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Tinkeringbell @tinkeringbell91.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

First phase of meal prep, done: Chicken Tonight Hawaii and a chicken pilav sauce. Overslept by a lot today 🫣, so the other two dishes (a slowcooker curry, chicken yassa) will have to wait until tomorrow. I did already cut a lot of the vegetables for that though. 🍽️ 🍜

10 Ikea pruta containers, stacked in two rows, two columns, onto each other on an indication stove. The four in front contain the chicken pilav sauce, the six in the back contain the chicken tonight sauce.

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Tinkeringbell @tinkeringbell91.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I can't remember my asters ever blooming this much in the five years I've had them, it's so pretty! 😍 🌱

A landscape picture of white blooming asters. They fill the entire image.

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Tinkeringbell @tinkeringbell91.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I really shouldn't have ordered more cross stitches, but I couldn't resist trying one of those "photo to cross stitch" from AliExpress. And I really had the perfect picture for it. Verdict: not too bad, I will be replacing some "black" areas with a very dark green. Now I want to start this one! 🤭

A square 40x40 cm stamped cross stitch on 16ct white Aida cloth. If you squint, you can recognize a butterfly.

The flosses that came with the set. The colors do seem to match the original picture quite nicely.

The original image I sent the seller. It shows a red admiral butterfly sitting on light purple buddleia flowers.

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Tinkeringbell @tinkeringbell91.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This chunk of orange is a "vegetarian filet americain" 🍜🍽️. It's been tasted and deemed okay-ish, but the seasoning needs work. I followed a recipe this time, but next time I may just use the kinds of seasoning that's usually used for the meat-based kind.

A close up of a blob of orange in a plastic container.

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Tinkeringbell @tinkeringbell91.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

My Q-snap and hoop stand aren't just great for cross stitch, when combined with a few sheets of paper and a skimmer it also makes a nice portable tool to track an eclipse without the paper blowing away 🤣

A cluttered little outside table, with cups, snacks, drinks, and in the middle is my nurge embroidery hoop lap stand holding a Q-snap with white paper. On the paper, the shadow of a skimmer is visible, the holes not being round but dented, showing the progress of the solar eclipse.

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Tinkeringbell @tinkeringbell91.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Time for more garden visitor pictures 😃🌱 The count so far is 36 different species of insects photographed and identified this year, and I've also seen quite a lot that were too fast or too tiny to photograph well enough.

A close up of what I think is a silver-studded blue, a kind of small butterfly, sitting on a purple small scabious flower.

A close up of a grayling, a kind of small butterfly, sitting on white buddleia flowers.

A close up of a vagrant darter, a kind of dragonfly. It's sitting on the dried-up stem of an allium that has long since stopped flowering.

A close up side view of a zebra jumping spider. It's sitting on the stem of a pink dahlia flower, part of the flower is visible in the background.

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Tinkeringbell @tinkeringbell91.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

I finally 'caught' a peacock butterfly! 🌱😀 (A reasonable picture of one, no butterflies were harmed). I've seen these flying around in my yard all week, sometimes three at a time, and all earlier attempts failed: flew away, wings closed, the light hitting wrong so looking almost entirely black...

A close up of a peacock butterfly, sitting with wings open, on a bunch of white buddleia flowers.

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Tinkeringbell @tinkeringbell91.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

I found even more insects in my garden. Hunting them down for pictures is fun! 🌱 And these are only the ones I could get pictures of. There's at least 2 kinds of butterfly, another kind of moth, another kind of ladybug and a cricket I haven't managed to capture on camera yet. 😊

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Tinkeringbell @tinkeringbell91.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

The garden is good these days! 🌱 Ants have started farming aphids again, so there are a lot of marmalade hoverflies too: Their larvae feed on aphids. There was a red admiral, I finally managed to take an image of and identify the mint moth, and I found an insect having a drink. 🌞

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Tinkeringbell @tinkeringbell91.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

My sincere apologies to these two, who got caught up in my attempts to water my plants. The butterfly got hit with the spray from the hose more than once and the spider had its web destroyed. I didn't see it before aiming a watering can right through it to water the potted plant it was inhabiting. 🌱

A close up of a "painted lady", a kind of butterfly, sitting on some buddleia. Its wings are closed, but the evening sunlight shining through them, giving them an orange glow.

