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Marvellous Ways @marvellousways.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Have added jalapeños to the shopping list!

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Marvellous Ways @marvellousways.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Ooooh, I need some of this in my life.

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Marvellous Ways @marvellousways.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The last of our homegrown tomatoes in a fabulous bowl I bought at the local organic farm this morning 🧡

Small tomatoes in a handmade bowl. The bowl is a ‘rustic’ style, with sloping sides, half glazed and painted with root veg. I love it.

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Marvellous Ways @marvellousways.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

That’s it. That’s the thing that finally broke me.

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Marvellous Ways @marvellousways.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

It’s difficult when you’re with a vegan

Large green tarpaulin; small ochre sign with the word ‘ART’ in white and a white, left-pointing arrow

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Marvellous Ways @marvellousways.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Media that scared me as a kid? - Andy Pandy (puppets terrify me) - The Singing Ringing Tree (WTF) - Tales from Muppetland (muppets still make me cry with fear) - Nationwide’s film on the Hexham Heads (I remember this in surprising detail & daren’t watch the recovered footage)

terrifying, moth-eaten puppets in black & white: Looby Loo, Andy Pandy, Teddy

Haughty ‘medieval’ woman, man in the most pathetic bear costume you’ve ever seen, fake flowers & fake castle walls in the background

terrifying puppets - from The Musicians of Bremen - that I’m not describing because if I do any more than glance at them I’ll cry

1970s dude holding a cassette tape & standing in front of a variety of stone heads

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Marvellous Ways @marvellousways.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Wasp update: Only one live wasp today. Maybe it’s all over now🤞🏼

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Marvellous Ways @marvellousways.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

He’s not the messiah, he’s a very naughty boy

Trees and hedge backlit by early autumn sun. Turquoise sky and brilliant white cloud visible in the background.

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Marvellous Ways @marvellousways.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Can’t figure out whether I’ve misunderstood the key or have an upsidedown font-response 🤔 Anyway, this table lists fonts in order from rage-inducing to quiet relief. Arial is the best font.

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Vanessa Pearce @nesky999.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Lovely chatting to Elizabeth for this - she has a whole other story too… She’s donated the images to the city archive: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

bbc.co.uk

Teen's lost Coventry archive found after six decades in attic

Photographer Elizabeth Tyler rediscovered the images, on display until 2 October, in her attic.

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Marvellous Ways @marvellousways.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Dreamed I was in a 5 person art collective/marriage and responsible for ALL admin. Rented a tiny, haunted flat that spoiled our comestibles overnight. Art Venue was bright with a Sgt Pepper’s vibe, but their giant, possessed lawnmower tried to murder me. Our art sucked; I pretended not to notice.

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Harry Taylor @harrytaylor.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Coventry Market confirmed as getting £1.5m in funding gives a good excuse to share this Harry Hill clip about it. youtu.be/pMh-i31VZCE?...

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Harry Hill's Alien Fun Capsule | Coventry Market | ITV

YouTube video by ITV

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Marvellous Ways @marvellousways.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Today’s wasp news: I have determined that hangry dudes are just a couple of hours from death. If I leave them be, I need only clear up the bodies later. (Except for the bodies that get eaten by desperate hangry dudes.) I’d rather help them to escape my kitchen, but not at the cost of being stung.

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Justin Hopper @oldweirdalbion.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I know a guy…

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Marvellous Ways @marvellousways.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

INORITE? The ice pack is useful info though, as something I wasn’t previously aware of.

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Marvellous Ways @marvellousways.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

We appear to have a nest in the roof and I have been, without drama, evicting about a hundred per week from the kitchen. At this time of year, though, they are hangry…

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Marvellous Ways @marvellousways.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This morning I have mostly been gathering empirical evidence: 1. at this time of year wasps are no longer chilled out dudes 2. one pissed off wasp will instantly call in the troops 3. I’m not (currently) allergic to wasp stings 4. an ice pack calms the sting reaction really quickly

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Marvellous Ways @marvellousways.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Peregrine Palmer. Now that is a name!

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Marvellous Ways @marvellousways.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It’s 11pm on 29th September and we’ve just turned on the AC in the car because it’s still 21C. In England. Nothing makes sense any more. OTOH we’re on the way home from a Lavinia Blackwall gig that was brilliant and everything I needed.

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Marvellous Ways @marvellousways.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The joys of being a grownup: - fried potato & poached eggs for lunch - ignore the To Do List - lounge on the bed to read the afternoon away - cake for tea - wine, books, bed by 7pm Apart from the wine, that’s pretty much the life I dreamed of as a child.

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Marvellous Ways @marvellousways.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This is consistent with all the other comments I see about the current uselessness of publishers. wtf.

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Marvellous Ways @marvellousways.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

That seems like an improbably large accident 🤔

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Marvellous Ways @marvellousways.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I’m quite startled by it. Wondering if I was so accustomed to the weird that it just didn’t register.

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Marvellous Ways @marvellousways.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

😳😱 (I never witnessed anything bizarre in assembly.)

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Marvellous Ways @marvellousways.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

It blows my mind that something constructed in my lifetime can be so mysterious and almost unknowable www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/suffol...

nationaltrust.org.uk

IRGON research solves Orford Ness mystery

Volunteer researchers solve mystery of 50m concrete ring on Orford Ness

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Marvellous Ways @marvellousways.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

A small clothing brand I follow online is launching a new design, Double Diamond. They keep telling me about it and, because I am English and of a certain age, I am now earwormed with ‘works wonders, works wonders’🍺 nostalgiacentral.com/television/t...

nostalgiacentral.com

Double Diamond – Nostalgia Central

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Buckinghamshire Archives @bucksarchives.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

46 years ago today the Pure Land Peace Festival took place in Willen Lakeside Park, Milton Keynes. Here's the wonderful poster for it, shared for #MKMonday!

A poster depicting the Willen Lake Pagoda surrounded by cherry trees in a watercolour illustration. The sunset is reflected in the waters of the lake. At the top of the poster is the phrase 'Namu Myōhō Renge Kyō', (Devotion to the Mystic Dharma of the Lotus Flower Sutra). Beneath the drawing is an excerpt of the Lotus Flower Sutra Chapter VXI, with the text below it saying 'Pure Land Peace Festival / Willen Lakeside Park, Milton Keynes Bucks / 21 September 1980 - BE 2524'.

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Marvellous Ways @marvellousways.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Same. And sometimes I check and am surprised by my own wrongness, which is cool.

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Marvellous Ways @marvellousways.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

It may have been wise for the author to write for the understanding of contemporary readers, rather than going with accurate usage? But seeing an accusation of laziness based on a misapprehension easily corrected by doing a quick search… I thought everyone knew, tbh, bc that’s what makes it funny.

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Marvellous Ways @marvellousways.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Trying to resist the lure of someone being wrong in the internet, but ‘to cast up one’s accounts’ really is a bookkeeping thing. To cast (up) means to add up and was still in ordinary, late C20 accounting use. Yes, it does also refer to puking - that’s how you create an amusing euphemism.

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