I see the rain is waiting till we've got everything ready, left the house, arrived at the #cricket club, and spread out our bento before turning up, instead of kicking off early as expected and getting it over with. What an arsehole. 🏏
The rugby posts are down at Stormont Maynard Sinclair Pavilion grounds in Dundonald, Belfast. The cricket sight screens and other cricket paraphernalia are in place.
Hello, my name's Greg & I'm a stamp collector. My collection has been much neglected of late & I have hundreds of stamps to sort & put in #Davo albums & the like. I collect #NewZealand & #French stamps & have #cricket 🏏 & #HarryPotter⚡ thematic collections, along with the beginnings of a #starwars one. I regret the snail mail these days & detest self-adhesive stamps. I used to bid on & buy on eBay; obviously a no-go zone for me these days. Still, plenty to be getting on with. #stampcollecting
#Cricket (the sport - so much so that I spin my cricket jokes off elsewhere to spare you all - see @liebcricket for that)
#ComicBooks (in particular, #Superhero comics and, even more particularly #DC superhero comics and, even more superspecifically, #BronzeAge DC superhero comics)
#Survivor - the TV show, not the band (although the band's fine)
As I've moved to a new instance, it's time for another #introduction - and whereas writing the first one felt deeply uncomfortable, this time it seems a lot easier. That's the transition from Twitter-brain to Mastodon-brain.
Who I am is more or less this: I'm an #autistic#Welsh person who lives in beautiful #Tynedale, and I spend my working time fiddling about with emergency #healthcare#data to improve care quality in the #NHS. I have issues with #anxiety and #loneliness, and I'm an abuse survivor. Because of the past abuse, I keep myself anonymous all over the internet; however, I've been using the Rollo Treadway alias for so long that it feels like part of me, my alter ego. So feel free to call me Rollo.
And I'm okay with they/them pronouns (because I don't really feel I fit within any gender identity) and also he/him (because that's what everyone offline has always used for me). Or frankly, any other pronouns, it's all good.
I migrated to #Mastodon from #Twitter during 2022 (initially at the start of the year, but properly in the autumn) and am very happy here.
Politically, I'm a #HandwringingLeftyLiberal, and like my bio says, I really don't have any time for Tories. This includes any close equivalents to Tories in other countries.
Finally, I promise this is the last time I will do such a long post, and the last time I will put hashtags in the middle of the post rather than all at the beginning or end. I think hashtags in the middle is permitted for an introduction, or I hope so anyhow.
Current research projects include reconstructing #fire history records from #cave#stalagmites. And monitoring #groundwater#recharge in underground spaces to work out how much rainfall is needed to replenish this water resource.