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thesilversun.bsky.social @thesilversun.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Following on from yesterday - I’m not going to get a blazer that fit me. Arm sizing on uk women clothes is ridiculous For my size 14 or so, they expect the flexed bicep measurement to be 32.4cm/12.8inches Measured mine. 34.5cm relaxed, 38cm flexed. So I’m not bothering looking, nothing will fit

UK Size to Upper Arm (Bicep) Guide

UK 4: 26.4 cm / 10.4 in
UK 6: 27.6 cm / 10.9 in
UK 8: 28.8 cm / 11.3 in
UK 10: 30.0 cm / 11.8 in
UK 12: 31.2 cm / 12.3 in
UK 14: 32.4 cm / 12.8 in
UK 16: 33.6 cm / 13.2 in
UK 18: 34.8 cm / 13.7 in
UK 20: 36.0 cm / 14.2 in
UK 22: 37.2 cm / 14.6 in

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thesilversun.bsky.social @thesilversun.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I do not like clothes shopping, but a friend’s wedding is coming up and I need something to wear. Anyway I’m now getting coffee, because none of the nice blazers fit in the arms. It’s ridiculous. Even the XL that they had (I wear M usually) Arms too short and too narrow & body far too big.

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thesilversun.bsky.social @thesilversun.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Trip to Leeds with A. Didn’t actually manage to get what we went for. But had lunch in Jolibees - Philippino fast food chain. I was supposed to be getting something to wear to a friends wedding. I ended up getting a second hand pair of doc martens boots. There’s online shopping I guess for a dress

Photo of a cardboard tray with loaded fries - spicy chicken, spicy mayonnaise and green onions, and a plastic cup with purple ube ice cream with pieces of meringue on top.

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thesilversun.bsky.social @thesilversun.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

There is a very nice sunset here tonight. So here’s a photo of it.

Photo of the sky at sunset. Very orange and purple over the dark silhouettes of roof tops.

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thesilversun.bsky.social @thesilversun.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

And the last few photos from Kirkstall Abbey

Photo of the abbey church ruins, taken with the steps up to the Abbots house behind me. The abbey used to have a tower, but only a single wall remains of the highest part. More of the lower wall remains.

Photo of a large stone trough. It might have been a stone coffin. It was tall, the sides about 1.5m tall.

Photo of a map showing a plan of the original abbey. The church is at the top of the plan, then the cloister was directly south of it and all the other buildings spread off south and east of the cloister.

Photo of me with the abbey ruins in the background. Wearing a blue hoodie and grey T-shirt. The narrow bag sticking up over my shoulder has hiking poles in it, and is attached to a backpack.

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thesilversun.bsky.social @thesilversun.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

More photos these are all from the ruins of Kirkstall Abbey.

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thesilversun.bsky.social @thesilversun.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

More Apperley Bridge to Kirkstall abbey photos

Photo of cows and calves coming down to the waters edge of the canal to drink. Some of them are standing in the shallow water at the edge of the canal. The fields behind the slope upwards to a line of trees and a sky of sunlit clouds

Photo of houses on the opposite bank of the canal. Stone built and slate roofed, they are 3 floors tall and are right next to the waters edge. They are likely to date to the earlier part of the 19th century, before trains started to take over from canal barge transport

Photo of narrow boats moored on the far bank. The canal path is on the left and passes beneath a stone, single arch bridge

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thesilversun.bsky.social @thesilversun.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

After doing lots of overtime, I’ve had a day off today, so went out for a walk along the canal path from Apperley Bridge to Kirkstall Abbey. So now I’m on my way back and I’m neither of those places, here’s some photos.

Photo look down canal to a metal bridge. Canal on right, path on left. Trees on both banks

Photo of canal way marker that shows its 119 miles to Liverpool. The canal I’m walking along is the Leeds to Liverpool canal. There is a rough field behind the marker with wooded hills beyond that.

Photo of four swans swimming left to right across the image. The first two are adults with white feathers, the second two are young adults - the same size as their parents, but with grey feathers still.
The canal is shallow and clear here with water weed growing in it. Behind the camel is a field and trees.

Photo of a swing bridge across the canal. I’m on the far bank across the bridge taking the photo looking back across it to the canal path.

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Raquel 🌈✨ @aistear.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Blumineck lo ha vuelto a hacer 🥹 le aplaudo hasta que se me caigan las manos, bravo. "Be masculine, be feminine, be neither, or be both. But be kind."

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thesilversun.bsky.social @thesilversun.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The layers worked. The cake turned out quite dense - I think the cream filling layers were sort of caramelised and set in the fridge rather than soaking into the cake layers. All the same it tasted good, and A was happy with it.

