Sad news.. An amazing life.

Happy Pride Month 2026 to family & friends near & far whether you follow the 🌈 or fly the 🏳️‍🌈 #Pride

The woodland strawberries escaped the 'woodland' and have taken up residence amongst some old roses in an overgrown border.

As my neigbours all came out in shorts & T shirts to mow lawns etc when the sun was at its heighest - I went indoors for a 2 hr siesta. When you've lived & worked in countries with very hot summers - you learn. 😄 #UKGardening 🌱

#BBCQT @zackpolanski.bsky.social Where is the GREEN Party? ☹️

I heard that Ukraine has been under heavy fire from Russia today...but not from the #BBCNews channel. It was too busy speculating about what 'might happen'...tomorrow in Downing St. & speculating about what 'might happen' when a plane from the US arrives in Beijing. I always thought that.. 1/2

I had no idea that defaced ballot papers were valid. Maybe we need to change the law. 🤔 #UKElections

#LauraKuensberg Has Jon Culshaw been giving Richard Tice lessons? Talking to Kuensberg today, it sounded like he was imitating Faridge. He used exactly the same words, phrases and inflections in his voice. Very odd behaviour.

Labour & Reform have something in common. Neither are interested in engaging with the public on Bluesky. I understand why Faridge isn't but don't understand why Starmer isn't. 🤔 #UKElections #Labour #ReformUK

caveat emptor Reform councillors & MPs have no 'Kite mark'. The 'party' is a cheap import from the US - just like burger joints. #UKElections

Oh dear... I've noticed that Reform seem to be doing well in the English council elections. That will mean an increase in anti-social behaviour - and that's just the councillors! 😄 (Glad my area isn't voting this time round.) #UKElections

BBC #Newsnight: A newspaper headline states that Ed Miliband has urged Starmer to plan his departure...in a PRIVATE conversation. If the news media were invited - it wasn't exactly 'private', was it! 🤷‍♀️

The twigs seem to have kept off most unwanted visitors. Not sure if the small holes on the first pic were made by a cat's claw - or a bird's beak. 🤔 5 plants all with at least 1 tiny fruit & 2 (male?) flowers. Should I remove any flowers? #UKGardening 🌱

Trying to grow Squash for 1st time var (Summer) Sunburst. Last time I weeded, prepared & planted in a patch, I put grit down to stop slugs. The local felines decided it was a litter tray. Hoping the twigs will stop them this time. #UKGardening 🌱

Got to enjoy the Peonies while we can as they don't last long - but what a treat opposite the door. 🤗 #UKGardening 🌱

I was thinking along these lines but Matt is better with words than I am. 👇

Snooker on BBC 4 after #GardenersWordl - on BBC 4 How come they couldn't do that earlier and leave Gardeners' World on BBC 2? 🤷‍♀️

How do they manage to grow daffs etc in grass and not get grass growing up between them? 🤔 #GardenersWorld

Ahem. No we're not.😉 Also, many gardeners start young. 😁

#UKGardening 🌱 #GardenersWorld Noticed that there was 'no' Gardeners World or Beechgrove tonight so went looking for something to watch. Discovered that Gardeners' World is on BBC 4 at 9pm onight. 🙄

So the King has spent 4 days enduring insults only to come home with a trade deal...for whisky. Goes off on a trip that this UK citizen did not want. Comes back as a king that this UK citizen no longer wants. At least the flag was flown to indicate that the UK is very much 'in dire distress'.

#Booksky 💙📚

Interfering with an election that is already underway just to ensure a result to keep a regime in power.. You may as well put 1 name on the ballot paper & stop pretending that the US is a democracy. 🤷‍♀️

Netanyahu sold Trump on the bizarre fantasy that the Iranian regime would collapse so fast that they didn't have to worry about Iran closing the strait. The CIA, his Secretary of State, and the chair of the Joint Chiefs told him that was bollocks but his mind was made up.

