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Herisson Rose @herissonrose.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

At last, Spooky Season!! 🐈‍⬛🎃🦇 Can I interest you in some gothic pretties, perchance? EU based - Custom / alterations welcome - Ship worldwide. (Unfortunately still can't to US or Germany at this time) www.etsy.com/shop/HerissonRose #FediGiftShop […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

4 jewelry photos: top left: silver bat and star earrings with glittery dark blue beads. Top right: black flower necklace with flowers, black crystal beads, and bronxe fern leaves hanging in a fringe from a bronze v-shaped chain. Bottom left: black flower earrings with little dangling crystal stamens, and silver leaves and hooks against a blue background. Bottom Right: bronze chainmaille necklace with 3 triangle shaped hanging fringes of chainwork, and small ruby red crystal pendants worn byy a pale white figure in a black dress.

Delicate gold and black bat necklace with fringes of gold chain. Smal black crystal pendants, black flowers, gold stats, and a black and gold moon hang from the fringes. Worn by a pale figure in a black and gold corste standing in a forest.

Two pairs of earrings. Left: large bronze swords and shields hang from a green branch. Right: Orange and black flower earrings with little orange and black crystals hanging underneath. They hang from a pink flower stem against a blurry garden.

Two silver coloured necklaces. Top: a V shaped necklace of twigs stars and leaves, with a central crescent moon pendant and howling wolf. Worn by a pale figure in a black top, standing uder a tree. Bottom: A fringed choker necklace made of silver chains, stars, leaf pendants anf a central bat. Heavy fringes of dark blue glittery beads hang either side from the chains.

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Herisson Rose @herissonrose.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

#caturday It's an Airplane Ears kind of day.. - Bluebell (It's cold, and my legs are serving as Heated Cat Furniture - but 'not warm enough' 😾 according to the Pint-Sized Princess.. She is incredibly grumpy and dis-cat-isfied.. " - translation, The Human) #CatsOfMastodon #TabbyCat #pets

A small tabby cat hunched protectively in the folds of a blue knit blanket. Her ears stuck out sideways, her bright green eyes wide with large dark pupils. She looks grumpy and ever so slightly furious with the state of things. How dare it be cold!! How dare!! Behind are wooden fretwork doors (old screen) and light yellow walls of a room.

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Herisson Rose @herissonrose.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

All ready for Awooos.. (She heard the siren and got ready) But alas! There it goes, the Emergency Vehicle! 🚒 With *no siren* 🙀 Disappointed dog.. #DogsOfMastodon #wolfdog

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Herisson Rose @herissonrose.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

After a 10 week saga of trying to renew my French Health Insurance card: Two Applications. IT error. Sending A LETTER "Your situation does not allow us to issue a card" (Application Status, TWICE) "Please contact.." (office absolutely hostile to being contacted in any way) Guess what arrived […]

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Herisson Rose @herissonrose.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

Clouds... CLOUDS.. (And more importantly, rain) First rain in nearly a month 😬 Next morning, Autumn is here, with a bang! Loads of plants turned yellow overnight. Mushrooms sprouting in the ditches.. This was the evening before: pearly blue layers and a […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

View across a dark field of mostly brown grasses and ferns, towards a pearly grey sky with darker blue layers of fluffy cloud. The sun is a white spot-on the right, another white spot with slight rainbow is in the centre of the sky: a mock sun or sundog.

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Herisson Rose @herissonrose.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

Tired, so tired. I look up to see.. *THIS* It looks.. like a playing card, maybe? The Jasper of Mice. (Obviously) 😻♥️🃏♣️ #cats #FunnyCat #CatsOfMastodon #pets

A large brown tabby cat (top roght) flopped dramatically across a green paw shaped pillow. His front legs stretch to tough the silver edge of a closed laptop (bottom left). The laptop is covered in stickers - a large upside-down winged wolf has paws stretched out in a similar gesture - almost touching the cat's paws. The whole scene thus resembles a playing card - The Jasper of Mice?

