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    Raspberry ricotta pastries, courtesy of the Snook. (Folks, given the holidays and lockdown, food is all we’ve got to amuse ourselves. Expect to see a lot more photos in the next fortnight!)

    Raspberry ricotta pastries, courtesy of the Snook. (Folks, given the holidays and lockdown, food is all we’ve got to amuse ourselves. Expect to see a lot more photos in the next fortnight!)


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    Finished! This is definitely the best gingerbread house I’ve ever made. ❤️🎄🍬🍭

    Finished! This is definitely the best gingerbread house I’ve ever made. ❤️🎄🍬🍭

    Finished! This is definitely the best gingerbread house I’ve ever made. ❤️🎄🍬🍭


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    Everyone knows all candy-based cottages have toothpick flying buttresses for support.

    Everyone knows all candy-based cottages have toothpick flying buttresses for support.


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    I’m a grown-ass adult. I can put together a Hexenhaus, right? (Hansel and Gretel look pretty happy about visiting their friend the Witch here…)

    I’m a grown-ass adult. I can put together a Hexenhaus, right? (Hansel and Gretel look pretty happy about visiting their friend the Witch here...)

    I’m a grown-ass adult. I can put together a Hexenhaus, right? (Hansel and Gretel look pretty happy about visiting their friend the Witch here...)

    I’m a grown-ass adult. I can put together a Hexenhaus, right? (Hansel and Gretel look pretty happy about visiting their friend the Witch here...)


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    @simonwaight @FloorDrees Hmmm. I haven’t used anything great TBH. If you Google for “knitters graph paper” you can download paper set to specific gauges so at least you know accurately what it will look like. I use image editor to layer my source image and then manually colour in the relevant boxes.


    @simonwaight @FloorDrees It’s a good question though. I’ll make a note to talk about it on my knitting Twitch stream tomorrow!


    @TheWonkaTonka You should give it a go if it’s on your Netflix. I loved it (even though due to the accents I missed 15% of the dialogue). 😂


    Fit check! Good grief, still knitting. Didn’t hit my goal of finishing during #reinvent, but hey, there are more sessions in January. 😜🧶 https://t.co/ksU5LTJXZa


    So they talk about Fledermaüse constantly, but he still goes by Batman. 🦇 https://t.co/t75i4F6m6e


    RT @FunkoPOPsNews: First peek at the awesome new Good Omens Funko POPs! With Crowley and Aziraphale ~ Available at the links below .. sooon…


    Merry Christmas to me! https://t.co/2yiYZkiG4s



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    We’re having a cocktail making competition in my team this week. Of course, I’m going all out. (This is Step 1.)


    Fit check! Good grief, still knitting. Didn’t hit my goal of finishing during #reinvent, but hey, there are more sessions in January. 😜🧶



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    Fit check! Good grief, still knitting. Didn’t hit my goal of finishing during #reinvent, but hey, there are more sessions in January. 😜🧶

    Fit check! Good grief, still knitting. Didn’t hit my goal of finishing during #reinvent, but hey, there are more sessions in January. 😜🧶


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    @BrainwaveFactor We were having dinner with someone from Perth who brought his wine store over from Australia to Germany with him!


    RT @adhorn: And just like that – Amazon SQS FIFO queues let you process up to 3000 messages per second per API action 😲
    This is a 10x incr…


    RT @clairewillett: This is amazing and I learned so much?? https://t.co/PM15bEchmj


    Come join me, @dtraub, and @darkosubotica as we say Auf Wiedersehen to #reInvent 2020! 🇩🇪❤️👋 https://t.co/P3hxOLMfY4


    @classicwebdog @jennapederson #treatyoself, I say.


    @classicwebdog @jennapederson Now I’m in the mood for chicky-chicky-parm-parm for dinner!


    I binged “Derry Girls” over the week. It’s so good! Why didn’t you all tell me it was so good!?



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    In 40 minutes, please join me, Dennis, and Darko as we bid “Auf Wiedersehen” to re:Invent 2020 on the AWS Germany live stream! 🇩🇪❤️👋



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    @katgallow Rodd had mentioned this to me many times but I’d never seen it! He is particularly fond of Ye Olde Pissweak World 😂


    @hannahyanfield @darthted DROOOOOOL


    Honestly, giving a 10min presentation makes me feel more alive and engaged and focused these days than three coffees and a shot of adrenaline to the heart.


    RT @adhorn: AWS re:Invent 2020 digest — Part 2 – Curated list of my favorite AWS updates from re:Invent 2020 #reInvent #reInvent2020 #AWS…


    Not everything is awful. ❤️ https://t.co/xKnVp7FXwf


    @200ok I’ve got the RED one too. Love it. You’ll get used to it. Portrait mode is my new favourite thing. 🙂


    RT @TheShovel: Typical. Melbourne develops a boutique new wave of covid then four months later the exact same thing pops up in Sydney #COVI…


    @Mandy_Kerr This is super relevant to my interests, and really well done!! ❤️ (Well, in Chome anyway. In Firefox the top bit of the letters is cut off. 🤔)


    @Mandy_Kerr Still super cute!


    Discussing the finer points of wine, and why the one that costs 12x as much doesn’t necessarily taste 12x as good. 🍷 @ Munich, Germany https://t.co/NN9lcfp9QX


    Scott samples the salami-kabel-trommel. Verdict: “It’s fine. It’s salami.” 😂 @ Theresienhöhe https://t.co/hZX1xn9c1T


    Overheard: “… and that was the night I passed out in the graveyard!”

    Every time one of the Snook’s uni buddies visits, the stories come out.


    “…And that was the night you lost the power of speech! And you were hitting on that girl, and we had to translate on your behalf!”

    “… And that was one of those nights when I cried. Inconsolably.”

    I’ll leave it up to you to guess who each story applies to.




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