The medovik cake with slices cut out of it. The 8 layers of filling and cake can be seen. The top of the cake is covered with blueberries and raspberries

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thesilversun.bsky.social @thesilversun.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

All iced, hopefully the layers/filling in it have worked out okay.

Photo of a round cake. It is iced with a crème fraiche frosting, the top is covered with raspberries and blueberries. There is a purple 17 candle on the cake.

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thesilversun.bsky.social @thesilversun.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

It’s A’s birthday tomorrow (17 where have the years gone?) and he’s requested Medovik for a birthday cake. It’s not a cake I’ve made before (although I have eaten it a few times). So there will be cake pictures later. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medovik

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Medovik - Wikipedia

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 13/09/2026

Hey do we know anyone in bury st Edmund’s??

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Letterboxd @letterboxd.social · 26/08/2026

Tim Curry (1946-2026)

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thesilversun.bsky.social @thesilversun.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

No cheating. Share the last picture of the sky from your camera roll. Sunset sky on the last night of our holiday to Morecambe Bay, last month

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thesilversun.bsky.social @thesilversun.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

GCSE results day here in UK (the exams taken at 16 when you leave school & move on to college/apprenticeships) A has collected his & is straight off to college enrolment day. A* to Bs (9 to 6) across everything. Including what he wanted a 9/A* in math.

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thesilversun.bsky.social @thesilversun.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

The Levellers - One Way of Life. I didn’t get CDs until quite late on - late 1999 into 2000. I’d only had a cassette player at home - and got my first CD once I was away at university.

Cover of Best of the Levellers, One Way of Life album.

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thesilversun.bsky.social @thesilversun.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Today's weather is nope, not wanting this. How is it 35C in Yorkshire.

Screenshot of weather forecast. Hot and sunny all day. 28C by 10am with a high of 35c at 4pm, and slowly cooling, but still will be 30c at 7pm

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thesilversun.bsky.social @thesilversun.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Couldn’t get any proper glasses to view the eclipse - so pinhole camera it was. It was about 90% here. The last time we had that much was in 1999 - abt 95% where i was. I was working a summer job in a care home & and some of elderly residents there told us about the total eclipse back in 1927

Photo of the partial eclipse through a pin hole camera type set up. A small light coloured crescent is visible against a dark background

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thesilversun.bsky.social @thesilversun.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Will I be finished with overtime tonight before 7 to see the eclipse? Who knows. Using my lunch break time to travel home and then work from there until hopefully only 6.30. (Also it’s 31c and the bus home has pleather seats, only 2 tiny windows and no aircon. 🥵)

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thesilversun.bsky.social @thesilversun.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Not the village in Surrey where my mum lives, but pretty close by. It’s still reaching 27-30c every day there. Village hit by record-breaking 50 days without rain as further heatwave looms www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

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Village hit by record-breaking 50 days without rain as further heatwave looms

Wisley previously saw 36 continuous dry days back in the notorious 1976 heatwave — but this record now stands to be beaten by more than 14 days

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thesilversun.bsky.social @thesilversun.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Feel like I’m barely around on here anymore or doing anything much fandom related. Work is just eating up all my time at the moment. We finally have 2 new staff but it will take time for them to be trained.

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森実@いろいろ @moriminoru10122.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

おすすめしたい中華古装ドラマ『蓮花楼』蓮花楼はうんくさい李蓮花という医師が旅をしながら色々な事件を解決していく話。李蓮花と、金持ち坊ちゃんのわんこ方多病と、敵のトップの笛飛声が旅をしてるのを見るのが大好きです。中華ドラマの入り口としてはみやすい作品。謎解きとわちゃわちゃが最高！

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Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

In today's column, we explore the Welsh rarebit, a weirdly named and delicious cheese toast! Included: Tudor jokes about cheese-loving Welshmen being tricked out of heaven; what it means when you dream about cheese; and the legendary Welsh cheese pudding caws pobi buttondown.com/theswordandt...

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Notable Sandwiches #144: Welsh Rarebit

Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the feature where my editor David Swanson and I slip messily through Wikipedia’s List of Notable Sandwiches. This week, a...

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thesilversun.bsky.social @thesilversun.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Where my mum lives in southern England (rural farming area) there has been no rain for over 40 days, it’s doubtful they’ll get any in the next 2 weeks. Everything is dried out, temps mid to high 20C everyday occasionally 30c+ How are we meant to welcome/embrace this?

bbc.co.uk

In pictures: Scale of drought across England as rivers dry up

Parks are parched and reservoirs diminished as drought is declared in more than half of England.

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cabbage the cat @suzvoy.myatproto.social · 29/07/2026

holy crap, just saw this one for the first time 👀

Zhen Shunxi as Wu Laogou face down on the side of a wooden communal bath, a hand on his neck pinning him there. His eyes are open.