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

Post-frost garden cleanup done the best possible way

A whole bunch of black, white, and brown goats happily rampaging through a garden with a bunch of dead sunflowers, dead corn, and dead zucchini plants. The grass around the garden is green and they're happily eating that too. The sky above is cloudy.

A whole bunch of goats happily munching on dead corn stalks in a garden row. The sky above is cloudy, with some scrubby woods just starting to turn yellow in the background.

A white goat with a beard happily eating an entire corn cob while looking at the camera. There's lots of corn stalks in the background.

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Herisson Rose @herissonrose.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

Spotted: Autumn colours already 🍂 It's nearly October, and still mid-twenties temps and mild nights. I just think the trees have Had Enough.. 🙄 #landscape #FallFoliage #AutumnLeaves #treestodon #nature #forest

View of a tangled mass of beech trees - individual trees and branches have turned a range of yellows and browns, while others are still emerald green.

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highly praised and little read @hannah.posts.rat.pictures.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

If you told me twenty five years ago that 2026 would feel like if douglas adams wrote cyberpunk i would think i’d be enjoying it more

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Herisson Rose @herissonrose.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

#mondog at the very neglected, overgrown arboretum - it's v quiet, but across town along a busy road #DogsOfMastodon #PhotoOfTheDay #SunBurst #landscape

A dog (right) stands with her head up, smiling, a flaring sun bright above her head. A landscape of trees and late summer grasses backlit gold by the evening sunbeams.

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Herisson Rose @herissonrose.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

Not so #SilentSunday: (sound up) 🎶🐦🐦🐦 Hundreds of noisy little birds! Deep inside this hedge.. #wildlife #BirdSong #birdstodon #birds

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Herisson Rose @herissonrose.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

#caturday It's cool and wet (!!🙀 drizzle, alas). I am receiving Death Glares for the crime of trying to gently evict her from my stomach. (So I can get up / reach for coffee..) Horror! Outrage!! (Bluebell) #CatsOfMastodon #pets #cat

A small very grumpy looking tabby cat glares at the camera with her bright green eyes. She is curled up on a human stomach, pale purple jeans behind. Left behind her ear is the back end of a small tortoiseshell cat running.

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Herisson Rose @herissonrose.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

It's #HobbitDay sunny and bright.. I'm finally making the mushroom flan recipe a friend gave to me! (Slightly altered, as it's *very* heavy on the milk protein. Much as I love cheese, my body has other ideas..) #baking #PieInTheSky #foodstodon #ingredients

View of a wood kitchen table from above, spread with ingredients for a flan: flour, mushrooms, goat cheese log, freshly cut herbs and eggs. Bottom right is a fluted white ceramic flan case lined with baking paper. Top left is a jug of slightly wilted oregano.

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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

NASA picture of the day today is a real 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿beauty! This is a composite image of the ~5000yo Callanish Stones on the Isle of Lewis. The amazing Giuseppe Petricca has only gone and photographed the Sun at noon there, every few days, for a whole year. #Dedication 🔭🧪👌 ℹ️: science.nasa.gov/image-articl...

The imposing Callanish Stones stand talk with their shadows spanning out across the glass. It's a super clear sky, but looks cold. Above the central stone is a strange figure-of-8 shape of dots. This is the location of the Sun, at noon, on various different days across the year.

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Herisson Rose @herissonrose.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

#mondog I sneezed, and she looked at me like this 😹 "And s/he grinned like a wolf.." is such a trope in fiction. Writers, please. *This is what it looks like* #DogsOfMastodon #Goofy #GoofyWolfy #FunnyDog

Large dog sitting in a forest, with an incredibly goofy smile and staring intently with orange brown eyes.

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Herisson Rose @herissonrose.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

Athena the feral showed up ✨In The Morning✨to glare at me intensely and beg for food. (She's never done that before - evening shift only! Though I've sometimes seen her hiding in / around the chicken enclosure, probably hunting mice) #FeralCat #cat

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Herisson Rose @herissonrose.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

#SilentSunday Forget tortoises, today my dog found a dragon! 🧵 A DRAGON 🐉🌄 (The Guardian of the Path only appears for a short time, before sunset) #GoldenHour #paredolia #dragon #landscape #tree #hiking

Light from the setting sun hits a gnarled and twisted tree trunk by a forest path. It looks like a dragon, with distinct face, eye, front legs, and horns painted with fire.

