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Herisson Rose @herissonrose.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20h

#hello from Lusha Leggybeast. We went to the public forest. It was full of teen boys in hi vis, packing up tools after some kind of community work. Lusha was not happy, and insisted we wait in this field until they'd piled into their vans and left.. #hiking #DogsOfMastodon #PhotoOfTheDay

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Herisson Rose @herissonrose.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/10/2026

Mum bought two more of the round plush cat beds, because they're so popular. Every cat gets a chance for comfort! (Amber approved) I.. want a human-sized one. The feel so soft and comfy 😭 #CatsOfMastodon #TortoiseshellCat #Tortie #GreenEyes #pets

A tortoiseshell cat with round green eyes lies inside a soft grey cat bed made of plush ribbed fabric. She had a white chin and white bars of hair around her eyes like makeup.

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Herisson Rose @herissonrose.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/10/2026

🦔 Live at Chez Hedgehog: Blanket-of-Cats vs Godzilla Minus One. (A deeply silly movie. My Impostor Syndrome re: book plot is evaporating off the water-cooled circuits of my neural mesh) #CatsOfMastodon #IPartyHard

3 cats lounging comfortably on a blue blanket (left) and paw bed (right). Part of a laptop screen is awkardly perched across my remaining leg space(bottom left)

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Herisson Rose @herissonrose.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

#SilentSunday Long shadows of the low evening sun. I'm so not ready for the clocks going back.. 😬 #mushroom #forest #landscape #shadows #PhotoOfTheDay #hiking

Long shadows stretch up a sunlit trail, Beech trees growing either side. The right shadow is a human with distorted long shadow legs and a head. The left is a dog, only clear from the pointy ears.

A red mushroom with white spots (amanita muscaria) growing from brown leaf litter. Bare tree trunks grow across the top part of the picture.

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Herisson Rose @herissonrose.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

#WhiskersWednesday Leg Time for Darcy boy. He likes staring at me while I drink coffee. #CatsOfMastodon #cats

A beautiful blue grey cat sitting with his front paws stretched out, and his face turned to the left. He has light green eyes, and a tnr Noth's in one ear. His body is squashed into the gap between my legs under a blue knit blanket.

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Herisson Rose @herissonrose.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

LOOK who's at THE WINDOW! Making Very Sad faces at me.. It's Athena!!! (Feed me!) Still get a big old hiss every time, but she now scurries up to my feet WHILE hissing.. 😂 #FeralCat #CatsOfMastodon

A long haired tabby cat making a sad face at me through a window. She has green eyes and long floppy white whiskers.

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Herisson Rose @herissonrose.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

#SilentSunday tenacious #flowers growing in the cracks of this wall. Dandelion family taraxacum, and the little blue ones are Harebells. #plantstodon #PhotoOfTheDay #botany #nature #dandelion #wildflowers

Yellow and blue flowers growing out of a sunlit wall. Dandelion genus taxacum, and small blue harebells.

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

Just checking in.. I've had a stomach bug and feel blarg-y, but more distressingly my brains reaction is: "Lets not sleep at all!!" "Instead, we're going to intricately plot out a Sci-Fi novel!" (By writing this down, I'm trying to push myself into […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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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

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

Some pretty (but concerning?) foliage.. Not sure if this is Drought- related, or a species that sheds its needles annually as Larch trees do. (There was a plaque, but too damaged to read) #connifer #treestodon #AutumnLeaves

Close up of pine tree branch, the rosettes of needles equally green and golden yellow.

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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

I grossly under-estimated how many whole mushrooms would be needed.. (A box and a half went in the pan, and shrank right down) This was an "eehh.. measure w your heart" recipe given to me by a friend. (Note to self: However many mushrooms you think you […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

A baked mushroom and goat cheese flan, viewed from above. Either side is a knife, and a cat shaped oven glove.

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

If we're going to do tropes 😜 Her Silly Face made me try to capture some more.. Left: Resting Bitch Face. Neutral, ears forward, mouth open. It's not threatening at all, just kinda bored, but emphasises her Wolfy features. Some people find it scary! Right […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Large brown wolf dog, sitting in a forest. Her face turned slightly left, mouth wide, tongue out. Ears forward. She looks very wolflike.

Same dog, now looking at me - ears flipped back and slightly out like flippers. Mouth closed, emphasising her big black nose. She looks far less Wolfy, and a bit goofy.

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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

(Not scared, he seems like a Nice Beast. Anyway, I brought a wolf to this dragon party..) #wolfdog #DogsOfMastodon

Blurry picture of a wolfdog, standing in the path. She is looking in the wrong direction, left, with a goofy expression. Totally missing the giant dragon behind.

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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

View across an apple orchard, with fields and trees beyond. Everything is a bit yellow from the drought.. 🙄 The netting is to stop the fruit getting sunburnt (we picked the one cloudy day to visit) #orchard #farm #landscape

View across an apple orchard, with netting strung above the trees to prevent the fruit scorching in the heatwaves this summer. Dried grass fields and slightly yellowish trees beyond, with some very distant mountains on the horizon.

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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

This one's easy: Giant Polypore Meripilus giganteus! Same tree, growing out of the ground (ie it's buried dead roots). Big football-sized frilly clumps of them! #fungi #mushrooms #nature #FungiFriday

A huge mass of light brown frilly fungi, growing out of a patch of grass. 2 other clumps above.

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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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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

#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

Further along: this part of slope wasn't quarried, but discarded blocks scatter the ground. I can imagine folks dragging / sorting them, cutting small building blocks, then loading onto carts on the road where I'm standing. #forest #landscape #SilentSunday

Sun shining low over a different slope - one of uniformly sized tall thin beech and oak, ground dark red with last year's leaves and a few moss covered boulders with flat faces.

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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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