It Never Rains But...

 

I nicked this from Tumblr but originally it's from a Neopets forum, I know nothing of Neopets but I know a good meme.

What a couple of weeks I have had.

First the car had an issue, it wouldn’t start, just made a ticking sound but all the interior electricals were still working so wasn’t sure if it was the battery or starter motor. Luckily, the garage I use is only a couple of minutes’ walk so I went round and the lad came back with me and jumped started it. He then took it away to see what the issue was. It was the battery which he replaced and two hours later, 80 quid lighter I went on my way.

 

I cannot find a source for this but it is my favourite meme ever.

A couple of days later the postman brought an unexpected gas bill and the road tax bill. A couple of days after that the fridge freezer stopped working. I managed to get some stuff into a friend’s freezer so didn’t have to bin everything but it has been a very expensive month so far. I still have to get that 2TB hard drive sorted but that is definitely on the back burner for now.

Nicked from Tumblr again. Cannot find a source but someone is selling stickers of it, Sir, that is not your work to profit from.

 

The weather has improved though, the majority of the country has had a heatwave, it has even reached the north west of Wales. It has been glorious, though I did overdo the gardening on the hottest day of the year and came over a bit peculiar. Honestly, I do it every time, there’s a bit of hot weather and all the tools come out as I try to do a weeks’ worth of work in one day. Garden looks better though.

I found some wild geranium growing, I think this is a cranesbill.

 

My Bluesky account went in the bin, (oh Lord what is she like). I decided to migrate my account over to Eurosky, oh, it’s easy they said, so straightforward they said, the work of mere moments. Reader, it was not. It started well, only wanted a code to input to let Bluesky know it was indeed me. I requested, received and input the code. But it couldn’t be completed, the code had expired, I should request a new one. I did so and a few seconds later the same message. This went on for 20 minutes, my inbox was full of useless codes and I was getting incredibly frustrated with it. So, as is typical for me, I binned it all off and started again from scratch with a brand new Eurosky account.

 

My face when.....

I found though, that the Eurosky portal has a whole host of apps, that only require that one sign in. There is an Instagram-like app called Flashes which is made in the EU. There are no ads, there is no algorithm, there is no Meta. There’s an app which allows you to build your own website (Blento), there’s a blogging app (Leaflet), there are loads of others, both social and professional all using the AT Protocol (I don’t know what that means but somebody will I’m sure). This is from their FAQs: “The Atmosphere is the name for the growing ecosystem of apps and services built on the AT Protocol. Your Eurosky account works across all of them. Think of it like email: one account, many apps. You can use Bluesky for microblogging, Flashes for photos and video, SIFA for professional networking, Leaflet for blogging, Tangled for code collaboration, and many more — all with the same identity and data.”

Anyway, I like it, everything is in one place and that place is in Europe, with GDPR, so no shenanigans (well, hopefully 🤞🏻).

That’ll do I think, we’re starting to get rambly, as usual, random pics to follow (hopefully a tiny video if I can get Blogger to play ball).

The peace lily is getting another flower. Insert "Sir, a second [....] has appeared" meme.

 

 

Two different cotoneasters in blossom.

A bronze fennel frizzle.

I've been outside around 10 every night watching bats flittering around. After filming for about 10 minutes I managed to catch one for 3 seconds.

Another I pinched from Tumblr but originally it's from sexyandiknowknit on Instagram