Flick 🇬🇧

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2025-03-28 16:34:45

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Fair, I didn’t bother clicking through to embiggen, just went by what AKP said!

2025-03-28 15:20:22

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The Danish Social Democrats are Nazis? Or did you not read the article?

2025-03-26 21:20:12

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I have 5G outside!

2025-03-26 21:14:56

https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/03/26/paddington-patron-saint-of-the-liberal-elites/
Paddington is, we are told, a representative of diverse Britishness. But this is bizarre. Unable to name real historical heroes, including the many Brits of migrant backgrounds who have made their mark, the cultural elites resort to celebrating a fictional character. It’s as if these people are unable to make the case either for British values or mass migration and so hide behind poor old Paddington.
Perhaps the very attraction of Paddington as a national symbol over, say, Shakespeare or Churchill, rests on the fact that he is made up. Real people exist within a particular time period and tend to reflect that era’s values. Real people often have messy personal lives – few of us are unambiguously good or bad. But moral purity and all manner of values can be ascribed to fictional bears. They never disappoint.

2025-02-12 19:37:22

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Pizza!

2025-01-31 14:56:23

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You cut that a bit fine!

2025-01-28 16:24:34

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I wish I liked marmalade, would definitely buy some!

2025-01-06 15:38:55

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‘S too cold for that! Although I have heard the kids at the home out in it.

2025-01-06 11:11:44

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/justin-trudeaus-rule-could-end-this-week/
The next 48 hours could well spell the end of Justin Trudeau. The Canadian Prime Minister – the last major western leader of the pre-Trump era – is reportedly considering resignation, ahead of a key national caucus meeting on Wednesday. Over Christmas, a growing chorus of Liberal MPs from across the country have been issuing calls for Trudeau to quit. The Globe and Mail newspaper quotes sources suggesting that he will make an announcement before the Wednesday meeting to avoid the appearance that he was forced out by Liberal opponents. Still, no one should be in any doubt: after almost ten years in office, Justin Trudeau’s luck may have finally run out.
https://archive.ph/OOzAH

2025-01-06 11:08:50

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It does to me as well.

2025-01-02 08:53:42

Shit. Duck house door frozen shut.

2024-12-31 21:53:43

TIL! Never knew the basis of it.
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2024-12-31 21:26:59

Now that is worth knowing, in the age of online recipes:
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2024-12-30 10:14:44

https://www.spiked-online.com/2024/12/30/can-free-speech-survive-keir-starmer/
The unrelenting assault on [free speech] since Sir Keir Starmer entered Downing Street in July has shocked even the most jaundiced of observers. Who could have predicted this time last year that scores of people would be prosecuted for offensive speech on social media following a brutal knife attack? That two police officers would turn up at the door of an award-winning journalist on Remembrance Sunday to interview her about a year-old tweet that she’d deleted within hours? That Britain’s record on freedom of expression would be so bad that it has turned us into a global laughing stock? All of which means that when speculating about what will become of free speech in 2025, we should assume the worst. […]
All of this probably sounds too horrific to be true. Is this government really going to blithely toss aside a right that has existed in this country to a greater or lesser degree since 1215? Judging from its merciless attacks on free speech since 4 July, you’d better believe it.

2024-12-28 11:52:03

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The Telegraph has tabloid moments, this may be one.

2024-12-25 08:12:21

Merry Christmas, everyone!

2024-12-22 19:28:59

I succumbed to the lure of 15p sprouts. @nprofile…sffp is right, supermarket sprouts have got crap. Very glad I also bought some from the greengrocer for Christmas dinner.
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2024-12-22 15:11:15

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No, no change. They currently pay, say, 40p in the pound, now they’ll pay 45p, or whatever.
(No idea what the current figure is, that’s just a guess. My gut says 35p might be closer.)

2024-12-22 11:04:07

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Oh, loads of Brits on Fedi, but I’ve found a fair number on Nostr too.

