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Lighthouse Wifie

@lighthousewifie.bsky.social

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Human. Host. Hootizen. History geek. Likes tea, hot-water bottles, social justice, knitting, nuanced opinions, & sleeping. Enjoys debate but blocks abuse. Look North. That's where I live. Hence the hot-water bottles.

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Lighthouse Wifie @lighthousewifie.bsky.social · 1h

We have one of these. So simple. So elegant. So much garlic, so crushed.

A Joseoh Joseph garlic crusher - it is curved piece of stainless steel, with holes at the apex of the curve

Lighthouse Wifie @lighthousewifie.bsky.social · 9h

I have just discovered you can get transparent electrical plugs. I have no need for new plugs, but now I want to re-plug the entire house!

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Lighthouse Wifie @lighthousewifie.bsky.social · 9h

Better to look like one, than to eat one!
Sending hugs.

Lighthouse Wifie @lighthousewifie.bsky.social · 9h

I hear you.

It's like that.

You get habituated to a certain amount of energy or spare time, and when that changes, it's hard to overthrow your habituated boundaries.

Lighthouse Wifie @lighthousewifie.bsky.social · 15h

Pic in previous post - honeysuckle wallpaper by William Morris, who said you should have nothimg in your house you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.

To be fair, I am not fond of Morris's designs - too twirly swirly for me - but I am very fond of honeysuckle

Lighthouse Wifie @lighthousewifie.bsky.social · 15h

So.... Sunday....

A gentle day. Learning a new board game. The satisfaction of cleaning out a corner of the kitchen and throwing thimgs away.

Friends. Dogs.

I do wonder if I should replace doom-scrolling with jigsaws.

Honeysuckle design for wallpaper by William Morris

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Lighthouse Wifie @lighthousewifie.bsky.social · 1d

Poor puss

Lighthouse Wifie @lighthousewifie.bsky.social · 1d

Sending anaelgesics, healing vibes, and coffee

Lighthouse Wifie @lighthousewifie.bsky.social · 1d

And some excellent red pepper soup.

Lighthouse Wifie @lighthousewifie.bsky.social · 1d

Plus tea. Always tea.

Lighthouse Wifie @lighthousewifie.bsky.social · 1d

I try not to do #soblessed posts, but yesterday started with a sauna on a beach, and ended with the Northern Lights behind the lighthouse.

But it was hanging out with my friend, sharing hopeful shifts on our worlds - theirs and mine - that made it a good day.

It's us, not our backdrops that count.

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Lighthouse Wifie @lighthousewifie.bsky.social · 2d

I thought for a while that I was Granny Weatherwax in training, but realised after a while I was more like Nanny Ogg. No mean witch, outsources her housework, drinks mainly apples &, it has to be said, has (& is) a lot more fun!

I 🧡 Gytha Ogg

These days I am more Old Mother Dismass than either.

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Lighthouse Wifie @lighthousewifie.bsky.social · 2d

Friday's good things....

⭐️ Some stonkingly excellent professional recognition for me & my team

📝 Getting this month's main deliverable publishable, scheduled & ready to go

🏖 My honey arranging some very much needed down time: more rest & recovery than rest & recreation

Random pic taken in error

Close up of curved pieces of metal or rubber, it is hard to tell what they are

Lighthouse Wifie @lighthousewifie.bsky.social · 2d

That makes some sense. Crossing all my appendages.

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Lighthouse Wifie @lighthousewifie.bsky.social · 3d

This is the content I came here for. Get much better soon. Xxx

Lighthouse Wifie @lighthousewifie.bsky.social · 3d

I am not sure this is the positive message @flogasbritain.bsky.social think it is.

#gaslight #gaslighting

A board outside a shop saying "Lighten the Load with Gaslight" promotimg light, portable camping liquid gas canisters.

Lighthouse Wifie @lighthousewifie.bsky.social · 3d

... so every time you go to the lavatory there it is vitally important to get a receipt."

The late, and very great Douglas Adams, in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

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Lighthouse Wifie @lighthousewifie.bsky.social · 3d

"...the fabulously beautiful planet Bethselamin is now so worried about the cumulative erosion by ten billion visiting tourists a year that any net imbalance between the amount you eat and the amount you excrete whilst on the planet is surgically removed from your bodyweight when you leave: (1/2)

Lighthouse Wifie @lighthousewifie.bsky.social · 3d

And god knows (and I mean that as literally as an atheist can), god knows the men need telling that children need protecting more than they do.

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Lighthouse Wifie @lighthousewifie.bsky.social · 3d

I am, as you'd expect, Team #Mullally, so far as it's appropriate for a lapsed Anglican to be in a team at all.

She seems an impressive woman, with experience of leading a national organisation.

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Lighthouse Wifie @lighthousewifie.bsky.social · 3d

The Anglican Church..... oh, my, do they even make enough popcorn?

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Lighthouse Wifie @lighthousewifie.bsky.social · 3d

Yesterday's good things.....

(Remembering yesterday is an important part of my practice: it's harder than thinking about today, & it helps me sift my experiences).

So... yesterday's good things....

A blether with my neighbour
A new mop for sweeping the floor
Playing board games with my honey

Lighthouse Wifie @lighthousewifie.bsky.social · 3d

Sending love

Lighthouse Wifie @lighthousewifie.bsky.social · 4d

Projection is a thing. They are looking at their own soul, not you, dear heart.

Lighthouse Wifie @lighthousewifie.bsky.social · 4d

That is WONDERFUL!