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Monsterlander @monsterlander.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Hah I think we may have coincided on this before. This time of year I get traction engines.

Monsterlander @monsterlander.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

I made my first ever swiss roll and we haven't had lunch yet so we are quickly throwing lunch together to give us an excuse to eat the swiss roll asap

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Monsterlander @monsterlander.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

A heron and what looks to be a juvenile great cormorant today at the lake in Nottingham university

A heron and a juvenile great cormorant (big black bird, grey chest) in a downed tree protruding into a lake

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Monsterlander @monsterlander.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

Nottingham university looking quite nice today

Looking over the lake to one of the buildings of Nottingham university (no idea what it is!) past two Chinese dragon statues. Two orange autumnal trees frame the building.

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Monsterlander @monsterlander.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

Realised that thanks to the muffin rings, a homemade Egg McMuffin was within my grasp, and I do not regret it.

An egg frying in a muffin ring in a carbon steel pan

Homemade english muffin, fork-split, with butter and sliced extra mature cheddar ready to go

The circular fried egg on one of the muffin halves, with cheddar and black pepper

The whole ersatz Egg McMuffin assembled. IT WAS LOVELY.

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Monsterlander @monsterlander.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

I have made a dozen wholemeal sourdough English muffins and I may soon die

11 muffins cooking on racks, with the best looking ones near the camera because I'm only human

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Monsterlander @monsterlander.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Rather than just sit on my kap, our cat has developed the habit of sticking his arse in my face for minutes at a time while he pads away with his toe spikes.

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Monsterlander @monsterlander.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Maybe throw in a cyclist and some sheep too (egret down by the cyclist)

Cyclist going past an egret by a brook and an old wall, with a bumpy field of sheep in the mist to the right.

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Monsterlander @monsterlander.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Hah ta - the egret was knocking around here too, down by the cyclist.

Cyclist cycling past an egret and an old wall with a bumpty, misty field covered in sheep.

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Monsterlander @monsterlander.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

(who just before this was looking a bit less moody, benny hilling around on the road dodging amazon vans)

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Monsterlander @monsterlander.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Also some good posing by my egret pal

An egret (white heron) perched in the top of of a weeping willow with the morning moon on the opposite corner of the photo.

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Monsterlander @monsterlander.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

This egret really isn't making me work for it, ornithology wise.

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Monsterlander @monsterlander.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Attention: amusing place name discovered.

Photo of a section of OS map showing the work "cockintake"

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Monsterlander @monsterlander.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Keep seeing this on the BBC: "Denmark says 'professional actor' behind drone incursions over its airports" And my mind makes the obvious leap.

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Monsterlander @monsterlander.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

We are now officially long on shortbread.

About 50 pieces of homemade shortbread cooling on racks under a gauze

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Monsterlander @monsterlander.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

Similar pleasure with tortillas. Although my tortilla game is weaker than my pitta

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Monsterlander @monsterlander.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

The moment when you think they're not going to puff up and then they puff up is almost more excitement than a man of my age l can bear

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Monsterlander @monsterlander.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

Making pittas in the manner of a hardcore motherfucker

Melon headed middle aged man pointing listlessly at a board full of pittas ready to be cooked.

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Monsterlander @monsterlander.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Super easy too - just butter, sugar, plain flour - bit of salt if you've used unsalted butter.

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Monsterlander @monsterlander.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Shortbread will stand in for a Harley Davidson

Freshly baked shortbread cooling on a rack

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Monsterlander @monsterlander.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

And the next step in the eternal search for meaning was learning to make tortillas.

Stack of freshly made tortillas on a tea towel

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Monsterlander @monsterlander.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Today in midlife crisis land, I've learned how to make pitta breads

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Monsterlander @monsterlander.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

I've double loafed already today, what other wonders lay in store?

Two loaves of freshly baked wholemeal sourdough, one for the neighbour to thank for cat feeding, one for us, cooling on racks on the hob.

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Monsterlander @monsterlander.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

A less insane cousin to my antivax gatepost

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Monsterlander @monsterlander.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

I am in a flat by a gorgeous square in Antwerp but sadly the sky isn't playing ball

Hendrick square in Antwerp, a big catholic church and pretty square with tree

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Monsterlander @monsterlander.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Statue in Antwerp that I now refer to as "the junk inspectors"

Sculpture of a large man with legs spread wide and two smaller men gazing up at the crotch area

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Monsterlander @monsterlander.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Antwerp central station is pretty goddamned fancy.

Main chamber of Antwerp central station. Super ornate glasswork and stairs that my knowledge of architecture is to lame to apply describe. It's a bit like London's natural history museum I guess.

Huge main concourse at Antwerp central station. Almost empty of passengers and a huge half cylinder some running hundreds of yards away from the camera. A big metal hand sculpture is in the foreground.

