top to the front tool locker. It is pictured in a countryside setting with a farmyard in the background. It looks smashing, if I do say so myself

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The Dalai Farmer @grovedigger.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Makes shit Land Rover knock-offs as well

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The Dalai Farmer @grovedigger.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I'd imagine what Jim Ratcliffe knows about immigration and welfare policy could be written on the inside of a ping pong ball, alongside what he knows about football of course

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

One of modern civilisation’s great moments. THE SWEDISH CHEF RAPPER'S DELIGHT

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The Dalai Farmer @grovedigger.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Little Trav used to drag whole branches back with him at times. Comical really, very much in the vein of the ant and the rubber tree plant

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The Dalai Farmer @grovedigger.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I can also attest to the fact that the "no chewing sticks indoors" has never applied to the contents of my kindling basket on the boat

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Graeme Swanson @swansonian.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Thinking about all those conspiracy thrillers from pre 2016 that relied on the belief that the American government are on the whole really cunning, ruthlessly efficient and not in fact as dumb as bricks.

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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 16/09/2026

Happy Peter Falk Day

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Captain Howdy @captainhowdy.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Each day stranger than the last.

The Distracted Boyfriend meme, but the boyfriend is now Stephen Christopher Yaxley-Lennon, his girlfriend is a furious Hitler and the object of his attention is Ed Sheeran.

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The Dalai Farmer @grovedigger.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

You wouldn't either if you had to work with him

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The Dalai Farmer @grovedigger.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Yea you'd have thought so, in the normal run of things

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The Dalai Farmer @grovedigger.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I know I'm late to this, but my mate Jake and I will not be demonstrating dry stone walling at any Ed Sheeran events. I should add that it has nothing to do with recent events, I just can't stand him

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Michael Daly @michaeldaly64.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

"I am but skin & bones..."

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Gene Haunt 👻🇨🇦🇵🇸 @avin-oops.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Middle England today

Kombucha girl meme. Positive face: concentration camps. Negative face: concentration camps near my village

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The Dalai Farmer @grovedigger.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

We got this job done right on the button, finished with 2 whole minutes to spare this afternoon. A new water main and a new yard all ready for winter

A picture taken down into a trench showing blue water pipe with a tee connection and a new pipe running off the main

Taken from above, a new wooden field shelter for horses stands in a hardcore yard with some other sheds in the background

An orange tracked excavator sits parked at the edge of a finished hardcored yard

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Woodo @woodo.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The 'AI destroys humanity/we must slow down' bullshit is simply because the guys got spooked that floating that company might've finally burst the bubble & ruined all their fun, and this is just another gambit to string out the 'recycled free money that doesn't exist' train for as long as possible

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The Dalai Farmer @grovedigger.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Digger Dog at work this morning. We are glad of the cab glass recently, it's bloody miserable again

A small dog with a pink collar sits inside a tracked excavator, looking at the camera

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The Dalai Farmer @grovedigger.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

In other "late to everything" news, I had latterly discovered Sudoku. Tonight I have had the footballs and the tennises on the old Medium Wave whilst I've been engrossed in the numbers 1-9. I am so rock and roll baby.

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The Dalai Farmer @grovedigger.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Angela Raynor has apparently just suggested nipping out to shut the stable door, and perhaps even going down the field to check on the horse

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The Dalai Farmer @grovedigger.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Not if you consider me a walking collection of emergency fanbelts. I could be useful as I am, with short hair I'm just a useless drunken lout

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The Dalai Farmer @grovedigger.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Obviously it was spelled better on the sticker, but as I'm from the Midlands I'm obviously incapable of typing as well as talking properly

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