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abbi @abbis.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Overly proud of dinner: roasted pumpkin from the allotment (Jack Be Little, super tasty!), figs on sale in the supermarket, end of a tin of feta, and some chilli jam I quite miraculously made from allotment chillies #food

Small Portmeirion plates with roasted pumpkin, raw figs, feta and chilli jam moderately nicely arranged on them.

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abbi @abbis.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

#food not even joking, P upgraded me to Smiles when making this :)

A Portmeirion plate laden with half a tin of beans, 4 crispy golden fish fingers, and 5 McCain's Smiles

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abbi @abbis.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

#food this is what P did with the last bag of 800g of Czar plums (Ramoska sponge because we don't have an oven in this house yet!)

Ramoska bowl with a large golden plum sponge in it

a slice of the plum sponge in a Portmeirion bowl with some thick packet custard

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abbi @abbis.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Foreground is the morning's "foraging" except it's really just picking fruit from the trees along the road/collecting windfall. It is SO confusing to me that nobody does this, but then one thing this town has is plenty of fruit. (eggs from the farm over the way!)

Nine Braeburn apples, two dozen Conference pears, a large bag of a kilo of Czar plums, a small bag of 280g elderberries (and a tray of eggs).

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abbi @abbis.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

In an attempt to get some early relaxing in this weekend we are watching Wuthering Heights for my 14th time this year and P's 16th, whilst I prep some more lovely local fleece for spinning. #yarnsky

A heap of washed cream fleece, ready to be picked and carded.

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abbi @abbis.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

18 years' ago I spent several glorious summer months in Stockholm and whilst @onemalinh.bsky.social was at work I took the tube and wandered around at every tube stop in Stockholm. I think this might be my favourite photo from that endeavour, but can't remember where it was...

A photo of a shop front in a square outside a tube station in Stockholm. Above the entrance it reads Nightmare OUTLET, with signs either side that say Alltid Bäst Pris!? It appears to sell cheap clothes...

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abbi @abbis.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Couldn't agree more, though it's never been so easy nor required so little input from me as here! These were just from supermarket potatoes that got left too long, only in May - have put the plants back in to see if they want to do any more!

Replanted potato plants in a patch of earth - looking pretty straggly, but they might come back!

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abbi @abbis.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Someone left a few yellow courgettes at the allotment in the communal space so I took one home and air fried it and the bodybuilder community are not wrong, this is by far the best way to eat them. #food Also, I grew these potatoes at the allotment!

A Portmeirion plate filled with yellow air fried courgette (on kitchen paper), baby potatoes, air fried chicken breast, sliced red pepper and sliced padron pepper. In the centre is a little pot of chipotle mayonnaise.

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abbi @abbis.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Happy Friday all - here's one of P's allotment sunflowers this morning. Look at the busy bee in the middle 💛 Another Glastonbury quirk - doesn't matter where you are in the town, your sunflowers will always face up to the Tor 🌱

The top of a sunflower. If you look closely, you can see a bee, busy in the centre of the flower.

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abbi @abbis.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

My Auntie Marjorie, my godmother, died yesterday, and I shall miss her terribly. She was 89, and I hadn't seen her in too long, but we wrote sometimes, and spoke on the phone, and when I remember her she's always smiling, like this picture from, indeed, my christening.

Me, a tiny baby in a christening dress old enough that three generations of my family had already worn it, held, just about, for I am wriggly, by a glamourous woman in a hat with fake flowers pinned on, and a floral jacket and matching dress. She's smiling enormously, with many teeth.

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abbi @abbis.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Attempting to create the Lebanese breakfast of my heart (which you can get delivered in Richmond, so perfect), but didn't have any yoghurt for the final component so a bit cranky about it. #food

A plate with Turkish flatbread cut into quarters, cherry tomatoes, black olives, cucumber cut into rounds, two labneh balls, and three disintegrated poached eggs.

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abbi @abbis.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

#TourDeFleece2026 happening during the World Cup has been very useful but now I'm too tense to keep spinning tonight so this will do for now

Spindle heavily wound with single ply cream yarn, resting on a floral duvet cover #TourDeFleece

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abbi @abbis.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Delving into the stash for some colour to work with today - when I remember to prepare things properly they spin up so much better! Think this will be really nice plied with the natural cream I've been spinning so far. #TourDeFleece

Canary yellow single ply yarn, about three hours of spinning, on a beloved wooden drop spindle #TourDeFleece2026

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abbi @abbis.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

#TourDeFleece2026 Day 5 finished up with me winding off the end of the Exmoor and rocketing on with a fresh spin, which was very satisfying!

