Sleep tight my cuties. Saw you in the hollow stick just in time to stop me clearing it Come and eat my blackly in sorting #allotment #ladybird #ladybug

@organicbish.bsky.social You are well travelled …. Do you know Stockholm at all?

Advice on #Stockholm. 2 or 3 days? Hotels? Will be there before a stay a bit further east. Not sure how long to do as a pre- trip. ✈️

Harking back to Twitter fun times. Can you guess the airport @pmgilmartin.bsky.social @organicbish.bsky.social

Love my #sourdough. Look at the crumb😀👍 Slicing for freezer to use as needed #homemadebread Benefits of bring stuck at home with a bug🤣😀and improving.

First time making hawthorn tea. Anyone made? Do you actually bother slicing the berries for the dehydrator? I have started but… Such a lovely colour #hawthorn #tea #wildtea #homeapothecary

#applejam Is it nice. Worth the effort? I make lots of jams but never done with apples. But I am ( happily ) drowning in apples and gifted a big bag as well today. Already got puree in freezer & dehydrated some for winter. Is ice cream do-able ? #allotment #gyo #apples

#allotments sitting having my lunch in cool wild part of my plot. And listen👂👂max volume! The faint noise of a plane , trees rustling and a bird and a faint bark. But otherwise silence 😍Mental peace. A few mins away from motorways and a high street. #saveallotments

#wildplums these are just a handful of the windfalls from a prolific wild yellow plum tree at plot. Never known what type 🤷‍♀️ #delicious #foodforfree #annualtreat

Whitecurrant jelly it was then. What’s the science behind it going this colour though? I had read it would. Why? 2 small jars for us and a jar of course to my plot friend who gifted the berries.

Been gifted some fabulously plump freshly picked #whitecurrants Never sure how to interestingly use them. Anyone made ice cream with them ? Or maybe a visually interesting version of “ redcurrant” jelly?

#zerofoodwaste #freezerraid left over egg whites, bit of foraged plum &2024 blackberries =meringue with ice cream and blackberries Yummy yum. No wonder I am not shifting weight though 🤣🙈

So pleased how pretty my tomatoes look in this blue and white plate #presentation #friendsforlunch

Had a huge #cheese urge despite the temperature! So I made up a recipe 🤣Had my #kohlrabi from plot so sliced and same with my Apache 2nd earlies.40 mins in oven with stock til evaporated then slathered on a huge cheese sauce and 15 mins in oven. Topped with chives. Yum #inventarecipe #allotment

Although I love to cook I can also get really fed up with it 3xdaily. My usual solution is to get a new cookbook to reignite enthusiasm. What a bargain today at local charity shop. £2 total for approx £50 new books ! ( yes I will donate something back ! ) #bargain #cooking

When you run out of double cream to make #icecream then #sorbet it is ! #jumbleberry #usingupmysoftfruit #allotment #gyo

Why I grow #hollyhocks ! Look at my #bees covered in pollen😀 ( hollyhocks are pretty too) #pollination

Myrtle’s Folly is such a crazy dahlia! ( ooh and just seen matches my little piece of morganite crystal too 😍)#dahlia🌸 #crystals

Pleased with these #soap Oatmeal , dandelion and calendula infused oils, scented with lemongrass essential oils. 😄

@robsoncarol.bsky.social Morning. A friend who lives in Manchester ( I am se London) asked me about soap making courses. I said I know just the person who will know🤣 Do you remember where you did your course?

Beauty can be very simple . A battered old container and a simple spray of wild cow parsley and (dreaded)alkanet #whatsinmyvase #mygarden

Loving the tulips in my garden today #tulips

Popped to #elthampalace this morning. Not many tulips out yet but clearly a white theme as also some gorgeous white narcissi.Magnolias magnificent Everything of course looks beautiful when framed by the buildings.

My friends (nicely) laugh at me for my foraging habits but harvested young #nettletops yesterday and made a pesto with garlic and pine nuts and Parmesan. Full of iron. And it was so yummy 👍😋

Well I have to say that I love these gloves 🤣 Came home from a great holiday to a bit of a stressful scenario that was getting to me😳 Lots of jab crosses,over unders & chimney kicks has worked miracles for my mood😀this morning.Worth every last penny of my membership fee !