New photos from the USS Abraham Lincoln show service members receiving minimal food portions as reports grow that some troops have lost significant weight and aren’t receiving care packages—while the Pentagon denies any shortages. (Newsweek)

A nice day spent doing some sowing and potting up and pottering. I now have a dozen strawberry plants (variety Elsanta) for sale. They're all from last year's runners and have really strong root systems... #standwithukraine #slavaukraini #ukraine #ukgardening #growyourown

I'm thinking this is hedge bedstraw growing under my apple tress. Don't remember it being there before but I did clear out a lot of ivy & brambles last autumn which often allows something else to move in & have a go. Also woodland strawberries are up & about all over my back garden. 🙄 #UKGarden 🌱

It's nearly peony time folks. 🤗 They don't last long but I love mine as they're opposite the front door so are the 1st thing I see in the morning before going to work this time of year. #UKGardening 🌱

And the small apple trees are blossoming. Pleased that the 1st one seems to have survived the loss of a major limb last autumn. #UKGardening 🌱

Front lawn - along with primroses I have a profusion of dog violets this year. Back garden - what looks like a mound of dog violets approx 1 ft tall. Not sue why it's grown upwards rather than outwards. Leaves are much bigger. Is it a different var or just not mown over? #UKGardening 🌱

According to Trump - Iran has no navy. According to the BBC eleven IRGC navy vessels 'harassed' a US navy vessel, today. Perhaps they were just a mirage. 🤔 #Hormuz www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-m...

BREAKING: Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán has called Péter Magyar to concede defeat in today's election. With 53.45% of votes counted, Magyar's TISZA looks set to secure a super majority. A defeat for Putin, a defeat for Trump, a victory for Europe, and above all, a victory for the Hungarian people.

Congratulations to Peter Magya and thank you #Hungary

OK - All the crew of Artemis II have returned safely to Earth. Like (almost) everyone else in the world I am relieved & happy for them & the team of people that made it possible. I can now go to bed at nearly 4am UK (BST) ☺️

Remember these faces. These are some of the schoolchildren killed by Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth on February 28, 2026 in a strike on the Shajareh Tayyebeh primary school in Iran. www.middleeasteye.net/news/names-a...

🙋‍♀️ LOS ANGELES - posting this just in case anyone over in LA reads my post & can do some good for 18 yr old Tucker. 👇 #LosAngeles #Tucker 🌱 #Gardening #Booksky

Yay #Beechgrove is back. Hope they don't intend to keep a whole hour between Beechgrove & Gardeners' World though. Maybe switch off the TV, make dinner & come back for GW will 'work'. 🤔 #UKGardening 🌱

Who would have thought that the reason the US regime bombed Iran was to close the Strait of Hormuz & force the rest of world to become dependent on the US regime for oil? 🤷‍♀️ Will nobody rid the world of this evil regime? #USRegime

#BBCNews - the reason you have a problem with funding is that you waste money having a camera looking at objects that are is not scheduled to move for 10.5 hrs such as Artemis II. You also have a habit of turning up unfashionably early (2+ hrs) to film empty rooms. 'Nothing' is not BREAKING news. 🙄

In a free, democratic country ICE employees would be on trial for murder and a public inquiry into the way ICE operates would follow. But this is the USA where murder is sanctioned by the 'government'.

It's 3.30 am UK BST & I'm off to bed. To friends across the pond - have a peaceful protest & get home safe. #NOKINGS USA

You just can't have enough primroses... Front 'lawn' & rear garden border. It's the first time a purple one has self seeded in the lawn. 🤗 #UKGardening 🌱

I've signed. 👇

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A woman being 'arrested' at an airport in the USA by 2 men with no ID. Her child is watching. Apparently these men are ICE officers.

Not asking for 'divine intervention' - just for the government to cancel the state visit to the USA. I would also like the government to stop handing UK military assets to Trump for his private wars. Stop the madness.

Can we have divine intervention to stop King Charles' state visit to the deranged megalomaniac Trump? Failing that, Keir Starmer and the Foreign Sec should pull plug on the visit...

My Blackthorn flowering its heart out after sulking for a couple of years, following a savage 'prune'. Next to it a younger tree a week or so behind with its flowers. I thought it was a 'chip of the old block' but the leaves have a reddish tinge. I'm thinking Purple Blackthorn? 🤔 #UKGardening 🌱

And the name of the [first] beast is...

#BBCNews Had to switch off BBC News tonight. The BBC needs to put a warning of harmful content before broadcasting anything from the CULT that is the US regime. These people brainwashed 50% of US citizens. They are dangerous fanatics.