swaefastide.bsky.social @swaefastide.bsky.social · 25/04/2025no Valerie NO :(((theguardian.comValerie the dachshund is found safe and well after 529 days on the run on South Australian islandRescuers on Kangaroo Island off South Australia say they are ‘overjoyed’ after the dog walked into one of their traps 3110
swaefastide.bsky.social @swaefastide.bsky.social · 26/03/2025well, sometimes I go out by myself and I look across the water and I think of all the things, what you're doin' and in my head, I paint a picturetheguardian.comExperts ‘amazed’ at survival of Valerie the miniature dachshund – on the run on South Australian island for more than a yearPet escaped from her pen when her owners were holidaying on Kangaroo Island, which is famous for its native wildlife 0120
swaefastide.bsky.social @swaefastide.bsky.social · 26/03/2025I wanted to add more but there's a word limit 010
swaefastide.bsky.social @swaefastide.bsky.social · 26/03/2025I am not above such things, but am not crush material, due to being old, dull, plain, odd but not in the sense of charmingly quirky just in the sense of odd, sexually repellent, and as charismatic as a hessian sack in the corner of an abandoned shed in the abandoned garden of an abandoned house 220
swaefastide.bsky.social @swaefastide.bsky.social · 10/03/2025I do indeed have freerange, happily roaming pink-cheeked stalks but they have eyes on the end of them hope that's not too weird 😬 120
swaefastide.bsky.social @swaefastide.bsky.social · 10/03/2025you don't have to use their ridiculously priced red trousers food, just steal their recipes and use normal stuff. I can send you some rhubarb in about a week if you like 220
swaefastide.bsky.social @swaefastide.bsky.social · 10/03/2025if you want to get what the packet kind of hints at I recommend that you make thisseasonseatings.netRhubarb & Custard Traybake by WaitroseWe try out Waitress Rhubarb & Custard Traybake and let you know what we think of their seasonal recipe. 160
swaefastide.bsky.social @swaefastide.bsky.social · 09/03/2025I live in a glass house, you tell yourself. I live in a glass house. when has THAT ever been a bad thing 270
swaefastide.bsky.social @swaefastide.bsky.social · 09/03/2025and now it is Very Dark outside and will be for six months, also it's snowing, you tend the peach trees, but only feet away from them, the snow banks up, wolves pass by, ever leaner, ever nearer, as the winter drags on 180
swaefastide.bsky.social @swaefastide.bsky.social · 09/03/2025like what if you lived inside the subterranean avoid-the-aliens city on the album cover of war of the worlds whilst simultaneously also under one of the doomed domes of silent running, spinning through space forever further away from the lifegiving sun 160
swaefastide.bsky.social @swaefastide.bsky.social · 09/03/2025really struggling to put into words the curdled mixture of envy and extreme anxiety that this has elicited in metheguardian.comOutside in: the extraordinary home inside a giant greenhouse in NorwayAn architect has designed a sustainable home inside a glass box, where fruit and veg grow, and their family can thrive 13615
swaefastide.bsky.social @swaefastide.bsky.social · 09/03/2025you looking for someone who gets things fixed, at all? 100
swaefastide.bsky.social @swaefastide.bsky.social · 09/03/2025finally, I, a simple, impoverished, and totally unconnected man, with barely two estates to rub together, can lift the boot of oppression from my windpipe and write of my True Opinions and Feelings 010
swaefastide.bsky.social @swaefastide.bsky.social · 09/03/2025dear god though the painful accuracy of this frame. the tone of voice, the angle of arms, the self-satisfied complacency, the peevishness, the self-regard 24311
Reposted by @swaefastide.bsky.socialBriony Neilson @brionyneilson.bsky.social · 09/03/2025Workers in the asparagus line at Harvest Foods factory in Melbourne in 1957 (photo by Wolfgang Sievers, National Library of Australia) 1327
swaefastide.bsky.social @swaefastide.bsky.social · 08/03/2025(scroll down)wildlifetrusts.orgIdentify bird song | The Wildlife TrustsIdentify bird song. From garden birds to songbirds that you might hear in the countryside. Listen to our audio clips of the most common british birds. 110
swaefastide.bsky.social @swaefastide.bsky.social · 08/03/2025I'll find the video I am basing my claim on hold up 110
swaefastide.bsky.social @swaefastide.bsky.social · 08/03/2025classic Blinkinsopp, what an absolute ledge 161
swaefastide.bsky.social @swaefastide.bsky.social · 08/03/2025really don't be at all tempted to change the water, I'll have set the salinity just right 010
swaefastide.bsky.social @swaefastide.bsky.social · 08/03/2025just bear in mind that they'll turn up in a plastic box full of water and it's important that you keep them in that at all times 120
swaefastide.bsky.social @swaefastide.bsky.social · 08/03/2025I can send the keys any time you know that 220
swaefastide.bsky.social @swaefastide.bsky.social · 08/03/2025109 likes when this should have 109,000 is quite frankly very pninesque 100
swaefastide.bsky.social @swaefastide.bsky.social · 08/03/2025yes I agree. I don't usually post selfies but I thought, as a treat 120
Reposted by @swaefastide.bsky.socialDean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 08/03/2025For #InternationalWomensDay, my favourite photos by my favourite women photographers Weeki Wachee Springs, Florida, 1947 📷 Toni Frissell This shot was used on the cover of Bill Evans & Jim Hall's 1962 LP Undercurrent This morning's soundtrack: www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIly... 1247
Reposted by @swaefastide.bsky.socialKirkdale Bookshop @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social · 08/03/2025I've nearly got this down to an almost non-linguistic closed system collage of meaningless in-jokes, and that is a sweet sweet feeling 151
swaefastide.bsky.social @swaefastide.bsky.social · 08/03/2025*waves regally* *spills wine down shirt* 010
swaefastide.bsky.social @swaefastide.bsky.social · 08/03/2025literally me in restaurants. seductive, a bon vivant, worldly, seigneurial? omg check, check, check, CHECK 2130
swaefastide.bsky.social @swaefastide.bsky.social · 08/03/2025percy thrower + getty images = also a lot of smartness www.gettyimages.ie/photos/garde...gettyimages.ie51 Gardener Percy Thrower Stock Photos, High-Res Pictures, and Images - Getty Images 010
swaefastide.bsky.social @swaefastide.bsky.social · 08/03/2025love this absolutely. that anyone could call round to the plot and he'd not be caught looking scruffy 210
swaefastide.bsky.social @swaefastide.bsky.social · 08/03/2025I mean happiness is never ugly of course but 210
swaefastide.bsky.social @swaefastide.bsky.social · 08/03/2025this image is so overwhelmingly ugly I am transfixed 100
swaefastide.bsky.social @swaefastide.bsky.social · 08/03/2025well well well, finally proof that two wrogs make a wright 000
Reposted by @swaefastide.bsky.socialVictoria Gausden @ancientnmodern.bsky.social · 03/03/2025Accidental Renaissance painting in The Guardian this morning. 510831