ShezzaT

@shezzat

Her. Yer woman. You know; the one with too many books, a mad cat, and an online footprint that wanders back to the usenet days. Northern Irish.

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ShezzaT@shezzat· 5d

These panko prawns were delicious, and the spicing didn’t taste like it came from a Northern Irish menu. (Third time trying to post, no idea what’s going on)

Three delicious, golden crumbed panko prawns displayed in a cheffy style on a long, narrow white plate.

ShezzaT@shezzat· 5d

Is that a good thing or bad thing? We stuck to one of our locals and had some really nice food and booze.

A green glass bottle of Château Boutillot Bordeaux wine sits on a shiny wooden pub table.

A delicious grilled sea bass on crushed new potatoes with an indecently large slab of parsley & caper butter on top. I swear there is a heap of green veg on the other side of that stack. Blurry, in the background, is a towering Mexican bean burger and a tin bucket of fries.

ShezzaT@shezzat· 23d

Cause the nightspots spend your spirit, beat your head against the wall, two dead-ends and you've still got to choose

Screenshot of black text on a white background:

Greatest one line in a song ever.
Not verse, chorus, bridge.
Just one line…

ShezzaT@shezzat· 25d

While trying to give the local blackbirds space to eat, without hassle from the magpies, I might be making friends with the local hooded crows. They’re still awful easy startled. This is what they did when I lifted my phone to take a pic. Before that I’d been sitting just watching the activity.

Two grey-backed. Rows (AKA hooded crows) are taking off in startled flight. The crow on the left is in the sunshine and looks mostly grey. The crow on the right is in the shade and looks mostly black.

Neither crow is captured in a dignified position. Their feet are off the ground, their wings are half folded and their heads are jutting sideways.

Behind them is a sunny lawn, fence and wall.

ShezzaT@shezzat· 26d

I had to go to the Asian supermarket today to get Mum the garlic and root ginger she likes. So of course I wandered down the crispy snack aisle too.

Three packets of snacks sit on a wooden countertop.

Top left is a big bag of Lays in crab flavour. Top right is a big bag of Lays in creamy forest mushroom flavour. Below them is a slightly smaller bag of Jack’n’Jill Chippy corn snacks in garlic & vinegar flavour.

ShezzaT@shezzat· Jul 5

And there was me thinking seeing some snail-on-snail action was an exciting Sunday morning wildlife encounter!

Two walnut sized brown shelled snails intertwined on a pink pebbled surface.

ShezzaT@shezzat· Jul 4

@seand.me.uk IATATOY 🍻 “Duke of York owner confirms plan for sister venue”.

ShezzaT@shezzat· Jul 3

Mix well, bake in a 1lb loaf tin at 180C for ~50 mins or until a skewer comes out clean. I’ve reduced the sugar to ⅓ cup and used everything from caster to Demerara. Christmas cake spices, fruit tea, walnuts, vanilla extract and ripe bananas are good in it too. 2/2

A dark golden brown fruit loaf in a white paper liner sits on a wood effect countertop. The surface of the loaf is craggy and studded with dark bits of fruit. You’ll have to trust me that it smells wonderfully of mixed spice and vanilla.

Two slices cut from the loaf sitting on a white plate. The interior of the loaf is a light brown colour, with the multicoloured fruit and nut pieces dotted through it.

After this image was taken I applied an indecent amount of butter to the slices.

ShezzaT@shezzat· May 23

Yup. When #SamCat was still #SamKitten the 2021 heatwave wasn’t enough to stop his zoomies. After a long gallop around the house, he slumped on the windowsill panting enough to worry me. So I blanketed him with wet kitchen roll and kept damping it, so he’d lick the water off his fur.

A tiny, sandy mackerel tabby cat lies on a windowsill. He’s covered with a sheet of wet kitchen roll, which he’s looking at with some confusion.

ShezzaT@shezzat· May 5

Sound on for this one! On Sunday night we recorded what looks like a hedgehog stand of, where the hog who was at the bowl eating, started making a series of grunting noises at the other hog who dared to wander by.

ShezzaT@shezzat· May 5

Here’s a hedgehog getting its Friday night drinking session sorted. The dish it’s chosen to drink from this time is the plant pot saucer filled with big stones and water that I originally put out for the insects.

ShezzaT@shezzat· Apr 11

I don’t know if you remember my Twitter posts about how we were worried about his seeming inability to drink water. It turned out he just couldn’t drink from a cat-sized bowl, and now we have a bird bath in the kitchen.

