Paul Fenwick

@pjf.bsky.social

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A bluesky "Conversation" page reading: Age Assurance We're sorry, you cannot access this screen at this time. Due to laws in your region, certain features on Bluesky are currently restricted until you're able to verify you're an adult.
A nest-shaped spiral basket made from cabbage tree leaves. It's string bound and took forever. A folded opinel pocket knife is in the basket for scale.
A beautiful adolescent dun coloured highland bull. He has a shaggy mop of hair on his head, two very beautiful horns, and a sweet face. You can't see it, but his tongue is very licky and feels like sandpaper. Cows engage in mutual grooming behaviour and will lick humans they consider to be part of their fold, although it doesn't hurt that humans also taste good with their delicious salty skin. Finley insisted on licking my hands and arms a lot after I gave him face and neck rubs. In front of Finley the beautiful bull is me, a while middle-aged man who is not as beautiful as Finley, and has shoulder length broken hair, a salt and pepper goatee, a big smile, and a Software Freedom Conservancy t-shirt.
A simple loom with beige thread being used to weave a strip of fabric about a palm wide. There are some rocks being used to weight the warp that might actually be pieces of fossilised coral.
A ringtail possum runs across a gutter during daytime. Clinging to her back is a "baby" possum that's weighs probably half as much as mum! Shortly after this photo was taken they were attacked by a territorial bird who thought they were after eggs. They were okay, and also weren't looking for eggs.
A number of long green yucca leaves. These then get pounded with a blunt object to bruise them for retting.
An Australian landscape at dusk. A field of shadowed oats is in the foreground. The sky is a mix of beautiful colours, with some small fluffy clouds. There's a glow on the horizon from the sun, and a tree and a hill silhouetted in the distance.
As if I didn't already know I had landed in Aotearoa New Zealand, nor the relationship between our countries, there's a sign at the international baggage claim reminding me that it wasn't *Australia* that invented the pavlova.
Guardian headline: NSW police twice Taser 95-year-old woman with dementia, leaving her with fractured skull The woman was taken to Cooma district hospital and family say they do not expect her to survive as police launch internal investigation
A brown spiral basket base as described in the toot, sitting on a Melbourne Metro train seat. The spiral is about sandwich sized.
An absolutely gorgeous forest scene, with god rays shining down. A couple of tents are in the distance
A picture of an in-seat entertainment unit showing Nadi airport. Nadi is in Fiji, but the infobox shows the details of "Nadi, North Korea", along with the picture of details of Pyongyang.
A heckton of acorns. Some are in a basket. Some are shelled and in a bowl. There's a kitchen rock and board used for opening them. I've been eating a lot of acorns recently.