2024-12-22 10:34:28

https://unherd.com/2024/12/a-food-apocalypse-is-coming/
A lot of people assume that somewhere in Britain there are sheds full of food that we’d distribute in a disaster. Surely there is a grain or butter mountain somewhere? Surely the UK government has a plan for such a crisis?
Nope. No sheds. No stores. No mountains of food. No plan.
All politicians say that food security matters, but no one admits that basically we don’t have it. Britain probably has less than a week of food supplies. The only food in the UK is what’s on the shelves of our supermarkets now, and what’s in their lorries on the way to the shops. Oh, and whatever you have in the fridge, plus a few crops growing on UK farms or stored in barns, and whatever is edible and roaming around in fields. And perhaps you could hunt or forage if you have a gun or a trap or two.

2024-12-22 10:08:20

Brrr.
I’m starting to wonder if my decision to not salt the steps was right, the flurries are showing no signs of turning to sleet.
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2024-12-08 19:41:20

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So… more than a bottle, then?
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2024-12-04 15:59:45

The kitchen company ended up owing me nearly a grand, which they insisted was more like £700. We’ve been going back and forth over email for a couple of weeks, but today I had a couple of plausible errands to run in the same business park they’re in so I went in. With my spreadsheet.
They just phoned and did a refund for the full amount.
Moral: don’t try to argue money with an accountant.

2024-12-04 15:04:05

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/marc-guehi-has-exposed-the-flaw-in-footballs-rainbow-laces-campaign/
By the letter of the law, Guehi could well find himself in trouble: Rule A4 of the FA’s kit and advertising regulations prohibit the ‘appearance on, or incorporation in, any item of clothing, football boots or other equipment of any religious message’.
Guehi’s message is undoubtedly religious. But if the Palace captain is breaking the rules, is the FA also guilty of double standards? The rules also state that: ‘Players must not reveal undergarments that show political…slogans, statements or images’. The Rainbow Laces campaign is backed by Stonewall, an organisation that has led the charge on transgender rights. Is that campaign not a political one?
https://archive.ph/U0Foa

2024-12-03 20:14:58

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If we’re talking Nostr, I’m @flick@henhouse.social (but less active than here).

2024-11-29 17:38:56

@nprofile…rx8h what’s with your current display name? Am I missing a joke/reference? (Other than the homonym.)

2024-11-16 14:43:23

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Are they the same as the “can’t tell a fridge from a freezer people”?

2024-11-15 16:35:25

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Part three:
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2024-11-14 16:44:07

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Same.

2024-11-10 09:17:27

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Presumably they have a wiggly grid rather than a square one on the potato chopper. They were very tasty.

2024-11-09 23:08:11

Apparently, v-shaped chips are currently a thing.
Have eaten so much steak that I can hardly move.
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2024-10-29 19:17:19

Bit of a structural integrity failure on the fishcakes: my own fault, I forgot to put them in the fridge to defrost last night.
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2024-10-22 19:47:59

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Thanks, but not really my thing. I could see it being useful if you were serving picky things to a dozen people, but that’s not something I do these days.

2024-10-10 20:27:53

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I might get a frost tonight. If not for builders, I would have done a final gather of beans today, as it is they’ll take their chances.

2024-10-10 20:22:53

Ok, that’s not Buxton.
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2024-10-06 20:16:33

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(How do you store a month’s water? Or do you have a well?)

2024-10-06 20:16:01

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Good luck. I hope it fizzles out.

2024-10-03 20:45:42

Can anyone point me at a non-meme/Twitter overview of what’s going on in the US re: FEMA et al are up to with confiscating donations, blocking volunteers, etc?

2024-09-20 09:37:07

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Weirdly, this didn’t show up on my Spinster feed until I replied to it on Nostr. Some sort of bridge glitch?

2024-09-19 19:42:09

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Oh, that sounds like an excellent deal for you and your neighbour!

2024-09-19 18:52:36

Do we think this means “go to the garage tomorrow” or “mention it to the garage when the car goes in next week to have its bottom polished”?
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2024-09-18 21:14:14

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My new car is far cuter, if in a more rugged mode!
My mother, when I arrived today: “oohhh! It really is diddy!”

