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withaveeay

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Wandered from South to North, IT to the Humanities, UHI degree. Lower left political compass. Off-grid for practical reasons. A scatterling of Africa.
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇪🇺 Yes.
#Highlands #Photography #Culture #FreeSoftware #OffGrid #Scotland
Also an automated twice-daily weather conditions, forecast & summary for Clachtoll at https://mastodon.scot/@AssyntWeather
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withaveeay, to random
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You know Colin Robinson, the energy vampire in "What we do in the shadows"?
Well I've spent the afternoon doing battle with entities that make Colin Robinson look like an amateur or even merely one of those werewolves.
Yes, I'm talking about insurance companies again.
And no-one seems to know what the insurance company equivalent of stake through the heart is, but believe me, whatever it is, I'm up for it when I get my soul back.
😩

fitheach, to food
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Banana Ketchup???

Yuurrrggghh!

Who comes up with these disgusting ideas?

I hate bananas in any form.

withaveeay,
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@fitheach Ooh, that sounds lovely. But, lovely bananas morning noon and night for me.
I had a Malawian cookbook that had a recipe for banana jam, and it turned red like that ketchup.

thisismyglasgow, to glasgow
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James Salmon Junior's rather beautiful 1900 Glasgow Style British Linen Bank building, one of the very few traditional red sandstone tenements left standing in the Gorbals area of Glasgow. Sometimes it seems the past is a luxury only the rich get to keep.

#glasgow #architecture #glasgowbuildings #tenement #glasgowtenement #thegorbals #glasgowstyle

withaveeay,
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@thisismyglasgow " Sometimes it seems the past is a luxury only the rich get to keep."
So true.

withaveeay, to random
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I don't know if this is generational or just bad manners.
I was contacted by a professional in an area that happens to interest me, asking me a series of questions and generally picking my brain. I responded within a couple of hours, though I wasn't able to do all they requested, which was quite a lot considering they were being paid and I'm not.
Since then, not a word. No response, thanks or anything. It seems rather rude.
Is that just an old man grump or /also/ an old man grump?

withaveeay,
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@NatureMC No. it was an email, using a specific email address, so I know where they found me. All very odd. I think they were being paid in Canadian dollars, and I reckon I must have been worth as much as 35c to them, maybe even 38c. 😃

simon_brooke, to random
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This week's major project is splitting the tractor, to replace the failed oil seal which is leaking oil from the gearbox into the clutch housing. We've got to the point where the only thing still holding the front half of the tractor to the rear is the steering linkage, and I can't remember how we split that last time!

withaveeay,
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@simon_brooke Calling @yngmar
Any ideas for Simon?

withaveeay,
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@simon_brooke Excellent!

withaveeay, to random
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Herself had to go to the village this morning. On the way back, she had reason to test the brakes on Goth Leo, thanks to someone overtaking on a blind bend on a very steep hill.
Yes, the overtaker was stupidly playing the percentages, but it's possible too that the overtakee had held the car up for miles, a not uncommon, and incredibly frustrating occurrence in summer.
I dislike a dashcam - we should not be part of the surveillance state - but this is why it's becoming a necessary evil. No audio

Dashcam footage of the car going up a steep hill. A hillock on the left makes it a blind bend to the right. As the car turns, two cars are ahead, one overtaking another. Helen has to brake hard and come to a full stop to avoid a collision.

withaveeay,
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I don't recognise the offending car. There are some folk who visit once a year and think they could be driving faster than they ought, or worse, who remember the roads from 15-20 years ago, and drive accordingly.
It may have sounded as though I was excusing this dangerous idiot. I wasn't trying to, just pointing out how unnecessary frustration can cause issues.

simon_brooke, to random
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OK, folk, help me compile a list of failed "inward investment" projects across Scotland.

