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Mike 🇬🇧 🇪🇺

@MikeFromLFE.cupoftea.social.ap.brid.gy
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I'm in Central England as a retired healthcare professional with a BA(hons) French & Art History •Sketching •growing stuff on an allotment •TaiChi & Quigung […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ cupoftea.social/@MikeFromLFE, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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Mike 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @mikefromlfe.cupoftea.social.ap.brid.gy · 8h
Morning all! As it's Sunday, it's #allotment day. I went yesterday to pay the rent for 2027 on the plot we're keeping, and I discussed my plans for handing back plot 91, which will probably be mid-November. As I made an unexpectedly good start on moving the pear tree, today I need to dig a […]
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Mike 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @mikefromlfe.cupoftea.social.ap.brid.gy · 23h
@maartje It calls for an unboxing video 😆
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Mike 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @mikefromlfe.cupoftea.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026
Sacha and I have moved the fireplace back into position - it's mainly MDF and quite heavy. The decorator has finished and we're happy with the result. The next milestone is the carpet you can see being cleaned on Wednesday morning. We're then moving that carpet into another room.
A fairly bare room with a blue camping chair, a decorated fireplace with two items of wood furniture in alcoves either side. There are windows behind the chair. There's an old fashioned green and yellow carpet
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Mike 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @mikefromlfe.cupoftea.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026
[Mention of breasts (again)] I did a few jobs at the allotment this morning, including paying the rent on the plot we are keeping for 2027. The other main job was lifting three of the posts that had the fruit tree wires attached. I was moving one of these to it's new approximate location when […]
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Street Art Utopia @streetartutopia.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026
Great Wheat Sharks — by Anne Melady in Dublin, Canada 🇨🇦 streetartutopia.com/2026/05/19/coll… #StreetArt #PublicArt #Mural
Great Wheat Sharks by Anne Melady in Dublin, Canada
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Zivan - Childless Cat Guy @zkrisher.tweesecake.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026
I've got a new student, he is blind and requires voiceover to use his iPhone but his hands tremble quite harshly and he has fine control issues. He keeps double tapping accidentally and when he tries to tap voiceover often reads it as a swipe. I understand that touch accommodations are still […]
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Mike 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @mikefromlfe.cupoftea.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026
While I've been allotmenting Sacha has discovered that we've got a mouse in the living room. (Read, another mouse - I think the cat brings them in to play with). Grrrrr. #mouseInTheHouse
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Mike 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @mikefromlfe.cupoftea.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026
#totp Thanks all - even the cat enjoyed some of that lot. More next week?
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Mike 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @mikefromlfe.cupoftea.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026
#totp Tune!
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Mike 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @mikefromlfe.cupoftea.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026
#totp Hang on, the cat wants to play. It's more interesting than this
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Mike 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @mikefromlfe.cupoftea.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026
@sborrill only if there's more than 35 floors
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Mike 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @mikefromlfe.cupoftea.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026
#totp The biggest problem with love on a mountain top is the cold. And the rocks.
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Mike 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @mikefromlfe.cupoftea.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026
#TOTP There is something weird about Cliffs trousers waistband
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Mike 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @mikefromlfe.cupoftea.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026
#TOTP Play Tears for Fears
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Mike 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @mikefromlfe.cupoftea.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026
#TOTP oh dear. No excuse for this.
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Mike 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @mikefromlfe.cupoftea.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026
#TOTP This song was constantly in my mix tapes when I was commuting up and down the A46 between Leicester and Newark.
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Mike 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @mikefromlfe.cupoftea.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026
#TOTP I think she's mouthing "bad breath, sunshine"
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Mike 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @mikefromlfe.cupoftea.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026
#TOTP Did George Benson ever do a bad song?
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Mike 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @mikefromlfe.cupoftea.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026
#TOTP I'm probably a philistine but I never really 'got' Adam & his ants
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Mike 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @mikefromlfe.cupoftea.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026
#TOTP Someone looks extremely young
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Mike 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @mikefromlfe.cupoftea.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026
#TOTP Good job no one in the troupe is more than an A cup
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Mike 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @mikefromlfe.cupoftea.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026
#TOTP Grandad! Wake up!
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Mike 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @mikefromlfe.cupoftea.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026
#TOTP Suzi certainly won't be wearing baggy trousers!
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Mike 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @mikefromlfe.cupoftea.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026
#TOTP Half the audience look bored
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Mike 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @mikefromlfe.cupoftea.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026
#TOTP Great start (Shame about Vance)
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Mike 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @mikefromlfe.cupoftea.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026
#TOTP Did he say he paid $29million for •this• experience?
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Mike 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @mikefromlfe.cupoftea.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026
#TOTP This is grim.
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Mike 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @mikefromlfe.cupoftea.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026
#TOTP Hi all - joining the party, or something.....
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Mike 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @mikefromlfe.cupoftea.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026
The decorator has gone, cash in his grubby hands. It transpired that he was a ranty reform ltd zoomer - so good riddance (despite the fact he's done a decent job inside the promised timescale). We're now having a rethink about the rug / carpet that's been in there since the beginning of time […]
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Mike 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @mikefromlfe.cupoftea.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026
The frikin' decorator has just contacted me to ask me to pay him cash for tomorrow's job. I don't know if he keeps that amount of notes in his back pocket, because I certainly don't. He's agreed to collecting it - in cash - on Sunday. This means two trips to the cash machine, getting the max […]
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Mike 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @mikefromlfe.cupoftea.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026
I've apparently had a delivery, but it's not been delivered here! The rubbish InPost app says "delivery photo currently unavailable" - why doesn't that surprise me? Bets on when the package arrives? #CrapCouriers
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Fabio Manganiello @fabio.manganiello.eu.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026
There’s no sovereignty in a world where the US can simply call for a server that didn’t violate any law in the Netherlands to be switched off, and that server immediately goes off. America is a terrorist State. And we don’t deal with terrorists.
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WilliamNB 🇿🇦🇬🇧🏳️‍⚧️ @williamnb.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026
When driving, teach your kids to count cyclists, so it becomes second nature to them to look for cyclists, once they start driving.
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Mike 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @mikefromlfe.cupoftea.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026
Bonjour! It's Thursday again, and I've been awake for too long already. I've calmed my racing brain, but not found sleep. I'm aching a bit from yesterday afternoon at our allotment - shifting bricks to install the second water butt, and moving strawberry plants. This morning I really must […]
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🫧 🌸 🫧 @meshe.socialbc.ca.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026
LET'S MAKE WEDNESDAY WEIRD
a fluffy, cream alpaca with a forest in the rear, seen from the neck up.
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Grassroots for Europe🇪🇺 @grassrootsforeurope.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026
This implies that Cameron, May, Johnson, Truss, Sunak, and Starmer KNEW, but chose NOT TO TELL us.
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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026
Everyone, I have a suggestion: New Skill November. #NewSkillNovember
NEW SKILL NOVEMBER