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Herisson Rose @herissonrose.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

Annual farm trip to stockpile apples and potatoes for winter. These are the pre-picked vats, you can also pick your own from the trees. Normally we stop to pick fallen chestnuts, but the apples were 3 weeks early - chestnuts not ripe yet (they don't grow at […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

View into a giant crate of Granny Smith apples, from above. A smaller box is perched on the crate rim (bottom right), which I'm filling.

Another giant wooden crate, this time fill of pears. My small box perched on the top right rim, other people's hands reaching into the crate to pick their own pears.

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Herisson Rose @herissonrose.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

(Pallas) Athena the feral cat, who let me very close yesterday. Ofc, today she won't. Or go near the food. I thought it might be the phone, but apparently my Mum already fed her! Mum has been feeding this cat for over a year - she's gone from "flitting […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

An overflowing small plate of cat food looms in the foreground / left. Upper right is a dark longhair tabby cat, crouched and watching it warily (and me)

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Herisson Rose @herissonrose.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

#FungiFriday Fantastic fungi growing out of this dead beech tree by the river. They twist up the trunk in a line, with beautiful wavy gills like feathers. Some kind of Oyster mushroom (I think the Veiled Oyster Pleurotus dryinus?) but they are so dried out […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Light brown mushrooms growing out of a dead tree - they are brackets shaped, with crinkly edges and thick wavy gills - but also completely shrivelled and dried out.

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Herisson Rose @herissonrose.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

Late #WhiskersWednesday Cappuccino is over cat-inated 🙀 Darcy: *Sigh* The things I put up with. Like hyper little nieces.. #CatsOfBluesky #SiameseCat #ColorpointCat #Siamese

Three cats on a blue knit blanket. A blotchy grey tortie point with light blue eyes is rolling on her back, one white toe on display. A blue grey cat in the foreground looks away and down tiredly. A small tabby cat watches both through half closed eyes.

Same siamese type cat, now playfully rolling with her ears airplaned out and back legs bunched up like a bunny rabbit.

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

It's going to be a very long, really hard day. I made sure to feed lots of apples and corn stalks to the goats during morning chores. Please enjoy my goats looking like they are singing opera, and my cat who always jumps up on my shoulder when I come in for […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

A whole bunch of goats in a grassy area. A black goat with a white nose and long white ears is staring intensely at the camera, waiting her turn for apples. A hand is feeding a small ground-fall apple to a white goat right next to the black goat.

Multiple goats with apples entirely in their mouths, with their heads back to get the apples to their molars. They all look like they are singing opera. There are lots of other goats in the background, oblivious to the apple-opera. There's green grass and a tall wooden fence in the far background, with a cloudy sky above.

Similar to the previous picture, but only a couple of goats are obviously eating apples. There's also a large yellowish dog in the background in addition to all the goats.

A close-up of the face of a stripey grey cat looking wildly at something right above the camera, while perched on a person's shoulder. There's a curtain over a window in the background.

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Herisson Rose @herissonrose.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

I got *one* lovely photo of Willow! ✨⬛🐈 Shy girl deigned to pose beautifully for me.. Ofc it would be *that moment* that my dad pushed a wheelbarrow past outside. #CatsOfMastodon #BlackCats #BlackCatLove

A small and pointy black cat, sitting by a human foot on a bed. She has round green eyes, long legs and ears, long white guard hairs dotting her otherwise solid black body. Behind is a curtain and yellow wall.

