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Stuart Hedges @stuarthedges.eurosky.social · 18/10/2026

This is beautiful, and really resonated with me - I also spent too long in shared houses, and also adopted a slightly damaged cat the moment I had my own space. George became a very loving friend to me but he never lost his fear of strangers and always hid if anyone else came round.

Closeup on the face of a black cat. He's sitting on my lap with his chin resting on my arm.

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Stuart Hedges @stuarthedges.eurosky.social · 16/10/2026

Bought these redfish fillets from the counter in Waitrose earlier. The lad asked if I had a preference and I just said "two about the same size please." Hmm. 🍜

Two fish fillets on a board. One is about twice the size of the other.

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Stuart Hedges @stuarthedges.eurosky.social · 13/09/2026

HANG ON A MINUTE. Genuinely thought he was a couple of years younger but no, it was a sore point!

Screen grab from Shatner's Wikipedia page showing his date of birth in 1931. Wrath of Khan came out in 1982.

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Stuart Hedges @stuarthedges.eurosky.social · 12/08/2026

This is a much better location to enjoy the eclipse from than the Orpington Sainsbury's, where I was working in 1999. No idea how this happened but I seem to have captured it in the lens flare.

The front of a stone built pub with the sun behind and a crescent shape captured in the lens flare.

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Stuart Hedges @stuarthedges.eurosky.social · 06/08/2026

Oh man, this was an amazing burger. Boysterous Burger at the Fountain Head in Brighton. 🍜

Two metal plates on a pub table. One contains fries, the other a burger. A really, really good burger.

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Stuart Hedges @stuarthedges.eurosky.social · 04/08/2026

There was rain. I took off my glasses and looked, there were some tiny pinpricks of moisture.

Screenshot of a WhatsApp conversation with my wife.

At 16:05 I say Rain with many, many exclamation marks. She immediately replies: my washing!

Two minutes later, with a note of disappointment, I reply: Tiny bit of drizzle, anyway.

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Stuart Hedges @stuarthedges.eurosky.social · 24/07/2026

Well, one thing led to another, and now we're looking after a juvenile sparrow.

A tarmac drive. It has some unusual accoutrements: a saucer of water, a scattering of birdseed and a young sparrow sitting on the ground looking at them with apparent interest.

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Stuart Hedges @stuarthedges.eurosky.social · 17/07/2026

Mixed tacos from Casazul in the Open Market. Can't decide between the pibil or the mole as my favourite but they were all excellent. Really good service too 🍜

Top-down view of my lunch. A bowl of rice and refried beans, and another bowl containing three colourful tacos. A glass of spicy lime soda in the corner. The tablecloth is a pleasing bright blue.

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Stuart Hedges @stuarthedges.eurosky.social · 23/06/2026

Somehow it feels appropriate to use these today.

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Stuart Hedges @stuarthedges.eurosky.social · 13/06/2026

Mrs H inherited two rhubarb plants at her allotment and the first crop was... woody. I ate it but it took about an hour to cook down. That plant has now gone dormant and other has suddenly started growing like there's no tomorrow!

Half a dozen stalks of really vibrant rhubarb with their massive leaves still attached laying on a kitchen work surface.

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Stuart Hedges @stuarthedges.eurosky.social · 04/06/2026

Chicken korma, cauliflower bhaji, cucumber raitha, naan 🍜

A plate of various curries with a naan on the side.

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Stuart Hedges @stuarthedges.eurosky.social · 31/05/2026

Fish with harissa and butter beans. I used sea bream because that happened to be available but any white fish fillet will be nice with this 🍜

A plate of tomato sauce with butter beans, topped with a fish fillet and a wedge of lemon on the side.

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Stuart Hedges @stuarthedges.eurosky.social · 25/05/2026

I'd absolutely love an electric version of a DS/GS/CX/BX and I feel like the market is there for comfort, light weight, style and space.

An Olympic Blue Citroën BX estate, parked up in the camping field at the annual Cropredy folk festival. They were spacious five-seat family cars with a big boot, they had an incredibly comfortable ride and they were fuel efficient thanks to light weight.

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Stuart Hedges @stuarthedges.eurosky.social · 28/04/2026

Found this in a charity shop a couple of years ago and it went up today. I think it looks great, the exterior just needed a little bit of #greyhound

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Stuart Hedges @stuarthedges.eurosky.social · 20/04/2026

A shop closure has revealed a little bit of retail archeology. I don't remember this at all!

A shop front. The shop has closed down and the sign has been removed, revealing the old sign "Hallmark - when only the best is good enough." I'd guess it dates from the 80s or 90s.

