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Susan Shaped @susanshaped.bsky.social · 6h

Some sheep I met today. Think they've got an album coming out next week.

Two sheep posing magnificently on a massive lump of Peak District millstone grit on the edge of Kinder Scout.

Susan Shaped @susanshaped.bsky.social · 7h

Multiple options Peak District stile for @lakesstiles.bsky.social Stile, dog gate, random extra liftable gate. Very commendable.

A large wood structure across a moor path. A dog hate, extra gate and stileare visible.

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Susan Shaped @susanshaped.bsky.social · 8h

Bet no one can guess where I've been today. 😁

A pool of peaty water leading between rocks to a cliff edge.

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Susan Shaped @susanshaped.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Now resolved to approach all hiking planning in rugged, manly fashion like Brad Pitt in Heart of the Beast. May need to borrow a dog. Not sure the big stick/knife combo will go down well on the Cumbrian Way, though.

Still from Heart of the Beast. Brad Pitt, looking rugged, is looking at a map on a box. There's an orange tent next to him. A brown and black dog is looking at him, slightly skeptical.

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Susan Shaped @susanshaped.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Stuck in traffic next to the local vets for a bit today. Have had "the dog with a cone on its head" playing to the tune on "the boy with the thorn in his side" in my head since. 🐶

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Susan Shaped @susanshaped.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

@tinywriterlaura.bsky.social Absolutely loved Awakened. Please write more books. Kept saying to my boyfriend "I'm not sure what this actually IS, but it's brilliant." 😁

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Susan Shaped @susanshaped.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

1) I've never heard of Little Boots 2) Look at lovely Bauhaus tucked up all cosy in the middle. 🖤🖤🖤

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Susan Shaped @susanshaped.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Non members booking for Piranisi and next tranche of Bayeaux Tapestry tickets out on same date. 😂 When I need to manage work, boyfriend's shift system, accommodation for my mother for both and existing mad mountain commitments. It's like some kind of Ludwig level logistical challenge.

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Susan Shaped @susanshaped.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I'm emailing map tap to tell them it's called Yr Wyddfa, in case you're wondering what I'm productively doing with my Wednesday afternoon.

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Susan Shaped @susanshaped.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is also my key takeaway. Also, the Met Office lied to me today, he could've mentioned that.

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Susan Shaped @susanshaped.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The Mill are brilliant, and this is a fab offer for any young thing in the Manchester-ish area, especially if they're into journalism, politics or just general Manchester *stuff*.

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Susan Shaped @susanshaped.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Up the usual hill, nice to be back on home turf. Met a sheep that was channeling Greta Garbo. Good sunset, headtorches for the way home.

A sheep staring moodily into the distance. It's on a rough moor, with an orange sunset behind.

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Susan Shaped @susanshaped.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Morning. Back to work. 😥 Pegged out the laundry* and nearly froze to death. Winter is coming. ❄️ *How can two people produce so much laundry? It's astonishing.

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Susan Shaped @susanshaped.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Thing I was most excited to see in Coventry Transport Museum. Definition of iconic. 💙

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Susan Shaped @susanshaped.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Forgot Philip Larkin was born in Coventry until we stumbled on his star this afternoon. "Nothing, like something, happens anywhere." I wonder how he'd feel about his star? Quietly pleased, externally grumpy, I expect.

A metal star ended in a cobbled square. It reads "Philip Larkin, Poet".

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Susan Shaped @susanshaped.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Just stopped at Tebay services, but in Gloucester and now I'm mentally going to be in the wrong place for at least the next hour. 😂

A green sign saying "Westmorland Charging".

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Susan Shaped @susanshaped.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Early start this morning, heading (most of) the way home today. Cornwall gave us a good send off though.

A golden sunrise. Under the horizon you can see mist gatheringin the valley.

