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• Post #3536163

  Oh, apparently I didn't block all instances of that tag bloke on sight. That was careless of me. #HK72Posts

• Post #3536162

  Just got back from a shopping trip, where I successfully bought t-shirts, but didn't manage to buy any jeans. TIL that in addition to the slim, skinny, boyfriend, and mom jeans that I knew about, you can now get barrel jeans and carrot jeans. Yes, barrel jeans bulge out in the middle, and carrot jeans taper. No, I didn't feel motivated to try any on. Who wants to look like a barrel or a carrot? Couldn't they have found better names for them? #HK72Posts

• Post #2145644

  Okay, time for a rambling thread on exercise, with added articles. Basic overview on exercise - Exercise is good, even in small amounts. - Government guidelines recommend 150 minutes of exercise per week, and research suggest 3 - 5 hours may offer the greatest longevity benefit; beyond 5 hours the gains level off. - “But brisk walking most days of the week is incredibly effective. It’s actually better to walk consistently than to overdo it once in a while." - “The closer you get to 7,0...

• Post #2143527

  So this is why I wake up feeling all achy! https://www.uhhospitals.org/blog/articles/2024/06/why-do-you-wake-up-in-pain

• Post #2141199

  Yesterday the charity shop manager could smell mildew near the storage area for incoming donations. We don't know the source, yet, as there are a lot of bags in that area, but it's likely that one of them contains something in pretty bad condition. It's probable that the bag (or bags, if we're unlucky) was stored in an attic, garage, or shed, and then just brought to us as a donation, without checking the condition of the contents. It will need to go straight in the bin when we f...

• Post #2104458

  We had 117 boxes and bags of donations today, which is a lot. It felt like people had done some clearing out over the bank holiday weekend, and were now bringing it all in. We were getting very close to being completely full, though, and had put out the signs saying we couldn't accept any more donations today, and anyone who phoned up was asked if they could possibly delay until at least tomorrow, or preferably Friday. Only one person seemed to get snippy about it, when it was explained th...

• Post #2070364

  Had a visual aura for the first time in a few years - like a migraine but without much pain and more visual effects. It's mainly gone away, but it's screwing up my ability to put the right letters in words at the moment. Very annoying. #HK72Posts

• Post #2065369

  "Non-exercise activity thermogenesis is all the little things you do during the day that keep your body moving — the movements you do that aren’t, technically, exercise." https://health.clevelandclinic.org/non-exercise-activity-thermogenesis-neat-exercise #HK72Posts

• Post #2002345

  Yesterday I decided to buy some cottage cheese (with pineapple!) to try out. Bad decision. Today I made the even worse decision to eat the rest of it. Not quite sure how it managed to taste a lot worse today than it did yesterday - yesterday it was okay, but not great, today it was barely edible - but it did. Anyway, I'm not buying that again. #HK72Posts

• Post #1946272

  May the Forth bridge be with you. #HK72Posts #StarWarsDay #MayThe4th

• Post #1909085

  Just logged over 1 million steps for 2026. Aiming to do 3 million by the end of the year. #HK72Posts

• Post #1838804

  April 2026 Books Read: 14 The Examiner - Janice Hallett The Man In The Brown Suit - Agatha Christie This Is Not A Game - Kelly Mullen The Girlfriend - K L Slater The Only Suspect - Louise Candlish The Institute - Stephen King Black Flowers - Alex North A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess The Mysterious Case Of The Alperton Angels - Janice Hallett It Ends Here - Heidi Perks Burn After Reading - Catherine Ryan Howard 10 Marchfield Square - Nicola Whyte The Surf House - Lucy Clarke T...

