Olgs

@schmolik.bsky.social

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Grumpy post-menopausal lady trying hard not to be Glass-Half-Empty. Maker of mundane posts. She/her

A large, shiny, mirrored building on the right, with a pink sunset reflected in its windows. On the left a much lower block.of flats, looking pink in the twilight. In between the Mediterranean sea and a row of palm trees. Above, a sky fading from blue, to pink, to darker blue on the horizon.
A floral granny plate with a large, squareish roll beautifully wrapped in thick white paper.
The "I Love Nice" sculpture at night, with a crowd of people, and a laser light pointing into the night sky.
A blue sky with trails of blue, white and red smoke like the French flag, and palm trees below.
A view of some blocks of buildings, an extremely shiny mirrored hospital building on the left side. In between, a generous glimpse of the Mediterranean sea and a row of 5 or do palm trees. Pale blue morning sky with faint wispy clouds above.
A large, crispy Masala Dosa in the foreground, with a palette of chutneys and lentil soup behind.
A vintage (probably 1950s) black and white photograph of four young women playing Bridge.
A view of the Winter Garden at Rules restaurant in Maiden Lane, London. A dry Martini, with an olive, in a Nick and Nora glass sits on a glass-topped table with a wicker chair behind. A comfy sofa and lots of greenery can be seen beyond.
A Whatsapp message reading: Funny: this morning, during a stroll in Nyon’s Saturday market, I bumped into the President of Switzerland (Guy Parmelin). We had a chat and a handshake. This is typical Switzerland: no security. [Laugh-cry emoji]
A white and tabby cat lying on a cool taverna floor, being spooned by her white-and-more-tabby kitten.
A ludicrously cute fuzzy tabby kitten with a white chin and long white back legs, standing on a low wall with some pink flowers nearby.
A message saying: "Kiiiiiiiiiiiiitennnn!" The reply: "What's better than good food, wine and kittens?"
BBC Weather forecast showing L9ndon Weather for the working week ahead, ranging from 29 degrees celcius to 37.
White middle aged woman, with brown hair and wearing a green top, looking quizzical while seemingly trapped inside an installation that looks like hundreds of strands of extra-long spaghetti dangling down.
A close up view of this year's Serpentine Pavillion in Hyde Park with its crinkle-crankle wall, designed by Isabel Abascal and Alessandro Arienzo.
A view at night of a restaurant terrasse overlooking the port of Nice. The name of the restaurant, Ô'Cap, is on a banner at the top of the shot. In the foreground is a table and chairs, and next to that a handwritten menu on a chalkboard and some plants in a planter painted in the colours of the Cape Verdean flag.
A battered and grimy return train ticket to Brighton from London Bridge, dated 17 February 2007.
A large Dry Martini on a coaster on a wooden table.
A vaguely heart-shaped crisp on a wooden table.
A pair of white female legs with sturdy knees, with a copy of the Virago Modern Classics edition of The House of Mirth resting on them, and a mug of black coffee sitting on the lawn below.
A glass of gin and tonic with ice and a slice of lime, a packet of Morrisons Skin On salted crisps, a TV screen showing the opening titles of "The Pitt".
A group photo of the eponymous band from the Channel 4 comedy "We Are Lady Parts".
The North Devon coast; a hazy blue sky over a dark headland on the horizon, and a calm blue-green sea. In the foreground to the right, mounds of green shrubs and an evergreen tree poking above, with its crown silhouetted against the sky.
Three fake sharks seemingly leaping out of a canal, with industrial brick walls behind.
A near empty car park in the foreground, blue sky above with the sun just filtering through some long flat clouds.
A deep orange rose, its petals blushing bright pink at the edges, against glossy green foliage and a glimpse of flagstones beyond.
A horse chestnut tree canopy smothered in whitish pink conical blossoms, and a blue sky above.
A dry mud path leading through drifts of cow parsley towards some leafy trees; pale blue sky above.
A crowd of people dressed as, or brandishing, giant Tunnock's Teacakes (from the Commonwealth Games Opening Ceremony in Glagow in 2014).
A pistachio Paris-Brest on a white plate, with two generous glasses of champagne and a raspberry tartlet behind.
A side view of a large resin statue made to look like bronze, depicting a male figure in a suit carrying a huge banner which is covering his face and obscuring his vision so he seems to be frozen in the act of stepping off the plinth. Behind the statue can be seen the Athenaeum Club covered in scaffolding, and there is a clear blue sky above.
A lemony cocktail garnished with a lemon slice and a generous bunch of mint, in an Old Fashioned glass, on a marble-topped table.
A pint of beer on a pub garden table.
A painting of black cats dancing around a maypole on their hind legs. The grass below is green and speckled with tiny yellow flowers; the sky sbove is blue with fluffy white clouds. Birds flutter around the top of the maypole.
