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The Watchful Cook

@thewatchfulcook.bsky.social
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An immigrant in Turin, scribbling about food, Slow Food, art, homes, music, books. And cheese. Lots of cheese. No DMs unless agreed.

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SCOTLAND: The Big Picture @scotlandtbp.bsky.social · 2h
📣 Like and share this post to help put these charismatic little forest-dwellers in the spotlight this week. Let’s fill a few more feeds with red squirrels – and help build more support for their recovery. #RSAW26 #GreatScottishSquirrelSurvey #RedSquirrels 🧵3/3
High-angle photo of a red squirrel on a lichen-covered tree branch. In the background, a lush green forest, a distant loch, and misty hills are visible under a bright sky.
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Pegdeg @pegdeg.bsky.social · 7h
@bad-girls-bad-boy.bsky.social @jeniiannettahardie.bsky.social Important info required. Off to see Long Ryders in Glasgow on Friday, but where is the best tea and cake shop? Also have to come back via Edinburgh on Saturday.....so same question. Thanks @sidthesquid.bsky.social
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Greg 🤍 MidwestUSA @midwestusa.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
A beautiful autumn day in the central Midwest #LandscapePhotography #Nature #Autumn #ECK #Minnesota
A beautiful autumn train in Minnesota at St Croix State Park
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Nicola Miller @nicmiller.bsky.social · 7h
I've written about poule d'eau gumbo, an incredibly site-specific dish from Louisiana. tales-from-topographic-kitchens.ghost.io/a-site-speci...
tales-from-topographic-kitchens.ghost.io
A site-specific gumbo
The best gumbo I ever ate was served in Houma and made with poule d'eau (known as the marsh duck in Louisiana, pronounced 'pool doo') a small coot that feasts on aquatic vegetation, bugs, small eggs a...
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Lucy Antal aka Grab Your Spoon @lucyantal.bsky.social · 9h
Morning from my dying swan bed. We hit £2266, or 11% over the weekend. Next target is £2500 - 1/8th or 12.5% funded. We need £134 or 5 x £23.50 or 15 x £7.80 to get there with Aviva match. 🥒🚌🥦 Thank you for shares! 💚 www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-keep-...
crowdfunder.co.uk
Help keep the Queen of Greens greengrocer mobile!
We need to replace one of our greengrocer buses that provides access to fresh produce to people living in food deserts across Liverpool.
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The Unhurried Reader 📚🦊🇺🇦🇬🇱 @theunhurriedreader.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I recommend this highly. I was utterly be-foxed! (And don't forget that Blackwell's offer free international shipping.)
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Steve Batty @stevebatty.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
One of the best tales you'll ever read.
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Sarah @sarahfaulkner.bsky.social · 20h
Exploring King Barrow Quarry, Portland I walked along a deep channel betweeen the rocks and saw an incredible tree doing what nature does best - finding a way to survive in tough conditions. As the walls opened up, I spotted this beautiful Ivy Broomrape nestled in a secluded corner. #wildflowerhour
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Felicity Hayes-McCoy @fhayesmccoy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
It's a brilliant book 👇🐾🦊
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Terri Windling @terriwindling.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
A marvelous book, highly recommended:
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Lucy Antal aka Grab Your Spoon @lucyantal.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
We’ve got to £1,766!! £117 plus match to 10% & £2000 raised. *hopeful face* Might we get there by tonight? 😍🍏🚌🥦
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The Unhurried Reader 📚🦊🇺🇦🇬🇱 @theunhurriedreader.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
'Reynard the Fox' by @annelouiseavery.bsky.social is a tour de force. I'd go so far as to say that it is a unique reading experience. Nowhere else have I found such verve, such nerve, such artfulness, such artistry. theunhurriedreader.substack.com/p/the-origin...
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The original fox for all seasons
Reynard the Fox by Anne Louise Avery
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Nicola Miller @nicmiller.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Everything you need to know about the food events at @burylitfest.bsky.social
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Lady Bee Middlemast-Neal @mistyswoman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
#SpotTheScammer @thebigkarim.bsky.social claims to be: working for NASA here in DC, living in Miami FL & working for Helmerich & Payne AND International Drilling in Arkansas. Which is it? Using a pic of Brad Mallett, CEO of Coastal Coffee Roasters, South Carolina. www.linkedin.com/in/mallett10/
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Lucy Antal aka Grab Your Spoon @lucyantal.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Ohh!! Thank you so much folk that have just contributed - we’ve hit £1666 or 8% funded. So kind. We really appreciate the support from everyone. 💚 www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-keep-...
crowdfunder.co.uk
Help keep the Queen of Greens greengrocer mobile!
We need to replace one of our greengrocer buses that provides access to fresh produce to people living in food deserts across Liverpool.
