She's been pressure washing her bannisters and decking for over an hour...in a drought. While my garden wilts and dies. I'm raging. We're with Wessex Water and don't have a ban yet, so I can't report her.

It's a good year for Gatekeeper butterflies 🦋

This review just in! 😂

Catch me on BBC Wiltshire radio with Ben Prater tomorrow morning at 7.05am where I will be talking about the drought, climate change and how this warm weather is not all as wonderful as we think and is having a catastrophic effect on crops and wildlife.

I'm also looking for work, yeah not great! Do you need a garden design or just advice? I create wildlife-friendly, naturalistic gardens across Wiltshire & beyond. 1-hour in person or online garden mentoring available. www.capabilitycharlotte.com #GardenDesign #WildlifeGarden #CapabilityCharlotte

My husband Moray aka @cephid.world is looking for new opportunities—he’s a consulting developer who specialises in web architecture, app development, & helping startups. He’s smart, calm, collaborative & works especially well with women-led teams. More at moray.dev DM me if you’d like an intro.

With record temperatures and very little rain before Summer has even begun, we need to start taking better care of our natural world for wildlife and climate. An easy start is to ban lifeless plastic gardens 📝 petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...

Landscapers that lay astroturf profit from destroying your local ecosystem. Neither consumer or contractor pays the true cost of damages. Pavan Sukhdev calls this concept the "Economic Invisibility of Nature" and this is something that our Government need to start acknowledging.

@shitlawns.bsky.social What now seems to be the default standard for garden make-overs :(

I’m proud to be an Ambassador for the Wildlife Garden Directory who are celebrating their 1st anniversary! Sign up today or check out the website to find a local wildlife-friendly gardener! wildlifegardendirectory.org.uk Please give them a follow: @wildlifegardenproj.bsky.social

Update photos of a garden build by @pavedinstone of one of my designs. Porous hoggin pathways will weave through the garden, Corten steel edging holds it in place

Anyone else had their Google timeline deleted, despite doing all the things Google told you to do to preserve it?

My husband Moray aka @cephid.world is performing his debut album at his first live solo gig at the @rondotheatre.bsky.social in Bath this Saturday morning 8th February, it will be amazing and it features his laser harp, which he will be allowing people to play after the show.

@danicapriest.bsky.social squee! You're on Radio 4!

God there's nearly two more weeks of January...

Have you ever wondered why Germans didn’t do anything about Hitler? Well, the rest of the world is wondering exactly that about Americans and Trump.

Fuck the diet, we're all going to die anyway, Trump and his billionaire bum chums have seen to that.

Trump declares executive order to "stop all gov't censorship & bring back free speech to America"--by forbidding people from using their own pronouns, by forbidding people from addressing others by their very own names.

Daisy

Dandelion

My attempt at my favourite flower, lily of the valley.

My winter scene inspired by the frosts!

My talented friend Miriam has started drawing a mural up our staircase. It's of UK native wildflowers through the seasons. Ut's a huge job, so I've asked friends to add theirs whenever they visit. I'll slowly add what we've done so far, but this is how she started with spring, isn't she clever?

Nerding out over the living wall in Bradford-on-Avon, I did my masters degree dissertation on living walls. It's been up three years and hides what was dubbed the ugliest wall in Wiltshire. Looking at the system, I'd say it is by ANS global

Me: "I'm really not good at handling rejection." Also me: "I think I'll get a cat."

"The 50 men convicted of rape and assault alongside Dominique Pelicot are aged between 26 and 74. They include a nurse, a journalist, a prison warden, a councillor, a soldier, lorry drivers and farm workers." www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d... #rape #allmen #gisele

This show is going to be a amaziand with a free CD thrown in if you book 2 tickets or more between now and New Year's Eve.

Merci

The Media won't acknowledge this video of the farmers blocking an ambulance with its blue lights on so could you could RT it so people see it?

I called out Eternal Lawns today on Facebook, their response was to make a highly personal and wrong comment. I don't use chemicals on my hair. They lay plastic Death carpet. Their boss Gareth Twohey was extremely unpleasant to me on LinkedIn. So @Shitlawns over to you...

A @shitlawns.bsky.social monstrosity on LinkedIn, is it floating? "Alladin and his Plastic Carpet" doesn't have the same ring does it ? If this is "A Whole New World", I want nothing of it?

Definition of a woman of ‘a certain age’: - Too old to be bullied & intimidated. - Too young to be patronised & ignored. Terrifying to men of a certain type.

First mulled wine of the season at the famous Haunch of Venison in Salisbury.

Is #caturday a thing over here? I jolly well hope so because here's my husband @cephid.world with our grumpy cat! 😂

Follow the grey brick road..

This is my husband's amazing music.

Lets stick some pointless plastic down that looks awful, & doesn't work. The residents hate it, chronic underfunding, h&s culture & a lack of joined up thinking led to this. I can see maintenance would be hard on that slope,trees would block the view. My solution? lay 'Grass Felt' by Lindum Turf

The floods in the UK & Valencia reveal how urbanization, climate change, & loss of natural flood defenses worsen extreme weather. Sustainable solutions like rain gardens & permeable paving can reduce risks. Learn more with expert Wendy Allen on my How to Design Your Garden course. Link in comments.

High praise from a previous student on my course.

I need to post more but u live I've been super busy working and helping a friend with a community project for Bath BID. More on this later...

Thank you to everyone who has followed me, lovely to see some old Twitter folk and especially @Shitlawns, I'm still promoting my How to Design Your Garden course. I think it's as good as the RHS Level 2 course but it's £190 (until Dec 9th) instead of £535! 😂 😉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/how-to-des...

Here are some of the many great reviews my How To Design Your Garden course got last year. If you would like to re design your garden, or if you are a pro gardener looking to learn another skill, my fun & informative 12 hour course is perfect for you. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/how-to-des...

Ive updated my info-graphic on Artificial Lawns in light of yet more harmful impacts coming to light in recent years. Please feel free to save it and share it whenever you see people considering plastic grass on social media.

I’m very excited (and a little nervous) to announce the first ever Cephid live show! I'll be performing Sparks in the Darkness in full on Saturday 8th February 2025 at the Rondo Theatre in Bath. Tickets available now on my profile! 🔴

Would you like to learn the skills to design your own garden? Are you a pro gardener looking to diversify? Then enrol onto my 12 hr How to Design Your Garden course. Sign up now to get a £10 early bird discount (offer ends 9th Dec) 8th Jan - 12th Feb 2025 6-8pm www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/how-to-des...

Mostly talking about biodiversity and garden design.