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I wear a lot of wool. Not set fire to the kitchen for years now. Cats and hens can dispose of evidence: they are thorough but slow. Denizen of #Wulferhampton. In real world North West England. Mostly happy.
Good morning #Wülferhampton!
3rd of December and behind today's Spudvent calendar window is

Cara!

A reliable, heavy-yielding maincrop potato with good disease resistance. Rounded, pink-skinned tubers with shallow eyes and floury white flesh. It is excellent for baking, roasting, and chipping.
December 3, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Incidentally, Clovis has more keg than he can use locally.
December 2, 2025 at 10:17 PM
AI is run by David Icke?

You have to prevent the lizard illuminati robbing the banks and running the world.
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December 2, 2025 at 9:59 PM
And having gone on about eating dead animals, here is tonight's dinner.
Courgette, feta, sun-dried tomatoes, olives and breadcrumbs.

It'll look dandy when it's cooked.
December 2, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Ghost Pirates!
And Other Revenants of the Sea!
How could one resist!
December 2, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Morning @ashashman1.bsky.social. I trust your spudliness is well?
Good morning #Wülferhampton!
2nd of December, and behind today's Spudvent calendar window are Kestrel.
A personal favourite, these versatile little beauties are usually ready from mid-July, and can be used as new potatoes after first earlies, or stored like main crops. Beautiful purple eyes.
December 2, 2025 at 5:34 AM
Good morning #Wülferhampton!
2nd of December, and behind today's Spudvent calendar window are Kestrel.
A personal favourite, these versatile little beauties are usually ready from mid-July, and can be used as new potatoes after first earlies, or stored like main crops. Beautiful purple eyes.
December 2, 2025 at 5:21 AM
Unusually for me, not sleeping well.
On the plus side, I have just farted a near perfect rendition of the opening notes of 'Smoke on the Water'.
Unfortunately, only the cat witnessed this miracle of sphincter-music, and I'm not sure he fully appreciated what he heard.
December 2, 2025 at 5:11 AM
Good morning, #Wülferhampton!
Today is the 1st of December, and behind today's Spudvent calendar window is...
A Pentland Javelin!
A high-yielding, first-early potato variety known for its waxy, creamy-white flesh and good disease resistance.
A fine potato!
December 1, 2025 at 7:42 AM
I consider myself a connoisseur of bad films, but this takes the biscuit. I want to see it even more than I want an antique fox mask.
Apparently, it has

sentient & carnivorous seaweed

glowing-eyed Prehistoric octopus

the bartender is killed by a giant hermit crab

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Los...
The Lost Continent (1968 film) - Wikipedia
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November 30, 2025 at 6:24 PM
As the viva looms on Tuesday, Mrs Mac is becoming more a rabbit of negative euphoria.
I have Tuesday off in order to keep the cat away from the room where the viva is, and dispense tea.
November 30, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Mooched around Lytham: bought dvd* of Full Metal Jacket in a charity shop.
A film I wanted to show to daughter, so that'll be a fun pre-Christmas family movie night.
We don't decorate until 23rd. Now we've good reason: would you watch that amidst jolly Santas & stuff?

*don't understand streaming.
November 29, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Mrs Mac has her MRes viva on Tuesday.
I am helping her prepare.
I have asked Copilot to pull together a set of questions and am asking them.
Frankly. I am only understanding one word in 10, but hoping that looking interested can br mistaken for being intelligent.
November 29, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Outbid!
I now no longer have to worry, buti was rather looking forward to having a fox mask.
There'll be others.
November 28, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Mrs Mac has her viva for her MRes on Tuesday. She is now both panicking and going in for displacement activities.
I got in and I had piles of folded clothes.
She is now looking, in detail, at the post grad regulations to guess what the viva may end up as.
Now in the Malpractice Regulations.
November 27, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Shh. No-one say anything, but there is a train on time.
Pretend you haven't noticed: we don't want to scare it.
November 27, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Still don't have the auction update on the fox mask, but it has already been invaluable.
Met daughter, she was a little upset about a mark she got.
Told her about the fox mask, and that she can't tell her mother.
Ye gods, it cheered her up!
November 27, 2025 at 6:27 PM
I have accidentally (deliberately) put a bid in for a 1916 mounted fox mask. It is winning so far.
How do I:
a. Explain this to Mrs Mac
b. Convince her that I was sober when I did so (I was)
c. Work out where to put the chuffing thing.
November 26, 2025 at 9:08 PM
You've just died.
The 6th picture in your phone gallery is what killed you.
November 26, 2025 at 8:48 PM
I do keep looking at taxidermy.
I'll be honest, im tempted.
bid.gerrardsauctionrooms.com/auctions/946...
Taxidermy Interest - Red Fox Mask (Vulpes vulpes), mounted on a wooden shield. Label to verso
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November 25, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Mrs Mac has a sister.
Mrs Mac's sister is a little large.
Mrs Mac has suddenly started thinking about her sister's bra size.

I feel like I am with a feminine Withnail, uttering the female equivalent of, "Imagine the size of his balls."
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November 22, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Right, it's gone five.
Not had a drink yet, but i think the prospect of alcohol later will strengthen my resolve.

I'm going to read that Guardian interview with Danny Kruger.

Wish me luck.
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November 22, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Wid boar sausage stew tonight.
Everything except the spuds in the slow cooker.
Mrs Mac has been hankering after wild boar recently: i found a source for the sausages.
I hope they don't have a permanent effect.
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November 22, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Bloody cricket.
November 22, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Goodnight, Wülferhampton.
In bed with a good book and a large armagnac.
Sleep well.
I shall wake intermittently and check the cricket score.
November 21, 2025 at 11:27 PM