A couple of dozen lengths of mystery white yarn on my beloved dropspindle #TourDeFleece

A bobbin haphazardly wound with a ball of cream Exmoor Horn

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abbi @abbis.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Day 3 of #tourdefleece2026 and what with still being exhausted from the football and being distracted by the diaries earlier mentioned, it's just a little spin today, but I did start picking over some fresh fleece to crack on with so hoping I do more tomorrow!

My hand holding my drop spindle spun with just slightly more Exmoor Horn than yesterday, still a lovely cream colour

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abbi @abbis.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

#tourdefleece Day 2 went well, F1 gave me plenty of time to spin, and this stuff is just a delight, it's lovely and dense and catching so easily #tourdefleece2026

My dropspindle wound with single ply Exmoor Horn, nice, cream-coloured, fairly neat if I say so myself

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abbi @abbis.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Early blackberries are ready! A bit on the bright and tasty side, but they'll cook up nicely with apples and a bit of sugar. Looks like it's going to be a fantastic year for them, I am going to practice jam...

A steel bowl filled with lovely dark blackberries, just-picked

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abbi @abbis.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

A bit of a slow start to #tourdefleece2026 - needed to wash some more fleece first, so was delighted to open up this mystery bag I bought about three years' ago to find it's in great condition! Prepped some elderly bits of Exmoor Horn so I could get started with at least a few lengths. #tourdefleece

A dropspindle spun with the first few lengths of cream yarn, next to a dozen batts of fluffy whitish Exmoor Horn

A peek into the bag of the unwashed mystery fleece: bit dusty, but lovely cream colour

The washed fleece laid out - still yellow with lanolin in places, and could be cleaner, but this will do for now

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abbi @abbis.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

The pumpkins have been doing SO well this week, and as we catch up with #GardenersWorld Monty has just explained that they love "plenty of water, and plenty of heat" so all this Weather has actually been perfect for them! #allotmemttales

A thriving pumpkin plant with a lovely flower on it

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abbi @abbis.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

#allotmenttales flowers are everywhere this morning! Things have, to our surprise, thrived in the heatwave. 🌱

Backlit by bright sunshine, sweet peas, cosmos and cornflowers, abundant in front of a row of sunflowers

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abbi @abbis.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

The Ninja Creami really is one of humanity's greatest inventions, just after the decaf coffee

A large jar of iced decaf coffee and a pint of vanilla protein creami with frozen berries and a cherry on top

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abbi @abbis.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Just spent a couple of hours watching Nosferatu (the new one - it really was all the things everyone said) and plying up odds and ends of yarn and now I have this, which is lovely. #yarnsky

A spindle wound thick with white and brown two-ply yarn

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abbi @abbis.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

is it time for the David Shrigley illustration

David Shrigley's illustration of a brass tuba, surrounded by the words "shut up, please shut up, please fucking shut up, please fucking shut up or I will kill you"

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abbi @abbis.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

WE ARE OFFICIALLY IN THE BIRTHDAY ZONE (the birthday is tomorrow but the out of office is on) #food

a beautiful tray of Doritos, Walkers salt and vinegar, sliced cucumber, sliced pepper, a cheese and chive dip and a fancy feta dip

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abbi @abbis.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

ohhhhhh you and me both - I had one of these and I think it was probably my favourite ever phone...

A Nokia 5510 with landscape full keyboard, in blue

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abbi @abbis.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Added some alt text for you, @vikkislademp.bsky.social - and keep up the good work ❤️

NHS Meningitis B Vaccine
After raising concerns in the Chamber after the outbreak of meningitis B in Kent and Weymouth, I am pleased that the Government are undertaking a one-off programme of vaccination.

If you are in Year 13 you should be contacted directly through the NHS app, text, email or letter.

If you are under-25 and will be starting university for the first time, you will be able to book an appointment directly with your local pharmacy.

Please do contact my office if you require further advice or support.

I will continue to push for all young people to receive this as a matter of course.

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abbi @abbis.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

At your service! Excellent in a ham sandwich, but I most often have it with new potatoes.

My hand holding a bottle of Heinz salad cream (worryingly empty)

the ingredients of salad cream, mostly water, vinegar, rapeseed oil, sugar, mustard, salt, egg yolk

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abbi @abbis.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Alas it's not the best story as I didn't get it myself! My parents' friends were TV producers and they used to give me random stuff from work, including this XD

A signed photograph of Swap Shop-era Noel Edmonds, smiling into the red telephone.

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abbi @abbis.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Dinner for breakfast as I will only want ninja creami once the temperature gets up! Allotment harvest carne through ❤️🌱 #food

A bowl of happy peppermint chard leaves and purple kale, with some parsley, too.

A plate heaped with pork mince cooked with the greens and whisked eggs, with parsley on top.

