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La Vie en Prose 📖 🖊️ 🖥️ 🏴‍☠️ 🐎 @lavieenprose.bsky.social · 20h

Priorities: Ragazzi Ponies Pets Me The rest of the world comes 5th

La Vie en Prose 📖 🖊️ 🖥️ 🏴‍☠️ 🐎 @lavieenprose.bsky.social · 20h

When I got home there was a req from Miss Daisy for tech help but before Parker goes shopping, as he does 3 times a week. I replied no, I am with my ponies until 10 am so either Parker delays his trip for an hour, or I can't help him. This is me taking back my life and setting boundaries

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La Vie en Prose 📖 🖊️ 🖥️ 🏴‍☠️ 🐎 @lavieenprose.bsky.social · 21h

Lord but Ii miss my Ragazzi who live in Oxford but there are some compensations to living in a foreign land...

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La Vie en Prose 📖 🖊️ 🖥️ 🏴‍☠️ 🐎 @lavieenprose.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

In other news Otta took fright and left the stable at a canter narrowly missing squashing me I'm very grateful that my abused and damaged horse does not have a mean/nasty bone in her body because she saw me in her path and swerved to miss me A close encounter with 500 kg of horse would have been bad

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La Vie en Prose 📖 🖊️ 🖥️ 🏴‍☠️ 🐎 @lavieenprose.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I decided to purchase CCleaner after a couple of laptop crashes.. Fond memories since an early keystroke logger I reverse engineered masqueraded as this s/w Not so happy that its driver update option has fecked up my (relatively) new laptop Back in prob determination mode Le Sigh

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La Vie en Prose 📖 🖊️ 🖥️ 🏴‍☠️ 🐎 @lavieenprose.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I am my own harshest critic Trust me on this I know my weaknesses, my failings I accept and regret my failings I own up to my mistakes But....

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La Vie en Prose 📖 🖊️ 🖥️ 🏴‍☠️ 🐎 @lavieenprose.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I suggest that Donald Trump poses a bigger threat to the entire world. I would volunteer to fight him, even at my age And just what dirt DOES Putin have on Trump that he dances to the Kremlin's tune? I suggest it would make the Epstein files look like a kids' bedtime story

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La Vie en Prose 📖 🖊️ 🖥️ 🏴‍☠️ 🐎 @lavieenprose.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I see that Iceland has voted against resuming talks to join the EU. Narrowly. I do not blame them. They enjoy many EU benefits w/o the cost/burden and they get to keep their fish But the UK should ask to rejoin Brexit was, and continues to be, a disaster for the UK Shame on Leave for their lies

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La Vie en Prose 📖 🖊️ 🖥️ 🏴‍☠️ 🐎 @lavieenprose.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

The Coronation of Napoleon... I could sit for hours in front of that painting in the Louvre In fact, I have done so on many occasions

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La Vie en Prose 📖 🖊️ 🖥️ 🏴‍☠️ 🐎 @lavieenprose.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Who the eff do you think created the Internet? Who coded the software upon which it depends? My generation And who spent almost a decade trying to put the genie back in the frigging bottle? Me #cybersecurity #womeninstem

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La Vie en Prose 📖 🖊️ 🖥️ 🏴‍☠️ 🐎 @lavieenprose.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I know I should not be riled but if one more company offers me help using the Internet I will lose it, completelty Guys, I was writing code and up close and personal with computers long before you were born Just because I am 70, do not assume I am tech-illiterate I could run rings round you all

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La Vie en Prose 📖 🖊️ 🖥️ 🏴‍☠️ 🐎 @lavieenprose.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Memories August 1988 My mum made me dinner: Waitrose chicken pie with buttered potatoes and a banana pie with cream Served to me in bed as I recovered from the birth of my firstborn, a labour that had lasted 3 days and 2 nights After 8 years of fertility treatment It was the best meal I ever ate

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La Vie en Prose 📖 🖊️ 🖥️ 🏴‍☠️ 🐎 @lavieenprose.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Someone asked if I am afraid of hackers I told them, I worked for Sophos I have zero money after almost a decade as a threat researcher that ate all my savings and a cancer that ate my body and ended my working life I am not worth hacking 😊

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La Vie en Prose 📖 🖊️ 🖥️ 🏴‍☠️ 🐎 @lavieenprose.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Reassured the neighbours/friends that if they did not click on the link in the phishing email they should be OK Taught them (again) how to spot a scam, how to analyse a phishing email, how to see where the link really takes them And how to check for current/known scams

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La Vie en Prose 📖 🖊️ 🖥️ 🏴‍☠️ 🐎 @lavieenprose.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Much stress in our little village as several other people receive phishing emails containing their real IBANs The CyberSec Doctor is doing her rounds 😉 (I'd rather be resting between bouts of sweating/coughing) Funny, our local retd NHS doc refuses to give advice on illness even to close friends

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Ghislaine Hull @ghizzybear.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

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Paul Putner @realpaulputner.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Just heard Gladys Knight is retiring. Made me think of one of my favourite Viz comic one panel gags. For me, the set up is so archaic is what makes it funnier today.

