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Lunacy Towers

@lunacytowers.bsky.social

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Carnivore. Worships at the altar of Pinot Noir. Thinks anybody using the word 'pop' should be beaten to death with a doilie. Slovenly housekeeping a speciality. Can't cook Yorkshire Puddings.

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Lunacy Towers @lunacytowers.bsky.social · 11h

I used to have 07:30 meetings with my colleagues in Australia.
On a Monday. 🤬

Lunacy Towers @lunacytowers.bsky.social · 14h

And I didn't even notice. 😬

Lunacy Towers @lunacytowers.bsky.social · 6d

There's always time for food bollocks. ❤️

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Lunacy Towers @lunacytowers.bsky.social · 8d

Remember the porridge advert where kids were surrounded in a red haze? Well, people went home exuding a strange purple fug.

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Bethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social · 9d

I have been traveling and today I present to you...the thing I saw in the Frankfurt airport.

Is it efficient? Undeniably. Does it probably work better than the normal way? Oh certainly. Produce less of a mess? Probably?

But the existence of Condiment Udders gives me a deep, aghast disquiet.

A hotdog and pretzel stand with large hanging bottles of mustard, ketchup, and mayonnaise. The bottoms contain squeeze tubes to dispense the condiments.

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Lunacy Towers @lunacytowers.bsky.social · 8d

ONE clove of garlic is for amateurs.

Mind you, we used to cook a dish called "Chicken stuffed with 50 cloves of garlic" which a guest misunderstood as 50 heads.

Much confusion ensued : "Well, HOW exactly? It can't all fit in there?! WHAT SIZE IS THE CHICKEN?!!

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Lunacy Towers @lunacytowers.bsky.social · 10d

THIS!

Lunacy Towers @lunacytowers.bsky.social · 10d

It's even better when you tell them they owe you money and they agree. 😁

Lunacy Towers @lunacytowers.bsky.social · 10d

Then there was another blue tit that came into the dining room, no doubt to complain about the tardy top up of seeds.

This morning we had a squirrel scrabbling about the kitchen window. God knows what that wanted to come and complain about...

Lunacy Towers @lunacytowers.bsky.social · 10d

Last week, we had a blue tit make its way into one of the bedrooms, probably to lodge a formal complaint about the bird feeder not having been topped up. We thought it had flown out but it was later found in the bathroom. Just to make life interesting, it was sat on the (closed) window handle.

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Lunacy Towers @lunacytowers.bsky.social · 11d

Are you aware of www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...?

BBC Radio 4 - Curious Under the Stars

Comedy drama set in Glan Don, a mysterious village perched on the wild Welsh coast.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Wurmpth Furdber @purelava.bsky.social · 12d

Re-reading The Devil's Horn by Micheal Segell and this part about how many times Adolphe Sax was almost killed as a child never gets less incredible.

When he was two Adolphe fell down a flight of stairs, smashed his
head on a rock, and lay comatose for a week. A year later, toddling
around his father's atelier, he mistook sulfate of zinc for milk, gulped
it down, and nearly expired. Subsequent poisonings involved white

lead, copper oxide. and arsenic. He s swallowed a needle. burned him-
elf severely on a stove, and waS badly scorched again by exploding
s
gunpowder, which blew him across the workshop floor. He was
agaln rendered comatose Dy a heavy slate tile that dislodged from a
roof and anded
on his head. When
villager lappened
was ten,
to spot the drowning lad when, after falling into a river, he was ed-
dying, facedown and unconscious, in whirlpool above 2 miller's
gate. The villager just managed to pluck him from the warer. Before
ne entered adolescence, his head was scarred by the repeated blows.
side of his body was badly disfigured by burns.

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Lunacy Towers @lunacytowers.bsky.social · 11d

Oh, bravo sir. 👏

Lunacy Towers @lunacytowers.bsky.social · 14d

It's quite the experience, isn't it? I doubt I could afford it now. 😬

Lunacy Towers @lunacytowers.bsky.social · 14d

And I consider "helping" being any variation from rolling up my sleeves and cooking for a crowd to standing well out of the way, chatting, and topping up your wine glass.

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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 15d

Absolute pure chef's kiss. A company called Ugmonk have invented pieces of paper to make notes on as a way to stay offline. One of them is a ring-binder notebook ugmonk.com/en-gb/collec...

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Jane Hill @janehill.bsky.social · 14d

This thread is wonderful.

Peter Chilvers @peterchilvers.com · 15d

The BBC are accidentally running the subtitles to Mrs Marple over the Mercury Prize, and it’s rather wonderful. A few of lines could plausibly have been written by Jarvis.

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 15d

The name for the emotion experienced when moving effortlessly forward on one side of a motorway and seeing traffic in the opposite direction at a standstill is "strassenfreude".

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 18d

Okay, I just learned about FOG TSUNAMIS, which look a hundred times more alarming - see picture. Good lord, the ways the natural world trolls us for the lulz:
oceanservice.noaa.gov/ocean/weird-...

Photo by Capt. Jim Freda, Manasquan Inlet, New Jersey, of a fog tsunami looking exactly like the real thing as it rolls ashore. YIKES.

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Simon Hendy @simonhendy.bsky.social · 19d

A father and ~12yo son cycling up a moderate slope, with the son clearly beasting his dad.
Father: "I'm in pain, don't tell me to 'come on'"

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Lunacy Towers @lunacytowers.bsky.social · 19d

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The Man in Seat 61 @seatsixtyone.bsky.social · 20d

Dinner at the Lasg restaurant on Blythewood Square, in a genteel Georgian part of Glasgow I didn’t know existed - but only 10 minutes walk from Central. Big fan of mussels, these were superb. I reckon Edinburgh gets all the attention, Glasgow is hiding its light under a bushel…

Lunacy Towers @lunacytowers.bsky.social · 23d

Saw this some time ago and was able to actually find it again.

Would buy a teapot like that at the drop of a hat. 😀

i.redd.it/o39fj53uj0kc...

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Lunacy Towers @lunacytowers.bsky.social · Sep 28

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Lissa Evans @lissakevans.bsky.social · Sep 28

Husband is reading a political biog which contains this fantastic anecdote about George Brown, the boozy Deputy Leader of Harold Wilson’s cabinet:

Lunacy Towers @lunacytowers.bsky.social · Sep 27

Oh, she's certainly worth reading more about. I forget which bio of hers I read 20+ years ago, but there was a quote from Stavros Niarchos about having spent enough on her to buy a boat, and her responding that he had spent enough in her to float it.

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Lunacy Towers @lunacytowers.bsky.social · Aug 26

Thank god it wasn't a squirrel.