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Lucy @lucybehrendt.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Been attempting to ‘cosy up’ the wood burning stove. (…Still possibly needs more Christmas).

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Lucy @lucybehrendt.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

Well, I suppose it is *checks calendar* the end of August

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Lucy @lucybehrendt.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Ray of light. (And some sunshine coming through the window).

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Lucy @lucybehrendt.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

A birthday slice of lasagna, a freebie side of foccaccia (plus salad not in shot) and a Campari Spritz. Nobody does it better than the Italians. 🇮🇹

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Lucy @lucybehrendt.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Heidi, just checking in to Blue Sky. #dogsofbluesky

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Lucy @lucybehrendt.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Heidi looks as though she’s about to need an ashtray. #dogsofbluesky

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Lucy @lucybehrendt.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Been bugging me! Who does Francesca / Frankie remind me of? Apparently it’s Paula Wilcox, back in the 70s/80s. #thetraitors #traitorsuk

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Lucy @lucybehrendt.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Hallway afternoon light. (It’s briefly tidy pre-onslaught of bags, coats, water bottles, shoes and crumpled bump notes).

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Lucy @lucybehrendt.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Start as you mean to go on, Juanita.

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Lucy @lucybehrendt.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Found Heidi sunbathing on my son’s bed earlier. She has January sussed a lot better than I do. #dogsofbluesky

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Lucy @lucybehrendt.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Not quite the same breed, but I know what Easter egg I’ll be getting for the kids (albeit in a few months - I mean, it… it is still January right?) #dogsofbluesky

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Lucy @lucybehrendt.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Heidi’s combatting the January blues with her favourite home pastime: squirrel patrol. She has an excellent garden vantage point from her chaise longue. (Do we… do we spoil her?) #dogsofbluesky

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Lucy @lucybehrendt.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Apparently this is what I bought last year in Tesco. It tracks, but also, it… lacks.

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Lucy @lucybehrendt.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Christmas has left the building (well, gone up to the loft). The house still has cosy areas, but I think Heidi is missing the tree. #dogsofbluesky

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Lucy @lucybehrendt.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

The Cosmetics to Go sales catalogue, July 1994. Pre-cursor to Lush. As a teenager, I absolutely loved it.

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Lucy @lucybehrendt.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

A pause in the de-Christmassing of the house to enjoy air fryer s’mores, made by the kids. Marshmallows, chocolate chips & meringue. Sugar crash incoming.

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Lucy @lucybehrendt.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Only a sprinkling of snow here this morning, but just enough for some snow-sculpting fun with the kids.

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Lucy @lucybehrendt.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

Grateful for the rooms I didn’t decorate for Christmas.

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Lucy @lucybehrendt.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

Fully invested in The Traitors, having never watched it before. The giant barber with the 90s haircut! The Sugababes tribute act Traitors (albeit now a duo rather than trio)! Minah is brilliant & truly playing the game; feeling very sorry for Kas who seems lovely. Linda is a liability. It’s so good!

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Lucy @lucybehrendt.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

It’s the obligatory de-Christmassing weekend, if tradition is to be upheld. For now, all the fairy lights are still on and the tree is still bedecked. It’s so magically cosy. Bleak midwinter outside. Wonder why we don’t keep decorations up til the end of February.

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Lucy @lucybehrendt.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Smashed a snowglobe (while hoovering; that’ll teach me). It’s Beginning to Look A Lot Less Like Christmas.

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Lucy @lucybehrendt.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Have now resumed normal diet, having gone full Very Hungry Caterpillar and eaten the entire Christmassy food contents of my house (plus my parents’ house, plus my in-laws’ house) over the past two weeks. Currently in the chrysalis phase. Hoping I shall emerge a beautiful butterfly at some point.🦋 🤞🏻

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Lucy @lucybehrendt.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

Heidi is in her hibernation phase. As are we. #dogsofbluesky

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Lucy @lucybehrendt.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

New Year’s Day traditions. Anyone else open the back door and front door simultaneously, to let the old year out and new year in? It was pretty epic this morning, a hefty gust of wind rattled the fairy lights in the hallway and the Christmas tree in the living room visibly bristled. Greetings, 2025.

