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Mrs Cosmopilite

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Just learning stuff - don't know where I'm heading

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Mrs Cosmopilite @whowhatwhywhen.bsky.social · 23h
From this week's Week Junior (which I love) The kids are OK
Small uplifting newspaper piece about a swim school
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Mrs Cosmopilite @whowhatwhywhen.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
All boxes in this household are claimed With an occasional short-lived rebellion
Rear end of a spaniel visible in a cardboard boxThoughtful looking spaniel in a partially destroyed boxSpaniel looks on while a boy mistakenly thinks he can play the fool with her box
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Mrs Cosmopilite @whowhatwhywhen.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Better than expected. And very much enjoyed That's my working week washed off
Evening sea with a waxing gibbous moon showing the way in
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Mrs Cosmopilite @whowhatwhywhen.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Down to Cornwall to visit my parents Waiting for the ferry and there's a menacing bank of cloud on the western bank of the Tamar shaking its fist in my face Shame. The glorious sunshine all the way here has persuaded me to stop for a swim. Not gonna be what I was expecting
Cars queuing for the ferry into Cornwall below a bank of cloud, in turn below glorious blue sky
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Mrs Cosmopilite @whowhatwhywhen.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
You could take a trip to the countryside where the air is famously clear and fresh Dorset rn 😶‍🌫️ Advise not being menopausal atm
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Mrs Cosmopilite @whowhatwhywhen.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Last OU module opens today A scramble as the module I registered and paid for for 3 MONTHS AGO was withdrawn 48 hours before the website opened 🤬 But. The notebook is open, headers are in, and serenity has descended
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Mrs Cosmopilite @whowhatwhywhen.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Privilege = Private law
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Mrs Cosmopilite @whowhatwhywhen.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
monklandcheesedairy.co.uk www.clogmaker.co.uk/styles @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social Today I have engaged with these things They have all been created by craftspeople who have chosen to hone their skill over years to produce the best possible thing Opposite of AI. The world is better for them
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Mrs Cosmopilite @whowhatwhywhen.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
You can but that's all you're getting. All the action is from pages 60-62 and the podcast does it much more justice 😉
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Mrs Cosmopilite @whowhatwhywhen.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Perusing the bookcases of our rental house Would never have picked this without the gripping podcast from @garius.bsky.social I'm listening to The Untitled History Podcast | Episode 10: Battle of Quiberon Bay: France’s Doomed Invasion on Podbean, check it out! www.podbean.com/ea/dir-tj46c...
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Mrs Cosmopilite @whowhatwhywhen.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
This was my library as a child in Cornwall When I enrolled my kids in the Dorset equivalent, each at barely a month old, I was delighted to find that it smelled exactly the same Gone now though (bus - not kids, yet)
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Mrs Cosmopilite @whowhatwhywhen.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Ive been picking blackberries! But. Red berries now means no food for birds for much more of the winter
Hawthorn tree with lovely display of red berries. In August
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Mrs Cosmopilite @whowhatwhywhen.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
I've totally lost my audience and the fact I'm posting doesn't bode well I have 5 pairs of glasses going to waste and my smugness is fading fast
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Mrs Cosmopilite @whowhatwhywhen.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
You want to be careful wobbling a landmark. You might not be allowed to forget it!
