Walk the line (photo @imageplotter.bsky.social)

#BloomScrolling on Friday. Yay! This is from about 10 days ago - a plum tree flowering in northern France. 🤷‍♀️

Some sense, in a world of upheaval....

I HATE IT A pointless but utterly destructive decoration. Why do our human festivities have to result in fatalities in other biota? #hallowean

Tiny perfection: Lyda. A bushy shrub to 1.2m in height with mid-green foliage and single, lightly-scented white flowers edged with pink and with a central boss of golden-yellow stamens, flowering from summer into autumn. #roses 🌱

Today's blog, and a change of plan (again), as we're rather taken with the Kii Peninsula, its landscapes, history and wonderful roads too ... Today has been just perfect vauclusedreamer.com/2025/10/23/d...

#BloomScrolling on a rainy, stormy (Benjamin) Thursday. (Not today's photo - remaining roses have been battered by the weather)

Comedy photos or not, there are some wonderful shots in this compilation. Yellow cheeked gibbon presenting his OnlyFans profile shot... 😁 #wildlife #photography

#Strictly Gosh, wasn't expecting that. And there's no reason why I should have expected 🤷‍♀️ I'm just surprised.

Updating my LEGO White House

I found this beautiful tin-glazed tile fragment some time ago; it was of sufficient age and interest to be recorded at the Museum of London. I've got it back now; their conclusion was that it was made at Pickleherring or Rotherhithe in London c. 1590-1650; it's been matched up with a known design.

Today's blog from our visit to Koyasan. A really beautiful town, with exquisite buildings and a fascinating history too vauclusedreamer.com/2025/10/22/d...

People who have come to the United Kingdom legally, played by the rules and made it their home do not need to “go home”. This is their home. I've written to Kemi Badenoch to give her the chance to reject these divisive calls from her frontbencher Katie Lam.

Suggest you jump in on this poll. —> xd.wayin.com/display/cont...? And share…

Lovely bookshop events coming for #GhostsoftheFarm #TauntonLiteraryFestival this Friday www.ticketsource.co.uk/brendonbooks then @waterstones.bsky.social #Romsey www.waterstones.com/events/an-ev... 6thNov & @foldedorset.bsky.social 13th Nov www.foldedorset.com/events. #Booksky I'd love to see you!

Leicestershire & Rutland WT are recruiting for a Visitor Centre and Events Officer:

Sorry for my quietness, I promise I am busy stitching a new piece, but time & daylight seem to run away from me. 😬 Here’s a side angle of my embroidery, The Sun Fairy to keep you going… 🪡🌿🌺🌞🧚‍♀️ *Completely freehand stitched in August 2023. #stitchedart #thesewingsongbird

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Strongly recommend using this blocklist. In the process of doing so I saw some of the posts, and well, it’s psychological pollution. You need it like lead in your coffee

Blushing Pears.

Today's blog from an amazing morning on the bikes along the Shimanami Kaido Cycle Route vauclusedreamer.com/2025/10/17/d...

@franglaise.bsky.social and other tissu-obsessed denizens of LBF. There's a fabric & findings (for bags & stuff) expo travelling around the country this month & I noticed Beziers on Sunday 26th - if it's interesting / useful. I went in spring - range of fabrics was good & varied + home-spun wools.

#BloomScrolling on Friday - wonderful, long-lasting, value-for-money Cosmos. 😎

Today's blog, from the best campervan parking spot to date, and a lovely bike ride out along the coast. Watching boats cross a bay may not be everyone's idea of great entertainment, but we feel as if we have the best seats in the house vauclusedreamer.com/2025/10/15/d...

Today's blog ...a day of visiting castles, admiring samurai armour, and getting excited for a bike ride tomorrow vauclusedreamer.com/2025/10/16/d...

Private Eye doing an excellent job of predicting the forthcoming budget headlines in each paper… showing just how ridiculous they can all be. Top prizes - *of course* - to the Telegraph, Mail, Times and Express.

British.

Autumn Song - by North Staffordshire based artist, Rachel Grant More of this artist's delightful work, here: site.rachel-grant.com/home.html #art #autumn #birds

They lie about the ECHR. Just like they lied about Brexit. Claiming if we just got rid of that ‘European’ thing, we’d be free, we’d have control, all our problems solved… It’s NOT TRUE. We’d inflict more chaos on ourselves and torch our own human rights framework for NOTHING. For liars. Again.

#CatsWithJobs - Master Chef edition

thinking about the time a cool Instagram fashion account asked me to name my favorite products and i didn't know i was supposed to name fashion products, so i said pigeon food because i like feeding pigeons and their followers were like "why the fuck do i need pigeon food for my outfit?"

A beautiful Hare for #WildlifeWednesday We don't see Hares on our local patch so it is always a treat for me to see them when out and about. 🤎 📷 #Photography #UKWildlife #Nature #Mammals #WildlifePhotography #EastCoastKin

Anyway - the stellar staff we have seen include: Dr Abu from The Sudan (fled to get to Egypt when a kid, now a wonderful doctor) Joy from Malaysia who sped around Resus for 12 hours without pause Nurses Elizabetta & Esitio on The Medical ward Dr Hasan on call Julietta from Poland who makes + tea

BREAKING NEWS In a move that has shocked absolutely no one with basic arithmetic skills, populist right wing party trying to win votes with fantasy economics traipses around in fetching hair shirt after all their policies are found to be economic fantasy.

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Morning Guy and ORCs, from Chatham station en route to today’s collection. This plaque commemorating Asquith Xavier is in the waiting room - he was a Windrush arrival and the first black guard employed at Euston, breaking an unofficial colour bar.

Good morning Guy, and good morning ORCs … and if anyone is in East Sussex on November 1st, we are doing this in Newhaven … we had a family workshop on Friday to make colourful banners to carry/fly… and there will be music and fun.

Today's blog, an incredible waterfall, a demon's cave and a truly spectacular castle, with a Cat Lord that has really wrapped his subjects around his paw. On the verge of crossing the bridges into Shikoku now, and we're so excited vauclusedreamer.com/2025/10/13/d...

Ready for some perfect Sunday night telly? 😍 The first episode of Hamza's Hidden Wild Isles airs tonight on BBC One at 6.15pm! Booming bitterns at Minsmere, badgers in the bluebells, Nightingales in song... We can’t wait! Who'll be tuning in?

CARTOON OF THE DAY (From @jesseduquette.bsky.social )

stop thinking right now

Today's blog from a lovely seaside town in the north of Japan and a rather glorious bike ride, followed by an afternoon in the sea ... Yes it is very warm! vauclusedreamer.com/2025/10/11/d...

I like how they gave the Nobel Prize to someone fighting for democracy in Venezuela, instead of someone sinking fishing boats off their coast.

Also, if you're "in bed with flu", it's almost certainly Covid.

The quilt top is done and I’m liking it more. I chose the mottled green that is in the blocks as the border. It’s hard to photograph but it has turquoise, green, gold, rust and brown in it. The binding will be the dark brown. I think it reminds me of southwest desert evening colors.

Antifa.

#BloomScrolling on Friday. #BonWeekend 😎