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@BartGonnissen Thanks, makes perfect sense.

@hooks_barb Too much aft is too close to the flare of the hull (rounded stern) and to the propeller. Too much forward and you have too much interference with the bow wave and swell coming around the bow.

Disembarking. 3hr wait now. Ship back at 20.30. Should be home by 1am

@NelltheWeaver Beautiful colours, beautiful work. Congratulations from 🇦🇺

Well that blew up! Thank you so very much for all the kind words. It means the world to me, especially at the moment. I wasn’t sure about sharing my work any more so this has made my week 🥹

@BestinDogs ❤️

This dog saved all her puppies from a fire and put them all in one of the fire trucks on the scene....How many Likes for this hero Mama dog...? Please - We need your help to stay in this social network. Say something about our posts (yes, yum or smile emoticon will do) or we'll completely disappear from your news feed. Appreciate your help..🤎

@TheWatchfulCook @AnneLouiseAvery Couldn’t agree more! Her characters and stories are as delicious as the food they share so convivially.

Today would be a very good day to subscribe to this wonderful writer’s Patreon! Sublime writing and scrumptious recipes make it the best place on the World Wide Web!

@DakdaR22 🇦🇺

From which country do you continue to support Ukraine?🇺🇦 Put a flag in comment 🙌😉

@TheWatchfulCook @AnneLouiseAvery Always the right words at the right time. Such a gift.

@AnneLouiseAvery So very well said.

An Island of Flowers, an Island of Friends. The Stoat who ran the flower shop in Dorchester was originally from Madeira, his stately old family having established themselves there during the Napoleonic Wars. His kit-hood on the island in the parish of Santo da Serra had been idyllic – a time of green mountains wreathed in salt-grey clouds, ancient forests of pines and eucalyptus, dense ferned cauldrons scattered with dusty golden light, the hot, dry eastern wind known as the Leste, bright red and yellow tins of sugar cane honey cakes, carefree frogs singing in the valleys, and levadas, water channels like serpents twisting through the wild fuchsias and the starry myriads of blue and violet agapanto. So many, many flowers, a bounty which had marked his very stoatish soul and guided his path to floristry. When he moved to England and opened his little shop in Dorchester, he determined to impart the profound love and pride of the Madeirenses for their flora to his new neighbours, preparing such extravagant bouquets that any particularly successful attempts at floral arrangement in Old Fox's village became affectionately know as "Madeiring" in honour of the Stoat, who was often seen staggering under the weight of his flowers at births and funerals and marriages and dinner parties, and at the first delicate hints of love in the Maying Dorset land. And in their minds, Madeira became not just a distant island of flowers, floating untethered in the blue Atlantic swell, but an island of friendship, of beauty and interest – for every immigrant tethers two worlds together with embroidered garlands of words, of sweets, of flowers, of children, of dreams, turning strangers into friends and planting seeds of incalculable good.

@annahamiltonart Gorgeous- I want to reach out and pat him!

Pink! 🩷 Happy sunny Friday everyone!

@ukrainiansquad Australia ❤️

Write your country name if you still SUPPORT Ukraine ❤️

@thinkingwest @AnneLouiseAvery - creator of wonderful, wise and whimsical stories about a group of human and anthropomorphic characters who live in a very fluid timeline in a kind and harmonious Dorset community. Enchanting and healing. Can’t recommend it more highly.

Who are the best NON-POLITICAL accounts on X that you consistently learn from? Feel like my timeline is only politics these days.

@Harri_Est 🇦🇺Always

Leave flag of your country in the comments with ✊️ to show your support for 🇺🇦 and President Zelenskyy!

🚨NEW: Donald Trump has renewed his attacks on MSNBC host Rachel Maddow, calling her “the enemy of the people” and hinting he may try to take her off the air. RETWEET if you stand with @Maddow against Donald Trump!

@duchessmathilda @AnneLouiseAvery Most days I call up some of your collections and read them at random moments, like positive affirmations. Some make me smile, some bring a tear, all bring me quiet joy. You have so many admirers here, don’t let the meanness of others dent your belief in yourself.

@AnneLouiseAvery I cannot express strongly enough how much pleasure your writing brings to so many people. You have a huge and loyal following here. Every day I and numerous others look for your stories of Old Fox and his friends. Ignore the spite-mongers, they're of no account! Stay strong!

Sitting in the cancer ward crying because some horrible person has just said here that my work is pointless - nobody needs your "pretty fictions." Why are people so cruel - can't they at least check to see your circumstances before they tear you down?

@SquigglyRick I’ve just finished reading Mean Streak and I’m so full of admiration for you, dear Rick, not just for this brilliant piece of writing, but also that you’re still standing after such long and close exposure to the toxicity that was Robodebt. Be gentle with yourself.

@SerkanTheWriter When my Burmese cat went missing I drove all over Melbourne, to every shelter I could find. He eventually emerged from a neighbour’s garage two doors up where he’d been accidentally locked in. Knock on some doors and ask people to check their sheds.

Grief is weird. On Wednesday, grief drove me determinedly to about 10 vet clinics to let them know Tripper is still missing. Yesterday, grief wouldn't let me get off the couch. Today, grief is going to make me put up 100 more posters of Tripper for the final time. My heart hurts

@ElliottBlackwe3 Please stay, we need you more than ever

I keep getting asked "Are you leaving here?" It is something I keep debating. Yet in this space of social media, I believe there still needs to be a place of gentleness, wonder, & where one can return to a childlike way of dreaming. So, for now, I'm here. (art by Inga Moore)

@Sylindria @ElliottBlackwe3 Me too. I think it was playing a lot when Holly, my first labrador, died and I can't hear it now without thinking of her - or any pet I've loved and lost since.

@ElliottBlackwe3 ‘Bright Eyes’ will make me cry every time but I don’t know why

What's a song that makes you cry no matter how many times you've heard it? One of mine is "I Dreamed a Dream" from the musical Les Miserables.

@MarshallWSL 1952

Type the year you turned 10 into Twitter gif.

@TansuYegen Lovely

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@Gabriele_Corno Very clever!