The high fancy roof of the main chamber of the station

The exterior of the station with huge archway and fancy domes and spires

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Monsterlander @monsterlander.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

View from living room in this rental in Antwerp could be worse. Although anyone looking up just saw me taking the second picture in my pants.

Looking out of a series of windows to a lit church - which upon googling seems to be a Catholic one called me Sint-Carolus Borromeuskerk

A view from the window down into the square in front of the church

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Monsterlander @monsterlander.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

Great abundance of interesting buildings and bridges in Rotterdam, we've loved wandering around.

A cylindrical red and orange building giving way to a darker orange/red brick rectangular building with a rectangular hole punched through it with more buildings visible beyond.

An old lift bridge, which seems to be called De Hef, with a central section raised high in the air and metal archways to the left and right, over a wide canal

A selection of disparate buildings seen over a stretch of canal used as a quay, with the famous diagonal cubic houses just part of the background.

A fancy looking tower, probably a hotel, behind a quay with many barges attached, and other more modern tower blocks to the left and right

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Monsterlander @monsterlander.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

Rotterdam market hall a pretty fascinating construction

Huge curved ceiling covered in murals and dotted with windows around a busy square packed with eateries. Huge window at the end with pointy tower visible.

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Monsterlander @monsterlander.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

Perhaps a lack of imagination on my part but I was surprised to see inner city surfing in Rotterdam

Surfers in a big rectangular section of canal with a wave machine in central Rotterdam

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Monsterlander @monsterlander.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

This thing is pretty heckin' sweet.

Museum depot in Rotterdam, huge curved mirrored building with shrubs on the roof.

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Monsterlander @monsterlander.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

Paint me like one of your giant metal Dutch bunnies

Big bronze sculpture of a rabbit lying on its side in Rotterdam

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Monsterlander @monsterlander.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

Staying in Rotterdam for a few days. Really like the vibe of the place.

Street near the Erasmus bridge in central Rotterdam - a nice mix of trees, older buildings and tall blocks

View along a wide canal towards the centre of Rotterdam, from near the Erasmus bridge. An interesting black tower block with a wide "hat" section on top on the left, and variety of other blocks in different designs either side of the canal, plus the odd crane.

View of the Erasmus bridge in the centre of Rotterdam with some interesting modern designed tower blocks in the distance, and a pleasure boat in the foreground.

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Monsterlander @monsterlander.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

This advert for perfumes called "good girl" and "very good girl" made my wife literally cry with laughter while waiting for the ferry yesterday. The clincher was the "very good girl" I think. It was a joy to behold.

Perfume advert with a glamorous woman in a red dress and the text *good girl / good to be bad" Nd underneath the information that "very good girl" can be purchase for even more money. Both perfumes presented in ludicrous high heeled shoe shaped bottles.

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Monsterlander @monsterlander.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Check out the malevolence on this wee bast

An English shorthair cat, grey and kind of beautiful but having the usual look of the breed, which can tactfully be described as "ran into a bus face first". It is flowering at the camera with pure malevolence.

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Monsterlander @monsterlander.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

For my birthday (Friday) I asked Ali to give me the gift of an organised baking drawer, and my goodness she's come through.

Previously messy drawer now organised with elan by my fine lady wife.

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Monsterlander @monsterlander.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Ah yes - with a space and semicolon for extra jauntiness. Emulators abound by the way if nostalgic: bbc.xania.org virtual.bbcmic.ro

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Monsterlander @monsterlander.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

Bloody lovely walk over latrigg and down the old railway path yesterday

Keswick and Derwent water with cat bells behind them from the slopes of latrigg

Keswick and Derwent water with cat bells behind them from the other side of latrigg

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Monsterlander @monsterlander.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Not the worst on the way down either. Top of Bassenthwaite lake here peppered with sailboats.

View from the track down Sale Fell in Cumbria, walking towards Bassenthwaite lake which is peppered with tiny distant sails.

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Monsterlander @monsterlander.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

A pleasing bit of landscape on the way up Sale Fell yesterday.

Photo of a grassy, humpy hillock with a path winding up it and trees either side, with a blue cloud mottled sky behind

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Monsterlander @monsterlander.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

I have excelled myself in this bid to redress my deficit re the office snacks table

Kilner jar full of biscuits with a photo of me presenting biscuits and the text "old mother norcotts home made ginger nuts (slightly less nice than shop bought)

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Monsterlander @monsterlander.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

One once slammed into the ground in front of us on the slopes of blencathra, shattering his legs. Made a hell of a bang. Stayed with him / waited for mountain rescue etc. was quite a day! Friended him on Facebook and now he's paragliding again.

Mountain rescue volunteer winchind down from helicopter to injured paraglider

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Monsterlander @monsterlander.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

(That wasn't the finished chili by the way, I'm not a monster)

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