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La Vie en Prose 📖 🖊️ 🖥️ 🏴‍☠️ 🐎 @lavieenprose.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

At least it provided a welcome break from house chores Lordy, I miss the days when I was the company's UK Phishing/Scam Email Expert 🙃

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La Vie en Prose 📖 🖊️ 🖥️ 🏴‍☠️ 🐎 @lavieenprose.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

People in France There's been a security breach involving klark.ai A friend recvd a phishing email claiming to be from Amazon Prime that included his IBAN I traced it back to the above breach Be alert to such emails Always happy to investigate if you forward to me so DM for help #cybersecurity

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La Vie en Prose 📖 🖊️ 🖥️ 🏴‍☠️ 🐎 @lavieenprose.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I had my new chainsaw for an hour before a grown-up decided I am not safe and confiscated it And I was having such fun cutting down feral trees 😥

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La Vie en Prose 📖 🖊️ 🖥️ 🏴‍☠️ 🐎 @lavieenprose.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Day 13 of The Bug It's pneumonia Let joy be unconfined Well, at least now I know why I was feeling so sh1t Proud of having kept going for 2 weeks, even if my lungs are now as wet as the sea at the Pink Granite Coast The herd are happy and healthy, that'll do me for now 🐎

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

As I board the ferry from Tallinn to Helsinki, I’m reminded yet again of three things about the EU: 1) You don’t sacrifice any of your national identity or culture by being part of the EU. Estonia remains Estonia. Finland remains Finland 2) Schengen is great. 3) Brexit was and is shit.

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La Vie en Prose 📖 🖊️ 🖥️ 🏴‍☠️ 🐎 @lavieenprose.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Don't they look gorgeous? Especially those manes Proud of my little herd THIS is all I ever wanted 🐎🐎

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La Vie en Prose 📖 🖊️ 🖥️ 🏴‍☠️ 🐎 @lavieenprose.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Day 12 of The Bug Feeling worse, drenched with sweat, breathing is painful and laboured and I am struggling to care for the herd Tomorrow I will (finally) see a doctor If this is how it is being old, it sucks

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La Vie en Prose 📖 🖊️ 🖥️ 🏴‍☠️ 🐎 @lavieenprose.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Day 11 of The Bug A friend dropped off some COVID test kits. I don't think I am about to lose my Novid status but... Tired of coughing, struggling to breath and having no sense of taste Reminds me how I felt after cancer treatment except now I still have hair, saliva and a lining in my intestines.

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La Vie en Prose 📖 🖊️ 🖥️ 🏴‍☠️ 🐎 @lavieenprose.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

It occurs to me that Harry and Meghan will pose a security risk to the teachers, children and parents of the schools they plan to send their kids to? Imagine discovering your 5 year-old is in the same reception class as Libet, or your son is on the same footie team as Archie...

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La Vie en Prose 📖 🖊️ 🖥️ 🏴‍☠️ 🐎 @lavieenprose.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Day 10 of The Bug Parker did little shopping for me I buy budget brands, can't afford to feed the herd otherwise (tho they have top quality nosh) Parker bought me: Honey from nectar gathered in the Hanging Gardens of Babylon Lemons from Garden of Eden Milk from silver unicorns Judging by the bill

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La Vie en Prose 📖 🖊️ 🖥️ 🏴‍☠️ 🐎 @lavieenprose.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

And today I found myself in a delightfully Proustian episode I was in Intermarche at St Agathon indulging in some treats (see Nasty Virus Day 8)when I spotted these And before you could say 'Marcel' I was back in Waitrose, Abingdon where I regularly bought them for lunch

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La Vie en Prose 📖 🖊️ 🖥️ 🏴‍☠️ 🐎 @lavieenprose.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I sometimes think my Icelandic and I are SO alike We both bear the physical and emotional scars of abuse We both startle at the unexpected, whether it's a noise/ movement in her case or a phone ringing, a knock on the door in mine We both would really like to be invisible/untouchable and yet...

