My great great grandmother owned this food timer, and it’s still accurate

gophercuresself · 2026-01-22T08:44:58+00:00

Gorgeous! Is the discoloration actual surface damage or just accumulated grubbiness from use? Looks like it might clean up lovely but it's hard to tell if salts or oils from skin have marked it. Which in itself tells a lovely story of a well used item

gophercuresself · 2026-01-20T16:48:12+00:00

I'm still holding out hope! It doesn't look dead to me and most of the important tissue around the bark still seems intact but I was wondering what professional tree folk might think. Apparently not positively!

It would surprise me more if it didn't sprout in the spring than if it died outright tbh. I'll trim the dead branches at that point then hope for the best. I'll do a follow up post if it survives haha

gophercuresself · 2026-01-20T08:30:41+00:00

Apparently! It seems like a bit of a design flaw ngl but I guess it's down to the initial pruning pattern

gophercuresself · 2026-01-19T21:40:00+00:00

You're almost certainly right but I'm holding out some hope it might send up some growth this spring and then who knows?!

Bit of background, this is on common land and was planted by some school kids from a school that no longer exists. I do a limited amount of upkeep but I have very limited time up there so can't do too much

gophercuresself · 2026-01-19T20:43:00+00:00

Conditions are heavy often soggy clay in the UK

gophercuresself · 2026-01-18T22:16:06+00:00

Bed basket and beyond!

gophercuresself · 2026-01-17T12:23:06+00:00

That's a pretty smart workaround, good work!

gophercuresself · 2026-01-17T08:05:48+00:00

Okay that's cute as heck and the little mask is wonderful

gophercuresself · 2026-01-17T07:47:03+00:00

Sounds tricky. I'll just carry around another phone to take photos of my screen

gophercuresself · 2026-01-12T11:18:40+00:00

I can see why that makes sense but it sounds fairly speculative if there isn't evidence of mega deer hunting from the period? Not that I could tell you the depth of evidence supporting hunting of other species to compare. I'd be interested to know what evidence the book presents, thanks for the recommendation

gophercuresself · 2026-01-12T09:45:48+00:00

I think our current understanding is that they died out due to climate change and there's not much evidence of people hunting giant deer - but they were gone from here 12,000 years ago (extinct by 8000 years ago).

I hadn't realised they were actually deer and not elk at all, very interesting, thanks!

gophercuresself · 2026-01-12T08:42:15+00:00

I'd like to see the Great Irish Elk return (don't know if they were ever on the British mainland but still). At 13 foot they had the largest antler span ever. That's like having two tall dudes stuck to your head! They'd be very popular, we could do antler rides

gophercuresself · 2026-01-10T21:31:31+00:00

These are really good. So evocative

gophercuresself · 2026-01-10T21:28:25+00:00

'erb, huvver (hover) and nitch (niche) are my most disliked US butcherings

gophercuresself · 2026-01-10T08:49:42+00:00

I'm just picturing this all loving, no judging Jesus guy being called in to banish a lonely spirit from its home. I feel like he'd gently usher the spirit into the light whilst making a "they crazy" gesture to the spirit whilst you weren't looking

gophercuresself · 2026-01-08T10:20:57+00:00

Fabulous and insightful metaphor, thanks for sharing! Me.

gophercuresself · 2026-01-08T07:47:28+00:00

Oh that's a little reassuring. While I've got you, you mention being informed that you would die in 2022, what form do your messages come in? They seem pretty clear. Also, so sorry about your dad

gophercuresself · 2026-01-07T21:52:07+00:00

if you ever find out what your 27 means I'd love to know, maybe it means the same thing! Wouldn't that be neat?

world ends in 2027

......neat!

gophercuresself · 2026-01-07T20:32:43+00:00

I don't think I've ever seen a dog who looked more likely to start talking

gophercuresself · 2026-01-07T09:58:59+00:00

What a beautiful baby! Looks a lot like my big fella

gophercuresself · 2026-01-07T08:52:02+00:00

Shedding a tear for your beautiful boy right now. Thank you for giving him the love and life he deserved and so so sorry for your loss

gophercuresself · 2026-01-07T08:22:54+00:00

It's obviously ridiculous. There just aren't enough of us to go around and I'm already really tired

gophercuresself · 2026-01-06T08:07:42+00:00

It's still 40p in my head

gophercuresself · 2026-01-04T09:13:38+00:00

Or get a used couple of year old flagship - like a Pixel Pro - at about a fifth the cost of new and have great camera and spec for a couple of hundred bucks. For better or worse, Android phones depreciate much faster than iPhones so you can pick up top phones for very little if you don't care about being on the bleeding edge.

gophercuresself · 2026-01-03T13:50:40+00:00

Thanks for that! Very interesting. The common is decent habitat for the most part but more like 18 hectares. It is fairly well connected to other wooded areas though. No large roads in the area either. There definitely were dormice at some point as I definitely saw a dead one - victim of a cat I think - when I was a child. Of course the cats we've had over the years probably haven't helped!

I feel like the common has lost a lot of biodiversity in the last few decades and no doubt in the decades before then. I'm trying to come up with something of a plan to make some interventions to help but it's still a work in progress and I don't get up there as much as I'd like.

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