I agree - BP has been a good supportive friend to many on this site.

Disgraceful

Oh dear Chris. And BBC. Think we’ll all go with the OBR official, rather than you and your unprofessional biased nonsense. Feel free to issue an apology and have a bit of a think. Maybe about the years of barely scrutinised *Tory* policies that got us into this mess. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Right. Breakfast. Other half away for week in Scotland for astronomy field trip. Off downstairs for a pot of coffee, toast, papers in front of fire. Then off to lead a walk at Gibside. Don't think weather is going to be too balmy ...

Morning Ash morning all. Sad news about our Co op cat Mr Biggins who has died. He had a good home, well looked after for used to to hang around theco op - people bought him cat food, cuddles, Dreamies. He played the part of course all but sucking his little cheeks in to look starved. Anyway, gone 😢

Our work resurrecting ice age #ghostponds in the Guardian today @timholtwilson.bsky.social @hburningham.bsky.social @uclgeography.bsky.social ‘Just add water’: how to bring back ancient plants in a Norfolk ghost pond | Wildlife | The Guardian share.google/kO6HQaC4PAUJ...

Well worth a watch

Loving the Freddy Flintoff Field of Dreams programme

Morning Ash, everyone. Yetnother day of living the dream. Defrosted large freezer, chucked, sorted, organise. I WILL label stuff. Making bit pan stock tonight with lamb bones and chicken carcasses. To go in the freezer.

Guardian quiz hard today. I got 2 right. 2!!

Please share this 🙏 It would mean a lot to me ,having lost my best friend Dominic to Suicide nearly 26 years ago. Dom Curry 🍛 my son is named after him. Love and thanks 😊 Ash x

Anybody else doing the Economist Espresso quiz?

Just seen son and grandson finish the triathlon in Remich. Blisteringly hot😬 but they weathered. We're off to Lille tomorrow.

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... @ashashman1.bsky.social This is worth a listen Ash, fascinating about food and exercise 👌

Well I've made 5 jars of gooseberry jame today, mainly to get last years out of the freezer cos this year's are ready to pick. And I've tried to make a ramen broth, all ready to add stuff once we've had some wine & gossip

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Morning all. My challah, bread to share, family weekend 🥰

Thank you Pirate. Here he is, The Man

So daft. So perfect.

Good morning 😊. Anyone else doing the Economist Espresso weekly quiz - 5 daily question, answers provide the link?

Growing coriander high up in Northumberland? Well, I'll give it a go 😬

Morning all. Sorting out our rail travel to Luxembourg. Son and grandson doing triathlon there.

I always go back to this. Its down to us, always has been

Our event this Thursday on Lore of the Land is sold out in person but you can still register to watch online. We’ll explore myths and meanings associated with bogs, trees and weather www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/lore-...

Morning all 😁. Off to take grandaughter for cocktails and brunch as she's finished her degree course.

Making butter. 4 tubs double cream 10p each at the Co op. Loads, couldn't stand thought of it being wasted. Will save buttermilk for soup or baking.

Yea, that would do for me. But they already know it.

Back from IKEA and B&Q. I have had a nice time .... just this wasn't it.

Price of emulsion paint!!

Morning all. Nice day, off to Gibside to lead health walk. Back into the life 😊

I've said this before. It bears repeating: How wretched a hellscape must Earth become to make living on Mars look like a good idea? We have the tech and ability NOW to live on Earth sustainably and forever, yet we CHOOSE not to. How would our choices play out on Mars? This is lunatic talk.

Pics from Newport

Morning everyone. Back from brilliant, hot week in Newport, Pembs. Cooler up here, passed the gritter on M6😬!!

Morning all. A long way from home, Newport, Pembs. A week here with friends. Out for walk and coffee along the Parrog this morning :))

This is just fabulous. Have a listen

Worth a read

Need to fill in between hydrangea and rhododendron, about a good square metre. Not much I know but over the fence planted (can you believe it?) Convolvulus which despite every strategy comes back. I need plants to fill that area. Tough, merciless, street fighting plants.

Good morning everyone 😁. Monthly walk and pub lunch today. Meeting for coffee in Wolsingham in Weardale. Looks like the mist will burn off and should be sunny. Interesting area, once busy and populated because of lead industry so some interesting industrial archaeology up on the moors

Best time of year for this garden. Morning everyone😊

Just released a spider the size of a planet back into the wild. Found it casually lying on the duvet. Well, actually OH gently scooped it up in his hands, put it out the window, talking gently to it the while. Swear I heard him say, no, hey, any time, mi casa, su casa. 😬😬😬😬😬😬😬😬

Daughter visited this morning bringing mothers day present. She knows what I like. Think she's trying to fatten me up ? ❤️

It's just £8 for 15 postcards, like... That's almost 50p each. Send em, keep em, frame em, cut em into little pieces and use em in a collage. The options are endless!

Morning everyone. Got the welding helmet out to see the partial eclipse. Started, bit of a nibble top right hand

Lots of weeding (see YD? Not a bottle in sight. Yet.)and the beasts back in place

🤣😅😂🤣

Canada, though?