A sandy mackerel tabby cat is having a drink of water. He is sitting with both his front paws in the very large dish. The green and terracotta dish is sitting on one of those dish drying absorbent mats.

ShezzaT@shezzat· Apr 9

Looks like someone has managed to keep their weight up over Winter, and might even be regretting layering the floor in their hutch so deeply. Alt text: Night camera view of a hedgehog’s rear as it squeezes into a hutch. Really squeezes, the hog’s legs can be seen pushing hard to get in.

ShezzaT@shezzat· Apr 1

Feel better soon, Steve!

A sandy mackerel tabby cat in a serious snoozing session, having snuggled in between a green fleece blanket and a purple fleece blanket.

ShezzaT@shezzat· Mar 25

Black ink cartoon sketch of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Their skeletal horses are standing on a cloud, with the curve of the Earth below.

The closest horseman is slumped forward in his seat, and his horse’s head is drooping. The two middle horsemen are looking at the furthest away horseman, who says “Look, Pestilence is exhausted. War, why don’t you pop down there and have a go?”

ShezzaT@shezzat· Mar 18

I made a tea loaf today, following the gist of a recipe that’s been around in my family for longer than I have: Turn oven on to 180C Put 1 cup of mixed fruit in a bowl Pour over 1 cup of hot, black tea. Let the fruit soften Mix in half a cup of caster sugar >

Top down view of a golden fruit loaf still in its paper lined baking tin. The loaf has cracked on the top at one side, with the paler innards showing off some of the mixed fruit inside. The tin is sitting on a silver metal grill tray.

ShezzaT@shezzat· Mar 15

I made this for dinner tonight www.kaveyeats.com/japanese-sim... with thanks to @kavey.bsky.social for the recipe. Our mystery veg bag squash pretty much disintegrated, but the flavour was delicious.

A white pasta dinner dish with (clockwise from bottom) simmered chicken and squash, basmati rice, garlic & lemon pak choi and cucumber & radish salad. The plate looks like it’s divided into 3 sections: one orange, one white, and one green.

ShezzaT@shezzat· Mar 14

When did your obsession with hot toxic women begin?

A scene from Blakes7. Two people are being held at gunpoint by Servalan. She is a slender white woman with a short black pixie cut hairdo. Her makeup is bold, in that late 70s/early 80s way with smokey eyeshadow and red lips and nails. She is wearing a magnificent black sleeveless outfit: very low v-neck, lots of black sequins and some sort of black feathery plumes at her shoulders. She has one hand on her hip and the other is confidently holding the gun. There is no doubt who’s in control in this scene.

ShezzaT@shezzat· Mar 7

*hides*

ShezzaT@shezzat· Mar 7

I got this one designed for me by a human LARPing as AI. I think it’s got more soul than those monstrosities.

Screenshot from youraislopboresme website. A light green prompt input box at top right contains the text “Design a Mother’s Day card I can send to my Mum. Thanks”

Below that is a line drawing of the inside of a black and pink card with the words “Love you Mum” handwritten in front of pink flowers and hearts.

ShezzaT@shezzat· Mar 3

There’s a hog who knows exactly what leaves they want in their bed.

ShezzaT@shezzat· Mar 3

Ohhh…. big stretch.

ShezzaT@shezzat· Mar 3

It’s not all shoving when two hogs meet beneath the shed. Here’s two just bimbling along on their own hoggy business.

ShezzaT@shezzat· Mar 3

In honour of Hedgehog Day, (which was on 2nd Feb) here’s one of our local hogs checking out the camera.

ShezzaT@shezzat· Mar 3

The Monch Bunch are not the best behaved hogs. This isn’t the first shoving session we’ve seen, but it’s one of the more determined ones.

ShezzaT@shezzat· Mar 3

Since we can’t tell the hogs apart, I’ve taken to thinking of them as The Monch Bonch. Here we see a little hedgehog doing a Very Big Yawn.

ShezzaT@shezzat· Mar 3

There are two hogs!

ShezzaT@shezzat· Mar 3

I see you hoggy, shakin that ass. (I thought it was about time I updated the BlueSky hedgehog thread).

ShezzaT@shezzat· Feb 27

In recognition of today; quote post with something #Green you've photographed

A view filled with tall, green, strappy iris leaves filling the lower two thirds, and darker green trees in the background filling the upper third. Some little yellow flowers are dotted around the top part of the iris leaves.

It’s a bright, sunny day that feels warm and uplifting.

ShezzaT@shezzat· Feb 11

I’ll provide cover.