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I’m pouring another 🍷

Are we all braced and fully fortified? #TheArchers #rampageready

Just watched Carols from Kings Sublime

I’m incandescent with rage! Something tried to destroy my crocus bulbs so I moved the troughs and put a net over them. Now this …… @dougthegardener.bsky.social @fionamills.bsky.social @avidgardener72.bsky.social

Christmas table flowers including foliage foraged from the garden.

Anyone else not watching the Scum Dancing final?

Just had a message to remind me that my brown bin will be emptied tomorrow (Saturday) morning. Gathered head torch, outside shoes, coat, gloves and back gate keys to make the 200 yard trip to get the thing out to the front. Much muttering of very rude words ….. 😳🤐😡

Sports Personality of the Year on tv ….. not much chance of the England men’s test cricket team getting an award!

I’m supposed to be going to an Anna Lapwood concert in the local City Hall tomorrow evening. Having scary thoughts about being in the city on my own at night, and sitting in an enclosed space (with a mask) with several hundred other people and a flu outbreak 😷

I fear that I’ve consumed more 🍷🍷than is usual for this time of day …..

Got whammed today! 😡 #whammagedon

That’s the tree done for this year!

I have a very busy 3 days ahead of me, please do not let me be incubating plague 🤧😷🤒

I’ve cleaned the 3 windows at the back of the cottage today. Inside and out. Yes, they are small individual panes. It is now raining.

Winter 🥶

The calendar has reset itself to 5th November and the local ‘big houses’ are attempting to outdo each other with bangs and sparkles.

Not got the strength for #TheArchers tonight …. My reason? I’ve endured a bra fitting session in one of M&S’ delightful double mirrored cubicles 😳🙄🤯

BBC Mastermind has an interesting selection of contestants this evening …. One with the biggest ears I’ve ever seen and ….. Sophie … who has yet to learn how to sit down like a lady 🫣

Having burned a pan of potatoes dry last evening, I’m endeavouring to assuage the burnt smell … I’m making a curry. It’s going to smell like a Balti house for days 🤗

I’ve started the day well ….. put washing detergent in the fabric conditioner department of the washing machine. I couldn’t understand why it was the wrong colour #badhousekeeping

@dougthegardener.bsky.social @avidgardener72.bsky.social Lavender plants all cosy in the shelter of the bow windowsill, right next to the back door.

Two Christmas panels and an advent calendar finally finished. I’ve agreed to have a stall at a Christmas market at the end of November …. feeling a bit anxious about pricing to sell, I’m trying to clear some of my stash and I don’t want to have to bring them home!

I’ve done nothing much today but I’m so tired and it’s only 7.45pm I was wide awake at 5.30am (old time) but then went to sleep again and dreamt of chasing 2 alpacas out of the garden of the house I grew up in. Can’t wait for bedtime 🥱

Having seen the weather forecast for the next few days I think I might put the electric blanket back on my bed tomorrow.

Fabulous few hours watching wild Red Deer in the hills in Cumbria. Well worth the drive, despite the users of the steep and single track road driving too fast and having no reverse gear!

Good evening from Ullswater

@lomelindi12.bsky.social 🥳 Wishing you the happiest of days on your birthday 🎂. I hope you’ve got something more decadent than the usual to drink this evening🥂🍾🍷xxx

I’m blessed to have seen a hummingbird hawk moth in the garden this afternoon ….. sadly I didn’t have a camera with me.

Overdid myself in the garden yesterday troops

The last of the £1.99 for 24 tiny plug plants of petunias have gone into the compost bin. They’ve been magnificent and have flowered from early May until now. I’ve dead headed them and I cut them back hard in July. #bargainplants @avidgardener72.bsky.social @dougthegardener.bsky.social

On account of probably leaving BT as my internet provider, I’ve spent much of today how to keep my btopenworld email address working ….. It has driven me not far short of insanity 😬🤯😳

It’s #BinDay tomorrow starring the green bin, non recyclable stuff. I took the bag out of the kitchen bin and set off down the path …. without the flipping bin😱🤯

Tomorrow I must make an effort to try and sort out my beloved late OH’s collection of cameras, lenses and other associated equipment. I haven’t much idea about such things, any advice or suggestions welcome 📸📷🎞️

It’s been a filthy wet day. The “big light” has been on all day and the wind is now battering rain onto the North facing front door. My lovely old cottage has had enough and decided it’s time for some central heating. A good decision 🥰🍷 Cheers

Last evening I watched house martins swooping overhead. Tonight …. they’re gone. #Autumn

What a fantastic day in York! @ethelcrimble.bsky.social and I have behaved like proper ladies and had lunch at Betty’s. We’ve had a fabulous time and I may have made a small purchase to bring home with me 😉. It won’t last long so if you want a slice you’ll need to be quick!

#TheArchers fans will be delighted to learn that the end of the cricket season is not too far away

Yesterday I made a start on trimming back the ivy which encroaches through my trellis fence from next door. While I was out today they have done some trimming on their side. It’s a bit of a mess. They can’t reach to my side of the fence so they leave it like this. Hedge trimmer is on charge.

Went out to water the pots, and it’s now raining! I was surprised how dry the compost in the pots was …. the gusty winds have made everything look a bit battered, it suddenly looks rather autumnal. Sunflowers still going strong 🌻🌻🌻though 😬 @avidgardener72.bsky.social @dougthegardener.bsky.social

Saved these beauties from a downpour ….. they’ve already parted company with three large earwigs and a small collection of unidentified bugs 🐜 @avidgardener72.bsky.social @dougthegardener.bsky.social @mrsmhere.bsky.social

Breaking weather report It is raining

Rain? ☔️☔️ What rain? 💦💦 I could have hung the washing out …… 😳🤯😫

A question for my gardening friends. Why is it that when you’ve carefully gone round the garden dead heading, you always find another one when you’ve put the secateurs away? And as you go indoors you realise that you’ve forgotten to do the rose over the back door? Then you find this …?

Enjoying the garden, it’s been a tough summer to keep things going, so this weekend I’m going to make best of the sunshine and enjoy the blaze of colours before the much needed rains arrive. @dougthegardener.bsky.social @fionamills.bsky.social @avidgardener72.bsky.social

@mrsmhere.bsky.social @dougthegardener.bsky.social @avidgardener72.bsky.social My outrage knows no bounds. I am once again at war with a squirrel.

I find myself drawing the curtains on the day x

*shaking head in despair* #BBCMastermind

Come on Shedders! Stop faffing about …… there’s a shed to be sorted

Dahlias doing well in pots despite the heat