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mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06Mainly for my jewelry and crafts, but also 🐈 cats (11), 🐔 chickens (14!), 📸 photography n' stuff. Then there's a 🐺wolfdog..
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Joined February 24, 2024
📸🐔🐺🍰🌿/ 🇫🇷 / ⬛⬜🟪 / 🟩⬜⬛ / 🟨⬜🟪⬛:
Hermit. Registered micro-business / Artisan || Ships worldwide from France
💎 On Etsy::
#SilentSunday Lone Silver Birch tree in meadow. All the birches look like weeping willows from dehydration in the drought.
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@nixCraft@mastodon.social I read that as "circle-jerk financing" 😂
#Caturday Uncle and Niece.
Their personalities couldn't be more different.
😿 Darcy: cautious and shy nature. Slinks around in silence, rarely speaks.
😸 Amber: Fizzy outgoing ball of frantic energy. Running commentary of meow chirps.
#CatsOfMastodon #BlueCat #cats
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*Massive* thunderstorm (power cuts) Vs Unbothered Cat (Jasper)
#WhiskersWednesday The expression says it all.. 
The things I endure (Darcy)
Vibrating ball of Zoomies and Trouble (Pepper)
#FediCats #CatsOfMastodon #BlackCatsOfMastodon #BlackCat #KittensOfTheFediverse
Some #woodland #fairy #leaf #jewelry, in copper or bronze!
(So sick of heatwaves, craving Autumn already 😩)
🍂 EU based registered artisan
🎃 Custom / alterations welcome
🌄 Ship worldwide (sadly not US yet)
https://www.etsy.com/shop/HerissonRose
#MastoArt #SmallBusiness #ShopSmall #handmade #crafts #FediGiftShop
#WolfWednesday we found a Golden Eagle feather under the cell tower.
Yesterday in sunsets. Watching the skies change all through the walk.
It was so pretty, I missed the time and Lusha's playdate with B the puppy.
Got home to find there's a new wildfire over there (20km away) 😬
(As of this morning, fire is out)
Tis #caturday you say??
The Sisters of #tortitude : Miss Galaxy Eyes, and Miss Creature
✨😼😽🤎🧡
(Cappuccino, Amber)
#CatsOfMastodon #TortoiseshellCat #pets
#caturday The Creature (Amber)
Rumour has it this oddity is cat.
#CatsOfMastodon #tortitude #TortoiseshellCat
LOL *now* I know why garage sale guy threw in the soap dish for free..
5 eur jacket came out of the wash. Discovered zip didn't work - sides kept unzipping.
(Nothing visibly broken - I checked before buying)
But if zip is metal, it's repairable! You will need: eyes, brain, thin nose pliers:
Check:
- Any teeth missing? (Zip needs replacing)
- Any teeth slightly bent?
- Zipper - any part of it bent?
(bingo on 3)
A slight crimp with my long nose jewelry pliers, and voila! Zip works again.
#Mondog AND #TongueOutTuesday bone-us courtesy of Lusha 🐺🎀🍖
What a difference some rain makes.
Yesterday we walked by the river, which was nicely replenished.
The sussurous rush of fast flowing water. Smell of damp forest. Dried out moss instantly springing back into life.
Today: a green fuzz over the dry dead grass pastures.
Dragon's breath clouds rising over the hills. Blackberries suddenly appearing everywhere.
Oh, this so Not Cool in every sense of the term.
I'm in France. In an "extreme" heatwave.
It's "only" 35C in my location, and yet:
(Deep breath, about to say the most bonkers yet technically true sentence in my life:
It is only 2 degrees hotter here than *parts of Siberia*
*Scrolls down, stares in Horror at N Africa, Iran and the Gulf States*(worse)
Here's the GIS map I'm playing with: https://zoom.earth/maps/temperature/#view=58.7,38.7,4z/model=icon
#heatwave #ClimateChange #Heatwave2026
*Scrolls down, stares in Horror at N Africa, Iran and the Gulf States*(worse)
Here's the GIS map I'm playing with: https://zoom.earth/maps/temperature/#view=58.7,38.7,4z/model=icon
#heatwave #ClimateChange #Heatwave2026It's #WhiskersWednesday and Bluebell is unimpressed.
Maybe I yawn at things, maybe I scream at them. Biting is also an option.
Me and and my Screaming Homer Simpson bag* heading off to the #brocante (junk sale)
(*Cost £4 a decade ago and carries my groceries weekly: THE BEST BAG. Brings me joy every time I look at it.
Marie Kondo is right: own stuff that brings you joy..)
Jewelry is all my own, little green bag I sewed leaf and bee appliques to. Denim with a sturdy metal buckle, so should have that for years too.
"Draw me like one of your French girls.."
-Darcy
(I was ill and under my Blanket of Live Cats.
Looked up from my movie to see.. this 😂)
#WhiskersWednesday #CatsOfMastodon #FunnyCat #WhatAreYouDoing
Peak #CherryBlossom season up here, finally.
This was in a neighbour's garden, in the street below mine
#bloomscrolling #flowerstodon #treestodon #FlowersOfMastodon #PhotoOfTheDay #pink
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The Cappuccino is feeling benevolent today.
A second wish (never said I could *grant* your wish, but go ahead and make one anyway..)
#CatsOfMastodon #siamese #cats #CatPhoto
Nice view from our #EveningWalk today.
