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John & 🌈 Gotti, getting irritated and acerbic. We cook with chillies, tinker with electronics, listen to music and The Golden Age of Radio. ♏️ https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:sdkxyw2r7xlx5kjhsolgagv6/feed/aaaoqxlqqoqfy

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Big John 😼 @completetripe.bsky.social · Feb 17

Live-skeeting my mental decline.

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Big John 😼 @completetripe.bsky.social · 2h

😸 I think it has to do with all the fluff my towels lost. I’ve been coughing and sneezing since I emptied the filter.

Big John 😼 @completetripe.bsky.social · 2h

The frog is having a spring clean and tickling my throat with a feather duster.

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Big John 😼 @completetripe.bsky.social · 2h

Yes. That’s all I use the dryers up there for. It doesn’t seem to matter how good the machines are, they always shrink my T-shirts. Mind you, this could be because I try to buy the thinnest and cheapest, or I find I overheat.

Big John 😼 @completetripe.bsky.social · 3h

Is the new one drying better?

Big John 😼 @completetripe.bsky.social · 3h

My nice new towels have lost a few pounds in the fabric exerciser!

A thick wodge of green lint extracted from the dryer lint trap

Big John 😼 @completetripe.bsky.social · 3h

I suspect tumble driers do become a fire hazard over the decades, if only because the filters never catch all the fluff, so that has to build up somewhere, providing perfect kindling. Rather like the way flour mills used to explode.

Big John 😼 @completetripe.bsky.social · 4h

They did it up last year. Managed to kill two of the machines in the process, and to my constant irritation, they laid the vinyl across the room rather than the length.

Big John 😼 @completetripe.bsky.social · 4h

A cacophony of rumbles, whirrs, clunks, and hisses!

Up at the laundry room and the Miele kids are doing their work.

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Tracey HalloweeNo™️ @traceyno.bsky.social · 5h

sunday

my whatsapp msg reads “my mum started a sentence something along the lines of
"well the thing with bipolar is" she gets on antidepressants for a year and now she's madsplaining at me”.

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Malcolm & Baby Dog @malcolmandbabydog.bsky.social · 9h

Friends! Ron and Percy NEED to know how the Washing Machine works. They are obsessed with it. I’ve tried to explain but they aren’t understanding me. Maybe they are too young? Or maybe they want to run a Laundry Service when they are older…?

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Big John 😼 @completetripe.bsky.social · 9h

Some nice music on the Soul/Motown station this morning. I’ve given Old Time Radio a miss at the moment, all the noir crime is getting mixed up with my audiobooks. Confusing af.

Big John 😼 @completetripe.bsky.social · 9h

Morning Sue!

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Just Call Me Amanda🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛ @amandabf.bsky.social · 10h

I'd embrace the swamp witch thing but I fucking hate humidity

I hate the whole women can be sexy at fifty narrative. At what age will society stop demanding that I try to be hot and just let me turn into an old swamp witch as nature intended?

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Just Call Me Amanda🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛ @amandabf.bsky.social · 9h

I'm really fucking sick of fucking COLORS being co-opted by political ideologies.

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Big John 😼 @completetripe.bsky.social · 10h

Morning.

It’s becoming like having the Gotcat; outside kitties get fed before my coffee or meds. I guess it will always be that way with me.

Going by the camera log, they must be waiting in the dark, as either Philomena or the tabby and white (dubbed Sundance) appear as soon as I close the door.

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Big John 😼 @completetripe.bsky.social · 21h

Supposed to be a silver bengal, but I suspect her mother had a night out with the milkman. She had all the energy and athleticism of a pedigree bengal though.

Big John 😼 @completetripe.bsky.social · 22h

The strange unpleasant fishy spread in the meagre sandwiches, and the kinds of biscuits that no one likes, and taste of their neighbours in the tin.

#PosternOfFate

Big John 😼 @completetripe.bsky.social · 22h

Christie’s description of the PPC, pensioners club, is spot on to the Monday morning kaffeeklatsch that used to be held in the common room here.

The kind of place that everyone is talking and bickering at once, UNTIL YOU TRY TO SAY SOMETHING PRIVATELY TO SOMEONE, then silence instantly reigns.

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Big John 😼 @completetripe.bsky.social · 22h

“Excessively weak tea” 😹😹😹😹

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Big John 😼 @completetripe.bsky.social · 1d

“Like the trembling heart / of a captive bird”, I find is a very disturbing couplet, in an otherwise beautiful song.

Perhaps that’s the point, it needs to be there as a counterpoint? Idk, I know nothing of songwriting. It worries me though.

#TheFirstTimeEverISawYourFace

Big John 😼 @completetripe.bsky.social · 1d

Korma with a kick is done. Pretty good, needs salt.. that maybe me though. I need to adjust the spices slightly if I make it again. Otherwise turned out pretty much as I wanted.

A large sauté pan containing a golden curry. You can see pieces of chicken, curry leaves, flaked almonds, and diced sweet peppers in the sauce.

Big John 😼 @completetripe.bsky.social · 1d

I’m late with the luncheon service.

5 glossy crows pecking industriously at the mealworms scattered on the lawn.

Big John 😼 @completetripe.bsky.social · 1d

I’ll finish putting the korma together, turn it off and hopefully sleep a bit. Want to shower, but that will wake me right up. I’ll do that later.

No deliveries or anything else due today, so no timing pressures.

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Big John 😼 @completetripe.bsky.social · 1d

That’s as much as I can do until the chicken has defrosted enough to dice. I actually prefer to cut chicken breast when it’s partly frozen, easier with the chop knife, and not so slimy.

Big John 😼 @completetripe.bsky.social · 1d

Knots*