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Lucy @lucybehrendt.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

A new gadget and a new culinary era dawns in our house. (Fashionably late to the air fryer party). Entering… THE MEGAZONE.

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Lucy @lucybehrendt.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

Salad and vegetables are making their way into our kitchen fridge. However so is cheesecake and salmon en croute. Balanced diet and all that.

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Lucy @lucybehrendt.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

Took Heidi on a light trail, her personal highlights were seeing a real cat (worth the entrance fee alone, in her opinion) and being given an enormous bratwurst (almost bigger than her body) for free. We let her have a quarter of it; she probably felt we were underestimating her. #dogsofbluesky

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Lucy @lucybehrendt.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

Still so much food in the house. No actual meals, mind, just… so much food.

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Lucy @lucybehrendt.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

The indignities they suffer for a treat. #dogsofbluesky 🦌

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Lucy @lucybehrendt.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

Heidi’s sister, Bonnie, is over for the day. This is their Christmas photo. Heidi seems delighted; Bonnie looks more reticent. #dogsofbluesky

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Lucy @lucybehrendt.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

Belated Merry Christmas. Heidi had a good treats haul in her stocking, but we have stopped buying her toys, as the only one she truly loves is her giant fluorescent caterpillar. Nothing compares to it, apparently. The heart wants what it wants. #dogsofbluesky

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Lucy @lucybehrendt.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Tidying up for Santa. Kids are highly motivated to help, husband strangely less so.

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Lucy @lucybehrendt.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Day 24. Relief: the daily jam onslaught has come to an end, with a bauble. I shall dip into my now-impressive jam library sporadically over the coming months, and continue my quest to track down a full-sized jar of the Spiced Rhubarb - my jam, in both the literal and figurative sense. #bonnemaman

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Lucy @lucybehrendt.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

Heidi’s Christmas groom photo. What a dashing pup. #dogsofbluesky

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Lucy @lucybehrendt.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

Day 23. Purple Fig with Cinnamon Conserve. Currently psyching myself up to a Tesco AND Waitrose (for the fancy bits) double whammy food shop. Husband suggested we take the kids and all go. Are you mad? No; no. I must do this alone.

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Lucy @lucybehrendt.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

The panettone has been unleashed. In unrelated news, elasticated waistband season is also now upon us.

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Lucy @lucybehrendt.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

Day 22. Apricot & peach. Or, according to my brain’s rusty French archives, apricot and fishing. (Let’s go with peach). #bonnemaman

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Lucy @lucybehrendt.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Managed to get a Santa hat onto Heidi while she was sleeping (on top of the kids’ blankets - because, of course). #dogsofbluesky

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Lucy @lucybehrendt.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Heidi. Sitting on top of her toy basket. Wonder what she’s trying to tell me. #dogsofbluesky

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Lucy @lucybehrendt.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Gingerbread tree as decorated by the kids. Zero baking stress as it’s a ready made biscuit kit, just had to whisk up an egg white with the icing sugar. Structurally robust, too - a refreshing change after years of wonky gingerbread houses with catastrophic subsidence.

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Lucy @lucybehrendt.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Day 21. Fruits of the Forest. #bonnemanan School’s out, presents are finally all wrapped, house is decorated. Probably time to get ill. Caning the vitamin C and willing my flu shot to work fast.

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Lucy @lucybehrendt.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Day 20. Guava. I think. #bonnemaman Has everyone agreed that all bets are now off, diet-wise? We can just rip into everything like a ravenous mountain bear for the next 12 days, until the inevitable January scales remorse? That’s my plan, anyway. Recognising, then continuing, the cycle of idiocy.

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Lucy @lucybehrendt.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Day 19. We meet again, my nemesis in a tiny pot: hazelnut chocolate spread. Saving this for next week, during which time my attitude shall be best summed up as ‘calories, schmalories’.

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Lucy @lucybehrendt.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Day 18. Lemon with Elderberry Conserve. I’m not entirely sure how it’s only a week until Christmas. (And yes, I understand how time works). #bonnemaman

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