Fay Campbell
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Fay Campbell
@fairiefae
Animals, Nature & Music most important things in life. 20 yrs as a Member of the CAF. Friend of First People.
Newfoundlander, Canadian Katılım Nisan 2013
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@SamaHoole @CamMargue My advice to new arrivals? Go back and read all these fantastic, and highly entertaining, reports.
Keith is a superhero, and you’ll meet Gerald and Doris. You’re in for a real treat.
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The short version of Keith, for everyone who's just arrived.
Keith came down from a barn roof in Devon that he has been living on for eleven consecutive days to eat a cyclist's energy bar.
That is not the context. That is simply what happened on Tuesday.
The context is this.
Keith descends from the Bezoar Ibex of the Zagros Mountains of Iran, an animal that navigates vertical cliff faces at 4,000 metres and extracts nutrition from thorned scrub in January at altitude.
The domestication of the domestic goat was, by livestock standards, not particularly thorough: goats retained the independence and problem-solving ability that selective breeding had removed from cattle and sheep by the Bronze Age.
Keith is the 10,000-year result of this.
He has been on Dave's farm 14 months. He has opened every gate on the farm. His record against the seven:
North field gate: 19 times. Third version. Three bolts. Keith is on day two.
South field gate: 12 times.
Yard gate: 7 times. Electric latch now fitted after Keith was found in the kitchen standing there. Looking. Not eating anything. Just standing.
Feed store: 3 times. Third occasion: ate part of the latch mechanism before Dave noticed.
Paddock: 4 times.
Track gate: not yet opened. Keith has been assessing it every Wednesday since September. This is the longest assessment of any gate. Dave is not comforted by the duration.
Road gate: Dave checks it every morning before Keith gets there. Twice.
He cleared Dave's 12-year knotweed stand. The Environment Agency's chemical treatment quote for the same area was £4,000. Keith's fee was bramble, the east ditch, and the gate budget.
The gate budget is £387.
Margot, Dave's cousin's Anglo-Nubian, visited for a week. The corner post on Steve's boundary has a 4mm flex. Keith now knows about the 4mm flex. Keith is not in a hurry.
Steve has filed 24 formal complaints.
The Reverend has Dave's number.
The knotweed is at 6%.

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@BryceMLipscomb “Raising Concerns” Think we should be well past that stage. These people seem to be monsters.
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My mother-in-law said my quilt looks like a thrift store threw up on my bed—and honestly, I’ve never been more proud of anything in my life.
It took me two years to make it. Every square is a different fabric, most of them from clothes my kids outgrew, old curtains, or tablecloths I found at estate sales. That orange floral square in the corner was my daughter’s first Easter dress. The dark blue paisley came from the shirt my husband wore on our first date—the one with the torn pocket he refused to throw away until I finally cut it up for this quilt.
When my mother-in-law came over last week, she looked at my bedroom and said, “It’s very busy, isn’t it?” in that tone that really means, “This is hideous and you have terrible taste.” She told me her quilts are all coordinated—matching fabrics, neat and professional. Mine, she said, looks chaotic.
And she’s right. It is chaotic.
It’s every stage of my life stitched together in squares that don’t match, colors that clash on purpose, and patterns that compete with each other. I learned to quilt from YouTube videos at midnight after everyone else went to sleep, poking my fingers until they bled because I couldn’t figure out how to use a thimble.
I bought most of the backing fabric from someone’s destash sale on a shop—eight yards of this beautiful dark floral for twenty dollars. I found binding supplies there too from a woman who quit quilting after her divorce and just wanted everything gone. We ended up messaging about our projects, and she showed me how to do proper mitered corners and even sent me links to other quilters on the app who sell vintage fabric scraps.
My mother-in-law’s perfectly coordinated quilts sit folded in her linen closet, wrapped in plastic.
Mine is on my bed every single night—covered in dog hair, coffee stains, and the weight of every memory I stitched into it.
Cheesy or not, it’s the most honest thing I’ve ever made.
-driftwood SH

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@Puppieslover Love it, best ever. Who is the guy doing the talking.
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@Mikeggibbs It’s just Paddy’s Batch or Shelia’s Brush. Snow to take away snow however this year, the snow in Ontario left a little early so there was nothing to take away. It won’t stick around long.
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I have egg on my face.
Just a few days ago I declared that Spring was here.
Well fuck.
#ONstorm
Ajax, Ontario 🇨🇦 English

On Sunday I posted on here that I was approaching 60,000 followers and was pleased how many people got to enjoy my posts. Today, three days later, I’ve got over 70,000 followers on here. I realise that it’s mainly because of my good looks, brilliantly clever wit, the occasional photo of the interior of a pub and my views on life, the universe and everything. But seriously (I was actually being serious then) I am genuinely touched by how many really lovely people are on here. I love the replies and replying to you. I love the support and have even met some of you and loved it. Thank you so much. You truly are the most gorgeous people ever. I know you’re lucky to follow me, but I’m very lucky that you are so blooming wonderful. Selfie right now of me looking happy in a pub, somewhere in Amersham. Cheers 🍻

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Never, ever, in nearly 70yrs have I heard a US Secretary of State for Defence (War) wallow in words, like "kill", "murder", "unleash death and destruction all day long", "destroy" What the hell is wrong with the guy? .............. and of course,he's a devout Christian. How's that work?🤷🏻♂️🤷♀️🤷🤔 @CNN @abcnews @PBS @CBSNews @washingtonpost @nypost

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Mark Carney backs U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran, calls for civilians to be protected
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@AnitaAnandMP Don't like it one bit. Yes things need to change for the Iranian people but war is not the way especially when it involves Israel and the US.
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@yeesim_32 Looks creepy and scary to me. He is enjoying it entirely too much.
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