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La Vie en Prose 📖 🖊️ 🖥️ 🏴‍☠️ 🐎 @lavieenprose.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I had been in the field shelter clearing up droppings when Otta wandered close by I think in future I will have to sing as I work so she knows where I am, the surprise of me popping out caused her to leap sideways It was like I'd said BOO! And would have been funny, if she were not so anxious

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Pie Thagoram @piethagoram.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Credit FibbyMcFibface

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La Vie en Prose 📖 🖊️ 🖥️ 🏴‍☠️ 🐎 @lavieenprose.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Day 5 of the respiratory infection and I now, finally, understand particle physics You should know that when I was studying A Level Physics I could not accept the existence of electrons it just did not make sense to me I failed A Level Physics, did not get to vet school and spent 50 years in IT

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La Vie en Prose 📖 🖊️ 🖥️ 🏴‍☠️ 🐎 @lavieenprose.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

An inconsiderate person in Carrefour sneezed in my face so now I am very poorly. My immune system never recovered from the cancer treatment so I struggle to cope A reminder to wear a mask now You'd think COVID would have taught people to behave better when they are sick

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Brigit Strawbridge @brigitstrawbridge.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

We've had a cancellation next weekend for our new Airbnb... so 3 nights on the southern edge of Bodmin Moor now available, if anyone's interested? Includes a freshly baked sourdough loaf, and other yummy things to munch on during your stay! #Cornwall www.airbnb.co.uk/rooms/173324...

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Guest suite in Tremar Coombe · ★New · 1 bedroom · 1 bed · 1 bathroom

Beautifully renovated annexe near Bodmin Moor

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Well I for one am astonished that a party run by multimillionaires and funded by billionaires wants to slash welfare to the bone and force people on benefits to work for nothing ... so that they can cut taxes for the rich www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

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Jenrick says Reform would make long-term benefits claimants clean up high streets – UK politics live

Party’s ‘welfare to work’ policy would force long-term claimants to do community work or face losing benefits

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La Vie en Prose 📖 🖊️ 🖥️ 🏴‍☠️ 🐎 @lavieenprose.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Watching this www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSLx... Otta was never so wild, but she did, still does, throw herself round the stable when she's nervy And she is more than twice the size of this pony Thank goodness she is not mean or aggressive When I think how dangerous it could have been....

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La Vie en Prose 📖 🖊️ 🖥️ 🏴‍☠️ 🐎 @lavieenprose.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Such a shame we caused this climate crisis. And yes, we have known it was coming for decades but hey, the rich few gotta add to their filthy wealth

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La Vie en Prose 📖 🖊️ 🖥️ 🏴‍☠️ 🐎 @lavieenprose.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Putin started a war he cannot win The French and Americans learned the lesson in Vietnam that when people are fighting fos their families and homes, they will fight to the bitter end. All power to the people of Ukraine. And seize ALL Russian assets in Europe, especially the dirty money laundering

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La Vie en Prose 📖 🖊️ 🖥️ 🏴‍☠️ 🐎 @lavieenprose.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Yeah. I did not manage to stay offline. But I did work on my 'summer novel' and I did spend a happy 2 hours with the herd and I did connect with family and friends online so...

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La Vie en Prose 📖 🖊️ 🖥️ 🏴‍☠️ 🐎 @lavieenprose.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

It's happening here in France Which vested interests in the UK squashed this initiative?

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La Vie en Prose 📖 🖊️ 🖥️ 🏴‍☠️ 🐎 @lavieenprose.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I am not religious Though sometimes I wish I were But this is interesting www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... How many almshouses would the likes of Musk,Trump, Putin, Zuckerberg need to build and persude people to occupy to amass enough prayers to save their souls? Assuming one believes in purgatory?

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Secret Oxfordshire: Sanctuary or servitude of Ewelme Almshouses?

The medieval power couple behind early affordable housing - with divine strings attached.

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La Vie en Prose 📖 🖊️ 🖥️ 🏴‍☠️ 🐎 @lavieenprose.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I recommend the TV series Once Upon a Time in Iraq... It is not easy to watch but should be taught in schools What happens when you remove a dictator and leave a power vacumn

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La Vie en Prose 📖 🖊️ 🖥️ 🏴‍☠️ 🐎 @lavieenprose.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I am in favour of imposing lockdowns to protect the local environment, cut car emissions and give nature a breather I may impose a week-long lockdown on myself here in France

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La Vie en Prose 📖 🖊️ 🖥️ 🏴‍☠️ 🐎 @lavieenprose.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

We are facing water rationing here A succession of heatwaves and the influx of holiday makers, second-home owners and people's kids/grandchildren is putting a strain on our supply Still, I saw a German visitor watering his garden shrubs and a neighbour sneakily using a hosepipe at 6 am

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