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And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.

-- John Muir

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Golden Enys Dodman Arch.  I sat on top of the cliffs watching the crowds in the distance watching the sunset from the Land’s End hotel, whilst I had this view all to myself as the golden light lit up the ocean right through the stone arch.

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Anka, Tekir

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realised i’ve never made a poll on here, and i’ve been thinking about this recently, so:

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4.25.24

Tea

Need to work on processing all the chaos.

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Some cute Tea and Coffee CozyAlien art ^w^ (To be paired with Tea)

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So I found out some find it weird for you to heat the water for your tea in the microwave, which is how I did it when I started

In my defense, I first started while I was living somewhere that had no room for a stove and was too poor to move, and too dangerous to just leave water out in the sun (Bad neighborhood)

So like...what else was I supposed to do? Not drink tea? Outrageous!

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oops, got nose blind and forgot the slow cooker was switched on, now the whole house smells of chashu pork.

#Cookery #Slow cooker #Wondered why I was getting hungry

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Your Dreams Will Come True

YES THEY WILL especially if your dream is instant hot chocolate made up with oat milk so that it has double milk and is very very naughty

#Hot chocolate #Oat milk #Oat milk hot chocolate #Bento #Lunchbox #Packed lunches #Packed lunch

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La Grange de Claude

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i love this blog and these dusky forest pictures. I've walked in forests like this, and felt the ancient past whispering to me through the trees.

by Kyle Bonallo (ig: @kylebonallo)

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life is so good when you enjoy rain and snow and sunshine and starlight and wind and mornings and twilights and spring and autumn. to pay attention to weather and natural phenomena is to hack the days of the year into bringing you many gifts, predictable, perhaps, yet no less delightful

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Triple Bento with Rice Rolls

Oh I do love it when there's an excuse for packed lunches!

What have we here? Rice rolls/mini onigiri/gimbap/not-quite-sushi with cucumber and yakiniku hot dog fillings, with yakiniku sauce for dipping; boiled eggs (or a babybel for one family member who doesn't like eggs); lemon and bramble jelly; prawn cocktail Wotsits; grapes and a Groovy biscuit.

Close up of those rice rolls! The hot dog ones are rolled in sesame and spring onion.

Looking forwards to lunch tomorrow!

#Bento #Lunchbox #packed lunches #Packed lunch #Onigiri #Gimbap #Not-quite-sushi

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First Sausage Sizzle of the Year

it's that time of year again!

Cuppa: hot chocolate from a whistling kettle (the best kind)

View: Carron Valley Reservoir

Dinner: square sausage in a morning roll!

Sometimes, you don't want to go out, so you snuggle down. Other times, you don't want to go out, but you know you need to.

Dams are fun, aren't they? They water's really high just now. We'll be glad of that if it's a dry summer. It's choppy tonight, and the waves are breaking over the spillways

I'm so confused about what time of year it is, because of the early Easter and having been abroad. I keep thinking it's later than it is, and feeling lost and disoriented. My sense of being grounded depends so much on the seasons, I needed some time outside to reset my clock, in among the birdsong and the bleating of the lambs.

#Cuppas and views #Hot chocolate #Sausages #Square sausage #Sausage sizzle #Camp cookery #Sunshine #Springtime #Lambs #Primroses #Catkins #Lochs #Lakes #Reservoirs #Dams #Water #Trees #Plants #Singing kettle

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Tea and Lego*

There's no better way to spend a pleasant morning in the garden!

Cuppa: Twinings raspberry and peach

Did you know that, whereas in American English, Lego is a countable noun ("look at all these Legos!"), in British English, it's uncountable, like rice or water ("look at all this Lego!"). The countable noun in British English is "a piece of Lego".

Took me a few days to post this, here's the finished article!

*technically not actual Lego

#tea #fruit tea #Lego #Garden #Trees #Plants #Sunshine #Knock-off Lego

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Come tae the Barrowland tonight

Come tae the Barrowland tonight

Swing yer maw, swing yer paw, swing yer granny up the wa

Come tae the Barrowland tonight!

Cuppa: an exquisite builder's tea with two sugars

View: the retro interior of Guido's Coronation Café on Gallowgate, Glasgow.

I don't go into the city as much as I used to, as I've changed jobs. It's nice to have a reason to come intae toon on a sunny evening, and this Friday I had the best of reasons.

The Barrowland Ballroom was just that, a popular dancing spot until it burned down in the 50s and was rebuilt in the swinging 60s. The perfect place to spend a night at the dancing, and maybe find a cute boy to walk you home. Now that ballroom dancing isn't so much the thing, the Barrowland has become a world famous music venue.

Warning: flashing lights

When they started this way, I knew which song they were going to lead with! If you want to hear the rest, here's the lockdown version (there's a studio version and an official video too, I just like that one!)

I am a huge fan of Tide Lines. The man above has the voice of a burly Gaelic angel. And this guy here is a wizard on a different set of pipes:

We even got a wee cover of another act that famously played here:

It was a wonderful night. Especially the moment that Robert Robertson forgot his own lyrics, while the crowd confidently went on singing. Maybe we should hold up prompt cards.

I'll leave you with a couple of Glasgow's famous murals, on the Barrowland itself, and on the Winged Ox pub at St. Luke's, another excellent music venue just along the street.

#Tea #Black tea #Builder's tea #Traditional cafés #Glasgow #Barrowland #Barrowlands #Tide Lines #Gigs #Concerts #Murals #Retro decor #Youtube