Wow they look delish! X
Business owner, mum of 5. Love dogs, nature, horses, solitude. Gardening for wildlife and people. Angry, anxious about climate crisis, greed, bigotry, ignorance. Fibromyalgia and ADHD. Live in a house of neurodivergence and dodgy mental health. Norfolk UK.
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Wow they look delish! X
So beautiful. But what’s his/her name?
Pear and Stilton crumble is lovely. If you don’t like blue cheese, Cheshire works very well. I can’t tell you the recipe as I never measure ingredients. I just roughly crumble some of the cheese over the fruit before putting the crumble topping on. 😋
Ooh proper rain! ☔️
My wrens are doing that too. They seem to be telling me off every time I step out into the garden. Bickering over winter territories I bet.
The trouble with trauma therapy is it unpacks everything from the past, helps you to deal with it and pack it up in a more comfortable place. It can’t really have a fixed ending. You can’t unpack it all and then leave it all undealt with and out there. The process needs to be finished. Xx
Snap!
I’m trying to think of something to say but I despair.
Oh my goodness! Sunny, breezy day, washing already out, nice cup of tea in the garden. Nothing else matters right here in this moment.
Just checking everyone is looking before he bursts into his best, loudest aria. 🎶
Me too! Rain forecast here this afternoon so no time like the present! 🙂
Wouldn’t it be great if they tasted of aniseed. 🙂
House martins. Some flying confidently, others flittery fluttery and uncertain. All twittery. Parents encouraging the youngsters to get the hang of it before the long haul of migration. #FirstBirdOfMyDay
Me too. I’m at our cricket club with friends having a few drinks after watching my children and husband play earlier. It is a rare, balmy evening relaxing with good company and, most importantly, happy teenagers.
Yes I really do. They’ve been so quiet recently it was lovely to wake up to all the happy chirping and busyness.
There was an avian party in my garden this morning! Swallows and house martins wheeling above. Goldfinches twittering madly in the hedges. Mixed tits - mainly blue and long-tailed - gathering insects between the blackberries. Rooks and Woodpigeons in the trees and on the wires. #FirstBirdOfMyDay
Sorry to hear your Mum’s back in hospital. Our NHS is in a sorry state. 😢
Dogs’ ears, eyes and paws, as a minimum, need checking after a walk. Especially if they have cockerpoo/doodle Velcro fur. The wildlife is in enough trouble without us continuing to be obsessed with tidiness.
I love it when the mist clings to the ground like that. I agree, it is magical.
It’s like an oasis in a desert. 🌴
So romantic! 😂😍
Two magpies: Joy, thank goodness (we have 2 important cricket matches today), chuckling to each other in the eucalyptus tree. #FirstBirdOfMyDay
Looks yummy! 😋
She could be in a hairspray advert! So pretty!🤩
Mine was house martins too twittering to each other as they whizzed overhead. They do sound friendly don’t they. Filling up on insects before heading off for the winter soon. #FirstBirdOfMyDay
If you’re concerned I would go to a walk in centre or the like and say you’ve been abroad to a rabies endemic country and were licked by a rabid dog on an open insect bite or something. They’d have to give you the vaccine then. Or maybe you can pay for it privately.
Did it scratch or bite him or land on an area with existing broken skin? Or on his eye or mouth?
Ah bless. And the teeth! 😍
Your dreams are brilliant! I’m always in a muddle in mine. Do you make a note of them as soon as you wake?
Hahahahahaha! Knobhead. 🤣
This plant reminds me so much of my childhood: Gathering vetch for my pet white rabbit, Lily the Pink.
Great argument. I’m not quick enough to think of counter arguments. I think of great things to say as soon as I get home. 🤣 What worries me is that it isn’t just right wing arseholes. Otherwise reasonable people are being indoctrinated to think we are being overrun by murderers and rapists.
I love that the tree has a name. 😍
Oh that’s OK then. They probably contribute more to the woodland economy than they take too. 🙂
Totally nuts. I’m so angry with this government and a lot the media coverage of this madness. They are handing the next general election to Reform.
Is there a disproportionate number of young males making the crossing? And are the local squirrels concerned for the safety of their offspring?
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It must be a good year for stone fruit. I made jam with English grown apricots this summer. I usually have to bring them home from France with me.
They look incredible! My mouth is watering. 😋
Oh I’m well jell. I have an Id4 which I love but I really want one of these so I can take my dog and run away for a nice long break from my life.
Do the one which appeals most to you first. If it was me, I’d start them all and get overwhelmed. 🤣
A Robin, singing at 3am next to a brightly lit lamp post on the way back to our car at the hospital. I imagine the poor chap doesn’t know whether it’s day or night. A hedgehog crossed our path and ran surprisingly quickly up a steep bank and into the woods which was lovely to see. #FirstBirdOfMyDay
😂🤣🎾
A woman after my own heart: Roof damaged? Oh well, as long as the apples are ok! Night night. 🙂
That is the best news I’ve heard all week. Well done. X
In a house full of ADHDers, fussy teenagers, dodgy mental health sufferers, unsociable work hours and endless cricket matches, as a fibromyalgia suffer, I really love ready meals. (Some of us fit into more than one category above🤣)
“I want people to stop buying flying rings. Seals don’t have a voice – but we do.” Amaya Edwards, age 11, is a determined wildlife campaigner fighting to stop seal deaths on our beaches. Her article: ⤵️
A green woodpecker flying from tree to tree in its bouncy flight., shouting its ‘chack chack chack’ call as it went. #FirstBirdOfMyDay
Rolls. Norfolk. 🙂
They look amazing! Wish Bluesky had smellyvision. X
Natures harvest. Blessed Lammas to all my Bluesky friends.
