Sophie 🪿

@fyimanners.bsky.social

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The silliest goose. Morris dancer, folk festival organiser/attendee, late-diagnosed autistic. (she/they)

A comment on a FB post about a film adaption of a novel reads: "How many times has Lady Chatterley's Lover been done?". Someone has replied: "A few times, mostly when her husband ain't around."
New Esperance Morris, women's side. White shirt, black trousers, bells. Purple, green, and gold sashes.
A hand holding a hagstone, sea in the background. A hagstone is a stone with a hole all the way through the middle.
Sophie is dressed as a tavern wench. She is holding two large full cocktail glasses up to her chest and grinning.
Icicle, a white and black cat, laying on his back on a grey sofa. His two back feet are sticking straight up, one of his front legs is outstretched. His other paw is tucked into his chest. He looks as though he's in a Western film, after having uttered the line "He got me, partner... I'm done for."
Icicle the white & black cat sits under the stairs, looking smug.
A photograph of 12 people in royal blue waistcoats and black trousers, two are holding melodeons. Many have bells on their legs. One of the people is wearing a large Papier mache Boar head, bedecked with ribbons.
Icicle the white & black cat is laying on a brown blanket, looking like a Salvador Dali depiction of a cat.
Sophie (a white cis woman in her 30s) has a Panama hat on, and a blue gingham sundress. Her shoulders are sunburned.
Alaska the white and black cat shows his belly and all 4 paws
A black coffee and a pain au Chocolat, on some lovely grey speckled crockery.
A cat, sitting with its hind legs pointing out in a triangle, tail in between legs. It is leaning on its forelegs and has a thousand-yard stare.
A tweet that reads: 'He doesn't look autistic.' 'My apologies. Luke, would you mind doing an autism for the lady please.'
Health screening appointment info. Main bit of importance is what the appointment involves: lifestyle assessment, body composition analysis, anthropometric assessment, cholesterol panel, blood pressure, blood glucose, strength testing, respiratory health assessment, mental wellbeing assessment, functional movement screening, cardiovascular disease risk assessment, diabetes risk assessment, personalised wellbeing action plan.
An Easter Bunny! (Sophie is wearing white glasses which have little bunny ears and a pink nose.)
Pretty lady in a crochet goose hat
A slice of "Bueno cookie pie". It has cookie and chocolate layers. It has a piece of Kinder Bueno on top of it, and chocolate drizzle.
A grid of 9, showing video game covers/titles. From left to right, row by row: Lemmings Paintball, Fury of the Furries, Gauntlet Legends, Rayman, The Sims 2, Total Annihilation, World of Warcraft, Dragon Age Origins, and Runescape
Two rows of an Excel spreadsheet, with percentages in cells on one row.
A panel from a Li Chen robot comic. Robot is shaking with laughter, and saying "HA. HA. HA. HA."
Icicle the cat leans up for pets from Sophie's lap, showing his chin. His face is in front of Sophie's face, so his nose lines up in front of hers.
Two white & black cats in a brown cat bed. One cat is half out of the cat bed, but still appears to be comfy.
A simple little cartoon face which looks spun-out and horrified. Text reads "People choose to take illicit drugs such as ecstasy, cocaine and heroin to feel intoxicated."
An AI generated image of four male engineers in blue jumpsuits, stood around a piece of equipment. The engineer in front-left has a weird ET finger.
Dot on a map of Bluesky users and related communities/topics. Fyimanners is near-ish to the British Folk Music Community
A small hand-sewn Mothman, with little velvety patches on his wings. (Made by SeaflowerInstitute)
Sophie is showing off birthday presents from her sister. A cuddly gargoyle, book 'Field Guide to Larking', some lovely woven earrings, and a birthday rosette!
A photo of a baby sat on a carpet. The baby is holding a book, pages held towards the camera. The pages have illustrations of 4 frogs, then 5 fish. The baby's expression seems to say "What am I meant to make of this? The plot is non-existent, the characters laughable."
