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Sarah McCartney @sarahmccartney.bsky.social · 14h

Watching the football I am relieved to see some of the men have hairy legs now. I'm not sure why they've all wanted to look like shiny varnished pine recently.

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Sarah McCartney @sarahmccartney.bsky.social · 21h

I'm all for writers using perfume to create an atmosphere. (This is particularly true when I made the perfume.)📙

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Sarah McCartney @sarahmccartney.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I have been at work since 11 and ran a perfume making workshops which finished at 6. The EVRI delivery had an ETA of 19.00 to 21.00 so I'm still here at 21.45. I shall still thank him because it's not his fault he has a horrible job, but if I'd known it was EVRI I would never have bought the thing.

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Sarah McCartney @sarahmccartney.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Walking through Hammersmith, I spotted a big black car with the number plate SN09P waiting at the lights. "What is this?" I ask husband, "Snog P? Snow 9 P?" "I hope he didn't hear," I added. The lights change, the car slowly rolls by, the window rolls down and the man with a smile says, "Snoop."

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Sarah McCartney @sarahmccartney.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Balanced and reasoned. I hope no one uses an AI summary to read it.

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Sarah McCartney @sarahmccartney.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

We need as many people as possible to agree with putting in place more ways to increase funding rather than making cuts and essentially punishing those who are already suffering. Tax the Rich – Wealth Tax Now www.oxfam.org.uk/get-involved...

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Oxfam GB | Chancellor John Healey: Tax wealth now

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Peter Cook: Brexorcist in Chief: Reboot Britain @brexitrage.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

If u know, u know In the halls of NEC With Farage and Tice and Lee Stop the boats for 30p Smoke and mirrors all you see. Hit me with your Reform stick, hit me, hit me I hit wimmin, I’m a dick. hit me, hit me, hit me Hit me with your Reform stick, it's nice to hit girls if u're thick Hit me .... 1/

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Sarah McCartney @sarahmccartney.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

When you realise you could basically open your own front room as a curated collection of curiosities.

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Sarah McCartney @sarahmccartney.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I just met and evicted a Pimpla rufipes, which is a lot less cute than it sounds. Pimpla rufipes - Wikipedia share.google/2O8p9ZCaXIyK...

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Pimpla rufipes - Wikipedia

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Sarah McCartney @sarahmccartney.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Bat watching tonight by the full moon. #Bats

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Sarah McCartney @sarahmccartney.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

We made our own eclipse viewers. Ravenscourt Park was a joyful assembly of nerds with colanders, glasses and home made pinhole boxes. Valerie Singleton would be proud. A lovely pair of people also shared their glasses with everyone around them. Proper wow-worthy.

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Sarah McCartney @sarahmccartney.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

This week I got a call from someone asking if I run perfume making workshops on days other than Tuesdays. I never run them on Tuesdays. They are on Saturdays. Chat GPT had told her Tuesdays. She did not check the actual bookable dates published on our own website. We are delegating thought.

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Sarah McCartney @sarahmccartney.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

There is an account in the name of Eric Blair @stopglobalcooling who posts political falsehoods and pro-oil, anti-renewables propaganda. Be aware. The bots are out strongly as the billionaire tax gains ground.

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Sarah McCartney @sarahmccartney.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

When did spilling the beans become spilling the tea? I prefer beans. It implies a wide scattering of escaped items, rather than hurtful scalding.

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Sarah McCartney @sarahmccartney.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

The day your 2022 favourite shoes turn into your 2026 gardening shoes.

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Sarah McCartney @sarahmccartney.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Watch "I, Jack Wright" on the iPlayer. I command this.

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Sarah McCartney @sarahmccartney.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

How did my education miss out the bit where the African Roman Emperor Septimus Severus, born in Libya, ran the empire from York? Can we tell Reform and that other lot?Just to mess with their heads.

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Emory 🩶 @emory-f8.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Did you know? In the Victorian era, one of Britain's greatest expeditions simply vanished into the Arctic, creating a mystery that captivated the public for generations. Their mission was to complete the final unexplored section of the Northwest Passage. #Victorian #history

It shows an illustration of the HMS Erebus and HMS Terror. A group of sailors are shown in small boats.

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Sarah McCartney @sarahmccartney.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

I mean this fondly, does Sepp Kuss remind anyone else of Noddy? #TourdeFrance

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Sarah McCartney @sarahmccartney.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Louis Vuitton is owned by the world's 11th richest billionaire, Trump donor, Bernard Arnault.

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Sarah McCartney @sarahmccartney.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

If Mbappé, Kane & Bellingham decide all to compete for the Golden Boot that could be interesting. No one actually wants a paid up fascist to win it, do they?

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Sarah McCartney @sarahmccartney.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

I have a 35,000 word problem. My book deadline approaches and I have 85,000 words and a contract for 50,000. Slash and burn time! 🔪🔥

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Sarah McCartney @sarahmccartney.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

It's time for the Independent to roll out its annual whinge about Sewing Bee and its irrelevance. 😄 Also, it's time for me to enjoy many weeks of skills, joy and creativity.