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thesilversun.bsky.social @thesilversun.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

@hils.bsky.social have you seen these #dmbj posts about Mystic Nine series 2?

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thesilversun.bsky.social @thesilversun.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

I haven't watched loads of anime - a fair bit of it was mid 1990s import stuff my brother had. A lot of it was good and then there was Ultimate Teacher. Highschool comedy about a girl with magic underwear trying to stop a new teacher who is part cockroach from taking over the school.

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thesilversun.bsky.social @thesilversun.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Well that wasn’t the intended effect. The garden parasol pole had a bend in it from where it had previously blown over in the wind. Tried to straighten it & have somehow ripped the metal open instead. It’s below the locking socket - so thinking putting a stick inside it & then heavy duty tape.

Photo of the tubular metal pole that supports a garden parasol. The top half leans to the left with a large crack and hole in the metal. Behind it is a grey and white geometric patterned garden rug.

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thesilversun.bsky.social @thesilversun.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Too hot on the bus already. There are 4 small windows that open and that’s it. There is no aircon on buses, just airflow from the windows. So it like a greenhouse when not moving. Not looking forward to Thursday when it hits 33c outside - will be even hotter on the bus. 40mins of it 🥵

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thesilversun.bsky.social @thesilversun.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Looked at weather forecast for next week. No, not liking the look of that. Or the 60-90% humidity that’s with it. (Although glad I’m in N England - the south is supposed to get up to 35-36c° with overnight lows of 20c°) (31c° is about 88f, 36c° is 97f. 20c° is 68f)

Weather forecast for Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. Lows of 17c° and highs of 30-31c°

Not show is the fact it also says that humidity will be between 60% and 90%

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thesilversun.bsky.social @thesilversun.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

So UK government are moving ahead with the under 16 social media ban - social now apparently includes watching videos on YouTube There is also possibility of 16 & 17 year olds having social media curfews with limited time allowed per day to use social media. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c7...

bbc.co.uk

Under-16s to be banned from social media by next spring, Starmer says

A 13-year-old pupil from Manchester says "it's time" for something to be done, while another says he's "annoyed and disappointed".

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thesilversun.bsky.social @thesilversun.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Well that’s A off to his last day at school - the last exams are today for him and most others doing GCSE’s. Leavers prom next week and then college in September. It really doesn’t seem that long ago he was getting his primary school uniform.

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thesilversun.bsky.social @thesilversun.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

We don't usually see each other's headers. Quote post with yours.

Photo of the Royal Border Railway Bridge crossing the River Tweed at Berwick upon Tweed.

Taken on a rainy/misty summer evening evening as the sun was setting.

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thesilversun.bsky.social @thesilversun.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

The sunshine is all very nice and I’ve managed to get lots of washing done and dried today. But can it stop being like 26/27°C with like 70% humidity at nearly 9 at night?

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💖 Birdhism Jen @birdhism.com · 15/05/2026

Striped cuckoo (Tapera naevia) chicks utilize specialized, cryptic plumage that mimics the texture and color of pinecones for camouflage. #birds

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cdramanews @cdramanews.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Upcoming cdrama #TheSouthBureau, set in The Lost Tomb universe, starring #ZhangXincheng and #DingYuxi, releases new poster.

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thesilversun.bsky.social @thesilversun.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

I like most UK stuff that people would say they didn't (liver &gravy/haggis/blue cheese) So I'll go with a historical English dish we made at reenactment events Creamed, departed fish Cooked white fish mashed into a paste. divide in 2 parts, flavour 1 half with almonds, the other with saffron.

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Boatman Cryptics @boatmancryptics.co.uk · 18/04/2026

If you live in Slough Or some other borough By a lough, You may discover that it's tough To find a rhyme that works the way it looks, although You experience many a cough Or hiccough

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thesilversun.bsky.social @thesilversun.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

The move from potted to raised bed seems to have been a good move for the cherry tree. This is the most flowers it has had. The apple tree next to it is budding but not flowering yet, but looks like it approves of the move too. Feeling very spring like in the garden now

Photo of a small cherry tree with more flowers than leaves. The tree and the wooden fence behind it at lit golden evening sunlight.

Photo close up of a sprig of cherry blossom in evening sunlight

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thesilversun.bsky.social @thesilversun.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Went to my last school parents evening with A. GCSE exams start next week for the next 2 months. Then school will be done (hence no more parents evenings) and then it’s looking onward to him starting college in September. Doesn’t seem long ago I was buying his uniform for reception class.

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peaanutz.bsky.social @peaanutz.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Testing this platform again

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Sassy0210 @sassy0210.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Yes. 🫶 🌍

Text reminding readers of the interconnectedness of life on Earth, describing communication among trees, octopuses, whales, elephants, bees, crows, ants, cats, and forests.

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