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FourT4

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Chartered Engineer, endangered MAMIL & former pro photographer, returning railway modeller. Brand Ambassador for Earl Grey tea. Taking the Duke of York title because nobody else wants it. Ho/Hum. Follows only accounts with visible profile info & a variety of original posts. Very bored by the Angrily Online of all stripes. Personality, morals, behaviour, character: "Very bad. So bad."

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A good hair day.

Two Highland Cows.
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@GetCarter emo coo 🐮

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Rediscovered a photo of a time when I was very childish in Japan Centre (a Japanese grocery store/cafe in London)

An orange box of a product called “Chocolate Collon”. It appears to be a short round tube of wafer with a brown chocolate filling inside
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@Erased_Citizen you should visit some Swedish supermarkets... I'll dig out the photos if I can.

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once every four years, the BBC commentators can't help but continually repeat the word "backside"

@GetCarter@mastodonapp.uk avatar GetCarter , to random

After a long dry spell, we finally have some weather moving in. I read that in Jan we had just 18% of the usual rainfall total here. It seems to have rained (too much) pretty much everywhere but here.

Sleet and sunshine over mountains and sea.
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@GetCarter another mastodon user removes their snorkel to give you a comparative weather summary.

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I installed a couple more and I think this motor is too high for the tie bar, so I might excavate the foam underneath the motor and see if it works reliably if it's a foam-thickness lower.

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I cut out the foam layer, no improvement. I’m starting to suspect the mechanism.

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possibly the best sports fan tune ever - "Magic Johnson" - Red Hot Chili Peppers

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It was bound to happen. I now have a District Role.

I’m on the Welcome Conversations Team.

👋 😀

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@hischeekiness of all the conversations teams to be on, I feel like this is the one. Good luck!

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Toot

Toot

Let it all oot

These are the things I can do wi'oot

Come on

I'm tooting to you

Come on

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just me playing Crossy Road really badly and wondering what the mean and std. dev of my scores are.

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40 and 10

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The Uplift Mofo Party Plan

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a few small simple jobs today as I'm having trouble finding much time at the moment. Job 1: fitting the tram with the 🧲 couplings I got for 🎄.

A blue grey and yellow liveried High Speed Train power car model is backed towards a blue and grey liveried BR Mark 3 coach on a white table. The magnetic couplings pull the two vehicles together with a click.

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Job 2: I use the full width of the baseboard, so I'm putting in a cardboard fence to if anything derails it stays on the baseboard and doesn't plunge to the floor. PVA and cardboard in single digit temperatures and a limited number of G clamps to hold it all in position means I'm doing one a day when I can. Only the danger spots get this treatment.

Corner of model railway layout with tracks curving 180 degrees touching all 3 edges of the baseboard. Only one edge currently has a cardboard wall installed, eventually all 3 will have it.

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We like to chuckle about those people from the 🇺🇸 that are ignorant of geography outside their borders, and we ignore that we thought our radio controlled model California dune buggy was called a "Badger Bug" even when aged fourteen.

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Free good fings oggi

  1. a nice "free from" mince pie at Fort Nelson,

  2. someone was asking about 3D printing exhaust covers for the 1:120 scale HST so I said hi and sent them the model file, pay it forward,

  3. it was nice to go out somewhere. My hurty leg didn't mind the walking so will try some more tomorrow.

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I used to open a new face book account each year, then delete it and the associated email address the next year. This year I've done so little other than look at some groups I like that I think my privacy is safe enough for another 12 months with that account.

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Well that was nostalgic. Motorway closed, so back roads from Botley to Fort Nelson, my old commute route 25+ years ago. I remember listening to discussion of the Y2K bug on the news while driving these roads.

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Rooms booked & ride entered - Chase the Sun North - something to aim for in June.

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Help please fediverse, I know a 2nd year zoology degree student looking for zoology/conservation/biology science work experience placements of up to a year, UK and Europe, does anyone know where they might turn to for resources and help? Please boost for reach. Thank you!

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Merry Christmas from the elaborate chocolador to all the elderly dogs that sleep through carol concerts and miss out on the Good News.

is chocolate labrador asleep with televised carol concert in background. Also massive pile of full chocolate boxes...
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When you do a Bible reading Why. Do. You. Proclaim. Every. Sentence. In. A. Really. Stilted. Way. Instead. Of. Reading. In. A. More. Natural. Style?

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Deck the halls with Bowser Volley

Is computer game character Bowser, volleying football.

Is computer game character Bowser, volleying football.
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Sheep meander slowly across, Highland Cows just stand in the middle forcing you to drive around, and deer... well they just have a death wish. Yesterday morning.

Deer running in front of car.