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Compound Interest | Chemistry infographics @compoundchem.com · 20/04/2026

Did you know magnolia petals are edible? I didn't until this year, and discovering that they are led me to this exploration of magnolia chemistry (and experiments in making magnolia gin). Learn more in the graphic here: www.compoundchem.com/2026/04/20/m... #ChemSky 🧪

An infographic titled "Magnolia molecules: perfume and medicines" details the plant's chemistry. Pink petals contain cyanidin and peonidin pigments. Aroma molecules include aldehydes like 2-nonenal and heptanal, and terpenes like alpha-pinene and linalool. Medicinal bark compounds include magnolol and honokiol, which have antioxidant properties. It also highlights yulanosides, unique phenylethanoid glycosides. Chemical structures for these compounds surround a central magnolia branch photo.

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Sarah McCartney @sarahmccartney.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

If you were stuck on the M40 towards London this afternoon wondering why the police had stopped you all, it appeared from the westbound carriageway that the man driving along the motorway on a mobility scooter needed to be stopped and taken to a slightly quieter, and more legal, public highway.

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Sarah McCartney @sarahmccartney.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Does anyone have any idea what that tiny plane is that's circling high over West London right now? It's not showing up on the plane ID app.

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Sarah McCartney @sarahmccartney.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

It's flying ant day in Ealing. Yourselves?

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Sarah McCartney @sarahmccartney.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Referee! REFEREE!! Has he received Paraguayan death threats or has he forgotten to put his contacts in? The standard has been so high this tournament that this mess is all the more surprising. #worldcup

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Sarah McCartney @sarahmccartney.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Here, have a short but lovely rainbow.

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Sarah McCartney @sarahmccartney.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Way before the "brexit" vote I spotted two things. The Independent reported that Putin understood that the climate crisis is man made. On the BBC Simon Reeve explored Russia and saw a massive fleet of ice-breaker cargo ships. Russia with Simon Reeve - BBC iPlayer share.google/NA7awAShS2Iv...

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Russia with Simon Reeve

100 years after the Russian Revolution, Simon Reeve embarks on an extraordinary journey.

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Sarah McCartney @sarahmccartney.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

We have peak football, Norway and France, dragged into the gutter by the pointless prattle of McCoist.

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Stop Funding Heat @stopfundingheat.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

GB News gives its take on climate change. This is what a propaganda campaign looks like. Who'd have guessed that the GB News co-owner runs a hedge fund with massive investments in oil and gas? www.theguardian.com/media/2026/m...

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Sarah McCartney @sarahmccartney.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Ally McCoist is a waste of my time. He would be better value if he said nothing at all.

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Sarah McCartney @sarahmccartney.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

York. The view from the massive new Toppings bookshop, a gargoyle, an astonishing church tower, wildflower meadow by the city walls.

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Sarah McCartney @sarahmccartney.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Why isn't the down escalator called the descalator?

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Sarah McCartney @sarahmccartney.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Swifts doing their finest shifting, drinking from the tiny pool at our Athens hotel.

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Sarah McCartney @sarahmccartney.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

On a motorway heading towards Athens, there's a printers called Robocopy. Things I wish I'd thought of Number 832.

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Sarah McCartney @sarahmccartney.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

I visualised a multipurpose box and made a prototype and am quite surprised that it all fits together perfectly.

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Sarah McCartney @sarahmccartney.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

I just watched Fearne Cotton being rude about Hannah Fry's explanation of a set theory paradox on Googlebox. Previously I had no opinion of her; it is now negative.

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Sarah McCartney @sarahmccartney.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

When the majority of Sunderland voted to leave the EU they'd not planned ahead for next season had they? I await the complaints as they queue at immigration and slowly realise that they brought it in themselves. I do not seek retribution, I shall feel sorry for them. I might also laugh a bit.

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Sarah McCartney @sarahmccartney.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Plants growing in walls, part 2, the Barbican. That second one is Roman, part of the original London Wall.

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Sarah McCartney @sarahmccartney.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

An occasional series of plants that found welcoming walls.

A flowering plant growing out on a crack in the rendering of a garden wall.

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Sarah McCartney @sarahmccartney.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Does anyone else speak absolutely no Mandarin but find themselves with tears in their eyes watching the snooker interview?

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Sarah McCartney @sarahmccartney.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Small business life. We just got a project which means we have to cancel our planned two day break, so we went for a walk in the park and a smoothie instead. Not really a choice, as times are strange now, and you take your opportunities!

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Sarah McCartney @sarahmccartney.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

I have been asked to upload a CV for a business thing. Why would I have a CV? 14 years into running my own business, I have to write a CV.

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Sarah McCartney @sarahmccartney.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Would someone tell BBC London News that the Femme in Tour de France Femme is pronounced fam? Thank you.

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Sarah McCartney @sarahmccartney.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

I love a staircase; this one is in a small office building on Borough High Street.

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