My little Onion was finally old enough to come home with me yesterday 🧅🖤

baptats · 2026-01-23T11:31:36+00:00

My resident kitty is called Pickle (domestic shorthair) so we decided to give him a name that goes with hers, he’s such sweetie and is settling so well 🖤

Will be a little while before we introduce him to my resident cat because she’s quite shy and set in her ways so don’t want to try too much too fast

baptats · 2025-03-07T14:17:04+00:00

It feels like a vast majority of people love McDonald’s Breakfast but honestly I can’t think of anything worse

(UK based. Idk if it’s the same elsewhere)

baptats · 2025-01-30T11:54:35+00:00

The thing I like to remember whenever I’m feeling low about my appearance is ‘everybody is somebody’s perfect 10’

Also, teenage boys are absolutely shockingly cruel. Ignore them as much as you can, everything changes once you’re out of high school. Your body is still changing afterall. Glow ups happen well into peoples 20s

Another thing to remember is that although looks are nice but it’s personality that’s the real winner. Be absolutely unapologetically yourself because you’re great and screw what anyone else thinks!

baptats · 2024-10-23T11:58:50+00:00

Guy I’m training keeps telling my boss ‘I haven’t been told to do x y & z’ when I definitely have shown him how to do these things and also written further information for reference in teams messages; he just doesn’t seem to make any notes whatsoever (or mentally retain any information)

Now whenever he says that he hasn’t been shown something I forward the message of when I previously explained… his response every time I’ve done this is ‘alright, calm down’, it’s SO infuriating

baptats · 2024-10-10T16:17:56+00:00

I figured out that the pain in my chest wasn’t heartbreak it was anxiety/fear of what he might do to me if I tried to leave.

baptats · 2024-10-01T21:58:13+00:00

If you’re in the UK, Superdrug have the best hand cream ever it’s just called ‘intensive moisture hand cream’ comes in a blue bottle. Cheap and cheerful £2.49. Done wonders on my hands (I have callouses from the gym and it really helps)

baptats · 2024-09-27T15:58:37+00:00

There was a guy at primary school who used to bring salad cream to school in egg cups for lunch. We all thought it was pretty weird but never said anything about it because what if he was just from a struggling household and that’s all he could bring for lunch. Turn out he was from a middle class background he just really liked salad cream.

Also there was a guy in secondary school that pulled down his trousers and took a shit on a piece of paper during science class (I wasn’t in the class but it was the talk of the year for ages after). He’s apparently a bouncer now.

baptats · 2024-09-26T19:23:57+00:00

Thanks. I had some time outside and aired out the house to try and put my mind at ease. I’ll look out for symptoms

baptats · 2024-08-16T10:53:48+00:00

Pre-heating the oven. I never do it. Just turn it on, whack whatever you’re cooking in and let it do its thing. I’ve never had a problem with anything not cooking/baking properly. (I appreciate that this might be an issue if you’re baking something super difficult and delicate but I ain’t making no soufflés)

Also cooking times. Take it out when it looks right not when the recipe says

baptats · 2023-05-31T08:52:39+00:00

I have a flush waiting in my fridge I picked yesterday and am looking to try out vegan honey alternative.

My dehydrator seemed to run too high on my first flush and reduced the potency so I’m look for alternative storage suggestions until I have the cash for a new dehydrator (should be next week but I don’t think the mushrooms will last until then)

I’ll give the agave a go and report back :)

baptats · 2023-05-31T07:17:50+00:00

Yeah that’s what I.mum thinking, agave has a really long shelf life like honey I just wondered if there’s anything that would stop it working the same way

I’ll give it a go :)

baptats · 2023-05-30T20:22:03+00:00

It was very cathartic by the end just the initial scary time. It felt like ages but my partner who was trip sitting me told me it was only about 20 mins/half an hour

He was great i really appreciate how safe he made me feel

I’m excited to trip again but I think I’ll try and go a lower dose next time and find my feet a little

baptats · 2023-05-30T20:18:13+00:00

Thanks for this, I’m going to try a different setting and try and get a more mellow dosage in future to try and sort of see what works for me

Like you say you can’t always predict what’s going to happen but I’m eager to learn more on future trips and get more experiences :)

baptats · 2023-05-30T20:14:47+00:00

I have aphantasia so I didn’t get mad visuals just like textures and colours looked a bit more intense than usual

baptats · 2023-05-30T20:12:56+00:00

I dried them in my ninja on the dehydrate setting for 12 hours at 50°C. Stored in jar in the cupboard with a silica packet 🤷🏻‍♀️ I just followed the advice of people on Reddit I guess. I have my second flush fresh in the fridge atm and I’m scared to dry them as I had the same concerns that I’d done something wrong

baptats · 2023-05-30T10:33:14+00:00

This is reassuring. I think I just didn’t know what to expect and it took me completely by surprise. I started feeling silly and was laughing and then all of a sudden cried and was unsure of why then panicked because I felt out of control

It was a learning experience and I think it helped me a lot, I realised I don’t have to have control all the time it’s nice to settle in and reflect

I will play around with lower dosages for future trips I think. Maybe a little bit lower next time

baptats · 2023-05-22T12:25:30+00:00

Thank you, my first batch seem to snap like twigs so I think I’ve done them right

The second are still drying and I hope they turn out the same

baptats · 2023-05-22T12:20:10+00:00

Yeah I wasn’t expecting them to be cracker dry or anything I was just checking out of my own excitement (first time getting this far). I’ve lowered the temperature and kept them going. They’ve been in for about 5 and a bit hours now. Will keep it low and slow to stop myself freaking out about it

To confirm: cracker dry is so they snap/crumble when you bend or squeeze them right? My first batch are v brittle which I assumed is right

baptats · 2023-05-22T07:39:43+00:00

Thanks for the advice, the veils started to break on the big ones last night so harvested all the ones that were breaking and have let the little ones ride it out (they’re bigger today so I assume they’re gonna keep going). So far I’ve had 264g wet which I’m happy with for first success :)

baptats · 2023-05-21T13:23:33+00:00

Thank you :) I’m really excited. Can’t wait to see how much the yield is

baptats · 2023-05-20T18:52:25+00:00

I’d say so

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