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  @suearcher@toot.wales My experience is a few decades old but I’m sure it hasn’t changed too much. The main issue is being swamped when you arrive like pigeons swarming freshly dropped chips. I’d imagine it’d be a bit overwhelming for you two so take it easy and slowly, maybe prepare open boxes and trays in advance so you can just place them straight on your table. After that you can relax and enjoy it. And as others have said you can never have too much change. Oh yeah, make sure you don’t buy...

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  @suearcher@toot.wales Hooray!

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  Notes and links from Fri 8 May: https://notes.peteashton.com/2026/05/08/notes-and-links-from-fri.html I’ll be honest, today was pretty much spent refreshing the Birmingham council election results and nattering about it on the local chats. I could come to like these daytime counts. So we have a Green Party councillor. The results will hopefully be here once the Birmingham.gov.uk website recovers, and it was surprisingly close, which says a lot about the Labour incumbent who was one of those go...

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  Notes and links from Sat 9 May: https://notes.peteashton.com/2026/05/09/notes-and-links-from-sat.html This quarter’s Rabbiting On from the RWAF arrived which is always a pleasure and I spent the afternoon flicking through it. As I’ve mentioned before it’s a mix of rabbit care advice and really gruesome veterinary photos, all wrapped in a graphic design that looks like a magazine for kids who are obsessed with cute fluffy bunnies. In many ways it perfectly reflects the #rabbit community: deadly...

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  Notes and links from Sun 10 May: https://notes.peteashton.com/2026/05/10/notes-and-links-from-sun.html Well, this is the first time in a while I've come to my text document at the end of the day to find it completely empty. It seems I read, listened and saw nothing I felt was worth noting today. And if you've been reading this for a while you'll know that's a very low bar. To be honest today has been a bit shite. Low mood, head stress, feeling grumpy and useles...

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  Notes and links from Mon 11 May: https://notes.peteashton.com/2026/05/11/notes-and-links-from-mon.html Feeling a bit better today but still pretty low. I tried a couple of tricks to shake me out of it, which usually work when I’m just in a funk, but they didn’t do their magic this time so I reckon this is the fatigue. Which is good as the fatigue passes with rest. Eventually. One of the tricks was to dive into a spreadsheet. I transcribed all the voting results from the Birmingham elections in...

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  Notes and links from Tues 12 May: https://notes.peteashton.com/2026/05/12/notes-and-links-from-tues.html We’d heard from neighbours that hedgehogs had been spotted so I put out the trailcam for the first time since the autumn and caught two of the little buggers! Loads of footage which I will edit into a video when I find the time but here’s a screenshot of them having a face-off at 3am. So good to see them back in the garden. We had a lot of hog action last year but it suddenly stopped way be...

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  Badges from @jeni arrived this week and they’re splendid. Thanks! Now I just need to get out of the house so other people see them. (Or give them away to friends, which is my main plan.) https://deliciouscreative.com/badges

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  @philgyford I’ve been one of those people. This year I finally bit the bullet, downloaded the archives and canceled. Interestingly my 14,718 photos are all still up there (might be because they’re all Creative Commons?)