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Breneke @breneke.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This is a wonderful, magical book! Perfect for those chilly evenings when you just want to cuddle up under a blanket and be transported to another world. It would also make a great Christmas gift, if you're thinking about that already! 🤎 🦊
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Anne Louise Avery @annelouiseavery.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
🦊 🍁Need a cosy autumnal read? Why not buy a copy of my epic retelling of Reynard the Fox? Marina Warner called it "marvellously spirited and adroit storytelling" & the Wall Journal "a tour de force of storytelling." Buy here: blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro... and here amazon.co.uk/dp/1851245553/
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Anne Louise Avery @annelouiseavery.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I have signed copies for sale here on my Etsy shop: etsy.com/uk/listing/1...
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Reynard the Fox: Retold by Anne Louise Avery : Avery, Anne Louise: Amazon.co.uk: Books
Reynard the Fox: Retold by Anne Louise Avery : Avery, Anne Louise: Amazon.co.uk: Books
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Aloysius Olberding @aloysiuso.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
It's a rollicking good read and a perfect gift for your favorite book lover!
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Nicola Miller @nicmiller.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
If you're free next Friday evening this promises to be a fascinating and moving discussion with @damianbarr.bsky.social and @andrew-durbin.bsky.social at @burylitfest.bsky.social 2026. www.burylitfest.co.uk/product-page...
Promo image from the event with photos of the two authors and ticket details. The event is called Artists, Lovers, Outsiders. Click the link for more information.
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Lucy Antal aka Grab Your Spoon @lucyantal.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
And in other news, we’ve reached £1270 or 6% funded. £115 to get us to a matched £1500 by the end of the weekend. 7.5%. That would be nice. 10% even nicer but I’ll take 7.5%. 😹🥦🚌🍏 Thank you for donations & shares xx www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-keep-...
crowdfunder.co.uk
Help keep the Queen of Greens greengrocer mobile!
We need to replace one of our greengrocer buses that provides access to fresh produce to people living in food deserts across Liverpool.
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Lucy Antal aka Grab Your Spoon @lucyantal.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Apple Day 2026 with @alchemickitchen.bsky.social & @nationaltrust.org.uk Speke Hall. 2 tons apples, 51 volunteers, 150 litres of juice, 1000 tote bags & 850 crumbles. @feedingliverpool.org @foodrise.bsky.social @sustainweb.org @foodfoundation.bsky.social
Collecting apples in the orchardMore folk in the orchard. Beautiful blue sky above. Our tote bags in red & greenThe Alchemic Kitchen team handing out merch & recipe cards
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Carol Hedges @riotgrandma.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄 From Threads.
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Nicola Miller @nicmiller.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
My column is devoted to @burylitfest.bsky.social first food programme. I'm its curator and I'm so thrilled these wonderful authors have agreed to appear. We'd love you to attend! www.suffolknews.co.uk/whats-on/fes...
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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Sir Ian McKellen orates 'The Stranger's Case' from 'Sir Thomas More' by Shakespeare about the Evil May Day xenophobic riot of 1517 in London. This passage was written 400 years ago, but times never change. Humanity refuses to change its unwarranted bias against 'others'.
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Lady Bee Middlemast-Neal @mistyswoman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
#SpotThescammer @williams00100.bsky.social doesn't know what "single" means - bio: "Not single cos I’ve got the kids". Exclusively following women. Using a pic of Ukrainian soldier Mykola Kolesnyk scraped from the internet. www.youtube.com/channel/UCKI... www.instagram.com/kolesnyk.myk...
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Микола Колесник
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Scottish Greens @scottishgreens.org · 02/10/2026
The world's largest data centre is being proposed for Chapelcross in Dumfries and Galloway. The proposals could use more energy than over two million homes in just one year! Join the campaign to stop these dangerous plans: greens.scot/ChapelcrossD...
Stop Chapelcross Data Centre. Join the campaign. greens.scot/chapelcrossdatacentre
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Lucy Antal aka Grab Your Spoon @lucyantal.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Hi ho, hi ho it’s off to pick tons of apples at Apple day I go. Feel like death warmed up but… and whilst I wasn’t mithering, we’ve now got £1120 in the pot. Can we get to £1500 over the weekend? 19 x £10 will get us there, thanks to Aviva match. 🤞🌟🥦🚌🥒 💚 www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-keep-...
crowdfunder.co.uk
Help keep the Queen of Greens greengrocer mobile!
We need to replace one of our greengrocer buses that provides access to fresh produce to people living in food deserts across Liverpool.
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Lucy Antal aka Grab Your Spoon @lucyantal.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
£1140! 18 x £10 to go. Thank you dear donor!
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Lucy Antal aka Grab Your Spoon @lucyantal.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Someone wants me to shush, only £40 to get in now 😂 Thank you whoever you are!
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Miranda Dickinson @wurdsmyth.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Oh HELL no, #Audible. So you're going to not only steal my characters, infringing my copyright and IP, but you're also going to steal the voices of my brilliant audiobook narrators for your utterly crap AI chatbot? Get - and I say this with my whole heart - IN THE SEA! #NoAI
A headline from an online news article that reads: "Audible will soon let you talk to audiobook characters with a new AI feature."