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Herisson Rose @herissonrose.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

How does one *completely forget* they skinned their knee earlier?? (Got up and oh wait, OW) Cause: Lusha darted behind me suddenly on sloping pavement, wrapping leash around my leg. I tripped on a bump *and could not stop myself from falling* because of the leash.. Injuries: My linen pants […]

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Herisson Rose @herissonrose.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

#mondog, the ol' eye roll.. 🙄🐺 (A car was going past on the higher bypass road) Her ears flipped back and slightly out is her happy expression. REALLY HAPPY is when they're also curled up into little tubes.. Lusha can mean Loup (wolf) + -usha (Polish […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

A large brown masked dog sitting on a bank of earth and grass, with pine trees behind. Her mouth is open, pink tongue out panting. Eyes and head tilted up and left with a kind of eye-roll expression (she was actually listening to a car on the bypass road)

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Herisson Rose @herissonrose.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

#SilentSunday Walking the Old Limoges Road that followed the river. (The new road is up above those trees - invisible but for the occasional car noise) The river carved a steep valley with rocky buffs either side, riddled with stone quarries used to build […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

The sun shines low over a rocky steep slope, between two tree trunks standing in the foreground. The slope behind is covered with green beech trees, dark red leaf litter, and scattered boulders from an old quarry.

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Herisson Rose @herissonrose.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

Just found these 3 napping together. *Napping TOGETHER* 🙀😹 A summary of house Cat Politics: - Mina and Monty hate each-other (the Black and the white) - Both hate Jasper (tabby cat, recent addition, therefore Impostor) #CatsOfMastodon #SleepingCats #caturday

Three cats asleep on a bed in a line. Bottom: a brown tabby cat, curled up in a blue knit blanket. Middle: white cat curled up on a green paw bed. Top: black cat, curled up on a dark green plush giant squid.

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Herisson Rose @herissonrose.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

#PhotoOfTheDay silhouettes of leaves on a Beech. The nights are getting cold, tinge of Autumn to the leaves. Which.. feels weird. It's been Hot for so long, I forget what seasons feel like. (Also the leaves *already* scorched brownish from drought. It's […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

A brightly lit beech tree with a split double trunk, covered in moss and leaf shadows from surrounding branches.

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Herisson Rose @herissonrose.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

Leg Time, Darcy pulling ConcernedFace™️ and insisting this be Lower Tummy Time, actually. You hurt! Let me sit here and purr! (This is adorable, but also very Oww) Please note: grotty pants from painting a wall earlier! 😅 #CatsOfMastodon #caturday #cat

A large blue grey cat with green eyes and a soft concerned expression. His front paws rest on my tummy, grey pant legs and part of a blanket behind.

Same cat, eyes now partly closed and glaring a bit - You WILL let me help, stop complaining! One leg is now stretched out possessively.

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Herisson Rose @herissonrose.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

#FungiFriday some small Larch Boletes Suillus grevillei (left) And (I think?) Powdery Brittlegill Russula parazurea (Right) I'm learning about Brittlegills, but still bit anxious to forage them. #fungi #mushroom #russula #nature #fungiverse

Two small brightly coloured mushrooms sprouting from some moss. They are orange brown, with a high round dome and white stems, bit lime little hamburger buns.

Three small white and grey mushrooms erupting from the same spot in the ground. They have thick white stems and flattened round but crinkled caps: pale blue- grey on top, white and ridged with straight gills underneath.

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Herisson Rose @herissonrose.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

Yesterday's dog walk in the Public #forest. This area was clear cut - the pines was diseased and being attacked by Bark Beetle (there's a helpful little sign by the footpath) They are not native, but a timber crop - and no new pines were planted to replace […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

A single tall scraggly pine tree (left) stands stark and black against a sky of light grey dappled clouds. The land underneath is scrubby with broom and small birch saplings, taking over from a clearcut of diseased pine plantation 5 years ago. A line of fully grown pines in the distance form a black skyline.

View across a hillside of bracken and scrubby birch saplings - a clearcut of pines some years ago. Adult pines and some beech trees in the distance are black against a light grey clouded sky, and line of distant hills.