A close up of a small garden spider. This one is more orange than brown. In the background is a partially ruined web, which was hit by a watering can.

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Tinkeringbell @tinkeringbell91.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Gardening post! 🌱 Backyard: Coreopsis blooming, Coleus is pretty orange/red, the first blueberries are almost pink+ripe! Front yard: Armeria, another creeping thyme, and Buddlejas started blooming. The California poppies are still going, insects are chilling out, and the sunflowers are making buds.

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Tinkeringbell @tinkeringbell91.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

I went with a flamingo as my next cross stitch project. I want something bright after all the muted blue and grey tones from the penguins, though I will probably regret it once I reach the sea of pink in this one 🫣. First 21 bright orange stitches done, only 37615 stitches to go! 🧵 🪡 🧶

A close up of a stamped cross stitch. It is upside down, and in the bottom right corner of the image, 21 bright orange cross stitches are visible.

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Tinkeringbell @tinkeringbell91.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

While the penguins cross stitch is soaking in water, I'm trying to choose a next project. Finish the dinosaur forest (from owlforest)? One of three other owlforest patterns I have patterns+supplies for? One of the four stamped kits? I'm leaning towards flamingo, just because it's so summer-y.🧵 🪡 🧶

Two cross stitch kits, both featuring magnolia flowers. These are massive, 50 by 70 cm each.

Two smaller cross stitch kits, both 40 by 40 cm, one showing a flamingo and theol other a yellow cup, an open book and a blue blanket on a different shade of blue background.

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Eduardo Verderame @everderame.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Duomo Santa Maria Achiropita, Rossano, Italia

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Tinkeringbell @tinkeringbell91.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Heat wave incoming. 🔥🌞 Those always destroy my appetite for regular meals, so I made a big bowl of pasta salad to snack on instead. This is officially four servings but it will probably last me a whole week. 🍽️ 🍜

A top view of a big bowl of pasta salad, showing apple, pointed pepper, peach, smoked chicken, orzo and spring onion covered in a mayo and canned peach juice dressing.

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Tinkeringbell @tinkeringbell91.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

There's so much color in the front yard again😀 🌱 Especially happy to see the california poppies pop up again after sowing some seeds last year, and seeing the white puncushion flower bloom, as that one didn't bloom at all when I planted it last year!

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Tinkeringbell @tinkeringbell91.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Spent time restocking the freezer today. Four different meals, 19 portions. Three of them are stock favorites, the fourth is a new dish, with radishes, chicken and potatoes from the oven. To be served chilled with an orange juice and mustard dressing. 🍽️ 🍜

A top view of three pots: one filled with bami, the other with vegetables, chicken and chicken tonight sauce, and the third with a chicken pilav.

A sheet of baking paper with chicken, potato bits and radishes (cut into quarters) on top of it, all quite nicely browned in the oven.

19 Ikea pruta containers, all filled with meals.

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Tinkeringbell @tinkeringbell91.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Did a whole bunch of 'baking' over the past three days. It was good to spend some time in the kitchen again ☺️. The result: two sorts of no-bake cream cheese cakes for Mother's Day last Sunday, and a small pound cake + no-bake lemon curd cakes as a treat for coworkers tomorrow. 🍽️🍜

Four cream cheese cakes in a container, seen from almost directly above. They're 7cm in diameter and each is topped with half a strawberry, in quarters and a bright green gelatin.

A small pound cake on a wooden cutting board, with a steak knife for scale. It's about half a knife long. The top is cracked and uneven, most likely due to wrong baking temperatures.

Five lemon curd cakes, on a tray with baking paper. Each is 7cm in diameter and topped with a darker yellow gelatin layer.

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Tinkeringbell @tinkeringbell91.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

I really almost chickened out when I saw how much this was, afraid of wouldn't fit in the freezer🫣... But it seems 20kg of chicken fits just fiiine, with room to spare. Ready for a few rounds of meal prepping to come now. 🍽️ 🍜

An open rectangular box containing 10kg of chicken thigh fillets, and a big, translucent blue plastic bag filled with 10kg of chicken breast fillets. They're both so big they cover the surface of the stovetop they're on almost entirely.

