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Lucy Braithwaite @lucybraithwaite.bsky.social · 13h

Trying to make a sea-glass lantern by putting one jar inside another.

Large jar with decorative rope around it, rope handle. A smaller jar inside with a tealight in it. Sea-glass pebbles in white and green fill the space and are lit up from within.

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Lucy Braithwaite @lucybraithwaite.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Reminds me of the time when I was a cleaner in an old building, which I had to unlock in the mornings. My husband was dropping me off and stayed for a while. He asked me if I ever felt like I was being watched from the staircase. Because a housemaid in black and white had just peeped down at him!

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Lucy Braithwaite @lucybraithwaite.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Two waterfalls on the River Brathay yesterday. Colwith Force, 40ft, Skelwith Force 16ft, about. Decided not to swim in case I ended up in the Irish Sea.

Colwith Force, large foamy multi-tier waterfall in woodland.

Skelwith Force, nearly overflowing, foam and mist, rocks and woodland. People on the viewing platform.

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Lucy Braithwaite @lucybraithwaite.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I always believed it had been banned, till now.

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Mr Jim Moon @hypnogoria.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

One from the vaults! Just several weeks after Spellbound folded, rival comic publisher Fleetway launched their own spooky comic for girls - Misty! Every week the titular host, with the aid of writers Pat Mills, Malcolm Shaw, Barry Clements, brought spooky serials and one-off tales of terror!

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Lucy Braithwaite @lucybraithwaite.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Walked seven miles up and down rocks. Climbed up to bed on all fours.

40 foot high slate quarry cave chamber, central pillar and large hole letting the light in. Pool of water behind the pillar.

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Lucy Braithwaite @lucybraithwaite.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

It's the same one! Thought I was seeing things. Yeah, they're quite short, prob not that scary to most.

Lucy Braithwaite @lucybraithwaite.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

No doubt! Most of my customers are women and girls, and I wish there was a regular uk comic like Misty/Spellbound out, alongside say Commando and 2000AD. Not to say that they don't buy these, but I just know they would love it.

Lucy Braithwaite @lucybraithwaite.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Damian Darke! I only have Spellbound where it appeared in Debbie.

Lucy Braithwaite @lucybraithwaite.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Esthwaite Water, near Hawkshead village, Lake District.

Large silvery Lake with rowing boat on it, streaky blue and white sky reflected.

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Lucy Braithwaite @lucybraithwaite.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Goosey Foot Tarn, Grizedale, Lake District. Walked 5 or 6 miles.

Blue sky and pine tree reflected in a small tarn. Autumn leaves are just below the surface.

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Lucy Braithwaite @lucybraithwaite.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

OK. I can think of at least one tool and one project, that's a start.

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Lucy Braithwaite @lucybraithwaite.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

That's kind of what it was, but I still felt too out of my depth. Might go back.

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Lucy Braithwaite @lucybraithwaite.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Went along to a community hub where you can use power tools and borrow stuff. But I have no skills. The adult college doesn't have spaces. I'm desperate to learn how to improve the shop but I feel totally lost. Where do I even start at bloody 50? Youtube? I'll lose a thumb and probably an eye.

Warehouses and mills on an old industrial site. Nice place, nice people, just me being mardy.

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Lucy Braithwaite @lucybraithwaite.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I'm usually a good way into Mordor before I realise it. You'd think I'd notice the swamps!

Lucy Braithwaite @lucybraithwaite.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I know. It is hard to do. You're allowed to wait until you can talk it through.

Lucy Braithwaite @lucybraithwaite.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I've been in this situation but I was fit and well. From the outside, it looked like they had enough help. So the people better placed than me to help, didn't step in until it had affected my mental health. In your situation, with what you already know, I would definitely start to withdraw.

Lucy Braithwaite @lucybraithwaite.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

£9.99 special on a Monday. AND they switched off the speaker near me when I asked!

Lucy Braithwaite @lucybraithwaite.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Morning Jim. Behave yourself, yeah?

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Lucy Braithwaite @lucybraithwaite.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Same. But fried the salmon and now everything on the airer is a write-off.

Lucy Braithwaite @lucybraithwaite.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Some new Compact comic books have just arrived. I actually really like them, especially the paper stock. (But I really can't keep pretending I don't need reading glasses now)

Small reprint paperbacks of Batman: Harley & Ivy, and SwampThing: The Anatomy Lesson.

Inner pages of Swamp Thing, in colour but on the traditional thinner paper. The original comic covers are included.

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Lucy Braithwaite @lucybraithwaite.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

How mysterious! Where do zoned-out men end up in these situations, I wonder? Liminal back-rooms or just the toilet?

Lucy Braithwaite @lucybraithwaite.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Lost my husband in town for nearly an hour today. Unless he didn't want to be found? Anyway, we did manage to get to the Water Witch for an anniversary drink. #numpts

The Water Witch canalside pub in Lancaster, cloudy day. Must charge my phone before I go out...

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Lucy Braithwaite @lucybraithwaite.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I was old enough to know better but 'Pipes' scared me to death.

Lucy Braithwaite @lucybraithwaite.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Wainwright book for 50p. Day made. Says for old age pensioners but some of the foothills in here have nearly killed me.

The Outlying Fells of Lakeland. A book about smaller peaks for older people by Alfred Wainwright.

Lucy Braithwaite @lucybraithwaite.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Been naughty again, have we, Vincent? Watching The Haunted Palace (1963) on my day off.

Vincent Price in a velvet blue and gold suit and ruffled collar. Tied to a tree looking subdued yet defiant.

Lucy Braithwaite @lucybraithwaite.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Good old Dad! I had to wait till I was 18 and go down to the video shop myself.

Lucy Braithwaite @lucybraithwaite.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Someone sent their mum in with a list of comics today. And someone up from London said I was SUCH A SWEETHEART, just saying, so I'm not always the grumpy one am I.

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Lucy Braithwaite @lucybraithwaite.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I know someone with a stuffed Farage doll and whenever the owner leaves the room, that doll gets repeatedly punched in the nuts. If it helps.

Lucy Braithwaite @lucybraithwaite.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Madman. Also: emotional rollercoaster

Lucy Braithwaite @lucybraithwaite.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Poison Ivy #48, October 2026 Cover art by Noobovich linktr.ee/noobovich?ut...

Painting of Ivy in a green gown, legs curled up, wearing tights better than Batman.

Lucy Braithwaite @lucybraithwaite.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

At this point I feel as though the Mafia would be fairer.

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Lucy Braithwaite @lucybraithwaite.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Had some nice chats with new students in my town when I'm missing my own kid who's gone away to a different uni. Made me feel better. That and I'm not the only person who gets cheese dust all over them.

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Lucy Braithwaite @lucybraithwaite.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Good lad Denis! Them Halloween Wotsits look good!