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Cooking, reading, knitting, gaming and occasionally playing DnD or being outdoors (but all the fun things are currently taking second place to a mid-life career change that involves studying).

She/her.
In the UK.
One from the archives for #SundayPix #SundayPixSky - sunset on the north Cornwall coast, November 2018.

A priest, a pastor, and a rabbit walked into a clinic to donate blood. The doctor says to the rabbit: "What's your blood type?"

"I'm probably a Type O", the rabbit replied with great sadness.

I met a heron :)
that saying "getting all your ducks in a row" is so stupid I mean how could that even ha-

Spending my Saturday morning introducing my partner to the Carlisle Experiment, where the UK government nationalised all the pubs in Carlisle in 1916 and only sold them off in 1973 because it was embarrassing that they were so successful. #history #socialhistory

https://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/pubs-vs-first-world-war/
https://www.morningadvertiser.co.uk/Article/2016/07/25/The-extraordinary-story-of-nationalised-pubs-during-the-First-World-War

The Carlisle Experiment - limiting alcohol in wartime - The National Archives blog

One of the early casualties of the First World War was, in many respects, the community pub or the liberal consumption of alcohol on licensed premises.

The National Archives blog
every time I see a bee I think of this

"Covid testing is being scaled back even further in England from April.

It is part of the "living with Covid" approach that relies on vaccines to keep people safe."

If you're going to pursue a vaccine-only approach you need to offer people the vaccines.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-65127635

Covid testing scaled back further in England

It is part of the "living with Covid" approach that relies on vaccines to keep people safe.

BBC News

Hey, curvy girls who love to sew! I found a wonderful database of patterns in sizes to fit every shape and size. No more searching for designers who carry your size!

I'm attaching the imperial size chart, but they also have metric.

https://curvydatabase.com/designer-database-imperial/

#Sewing #Sewist #Curvy #MakeYourOwnClothes #Handmade

The Designer Database - Imperial - The Curvy Pattern Database

To filter the database using your own measurements enter your bust, waist, and/or hip measurement (in inches) below in the “from” boxes. Leave the upper range limit in place to prevent excluding companies from the …

The Curvy Pattern Database

That thing where we decided you stay at home and don't come into the office and cough all over people when you're sick was good, can we go back to that please?

Meanwhile, if anyone wants me I'll just be over here counting down the timer to when I inevitably come down with whatever plague the person at the next desk has today.

1990s web experience

- Open site in browser
- Watch framework of site gradually appear
- Start reading site text
- View images once they load
- Click a hyperlink to more information on the thing you're looking for

2020s web experience

- Open site in browser
- Wait for Cloudflare to verify you aren't a bot
- Wait for background movie to load
- Dismiss cookie popup
- Decline to subscribe to their mailing list
- Decline to speak to a chatbot that promises it's a human
- Scroll infinitely looking for the information you want that's probably not there since it's all generated text intended for other robots to read anyway