Perl/Go programmer, lapsed unicycle hockey player, inefficient cooker of eccentric flavours. Servant of @HolmiesAtHome. Slowly moving to @pmh1wheel.bsky.social
Fuck off with your AI slop, @duolingo . I'm not sticking around if you're going to favour burning resources to steal real people's work. Bye bye 2500 day streak, I'm deleting the app
Festive #TwitterBakeAlong: lemon-drizzled ginger loaf cake for mother-in-law's 80th birthday, and a plain one for us. Mincemeat swirls and very spicy dried fruit and nut swirls. Ginger mead ice cream with little bits of stem ginger
ALT A ginger loaf cake with lemon icing drizzled on top
ALT A circular ginger cake
ALT Mincemeat pastry swirls and dried fruit & nut pastry swirls
ALT A fruit and nut pastry swirl in a bowl with a rough scoop of ice-cream
Spotted Dick for #GBBOTwitterBakeAlong#DessertWeek although someone else made and froze the "custard" (aka ice cream). And since it's #BritishPuddingDay, it was an opportunity to finally eat the spare haggis that's been lurking in my freezer since Burn's Night
ALT A spotted dick pudding on a plate
ALT A slice of spotted dick in a large bowl with dark thin syrup drizzled over it and a scoop of ice cream
ALT A plate with a baked potato, a couple of slices of steamed swede, and a lot of haggis
#FMSPAD 17/10 Dramatic clouds: I wouldn't pay for today's performance, but it was a lot less boring than the unbroken grey of the previous few days #FMS_DramaticClouds
ALT Random white and light grey clouds in a blue sky
#FMSPAD 14/10 Wildlife: More like the opposite, I'm afraid: urban death. (I did see a squirrel in the last couple of days, too sprightly for my camera, but also a dead badger and a dead fox) #FMS_Wildlife
ALT Two flies on a window sill: one right side up and probably alive, one on its back and almost certainly not
#FMSPAD 11/10 Birds in flight: I did see a magpie within a few feet of me, but it quickly hid in a tree then made loud mocking noises before I could get my camera ready, so this brace of extremely distant crows was the best I could manage #FMS_BirdsInFlight
ALT A blue sky with two tiny black dots in the middle
ALT A yarn bombed post box. The top is covered in a giant knitted orange and black striped "beret" with a small macrame tree growing out of the centre. A gnome is sitting on a swing hanging from one of the branches, and there are various fabric pumpkins around the base
#FMSPAD 7/10 Greenery: Still my favourite place for a forest bathing ride. Worth the aggravation to the pain in my hip which getting there caused today #FMS_Greenery
ALT A paved country road through a very green wood. The densely packed trees are tall and almost meet high above the road