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BrightAire @brightaire.bsky.social · 1h

Ha. It comes to all of us. You'll have come across the Kurt Vonnegut quote - "we were born to fart about". Embrace it for a bit at least. It good just to be out and about and taking it in.

BrightAire @brightaire.bsky.social · 1h

Get well soon Travis. I used to feel this way more than I do now. Partly I've learned to return to exercising sooner than I previously allowed, partly I reframed what constitutes exercise and stopped letting it define me too much. Sorry if this constitutes unsolicited advice. I hope you feel better.

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BrightAire @brightaire.bsky.social · 2h

No building today and a pause while I await the delivery of more materials - roofing and cladding - but the frame is complete.

Also my old body is a bit battered by several days of manhandling tree trunks, boards and hand-tool use. I've enjoyed the activity but a break is welcome.

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BrightAire @brightaire.bsky.social · 2h

I'd challenge any reasonable person to guess the sentence from the headline alone and not come up with something measured in years.

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BrightAire @brightaire.bsky.social · 10h

I've only visited a couple of times, mainly to visit The Deep with my kids. It was sad, as with too many northern cities, to see so much evidence of decline. I was heartened to stumble across a memorial to the International Brigades, though. Maybe another visit's in order...

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BrightAire @brightaire.bsky.social · 2d

Slow progress today. Lots of trial and, especially, error. The mortice and tenon joints on the wind braces don't bear too close scrutiny but that's half of them done.

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BrightAire @brightaire.bsky.social · 2d

Lots of learning and improvisation going on today- cutting mortices and tenons, fitting the wind braces.

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BrightAire @brightaire.bsky.social · 2d

Lots of learning and improvisation going on today - cutting mortices and tenons, fitting the wind braces.

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BrightAire @brightaire.bsky.social · 3d

More of the framework completed today. All the structural rails fixed in place. A roof joist fitted and a start made on the wind braces.

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BrightAire @brightaire.bsky.social · 3d

😊

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BrightAire @brightaire.bsky.social · 4d

The story of The Shipley Alder has been taken up by the BBC. Grace has really put across the warmth and humour of Yorkshire Spoon Club. It's a nice story amid plenty of grim news ATM.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 4d

"The prickly seed-shucks of the chestnut have fallen and burst open, some of them spilling the brown conkers out of the soft linings that have contained and nourished them“
Artist: CF Tunnicliffe
Writer: EL Grant Watson

A weasel standby a small log, surrounded by horse chestnut leaves and conkers

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BrightAire @brightaire.bsky.social · 4d

Garden craft refuge taking shape. The rescued remains of a tree house are being reused.

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BrightAire @brightaire.bsky.social · 7d

Done. Fairly happy with how it's turned out. My chip carving is pretty shonky (more practice needed) but it gives a nice effect. Painted with milk paint and finished with walnut oil.

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BrightAire @brightaire.bsky.social · 10d

It's only as an adult that I came to understand, through play-work, that I had any capacity for art and creativity. It's brilliant that these kids are encouraged to think differently.

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BrightAire @brightaire.bsky.social · 10d

Love it! Great creativity. The kids of North Newton Primary seem like fun guys...

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BrightAire @brightaire.bsky.social · 10d

An alder tree blew down, in Storm Amy, in my local town centre last weekend.

The contractors said I could "take it all" so I took a few lumps.

The wood is now becoming all sorts of craft projects among me and my Yorkshire Spoon Club friends. I roughed out a little trinket bowl from it today.

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BrightAire @brightaire.bsky.social · 13d

Phase one of my green-roofed shelter project, at work, has turned out brilliantly. The young people worked really well with our contractor to finish it.

It'll be a developing canvas for all sorts of projects - events, exhibitions and activities.

Now for phases two, three, four...

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BrightAire @brightaire.bsky.social · 15d

Are you travelling with a haunted wardrobe?

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Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 16d

While the Internet has had an impact, the main cause of the death of high streets is the out-of-town retail park. Any council which gave planning permission to a retail park only has themselves to blame for the destruction of their city centre.

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BrightAire @brightaire.bsky.social · 16d

Do you think that tent pole's sturdy enough?

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BrightAire @brightaire.bsky.social · 16d

Another crack at basket-weave kolrosing. The spoon is rowan. I used cinnamon and walnut oil for the staining.

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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 17d

“A full harvest moon is rising, though it is still only twilight”

Artist: CF Tunnicliffe
Writer: EL GrantWatson

A barn owl is perched on a wall at dusk. A full moon has risen in the still blue sky above a small village.

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BrightAire @brightaire.bsky.social · 19d

I fear you may have spoken in haste...

Stay dry.

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BrightAire @brightaire.bsky.social · 19d

Lord knows how much the lawyers claimed, duking it out for about 4 months.