Edit: identified by Fediverse friends as a White Admiral!
Can anyone help me identify this butterfly? It came to this saucer I put out for them, but was a little too close to the timestamp on the bottom of the video. (Ignore the date, I had forgotten to sync the time after charging the battery.) I think it's a kind of Admiral, just not sure. Very poor quality closeup crops from the video are in the first comment.
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So I said to Zaz (while Steven was laughing at me) "why don't you wedge yourself just there, behind that window latch the way you like to do? No, not in front, although that's cute, too. Just behind. There that's it. Very nice. Now look up to see if there's a hummingbird at the feeder..."
And she did just as she was asked. You might laugh, but she really did. ... Obviously she understands every word I say. I wish I understood half of what she says to me.
Have a happy #Caturday everyone who celebrates! From us all here in Nova Scotia.
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Does your community pay you to cycle to work?
This is shocking!
But also I'm now moving to Belgium. (Or I would do, if I were still working and commuting).
Tip: watch right to the end...
Tesco's UK - help!
Edit: All fixed. It was apparently the fact that the time on my computer was Canadian time, which caused the glitch.
Thanks to those who helped! What a great place is the Fediverse!
If anyone has any way of contact
ing Tesco's in the UK, I would love it if you could report to them that their online (website} delivery booking calendar is up the shute.
I'm in Canada and order grocery deliveries for my 95 year old disabled father-in-law in the UK. He lives alone and cannot leave his home. Without this grocery delivery he would be in trouble.
For the past few weeks their booking system has been one day out. So, in order to book a Sunday afternoon delivery, I had to watch carefully and book it for Saturday. This meant it would deliver on a Sunday.
Today, in order to get that Sunday delivery, the calendar is such that you have to choose Friday as delivery day. That way it actually books you in for Sunday's date. If you didn't know that this was happening, you would be caught totally unawares and not get your groceries on the day you needed them.
This is confusing to me, although I know to watch carefully for what the confirmation says and I change the day accordingly. This must lead to total chaos for those who aren't aware that this is happening!
I have no way of contacting Tesco's to tell them about this. Their contact seems to be telephone only. Surely I can't be the only person who is ordering online deliveries from Tesco's?
If anyone can help, I would really appreciate it. I can't imagine how, but I thought it was worth throwing out there to the Fediverse.
Please boost for reach if you have UK followers. Thanks all!
My May bedroom window view.
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Today it's Ping Pong's #caturday day.
Ping Pong (FKA Pangolin) is our shyest and most skittish cat.
Her worst fears are often realised.
She is my foreshadow, moving silently in front of me, where every second she risks tripping me up or being stepped on, and this has happened more than once. If she can't arrange for you to step on her, she will somehow contrive to turn suddenly and bang painfully into you anyway, regarding you reproachfully as if you attacked her.
However she's very affectionate, and will sometimes sit on your lap, if you have a blanket on it. But she will not be picked up for more than 4 seconds, before struggling to get down. She's afraid of heights but you can see that she would love to climb up on the cupboards where Zaz perches. Sadly it seems she can see no safe way to do so.
We love her in spite of (or because of) her peculiar ways. So today here she is to celebrate Caturday with you all!
Have a good one, friends, and watch your step. There could be a cat under your foot.
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I can't help thinking that all these coincidences can't just be coincidence.
For example, this morning Steven was watching a video which featured Norah Jones singing Pink Pony Club, which he's never heard of before in his life. He came downstairs and checked his Mastodon feed, and someone is sharing a performance of Pink Pony Club as the first post he sees. Coincidence?
There was a tiny little caterpillar crawling across my placemat as I'm about to have lunch. I carefully take him outside to put him on the ground and find his twin on our step. I have never seen this particular kind of caterpillar before. And I don't see any others now. Coincidence?
Too weird.
Ellie Kennard
