Has anyone had any joy with growing loofahs for pan scourers? If so, any tips for preparing them?

Nice play of colour between the apple blossom, bluebells and (if I remember correctly) orange and yellow osteospermums- more luck than judgement!

First few asparagus spears off the allotment today. It’s an early variety, but even so, this does seem very early (but not complaining!)

Satisfying

This

Jesus Christ you can’t turn on radio 2 without hearing Gary fucking Davies!!! Make it stop!

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WE. ARE. OUT. OF. JAMMIE. DODGERS.

These people have a funny way of saying "Environmentalists have been proved right yet again."

Enjoyable afternoon spent knocking up mrs B’s birthday tea: avoca fish cakes and tartare sauce then Prue Leith’s lush spotted dick for pud!

I beg your pardon!

One day, there will be dancing in the streets. Today is not that day.

Keir Starmer has dragged the UK into this war against our will. UK bases face further attacks - putting military personnel and civilians in the potential line of fire. This is a Prime Minister who promised a vote before any military action - that must now happen on Monday.

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The war will be over when I feel it in my bone spurs. #PutinPuppet

Six wars it would have been nice to end in a fortnight when they got boring buff.ly/EBhOfbS

Managed to have my lunch today while waiting for a single @rsc.org article to load, which was nice

Today’s allotment haul

I love doing searches for older @rsc.org journal articles - it reminds me of late 90’s search features and dialup speeds - all the nostalgic feels

I don’t want a single penny from British taxpayers to pay for wealthy tax-dodgers in Dubai to safely come home. They thought they didn’t need us because they greedily refused to pay their fair share … let Richard Tice and Isabel Oakeshott come crawling back with their own money.

Spent a good two hours wandering round my house one evening trying to locate the intermittent weird whistling noise. Turned out it was my left nostril.

Picked up the seed spuds from the allotment trading shed today: 4 kg of Charlotte and three each of maris piper and Picasso - exciting times!

Disgusting illegal immigrant in a small boat successfully stopped by UK government.

C2v - satisfying Wordle 1,697 4/6 🟩⬜⬜⬜🟩 🟩⬜⬜⬜🟩 🟩🟩⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Dry January was great, but the first G&T of 2026 is slipping down quite nicely!

Very glad I planted the garlic in raised ridges!

What a lovely story

Bye! 👋 help.researchfish.com/en_US/resear...

Had very little success with onion sets over the last few years, so trying from seed this year. 🤞🤞🤞

I've done My Week: Donald Trump (again) for tomorrow. My first draft genuinely had a joke about Trump thinking there were penguins in Greenland but I took it out because it seemed too stupid.

Board of Peace - Season 1

The hazards of failing first-year biology: you invade the wrong pole. 🇦🇶 🐧 🇬🇱 🐻‍❄️

Hey, Trump, this you? www.state.gov/u-s-support-...

It’s a real shame that Nigel Farage is too unwell to do interviews the morning after Donald Trump threatens us with sanctions. Here he is with “the bravest man he ever met”. He campaigned to make Trump President, and has spent the last year enjoying all the chaos he has caused.

Ordering squash and aubergine seeds - excited for the new season!

Arses! Wordle 1,669 X/6 ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟩⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟩⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟩🟨⬜ ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩

🚨 An undercover sting just exposed alarming loopholes in Westminster’s weak lobbying system: a fake Chinese company bought meetings with ministers and MPs, and it may not have even broken any rules! ✍️ Sign & share: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...

Claire's beloved horse Tango died in terror when holiday-makers set off a firework display at a nearby cottage. Sign her petition to protect animals and vulnerable people from the shock and terror of unexpected explosions. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ba...

Delighted to hear that trail hunting is finally being banned - best news I’ve heard for a while!

Boom! Wordle 1,645 2/6 ⬜⬜⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Broad bean plants coming on nicely!

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Another quality 🧪 publication from @Nature (www.nature.com/articles/s41...). Clearly the large sums of money spent on publishing in these “prestigious” journals aren’t wasted on anything as unimportant as… an editor.

EXCLUSIVE Racist Offended by Accusations of Racism. Expressing his frustration that he keeps getting called a racist, a Clacton racist finally broke his silence on Monday. More: mrhenrymorris.substack.com/p/racist-off...

"We thank the reviewers for their helpful suggestions"

I find LinkedIn can be a useful site for sharing and receiving info, but some of the exec horseshit that gets spouted on there frankly makes want to hurl!