A picture of a freezer drawer, about three quarters filled with stacks of ziplock bags filled with portions of 800 and 400 grams of the chicken thigh fillets, uncut pieces. Each bag has the contents + today's date written on it.

Another freezer drawer, also about three quarters filled with the chicken breast. The breasts are cut into small pieces/cubes, and also in 400/800 gram sized portions in ziplock bags.

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Tinkeringbell @tinkeringbell91.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Well, this was a disappointment! Tried baking bread using one of my cast iron pots as a "shape". Changed nothing else, followed the instructions on the box mix just like usual... But the bread just isn't "done". Tried to cut it and the crust is rock hard but raw dough just stuck to the knife 😞🍜🍽️

A picture showing a ball of raw dough with a rock hard crust on a bamboo cutting board. A small slice that was cut off and the bread knife smeared with raw dough is besides it.

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Tinkeringbell @tinkeringbell91.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Time to start restocking the freezer meals. Made six servings of the chicken-apple slowcooker curry (forgot to take a picture while it was still in the slowcooker) and six servings of spicy green beans, chicken and baby potatoes (one eaten as tonight's dinner already). 🍽️ 🍜 😋

A wok filled to the brim with chicken, green beans and baby potatoes. Everything has a orange-brownish hue, due to being seasoned with (amongst other things) kecap and sambal.

11 Ikea pruta containers (square, 0,6L) with yellow lids, one stack of five filled with the green bean dish from the other picture, the other two stacks of three filled with the chicken apple curry.

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Tinkeringbell @tinkeringbell91.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

There's been a few days of good weather, so a lot of the bulbs I've planted over the years are flowering again! 🌱 🌼 The flowers are popular with bumblebees too, I counted at least three hiding in the crocuses and one in the irises. I think they might be sleeping?🐝

A close up of three narcissus flowers. They're the small variant. At the top of the picture is a dead buddleja branch.

A close up of a scilla plant and flowers.

A photo of some irises, made from above to show the neat patterning in yellow and white on the purple flower leaves.

A close up of a bumblebeebutt in a purple and white crocus flower.

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Tinkeringbell @tinkeringbell91.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

There's green in the garden again! Sadly, quite a lot of it was weeds... 😞 But also, a lot of sprouts from bulbs, and a few of the snowdrops are already blooming 🥰🌱

A view of a blue bucket filled with weeds, taken from above.

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Tinkeringbell @tinkeringbell91.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

I'm ready to start the next cross stitch. This one is bigger than the hedgehog and needs to be finished by June as I want to make it a birthday gift for the awesome brother that made me a 3D printed attachment for my embroidery stand, so it can hold plastic snap frames too. ☺️🧶🧵🪡

A pink piece of rectangular plastic with 37 round holes, numbered 1 to 37. 26 of the holes have varying amounts of embroidery floss attached, mostly black, white, shades of gray and blue, but also 2 shades of pink and a pale yellow.

A close up of a 3D printed part, attached to a wooden embroidery stand and a white plastic snap embroidery frame. The part is a dark gray with glitters, and has two black screws to hold the frame.

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Tinkeringbell @tinkeringbell91.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Today's lunch: self baked bread. Not as airy as my previous (first) attempt, and the crust got a bit dark. Still tastes awesome though! 🍜 🍽️

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Tinkeringbell @tinkeringbell91.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

The last bit of cross stitch from 2025. The project I started yesterday to bring to my parent's place. Didn't actually get a whole lot done because we also spent a lot of time playing boardgames together, but still pleased with the progress! 🧵 🧶 🪡

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Tinkeringbell @tinkeringbell91.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Spent all day yesterday "cross stitching" without making a single cross stitch. 😆 I detangled and wound all the old flosses I had stored in a ziplock bag on bobbins and cut (and split most of) the thread for a new project I brought along to my parent's place where I am spending most of today. 🪡 🧶 🧵

A plastic box with 63 bobbins of different colors of embroidery thread/floss, on their side so the color of the floss clearly shows (as these don't have color numbers). Also 11 bobbins that do have numbers, so they're upright. At the side, some supplies like scissors and needles are stored.

