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Bonus PS: A) yes, I am required to use this product for work because of the ecosystem, instead of any of the paid others which exist independently. B) it is making me want to throw my laptop out the window and/or quit.

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So best offer only one slot a day with nothing either side to be safe. 🤷🏻‍♀️ Again, this product is live and this bug - ahem, sorry, ‘known exception’ - has been apparent for several years at this point. Is it just me or is this….just bad product management? 5/5

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Basically, if you’re in the UK and making an appointment using MS bookings between March and October, everyone - you, the client, anyone looking at diary - will be confused whether that 10am call was actually supposed to be 10am, or actually 11am, or maybe 9am. 4/5

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Also, any appointments booked during BST but taking place in a UTC month where you’ve moved time zone will be affected too…though it’s not really clear how. So maybe just don’t let people book past mid October for now (again, official support advice). 3/5

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Just to clarify, you absolutely *can* use it if you’re in the UK and on BST, but you have to set calendar to think you’re located in Casablanca instead (this is official advice!)…and never mind that customers will get confused. Oh, but that will mess with all your other outlook meetings, too. 2/5

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I’ve just discovered that Microsoft Bookings - an actual live official service, not a tiny beta - doesn’t support BST. Which means that if you or customers are in the UK, you can’t use it from March to October every year. This, apparently, is not counted as a critical bug. 🤦🏻‍♀️ 1/5

Meg Pickard @megp.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Larry reminds me of people I’ve worked with.

Meg Pickard @megp.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

If all football was like this, I’d definitely watch.

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Meg Pickard @megp.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

I misread this billboard as “Sick of the Chads?” Which took me down a mental rabbit hole of whether this was a male equivalent of a Karen.

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Meg Pickard @megp.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

No time like the present. Planting is an act of hope!

Meg Pickard @megp.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Honestly, flowers mostly. And some tomatoes/peas/spinach. I figured with the world being ugly and awful, I needed more riotous beauty so in a few months I will be surrounded by a rainbow of blooms.

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Meg Pickard @megp.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

I’m now hardening off during the day as we’re still having frosts…the daily emptying and refilling of the greenhouse takes ages! I’m starting to think I may have been overly pessimistic about germination rates… 🤦🏻‍♀️

Lots of pots and trays of seedlings outside a greenhouse

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Meg Pickard @megp.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Walking on Broken Glass, Sleeping Satellite, Baker Street.

Meg Pickard @megp.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Approximately one million years ago* (*1992) I worked in a coffee shop on a remote Scottish island where the only music was via wobbly radio reception of Atlantic 252 (long wave). They had a very limited playlist and certain songs make me involuntarily want to start mopping floors even today.

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Meg Pickard @megp.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

My youngest is well into the original early few series of HH and enjoys the songs despite not knowing that they are pastiches of the Smiths or Madonna or whatever. Absolutely blew her mind showing her this youtu.be/pbgF1Vwg8nM?...

youtu.be

Horrible Histories Songs vs Originals | Series 1-5 Original Cast Seasons

YouTube video by Rebecca Penn

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Meg Pickard @megp.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

It's almost comical how spring sunshine affects my mood and ability to function. I like to think I'm a complex meat sack but really, I'm just a plant. 🌱

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Meg Pickard @megp.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

I like the idea of saying “oi, can you lend us a puffin til payday?” except of course we largely live in a post-cash society. But not post-puffin yet, thankfully.

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Meg Pickard @megp.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Those artists do sound like what I was playing in 2007… do you have the full list? I will dig, but my iTunes playlists are messily time machined somewhere…

Meg Pickard @megp.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

I will politely decline an invitation to nibble on pickled dormice at that Roman era themed place though…

Meg Pickard @megp.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

One of the great irritations of the modern age is people using computers with big landscape screens to create documents intended for people who mostly use mobiles with small, portrait screens. 🤦🏻‍♀️ Eg school newsletters/letters distributed by email. Trial by PDF. How is this still a thing? 🤔

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Meg Pickard @megp.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Too late! But another time ☎️ 👍

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Meg Pickard @megp.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Just Switch Off Your Television Set And Go Out And Do Something Less Boring Instead?

Meg Pickard @megp.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Giving the school bully your Geography GCSE in the hope that they pick you for their netball team next PE lesson. 🙄🤦🏻‍♀️

Meg Pickard @megp.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Genuinely went to visit La Rochelle a few years back after having it drummed into me for all those years that there was beaucoup à faire dans le week-end. Thought I might bump into Chantel and Pascal… It was very unremarkable as places go. There was not much to do. They lied.

Meg Pickard @megp.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Morning inexplicably spoilt by Liquid Glass and its ugly little edges on app icons. Ugh. Give me back my solids and get out of the way.

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Meg Pickard @megp.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

One meal for the whole day, that.

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Meg Pickard @megp.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Calmac breakfast is the best, when you’ve left the house before dawn and driven more than an hour across a dark island. Also, the twinkly lights were very cheery.

Tray with a cooked breakfast, cup of tea and brown toast with butter

Ferry pier illuminated with streetlights, reflecting on the water below. In the sky above, purple light against the clouds signals that dawn is coming.

View of the vehicle gangway onto the Clansman CalMac ferry. The word Clansman is made of fairy lights threaded through the railings on the top deck.

View of Lismore lighthouse from the ferry. White-tipped waves in a grey blue sea, a rock promontory and a white lighthouse building. Misty hills in the distance.

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Meg Pickard @megp.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

I love this but I was thinking of you when I did it and really hoping for: - goat - cute goat - naughty goat - grumpy goat - angry rooster

Meg Pickard @megp.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

Sorry, I temporarily lost my ability to count, apparently. Too distracted by thinking about starlings, perhaps.

Meg Pickard @megp.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Where’s number 5? Or was it 875 other starlings, as is usually the case…?

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Meg Pickard @megp.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Introduce yourself with 5 animals you’ve seen in your back garden - sparrow hawk - fox - pheasant - bank vole - green mamba (admittedly not in current North Yorkshire back garden)

Meg Pickard @megp.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Vole and Red Leicester is the best.

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

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Meg Pickard @megp.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Department of We’re The Best And Don’t You Forget It

Meg Pickard @megp.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

I dreamt last night that I wrote a fantastic (no really, it was amazing) song about being a smallholder. I woke up at one point and thought “I should really write this down” but then figured it was SO GOOD I would definitely remember it. I do not remember it.

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Meg Pickard @megp.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

In the early 2000s the A4 flyover corridor into Hammersmith was particularly well known as being prime billboard territory…at least for convincing Sky and other media heads that their ad money was being spent influentially. (“We must be doing well; our ads are everywhere!”)

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Meg Pickard @megp.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

My teenager says this is a known thing people do 🤷🏻‍♀️

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Meg Pickard @megp.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Have you visited Schuench? Great skiing. And nothing beats whale watching in Hactish Nonthwest.

Meg Pickard @megp.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Ah, i remember fondly my time in Hactish Nonthwest…

Meg Pickard @megp.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

We have one which we set up over 20 years ago for something related to our wedding but has persisted for everything from bills to school comms. It’s not another mailbox to check - it forwards to both of our personal emails, and we can both reply “as” it. It makes domestic logistics MUCH easier.

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Meg Pickard @megp.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

I always get confused between kayfabe and aquafaba.

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Meg Pickard @megp.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

“Hey! Why don’t we put AI in charge of the prevention of nuclear war?!?!” Also AI, trying to design a simple exercise routine: