Believer in the redemptive powers of green spaces, good books, & a strong coffee. Rewiring things through coding, walking, & hours on the allotment. Remote-work fan, front-end dev, & an enthusiastic liker of your photographs.
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Last Notes npub140e76zkv6gk583ezl4mcqpguu7c8l079z64204c6yuwywnk7fg7s5fc2gd clarebee the dopamine boost of buttery fresh sweetcorn, 15 mins from allotment to plate npub140e76zkv6gk583ezl4mcqpguu7c8l079z64204c6yuwywnk7fg7s5fc2gd clarebee It's indefensible. Was estimated back in 2024 that shareholders had extracted £85.2bn from the water/sewage industries, while letting crucial infrastructure fall into disrepair. npub140e76zkv6gk583ezl4mcqpguu7c8l079z64204c6yuwywnk7fg7s5fc2gd clarebee sign it's been a bit of a long week: when you're shelling broad beans and you suddenly get moved to tears by the sheer perfection of these velvety pods, these pristine beans, and how fucking amazing it is that all this grew from a single tiny speck. npub140e76zkv6gk583ezl4mcqpguu7c8l079z64204c6yuwywnk7fg7s5fc2gd clarebee my mum sent me this today and it made me want to cry. npub140e76zkv6gk583ezl4mcqpguu7c8l079z64204c6yuwywnk7fg7s5fc2gd clarebee like, why can i not remember that a walk, a change of scene, even doing the washing up, helps solve the bug a million times more effectively than 'just focus harder for longer' npub140e76zkv6gk583ezl4mcqpguu7c8l079z64204c6yuwywnk7fg7s5fc2gd clarebee the worst thing about hyperfocus is that it doesn't guarantee success npub140e76zkv6gk583ezl4mcqpguu7c8l079z64204c6yuwywnk7fg7s5fc2gd clarebee feeling more yourself in the company of curlews and lapwings. tapping into the deep-brain avian part of the self npub140e76zkv6gk583ezl4mcqpguu7c8l079z64204c6yuwywnk7fg7s5fc2gd clarebee trying to navigate hard times without becoming a hard person npub140e76zkv6gk583ezl4mcqpguu7c8l079z64204c6yuwywnk7fg7s5fc2gd clarebee Reminds me of this article from last year - about how the top 50 UK families own more than the bottom 50% of the population. npub140e76zkv6gk583ezl4mcqpguu7c8l079z64204c6yuwywnk7fg7s5fc2gd clarebee Reviving this classic. npub140e76zkv6gk583ezl4mcqpguu7c8l079z64204c6yuwywnk7fg7s5fc2gd clarebee ... npub140e76zkv6gk583ezl4mcqpguu7c8l079z64204c6yuwywnk7fg7s5fc2gd clarebee periodic reminder not to judge yourself according to values you don't subscribe to npub140e76zkv6gk583ezl4mcqpguu7c8l079z64204c6yuwywnk7fg7s5fc2gd clarebee walk home through dark fields, hoot of an owl somewhere thrillingly close - the sudden collapse of centuries: this very same sound, this very same field npub140e76zkv6gk583ezl4mcqpguu7c8l079z64204c6yuwywnk7fg7s5fc2gd clarebee Up and out on Boxing Day - low winter sun in Littondale to lift the spirits. npub140e76zkv6gk583ezl4mcqpguu7c8l079z64204c6yuwywnk7fg7s5fc2gd clarebee Favourite festive tradition - hot soup from a flask, followed by Irish coffee, tucked into the shelter of the wall. Soundtrack of stream & a cold north easterly whistling through the hawthorns. npub140e76zkv6gk583ezl4mcqpguu7c8l079z64204c6yuwywnk7fg7s5fc2gd clarebee sharing in case, like me, you're in dire need of clean winter light on white bark; sky a medicinal-strength blue; the proof of a reality in all its glorious is-ness. npub140e76zkv6gk583ezl4mcqpguu7c8l079z64204c6yuwywnk7fg7s5fc2gd