The start of a knitted jumper - collar done and colourwork yoke being worked. The main yarn is a dusty pink, and the colourwork is in black. Ravens and stars!
Knitting needle with 12 stitches cast on, in a dusty pink yarn.
Sophie, a white cis lady, smiles into the camera. She has shoulder-length medium brown hair, with strands framing her face
The Tamar Bridge & Royal Albert Bridge, over the river Tamar.
A chocolate brownie with smarties and sprinkles on the top. The packaging label reads "cosmic brownie"
Image looks out over a river with several small boats moored. In the background are the Tamar and Royal Albert Bridges. The Tamar bridge is a road suspension bridge, and the Royal Albert Bridge is a railway bridge with two spans.
A carton of eggs. There were 10, now there are 4. They are in one row. Two have red crosses on them, and there are pink circles on the next row indicating where the eggs should be.
A photo of a residential street and pavement. There are brick houses in the background. In the streetlight, snow can be seen falling. There are cars with their headlights on.
The back of a packet of roast beef Monster Munch. The text reads: Miniature monsters with big crispy heads? Or crunchy claws, plucked straight from roast beef beasts? Bite off each crispy toe, or is it an arm? Nibble the sides or "stick your tongue through the hole and let it melt in all its meaty glory."
One knitted mitt - fingerless glove. Knitted with yarn in shades of green, it has a long rib-knit wrist section.
A box of Hotel Chocolat chocolates - this is the 'exuberantly fruity' selection.
Sophie, a brunette cis woman, is wearing a bright red sweatshirt. Printed on the front are the words "TINSEL TITS", above an image of blue tits wearing Christmas hats, sitting on tinsel.
Yarn of different greenish hues is being knit upon 4 double-pointed needles.
A close up of a rainbow-striped bag with a 'sac magique' badge on the front pocket
The back of the Taskmaster Advent Calendar box! It has instructions for the advent game - 24 little squares on a map, a section of instructions, and a Little Greg Davies with head in hand.
A black fibre-optic Christmas tree, decorated with thin springy multi-coloured tinsel, orange baubles, and a fluffy multi-coloured star topper.
A white and black cat is laying on a pillow, right above/next to a person's head. The person is frowning.
Kier Starmer standing in front of US and UK flags, looking down at a mic and a podium. The caption reads "there's a famous slogan in the United Kingdom".
A green cuddly jellycat goblin sits in a black and red sleeping bag, playing a brass bugle.
A white and black cat loafs atop a pile of black fabric tatters. There is a TV on in the background. The cat looks just above the camera, his eyes are yellowy-green and he has a lovely pink nose with black dots on the tip.
Photo shows the top 3 shelves of a bookcase, all filled with books and other odds and ends. The 2nd shelf down has mostly Josh Kirby-illustrated Terry Pratchett novels, and the 3rd shelf down has mostly hard-back Paul Kidby-illustrated Pratchett novels.
It is Sophie, but as a sparkly Mari Lwyd with a robin atop its skully bonce.
Brick the ginger cat (an orange man) sits atop a cat tree. He's got a little smooshy face and tiny little ears.
Alaska, a white and black cat, is sitting like a loaf in a cardboard box. He almost looks like he is smiling at the camera.
Netflix 'family film night' section. Selected is "Margaret Thatcher: The Long Walk to Finchley". Next to it is 'The Cat Returns'.
Alaska, a white and black cat, curls up on a grey sofa. His paws are tucked underneath him, and his nose is resting on his tail.
Sophie (white woman, blue hair, yellow coat) has two fingers up in a V (for victory, not bird flipping). She is sat next to a person made of knitted red poppies all attached together.
A little round squishy toy spider. He is soft. Eyes round, legs wibbly.
A photo of two white ceramic pigs, with a label that reads "PIGS WITH NO SPECIFIC DUTIES"
A bouquet of flowers - all crocheted! There are silver sparkly brooches amongst the flowers.
Taskmaster Advent Calendar! A lovely red box of fun.