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🦀 Alix 🦀

@ure.bsky.social
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Aka Ruth Blackett. Aka, far too many internet pseudonyms. Aka onions. I want to see your unusual postboxes.

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🦀 Alix 🦀 @ure.bsky.social · 46m
The harshest.
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🦀 Alix 🦀 @ure.bsky.social · 4h
Life is hard
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🦀 Alix 🦀 @ure.bsky.social · 5h
do u have peanut supple instead
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🦀 Alix 🦀 @ure.bsky.social · 14h
I'm quite keen for things to start hitting same.
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🦀 Alix 🦀 @ure.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Snap it up!!
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🦀 Alix 🦀 @ure.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Deleting Emails Is My True Passion
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🦀 Alix 🦀 @ure.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Mauvean Reticulated Blinty
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🦀 Alix 🦀 @ure.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Lesser Jungle Hannover
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🦀 Alix 🦀 @ure.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Mellowcrested Shrant
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🦀 Alix 🦀 @ure.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The Rectory Fowl.
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🦀 Alix 🦀 @ure.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
My theory needs work, I admit, but the vibes are right.
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🦀 Alix 🦀 @ure.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Needed a biro.
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🦀 Alix 🦀 @ure.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The ballpoint pen was invented the same year Jack the Ripper done his crimes. Makes you think.
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🦀 Alix 🦀 @ure.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
That's a lovely looking tower.
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🦀 Alix 🦀 @ure.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Is it Tax Payer?
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🦀 Alix 🦀 @ure.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I can see how they go hand in hand. It's high time you took up bell ringing, by the way.
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🦀 Alix 🦀 @ure.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Are you in the masons now?
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🦀 Alix 🦀 @ure.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Classic Saturday.
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🦀 Alix 🦀 @ure.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Finally, someone is thinking about the steeplekeepers!
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🦀 Alix 🦀 @ure.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
It's made an absolute mockery of language.
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🦀 Alix 🦀 @ure.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Is the hamburger helping? Or is the hamburger being helped? Where *is* the hamburger? Is macaroni a type of hamburger? I also need answers it seems.
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🦀 Alix 🦀 @ure.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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🦀 Alix 🦀 @ure.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
You're not wrong. At least one of the band objected to this method as being illegal.
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🦀 Alix 🦀 @ure.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
QP40 - First time on all 8 at this tower for me; they are so tiny that striking was a constant pain to get anywhere near decent. Still, now I am only 10 QPs away from my 2026 goal!
Chester Diocesan Guild

Woodchurch, Wirral

Holy Cross

Saturday, 3 October 2026 (3-3-27 in D)

1264 Plain Bob Major
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🦀 Alix 🦀 @ure.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
QP39 - Someone needed to do a method beginning with Z so this happened. Treble for me anyway, so I didn't worry too much about what on earth this involved.
Chester Diocesan Guild

West Kirby, Wirral

St Bridget

Saturday, 3 October 2026 (12-0-23 in G)

1250 Z Battery Battersea Park Surprise Major
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🦀 Alix 🦀 @ure.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
God damn it.
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🦀 Alix 🦀 @ure.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Mad that Ann Widdecombe got murdered by one of the Hairy Bikers.
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🦀 Alix 🦀 @ure.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I've only rung a few times there, but it's on the quiet side. I don't think ringers rate it hugely for sound quality in the ringing chamber. Sounds better from outside.
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🦀 Alix 🦀 @ure.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
It varies on the tower. This one is reasonably noisy. Others are really quiet. No ear bungs for me but others do.
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🦀 Alix 🦀 @ure.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
QP38 - Another go at Kent TB Maj. It went ok but my striking suffered due to my brain still being at the stage where all it can focus on is remembering the line and watching the treble.
Neston, Cheshire

St Mary and St Helen

Friday, 2 October 2026 (14-2-24 in G)

1280 Kent Treble Bob Major
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🦀 Alix 🦀 @ure.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Wait, hang on, which tradition is this exactly?
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🦀 Alix 🦀 @ure.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
- My wife is reading a Daphne du Maurier novel - Jamaica Inn? - No she went of her own accord - What?
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🦀 Alix 🦀 @ure.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Thank you! That's a first for my collection, and the tides detail is particularly pleasing.
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🦀 Alix 🦀 @ure.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
How exciting - I shall look forward to that!
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🦀 Alix 🦀 @ure.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A sleek thoroughbred of a gate. Wonderful stuff.
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🦀 Alix 🦀 @ure.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Clarthur
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🦀 Alix 🦀 @ure.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Well obvs.
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🦀 Alix 🦀 @ure.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
We rang fast but nonetheless, the stress combined with a head cold made this my least favourite quarter in a while. At least there was pub after.
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🦀 Alix 🦀 @ure.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
QP 37 - A stressful one. Got there late due to my chauffeur misreading the start time so nearly didn't have enough time before evensong started to fit in the QP.
Chester Diocesan Guild

Neston, Cheshire

St Mary and St Helen

Sunday, 27 September 2026 in 41m (14-2-24 in G)

1260 Plain Bob Triples
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🦀 Alix 🦀 @ure.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
HahahAa what an idea. I'd love to hear loads of hilarious suggestions.
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🦀 Alix 🦀 @ure.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I am curious as to whether this method produces a decent cup of coffee, was it alright?
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🦀 Alix 🦀 @ure.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I feel that the reverse of the sachet should have a diagram on it, as I would have been as perplexed as you by those directions.
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🦀 Alix 🦀 @ure.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Update - sound is now working on his phone and he is signing off messages using the flag of Gabon.
It is fab! I must have ticked a box wrong. I now hear it if message arrives

XXX
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🦀 Alix 🦀 @ure.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Series of texts from my dad in which he said explains that his phone no longer makes a noise when he receives a text.
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🦀 Alix 🦀 @ure.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This seems so utterly bizarre but then I think about my recent realisation that (for me) a big part of the enjoyment of e.g a holiday is the arranging and anticipating. But to do all that without actually going on the holiday? Nah. That's weird. Society's gone weird.
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🦀 Alix 🦀 @ure.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I gave it a listen and it does feel a little like being a shrimp on a vast ocean floor.
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🦀 Alix 🦀 @ure.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I'm interested
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🦀 Alix 🦀 @ure.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
ham
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🦀 Alix 🦀 @ure.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Quarter 36 - Some nicely struck, solid practice night plain bob minor.
Chester Diocesan Guild

West Kirby, Wirral

St Bridget

Tuesday, 22 September 2026 (12-0-23 in G)

1260 Plain Bob Minor
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🦀 Alix 🦀 @ure.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Very cool
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