clarebee "There's another world, and it's this one." npub140e76zkv6gk583ezl4mcqpguu7c8l079z64204c6yuwywnk7fg7s5fc2gd clarebee Oh wow - the subtle shifts in colour, so beautiful! npub140e76zkv6gk583ezl4mcqpguu7c8l079z64204c6yuwywnk7fg7s5fc2gd clarebee Yikes - nice false choice there, Bill: "climate change measures OR disease prevention". npub140e76zkv6gk583ezl4mcqpguu7c8l079z64204c6yuwywnk7fg7s5fc2gd clarebee hey, trusty weather folk of Mastodon - what's causing the weird gusts of wind we're getting in the North of England? (it's not just my perception, right? It really IS more windy...?) npub140e76zkv6gk583ezl4mcqpguu7c8l079z64204c6yuwywnk7fg7s5fc2gd clarebee Down on the allotment, admiring the neighbour's harvest - more apple than tree. Feels like this year was a bumper one for apples/pears/plums/damsons. npub140e76zkv6gk583ezl4mcqpguu7c8l079z64204c6yuwywnk7fg7s5fc2gd clarebee The best way to get out of your head. npub140e76zkv6gk583ezl4mcqpguu7c8l079z64204c6yuwywnk7fg7s5fc2gd clarebee Escape from the marketplace. npub140e76zkv6gk583ezl4mcqpguu7c8l079z64204c6yuwywnk7fg7s5fc2gd clarebee For any fellow otroverts out there. The simple comfort of having a thing articulated. npub140e76zkv6gk583ezl4mcqpguu7c8l079z64204c6yuwywnk7fg7s5fc2gd clarebee "I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood." npub140e76zkv6gk583ezl4mcqpguu7c8l079z64204c6yuwywnk7fg7s5fc2gd clarebee 5000 years old - older than Stonehenge, older than the Pyramids - yet somehow instantly familiar and weirdly cosy. There's stone furniture, cupboards, pottery, and even a drainage system flowing into the ocean. npub140e76zkv6gk583ezl4mcqpguu7c8l079z64204c6yuwywnk7fg7s5fc2gd clarebee Skara Brae, Neolithic village on the Bay of Skaill, Orkney. npub140e76zkv6gk583ezl4mcqpguu7c8l079z64204c6yuwywnk7fg7s5fc2gd clarebee #sheepOfMastodon #nature npub140e76zkv6gk583ezl4mcqpguu7c8l079z64204c6yuwywnk7fg7s5fc2gd clarebee strimming, planting, pruning, digging, lifting, raking - fastest track to getting out of your thoughts and into the body npub140e76zkv6gk583ezl4mcqpguu7c8l079z64204c6yuwywnk7fg7s5fc2gd clarebee This, a million times this. The visual 'busyness' of the dashboard actually made me irate! npub140e76zkv6gk583ezl4mcqpguu7c8l079z64204c6yuwywnk7fg7s5fc2gd clarebee I don't want a touch-screen interface, I don't want a phone-like dashboard. Please just give me buttons and dials and silence. npub140e76zkv6gk583ezl4mcqpguu7c8l079z64204c6yuwywnk7fg7s5fc2gd clarebee So, first time today driving an electric manual car. And can't help thinking that however much it makes things 'easier' in terms of automation, it makes just as much harder in terms of visual/cognitive overload, unintuitive controls, absence of haptic feedback, and aggressive hectoring beeps. npub140e76zkv6gk583ezl4mcqpguu7c8l079z64204c6yuwywnk7fg7s5fc2gd clarebee The Iron Age Broch of Gurness, Orkney, c.2000 years old. npub140e76zkv6gk583ezl4mcqpguu7c8l079z64204c6yuwywnk7fg7s5fc2gd clarebee Last night swifts circling and swooping high overhead for their evening feed. A bird's world and we just live in it. npub140e76zkv6gk583ezl4mcqpguu7c8l079z64204c6yuwywnk7fg7s5fc2gd clarebee Aesthetics: tropical npub140e76zkv6gk583ezl4mcqpguu7c8l079z64204c6yuwywnk7fg7s5fc2gd clarebee Let me never hear again that women