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Lady Bee Middlemast-Neal @mistyswoman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
#Spotthescammer #SpotTheBot @hopefulnewshq.bsky.social outed and reported as a bot with several handle changes 26/8/26, then following 44,780, now following a whopping 138,812 accounts, with only 64 posts. Come on @moderation.bsky.app - sort this out.
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Lucy Antal aka Grab Your Spoon @lucyantal.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
£65 (plus match) to go to hit £1000 & 5% funded. If we get there today, I might stop mithering - till tomorrow… 🤭 🥦🚌🥒 www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-keep-...
crowdfunder.co.uk
Help keep the Queen of Greens greengrocer mobile!
We need to replace one of our greengrocer buses that provides access to fresh produce to people living in food deserts across Liverpool.
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Lucy Antal aka Grab Your Spoon @lucyantal.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
£840! 4% funded in less than 24 hours. You are all fabulous. www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-keep-...
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Help keep the Queen of Greens greengrocer mobile!
We need to replace one of our greengrocer buses that provides access to fresh produce to people living in food deserts across Liverpool.
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Lucy Antal aka Grab Your Spoon @lucyantal.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
£850 now. Am sorry if I don’t work out your Bluesky handle to thank you personally for any donation you make. But it’s hugely appreciated & we’re really thankful. 🌟 www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-keep-...
crowdfunder.co.uk
Help keep the Queen of Greens greengrocer mobile!
We need to replace one of our greengrocer buses that provides access to fresh produce to people living in food deserts across Liverpool.
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Lucy Antal aka Grab Your Spoon @lucyantal.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Morning!! We have reached £750. Just £125 or 5 lots of £25 to hit £1000 cos of match. That would be 5% funded & one hell of a way to start the weekend. Please share 🥒🥦🚌🍐🍏 #QueenOfGreens Thank you!! www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-keep-...
crowdfunder.co.uk
Help keep the Queen of Greens greengrocer mobile!
We need to replace one of our greengrocer buses that provides access to fresh produce to people living in food deserts across Liverpool.
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
🔥 Tell your MP: 628 constituencies want EU membership. Only 4 don’t. A great Write-To-Your-MP tool for the upcoming parliamentary debate on UK applying to join the EU. Send an email - and share the link!
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Tell your MP: 628 constituencies want EU membership. Only 4 don't. - Best for Britain
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 01/10/2026
This is the most heartbreaking stories I’ve heard in a long time. ICE detained 2-year-old Orlin Hernandez Reyes’ mother. She begged to be reunited with him before deportation. ICE refused. What happened next is horrific. No matter how you feel about immigration, normal people don’t like cruelty.
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Lucy Antal aka Grab Your Spoon @lucyantal.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This is why we need help: youtu.be/fNC7YKD78sU. £700 raised so far, “just” £19,300 to go 😂 (but that’s with match so it’s really only £9650 - say it quick)
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Queen of Greens Crowdfunding Video
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team NotLeafy @teamnotleafy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
You can help by giving or sharing if you're able👇
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Lucy Antal aka Grab Your Spoon @lucyantal.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
£20 or 2 x £10 gets us to £300 cos of match funding. 🚌🥦🥒 www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-keep-...
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Help keep the Queen of Greens greengrocer mobile!
We need to replace one of our greengrocer buses that provides access to fresh produce to people living in food deserts across Liverpool.
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Lucy Antal aka Grab Your Spoon @lucyantal.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
And reposting to get a wider audience gets 💋💋💋
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Lucy Antal aka Grab Your Spoon @lucyantal.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
1% already! £210 raised. Keep it moving please xx
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Christina Riggs @christinajriggs.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Lucy Antal aka Grab Your Spoon @lucyantal.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Let the mithering begin. You are all most welcome to mute me for a few weeks, but please share our crowdfunder for a replacement @alchemickitchen.bsky.social Queen of Greens bus. Aviva will match fund every individual donation up to £250, every £1 becomes £2! www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-keep-...
crowdfunder.co.uk
Help keep the Queen of Greens greengrocer mobile!
We need to replace one of our greengrocer buses that provides access to fresh produce to people living in food deserts across Liverpool.
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The Unhurried Reader 📚🦊🇺🇦🇬🇱 @theunhurriedreader.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
#CreativeBizCreativeBuzz🐝
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Four-byline alert: “.. Meta claimed that $4.1 billion of stock options exercised by Mr. Zuckerberg counted as a research expense ..” @nytimes.com $META www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/t...
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Salute the Pig, by Chris Bulow @salutethepig.berlin · 01/10/2026
This is a beautiful thing to behold. mapped.earth/lighthouses/...
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Every lighthouse in the world | mapped.earth
Every charted navigational light on the planet on a night globe you can turn: each one flashing or sweeping at the rhythm printed on the chart. Zoom to a coast, hover a light for its name.
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explore.org @explore.org · 30/09/2026
Introducing your ultimate fighter and champion: Bear 89 Backpack 👑 Thanks for joining us for the biggest Fat Bear Week to date.
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
🔴 We asked Tony Blair's think tank about charging businesses £500k for political access at party conferences and why one of its sponsor's logos disappeared after our reporting last week on TBI's alleged cash for access scheme This is what they said
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