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Stuart Hedges @stuarthedges.eurosky.social · 12/04/2026

My wife got an allotment at the end of last year and this is the first meal cooked with produce from it (the rhubarb) 🍜

A bowl of noodles with braised pork belly in a spicy rhubarb sauce, garnished with spring onions and coriander.

Three sticks of allotment-grown rhubarb.

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Stuart Hedges @stuarthedges.eurosky.social · 18/03/2026

Pretty sure this is the first time this year we've exported more than we imported, that's a profit on the day! First time I've worn a t-shirt in 2026 too, not a cloud in the sky all day.

Screenshot of the MyEnergi app showing that we imported 7.6kWh and exported 8kWh today. We've used 12.2kWh from solar or battery, nothing left but TV and lighting this evening so that's mostly it for the day.

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Stuart Hedges @stuarthedges.eurosky.social · 18/03/2026

Totally true. I once fostered a neglected dog when her owner went into hospital, entirely due to the actions of the landlady at the owner's local. She probably saved both person and dog.

A fawn greyhound, fast asleep on a dog bed. Her head is off the edge of the bed and someone's put a cushion under it.

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Stuart Hedges @stuarthedges.eurosky.social · 02/03/2026

Yessss! Exporting electricity for the first time this year. Lovely and sunny outside.

Screenshot of the MyEnergi app showing that my solar panels are exporting electricity to the grid at 1.3kW, having charged the house battery and heated up the hot water tank.

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Stuart Hedges @stuarthedges.eurosky.social · 13/02/2026

Excellent bento for lunch at Taro in Brighton today 🍜

Bento box containing teriyaki chicken, karaage chicken, tempura prawns, beansprouts, edamame beans, a couple of different sorts of sushi and salmon sashimi. Out of shot there's rice, soy sauce and an Asahi beer. I've already finished the miso soup.

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Stuart Hedges @stuarthedges.eurosky.social · 12/02/2026

My presentation skills haven't improved but that Valentine dinner was delicious. Not even boasting, most of it was down to the quality of the meat. Don't think I've ever had a steak that tender. 🍜

A plate of steak and chips with green beans, a cream mushroom sauce and tarragon

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Stuart Hedges @stuarthedges.eurosky.social · 25/01/2026

#BurnsNight dinner. I bloody love #haggis, really should have it more often. I went for gravy rather than the classic whisky cream sauce, just really fancied it (the Good Food veggie gravy recipe) 🍜

A plate of haggis, roast potatoes, mixed swede and carrot mash. There's a jug next to it, you can't see the contents of the jug but it's a dark traditional British gravy.

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Stuart Hedges @stuarthedges.eurosky.social · 06/01/2026

For the record the first push-button phone I used was very similar to this one.

Photo of an early push-button landline phone. It is beige, in a way that hasn't existed since the 80s.

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Stuart Hedges @stuarthedges.eurosky.social · 04/01/2026

Reminds me of the Here Be Dragons cover!

Cover of the Rivers of London graphic novel Here Be Dragons by Ben Aaronovitch. We're looking down on Big Ben where a huge dragon is attacking a police helicopter.

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Stuart Hedges @stuarthedges.eurosky.social · 14/10/2025

I'm up to The Undiscovered Country in the current rewatch. I was only 11 when it came out but I do remember seeing it at the cinema. Watching as an adult I get something new every time - WoK will always be my favourite but this is objectively a better film. Every line resonates with the Cold War.

Movie poster for Star Trek 6. It shows a very stylised version of the starship Enterprise flying over a Klingon face, with the film title and release date (13 December 1991) superimposed in suitably exciting movie poster fonts

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Stuart Hedges @stuarthedges.eurosky.social · 09/10/2025

Boiled this swede under a lid for 40 minutes, mashed it and it was still stringy and hard - far too unpleasant to eat. Had it been hanging around since last autumn? Or did I cock it up somehow? 🍜

Two dinner plates which have been cleaned of food except for the horrible stringy swede. No idea what I did wrong.

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Stuart Hedges @stuarthedges.eurosky.social · 20/09/2025

Cooked on gas for the first time in a long time, in this lovely floating caravan. Simplest thing I could think of - carbonara 🍜

Silver Mystique. She's a Norfolk Broads cruiser, probably built in the 1970s or 1980s. She's the shortest and lowest boat at the staithe but that just makes her the most manoeuvrable.

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Stuart Hedges @stuarthedges.eurosky.social · 03/09/2025

Most people probably don't realise but on a day like this there will be hundreds of fallen trees. They last a very long time but not forever. I'm going to guess this one was a sapling when the bungalows were built.

A recently fallen tree in a mid 20th century housing estate. It's gone at an angle which has demolished a fence but not, thankfully, a house. For context it fell during the 20 minutes or so it took me to walk to Tesco and back this afternoon.