are too emotional to lead. npub140e76zkv6gk583ezl4mcqpguu7c8l079z64204c6yuwywnk7fg7s5fc2gd clarebee At dusk, a large brown hare jumping from lane to stone wall top in one easy bound. Low swoop of curlews over moorland, hefted shaggy-fleeced Dalesbred with their lambs, the sharp peep of oystercatchers somewhere overhead. A few hours out in the open - Knotteranum, Bowland Knotts, Eldroth, Wham, a liturgy of placenames that evoke another time altogether. Never not transformed by this. npub140e76zkv6gk583ezl4mcqpguu7c8l079z64204c6yuwywnk7fg7s5fc2gd clarebee Seriously. Check out that jaunty pose. npub140e76zkv6gk583ezl4mcqpguu7c8l079z64204c6yuwywnk7fg7s5fc2gd clarebee Cutie patootie. npub140e76zkv6gk583ezl4mcqpguu7c8l079z64204c6yuwywnk7fg7s5fc2gd clarebee "All shall be well" npub140e76zkv6gk583ezl4mcqpguu7c8l079z64204c6yuwywnk7fg7s5fc2gd clarebee Just in case, like me, you're in need of something wholesome to start a new week: Betty's Reading Room by the dock in Tingwall, Orkney. npub140e76zkv6gk583ezl4mcqpguu7c8l079z64204c6yuwywnk7fg7s5fc2gd clarebee Now nerding out on the almost inconceivable geology of it all: "The Moine Thrust Belt was formed during the Scandian orogenic phase Caledonian Orogeny cycle as part of the collision between Laurentia and Baltica." - the lyric poetry of deep time! npub140e76zkv6gk583ezl4mcqpguu7c8l079z64204c6yuwywnk7fg7s5fc2gd clarebee #SheepOfMastodon with ghostly outlines of Assynt's "inselberg" - "Island Mountains" - in the distance. Canisp, Suilven, Cul Mor, Cul Beag, Stac Pollaidh and Quinag: a whole archipelago of Torridonian sandstone rising up out of Lewisian Gneiss, peat bogs and lochs. Nothing like a few billion years of slow-motion tectonic collisions to put human history to scale. npub140e76zkv6gk583ezl4mcqpguu7c8l079z64204c6yuwywnk7fg7s5fc2gd clarebee Spring in Dentdale. npub140e76zkv6gk583ezl4mcqpguu7c8l079z64204c6yuwywnk7fg7s5fc2gd clarebee Little black knees. npub140e76zkv6gk583ezl4mcqpguu7c8l079z64204c6yuwywnk7fg7s5fc2gd clarebee What an amazing human. Found this interview with her: https://bletchleypark.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/record_attachments/2416.pdf npub140e76zkv6gk583ezl4mcqpguu7c8l079z64204c6yuwywnk7fg7s5fc2gd clarebee Fellow Northern Brits - what seeds are you sowing out already? npub140e76zkv6gk583ezl4mcqpguu7c8l079z64204c6yuwywnk7fg7s5fc2gd clarebee you can't binaural-beat your way out of slow-motion societal collapse npub140e76zkv6gk583ezl4mcqpguu7c8l079z64204c6yuwywnk7fg7s5fc2gd clarebee hello npub140e76zkv6gk583ezl4mcqpguu7c8l079z64204c6yuwywnk7fg7s5fc2gd clarebee Yet another benefit of Remote working - no one can see the soil under your fingernails after a bit of lunchtime weeding. npub140e76zkv6gk583ezl4mcqpguu7c8l079z64204c6yuwywnk7fg7s5fc2gd clarebee First proper session on the allotment in '25 & the uncomplicated dopamine swell of outdoor physical work on a spring day. npub140e76zkv6gk583ezl4mcqpguu7c8l079z64204c6yuwywnk7fg7s5fc2gd clarebee Prescribing myself a daily lunchtime walk as a matter of priority. Snowdrops, stat. npub140e76zkv6gk583ezl4mcqpguu7c8l079z64204c6yuwywnk7fg7s5fc2gd clarebee humaning and understanding all the different ways that other people human. hard. npub140e76zkv6gk583ezl4mcqpguu7c8l079z64204c6yuwywnk7fg7s5fc2gd clarebee On the one