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Isabel Rogers

@isabelrogers.bsky.social

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Writer. Relatively chirpy. Stockwell Park Orchestra series, and sometimes poetry. isabelrogers619 on instagram https://farragobooks.com/book-series/the-stockwell-park-orchestra-series isabelrogers.org

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Isabel Rogers @isabelrogers.bsky.social · 13h

exactly all of this. I'm not religious but Francis and Leo seem to be good at it.

Isabel Rogers @isabelrogers.bsky.social · 20h

They were used to me being close to the feeder as I pottered about, and it kind of went on from there.

Isabel Rogers @isabelrogers.bsky.social · 20h

Doomed to be a pleb then. ah well

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Isabel Rogers @isabelrogers.bsky.social · 20h

Coal tit startled away from a snack, by another coal tit. Looks sunny but this was only last week.

coal tit mid-takeoff from my hand (holding seeds), wings outstretched, flight feathers unfurled

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Isabel Rogers @isabelrogers.bsky.social · 20h

It's mainly me resting my phone somewhere comfy and pressing the button a lot. While trying to tell Zig not to eat all the dropped seeds.

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Isabel Rogers @isabelrogers.bsky.social · 20h

Do I have to grow my hair long?

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Isabel Rogers @isabelrogers.bsky.social · 21h

It has an ending with less jeopardy in the next post!

Isabel Rogers @isabelrogers.bsky.social · 21h

5) damn it. I'll just stand on this green hedge thing and wait for my turn
6) right, you've got yours. Creep forward 3...2...1
7) at last

fin

Underling on my arm (covered in green jumper), watching other coal tit select its seed

Other coal tit has big fat sunflower seed in its beak. Underling has hopped forward to my cuff, but still on jumper

Underling reaches forward and snaffles seed. PHEW. This all took about two seconds. It's all go

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Isabel Rogers @isabelrogers.bsky.social · 21h

Today in Coal Tit Adventures, a plucky underling's story in 7 parts:
1) approach from underside for stealth
2) peep higher to scope out sitch
3) all clear?
4) yes! the seed is MINE WHOA NOPE NOPE INCOMING ABORT GO TO SAFE HUMAN HEDGE

my hand holding sunflower seeds throughout
dominant coal tit currently eating on my palm. we can just see the head of Underling peeping over the ends of my fingers, which it is gripping from the underneath, having landed upsidedown on a black ops mission

Underling's shoulders now visible, while dominant finishes choosing seed

Dominant gone. Underling looks hungrily at seed on now hand empty of birds

Underling midflight as it was aiming for the seed but (out of shot) another dominant is coming in to land. It's all feathers and feet and confusion

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Isabel Rogers @isabelrogers.bsky.social · 1d

YESSSSS. Changed my life completely

Isabel Rogers @isabelrogers.bsky.social · 1d

*snort* I'm guessing (could be wrong) you're talking prose. Now imagine editing some poets. lawks

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Andrew Male @andrewmale.bsky.social · 1d

So many times. And the only two writers who have ever told me they don’t like being edited were a) men b) assholes and c) wrong.

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 1d

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 1d

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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Isabel Rogers @isabelrogers.bsky.social · 1d

I can only imagine the conversation he was having at his dream cocktail party. He was definitely being snarky about someone.

Isabel Rogers @isabelrogers.bsky.social · 1d

*nibbles* hmm doesn't taste right but I'll put it in anyway

Isabel Rogers @isabelrogers.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, that's true. And the crumbly lintel is in a different place - haven't heard about that yet. It could well be worse than I even know. BUT foundations dug for extension so that is kind of exciting.

Isabel Rogers @isabelrogers.bsky.social · 1d

There is nothing more adorable. NOTHING

Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 1d

www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Imd...

Rescue beavers making little dams out of assorted stuff is a top tier drug

Rescue beaver makes Christmas dam in house

YouTube video by Holley Muraco

www.youtube.com

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Isabel Rogers @isabelrogers.bsky.social · 1d

I'm going to need all the upbeat anecdotes I can muster, after today... (saggy section of wall needs to be taken down completely and rebuilt)

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING

In a new video, Dolly Parton, the Queen of America, says she’s going to be ok.

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Isabel Rogers @isabelrogers.bsky.social · 1d

We get all sorts.

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 1d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Isabel Rogers @isabelrogers.bsky.social · 1d

I occasionally pass a house with a permanent front garden display: astroturf, double swing seat, two life-size mannequins dressed according to the season, surrounded by about a million flowerpots. That does not convey how creepily disturbing it is.

Today the owner was there too. Did NOT disappoint.

Jesse from The Fast Show emerging from his shack, tousled long grey hair awry, trousers held up with baling twine, wellies with turndowns, rumpled open neck shirt under a filthy padded jacket

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Isabel Rogers @isabelrogers.bsky.social · 2d

have a little lie down

Isabel Rogers @isabelrogers.bsky.social · 2d

Best to clarify. Wouldn't want to set an error-strewn Tony rumour loose.

Isabel Rogers @isabelrogers.bsky.social · 2d

oh yes indeed

Isabel Rogers @isabelrogers.bsky.social · 2d

this light, man

(not even any pano shot or filter - this is how it bloody looks)

low sunlight over field with rough reedy patches and birches and conifers across the burn on the hill. Distant hill a perfect shallow cone. Clouds swirl overhead but the sun shines in from the west through a clear patch. Greens and golds and browns and all autumnal colours PUT THEM STRAIGHT INTO MY VEINS

closer view of the turning birches on the near hill, which when I took the pic were flickering in the breeze

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