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Stuart Hedges @stuarthedges.eurosky.social · 10/08/2025

Wot range anxiety? The festival was amazing - better than it's been for years, we thought. The new focus was really good for it.

A campsite at dusk - specifically the Cropredy Festival campsite. There's our electric Renault Mégane in the foreground, then our tent, then the rest of the campsite under a big sky.

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Stuart Hedges @stuarthedges.eurosky.social · 10/08/2025

It's about a 300 mile round trip for us: drop the dog off at my folks, stay the night before the festival at a pub nearby, pick the dog up then home.

A closeup on the face of a greyhound. She's sound asleep, laying on a beige carpet with her front paw over her head in a way that's really characteristic due her. General viewers won't know this from the image but it was taken in my parents' house and was sent to us while we were away and they were looking after her.

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Stuart Hedges @stuarthedges.eurosky.social · 10/08/2025

Back from a road trip! My favourite weekend of the year, the Cropredy music festival.

View from the top of the Cropredy Festival arena field. There's a big sky above, sunshine and clouds, a field full of excited people waving their arms below and a big stage off in the distance. This is my favourite place in the world for the second weekend in August.

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Stuart Hedges @stuarthedges.eurosky.social · 02/08/2025

As the very silly "wind farms are ugly" discourse is doing the rounds again I thought I'd share a couple of shots from the tour of the Rampion that we did back in 2020. Just bask in these glorious, quiet and elegant machines.

Portrait shot, looking up the tower of a wind turbine, blue sky with fluffy white clouds above.

Landscape shot looking upwards at a wind turbine, blue sky with white clouds above.

Landscape shot from a boat looking towards an offshore wind turbine poking up from the sea.

Shot from a boat looking backwards. Behind our wash there are ranks of wind turbines. Slightly threatening grey clouds above.

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Stuart Hedges @stuarthedges.eurosky.social · 02/08/2025

Simon Jenkins being wrong alert. This is far from the worst thing about this piece, which comes close to praising fascism, but this detail caught my eye - why is a lighthouse beautiful and a wind turbine not (a desecration, elsewhere in the piece). Does he think nobody objected to the lighthouse?

Screenshot from the piece. "The course also has the most exquisite view over an old lighthouse to the prominent island of Ailsa Craig across the water. There is no question: the turbines spill the setting."

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Stuart Hedges @stuarthedges.eurosky.social · 08/07/2025

Really amazing meal out at the new Haru Izakaya restaurant in #Lewes Great quality food, good service and very decent value, we'll definitely be back! 🍜

Sashimi platter. Really generous slices of salmon and tuna sashimi with radish, cucumber and finely sliced beetroot.

Deep fried tofu in a soy based sauce. The texture of this was amazing, creamy like burrata in the middle with a crispy exterior.

Three plates: kimchi, tofu maki rolls and chicken yakitori skewers. I'm sure the kimchi was home made, it packed more of a spicy and pickly punch than anything I've had from a jar. The chicken was cooked to perfection and the sauce was ace.

Shrimp nagiri. They're really pretty, and served on a plate that compliments the shape. Beautifully made and delicious.

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Stuart Hedges @stuarthedges.eurosky.social · 17/06/2025

I'm late posting this - always a bit rubbish putting personal stuff on here - but I could not be more proud of these lads completing the London to Brighton cycle ride in aid of the Liz Clarke-Saul fund for research into adamantinoma.

Three men in proper cycling gear holding serious road bikes and looking very pleased with themselves. They're all wearing medals. There's a Finish line in the background which they'd passed through a few minutes earlier. It's on Madeira Drive in Brighton with those distinctive Victorian arches behind. It's a sunny day with just a few clouds in the sky. They're the family that I'm incredibly lucky to have married into.

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Stuart Hedges @stuarthedges.eurosky.social · 13/06/2025

Because I know there'll be calls for dog pic tax if I don't...

A greyhound, fast asleep with her eyes open, her front leg over her head for some reason.

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Stuart Hedges @stuarthedges.eurosky.social · 11/06/2025

I've looked at council and police websites and there doesn't seem to be any easy to report this so here's a social media shaming: pavements on each side of the road blocked by parked cars forcing pedestrians into the road.

Cars blocking pavements - the text of the skeets describes it all unless you really want to know that they're both SUVs, one made by Porsche.

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Stuart Hedges @stuarthedges.eurosky.social · 05/06/2025

One year, one month and 17 days after it started our kitchen project (which was meant to take two weeks) is finished.

View down a U shaped kitchen. Oven and hob in the left, sink down the end, workspace on the right. Terracotta floor tiles, green crackle finish wall tiles, wood work surface. Above all, all the lighting actually works!

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