I tend to avoid baking and im being quite hard on myself in regards to a diet atm so not really keen on eating carbs and sugar…

When I do bake its normally a victoria sponge, i’ve made a few and not messed them up too badly so far.

Dead Set. Written by Charlie Brooker of Black Mirror fame about a bunch of contestants in the Big Brother tv show when the zombie apocalypse kicks off outside. 5 episode mini-series.

Yeah, i decided against those as when buying cheap its at least hard to make a bad lump of metal vs a more intricate tool. The manual setters are at least cheap but I was having a look at the bigger lever machines and they are more reasonably priced than I had assumed so may invest in one soon.

Thank you! These were all done with manual setters, the little anvils and rods and a hefty rawhide hammer. I’d love to invest in one of those big lever presses, I live in terror of mashing a rivet or snap and not being able to remove it.

Thats really kind of you to say. I’d actually love to have a brand and store of my own as a side hustle one day, my artist friend has already agreed to swap me a logo for a choker! I’m really enjoying it still, so many things to learn.

Thank you! I started early in March so just under 2 months now. I make a lot of my own patterns too, but this was somebody else’s pattern, once I get an idea of how the construction works I then like to draft my own so I’ll likely work on my own pattern for them soon.

I’m working my way up to bigger items as I accumulate more tools, hardware and skills. I’d love to make a bag but I’ve mostly been using offcuts up until now which have been ideal for making bracelets and accessories.

I’ve been continuing my leatherworking and I made some glasses cases! They are pretty quick to make so feel quite nice to maybe make as gifts.

Good to know that trans people losing rights in the UK isn’t a ‘real issue’ close to his own life and that it doesn’t have any knock on effect for cis and trans women’s safety. Thanks for making sure we are all aware of that fact.

Made a fun little spiked leather bracelet

I’m fully aware of how the system works, thank you very much for explaining at me. I’m saying the ruling itself is arse backwards and jumps to a lot of baseless and genuinely misogynistic conclusions. It is difficult to read it as an objective clarification on anything, let alone a positive one.

In which case the ruling, even if one was to accept it as a valid interpretation, let alone its effect on people involved, is arse backwards and has the potential to cause significant harm in the short term.

Decades of gender = sex in legal wording, documents and policy makes it very difficult to detangle the intent of what is meant by sex or gender in each case.

This particularly undermimes obtaining a GRC which updates the specifically labelled ‘Sex’ field on a birth certificate. So now we can have people with legal documents stating their ‘Sex’ being barred from same sex spaces aligning with their documentation.

I love looking after my sister’s dog, a big dumb lurcher, shes easy so far as dogs go, very lazy and not motivated by walks but 2 weeks was enough to verify I don’t want to own one. My two feline girls suit me just right.

I also in the same position when it comes to magic but I love making little rituals in every day life, to the point where the simple act of lighting a particular scented candle can elicit a response before I do anything. Just stuff like lighting a candle and having some time to relax and make some nice tea, the blend or type of tea might not have any direct effect on my mood but having reinforced my brain that particular ones are for relaxing or ones for when I’m stressed out, it makes it kind of possible to have the effects i want by blending them like a little potion!

I bought a multipack of nice oil blends I use to make a sugar scrub.

• 300ml granulated white sugar
• 150ml coconut oil
• 20 drops of oil

Cats every day. I love dogs but specifically I love other people’s dogs that I’m not responsible for

Jitsi?

I think you are thinking of network rail who owns the infrastructure. GBR came about in 2021 when none of the operating companies were getting any money and so the government basically ran it for them. Basically it is de-facto back in public hands and GBR will take over once each operating company’s contract is up (I think SWR is first). At least that is my understanding of it.

Also the rolling stock wasnt typically owned by the operating companies, they would lease them from the ones who did like Angel trains and Porterbrook.

Isn’t that what GBR is already set up for in regards to rail?

Here’s the thing…