A vintage poster depicting a line drawing of a heroic looking woman in flowing robes casting seeds from her left hand. In her right she holds the pole of a giant red banner reading "WORKERS OF THE WORLD UNITE!"
Jess Cartner-morley on fashion How to pull off leather trousers Get it right and leather trousers have the power to make you look just that tiny bit cooler than everyone else in the room
Experience: I've won £1m on the lottery - twice
Trump says he will 'probably put a big tariff on the UK' if it doesn't drop digital services tax
Andy blames centrist politics for failing to offer people such as his parents a more positive worldview. “Nobody has defended civility and multiculturalism, or a liberal vision of Britain as a humanist power that supports human rights and the rule of law,” he says. “That’s the natural place where my parents should be, but when parties like Ukip started to rise up, there was just this collective panic about losing voters to them.”
A paris goblet containing Cinzano and supermarket own-brand gin plus a spherical ice cube and wedges of lime, standing on a William Morris-patterned coaster on a wooden tabletop, and a packet of sweet chilli crisps behind.
"A staff member starts an email to guardians about an upcoming field trip. They open Microsoft Outlook to start writing the email. AI supports them with text predictions that help save time by predicting text quickly and accurately. While this feature is an example of AI-powered technology, generative AI presents a great opportunity to expand on these types of scenarios. The staff member can turn to Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat and write a prompt, asking Copilot Chat to write an email to guardians describing the upcoming field trip. They can include the website for the field trip and location. Copilot Chat then generates a draft email to send to guardians. The staff member edits the response, copies, and pastes it into Outlook, then sends it to guardians. They saved time on administrative tasks and can move on to preparing learner activities for the field trip."
An amateurish painting of a Peacock butterfly on a mottled greeny-yellow background.
A small waterfall surrounded by lush forest greenery.
A beautiful adder on a semi-shaded woodland floor.
A view from a low angle looking up to the Chapel of St Nicholas in Ilfracombe, which dayes to the 14th century and is a work8ng lighthouse.
Damien Hirst's "Verity" a monumental bronze figure of a heavily-pregnant woman standing on a pile of books and holding up a sword in her left hand. From this angle some of her skin appears peeled back so you can see the unborn child, some of her muscles, and skull.
A yellow-flowered gorse bush in the foreground, with moody and misty rocks and grey-blue sea beyond.
A gorse bush smothered in its suncream-scented yellow flowers, with the still, grey-blue sea beyond and a pale blue sky above.
A beautiful adder warming itself on the first hot spring day of the year, on some grass and rocks.
Dark moorland with layers of sea fog at the bottom of the picture, and a triangular sliver of silvery sea in the middle, dusky sky above and a patch of altocumulus cloud at the top with sun rays coming through.
A cup of Earl Grey tea next to a plate with a giant fruit scone, two little pots of jam, and a ramekin of clotted cream beyond.
A view of an Exmoor pony on Exmoor, with blue sky and wispy white clouds above.
Yours Truly, middle aged white lady in glasses and a bright multicoloured scarf, grinning inanely next to England Rugby Union legend and top TV pundit Maggie Alphonsi!!!
A text dialogue starting "The hot water is broken" The reply: "How?" and "Can you send me some photos?" Followed by a picture of a running tap, and underneath it the words "It looks like this but it's not hot."
"We will be holding our 2026 Staff Conference and Wellbeing Day at [REDACTED] on Friday 27 March 2026. Please arrive from 9am for registration; the conference will start at 9:25am in the Sports Hall. After a delicious hot lunch, we have organised a range of wellbeing taster sessions taking place throughout the afternoon. Many of these will be delivered by external organisations and facilitators, and include laughter yoga, mindfulness, Zumba, Argentine tango dancing, steel pan playing, a creativity station, and more. We will circulate a link early next week for you to select and book your sessions. We look forward to seeing you! "
A cartoon by shoeboxblog.com featuring an exasperated St Patrick driving a red car full of snakes. Various snakes are saying, "I feel sick", "I have to pee", "He's touching me!", "Are we there yet?" and "I'm hungry".
BBC Weather app showing the forecast for London for the week: cloud and rain.
A sign, in yellow type on a green background, on the door of a Jamaican restaurant reading: WAIT DEH 1. Tek off unu shoe dem. 2. Wash unu dutty han dem. 3. Sit yuh backside down. 4. An nuh baddie cause problim ina my house.
Four 80-teabag boxes of Twining's Lady Grey tea piled up.