Hi folks- seriously considering escaping the digital world in 2026 Is there really world for old school phone calls letters etc

Happy New Year from Ross on Wye and The Shire Bish and Yvonne send our best wishes for a healthy prosperous 2026 full of happiness, laughter and a good harvest from the garden

Garlic bed loving the frost this morning on our last day of the year in the Shire - The purple Kale still giving and the snow drops are out - Happy New Year all 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 blwyddyn newydd dda 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Angels walk amongst us www.bbc.com/news/article...

Last football club before Christmas - Ice baths ready and waiting for the players during this busy time - heading home now

Sunday roast sauna time - bliss

Gorgeous lunar halo tonight

World sherry trifle championships here tonight for the extended family Christmas gathering - fully loaded with sherry in the trifle and obligatory for trifle makers to toast Nan and mum with sherry whilst making for good luck 🎄 🎅 🎄

When you live with a lovely vegan and you crave a farm shop bacon butty

Festive run up north to Loch Lomond - servicing a SwimEx before the end of the year A tad dark outside so picture from a past visit Gorgeous part of the world a lovely local folk on the estate

Sunday sauna roast

Pizza night - fully loaded Italian salami pizza and vegan one for Vonnie

HIGNFY welcome back to normal after last weeks very “odd” programme - great show tonight thank you all especially Richard Ayoade, the legend and the Bella Hull timing was sublime

Friday night curry night at The Roadmaker Inn Wonderful Nepalese Gurkha curries all round washed down with a local cider Happy weekend all

Gorgeous frosty morning sauna session to help clear the chest bugs away

Home grown home made organic roasted squash soup - yummy

Very Odd “Have I got news for you” tonight Starts with an ill thought out suicide jump image then canned laughter throughout, lots anti Govt and very limited Covid inquiry report - where material almost limitless then close with another suicide line as a joke ???

Too early ?

Bish Buffet time - home grown, home made balsamic pickled shallots, beetroot and crab apple jelly from the organic garden and orchard - thanks to @robsallotment.bsky.social for the inspiration as always

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Sauna Saturdays blue sky n all New dragon from Hong Kong for the Dragons fire cave too aka Ogof tan y Draig

Friday 14th November, I will be in Malvern at fab Rossiter Books, 7pm. Sunday 16th at 4pm in Dulverton, Exmoor for their lit fest. If you are anywhere nearby, please come along. Bring wine, corkscrews, chocolates, love, mostly bring your smiling selves. Hope to see you at one or other event. x

Airport ceiling time @pmgilmartin.bsky.social @steffiec.bsky.social

The cocktails helped to beat the jet lag Spiced apple Rum hot toddy for me the chilli 🌶️ spiced tequila added a kick Time to see a bit of Hong Kong 🇭🇰 today

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Balsamic pickled organic shallots from the raised beds done

Bishs Organic Scrumpy bottled up today New batch going on when I return from Hong Kong

Our beautiful resident sparrow hawk - lovely to see her fly around the garden with such speed and grace

Sauna and bacon butty in the garden - happy weekend all

Hereford Musical Theatre Co presents 'Sunset Boulevard' at the Courtyard 11-15 November 2025 #Hereford Tickets £28-£30 www.courtyard.org.uk/events/hmtc-... Live band! Saturday matinee! #Herefordshire #SunsetBoulevard That's me in the middle of the top row.

Happiness is a well stacked sauna 🔥

Rainy days are perfect sauna days New raised organic lavender and herbal bed now in place ready for black wax and bedding up.

Saturday morning sauna before the long list of jobs to do in the garden

Busy day on the sauna finishing the oak benches and backboards done boards before final sand all over and sauna wax next week. Been a long but fun journey and most of all we love our wood burner sauna - using it at least 5 times a week Draig ap Terri approves too - Our Sauna dragon

Just found this Second World War Italy campaign medal in the garden pushed up by moles Our house has some amazing history including a Cambridge university athlete and Athletics union president who was killed in action in the First World War.

Two gallons of organic cider on the go using what we were told was Herefordshire Redstreak cider apples and the gorgeous eating apples from the oldest tree of the orchard. Bishs Vintage 60 cider is on its way 🍺

Hunter our rescue gorgeous cat. still celebrating the Red Roses rugby win last weekend

Saturday night sauna time here in the Shire

Crab apple jelly time here in the shire

Love our wood burner sauna especially on double sauna days

Well Storm Amy was a breeze in the Shire - sauna time now for us - happy weekend alll

4" (large) Acorn box in English Oak

Hooray

First frost of the Autumn last night down in the Shire

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Found the Holy Grail in a charity shop in Ross on Wye today - who would have thought it. Only £0.99 too Now in the outdoor sauna for safe keeping Happy 50th Birthday - Monty Python and the Holy Grail Still remember when you were banned in Hereford - It only made us want to watch even more 😂

Homemade focaccia bread with pine nuts for tonight’s penne arrabiata

Not impressed with the first greengage harvest - they look distinctly like Victoria plum to me 😊

We just cold pressed 4lts of organic apple juice just from thinning the crop as the fruit is far too heavy for the trees. Next batch will be the first 2025 Bish cider run - hoping it’s a vintage year 😉 Hereford Redstreak are a heritage cider apple - crab apples will make great jelly 💚 🍎 🍏 🍎 🍏 🍎 💚