I'll start

Rootes Linwood
IBM Greenock
Singer Kilbowie
Stelrad Dalbeattie
Sun Linlithgow
NCR Dundee
Timex Dundee

I must have missed hundreds. Add your picks

withaveeay,
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@simon_brooke It may be a shorter list to try to think of "successful" inward investment projects.

withaveeay, to random
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Everything is greening up beautifully at The Last Homely House
#Assynt

Delphi, to sailing
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withaveeay,
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@Wen @Delphi Years ago, in Simonstown, I saw 2 kids in an Oppie sail around a little bay near the yacht club. There was a navy rowing skiff moored in the bay. The skipper rounded up into the wind smartly astern of the skiff, nearing it with precision and allowing his mate to climb aboard. You could have put an egg between the Oppie and the skiff, it was so skilful. He repeated the manoeuvre to allow his mate to get back aboard, dropped off onto the wind and away.
It was beautiful seamanship.

simonvarwell, to random Esperanto
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Was out all last night in my safari suit and unfortunately didn’t see a roarer.

withaveeay,
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@simonvarwell You're lion again, aren't you? You went to the pub and got completely off your borealis again.

withaveeay, to random
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We expect our new little supermarket-bought apple tree in our 6-tree "orchard" to concentrate on settling in to its new home this year, but it seems it's determined to give us some apples too. I's flowering later than the other 3 apple trees. but seems to be happy.

withaveeay, to Flowers
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Pictures of sea pinks will continue until the fediverse cheers up. Consider this a formal flowery warning.
We do love these amazing plants, growing in impossible conditions, and so colourful.
#flowers
#Assynt

withaveeay, to random
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The shimmering deep. For some reason it's surprising to see such clear seawater in Assynt. I wonder if that's because we're conditioned to expect this is warmer climes, when there's probably more chance of clear seas in colder water.

withaveeay, to Flowers
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We've been waiting for this. The thrift on Stoer Green is still waking after winter, but we know that it arrives early among the rocks close to the shoreline, so we headed there this morning. This was our reward.
The background qualifies for a #lichensubscribe tag too
#Assynt
#flowers

withaveeay, to random
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It's this time of the year in #Assynt

withaveeay, to random
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Anyone fancy a week in #Assynt, alongside the loch at the very navel at the Centre of the (known) Universe?
Just heard David And Karen from Stoer Bay Chalets have a cancellation for the week of 18th May. It'll probably be booked quite quickly, especially as it's reasonably priced.
https://www.stoerbaychalets.co.uk/

KatM, to food
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Dining out has gotten ridiculous. We’ve cut way back, but last night we took our daughter out to dinner… two grilled salmon sandwiches that were mostly bread and an ahi rice bowl that was mostly rice, $96. Add a 20% wage adjustment for our server and we were at $115. Add 3 drinks and we were at $170.

withaveeay,
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@KatM This post may well trigger @HelenLockhart , still mumbling after a bizarre evening at Fin & Grape in Edinburgh a couple of weeks back. Eyewatering cost, most menu items unavailable and service that can best be described as reluctant.

patrickhadfield, to random
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This is bonkers. On what planet is Natalie Elphicke a Labour MP? She's on the hard right of the Tories!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-68976500

withaveeay,
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@patrickhadfield Or as Count Binface accurately put it:
https://mastodon.scot/@CountBinface@mastodon.world/112405379902854598

withaveeay, to random
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This little cutie has just arrived.
#LambingTime
#Assynt

The new lambie, black but with white speckles on its back, still unsteady on its paws, follows Mumsie.

withaveeay, to random
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It's the time of the season when lambs form little nurseries. Or four voices of "Now stay there with your mates and GIVE ME SOME PEACE" from mumsiesheep.

fitheach, to random
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At long last, I've done it.

I've registered my .scot domain.
http://fitheach.scot

I've been meaning to do this for years. Thankfully, no-one else thought to register the domain, in the meantime.

In the next few days I'll move the website to the new domain. At the moment the .scot redirects to .co.uk

I'll keep both domains, with the .scot as the primary domain for all my activities.

withaveeay,
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@fitheach @Jkp Yes, the cost sticks in my throat too. I've almost given in on numerous occasions, remembering just in time that a new domain isn't just for Christmas.

withaveeay,
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@fitheach @Jkp That has been my hunch too.

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