Extract from Wikipedia with a picture of Logan Rock and associated text
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Mrs Cosmopilite @whowhatwhywhen.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
There are some new-ish pylons off the M5 S of Bristol which are sculptural in form - stunning
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Mrs Cosmopilite @whowhatwhywhen.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
There are people whose job it is to design open and reseal mechanisms for cardboard packaging Sometimes simple, sometimes very clever Always utterly pointless
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Mrs Cosmopilite @whowhatwhywhen.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
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Mrs Cosmopilite @whowhatwhywhen.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Today I travelled from Dorset to visit family in Yorkshire And there's a strange thing up here The fields are a funny colour. The blue of the sky has run into the yellow of the fields and created a new in-between colour And it seems the outdoor washhouse is making a comeback. I got wet. Outside
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Mrs Cosmopilite @whowhatwhywhen.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Caveat, the poll still live But *sighs Who'd be in politics with an electorate that's so determined not to inform itself that the sky isn't green, as they've been told by ppl and orgs with absolutely no skin in the green-sky game - honest gov
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Mrs Cosmopilite @whowhatwhywhen.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
I still miss Duggee My kids genuinely have no recollection of time spent together watching it They know they must have loved it because the proof is still here, 9 years on Duggee!
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Mrs Cosmopilite @whowhatwhywhen.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
First rain of July. A full 30 mins of mizzle. It brought the birds back out
A group of pots with overhanging foliage providing some shelter from RAIN
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Mrs Cosmopilite @whowhatwhywhen.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
A job I have been applying for Being repeatedly told there is no vacancy We have a scan pending so I will be accompanying her into resus with Scissors and a comb
Small spaniel looking half asleep. Actually primed ready to retaliate if anyone tries to touch one of the dozens of seeds adorning her ears
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Mrs Cosmopilite @whowhatwhywhen.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
I've never seen a pic of Burnham's partner and now realise I don't know if he has any children I'm not politics obsessive (I see you all out there), but I am over the subject and ... this feels like a good thing
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Mrs Cosmopilite @whowhatwhywhen.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Salisbury cathedral a couple of years back. Blew my mind. Was shown joiners marks in Arabic rather than roman numerals showing craftspeople were welcomed from everywhere
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Mrs Cosmopilite @whowhatwhywhen.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
She's got until 10pm to change her mind then I'm having it It was purchased understanding that this would probably be the end result but this way I look like I'm making the best of a bad purchase rather than buying doggy accessories just for me
Hot spaniel lying right next to, but pointedly not touching, the cool mat purchased just for her
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Mrs Cosmopilite @whowhatwhywhen.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Plus, if I succeed in being more witch, I might work out who is leaving these on my chalk (next chalk on from Terry's)
Silly spaniel making no attempt to find the litter lout dropping walnut shells on a treeless hill in May
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Mrs Cosmopilite @whowhatwhywhen.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
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Mrs Cosmopilite @whowhatwhywhen.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
6.10 am, and there's a breeze that isn't trying to dessicate me
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Mrs Cosmopilite @whowhatwhywhen.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
But I will likely die if my part-time spaniel continues to insist on sitting on me in lieu of the walk he is expecting
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Mrs Cosmopilite @whowhatwhywhen.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
@dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social This was going to be an amusing snap of Reggie, my charge for today, deciding to sit on my lap while I read But it's too hot for snaps, spaniels and now reading
Out of focus shot of my intended target - my brilliant current read combined with the in-focus shot of a hot and heavy spaniel
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Mrs Cosmopilite @whowhatwhywhen.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
There's a lovely working reproduction dovecote at the Newt in Somerset that you can go in - though it feels a bit voyeuristic watching pigeons at home just doing pigeon stuff It's next to a working reproduction Roman villa that genuinely fooled my mum into thinking we'd gone to Tuscany for a picnic
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Mrs Cosmopilite @whowhatwhywhen.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Not the same, but not to be dismissed. The Somerset carnival circuit is a thing to behold. You're unlikely to see any sequinned bikinis in Oct/Nov
