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Liz Crew

@lillput.bsky.social

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Digital-Inclusion-preoccupied pensioner for @techresort.bsky.social . Loves excellent beer. From Bristol but mostly living in coastal Sussex. Martello Tower-botherer. Occasionally codes for fun. Owns more cameras & boardgames than is reasonable.

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Liz Crew @lillput.bsky.social · 5d

Oh yeah, those are the words I really want to see on my PC that 'just needed a little Win11' update: 'Your keyboard is disabled whist we update your firmware...'

Liz Crew @lillput.bsky.social · 9d

Elements - really engaging (albeit about 10 years old) chemistry podcasts with Justin Rowlatt and Andrea Sela

Liz Crew @lillput.bsky.social · 15d

Can also recommend leftover fish pie used as toast-toppers on sourdough toast. That was this week's revelation for me.

Liz Crew @lillput.bsky.social · 18d

Mostly Chaotic Evil with my own books. Typically Chaotic Good with other people's.
A previous partner would dispute the Chaotic Evil stance because he always said he liked to see at what point a previous reader had paused - I liked that.

Liz Crew @lillput.bsky.social · 20d

Hahahahahahaha! Fantastic, thank you

Liz Crew @lillput.bsky.social · 21d

Help! Pub conversation: is the Mos Eisley Cantina Theme in Star Wars IV a Charleston? It had never occurred to my OH. I've only ever heard it as a Charleston... please advise

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Liz Crew @lillput.bsky.social · 21d

Unintended consquences: ex-ministers are dis-incentivised from seeking another position.
Perhaps requiring them to complete a "journal" demonstrating that they are seeking alternative positions, undertaking training or volunteering and reporting to a job coach on a regular basis could help?

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Liz Crew @lillput.bsky.social · 26d

Barley Mow or Little Martha are very convenient places to recover from travel. Martha also having a convenient pasty-annexe until 3pm

Liz Crew @lillput.bsky.social · 26d

Holiday. Best pub in town.

View of the interior of a traditional pub showing pub memorabilia on the wall behind church pew seating

Liz Crew @lillput.bsky.social · 28d

This, in the York Tap, on York station. Around the other side of the circular bar was a full complement of Timmy Taylor beers. Allowed myself a smirk

A cask ale pump clip saying 'Bristol Bitter' by New Bristol Brewery

Liz Crew @lillput.bsky.social · Oct 4

Liz Crew @lillput.bsky.social · Oct 4

Hey, Toto, we're not in Kansas any more...

Liz Crew @lillput.bsky.social · Oct 3

I wonder when the press will make it about another wave of defections to "Our Lady of the We don't like women in ministry". I'm an atheist, and I get tired of it...

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Liz Crew @lillput.bsky.social · Sep 29

If he does go to church, sounds awfully like he's not actually listening to what's being said...

Liz Crew @lillput.bsky.social · Sep 28

Catholic Cathedral also a thing of loveliness - Cathedral Church of SS Peter and Paul

Liz Crew @lillput.bsky.social · Sep 22

So, you can tell it's autumn. We've just made a large batch of hot and sour green tomato curry paste. Most has gone into the freezer for winter meals.

Liz Crew @lillput.bsky.social · Sep 22

Oh! and the phone picked up a LOT quicker than expected. Still no resolution as such but I am armed with a few more facts, at least.

Liz Crew @lillput.bsky.social · Sep 22

Another day, another interminable call queue at HMRC. At least I haven't been put through their IVR system, and an extra bonus of the hold music swapping between two tunes - at least that's a novelty.

Liz Crew @lillput.bsky.social · Sep 21

More adult gardening today. Where adult = remembering to do jobs at the right time. Spring me will congratulate autumn me for spending time planting narcissus bulbs

Liz Crew @lillput.bsky.social · Sep 16

I think I have them all. We buy them, regularly at auction and in secondhand vinyl shops for our 1960's juke boxes. Duplicates are frequent - so end up in boxes in the loft. In the auction house we use, lots of more interesting (Northern Soul, Ska, Reggae) labels regularly sell for >£1000

Liz Crew @lillput.bsky.social · Sep 15

Indeed. This was about 8 years ago. Today me would have told him to fuck off.

Liz Crew @lillput.bsky.social · Sep 15

I one met a professional colleague in a pub for a business meeting. It's a pub which is usually very quiet during the day and there are several different areas to sit in.
He sat almost right next to us and after a while he told us we were ruining his pub visit because we were talking about work.

Liz Crew @lillput.bsky.social · Sep 4

I don't know about productivity in other areas but I suspect a more granular representation of Surrey, E&W Sussex and Brighton and Hove would show how things skewed are in some places.

Liz Crew @lillput.bsky.social · Sep 1

The glamour of being the COO of a tiny, underfunded CIC. Saturday- QAing old laptops to be donated to clients and fixing door locks with a pair of pliers.
Yesterday sewing replacement seat backs for our loved, but tatty chairs for clients.
Today was all about writing funding bids.Beer O'clock?

Liz Crew @lillput.bsky.social · Aug 31

Owchie!
This one has a retractable blade but my injury occurred in use - partly because I kinda needed to use it with my right hand...and I'm not right-handed.