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Nick Fisher @nef.bsky.social · 6h

Old Gustav nods in approval of Gerard Hoffnung nodding in approval.

"Mahler: I forgot the motor horn! I'll have to write another symphony"

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Nick Fisher @nef.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It’s been a very agreeable afternoon’s pottering. Coco to scale.

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Nick Fisher @nef.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I hope this email finds you well.

LEMAIRE (20th century), Brigitte Bardot, Graphite.

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Nick Fisher @nef.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Thorn apple (Datura stramonium), known as jimson weed in the US, sprouting in my back garden, north Cornwall. Family Solanaceae, and packed with toxic alkaloids. It can seed rather prolifically, so I removed it. @bsbibotany.bsky.social #wildflowerhour

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Nick Fisher @nef.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

This old fellow was a tiny ginger kitten once.

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Nick Fisher @nef.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Jumping spiders like laser pointers.

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Nick Fisher @nef.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

The Lieutenant is, of course, a proms fan.

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Nick Fisher @nef.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

There’s a very poor crop on my Pine Apple this year (not surprising, as last year was an absolute monster).

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Nick Fisher @nef.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Getting the Christmas pudding training in early, damn your eyes.

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Nick Fisher @nef.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I'm enjoying the Succession crossover episode.

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Nick Fisher @nef.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

It’s the annual village sports day, but never mind that; thanks to the heads up from @davidcollard.bsky.social for recommending ‘The Restraint of Beasts’ by Magnus Mills. Mordant, filthy & nasty, but it’ll leave you tickled.

The Restraint of Beasts by Magnus Mills.

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Nick Fisher @nef.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Edward Fleas has decided that indoor cat season has started.

Stray boy Eddie. Indoors after the summer.

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Nick Fisher @nef.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Coco's not very smart, and has managed to get himself trapped several times. The other cats in the group know better.

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Nick Fisher @nef.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Strauss (R) tonight, who I've come to increasingly appreciate over the years. My Dad was very much a Strauss (J, Jr) fan, didn't care much for the other fellow, but I have him to thank for exposing me to classical music from a very young age.

Richard Strauss being accosted by a fan/frenemy at the Austrian premiere of Salome, Graz 1906.

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Nick Fisher @nef.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

For a former bruiser with an itinerant lifestyle I’d say he’s made some good decisions in life.

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Nick Fisher @nef.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

We live in a land of weather forecasts, smart lightbulbs, and breakfasts that set in.

Shat on by Labour, shovelled up by Tories.

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Nick Fisher @nef.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Absolute filth on Call My Bluff tonight.

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Nick Fisher @nef.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

My phone camera was a bit rubbish for it. Cats not impressed either. All nice and eerie, though.

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Nick Fisher @nef.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Senior astronomer has arrived.

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Nick Fisher @nef.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

It’s all happening. (Very slowly). 🌞

Yours truly with a pinhole projector, viewing the solar eclipse.

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Nick Fisher @nef.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

No need for eclipse glasses if you’ve got an old cat food box. Far safer for viewing the sun, too.

A pinhole projector for eclipse viewing.

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Nick Fisher @nef.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Today’s round of Name That Lighthouse.

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Nick Fisher @nef.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Add a few blackberries and let the crumble magic happen.

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Nick Fisher @nef.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I suspect she'd approve of L.J.K. She was a fine, formidable woman, with a love of literature and cats. Hated television though, and forbade it from the house. Grandpa Kit reached an arrangement by hiding one in his wardrobe and watching it there.

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Nick Fisher @nef.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

You're sandwiched between Robin Knox-Johnston and Ágota Kristóf (obviously). With a specimen of goethite, for good measure.

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Nick Fisher @nef.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

A handful of Victoria plums picked last week. The crop is always very sparse - blink and you'll miss it. Delicious, though.

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Nick Fisher @nef.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

A quick round of Name That Cathedral.

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Nick Fisher @nef.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Post lunch stroll. The merest sprinkle of rain here this morning.

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Nick Fisher @nef.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Acceptable plum situation from the garden this morning.

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Nick Fisher @nef.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

The Andante is Mahler's most powerfully beautiful piece IMO. Has me in bits without fail. Far more so than that other movement, which gets played _all the time_.

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Nick Fisher @nef.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Classic album covers from the 1970s (updated).

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Nick Fisher @nef.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

It took me 5 months to catch stray boy Eddie, who was very badly behaved and labelled a ‘terrible cat’ by the village. After TNR he decided his forever home was…with me. He’s not such a terrible cat these days.