hand: deep winter, dark mornings, subzero nights. On the other: Imbolc, Pagan springtime, the first Zwartbles lambs in a field up the road, the green nub of new growth. Leaning into hope in spite of everything. npub140e76zkv6gk583ezl4mcqpguu7c8l079z64204c6yuwywnk7fg7s5fc2gd clarebee And today in long shadows... npub140e76zkv6gk583ezl4mcqpguu7c8l079z64204c6yuwywnk7fg7s5fc2gd clarebee And those long winter shadows! npub140e76zkv6gk583ezl4mcqpguu7c8l079z64204c6yuwywnk7fg7s5fc2gd clarebee Taking the bins out in the cold and the dark and the rain tonight, so here's one from Friday to offset the adulting blues - blustery sunshine, last hints of snow on the tops, those billowing clouds! npub140e76zkv6gk583ezl4mcqpguu7c8l079z64204c6yuwywnk7fg7s5fc2gd clarebee Ha, yeah, I realise it's a bit of an oxymoron, but worth a try. Trying to make '25 be about agency. npub140e76zkv6gk583ezl4mcqpguu7c8l079z64204c6yuwywnk7fg7s5fc2gd clarebee Hey UK mastodon folk - any recommendations for a non-evil bank that you've had a good experience with? Looking to detox, service by service. npub140e76zkv6gk583ezl4mcqpguu7c8l079z64204c6yuwywnk7fg7s5fc2gd clarebee ever feel like you're running out of time to become smart? so much to know, so little time. trying to be content with slight progress, fractional improvement, keenly aware of the mountains of things that will remain unclimbed. is this basically a midlife crisis? npub140e76zkv6gk583ezl4mcqpguu7c8l079z64204c6yuwywnk7fg7s5fc2gd clarebee #SilentSunday npub140e76zkv6gk583ezl4mcqpguu7c8l079z64204c6yuwywnk7fg7s5fc2gd clarebee Another for #Fensterfreitag npub140e76zkv6gk583ezl4mcqpguu7c8l079z64204c6yuwywnk7fg7s5fc2gd clarebee The introvert selfie: when long winter shadows make their way into shot. npub140e76zkv6gk583ezl4mcqpguu7c8l079z64204c6yuwywnk7fg7s5fc2gd clarebee Anyone else dreaming of a festive period spent in the wilds? One of the best memories - up near Applecross, no frills, whiskey in the morning coffee, ice cold bedrooms and needless to say, no wifi. Bliss. npub140e76zkv6gk583ezl4mcqpguu7c8l079z64204c6yuwywnk7fg7s5fc2gd clarebee Nothing like growing your own veg to remind you that eating vegetables isn't necessarily vegan. Creepy crawlies in the cabbage... npub140e76zkv6gk583ezl4mcqpguu7c8l079z64204c6yuwywnk7fg7s5fc2gd clarebee Fast-fading light on a Sunday afternoon, Moughton Scar in the distance, a cold wind that gets right behind the eyes and clears things away. npub140e76zkv6gk583ezl4mcqpguu7c8l079z64204c6yuwywnk7fg7s5fc2gd clarebee The daily constitutional npub140e76zkv6gk583ezl4mcqpguu7c8l079z64204c6yuwywnk7fg7s5fc2gd clarebee #SilentSunday #nature #landscape npub140e76zkv6gk583ezl4mcqpguu7c8l079z64204c6yuwywnk7fg7s5fc2gd clarebee An old one from November in Glen Nevis, to feed the longing for elsewhere that seems to have settled into my bones these past few months. npub140e76zkv6gk583ezl4mcqpguu7c8l079z64204c6yuwywnk7fg7s5fc2gd clarebee Hazy autumn light softening the edges of things. npub140e76zkv6gk583ezl4mcqpguu7c8l079z64204c6yuwywnk7fg7s5fc2gd clarebee Why do 'tough decisions' always seem to target the worst off? npub140e76zkv6gk583ezl4mcqpguu7c8l079z64204c6yuwywnk7fg7s5fc2gd clarebee #SilentSunday npub140e76zkv6gk583ezl4mcqpguu7c8l079z64204c6yuwywnk7fg7s5fc2gd clarebee Recent discovery: Celia Fiennes, who