[an art nouveau painting in autumn colors of a woman playing the harp]

LEARN A NEW SKILL OR REBUILD AN OLD ONE; THE ONLY RULE: DO IT YOURSELF, DO NOT USE AI

Sketching, knitting, whittling, a musical instrument, a foreign language, a tricky video game, cooking, weaving, changing oil, riding a bike, painting, pixel art, website design, digital image editing, bookbinding, calligraphy, identifying mushrooms, embroidery, soldering, that one thing you've been putting off

Do the hard part yourself, no matter how imperfect it feels. Learn and internalize how it really works. Consult guides written by human experts, and ask your fellow human beings for help. Take pride in knowledge and abilities that are an intrinsic part of your existence and not dependent on renting from corporations.

art by Charles Louis Hinton for a November issue of Harper's Bazaar, 1896
banner by 0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Putin has not funded disruption and chaos across Europe and the UK solely to weaken his enemies. He also knows that disruption and chaos favour the far right. And the far right loves Putin. It will abandon Ukraine and build him a highway into Europe.
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Mike 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @mikefromlfe.cupoftea.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026
Moin I feel like I've got a cold*. I ache all over, including a headache. There's a painful lump in my left armpit (that seems to be resolving since I first felt it about eight hours ago) I've not been able to get out of bed and I've been brought a cup of tea (which is scarily unusual). TaiChi […]
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Mike 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @mikefromlfe.cupoftea.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026
@carusb That's good to hear. I am led to believe that Finasteride induced gynaecomastia is rare, but for whatever reason I seem to be picking up rare side effects on various drugs (arthralgia from PPIs was another). I'm content to ride out the issue with Finasteride because I know what happened […]
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Adrianna Tan @skinnylatte.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026
I’m in Pokhara, Nepal, a very popular place for starting a Himalayan trek or climb, and also popular for yoga and retreats for the crunchier types. Someone’s (obviously a tourist) graffiti-ed vegan messages all across town; and the messages get increasingly conspiracy theorist. Other than the […]
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Mike 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @mikefromlfe.cupoftea.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026
[Breasts] Nearly all of the time now my boobs are just there, just part of me. But today for some reason they're bloody annoying, getting in the way and 'just being there'! It doesn't help that they're aching today (which they do occasionally). I thought I'd got used to them - apparently not […]
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Mike 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @mikefromlfe.cupoftea.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026
I was warned that this new medication (Tamsulosin) might cause dizziness and low blood pressure. Jeez! That was scary. I just about made it to a chair before I fell over. BP 124 / 63 #Tamsulosin #BPH
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Mike 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @mikefromlfe.cupoftea.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026
I've repotted the plants that were on the kitchen windowsill, and cleaned the roots really well. We've been getting flies in the kitchen (and sometimes in the rest of the house) and they may be coming from the compost. As a belt & braces approach, I've also used some nuclear waste in the […]
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Will Phoenix @whiskeyomega.cupoftea.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026
Someone calling themselves "OVODavid" is currently making up accounts on different instances to dodge bans and harass someone on Plush.city. Was banned on toot.wales #Fediblock #Mastoadmin
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Alina Pereverzieva 🇺🇦 @perevaa.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
And now the best part: Bot traffic from the #Yandex network has plunged to near zero following the strike on its Vladimir data center. Bot traffic includes automated requests from search crawlers, scrapers and other online services. Twitter must be a ghost town by now.
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Alina Pereverzieva 🇺🇦 @perevaa.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Nearly all #Yandex services went dark after a strike on its Vladimir data center. Alice, Taxi, Go, Pro, Food, Music, Telemost and Smart Home were hit, along with Yandex Cloud – disrupting hundreds of dependent businesses and municipal services across Russia.
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California Dreamin’… 😎 @jerasikehorn.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Any Questions?! 👇 Beyond. Obvious. At. This. Point. 😎🇺🇸✨
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Mike 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @mikefromlfe.cupoftea.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026
We're back home with a pair of grandchildren - we've been watching the #leicester half-marathon and supporting mum & dad who were running. Around 5500 runners - I was exhausted just cheering on the first ⅔ of the entrants!
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Mike 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @mikefromlfe.cupoftea.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026
@Whiskeyomega We got a Royal Mail parcel notification that it'd be delivered around lunchtime - it arrived about 9pm It's completely mad
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