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abbi @abbis.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

#allotmenttales first tomatoes are in the polytunnel, along with two chilli plants! The soil in here is basically dust and terrible quality, so I've mixed it with soaked woodchip and a fantastic layer of slime I dragged out of the bath-pond at the top of the plot. Let's see what happens!

A small raised bed in a polytunnel. A bin is inexplicably in one corner, some elderly carrots in front of it. Two little tomato plants and two chilli plants have been added, and the whole lot is woodchipped.

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abbi @abbis.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

P brought me in this extraordinary rose from the garden earlier - couldn't recall seeing anything quite like it before but there was immediately a similar, more pink one, in Frances' garden at Chelsea 🌷

My hand holding a rose in a small cream vase - the head of the flower is striped a striking red and white, and it contrasts nicely with a couple of green leaves.

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abbi @abbis.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Sorry, I wouldn't usually put this man in your TL, but we are up to five damning headlines in a row in a mainstream British newspaper.

A screenshot of the Guardian main page: picture of Farage amongst five headlines about, variously, the crypto billionaire's £5m gift (three variants), his backing of a homophobic priest, and how there are no trees in Clacton-on-Sea.

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abbi @abbis.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Today's #allotmenttales - cleared the last pre-existing "raised bed" - think we will do outdoor tomatoes in this! 🌱

A very broken raised bed, finally clear of weeds, with cardboard on top of it.

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abbi @abbis.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

It has been a long and stressful day and this is just absolutely the thing, delicious.

a brown bottle of St. Peter's Without, a delicious alcohol free beer, 0.0%

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abbi @abbis.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

This weekend I've been spinning the most beautiful, light, fluffy golden alpaca fleece on my smallest dropspindle - comes up so slender and really quite strong. Very enjoyable. #dropspinning #spinsky #handspunyarn

A small drop spindle wound with a good couple of hours of slender weight golden brown alpaca, fluffy rolags of which are positioned next to the spindle.

A slightly closer look at the drop spindle and rolags - you can see the lovely crimp on the alpaca.

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abbi @abbis.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Probably the film fewest people have seen when I mention it. I adore this film, it is a barrel of very well-made young dystopian foolishness with a tragic end, and I must've seen it at least 250 times. We have had the kettle (not a typo) for 27 years now, it's called Jude.

The video cover for $hopping - Sadie Frost and Jude Law, tag line "No-one leaves without paying".

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abbi @abbis.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Stretching the concept of medieval fayre somewhat, I am nonetheless intrigued by Apocalypse Bao

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abbi @abbis.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

...it was horseradish, you were right. Now I see why you're not allowed to grow it "uncontained"! So...any ideas what to do with a LOT of horseradish?! This photo is just the start, I think I got about 10kg out of the ground so far and there's absolutely more to come... #allotmenttales

The beginning of a heap of dug-up horseradish root.

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abbi @abbis.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Good morning 🌱#gardensky - anyone know what this is? Left over in the allotment and from being very rooty, it's suddenly done a lot of leaves... #allotmenttales

A plant with long green leaves coming out of the earth!

Another photo of the plant, nicely sunlit

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abbi @abbis.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Planted the blackcurrant bush in the allotment yesterday, hoping it will be as happy as when we planted it in the ground in the last garden where we had a tremendous crop. We have another one we're keeping in a pot in our little house garden, too. 🌱 (Potatoes in under the canes...) #allotmenttales

A freshly-added blackcurrant bush in the foreground, a half-planted, half-exhausted veg bed behind it.

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abbi @abbis.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Apart from the previous post, have fully cleared out a bed now! This soil is gorgeous, clearly the result of a lot of work from the long-gone previous owner (cannot fully describe just HOW clay the ground is)... #allotmenttales (mute if you don't care about this topic, will try to tag in future!)

Scraggy large vegetable bed, "lined" with degrading plastic soil bags (which I will try and remove), and knackered bits of crate.

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abbi @abbis.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Greetings 🌱 people, anyone know what this is? Large chunk of it in a bed in the allotment...

A clump of rocketish greenery, very dense, separated out into lots of stems.. The leaves are very slightly furry.

A closer look at the plant in clump form - it still looks kind of like rocket to me, or a weed.

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abbi @abbis.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

If you see this, post a concert photo you took (I never take photos usually because my camera is rubbish, but I was so taken with this outfit...)

Patrick Wolf on stage at London's Union Chapel wearing a quite amazing black coat/cloak hybrid with a sculptured, standup collar

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abbi @abbis.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Some people focus on bringing sweets back from Sweden, but we of course brought back the very best extra-salted butter... Dinner is this and Jacob's cream crackers #food