Today’s #BirdOfTheDay alt theme is #BlueSky Magpies are bloody glorious I think x

Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #rotund Just had three courses I reckon 😆

Nicked my dinner idea straight off @hassinator.bsky.social ‘s table 😆 Buttermilk fried chicken , fries & chick n sours watermelon salad.

We’re gonna need a bigger bird bath …..

Had a takeaway curry last night 🤷🏼‍♀️ (was supposed to be going out with girlfriends but it got postponed) Just had the leftover black daal with air fried jumbo fishfingers & some yoghurt coleslaw for lunch & I have no (taste related) regrets.

Happy Friday kids x

Watermelon Gazpacho, halloumi croutons with honey & fennel. When the planets align & you have everything you need to make a delicious lunch from the Waitrose mag. Ten minutes max to make - chilled all morning. I added pickled watermelon rind that I made yesterday too. Wish I hadn’t wolfed it 😆

More Poppy spam

Recommend both of these. On offer in Waitrose atm x

Eggs & kewpie mayo savoury breakfast & kewpie blueberry jam sweet breakfast 🤣

Gah , got to wash my hair tonight & I have the thickest hair known to man … even with an undercut at the back. This means using a hairdryer ffs 😭😭😭

Cold noodles , spronion , cucumber , chilli oil mixed with rice & balsamic vinegar & smooth peanut butter. Tossed together & topped with peanut & coriander & miso sesame dressing. Cold & satisfying 😁

Happy sparrows ☺️

Everything for the pollinators this year … my partner is responsible for this beautiful front bit of garden at ours ☺️ We also have half a dozen sparrows , four pigeons & about 8 teenage jackdaws that have a bath & drink from the bird bath every day x

A Red Weather warning 😭 I’ve put extra drinking water & an umbrella in my car. Might be over cautious but there’s numerous times I get stuck on the motorway due to crashes.

Gooseberry salsa (2 year old freezer fruit from my old allotment), boneless pork king ribs cooling. Reducing the cooking liquor & will add honey etc for a glaze & crisp up. Saved some to cook black beans in & will top with feta. Tacos & beans for tea ☺️

Being able to get to a garden centre & back easily in your lunch break is fatal 😆 Also Jezza’s Poppy’s keeping bees happy.

Sweet peas by the back door & the neighbours rose breaking in ☺️

A family member has Poppy (the Pugzu) who is very dearly rescued & loved , my friend (& work colleague for nearly 20 years) does incredible felting in her spare time & I asked her if she could do Poppy , so that I can gift it to the family member. JFC .. she sent me the photo , it’s incredible .

I put 14 items on Vinted yesterday afternoon, assuming they’d sit there for months & 11 have sold 🙈 I mean , that NEVER happens & I am very underprepared 🤣

Tomato salad waiting for its Halloumi 😁

A beautiful night last night & up early for a walk & breakfast ☺️

Moving all the books from downstairs into the book room whilst we have decorators & carpet fitters etc in over the next two weeks. We have a lot of books 🙈😆

A garden day , inc a gardeners manicure 💅🏼 After saying I’ll cut back on tomatoes this year I’ve just counted 21 plants 🙄 Pray for no blight ….. 🙏🏻

Same Pressure Cooker , same…….

God the news is so fucking depressing. I’m not sure whether I try to avoid watching/listening to it or to continue to be enraged by what’s happening to every corner of our planet. I know I can’t bury my head in the sand but it feels like the only way to keep a little sane 😭

Who knew that Nicole Scherzinger making a guest appearance at Rufus Wainwright at the Albert Hall last night would be such a highlight … a belting voice.

This morning to soak up the vats of booze consumed at the Albert Hall last night I’m having EVERYTHING for breakfast at Caravan Fitzrovia .. poached eggs with yog & flatbread , side of merguez , all the soda , all the coffee & all the water 😆

Gosh. Portland is a fabulous restaurant x

Well. That’s my one day back at work done… now off to London for 3 days to include a night at the Albert Hall , Rufus Wainwright singing Judy Garland songs.

It’s #WorldOceansDay theme for #BirdOfTheDay. Here’s some #Razorbills from Friday on #Skomer

When your daughter finds the Holy Grail. Your mum looks like she’s a peasant who’s stolen it & you’ve all cracked up laughing for the morning playing dress up at Hay Castle 😆😆 I love my little family x

Last nights Airbnb was part of the old Hay Union Workhouse … & we were all gently haunted by the souls of the previous residents 👀 The single story built along the back was for Casuals (vagrants) & venereal cases. Fascinating history , until you can’t sleep 😆

#BirdOfTheDay theme today is #BorrowedPlaces However they do look like they belong 😁

Next stop , Hay on Wye 📖

Today’s #BirdOfTheDay is #LookingAtYou We were on Skomer Island today , with 52,000 #Puffins ☺️

A beautiful day on Skomer

What a fab little pizza place , & walk to it ☺️

Beautiful Pembrokeshire ☺️

Egg fried in the oil from last nights chorizo , lots of dukkah , parsley & pepper. Grand start to the day x

Superb warm salad … so good. Potatoes pulled out of the pot in the garden today. Chorizo from @helenbrowningsorganic - from happy pigs a few miles away. Slow roasted tomatoes. Sherry vinegar & parsley 🙌🏻

Isn’t stuff brilliant. Put a few spuds that were laying around sprouting into a few big pots of pretty spent soil from last year .. & hey presto. Dug around in the one pot where they look like they might be getting blight & there you have it ☺️ I’ll leave the others while they look so healthy.

Ooh that was nice. Stirred the leftover bread toppings (broad beans , sugar snaps , chilli , radish , herbs etc )from the weekend through spelt pasta with plenty of EVOO & lemon juice & pepper & a handful of rocket. Topped with an Albacore tuna steak. Sated ☺️

Another great night. Suffering today though 😭

It’s actually tonight that we have 12 neighbours over for starters. These are going on top of toasted oiled ciabatta slices. The tomatoes in a sort of panzanella/bruschetta , & the beans/peas on the same with burrata spread on first. There’s a big fat sirloin to be cooked & thinly sliced too ☺️

I change the bird bath water in the front garden every day & clean it with a vinegar water mix every two days. I’d barely put it back on the plinth today before they took a cold dip.

A two egg morning.

Every meal is a cold meal apart from breakfast at the moment…. I love breakfast so much … I go to bed thinking about what I’ll have 😆

Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #texture … & I just want a room full of this texture please 😁 (although maybe on a cooler day 😳)

Today’s #BirdOfTheDay alt theme is determination. These guys are determined to chase me off ….. 😆