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Ian Peacock 🇺🇦 🏳️‍🌈 🇪🇺🇵🇸🇬🇧🇩🇰

@ianpeacock.bsky.social

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Misanthropic idiot. Personal assistant to small dog. Manchester. You might have heard me on Radio 4.

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Ian Peacock 🇺🇦 🏳️‍🌈 🇪🇺🇵🇸🇬🇧🇩🇰 @ianpeacock.bsky.social · Nov 9

Eddie

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Michelle Mann @michellemybelle75.bsky.social · 17h

Le Poète avec les Oiseaux
The Poet with the Birds
~Marc Chagall

#art #chagall

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Ewamore, Quoth the Raven @ewacat.bsky.social · 13h

My dad put my mum's glasses on the dog

Poor Bramble the Welsh and Norfolk terrier cross - looking very fluffy atm - in my mum's round-rimmed tortoiseshell glasses in a look my dad described as "professorial"

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Godzillou 🇨🇦 @godzillou.bsky.social · 12h

Un oiseau qui a son nid proche du Louvre 😉

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Ian Peacock 🇺🇦 🏳️‍🌈 🇪🇺🇵🇸🇬🇧🇩🇰 @ianpeacock.bsky.social · 18h

My postman is spitting feathers. People are putting those ‘Do not enter’ Halloween tapes on their front doors and, in the process, totally sealing off their letterboxes. I told him he should take a pair of scissors on his round tomorrow. #halloween

Ian Peacock 🇺🇦 🏳️‍🌈 🇪🇺🇵🇸🇬🇧🇩🇰 @ianpeacock.bsky.social · 1d

Bumped into the Two Ronnies last night - two neighbours’ dogs called Ronnie. Both friends of Eddie. There’s sausage Ronnie and fluffy Ronnie. Fluffy Ronnie’s mummy was in tears as he was ill and might have to be put to sleep today. I spent today fretting but just saw him and he’s fine. Woot woot!

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 2d

Look, I am warning you. Do not click on an advert for frying pans on Instagram. It doesn't matter how curious you are. It doesn't matter how knackered you current pans are. All you will see for months are ads for pans. They will follow you everywhere. They will never stop.

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Los Angeles Times @latimes.com · 3d

Wild bear stealthily enters California zoo, is found visiting the bear exhibit

A wild black bear took a jaunt around a Northern California zoo and was spotted visiting its bear neighbors.

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Ian Peacock 🇺🇦 🏳️‍🌈 🇪🇺🇵🇸🇬🇧🇩🇰 @ianpeacock.bsky.social · 2d

Not at all 🙂🐶

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Pipeski @pipeski.bsky.social · 2d

Very sweet when properly ripe. Some are just sweet, with not much else going for them; the better kinds are very rich, with elements of jam, honey, and red wine. They pair well with savoury things - salads, cheeses, charcuterie, and so on, and can be used in cakes and puddings.

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Ian Peacock 🇺🇦 🏳️‍🌈 🇪🇺🇵🇸🇬🇧🇩🇰 @ianpeacock.bsky.social · 2d

My lodger was shocked on walking into the kitchen and finding me listening to Manchester rapper #Aitch I explained that I’m quite a fan, despite being 100. I love the fact that he refers to roads around here as if they’re riddled with gangsters. I’m now listening to Salif Keita, who I once met.

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Ian Peacock 🇺🇦 🏳️‍🌈 🇪🇺🇵🇸🇬🇧🇩🇰 @ianpeacock.bsky.social · 2d

Yes - normally - and delicious. This one, being my first on a youngish tree in northern England, was slightly tangy but most pleasing.

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Diane McLean @mystikpiglit.bsky.social · 2d

I have never eaten a fig. Is it a sweet fruit?

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Susie M @wrathofgodherself.bsky.social · 2d

deep mysterious portals to another land...

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Nectarinie (she/her)🍑🍩🧡 @bibliobebe.bsky.social · 2d

First Fig

Edna St. Vincent Millay
1892 –
1950

My candle burns at both ends;
It will not last the night;
But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends—
It gives a lovely light!

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Ian Peacock 🇺🇦 🏳️‍🌈 🇪🇺🇵🇸🇬🇧🇩🇰 @ianpeacock.bsky.social · 2d

My first fig, grown in the garden in … Manchester 😮

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Derek May @derekmay.bsky.social · 3d

Image Credit: Buddy LOL 🐶
After playing in the field, these two settled down for a still shot.
@aurawellnesscenter.bsky.social

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 4d

Built as a set for silent films in 1920, THE WITCH’S HOUSE was moved lock stock & barrel in the mid 20’s to Beverly Hills by film producer Ward Lascelle.

Recently refurbished by its new owner it’s unsurprisingly long been a mecca for Los Angeles kids on Halloween.

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F.L. Everett @fliceverett.bsky.social · 5d

Just heard my husband saying irritably to the dog, "what do you mean, 'woof'?"

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Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 3d

Storytelling Methods Alter How Memories Are Stored in the Brain, Neuroscientists Find www.scientificamerican.com/article/stor...

Your Brain’s Memory of a Story Depends on How It Was Told

Telling the same story in different ways can change the brain networks that the listener uses to form memories

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Mary @mjwyatt.bsky.social · 5d

Cascade foothills at sunset last night. 🧡☀️

Cascade foothills at sunset. Dark landscape and trees with light green deciduous trees, rolling foggy hills behind, orange sky above, topped with jagged gray clouds.

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Dr Sue Oosthuizen @drsueoosthuizen.bsky.social · 5d

Such empathy with these huddled beasts on a 10th/11thC whalebone chesspiece, perhaps a rook or a bishop, snuggling up against cold and damp autumn days…
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