Comment in project meeting today, "we need to do X or we'll take a bath on this contract". Later, Colleague A asks Colleague B what this meant. Colleague B explains what "taking a cold bath means". Confusion reigns.
Caroline Lamont Smith
@physicsbear.bsky.social
Physics, Football, Friendship, Fells
It won't pay my bills either, but isn't life richer for this kind of detail? 😊
Oliver Darkshire@deathbybadger.bsky.social · 8mo agoi came across the saying "to follow like a Tantony pig" so I get curious and look it up, but Tantony isnt a place, it's a contraction of St Anthony who is the saint of swineherds, so the proverb means to follow someone like a pig following the hog messiah. alas this information will not pay my bills
Spent the morning in tears, on and off. Did some painting, felt better. A short story.
Just finished reading @herdyshepherd.bsky.social "The Place of Tides". A beautiful book, but now sat watching the rain streaming down the window as tears stream down my face asking myself if I'm making any kind of positive difference to the world, however small.
Cousin Ann's ashes laid to rest beside her mother (my great aunt), my grandparents, my father and my uncle ♥️
Hello down there! I seem to be a little bit stuck. Any chance you have a ladder long enough to come and get me? Of course I'll co-operate, and not try and escape along a branch not strong enough for my weight, or cling fiercely to the tree with every fibre of my being when you try and pick me up.
Just 5 spaces left on my small museums for mental health w'shop this Sat,on how collecting & arranging small objects improves mental health. Incl BRILLIANT research showing that playing TETRIS makes us more resilient to stress 👇Earlybird price expires tmrw👇 workshops.emmamitchell.uk/courses/smal...
For the record, scrapping indefinite leave to remain and deporting people is wrong *not* because it hasn't been costed properly, or the "figures are wrong" but because it's a disgraceful, immoral, inhumane, idiotic thing to do. And appeals to racist shitgibbons.
The boy's in Yr9 now, so time for teachers to knuckle down and make sure the kids really hate English literature. 13 year old boys are definitely interested in Jane Eyre and An Inspector Calls. Or Ann In Spectacles as we now call it. Husband does love a pun.
My new small museums for mental health w'shop is on Sat 4 Oct Recent compelling research shows that collecting & arranging collections neatly alleviates anxiety & lifts mood. Includes: 🌿2 hr zoom-we'll make & photograph small museums 🗝️30% off my Etsy shop: workshops.emmamitchell.uk/courses/smal...
All the wanging on about how the liberal left are the violent ones reminds me of Rimmer in Red Dwarf, mocking liberals, "The time for talking is over. Call it extreme if you like, but I propose we hit it hard and hit it fast with a major - and I mean major - leaflet campaign"
Need to go back. The boy's only climbed Bowfell once, which is not enough.
The Drunken Duck has always been a fine pub, and I started sampling their wares early. Me and my mother, 1977
Amazing what I can do if I ignore housework, laundry, DIY and other assorted life admin 😂
Reasonably happy with my use of my bank holiday Monday. Would rather be there in person than drawing it from the Fens, but you can't have everything!
I didn't quite get the same angle in April and August, but I still rather like the contrast of blossom then sloes and the treeless branches in Spring being lush green in Summer
Sadly I am not here. It was much nicer than work
BIG NEWS: For the first time in six years, Britain's rarest breeding bird has successfully nested in the UK! A pair of Montagu's Harriers have raised four healthy chicks, all of which have taken their first flights.
Cockwombles made me do it. Donated to RNLI. Keep up the life-saving everyone.
The dark line is a Badger path. The lawn was wildflower meadow and so little light reached the ground. Now it has been cut the dead, yellow grass is revealed. But where the Badgers cross they trample the long grass letting light down to the ground. Worth looking out for in recently cut fields.
Oh my word! The power of those wings, lifting bird and fish from submersion!
I'm not saying we horde things at work but one of my colleagues got a power supply out of a drawer (and used it) that had a label on it saying "Made in West Germany". OK, yes, I am saying we horde things.