A rectangular, pinkish plastic organizer with 37 numbered holes. 24 of them have thread of different colors attached.

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Tinkeringbell @tinkeringbell91.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

It's the most wonderful time of the year: Time for mom's oliebollen!! Yum 🥰 🍽️ 🍜

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Tinkeringbell @tinkeringbell91.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

One Christmas dinner, done! 🍜 🍽️ Carpaccio as a starter, then a full table of meat, potatoes and vegetables, and ice for dessert. Thanks to mom, I didn't have to cook this year (only helped with groceries, setting the table and doing dishes).

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Tinkeringbell @tinkeringbell91.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Today's crafting wasn't cross stitch but only half stitches. On plastic canvas. It's supposed to become a little 3D Christmas train and wagon. It looks simple but it is actually a bit more challenging than cross stitch, as the back will be visible so needs to look presentable as well. 😅 🪡 🧶 🧵

Two vaguely train shaped pieces of plastic canvas, all red with a geen stripe and some white near what will be the roof of the cabin. Also, two floor plates, one for the engine and one for the cart, all red.

The same pieces as the other picture, flipped over to show the back. There are some flaws on the floor plates but the important bits are good.

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Tinkeringbell @tinkeringbell91.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Took it easy with the cooking today. ☺️Mealprep number 5 was also dinner: Hutspot. ☺️ And number six is just a bunch of half-boiled (they will become more boiled when heating again) vegetables, as a base for gado gado. 🍽️ 🍜

A big pan, photographed from above. Inside is an orange and yellow mixture of carrots, potatoes and onions mashed together, called hutspot in Dutch.

A round metal strainer on top of a square sink. Inside is a mixture of green beans, carrot, cabbage and mung bean sprouts.

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Tinkeringbell @tinkeringbell91.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Mealprep number three is started. A chicken-apple curry. With as many vegetables as the slowcooker can hold.🍽️ 🍜

A picture of a slowcooker from above, so you can see through the lid. It is filled to maximum capacity, only the pieces of apple and green beans are visible, the rest is buried underneath.

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Tinkeringbell @tinkeringbell91.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

Second bit of mealprep: honey garlic glazed salmon. Great when hot, also great cold in a salad, so I often keep a few of these ready in the freezer. Got the recipe from @thisgrilllife.bsky.social a year ago and it has definitely become staple now! 🍜 🍽️

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Tinkeringbell @tinkeringbell91.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

The first pan of food prep, one of many to come these next weeks: apple sauce. 🍽️🍜 Now the whole kitchen is sticky with apple juice and splatter 😅 But also, the whole room smells like apples, vanilla, cinnamon and star anise. 🥰

A big pan, holding 2 liters of apple sauce.

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Tinkeringbell @tinkeringbell91.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Keeping the momentum going. Pens with ink that can be erased with heat arrived today, so I decided to try them out on a biscornu kit I still had to do. The grid really helps a lot, I got quite a bit done already.

Two squares of Aida cloth, both with a grid drawn on them. Both have a thin pink outline of backstitching and a row of purple cross-stitching inside that. The one on the right also shows a full quarter of the geometric purple stitching is done, and another quarter is started.

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Tinkeringbell @tinkeringbell91.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Turned out I needed 2,5 hours. But it is done. The red pot and green leaves make this feel a bit Christmassy! I almost forgot how nice it is to spend long stretches of time crafting, like I did tonight. 😌 🪡 🧶 🧵

A small finished cross stitch of a red pot and green hanging plant. Still in the frame used to make it, with the lines of the pre-stamped pattern still visible

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Tinkeringbell @tinkeringbell91.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Finished this weekend. Two cheap crochet kits, enough material to make a third. Never again though, the yarn sometimes just fell apart and the written pattern was very unclear, forcing me to use the much slower tutorial videos. I did write my own notes, so I can make proper ones to gift. 🧶

Three small crocheted capibara figures, each with a little turtle backpack. One is standing on hind legs, the other two are on all fours.

