Mike Wallis

@nalsa.bsky.social

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Purveyors of rambling stories with no point. 55.95N, 3.18W, ish.

a lot of masks showing different facial expressions hanging in a large hall with chandeliers and brick archways.
A black book with a white linocut picture of a bear dancing with bones as the cover. It is called Hookland Fragments Volume One, by David Southwell.
A bowl of prawn pho
A black and white photograph of the Queensferry Crossing, taken from near sea level. The clouds are being overdramatic.
Some filled pasta shapes that are clearly home made because they are the shape of boiled sweets in cellophane wrappers. They are dusted with flour and filled with green stuff.
A screengrab from the BBC Weather app, showing Edinburgh on Sunday is predicted to have "thundry showers and a gentle breeze".
Patches of light and dark caused by sunlight through ripped water on a sandy, shallow bottom.
the domino effect meme, with "prohibition" at the small end and "russian ghost fleet" at the other.
two pieces of almond ricotta cake wth cream cheese icing and a raspberry, each on a cream plate.
Three piles of chocolates on a white background. they are labelled, from left to right, "Peru, choba choba, 75%", "Beliza, Maya Mountain, 85%" and "Belize, Black, 100%"
The psckaging from a bar of chocolate, reading "Soma chocolatemaker" with the next two lines reading "Ancestral Venezuela, dark chocolate - chocolat noir 70%" The package design is abstract, with shades of plum and gold.
A screenshot from the popular entertainment show "Taskmaster" where Sue Perkins knocks over a pyramidal stack of empty cans in such a way that the entire stack collapses. The room the task is set in is decorated in white and covered in plastic sheeting.
The letters K and Y made from strawberry jelly. Presented on a lightbox made from fairy lights.
A black and white cat is lying on some decking next to a concrete slab with tiny purple flowers growing in the cracks. There are diagonal stripes of light and shade on the cat, decking and concrete.
A man in a grep top and unreasonably long shorts leans on a trig point atop a hill, looking to the right. The sky is blue with some white fluffy clouds towards the horizon. There is farmland in the background.
Ten golden samosas on some kitchen paper. They are filled with potatoes and peas and other tasty things. The pastry is crisp and slightly blistered.
A drawing of a very round, stylised hedgehog sculpture. The title reads "neolithic ceramic hedgehog, Inner Mongolia". The caption reads "Hedgehog, no!" which is a line said by Sanjeev Bhaskar on Taskmaster.
A field containing trees. There is a river to the left. The sky is very blue, with a few white clouds drifting in.
A still from "Whistle and I'll come to you", a TV film from 2010. The actor Sir John Hurt in a grey jumper and raincoat stands between two rock pillars on a beach, a haunted look on his face. A ghostly figure stands out of focus in the background over his shoulder.
The sea is silver, with a light patch on the left. The sky is clouded with a small patch of blue in the top middle. There is a horizon.
a gif of Roger Allam saying "I'm bored of this, I'm going for a twix."
a man shows andy burnham a phone
a photograph of a rocky foreshore, blue skies in the background, sandstone cliffs on the left, some outcrops in the middle.
A photograph of some rocks poking out of a calm sea. the sky is blue and there are some fluffy clouds.
a screen grab from the popukar social media site bluesky, reading vontaining thr handles for Socrates and Marcus Aurelius, and underneath read "Socrates and 1 other followed you"
a quotation from a tranlation of Marcus Aurelius' Meditations, 6:52, reading "You are not compellef to form any opinion about the matter before you, nor to disturb you peace of mind at all. Things in themselves have no power to extort a verdict from you." and underneath is written "Marcus Aurelius has already released you from the obligation to have a take"
a screen grab from BBC news of King Charles 3rd with a caption "Now: King addressing US Congress"
an airtight plastic box filled with homemade granola.
a black and white photograph of an electrical pylon.
a black and white photograph of a ruined castle in moorland.
A photograph of two fields, one golden yellow, the other deep green, are separated by a winding hedge. There is a wind turbine in the gold field. The sky is very blue behind the fields and there is a grey cloud on the top left.
a screengrab of the profile screen of bluesky user Why, showing that I have been blocked by them.
A series of unwrapped chocolate bars vanishing into the distance. These are milk chocolate with coffee in.
A screengrab reading "Dr Neil Buttery, a chef and food historian, says these 'hyper-regional' dishes are among those most at risk of disappearing."
The inside of a bag made from shiny silver plastic containing what I thought were freeze dried jujubes but after eating a couple I think they are actually fried in some way. The jujubes look like tiny dried apples.
a close in photograph of a lot of cream coloured swirls dotted with sugar-coated yellow jellies
The underside of a blue spitfire flying against a blue sky, propeller facing the right hand side of the frame.
a warning sign in red stencilled on a white part of a Concorde fuselage.
teo panels of a comic. A redheaded superhero character is laughing her head off in panel one. in panel teo she says "fuck that" only with punctuation marks, because that's the convention.
A polished slab of grey rock filled with darker odd circular ish nodules.
a black and white photo of Flanders and Swann
travel programme presenter David Baddeil and serial podcast host Ed Gamble are laughing on a set with a red theatre theme.
A screengrab from a TV advert showing a late middle-aged man with greying curtain-style hair with the text "maybe it's time to switch" on the right.
a number of cuboid chocolates on a white paper, arranged in diagonal rows receding into the distance.
a clump of daffodils on a clifftop, but they are not yet open. the skies are blue behind the daffs. a glimpse of sea through grass is to the right of frame.
A close-to photo of two jars of pi kea. On the left is pickled cucumber, on the right is pickled red onions. A window is reflected in each jar.
a black and white photograph of a wooden windbreak with supporting struts, on a beach, entering the sea, going from left to right. there are clouds. the scene is lit from behind and there are shadows lined towards the sea. one of the shadows is the photographer's head, because he doesn't know how to compose frames properly.
Edinburgh castle, as seen from my (former) desk.
a goth barn owl sits on a branch in a wooden enclosure.
a photo of two owls in a wooden enclosure. One in the distance, on the left of the picture, is staring at the photographer. close to, the one in the right looks off to the viewer's left
A large tree, surrounded by trees, with the shadows of other trees on the ground in front. There are nobleaves. The tree has a significant branch at near ground level growing to the right, big enough to sit on.
a box of 12 handmade chocolares, 3 rows of 4. top row is shiny red hearts, second tow is squares with a few flakes of salt, third is rectangles with a few cocoa nibs spinkled on top. the background is a black speckled worktop that I really want to replace.
a three tier chocolate sponge loaf cake filled eith pale chocolate mousse. there is a refrigerator in the background. the cake is exceptionally good
The actor Holly Hunter sits in a huge brown leather chair wearing maroon pyjamas with a repeating tiny warp core motif. The photo is a still from Star Trek Academy.
many jars of hone made marmalade, some backlit, on a cooling rack.
a photograph of an old man in a cluttered office holding a chicken.
a very dark sky with a bit of a smear that might be the tail end of aurora
a jar full of yellow jam, backlit and glowing, on a metal cooling rack.
A roll of white bin liners, partially used, with the torn end showing the word "idle", which is a bit rude.