Pfft. I've done this with every microwave I've ever touched.

A cactus with white spikes, and cerise flowers.

One of our cacti started flowering today..

When I cleared the front garden last year I laid a temporary very cheap composite deck tile path. Today I laid the permanent stepping stone path.

Pablo the beagle, sitting on a bench underneath a window.

This wee twazzock has just faked not being fed by the husband while I was out. 2nd lunches are NOT a thing wee man!

This is gonna be a loooong day..

Packets of all four flavours of Nik Naks, together in a shop

This might not translate globally, but for UK people, this is like seeing the Beatles reform

Daisies poking up through the grass.

Some daisies from this morning's dog walk..

Try and find Headspace's Loch Dormant. It's the best thing I've ever listened to to get to sleep..

Collage of me, wearing ties.

Being asked opinions on wedding ties tonight..

Like, do you not know I'm a Tie Gay?!?!

Well, we're wearing rather well then 🤣

The husband, holding a pink and yellow wheelbarrow in a garden centre.

Reason 15789006 I can't take D anywhere..

3 tall trees in decreasing height left to right, with a cast iron wooden slatted bench to the right.

In the background, a tall latte on the left with a pineapple tart to the right. In the foreground, a pineapple tart to the left, and a flat white in a red cup and saucer to the right. The plates the tarts are on are sky blue.

Today's park walk and coffee stop..

Help me pick my next uni module...

A wooden frame. The left side is a collage of pictures of Rio, the right side is her paw print set in animal friendly clay.

A friend implanted the idea of doing this a few months ago, so I did Rio's pawprint a few weeks back..

Peripheral light (doesn't even need to be bright, a dull grey sky is enough) triggers occular and hemiplegic migraines for me. They suuuck!

My new 'let's hope they block enough peripheral light and reduce my migraines' spec shields came today. They're special.

Rio, the littlest beagle.

We've known since November that Rio was terminally ill. Her condition deteriorated suddenly overnight and we made the decision to let her go to sleep today.

We feel so incredibly lucky to have had her in our lives for the last 7 years, and will miss our girl deeply.

@tiggtag.bsky.social

Sade | Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

👏 Congratulations to Sade Adu, the first British black woman to be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. #MusicSky #Sade

rockhall.com/sade/

Scott Speedman, sitting in a chair, wearing nothing but board shorts.

No sleep last night so started watching Animal Kingdom. It's pretty good, and Scott Speedman is a total ride.

That's great no pain, but jeez they suck.

I get multiple types:
Cluster
Hemiplegic
Snow aura
Blurred /lost vision
Thunderclap
Tingling pins and needles (no pain, yay!)

Plus a whole host of other neuro symptoms. Urgh.

So, I've had frequent and severe migraines for literally 35 years. Tonight I discovered I get colour selective sensitive auras - so I see blues as greens, and greens as blues.

The benefits of the husband looking for new trainers and asking my opinion on them 🤣

• Delivering single-sex spaces on the basis of biological sex, in NHS wards, schools, sport and everyday life by upholding the Equality Act and delivering clear instructions to public services on how to comply with their legal obligations to women and to trans people. • Keeping women's prisons for women, instructing the Scottish Prison Service to remove all biologically male prisoners from women's prisons within days of the election. • Recommit the NHS to delivering single sex wards on the basis of biological sex, and ensuring patients can request same sex provision wherever possible.

Scottish Labour manifesto is out, don’t vote for them

Can someone pick my next module please...

An oxalis triangularis in a hammered copper pot. It's leaves are deep purple, and the flowers are pale pink.

Close up of the oxalis triangularis pink flower.

The oxalis has woken up from winter dormamcy. Let's see if it becomes the giant monster it was last year..

Tropical Chocolate Cake This is a wonderful cake: amusing but no joke; the velvety sponge is dark, moist and gently fragranced. Go easy on the essence/extract in the icing, though, or it will be just too Hawaiian Tropic. Should you not have any Malibu, which for those who have never come across it is coconut rum, do use any rum in its stead. But if you have none of that either or you simply prefer not to use alcohol in this cake, then just use two spoonfuls of the (usually apple) juice the pineapple was canned in. And please read the Additional Information section at the end of the recipe before proceeding.

Coconut! Cocoa! Rum! Pineapple! Yes, of course I’m in exuberant exclamatory mode as I tell you that my rather retro Tropical Chocolate Cake (a kind of inside-out Bounty) is #RecipeOfTheDay! In more sober fashion, I must also inform you that the rum is not mandatory. www.nigella.com/recipes/trop...

I don't, we get so much rain here it wouldn't often be needed. Might look into it when we start dealing with the back garden though....

An Acer palmatun 'orange dream'.

An Acer palmatun 'fireglow'.

Picked up a couple of wee acers in a sale a few months ago. I like that they're no longer just bare sticks :)

FUCK THE GRAND NATIONAL.

Yeah something like the first one would work well. We're in a total wind tunnel, and have quite long cold and wet winters. So I've been careful the types of planters aren't going to easily blow over. I've chosen plants that'll thrive in our exposed windy, wet, dark, & sub zero 6 months of the year

It's not our wall so I'm afraid not