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Kat 🧀
@brainjumble.bsky.social
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Language, castles, countryside, music, sci-fi, painting/sketches (off and on – work in progress). Dual national (UK/FR). Translator (DE/FR->EN) and proofreader (EN).

Originally from Nottinghamshire; now in Essonne via Oxford, Durham, Hamburg and Geneva.
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I love how varied and colourful fungus can be! 🍄
King Alfred's cakes on a fallen log Two scarlet elfcups among fallen twigs and leaves Tiny purple jellydisc starting to appear on the end of a log Soggy inky cap mushrooms starting to melt away among grass and dead leaves
December 6, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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Husband is back from working in Würzburg. He brought a couple of bottles of local wine and these beer mats as a souvenir because "they sound like what people used to call you when we lived in Germany and it made me laugh" 😂
Some beer mats on a red table. They are square white cardboard with blue detailing and read "Kesselring Brautradition".
November 29, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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Pretty sky this evening 🤩
Peachy golden sunset with clouds lit up and trees and railway infrastructure silhouetted against the sky
November 25, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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Frosty out today 🥶🍄
A young boy wearing a snood and several hats is standing near two doors in a house. Frost-covered beige mushrooms with visible gills on a lawn Witches' butter fungus on a log surrounded by fallen autumn leaves A teeny mushroom growing out from a log covered in moss
November 22, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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France is one of the few remaining countries to provide its potholes with the appropriate training prior to deployment.
Photo of a traffic sign that warns that potholes are forming
November 21, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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De rien 🇫🇷
An edited photo of a dog asleep on its back on a sofa. It has a cigarette and a glass of red wine and the French flag is covering its private parts.
November 14, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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Fair.
🦇
Selfie of a blonde woman grimacing. She has been identified by an app as a giant noctule bat. Photo of the wrinkly face of a brown bat with its fangs showing
November 13, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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Got bored. Meet Duckter Who.
A doodle done on a phone of a mallard dressed in a scarf and hat to look like Tom Baker's Dr Who. He's standing in front of a roughly drawn TARDIS.
November 9, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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Finished my latest #pastel in #art class 🎨
Pastel drawing of a golden pheasant in flight against a blue background on an easel in an art studio with the original picture clipped to the left of it.
November 7, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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Autumn 🍂
Photo of fallen autumn leaves in shades of yellow, red, orange and green.
November 6, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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I love autumn evenings 🥰
A sunset with the clouds lit up in shades of peach and orange. Trees silhouetted against the sky in the bottom right.
November 4, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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Mum sent me this photo of a burst pipe in East Leake. So much to unpick 😅
Photo of a fire station with a burst water pipe to the right firing water into the air and making a rainbow, water floods the road ahead and there is a sign underneath the rainbow saying GOOD. All under a beautiful blue sky.
October 27, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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Autumn 🍂
Fiery red leaves on trees overlooking a river with a bright green lawn on the beta bank
October 25, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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An invitation my mum found for my birthday party when I was little 😂
A paper invitation to a birthday party decorated with plants that reads "Katie *last name hidden* would be delighted if you could come to a birthday party. Date 27 Oct 1984 time 3.30 address Haling Dene Centre room 10."
October 25, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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The time has come for autumnal/Halloween #doodling spam aka orange stuff.

#art #orange #autumn
Sketch of various pumpkins and squashes in metallic watercolour pens in shades of orange and green on black paper Sketch of fly agaric in woodland in autumn shades on black paper Sketch of a red squirrel holding a nut. Watercolour pen on black paper. Sketch of orange bracket mushrooms on a fallen tree trunk and autumn leaves. Metallic watercolour pen on black paper.
October 22, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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I seem to have become addicted to samphire since learning of its existence during the summer. The family is already getting fed up of me using it 😂
Samphire soaking in water
October 19, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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Hello! 🦞
A large crayfish in the water at the edge of a river with moss growing on a rock at the bank and leaves floating in the water
October 19, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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Saw some nice #mushrooms on our walk today 🍄
Orange peel fungus growing among fallen twigs and leaves Red-belted conk growing from the end of a fallen tree with autumn leaves scattered beneath Collared earthstar growing among twigs and leaves Honey fungus growing on a tree stump among moss and ivy
October 18, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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My latest #pastel work is coming along nicely at #art class 🎨
View of a work-in-progress pastel drawing on an easel with other pictures on the wall behind. The original image is pegged to the left. The picture is of a golden pheasant in flight against a blue background.
October 17, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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I was making a pie and daughter decided she wanted a lattice crust.
An oval pie with a golden lattice crust fresh out of the oven sitting on a table
October 11, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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The tradition at the local fête foraine is to have "croustillants hollandais" aka oliebollen 😋
A paper bag filled with freshly fried dough balls covered in sugar
October 11, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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#Mushrooms at the Domaine de Dampierre-en-Yvelines 🍄
Pholiota adiposa. Two round shiny yellow mushrooms with brown spots growing from a fallen moss-covered tree. Beefsteak fungus (Fistulina hepatica). Deep-red bracket fungus growing from old wood. Amethyst deceiver (Laccaria amethystina). Purple mushrooms growing among fallen leaves. Sulphur tufts (Hypholoma fasciculare) growing around the base of a tree stump among moss and fallen leaves
October 5, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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A relaxing Sunday at Dampierre-en-Yvelines 🥰
View of a stately home across a lake with autumn trees around it and a lawn to the left View up to landscaped gardens with fountains and a stately home with moat to the left An old carriage on display in a brick arcade A front view of a golden pheasant looking to the right and its long speckled tail pointing off to the right
October 5, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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Littlest is nine today! Just finished decorating her cake. Hope she likes it 🥰
A chocolate cake on a white plate is sitting on a table. It is decorated with pink and white edible flowers and sprinkles
September 30, 2025 at 7:03 AM
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#BlueskyArtShow #TheRoad
Watercolour painting of a sunset as seen from a road. A body of water is in the distance with wind turbines to the left. Watercolour painting of the garden of a house with a hedge-lined road running past to the left of it and trees in the distance.
September 28, 2025 at 8:43 PM