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Susan Shaped @susanshaped.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

So many wonderful stiles today! This won, though. Steps, slight squeeze, tangled brambles adding mild jeopardy. On St. Agnes Head, North Cornwall. @lakesstiles.bsky.social

A set of rough stone steps leading to a tiny gap between a wall and a banking.

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Susan Shaped @susanshaped.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Wheal Coats tin mine, on St Agnes Head. Apparently they filmed some of Poldark here. Can't think why. 😁 Sea behind was STUFFED with surfers. STUFFED.

A ruined tin mine on a cliff side. There's a wide, beautiful sandy beach below, with huge breakers. There's gorse, glowing yellow, all around.

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Susan Shaped @susanshaped.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Past the Equinox and into the season of mists and mellow fruitfulness. Off to peer into ruined tin mines and look for giants today.

A morning, misty sky. The sun is a bright gold disc just over the horizon.

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Susan Shaped @susanshaped.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Clouds of butterflies on the south west coast path today. Absolutely brilliant.

A comma butterfly (ragged looking orangewings, with black spots) on a green leaves.

A speckled wood butterfly (brown wings, white spots) on green leaves.

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Susan Shaped @susanshaped.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Simple step stile with fabulous view for @lakesstiles.bsky.social On the Lizard Peninsula, watched over by choughs. Unfaultable.

A small stone stile in the middle of a low wall. Behind, a wide expanse of cliff dropping to an aqua sea.

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Susan Shaped @susanshaped.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Brightening up already! Good old Met Office. 😁

A big sky, with a golden sun glowing through black, white and grey clouds.

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Susan Shaped @susanshaped.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

A slightly murky Equinox sunrise in Cornwall. The Met Office assures me it's brightening up later, though, and they're never wrong. 😁

A view over green fields and hedgerows. The sky is grey, but there's an edge of rosiness at the horizon.

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Susan Shaped @susanshaped.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

It's been a very good week for dramatic cormorants.

Two cormorants on a rough rock in the sea, silhouetted against a grey sky.

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Susan Shaped @susanshaped.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Circumnavigated St Michael's Mount in the kayak. Feel like Magellan. Have triumphed over the wild ocean.* Rewarded with a black treacle flapjack and a posh lemonade. 😁 *Quite a small bit of Mount's Bay.

A small island, viewed across a deep green sea.

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Susan Shaped @susanshaped.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Stringed Figure (Curlew), at the Barbara Hepworth Museum in St Ives. So very beautiful. My favourite from today. 💙

A curved bronze sculpture, with a series of strings appearing to draw the curves together.

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Susan Shaped @susanshaped.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Fabulous things from the Barbara Hepworth Museum in St. Ives. I could have spent all afternoon (all week!) in the garden. Such a different experience from seeing the sculptures inside. Firstly, Sphere with inner form.

A circular, bronze sculpture. A white rose is growing in front of it. It's slightly green with age and exposure.

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Susan Shaped @susanshaped.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Cormorant on a stick. Do like a nice prehistoric wing flap from a Cormorant.

A cormorant with wings out, on tree trunk extending into a green river.

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Susan Shaped @susanshaped.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Been kayaking up Frenchman's Creek. No Frenchmen spotted, but lots of kingfishers, egrets and herons. Had to be careful though, clearly pirates, brigands and smugglers about.

A rustng boatwreck on the edge of green, wide river, shadowed by overhanging trees.

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Susan Shaped @susanshaped.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Been hanging round on Bodmin Moor with some neolithic/early Bronze Age stones and sheep. They did not have the secrets of the stones, but we found an excellent cake shop afterwards, so all was well.

Standing stones on an overcast moor. They're are two sleep grazing in the foreground.

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Susan Shaped @susanshaped.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Mystical-style stile, on the path up to Glastonbury Tor, for @lakesstiles.bsky.social

A metal squeeze stile between chunky gateposts. "To the Tor" is carved and painted in yellow on one gate post.