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Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

"...I am a hater, which is a kind of integrity." "...I am more than a critic: I am a hater." "I am here to be rude, because this is a rude technology, and it deserves a rude response." EVERY LINE IS A GEM. 1/

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Tinkeringbell @tinkeringbell91.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Finally tried the last of my birthday gifts: a pin loom. I love it! Less than 30 minutes to make this square, and that is while reading the instructions too. I thought I needed thicker yarn, but the look and feel of this single square make me think more of them will make an awesome light scarf! 🪡 🧶

A finished square still on the pin loom. The holes between the yarn are quite big and make it look like the whole thing will fall apart as soon as it comes off.

The finished square, off of the pin loom. The holes have shrunk a bit and the square looks a lot more like a woven piece of fabric.

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Tinkeringbell @tinkeringbell91.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

Figured I hadn't eaten anything with potato in ages, so meal prepped some potato things. A sauerkraut oven dish, and two stamppotten: one with carrot and onion and the other with leek and bell pepper. Also sharing my failures and not just succeses: the first batch of sauerkraut burned. 🍽️🍜

Two containers/meals of sauerkraut oven dish, topped with mashed potatoes and pineapple, which is the only thing visible

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Tinkeringbell @tinkeringbell91.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

Wanted to try a stamped cross stitch, to see what it is like to not have to count. It's fast! This is just 2 hours of progress, almost done with a single color. Daylight is fading fast though, so the rest will have to wait.. 🧶🪡

A blue embroidery hoop on a wooden bookstand, showing a small stamped cross stitch of a potted plant. All stitches of one color (a blue-gray-green) are almost finished.

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Tinkeringbell @tinkeringbell91.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Wedding party tomorrow, so it was time to make a gift. The crochet lovebirds are sitting on a "nest" of "branches", made of rolled up money bills and wrapped in brown thread. Background is a cutout of the invitation card. 🪡🧶🧵

A wooden frame with the two lovebirds and money inside.

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Tinkeringbell @tinkeringbell91.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Back to work after four weeks of vacation. Immediately stuck in a boring meeting, so here is a thread with some vacation pictures ;-) First off: Birthday baking!

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Tinkeringbell @tinkeringbell91.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Party today, so two kinds of cakes baked. Apple crumble on the left, lemoncurd and passion fruit on the right. 🍜🍽️

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Tinkeringbell @tinkeringbell91.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Baked my first bread this morning. Just a plain white bread from a box mix, there's some room for improvement but it tasted like warm, fresh bread so I'm happy! 😃🍽️🍜

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Tinkeringbell @tinkeringbell91.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Besides weeds, there's also quite a few things growing/blooming in the garden right now. The ones below are the result of a flower mix I have sown. The orange flowers are so bright that my camera had a hard time focusing! The flowers seem to be popular with the local insect population as well. 🌱

A very, very bright orange flower. It's so bright that the camera had trouble focusing, and the flower looks almost one-dimensional.

A close-up of a bumblebee in a bright pink flower.

A close up of a flower stem with some leaves. It's covered in aphids and there are four ants visible that are tending to those aphids.

A close up of a little viola flower. There's just one at the moment, hopefully a few more will grow.

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Tinkeringbell @tinkeringbell91.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Such a small garden, such a ridiculous amount of weeds despite the ground covering plants... They just keep growing straight through! 🌱

A blue 10L bucket filled to the brim with weeds (mostly grasses). A weed picking tool is stuck in there too.

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Tinkeringbell @tinkeringbell91.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

There's some spare room in the freezer after two weeks of eating meal-prepped dinners. I'll fill it with Dutch babi pangang this weekend, which means I also need a Dutch 'version' of acar to go with it. So, I made a lot of acar today, it's pickling in the fridge right now. 🍽️ 🍜

Two IKEA 365+ containers, one square 1L and one rectangular 2L. Filled almost to the brim with, in layers from bottom to top: thinly sliced cabbage, julienned carrot, mung bean sprouts, red chilli peppers (almost invisible), onion slices. And then moisture to pickle them in.

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Tinkeringbell @tinkeringbell91.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

I grew some food!🌱 🍽️ They're 'pink blueberries' and the picture doesn't do the brightness of the pink (or their awesome sweet taste) justice. It's not much, but there's a bunch more on the plant that aren't ripe yet. I guess I have a few more snacks to look forward to 🍜😀

17 pink blueberries in a little small white plastic container.

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