2024-09-18 20:42:00

Ha!
My sister mentioned to my mother that she’d seen a car “like Flick’s new one” on the school run.
Some triangulation revealed that it was in fact my car, on my way home from mum’s.
I suspect I will get used to this. I already had a sewing lady asking if that was me she saw in town the other day.

2024-09-16 20:08:29

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Egg and veggie muffins:
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2024-09-16 18:24:04

Pasta bake with leek, mackerel, sprouts and green coriander seed (that last a bit experimental, worked really well).
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2024-09-15 09:28:16

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They’re not actually venomous, so pretty benign by Australian standards!

2024-09-15 09:25:18

The geese are on their way.
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2024-09-14 13:37:14

No idea of this will work, but I’m having a go at green coriander seed oil:
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2024-09-11 15:30:16

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No cameras around here!

2024-09-11 15:18:21

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No, I mean literally those are the only ones in the country!

2024-09-11 15:16:46

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Specific roads. Off the top of my head, there’s a couple of bridges, and a motorway.

2024-09-11 15:16:02

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“Do you carry explosives in the vehicle?”
“Only the dog’s digestive system….”

2024-09-11 15:05:30

New car stuff: have updated parking apps, taxed it, apparently have to wait to see if the seller does the log book, just on hold to lovely Scottish insurance man now, anything else I’m missing?
Not registered for any toll roads.

2024-09-11 13:58:08

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Did you see the part about it raining? No chance!

2024-09-11 13:52:48

Inevitably, it started pissing down again as soon as it got here, but new car!

2024-09-09 16:04:19

Different vet today, seemed to be more experienced with ducks. She checked her out, but thought my guess-diagnosis of soft tissue damage in the hip / pelvis was plausible and agreed that there wasn’t anything more to be done. Quite a lot of muscle wastage, she said, so even if she had thought there was a surgical fix she would advise against because of the difficulty doing rehab.
Farewell, limpy duck. Just a little injection.

2024-09-08 18:28:58

Venison, mushroom and beetroot stew with herby dumplings.
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2024-09-08 10:32:07

Bleh. Stayed too long chatting with Mrs DT.
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2024-09-06 21:47:31

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NGL, if it had a bit more land….

2024-09-06 11:50:22

Enough is enough: I’m demoting my popping-to-the-shops shoes to gardening duty and retiring these ones to the bin.
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2024-09-06 10:19:35

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/151998056

2024-09-06 07:04:02

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How’s your mum doing?

2024-09-05 19:51:14

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Oh wow, Rube! That is stunning!

2024-09-04 14:33:17

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2024-09-04 14:31:22

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Yeah, I never understood why NA called it canning. We would say bottling, which makes more sense.

2024-09-04 14:25:13

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I would also guess they had a vegetable garden: there’s very little fresh there other than the celery.

2024-09-03 21:58:12

BBC reporter just described the burqa as a “headscarf”.

2024-09-03 12:23:22

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Fresh coriander seed. Will do something with that and the rest for dinner.
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2024-09-03 11:54:25

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2024-09-01 09:30:17

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I suspect so, yes. I doubt it impinges on his life in any way, other than perhaps relabelled loos at the theatre.

2024-08-31 17:49:14

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They are, but sadly it goes when they’re cooked.
It’s… if you imagine a solid ball of cabbage rib / calabrese broccoli stalk, then breed it to be sweeter and less tough. That’s fairly close.

2024-08-31 17:10:22

Went out to get a kohl rabi, thought “I’ll just check if there are any beans yet…”
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2024-08-31 16:07:33

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I dread to think what the ingredients are.

2024-08-31 10:59:51

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… may bombard you with questions later!

2024-08-30 09:49:59

This instruction is not terribly helpful….
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2024-08-26 18:21:25

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God this makes me angry.
The police found two “almost completely naked” 13-year-old girls, blind drunk “with seven adult Pakistani men”. “South Yorkshire police arrested the thirteen-year-old girl for being drunk and disorderly”, after which she was charged and convicted.
Andrew Norfolk then added, teary-eyed: “They did not even question the men”.

