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Curiosity Cat

@curiositycat.bsky.social

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Always wanting to know what's around the corner & over the horizon, & determined to find out. (Avatar & banner is painting of a kitten in an upturned umbrella, at sea with high waves on either side, floating toward the sunrise.) Art by Petra Brandström

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Curiosity Cat @curiositycat.bsky.social · 1d

*So* much effort - of all kinds. 😔 Sending strength, and may it be done with more smiles than tears. 💛

Curiosity Cat @curiositycat.bsky.social · 1d

I don't understand; why are YOU trying to negotiate? Aren't woodpeckers very SMALL dinosaurs? Why don't you send the very BIG ants to kind of go 'Hey fellas? How are things?' Or the giant ceiling cockroaches?

Nothing threatening. Maybe a little casual antenna grooming. Dinos might retreat! 👍

Curiosity Cat @curiositycat.bsky.social · 1d

I realise this is a writing prompt - but this is so lovely. 💙

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Curiosity Cat @curiositycat.bsky.social · 1d

💛 to all but the last bit. 😬

Curiosity Cat @curiositycat.bsky.social · 2d

I am only just seeing all this now, and I am SO GLAD it all worked out as well as it did!! 🎉

Curiosity Cat @curiositycat.bsky.social · 3d

💯 🎉 💛 😊

Curiosity Cat @curiositycat.bsky.social · 3d

Have you seen this? It is not weird, but it *is* wonderful. 😊

emergencemagazine.org/feature/seas...

Seasoning a Kid: A Search for a Practice of Place – adam amir

Filmmaker adam amir takes his young son Rumi out to meet each season with annual practices welcoming the return of snow, migrating animals, blossoms, and berries.

emergencemagazine.org

Curiosity Cat @curiositycat.bsky.social · 4d

No need to apologise AT ALL. 🥰

Curiosity Cat @curiositycat.bsky.social · 4d

💯

(At times like this, we need a way to 'like' something more than once.)

Curiosity Cat @curiositycat.bsky.social · 4d

YES 🤩

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Radio Lento @radiolento.bsky.social · 4d

Such a lovely story 👇

Lydia Massiah @lydiamassiah.bsky.social · 5d

This could be a long and rambling thread. Be patient with me.

I bought an old mahogany bureau on Ebay. I didn't really want a bureau as we're meant to be downsizing, but it was a beautiful piece & obviously very old. Google lens suggests the brass chased handles are Queen Anne. That's 1702-1714 😯

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Curiosity Cat @curiositycat.bsky.social · 4d

Okay, that made me laugh - thank you! 😄

Curiosity Cat @curiositycat.bsky.social · 4d

And fried up all the mushrooms after? YUM! 🤤

Curiosity Cat @curiositycat.bsky.social · 5d

😄 It was on an expedition with John Wright (author of The Forager's Calendar & others) - who is *great* by the way & if you ever have a chance to go out with him, DO! 😀

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Curiosity Cat @curiositycat.bsky.social · 5d

🤩 🤩 🤩

Curiosity Cat @curiositycat.bsky.social · 5d

@premeemohamed.com

Have you seen this? 🤩 What a great start to my day! 😊

cen.acs.org/food/ferment...

Why yogurt fermented with live ants is so delicious

Scientists explore a traditional Balkan recipe that uses the insect and its microbiome as fermentation

cen.acs.org

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Curiosity Cat @curiositycat.bsky.social · 5d

Ooh, very cool! I've actually eaten wood ants - once as a challenge, and again because I liked them. They really do taste of lemon! 😄

Curiosity Cat @curiositycat.bsky.social · 6d

That was my thought too! 😄

Curiosity Cat @curiositycat.bsky.social · 6d

I think it's my favourite! I once had a LOT of expiring bananas & made three batches identical except for the additions: plain, w choc chips (1/2 rec amt b/c I don't have a sweet tooth), blueberry (1/2 rec amt b/c I wasn't sure it would be good! 😯)

They were all delicious - & none lasted long. 😬

Curiosity Cat @curiositycat.bsky.social · 6d

Blueberries here ... and sometimes maybe just a touch of lemon.

No butter, no custard ... and yet still, very, very soon, no banana bread. 😧

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Curiosity Cat @curiositycat.bsky.social · 6d

😄 😄 👍 😀

Curiosity Cat @curiositycat.bsky.social · 6d

They *might* not have found it anything yet - it's only been a few days! Which works in your favour; the longer it takes them to notice, the more people might have been to their home, and the list of possible suspects grows! 🕵️‍♀️

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Curiosity Cat @curiositycat.bsky.social · 6d

Ooh, very pretty! 🤩

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Curiosity Cat @curiositycat.bsky.social · 7d

😣 Fingers crossed it may find a way to circle around again. 🤞

(So many opportunities are not actually lost forever, and maybe next time you'll be in a better place to wholeheartedly enter in. 🙏

At least it was nice to be thought of! 😀)

Curiosity Cat @curiositycat.bsky.social · 7d

Screenshot for the win! 😃