Mike Sharp

@sharpy.bsky.social

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Cornish Australian. Former Web dabbler. Posts mostly about DIY, Dad jokes, avgeek, 🐝, 🌶, 🔋🚗💨 and Lego.

A large (1 metre diameter) octopus, cruising around the bottom of a seawater swimming pool in Kiama, NSW.
The moon, visible during the day. The contrail from an airliner looks like the moon made it.
Bez from the band Happy Mondays. Around his ear is a badly drawn vector line curve.
Bez from the band Happy Mondays. He has a Bézier curve badly drawn around his ear.
A pack of Easter Hot Cross Buns, in a supermarket on December the 27th.
Cooked breakfast for dinner, on Xmas day.
Six freshly cooked Cornish pasties 🤤
A red moon, rising over the ocean.
The sun, rising over the Pacific Ocean on the Australian east coast.
The beach on the Gold Coast, Australia.
A garden at dusk. There is a red pergola lit up with festoon lights and various pathways also have white light on them. To the right of the picture there is a garden screen illuminated with coloured light (purple in this case).
A view across a mirror calm ocean pool in Kiama, Australia. There is a clear blue sky and some trees in the distance. The water is so clear you can see the rocks at the bottom of the pool.
A Red aurora australis.
The aurora Australis, lots of red hues in colour.
Bez, from the band Happy Mondays. There is a badly drawn Bézier curve around one of his ears.
A pagoda, painted bright red, amongst green vegetation and a woodpile.
An empty box. On the side is the product name “Britex urine remover” 6 x 500ml bottles.
A wooden pergola in a garden.
Screen grab from the U.K. tv show Spaced. There are two characters dressed in extremely flamboyant outfits, with heavy makeup on.
Four student housemates on the roof of their accommodation.
A pint of Guinness (it’s actually the no alcohol 0.0 which is astonishingly good).
A beach in Australia. The blue sky has a few little fluffy clouds (Orb ear worms). The sky is reflected in water on the sand.
Dawn over the ocean. There are some clouds on the horizon that are highlighted by the warm orange colours in the sky. In the foreground are some silhouetted trees.
The moon, poking out from behind some whispy clouds over the ocean. The last hint of sunset gives the sky a pink tinge. The are some silhouetted trees in the foreground.
The Cornish (St Piran) flag. It is a black flag with a white cross.
Photo of the night sky in the southern hemisphere. There are several stars and a couple of plants. Along with some clouds… and a palm tree…
The moon illuminating the clouds and the ocean
Some sweets that have melted into a blob of half liquid half jelly baby bodies.
A racing cycling glove. It is light blue and has a bright pink Z exploding from the middle with a cartoony speed cloud. There are a couple of spots of dried blood from an accident I had in the Cornish lanes riding home from school 🤣
Six freshly cooked Cornish pasties.
The rear logo on a Ferrari 812 Superfast at the Maranello Ferrari museum
A product in an Italian Aldi, called Weiner Zucker, only the Z uses a heavily calligraphic typeface that makes it look like an F.
A painting in the Louvre. It depicts two men. One of them has a knife in his head and another in his chest. He appears to be casually asking the un injured man for help.
A picture at the Eiffel Tower. I am holding my arm in front of the tower to make it look like I’m pulling it out of the ground.
An old granite engine house. There is a classic Cornish mine chimney in the background and a tree/bush growing in the middle of the ruins.
A tall green glass bottle of mead. The label is old and faded and has MEAD Pouilly Fuisse 1951 typed on it.
Easter chocolates on a supermarket shelf.
Rows of chocolate bunnies and Easter eggs on a supermarket shelf. I haven’t even finished digesting my Christmas lunch.
A hanger full of aircraft. Standouts are the TSR-2, Concorde, a Vulcan and a Lancaster.
An Australian garden Christmas decoration. A large inflatable kangaroo with a Santa on its back
The view across to a land spur, over a beach. There is fog rolling in and out.
The underside of an aircraft fuselage. You can see my knees in the picture. I am laying on a workshop inspection trolley.
Surf crashing on a beach. My shadow from the setting sun behind me is on the sand. The sky is a lovely blue with whispy clouds.
The view from a cherry picker basket along the top of the port wing of a Fokker F-27 friendship.
A home cooked Cornish pasty on a dinner plate. There is a pint of Guinness 0.0 and a bottle of HP sauce behind the plate.
The entrance of a native Australian bee hive. There are about thirty small black bees around the entrance and one has just taken off.
A one metre section of beach with maybe sixty bluebottle jellyfish visible.
Six Cornish pasties, fresh out of the oven. 🥟
Three Cornish pasties, fresh out of the oven.
Sunrise over the ocean.