2024-08-26 13:46:22

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I have this one, iirc it was a Lidl Middle buy.
It’s a pretty basic one, but it does the job. Makes a noise but nothing particularly loud / intrusive.
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2024-08-20 10:24:08

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It’s not called “vegan horse riding”, it’s called “hobbyhorsing” or, in Finnish, “keppihevosten”.
It is weird, but I’m not sure it’s much less weird than, say, DrillDance or baton twirling.

2024-08-20 09:47:39

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I mean, it is eighteen years old, it’s not like it owes me anything!
With hindsight, I probably should have scrapped it about two years ago, but I had too much else going on to want to think about it.

2024-08-20 09:32:33

Garage lady called, about what I would expect in terms of what needs doing, but she was making ominous noises about things needing doing “if you decide to keep it beyond next year”….
:(

2024-08-20 08:03:50

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Good luck!

2024-08-19 20:25:45

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Never mind Egypt: wasn’t there a case in Europe (maybe even UK) recently where a father was let off for beating his daughter with a metal pipe because she was wearing make-up to school in order to cover up the bruises where he’d beaten her?

2024-08-19 20:23:18

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If the Guardian disapproves, I’m all in favour!
Seriously, though: they don’t drink, take drugs, have sex, or even leave the house much. Any glimmer of rebellion against orthodoxy is a good sign.

2024-08-19 20:00:45

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It was so dry it was barely yuck, didn’t even bother with rubber gloves, just picked it up in a cloth and then gave it a scrub.

2024-08-19 18:52:16

Oh bleh: it turns out Dog’s atypical nocturnal wandering was because he wanted to throw up.
On the plus side, he did it on a vaguely dog-sick-coloured bit of carpet* and it was basically a pretty dry pile of short, yellow stick-like bits more akin to an owl pellet than anything else.
*which is why I didn’t notice it without my glasses on
(This is, in hindsight, my fault: I pruned the big kales yesterday and gave him the pruning to chew on. I guess they were too woody, which I will remember for next time.)

2024-08-19 10:49:22

Somewhat bemused by the choice of background image for this post on a local FB group!
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2024-08-18 17:13:53

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I don’t think there is one any more, sorry. You might get a second hand book shop to take the lot: that’s what we did, but I don’t think we got more than a couple of hundred quid.

2024-08-18 16:38:06

IDK. It’s giving me Spanish Jesus fresco vibes. Anyone else?
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2024-08-18 10:27:24

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We had several repeats of zoom-drop-zoom-drop!

2024-08-18 09:38:29

I was too busy enjoying watching him enjoy himself to think of getting my phone out, but here’s the closing stages of “Mad Dog in a Hay Field”:
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2024-08-16 20:08:19

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I’m pretty sure £15k guy will do a better job than £15c guy, but. Jesus.

2024-08-16 19:58:53

Jesus.
I want some work doing on the living room, so I’ve been getting quotes.
A guy I’ve used before gave me a ball-park figure of £5000 about six months ago.
I had a guy in earlier in the week, gave me slightly sketchy vibes, quoted me £1600 but excluding redecorating.
Another guy today, £15,000!
Guess I’d better chase the first guy and see if he wants the job….

2024-08-15 21:22:24

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What is it? A stool for very short people?

2024-08-14 20:27:53

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comfrey
Given her liver is probably already stressed by the medication she was on, that’s a hard nope even if I was sure it wouldn’t contaminate the eggs.
cider vinegar
Pretty sure it’s not worms that are the problem.

2024-08-14 20:03:43

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How to keep the duck in it would be an interesting challenge.

2024-08-14 19:33:07

Buggeration.
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2024-08-13 09:57:54

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I really struggled with the arty farty level, spent ages convinced that something like “go” was actually “picture”. I was much happier when I got to the scientists!

2024-08-13 08:47:49

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Oh, I am glad you like it! I thought it was very fun.

2024-08-13 08:25:51

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It’s worrying, but I don’t think the lockdown suggestion was much more than Twitter blather.
The riots seem to have stopped.

2024-08-12 18:37:30

Anyone else finding notifications a bit weird?
I’m getting popups with no actual notification appearing. This may just be related to the general weirdness I’ve been having with notifications.