Peach farm trip today!
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@oheso@ieji.de @firstdogonthemoon@aus.social more suggestions:
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Pervert Peepers / Creeper Peepers
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Spyware Specs (or just SpyWear)
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ASSHOLE SPYFOCALS
A random guy pulled over, asked for directions to the supermarket.
Me: *points*
"Go right, right, then straight on"
I continue walking up the alley. Which is too small for a car to fit.
Exit alley. Loiter a bit. Car has disappeared.
He.. went straight on. The opposite direction to me pointing.. 😂
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@guigsy@mstdn.social @oheso@ieji.de @firstdogonthemoon@aus.social
AI-ssholes works as well.
Crass-holes, Fash-holes, Glassholes.. So many AI-ass(isted) slimy rhym-ey alliterative idiocracies:
#caturday I'd say this kitten is malfunctioning, but this is just Regular Pepper Behaviour.
(They are nearly a year old and still so small! Both tinier than Bluebell.
The feral colony produces Tiny Female Cats. Mutation? Inbreeding?)
#CatsOfMastodon #BlackCats #kitten
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MOO-TORCADE!
How did I not think of that earlier.
(Brain is finally online, up and punning)
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@Starry1086 Oh, hard same! I love to learn, anything and everything. Happiness and child-like wonder, look at all these cool things in the world! Like candy for the brain 😸
Neuroplasticity is like a muscle, if you keep exercising, it stays strong and pliant..
My point was that little kids are *designed* to learn quickly and easily.
Adults have to work a bit harder for it, tho 😅
I did 20+ Coursera courses a decade ago when had more time.
(Time, time is always the problem!)
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@Starry1086 @moonrabbit French is *mild* compared to English.
They both have a multitude of arcane rules, but at least French words are polite enough to (mostly) stick to them.
Meanwhile, Polish would like to have a word (eldrich-ass, un-pronounceable)
I did German at school for a year. Loved it. Lego-brick language!
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@moonrabbit OH!! Snap. You got me.
I've totally sung that before.
(The town heraldry is lit. pine trees and bees)
Trees, bees, and trees n bees.
Trees, bees, n trees n bees,
And Cows and Owls and Champignons and cheese!
Trees bees n trees n bees! (Trees n bees)
It has indeed been a long day (urrgh).
My commiserations re: whatever pernicious happenings are plaguing you over there.
It's everywhere these days. Need to set some bees or angry cows on them.
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@jp_8i8 @LovingFalloutLondon1954
This is beef and timber country, we see a lot of them!
Lusha *loves* cows and horses. But she's also quite jumpy and anxious (being a wolfdog).
I picked her breeder partly because she ran a working farm, and socialised her pups early on w livestock. We've done a lot of training as well.
My great panicky Scooby Doo may jump out of her skin at car horns, gunfire and bags flapping in the wind, but large animals and noisy tractors? Fine 😂
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@Starry1086 @moonrabbit The pro of speaking any Slavic group language (even a little bit), is you can vaguely comprehend the other ones. Buy One, Get More Free.
Was a fun game to play on the London Tube commute.
(These people are speaking.. Not Polish. But I can understand Enough™️ )
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@moonrabbit Alas, they do just Keep On Happening 😓
(At some point this will stop. It HAS to. Entropy, we entreat you! Stop the Things!)
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@moonrabbit Well, there are a LOT of cows here.
Pine trees, bees n' cows!🌲 🐝 🐄
(Apparently, it refers to the little lakes.
There are a lot of bogs and wetlands up here, because of all the rain we (used to) have. Vache was local slang for them)
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@Starry1086 @moonrabbit Both are correct! So it was probably a joke/pun for real.
SO MANY cows around here.
It's not wrong.
My town name is funny as well, but that would doxx me..
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@Starry1086 @moonrabbit Young kids are v neuro-plastic and absorb languages rapidly like sponges.
You lose that by teenhood, so it's 10x harder.
One year of my granny who only spoke Polish, and 4yr old me was fluent.
(Of course, I forgot just as quickly after she went back to help raise my cousin)
But pronouncing the sounds stuck.
I may not speak it any more, but was the only person who could say my classmate's full name.
The other teens just couldn't form the sounds.
(ah yes, wszsz!)
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@Starry1086 @moonrabbit * Hardest learning curve for native English speakers.
Eng to Slavic is pretty steep. Same w Japanese to English.
Totally different sentence structures, mouth sounds.
Oddly French and Polish have lots of similarities, which is why my Polish mother finds speaking in French much easier than I do! Sentence structure almost the same. No inverting the word order!
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@Starry1086 Then you have a skill I am highly envious of!
Can do it for English (Romance / Latin / Norman French roots, vs Celtic, or Saxon German ones)
But for Polish? Embarrassingly I only learned to speak, not read til much later.
(My granny was horribly near-sighted, and struggled to write. WW2 and lack of glasses interrupted her education. She had to teach herself later on)
So the "reading" part I tackled much later too, when it was much harder to learn. (Still not v good at it!)
#SilentSunday I did stagger out on a short dog walk.
We found blackberries, the second spot were actually ripe.
In mid-July.
#blackberries #ClimateChange #fruit #nature #plantstodon
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@picklesaurus@mastodon.social Indeed. The only good thing about hot weather is my Crime Machine is too tired to commit them.
She flops, criminally, and I get some peace for a brief time.. 😹