between 1684-1703 rode side-saddle through every county in England. npub140e76zkv6gk583ezl4mcqpguu7c8l079z64204c6yuwywnk7fg7s5fc2gd clarebee Secret location vibe. npub140e76zkv6gk583ezl4mcqpguu7c8l079z64204c6yuwywnk7fg7s5fc2gd clarebee Trees make me happy. npub140e76zkv6gk583ezl4mcqpguu7c8l079z64204c6yuwywnk7fg7s5fc2gd clarebee - Muppet GIF of the Day [@GIFS_of_Puppets](https://ohai.social/@GIFS_of_Puppets ) npub140e76zkv6gk583ezl4mcqpguu7c8l079z64204c6yuwywnk7fg7s5fc2gd clarebee "All I needed for the mind was to be led to new stations. All I needed for the heart was to visit a place of greater storms." npub140e76zkv6gk583ezl4mcqpguu7c8l079z64204c6yuwywnk7fg7s5fc2gd clarebee Cushion addiction - so, is this a phenomenon or is it just me? Like, you buy one, it looks lonely, you buy it a friend, and before you know it, your home is more cushion than house. Is it because it's autumn? A maladaptive hibernation thing? Help. npub140e76zkv6gk583ezl4mcqpguu7c8l079z64204c6yuwywnk7fg7s5fc2gd clarebee Small white house on the hill. npub140e76zkv6gk583ezl4mcqpguu7c8l079z64204c6yuwywnk7fg7s5fc2gd clarebee #SheepOfMastodon #nature #landscape npub140e76zkv6gk583ezl4mcqpguu7c8l079z64204c6yuwywnk7fg7s5fc2gd clarebee Pro tip: temporarily assuage the urge to quit tech and be a carpenter in the woods by buying flat pack furniture. npub140e76zkv6gk583ezl4mcqpguu7c8l079z64204c6yuwywnk7fg7s5fc2gd clarebee And a view down onto the patchwork quilt of Swaledale, sunlight on Reeth. npub140e76zkv6gk583ezl4mcqpguu7c8l079z64204c6yuwywnk7fg7s5fc2gd clarebee View from the gate post. npub140e76zkv6gk583ezl4mcqpguu7c8l079z64204c6yuwywnk7fg7s5fc2gd clarebee 2% tax on people with >= £10 million - 0.04% of the UK pop - would raise £24 billion a year. npub140e76zkv6gk583ezl4mcqpguu7c8l079z64204c6yuwywnk7fg7s5fc2gd clarebee Big sky, empty mind. npub140e76zkv6gk583ezl4mcqpguu7c8l079z64204c6yuwywnk7fg7s5fc2gd clarebee Clearing out the day - big gusts of wind, last of the light. npub140e76zkv6gk583ezl4mcqpguu7c8l079z64204c6yuwywnk7fg7s5fc2gd clarebee I feel like gifting yourself poetry is peak self-care. npub140e76zkv6gk583ezl4mcqpguu7c8l079z64204c6yuwywnk7fg7s5fc2gd clarebee September's poet of choice is: npub140e76zkv6gk583ezl4mcqpguu7c8l079z64204c6yuwywnk7fg7s5fc2gd clarebee The surreal experience of wearing winter jumpers and turning on lights in the middle of the day at the tail-end of August. Apparently it was 28 degrees in London today? Meanwhile it's all a bit Winterfell up North. npub140e76zkv6gk583ezl4mcqpguu7c8l079z64204c6yuwywnk7fg7s5fc2gd clarebee Can you find the horses? npub140e76zkv6gk583ezl4mcqpguu7c8l079z64204c6yuwywnk7fg7s5fc2gd clarebee Underrated self-care tip: getting rid of that one fork that 'feels weird' so you never have to use it again. npub140e76zkv6gk583ezl4mcqpguu7c8l079z64204c6yuwywnk7fg7s5fc2gd clarebee The absolute irony of a judge claiming climate protestors deserve a 4/5-yr jail sentence for planning “the biggest disruption in British modern history”. npub140e76zkv6gk583ezl4mcqpguu7c8l079z64204c6yuwywnk7fg7s5fc2gd clarebee A stone wall feels like an entire ecosystem unto itself! npub140e76zkv6gk583ezl4mcqpguu7c8l079z64204c6yuwywnk7fg7s5fc2gd clarebee I have a theory that dappled light is a kind of nervous-system-calmer - like white noise for the body.