Gathered all my mental courage for a visit Mistico Hanging Bridges(vertigo 😳)But with encouragement of our kind guide I managed 😀 1st one involved lots of swearing & very shaky legs but by last was much more confident. Still not keen but I did it👍and the views of course were stunning.

Visited a Bribri family ( indigenous Costa Ricans) on their organic small holding. Learnt all about their medicinal herbs. They make high quality organic chocolate and we followed the process and then lunch from a banana plate

No humans allowed in Tortuguero National Park.No trails.No roads.To preserve its purity and biodiversity Can only see the jungle/rainforest by boat - both speedy & slowly meandering round side channels. Beautiful stunning surroundings

Loving seeing the wildlife in Costa Rica. Seen sloths , howler monkey , capuchin, raccoons , iguana. Such biodiversity. #costarica

And so my allotment year begins on this really cold day 🥶 Collected my seeds potatoes to set to chit. 😀 #allotment #growyourownfood #potatoes

Cold day needs comfort food. A staple of my 1960s childhood. And has to have crispy bits and lots of Worcestershire Sauce. 😋😋😋 #cauliflowercheese #thriftyfood #homecooking

Don’t make cakes often but today I fancied something sweet. Walnut and coffee. Tastes better than looks. In fact it’s 😋BUT how do people make cakes a lot? SO expensive all that butter and eggs🤔😳🙈😩 #homebaking #CostOfLiving #cakes

Cold day.What on earth shall we eat?(🥱🥱🥱) Found 1/3 pack red lentils in cupboard & 2 potatoes.A veg stock cube, water and a touch of cumin later - yummy nutritious cheap soup 😋😋( chopped garden parsley on top) #zerofoodwaste #homecooking #thrifty

Read all my life. How was it possible I was unaware of #LisaJewell ? Found by accident. Brilliant read 3 so far and currently engrossed in The Family Upstairs. And what joy - so many more yet to read 😀😀😀😀 #booksky Happy 😃

Love a good hotel balcony 😍 On this frosty morning I am missing this perfectly placed balcony on the Gibralfaro hill for my cuppa today #balconies #hotels #malaga

Incredible Cueva del Tesoro “Europe’s only cave of marine origin that can be visited” Stunning underground caves. Such a profound silence. #cuevadeltesoro #Malaga

What a brilliant afternoon at the museo de automovil y la moda in Malaga.I am not interested in cars but totally captivated by the design mixed with social history.Some of my favs( tho all so interesting) And I want a Richmond ! #malaga

Much needed. From grey cold to bluer warmth 😀

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#malaga Best places to eat? But you must have actually eaten there ! It’s so miserable here today I am cheering myself up about food I will eat soon😀

My neighbours - thru neglect - systematically destroy our fencing. They’re demanding I replace 3 more broken panels I have refused & told them I am doing a dead hedge instead- as they can’t break it & good for wildlife Angry neighbours Not giving in. Or should I ? #neighbours

Cold weather calls for more substantial bread ! Pleased with this - it’s yummy and very filling. Dark rye with caraway. #homemadebread #homecooking #breadsky

Good morning #fox

Our house backs onto the local churchyard (where the foxes live) Such a lovely view from my back window for a S E London home 😀 #churchspire #backgarden

I love seeing Mamma Fox and her youngsters in my garden #fox #urbanfoxes #suburbanwildlife

It may be cold but the light is beautiful today. My favourite walk was looking so lovely. The donkeys,the magnificent oak, horses ,Eltham Palace ( water completely frozen) #winterlight #eltham #myfavouriteoak #donkeys

Frosty ferns in my garden. Looking beautiful 🤩 #frosty #cold

Sitting vigil with my cat. Lost her this morning to rapid pancreatic cancer. Just 12 and a half. She’ll be buried this afternoon in garden next to her sister who we lost just over a year ago 💔💔💔

First of the year! No Guinness available but this is a really nice substitute😋