• Post #1740053

  Before we had our front door replaced, some people used to ignore the doorbell and use the letterbox to rap at the door, which eventually lead it to break. So when we were planning the new front door, we decided to get a door knocker, so that people who hadn't seen the doorbell (shiny chrome, and not exactly invisible) could use that instead of the letterbox. We also got a white letterbox to blend in with the white door. People now knock on the glass panels instead. 🤦‍♀️ #HK72Posts

• Post #1738885

  Do not machine-wash Aran sweaters! Yesterday my fellow volunteer was sorting through donations when she came across a navy blue Aran sweater. It was small, matted, and felt horrible to the touch. The label said it was dry-clean only, but someone had obviously put it in the washing machine. A shame, because it was only fit for ragging. https://www.aran.com/bloghow-to-wash-your-aran-sweater-a-complete-care-guide/ #HK72Posts #CharityShopLife

• Post #1738871

  It's been a busy couple of weeks at the charity shop where I volunteer, with a lot of people donating a huge amount on the same days. We are very grateful, even if it has been rather overwhelming at times, and we've been close to having to turn donations away, because we're full up to the rafters. Thank you to everyone who has had a clear-out before Christmas! #HK72Posts #CharityShopLife

• Post #1688666

  We have someone who regularly donates 6 boxes of books every time he comes in. I think he has been doing this since September / October last year, and apparently he does house clearances, which explains where all the books are coming from, and what sorts of books we get. There are often a lot of children's books included, which seems to indicate grandparents with shelves of books for when their grandchildren visit. Generally his donations are sorted into roughly 1/3 to us for processing, 1...

• Post #1572498

  Looks like Iceland's big opening day went well. https://www.worcesternews.co.uk/news/26039507.iceland-new-store-opens-droitwich-big-giveaways/ #HK72Posts

• Post #1450475

  Huge amounts of book donations today - we had 24 boxes and bags of books in, which I just managed to sort through in the afternoon, resulting in 295 books to the warehouse as donations, 158 books to the warehouse for ragging and 202 books for processing - 655 books in total. Very happy, but that was about our limit for today, and we can't really take many (or any) books tomorrow until both the delivery van has come and collected everything to go to the warehouse, and some of the remaining b...

• Post #1250648

  They're certainly hyping up the opening of Iceland in Droitwich on Tuesday. I wonder what time people will start queuing... https://www.worcesternews.co.uk/news/26019565.iceland-reveals-plans-droitwich-store-opening-day/ #HK72Posts

• Post #1158186

  Just activated Follow Requests so that I can check who wants to follow me. The bar is pretty low - just no assholes please. I'm also going through my followers list and weeding out any dead and inactive accounts, as well as the aforementioned assholes. #HK72Posts

• Post #1063869

  @kimlockhartga@beige.party @bookstodon@fedigroups.social I hardly ever DNF a book, but had two recently that I stopped pretty early on because I wasn't enjoying the writing. One had some pretentious language, but I'd had enough when he called eggs "oblate spheroids."

• Post #910355

  @microglyphics@mastodon.social Not necessarily. The anti-library is a thing: https://fs.blog/the-antilibrary/

• Post #905980

  @FlockOfCats@famichiki.jp "For parents, the job they most want for their children, for both boys and girls, was civil servant." Hmm - pretty sure the kids wouldn't be impressed with that!

• Post #905964

  @fionaorkneynews@mastodon.scot Such a cute plug-in plane!

• Post #900936

  @the5thColumnist@mstdn.ca From their point of view, that would be poverty.

• Post #899008

  @ronanmcd@mastodon.green No, he didn't. No, they don't - yes they are, but not by using AI.

• Post #884091

  Not sure the cannabis farmer saw the funny side of it, but 1st April brought a raid on the former HSBC building in Droitwich https://www.worcesternews.co.uk/news/25988107.man-arrested-200-cannabis-plants-found-former-hsbc/ #HK72Posts

• Post #879358

  @bobdvb@mastodonapp.uk Yes, but don't tell them that!

• Post #862525

  @Chloeg@mastodon.art Oh, FFS! It's difficult enough to order prescriptions without AI "helping."

• Post #843367

  Oops, just been calling my son to get up for college, because I thought the Easter holidays started this Friday - no, they've started! #HK72Posts