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Herisson Rose @herissonrose.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026

Today in Blanket of Live Cats: (L to R: Cappuccino, Bluebell, Darcy, Amber) Darcy made me panic by going missing last night (Mother 'forgot' to let him in like I asked) Spent whole eventing yelling for him. Going for midnight walk w a torch (found Piss Boy […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Four cats on a bed, in various states of repose around a pair of human legs. Left: A tortie point with dark ears, pale body and blue eyes, pressed against a leg with her head turned to face the viewer. Centre bottom: Tabby cat melting into the legs. Bottom right: dark blue grey cat, curled into a ball. Top right: small tortoiseshell, crouched and kneading. The legs are wearing light purple white and grey camo pants - ace flag colours,, with pale white bare feet.. Behind is a red carpet, and white glass door.

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Herisson Rose @herissonrose.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026

Everything is hot and heatwave-y again, interspersed with Autumn Noises - chainsaws, migrating geese. *Shotgun fire* (It's not bloody hunting season yet!!) Urgh. It scares Lusha badly. Banned in the Public forest though, so that's where we go on Sunday […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

A large brown masked wolfdog faces right across a forest path. Dappled sunlight falls across the leaf strewn ground, and mossy bank on the left. Bright green beech trees above glow in the light.

The low sun shines through a mass of green beech trees, causing them to glow.

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Herisson Rose @herissonrose.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026

Live cat convocation. They were Kneading a venue.. (Mina out of shot kneading my elbow) L ➡️ R: Miralka, Bluebell, Amber. #CatPile #CatsOfMastodon #cats #MastoCats

Three cats lounging on a bed, and a human's pair of legs. Left: seal point Siamese, facing away with her head turned right. Centre: small tabby cat, with her head smooshed into her human's leg. Right: small tortie facing towards viewer is busy kneading a blue blanket to make it more comfortable, with her head down. A book case, white door, and chest of drawers at far end of room across the top.

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Herisson Rose @herissonrose.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026

#SilentSunday We went up into the hills, before the weather got too hot for that *again*. There's a good view, now most of the pine plantation is gone (gorse and little silver birches quick to take over) I really miss hiking, am either busy, tired, or […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

A large brown dog lying on the ground in front of an electrified fence (not working). Behind it is a field of stubble after harvest, and the tops of trees beyond. She looks right, ears turned forward alertly.

View down grassy lane mostly in shadow, the low sun shining through a tree. On the left, the field of ploughed dirt and crop stubble, sloping away behind its electric fence. Distant hills under a dull blue sky, empty except for 3 white streaks of high altitude aircraft.

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Herisson Rose @herissonrose.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

One way to get the Energy Out.. ⛏️⛏️🐾 1. Take her to the Sand Pile. 2. Sit, and watch her furiously dig to Australia.. (I spent an hour learning ShotCut to make this, but my brain fizzeled out at the "add a soundtrack" stage. Khachaturian -Sabre Dance?) #DogsOfMastodon #digging #dog

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Herisson Rose @herissonrose.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

Sir Jasper of White Whisker, garden leopard, mouse-tasche-ioed gentleman of The Puff. (He brought me fresh headbutts) #caturday #cat #ExFeralCat

A brown tabby cat rubbing his face on a metal table leg, pink ears curled back ntad white whiskers happily puffed out in a fan.

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Herisson Rose @herissonrose.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026

You have been blessed with a rare Willow appearance! 🍀◼️🐈 :blobwizard: ( The girl is so shy..) #BlackCatsOfMastodon#BlackCat #cats

A small black cat with green eyes wearing a red collar, perches on a red flowery quilt. Carved wooden leaves on a spot line up with her head and look like a crown.

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Herisson Rose @herissonrose.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026

Painted my mum's room, after a whole summer of meaning to, but Heat getting in the way.. - Looks great! - Tidying The Clutter™️ was not overwhelming (once we started) - My arms feel like they're going to fall off 😫 Unfortunately, she now switched from 'deny / delay' to "Great! Now let's do the […]

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Herisson Rose @herissonrose.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026

Roman Villa excavations in a field nearby (packs of students busy here all summer) I'm constantly surprised at *how many* Roman buildings there are around here. Still a remote, sparsely populated mountain 2000 yrs later. Maybe Romans wanted to retire up […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

View across ruined stone walls, earthworks and orange netting - the remains of a Roman villa, after a summer of excavations.

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