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Mrs Cosmopilite @whowhatwhywhen.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Had a couple of hours to kill in Frome while eldest boy did stuff with mates. Sensible me took work, planning to find a coffee shop and settle in But I came across a chaotic second hand book shop. One shelf was entitled 'books' Reader. No work was done
Books on shelves and piled on floor next to an inflatable gold disc with Massive Prick written on it
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Mrs Cosmopilite @whowhatwhywhen.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Let the dogs out for a last wee A strong wind in the trees sounds like the sea and a near-full hazy moon hangs in the sky I step outside expecting to feel immersed and enigmatic It's bloody freezing - bugger that
A nearly full moon hangs over the silhouette of trees blowing in a stiff breeze - on far too cold a night to be out in this
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Mrs Cosmopilite @whowhatwhywhen.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Meteorology in action
View from a hilltop looking north as a perfectly straight line of cloud approaches with clear blue sky beyond
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Mrs Cosmopilite @whowhatwhywhen.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Am reminded of the dictionary my lovely uncle got me when I went to secondary school circa 1985 The defacement took less than a week 😲
The flyleaf of a dictionary defaced in the most obvious possible way by a school child circa 1985
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Mrs Cosmopilite @whowhatwhywhen.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Coasters are too small
An acceptably sized mug on an exercise book next to a standard sized coaster made redundant by its tiny size
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Mrs Cosmopilite @whowhatwhywhen.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
I have revised my opinion of the brave wagtail fighting for his turf This creature has waged a vengeful war on my car for 2 days now, attacking the wipers and shitting copiously out of sheer malice It's a git
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Mrs Cosmopilite @whowhatwhywhen.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
For half an hour today a pied wagtail who has returned to his nest site in the woodshed was getting protective. He attempted to fight his reflection in the window and wing mirror of the car It seems wagtails don't just fight with beaks...
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Mrs Cosmopilite @whowhatwhywhen.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
The big guy at the front thinks the world will be OK He's seen it all before Same shit, different couture
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Mrs Cosmopilite @whowhatwhywhen.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Am snorting with laughter at the musings of @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social while at a not-the-sort-of-place-we'd-normally-go hotel in Syracuse I like being somewhere posh where I can snort in an undignified way and have holes in my t-shirt The lifts are in a vestibule straight out of The Shining
Notebook artfully abandoned in a shrubbery so I can take a picture down the Sicilian Hotel drive
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Mrs Cosmopilite @whowhatwhywhen.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
I had two hot cross buns at work then got a pack on the way home to share with the family Do I just eat these and pretend I only got apples and milk?
A packet that claims to hold 6 hot cross buns but only holds 2. Clearly lying because I'm the only person at home and there's NO WAY I ate 4
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Mrs Cosmopilite @whowhatwhywhen.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Duggee casts a long shadow Ours is nearly 9 and causes much embarrassment to the now 15yo who named him
Silly black dog with his usual mournful look
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Mrs Cosmopilite @whowhatwhywhen.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
BLUEBELLS!!!
An indigo splash of early bluebells
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Mrs Cosmopilite @whowhatwhywhen.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Your picture reminded me of this. My sister-in-law wrote it when I married her brother I'm Cornish and spent a little time laying hedges, and he's a Yorkshireman She is very, very talented. And I am very lucky
A beautiful piece of prose about strength and unity written for my wedding day
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Mrs Cosmopilite @whowhatwhywhen.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
I thought my blackberry harvest had been exhausted back in January, but then I found these big juicy berries in the bottom of the freezer with the broken light, masquerading as blackcurrants to my un-bespectacled eye. MAHOOSIVE win 🏆
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Mrs Cosmopilite @whowhatwhywhen.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Post a pic you took, no context, just to bring some zen to the feed.
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Mrs Cosmopilite @whowhatwhywhen.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
There are some mean people in this country
Today's yougov poll showing 33% of respondents think Ukrainians, some of whom have been bombed out of their homes and have their kids in school here, shouldn't have the option to stay when the war ends
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Mrs Cosmopilite @whowhatwhywhen.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Me: You say sheep passed this way? Stevie: Yes, I have the knowing of these things
Spaniel detective using her deductive skills to declare sheep have passed this way
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Mrs Cosmopilite @whowhatwhywhen.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Not sure my shoe cupboard translates
An open cupboard full of shoes in varying states of cleanliness
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