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Susan Shaped @susanshaped.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Very definitely not the usual weeknight hill. Included some lovely ladies having a drumming circle and a chap with a fabulous beard who may have actually been Odin. You don't get that on the West Pennines.

A view from Glastonbury Tor. There are people clustered around the summit tower and the edges of an orange sunset on the horizon.

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Susan Shaped @susanshaped.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Have paused on sanding doorframes for lunch. Facing real risk of not returning to sanding doorframes in favour of lying on the sofa with a book.

Roman Casas's Decadent Young Woman painting: a woman in black period clothes is sprawled on a green sofa. Her right hand arches over the sofa back, holding a yellow book.

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Susan Shaped @susanshaped.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Things I was frightened of as a child.

Image from the 1953 film War of the Worlds. A three cornered spaceship with a periscope thing is setting fire to buildings on a city street. It is, in retrospect, really not very frightening.

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Susan Shaped @susanshaped.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Would like to see geographical split. * *Taking the harrying of the North personally, even after nearly 1,000 years. . .

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Susan Shaped @susanshaped.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Just sitting here, looking at the light in the hawthorn, drinking coffee, dawdling about.

A hawthorn tree with morning light behind it, glowing green.

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Susan Shaped @susanshaped.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

A move away from Dons to Frances Tophill is the obvious solution here. Where do I vote? 😁 I mean, she already has an excellent dog, so fulfils that requirement).

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Susan Shaped @susanshaped.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Oh, this has crept up on me! 1.5 days of work left, 17.5 off. SEVENTEEN. Crawling towards Thursday afternoon.

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J'Ai La Flemme: Ours Polaire

Alt: A polar bear squooshing itself across ice using its hind legs.

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Susan Shaped @susanshaped.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Good sky. Headtorches and waterproofs required for last bit of downhill. Hello, autumn.

A brooding and ominous grey sky over a moor. There's a signpost and a stone path in the foreground.

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Susan Shaped @susanshaped.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Been up the Monday Night Hill. The Big Bog Puddle is back! Hurrah. Moors are meant to be soggy.

A deep, peaty puddle next to a stone path.

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Susan Shaped @susanshaped.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Date yourself with an image of your first ever computer. Still strongly suspect my Dad bought it for himself, not us. Didn't stop me deeply loving Frogger for many years.

Promo type image of a Sinclair ZX Spectrum, with a beautiful rainbow background.

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Susan Shaped @susanshaped.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

The sheep have started massing against us. I wish they'd get on with it, pretty sure they'd do a decent job of works domination.

A line of sheep on a grassy bank, mostly staring at the photographer.

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Susan Shaped @susanshaped.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Dales doing some very dramatic weather for us today. Rain, rainbows, gales, sunshine. Definition of a proper hike is constantly moaning about having to take layers on and off. 😁

A dramatic sky over a rolling Yorkshire Dales landscape. Slightest suggestionof a rainbow in a cloudy sky.

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Susan Shaped @susanshaped.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

When life imitates art. 😁 Driving home through a Jen Orpin painting.

A country roadat night. The grass verges are lit by headlights. There's a purple grey, cloud filled sky behind, and evergreens looming to the sides of the road.

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Susan Shaped @susanshaped.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Dug the daylight lamp out this morning. Bus stops were teeming with college going teenagers with freshly dyed blue hair as I drove back from pilates. Think I might need to find a warmer cardigan to sit through this morning's calls. 😁

Rain drops on a window pane. Grey skies and green trees beyond.

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Susan Shaped @susanshaped.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Well, that's the last day of August done then. Ran, sanded some doors, went to a sound bath with my friend who is back to school tomorrow (teaching not studying!). Facing September as Zen as I'm going to get. 😁

Sunset over a train line. There's a deep orangeglow and some looming black clouds

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Susan Shaped @susanshaped.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Might try this tomorrow if anyone asks me to do anything too onerous.

Screenshot of bluesky error message "Unable to parse response payload".

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