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Berks of DeFrights

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Creative and cute. Not my words, Carol. The words of an Etsy marketing email. Design, Illustration, Gardens, Furniture, not AI. Ever. English in New England. Low T Man, High Tea Man. Let's get tonight's horror show on the road...

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Berks of DeFrights @dandyandafop.bsky.social · May 6

In the first story in From Beyond the Grave, there's a short sequence illustrating the passage of time as new tenants take on a flat, and Tony Curtis gets to design / dress three additional sets. And we go teak - rosewood - chrome...

Couple playing backgammon on a teak dining table with teak chairs and green cushions. Green jacquard wallpaper, a teak room divider / bookcase, a teak sideboard with large cream coloured lamp, and an armchair with curved sides - possibly bentwood. Difficult to tell from the screengrab.

man on the phone, standing in a lighter coloured room. Off white / green walls. Purple lamp. Dark rosewood furniture, including modular wall units, a matching sideboard, and a dining table and chairs. Large patterned armchair in brown on white.

Group of people in a room with purple and blue large patterned wallpaper. Chrome bookshelves, side chairs and a table.

Berks of DeFrights @dandyandafop.bsky.social · 4d

I’ve just read the words ‘an upskilling company’, and I’m damned if you lot are going to escape Scot free…

Berks of DeFrights @dandyandafop.bsky.social · 4d

Meanwhile, in the car, two people not recognising me, and looking for the wrong house because somebody wrote the number down wrong.

10/10. No notes.

Berks of DeFrights @dandyandafop.bsky.social · 4d

Amazingly on-brand start to uncle and aunt’s visit. Me in the front garden watering the plants, without my glasses on, not recognising the people in the car doing multiple slow laps of the neighbourhood.

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Berks of DeFrights @dandyandafop.bsky.social · 4d

Leigh-Mallory’s Big Wing…of geese

Large formation of Canada Geese in flight

Berks of DeFrights @dandyandafop.bsky.social · 4d

Side garden gets pretty as the sun goes down at this time of year…

Sun catching the tops of grasses and shrubs that are turning reds and oranges.

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Berks of DeFrights @dandyandafop.bsky.social · 4d

Well I’M tempted.

Horrendous pic of blurry filthy looking chairs piled on top of each other in a filthy house. Antique chairs for sale on Facebook Marketplace.

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Berks of DeFrights @dandyandafop.bsky.social · 4d

THE SCIENCE DOESN’T MAKE SENSE. ME HOT. WATER MUST BE HOT TOO.

Honestly, the first hot days here and people go leaping into the lake, like it’s not full of recently melted snow.

Berks of DeFrights @dandyandafop.bsky.social · 4d

Ha! It doesn’t make sense does it…how can air be so warm but water so cold? I remember leaping into a swimming pool off season in baking hot Tunisia and having the absolute fright of my life. So so cold. Took me a day to warm up again…

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Berks of DeFrights @dandyandafop.bsky.social · 4d

Oh crumbs. That’s fairly ‘melty’….

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Berks of DeFrights @dandyandafop.bsky.social · 4d

You wouldn’t love what he got up to overnight…

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Berks of DeFrights @dandyandafop.bsky.social · 4d

October, but sweltering. Melting while sat over by the ponds.

Hosta and fern and grasses ringed ponds. Sun poking through trees with blue skies

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Berks of DeFrights @dandyandafop.bsky.social · 4d

Admiral Chonks T Explodobum went on a very Massive Walk ™ today.

Ancient grey and white cat, powering down a pavement

Ancient grey and white cat wandering between no-mow areas on a lawn

Ancient grey and white cat headed down a sidewalk

Ancient grey and white cat having a breather

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Berks of DeFrights @dandyandafop.bsky.social · 4d

The guy who looked like me was wearing a Pulp t-shirt, which was funny because he had a friend who looked like a Jarvis Cocker who’d shrunk in the wash. A sort of action figure. Like he might have bought him as Pulp merch.

Berks of DeFrights @dandyandafop.bsky.social · 4d

I’ve lost interest in the game that I’d already lost interest in. So, 3 things from the gig last night:

1) there was a guy in front of me who looked like Paul Calf.

2) a chap stood next to me who was the dead spit of…me. Even I thought he was me.

3) girl next to me talked for 2 hours. Non-stop.

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Berks of DeFrights @dandyandafop.bsky.social · 4d

*nods aggressively*

Berks of DeFrights @dandyandafop.bsky.social · 4d

Well, that certainly bests my furniture finds:

A pair of pants.

A letter telling a lady in Abergavenny that she won’t be getting her colour television from Littlewoods in time for Christmas…in 1984.

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Berks of DeFrights @dandyandafop.bsky.social · 4d

Areola justifiably wondering why every bloody player had been sucked to the ball, and there was nobody within a hectare of Rice.

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Berks of DeFrights @dandyandafop.bsky.social · 4d

Oh, Dec.

Why?

Berks of DeFrights @dandyandafop.bsky.social · 4d

Great TV ad on right now for someone talking about how they’ve invented a shower head. That filters stuff out. They’ve just equated chlorine to ‘heavy metals’ and suggested that filtering out chlorine makes you your ‘most confident’ self.

Influencer slop is everywhere. There’s no escape.

Berks of DeFrights @dandyandafop.bsky.social · 4d

“Legs, power, energy”

HE’S UNSTOPPABLE.

Berks of DeFrights @dandyandafop.bsky.social · 4d

“And all eyes will be on Lammens, you know…can he do saves? Does he have big hands? Has he done a catch before?”

Paraphrasing a bit, but Stephen Warnock is on fire this morning. You pundit, gurl.

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Berks of DeFrights @dandyandafop.bsky.social · 4d

Watching football is going well.

Blurry cat walking in front of me. Again. Television in background.

Berks of DeFrights @dandyandafop.bsky.social · 4d

*turns on TV - Mo Kudus scores*

How lovely

*turns off TV*

Berks of DeFrights @dandyandafop.bsky.social · 5d

I need to brace myself for the latest instalment of ‘and my fence has blown down again’ don’t I?

Berks of DeFrights @dandyandafop.bsky.social · 5d

“My phone? Why, yes. It DOES have a shit camera. Thank you for asking…”