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@GetCarter this but always beware of the second one that follows.

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inspirational quote

Is factory fresh John Lewis picture frame with product description inside that looks a bit like an inspirational quote.
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thanks bbc news for informing me that Christians believe that Jesus was born in Bethlehem

@GetCarter@mastodonapp.uk avatar GetCarter , to random

Sunrises may be very late on December mornings this far north, but they certainly have their moments.

Sunrise reflected in still water.
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@ aaand you don't have to get up as early!

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Cute! (On my replacement - keep in my pocket 24/7 camera).

video/mp4

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@GetCarter peepo!

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The Skye Bridge earlier this morning. The Applecross Peninsula and Torridon Hills in the far distance.

Bridge over the sea.
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@GetCarter is it a coincidence that the proportions of the roadway and the barriers to either side are quite similar to my memories of Hotwheels plastic track?

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Morning world. It has been decreed we put up the Christmas lights today. I’m not going to argue.

Today’s mood: twinkly

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@snaptophobic sit and admire your work!

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@snaptophobic first rule of making the public tut!

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@skyfire747 @snaptophobic quietly reaches over and frantically presses the light switch fifteen more times to select a more soothing lighting mode.

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Because it is getting colder, the elaborate chocolador is moulting and looking very scruffy, but I do find it satisfying to (gently) pull out enough loose clumps of fur to make a hamster.

Is furry flank of chocolate labrador with hamster sized ball of several smaller lumps of dog fur and left hand reaching towards it.
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@GetCarter unimaginative. They could have charged a premium and everything. Got more, duplicate, waxworks.

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Frost.

Frost.
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@GetCarter that freezer's looking a bit clogged.

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Yesterday's low tide, Upper Loch Torridon.

Snow covered mountain.
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@GetCarter lovely textures!

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Another from yesterday morning at the beach. Bertie retrieving a Frisbee from the sea... endlessly.

Empty beach except for woman and dog.
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@GetCarter that's some light.

@RickiTarr@beige.party avatar RickiTarr , to random

There's something so funny to me, that we tend to celebrate chefs, who have access to the best food in the world. I mean, if you're serving me A5 beef, truffles, French handmade cheese, and the finest organic veggies available, then you'd have to be a real fuck up to make this bad. And there's nothing wrong with enjoying a meal like this occasionally, but there's something so much more interesting, in people who were given very little and still made something delicious, that has stayed with us. Enslaved people making delicious healthy Potlicker out of discarded bones and greens, poor Cajun-Creole making a beans and rice into a masterpiece, Irish, making potatoes 100+ ways, because it's what they had. If you can make something delicious out of dollars store food, that is just more impressive to me.

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@RickiTarr people persevered with coffee until it was drinkable! Now that's worthy of a separate thanks-giving event.

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The best way to get tree saplings onto the hills for planting. 10 down, about 40 to go.

Helicopter.

Helicopter.
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@GetCarter they didn't consider trebuchet?

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Almost fell down the Bob Dylan wikihole. Must exercise restraint.
Stay on target.

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@zebulonmysterioso <admiral-fishface-whatshisname-trap dot gif>

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Current status

A box of Daelmans Stroopwafels, featuring a caramel filling. The box indicates it contains 230 grams and suggests warming the wafers on a cup. The background includes a computer monitor, a keyboard, and various cables.
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@wlukewindsor strictly, the status is unknown until you open the box 😃

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Creeping about.

Treecreeper.
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@GetCarter you've been greasing the branches, I see.

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A tree that survives when gravity suggests it shouldn't.
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@GetCarter taking a bough

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This deer was seriously unimpressed (and unperturbed) as we passed close by with Bert the dog yesterday.

Red Deer.
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@GetCarter strong sense of "Who're you lookin' at, pal?"

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I know, I'll watch something off the PVR, because the box is full, everyone else is out.

Six years after release... "Booksmart".

Right, there's no way I'm deleting that without showing it to Mrs Roach first.

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The woman that makes the post box toppers in Mudeford has done her best work yet.

The new one is doing double duty as reasonably tasteful performative remembrance fetish object, but also sad commentary on the slow rate of repair of All Saints' Church since the 2022 fire, or morale boosting message to the community, depending on your perspective.

is knitted post box topper showing large red poppy flower on side and on top is representation of same church in pristine state with train of red poppy themes streamers running from gable to ground.
is close up of knitted post box topper on top is representation of same church in pristine state with train of red poppy themes streamers running from gable to ground.

is close up of knitted post box topper on top is representation of same church in pristine state with train of red poppy themes streamers running from gable to ground.
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@hischeekiness oh no! I think the post box (a Victorian relic) is no longer served by Royal Mail but I might have hallucinated it.