A particularly shouty wren chip chipping away at me as I hung out my washing. Then sitting at the top of the spindle tree making a noise like a machine gun. So loud for such a tiny bird. #FirstBirdOfMyDay
They are definitely up there in the ‘most irritating creature’ category aren’t they.
A little group of greenfinches, trilling and twittering through the garden. #FirstBirdOfMyDay
Crumble!
But it’s ok because, when things are half price, they have half the calories too. I have 4 skinny Minnie daughters who make me look like a heffalump. 😏
🎉⚽️🥅
A bluetit telling me off when I went out to hang out the washing. Such feisty little birds. #FirstBirdOfMyDay
That’s good. Wouldn’t want you wasting away. 🙂
Ah the vomit phobia weight loss diet. Very effective.
I kind of don’t think it will help protect children much and my instinct is always not to comply. But, if it only prevents one child seeing something horrible or getting a DM from a groomer, I’ll do it. My photo is already out there anyway.
Kids in my experience are very good at overriding these kind of protections. But I suppose it might prevent some dodgy content turning up unexpectedly in their feed or someone dodgy DM’ing them through an app. 🤷🏼♀️
I think it’s so people who have not proved they are adults won’t be subject to the algorithms which push stuff at them. So kids won’t be exposed to dangerous or unsuitable content without actually searching for it. Not sure it will work though.
I haven’t had my notification yet. Maybe they’ve looked at my profile pic ant thought ‘yep, mad old dog lady!’ 🤣
Hehe, me too.
And I would accidentally take the other sock with me, put it down somewhere and be unable to find it when I went back to put it on.
Ah, I’m in UK. We only have one satellite internet provider available: Starlink.
That’s my plan if I can avoid ´sampling’ it too much between now and then. 🥴
There’s a different satellite company?
It’s been a blackcurranty kind of day today. 5kg off 2 bushes - bumper harvest this year! I have made jam, cordial and with the pulp left over from straining, gin crème de cassis. Waste not want not. 😋
If we can’t ´single-handedly force an end to the conflict’, we urgently need to join forces with other nations. Stop waiting for the US to do what’s right. Because it won’t.
If the big polluters won't take responsibility and take climate action seriously, then we will make them irrelevant, by building our own local, community-owned solutions 💚
Localisation makes so much common sense to me. I’ve felt suspicious of the motives of government and multinationals for years. There is too much over complication and greenwashing. Their priority is always going to be financial gain rather than the benefit to ordinary people and the planet.
I had to do that too and I agree it is a good quote. 🙂
I was thinking it would soon be time to cut the wild meadow’ area down but there are so many insects enjoying the flowers and grass seeds I think I will leave it a bit longer. Species (I think) in the alt text.
I read that as ‘drag horses around’ which would be a nuisance. I have enjoyed working outdoors in the rain today too.
Oh Helen, you keep bringing back my childhood memories! I had forgotten how much I loved books (and ponies) as a child. ❤️
Ooh yes definitely. Sean Bean 😍.
This is most days for us, having 3 cricket playing teenagers, and cricket taking ages with no fixed end time. Meals at weird hours, packed lunches/teas, meal deals. Chaos.
House Sparrows, on the road, on the green in front of the house, on the overhead wires, in the bushes, everywhere. Spilled barley from the harvest has brought them in from all around. 😀 #FirstBirdOfMyDay
A female blackbird snatching up grubs/worms from the lawn to take back to her babies. Pouring with wonderful rain here in Norfolk. #FirstBirdOfMyDay
Snap!
I am lucky enough to have a washing line and I weirdly like hanging washing out. But not getting it in which can be a problem. 🤣. 5 people’s clothes mean it is in action most days. And I also have a creel (I’m so posh) and a long balustrade for wet days.
Same here but I’ve decided to abandon wash day because, 🌧️🌧️🌧️
This is heroism. What a contrast with the total lack of any moral compass of Starmer and his equally genocide-supporting Cabinet and MPs.
So much admiration for this lady. Does anyone know her name? I agree with every word but like most I admit I’m not brave enough to take direct action. I feel like such a coward.
I meant to say the other day, I am also skilled at finding difficult men. Or maybe they are all difficult? 🤣🤣
Up to no good, I’ll bet a shilling! As my Dad used to say. 😆
I can hear loads of different finches this morning. Gold, Green, Chaff and even Bull. How can a bright pink-chested bird remain hidden so well?! But #FirstBirdOfMyDay was a female house sparrow picking through the wisteria on the roof.
Stunning!
I’m 60. I had 3 children in my 40s (I’d already had 2, in my late 20s) so I’m still working full time and dealing with three teenagers and an awkward husband and all the angst that brings. Exhausted doesn’t even come close to describing it. 😫
Ooo young man! Am I allowed to say that? Sorry you’re having a tough time. Take it out on the balsam.
Ooh I don’t know. The call of the Curlew sends shivers down my spine. Thunder and lashing down rain is thrilling. Australian magpies sound so, well, Australian. So hard to choose one.
Me too with a bit more length so no-one was at risk of the shock of seeing my fat belly. 🥴
Ah I bet she looked gorgeous. Aldo isn’t too bad with the heat. He hates being cold and refuses to go out in the rain.
OK will do. 🤣
Me too. Cities do my head in completely. I can’t cope with all the people. So stressful.
Is it too hot for demolishing a massive chicken run today?
Blue tits chattering to each other in the very overgrown bushes in my garden. #FirstBirdOfMyDay
